Something Happened

"Ok, what happened?" Thea asked, crouching down in front of Jude, "Tell me what happened."

"I don't know." Jude whispered as Thea looked across at her.

"Babe, what do you mean you don't know?" Thea shook her head.

"Hey." Punk knocked on the door, walking into the room as Thea quickly stood up, "You feeling ok?" He asked Jude who nodded. She looked past her father at Thea, "What's going on?" He turned to Thea who looked nervous.

Thea saw Jude behind Punk, shaking her head and pleading to not say anything, and so she didn't.

"I think she's just sick." Thea nodded as Punk turned back to Jude.

"Yeah I just don't feel good at all." Jude nodded, "I just wanna lie down."

"Ok." Punk nodded, "Ok, well no one is mad at you, ok? These things happen." Punk rubbed her shoulder softly as Jude nodded, forcing a smile.

"Thanks." Jude nodded.

"If you feel better just come down. Your mom has wrapped up your dinner in case you get hungry later." He said as Jude smiled and nodded.

"Ok, thanks dad." Jude smiled.

"You coming down?" Punk asked Thea who shook her head.

"No, we're… we're just talking. I'll be down soon." Thea said.

"Oh." Punk nodded. He only assumed they were talking about their fight, and he was glad they were talking at all, "Ok, I'll go." He smiled to them both, leaving the bedroom and closing the door over as he headed back downstairs.

"Please don't tell anyone." Jude begged.

"Tell anyone what? You need to tell me what happened." Thea shook her head as Jude shook her head, fidgeting with shaking hands, tears welling in her eyes as Thea watched, "Ok, look at me… I'm not gonna tell anyone. But if someone hurt you, you need to… Jude, you need to go to the police, and the hospital-"

"No… no, I don't wanna do that." Jude shook her head with fear.

"Tell me what happened this morning." Thea said, "Where…" She paused. She couldn't believe she was having to ask her little sister this, "Where did you wake up?" She questioned as Jude went still, thinking about it, the horror of it.

"I uh… I woke up in a bed." Jude said, "And I had… no clothes on." She said, her voice breaking slightly. She wasn't sure she could actually have said this aloud to anyone other than her sister.

Thea placed her hand over her mouth, tears threatening to pour out too.

"Do you think…" Thea didn't want to ask.

"I feel like I had sex last night." Jude said quietly, "But I… I didn't have a lot to drink. I promise I didn't." She said, "I just… I can't remember going home. I can't even remember leaving the bar. All I remember is getting there, having a couple drinks with Kirsty and then she left… everything else I can't remember."

"When you woke up this morning? You didn't see anyone?" Thea asked.

"No, there was no one in the house." Jude said, "I got out and I just… I walked here." She said, "You can't tell Sean about this, I uh… I wouldn't have cheated on him, I didn't want to-"

"Jude." Thea said in shock at what her sister was saying, what she wasn't understanding, "Look at me." She nodded, crouching down in front of Jude who looked at her, "Someone raped you." She made clear, "You didn't cheat. You were raped." She said, her heart-breaking having to say it out loud to her.

"What?" Jude said. It was something she already knew but just couldn't accept it. She couldn't understand it. Especially when she couldn't remember what happened.

"Someone drugged you and raped you." Thea looked at her as Jude stared at her blankly, "And you need to go to the police."

"No… no…" Jude cried, "No, Sean's there… please, I don't wanna go to the police-"

"Jude, you can't just forget this happened. You have to tell someone. You have to go to the hospital and make sure you're ok. I mean are you… are you hurt?" Thea asked, rubbing Jude's shoulders softly.

"No… I… I think I'm ok. I feel a little sick but…" She shrugged as Thea looked at her. She could see her sister wasn't registering anything. She wasn't believing that she had been raped. She looked like she was in a permanent daze.

"When do you start remembering things?" Thea asked her.

"I just remember waking up this morning. That's it." Jude said.

"Would you be able to tell me where the house was you came from?" Thea asked.

"Yeah, it was… it was across from the park." Jude said.

"The park?" Thea asked, puzzled. That wasn't where the house was she visited Jeremy in to threaten him, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'm positive." Jude nodded as Thea nodded.

"Ok." Thea nodded calmly. She was trying so hard not to freak out and cry. Her sister definitely didn't need that right now. She needed assurance and support.

"You can't tell anyone." Jude repeated.

"Jude, please… you need to let me take you to the cops." Thea said, "Someone has raped you. They… They need to find that person and arrest them. You don't let people get away with this."

"Maybe I said yes… maybe-"

"Jude, don't." Thea shook her head. It was very obvious what had happened here.

"I keep feeling like I'm naked." Jude whispered as Thea looked at her.

