p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;"span style="background: #ffffff;""/spanspan style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: #ffffff;"I'll wa/spanit for you in the car ok?" Tracy said and Elektra nodded./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ok." Tracy left and Elektra went to investigate the noises. "Melissa?" The noises grew louder and she opened the door. "Melissa?" The light fell inside the room and Elektra saw Melissa tied up and with a black eye, a gag around her mouth. "What did mum do to you?" Elektra asked taking the gag off./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She got angry Mand. You know how she hates it when she doesn't get her own way."br /"Are you ok?" Elektra asked, untying her /"No, she hit me Mandy. She got violent and dad refused to notice."br /"How badly did she hit you?"br /"I can't see out of my right eye and my chest hurts," Melissa said and Elektra looked at her sister with deep sympathy./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ok, we have to get out of here," Elektra said, helping Melissa /"I won't let you do that," Their mum said behind them and Elektra swung round to see her holding a rolling pin. "You will let go of your sister Mandy," She /"No," Elektra said defensively, standing in-front of /"Ok then, I'll have to get through you," She said and raising the rolling /"No!" Melissa screamed as her mum took the first hit and Elektra went crashing to the floor. She stood helplessly watching as her mum beat Elektra violently. Her dad appeared but didn't say /"Tie her up," Their mum said, not /"Ok dear," Their dad replied and tied Melissa back up. He threw her onto the floor where she hit her head and it began to bleed. She noticed how Elektra was almost unconscious./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Lektra," She whispered. Their mum stopped and Elektra looked desperately at Melissa./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Melissa," She whispered almost silently. Their dad put the gag back over Melissa's mouth./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Help me get her out of here," Their mum said and their dad nodded. They dragged Elektra away, her head hanging down and Melissa looked desperately on before the door closed and she was shut away into darkness once more. They dragged Elektra into the shed and stripped her naked. Her mum knelt next to Elektra, who was only just gripping onto consciousness. "This will teach you to disobey me Mandy. I should have done this a long time ago."br /"Elektra?" Tracy called in the hallway. "Elektra? Are you ready to go?" Elektra gasped and her mum shushed /"Shhh. You don't want to go upsetting anyone else do you?" She took her finger away and Elektra closed her eyes. It was too painful to remain conscious. "Lets go," Her mum said and she went into the house with their dad./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"There you are, where's Elektra?" Tracy asked them. Their mum smiled./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm really sorry Tracy, Mandy took off down the garden. We tried to stop her but she'll be halfway out of the neighbourhood by now."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'll get her, don't worry out it." Tracy said and rushed out of the house./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"How did it go?" Mike asked. "Where's Elektra?"br /"She's gone. She ran away and I can't find her anywhere."br /"Ok. Gina, call the police while Tracy and I go out searching again."br /"Where could she have gone?" Gus asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I don't know Gus but we'll find her."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"That's not like Elektra," Faith said. "She wouldn't run away like that."br /"Well she has, but we'll find her," Mike said as they /"Her family must have done something really bad," Rick added./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Or they did something to her," Tyler said and they looked at him. "What? It's not like Elektra to run away."br /"I agree," Johnny said. "Something must have happened to her."br /"Slow down, you can't be serious," Sapphire /"What if she's in danger?" Johnny /"That's ridiculous. Elektra use to be in a gang, she can look after herself," Rick told /"Yeah, she even beat Toby up," Harry reminded /"That wasn't Elektra," Tee told him. "Tracy, Mike or the police will find her."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm going to go and look for her. I've got a bad feeling about this," Johnny said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny don't," Rick told him. "If something has happened to her, you'll be putting yourself in danger."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I don't care."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You're not going Johnny," Tee insisted./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Someone has to."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Don't be stupid Johnny," Sapphire said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm going to go and rescue Elektra," Johnny insisted and left the house./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"Elektra woke up in the dark shed. She didn't know how long she had been in there for. She was cold, very cold and her body hurt. She wanted to cry but she had no energy. Her only other thought was of Melissa. Then darkness consumed her once more./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"Johnny put down the paper and looked up at the grand house in-front of him. He saw Elektra's parents in the front room drinking some wine. He ducked down and snuck round to the back of the house. There he gained entrance through an open window and snuck upstairs./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Elektra?" He whispered. "Elektra?" He couldn't believe the roses on the wallpaper and that Elektra had grown up here. He heard sounds from a cupboard and he went to it. "Elektra?" He opened it carefully and saw the figure of Melissa. He froze as he saw her eye, the blood on her head and the gag over her mouth. After a few moments he crawled forwards and took the gag off her mouth. "You're Melissa right?" He whispered and Melissa nodded. "Where's Elektra?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I don't know," Melissa struggled to say. "She's hurt."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We have to get you out of here," Johnny said, untying the rope around her hands. Quietly he led her out of the house and helped her out of the window. "Are you ok?" He asked and Melissa nodded as she struggled to stand. "This way," Johnny said and he began working his way down the garden. He checked behind him to make sure that Melissa was alright. As they passed the shed Melissa stopped. "What is it?" Johnny /"Elektra," Melissa whispered and Johnny frowned. Then he looked at the shed. "Are you sure."br /"Yeah." Johnny went to the door and opened it, inside Elektra's naked, still form could be seen. The smell of dried blood was horrible and it was eerily silent. Johnny crawled forwards and laid a hand upon Elektra's back. "Elektra?