Chapter 28

Before the two entered the lodge Victor offered up their body's, minds and spirits to the Great Spirit. Victor told the two of them to picture in their minds all the negatives leaving their bodies with each drop of sweat. He also told them to stay positive.

Amy took her usual place as did Ty. Ty was doing his best to stay positive, but what he had heard in the last couple of hours was to hard not to think about. He was having a difficult time getting the image of Ahmed standing over Amy out of his mind, so he opened his eyes. He saw Amy was staring at the glowing rocks, she looked so innocent sitting there. Ty took a bottle of water and gulped it down. Amy started rubbing her belly. Ty instantly thought baby, Amy looked up she saw him watching her. "Ty, I'm just having some cramps. I wasn't thinking what you thought I was. Please Ty I don't even want to go there."

Ty didn't want to talk about that either. "Sounds okay to me, but to be honest after what we heard this morning I think we should talk about how we are going to handle this and what we are going to tell the family back home. I think we need to go see Dr. Virani as soon as we get back into town maybe she will know of someone who we can talk to about all this. I have an anger in me right now and need to know how to release it or I may explode on someone."

"So what you are saying is that you are afraid that the anger you have on the inside might come out on me if you get mad enough?"

Ty quickly moves over next to Amy. "No Ames that is not what I meant. You remember when I first came to Heartland how angry I was at everyone and everything? Well that is what I meant. I just want to make sure I can keep it at bay. I want you to know that in no way do I hold you responsible for what he did to you. Do you understand that Amy?"

"Yes Ty, I do." Amy told him then bent over because of another cramp.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine Ty. I also will need to talk to someone. I know it all hasn't hit me yet but I don't want what happened to hurt us in anyway. So are we still leaving when Caleb gets here? Or do you want to talk about our plan on what we are going to tell the family and leave in the morning. Just so you know I'd rather stay here one more night and leave in the morning."

Victor told them it was time and that Caleb was pulling into the yard. Amy walked out first as Ty followed. As Amy wrapped the towel around herself, Ty noticed some blood on the towel. " Amy, there's some blood on your towel."

Amy stopped just before she left the lodge and took her towel off. She had blood on her inner thigh. She looked up at Ty who was in tears, the two stood and hugged until Victor reminded them it was time to hit the shower.

Amy asked Ty if he'd go to her room and get the feminine pads she had in night bag. She'd wait to finish her shower after he came back. Amy then sat and wept as one part of her nightmare was over.

Caleb and Victor were sitting at the kitchen table when Ty walked in. Caleb stand as he offers Ty his hand, "Ty good to see you, Victor here tells me you want to wait until the morning to go back. Is that true?"

"Yes Caleb something has come up that Amy and I need to discuss before we can leave. Now it you will excuse me for just a couple more minutes, I have to get something for Amy out of her room. When we get back we can have lunch and tell you more, okay?"

Ty found Amy sitting and crying. "Amy whats wrong ?"

"Oh Ty, I think it just hit me what that bastard did to me." She got out before another outpouring of tears came rushing out.

Ty sit and held her until she stopped. "Why don't we go in and you can take a shower and clean yourself up. Caleb and Victor should have lunch ready for us."

Amy thanked Ty as she stood. Ty moved to the side so she could wash off the blood and got her another towel to dry off with.

As the two walked into the kitchen Caleb could see that Amy had been crying. Amy walked right up to him and gave him a hug which caught Caleb off guard. "I have to take a quick shower. I'll be right out so we can eat." Amy told them.

Caleb was speechless. "Amy has a lot on her mind and is emotional to say the least right now." Ty told him.

"Does any of this have to do with the Tribal Police and Constable Rodriguez I saw down at the store before I headed up here?" Caleb asked.

Ty went and get himself a cup of coffee, then sat down and told Caleb what had happened when Ahmed and his men came up here to get Amy. He also explained about the ring as Amy came back into the room.

"Well now that we are all here lets eat." Victor suggested.

As they were eating Amy asked Caleb how things at Heartland were. "Busy for me now till your dads hand heels." Caleb told her smiling. But when he saw the look on everyone face, it that told him they hadn't heard.

"The day Ahmed was to meet that Wendy girl at Maggie's, Jack and Tim were out moving cattle trying to keep themselves out of trouble. I was at the ranch house when Jack and Tim came galloping up to the house, Lou asked what was wrong then Jack told us about the call he had received from Lisa telling him about the video's Ahmed had on Amy. Jack hadn't told your father and when he heard that he punch the wall so hard he broke his hand. I can tell you this Amy, they are worried about you, so the sooner you can get home to show them that you are okay, the better."

Amy looked over at Ty as she told Caleb, "We will Caleb, Ty and I have a copy of things to discuss before we do . I hope it is okay with you if we wait until the morning to leave."

"Sure no problem. I would however like to try that sweat lodge if I could. I had heard it works wonders for sore backs."

"Not a problem. Victor said. When those two are out talking I'll help you."

to be continued