"Ok… ok, you should get into bed." Thea said as Jude nodded, pulling back the covers and getting into her parents bed, "Do you need anything?"

"No." Jude whispered.

"Ok." Thea nodded, "I'll let you sleep and I'll… I'll come back up soon." She promised as Jude nodded.

"Ok." Jude said tiredly, watching Thea leave the bedroom.

Thea closed the bedroom door over, placing her hand over her mouth and crying immediately. Her heart felt like it was physically in pain. She felt so hopeless. The fact nothing could be undone, the fact she couldn't help her sister. The fact this had happened was heart-breaking and terrifying at the same time.

She went into the bathroom, drying her tears and fixing her make-up, noticing Jude's clothes sitting in the corner behind the door. She picked them up and found a bag upstairs to put them in, taking it downstairs and sitting it beside her purse behind the couch.

"Hey." Dominic appeared in the living room as Thea turned around, her eyes still slightly puff, "Hey, what's going on?" He asked her.

"Oh, nothing." Thea waved her hand, trying to act fine, but it was very difficult.

"Is she ok? What happened?" Dominic asked.

"She's… she's fine." Thea nodded. She could barely say it. Her sister was not fine.

"What happened last night?" Dominic asked, "Look I know something is wrong, I can tell by your face." He said, "What happened?" He asked as Thea looked at him. She couldn't keep things from her husband. She just couldn't.

"She was raped." Thea whispered, still in shock as Dominic looked at her.

"What?" Dominic shook his head as Thea nodded.

"I uh… I don't know what to do. She doesn't wanna go to the cops and I… she doesn't want anyone to know." Thea said.

"How… who did… Oh my God." Dominic ran his hand over his face, "Oh my God, is she… is she hurt?"

"I don't know. She won't tell me much." Thea said.

"Was it that guy? That guy you said-"

"I don't know. She told me where the house was and that's not where the house I went to was." Thea said, "So I don't know." Thea shook her head.

"Hey, what's going on in here?" AJ asked, walking into the living room as Dominic turned around whilst Thea looked over, "Is everything ok?"

"Yeah, fine." Thea smiled, "I was just telling Dominic that me and Jude talked it out."

"Oh, really?" AJ smiled, "That's good." She nodded, "I think she's really not well. Coming down with the flu or something."

"Yeah, she's lying down in your bed right now." Thea nodded.

"Maybe a few hours of sleep will help her out." AJ nodded, "You guys coming back in?"

"Yeah, we'll be there in a minute." Dominic nodded as AJ smiled, walking back out and into the kitchen, "Ok, she has to go to the cops." Dominic turned to Thea, "Whilst she still might have… DNA on her-"

"She's taken a shower." Thea said, "I've bagged up her clothes here so that they don't get washed." She said, "I don't think she actually realises what's happened to her."

"She doesn't remember anything?" Dominic asked.

"She doesn't even remember leaving the bar." Thea said as Dominic sighed, "What am I supposed to do? I can't… I can't go back in there and enjoy the rest of my Christmas dinner… I have to do something."

"What about calling Sean?" Dominic suggested.

"She said she doesn't want him to know." Thea said as Dominic sighed, "I just… maybe she just needs to sleep for a little bit and then I'll talk to her again." She nodded.

"What about your mom and dad? Are you gonna tell them?" Dominic asked.

"No, I can't. She doesn't want me to tell anyone. I feel bad enough telling you about it." Thea shook her head, "What am I supposed to do?"

"She can't not tell anyone. They gotta catch this person, whoever it was." Dominic said, "Maybe if she gets some sleep she'll wake up thinking a little clearer."

"I don't know if she will. She looks terrified and… traumatised." Thea shook her head, "I can't… what if I could have done something?"

"Thea, you can't do that to yourself." Dominic said.

"What if I could have? What if it was Jeremy?" Thea questioned, "And me threatening him just… provoked him?" She panicked.

"You don't know anything just now." Dominic said, "And you can't blame yourself. You didn't know this could have happened."

"That's my little sister. I'm supposed to look out for her." Thea shook her head, placing her hand on her forehead. She couldn't believe this was happening. She, herself, felt sick to her stomach at what had happened to her sister. She just wished she could have done something. She was torturing herself with all the things she could have done to prevent this.

"Let her sleep for a couple hours. She's probably feeling the effects of whatever drugs she was given." He said, "When she wakes up maybe she'll even remember some more."

"I just wanna go up and lie beside her." Thea shook her head as Dominic sighed, wrapping his arms around her tightly.

"I don't… I don't know what to say." Dominic sighed. He really didn't. It was haunting and so upsetting, especially because no one could really do anything to make it go away. They couldn't reverse time and stop it. It had happened and they had no idea what to do.