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Anything," Melissa asked, fearing the worst./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She's breathing, just," Johnny whispered to her./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We have to get out of here," Melissa whispered. "If mum finds us, she'll kill us." Johnny turned to look at her and he saw the fear in her eyes. He knew that she was right./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ok," He said and hauled Elektra up./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"This way," Melissa said and Johnny followed her as quickly as he could. As soon as they got out of sight of the garden and halfway down the road Melissa fell forwards and Johnny /"We have to get back to Ashdene Ridge," He said. "We're not safe here."br /"I can't do it," Melissa said and Johnny looked down at the naked and broken Elektra./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We have to," He said after a few moments. "Elektra's on death's door," Johnny said with a gulp. He couldn't believe the broken woman that lay in-front of him. Melissa managed to sit up and look at Elektra. "She's freezing," Johnny told her and Melissa nodded./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We have to warm her up," She said and stood up with a lot of /"Are you ok?" Johnny /"No. I can't see out of my right eye and I'm really dizzy. I think that I might have a concussion."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You have to not fall asleep."br /"I have to help Mandy," Melissa said and together they lifted Elektra and dragged her back towards Elm Tree house./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Anything?" Gina asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Nothing, we're going to go back to her parents house and see if they know anything."br /"I have to go down to the police station to sort out details there, Faith can I leave you in charge of the kids?" Gina asked and Faith /"Yeah, we'll be ok for an hour or two."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Thank you." They said and the care workers all left./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Any word from Johnny?" Rick asked Tee, who was looking at her phone./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Nothing."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Tracy and Mike have gone to her house so if they had done something to her they'll find out," Gus informed /"Not necessarily, people can be very dangerous," Rick told them./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh I hope that he's ok," Tee /"I'm sure that he's fine," Carmen reassured Tee./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ah!" Melissa cried out as she /"Melissa? What's wrong?" Johnny /"My chest, I can't breathe," Melissa gasped and Johnny stared at her. He was holding Elektra up and he could see the roof of Elm Tree house. They were almost there but he was so tired./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny?" Came a voice from behind him and Johnny turned to see Liam. "What's going on? Are you ok?" Before he could answer Liam's face turned to that of horror. "Is that Elektra?" He asked, noticing her naked and broken body with blood stained against her /"They're in danger. I have to get them back to Elm Tree," Johnny said, struggling to hold her /"Ok, I've got her," Liam said coming to Johnny and taking Elektra into his arms. He lifted her up. "You get,"br /"Melissa," Melissa said and Johnny helped her up./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Are you ok Johnny?" Liam asked him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Who did this to you?" Liam asked as they carried on to Elm Tree house./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Mum and dad," Melissa said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Your parents did this to you?!" Liam cried out./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You have to help Mandy," Melissa whispered, closing her eyes./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No, no, Melissa you have to stay awake," Johnny said, shaking her as she fell to the floor./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Mandy? Are you Elektra's sister?" Liam asked and Melissa nodded./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm Mandy's sister," Melissa said and Liam looked at Johnny./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Elektra's real name is Mandy Perkins."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh right. Is Melissa ok?" Liam /"She's hurt her head, badly," Johnny said, sitting down with /"You stay here and stay hidden, I'll come back for you both," Liam said and Johnny simply nodded. Liam went ahead and went into the house. Everyone in the lounge can running into the /"Johnny!"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny, you're back!"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What happened mate?" They asked before they stopped and gasped at Liam carrying an unconscious, naked and battered Elektra into the house./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Into the quiet room," Sapphire said and she quickly ushered Liam into the quiet /"Oh my God," Tee /"What the hell was that?" Carmen /"Was that Elektra?" Harry /"Ok, everyone calm down," Rick told them./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What the hell happened Liam?" Sapphire asked as Liam put Elektra onto the sofa and he put a blanket over her./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I came across Liam carrying Elektra like this. Her sister, Melinda or something is also hurt," Liam replied, taking Elektra's pulse./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What happened to them?"br /"Apparently their parents did this to them."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh my God," Sapphire said as Liam stood up and she knelt by Elektra. "Is she breathing?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Barely. I'm going back for Johnny and Melissa, we have to keep them safe if what Melissa said is true."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Where's Johnny?" Tee asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm going back for him now," Liam told her as he left through the door once more. "Johnny," Liam said as he came to them. "Are you ok?" He asked an exhausted Johnny and an evermore unconscious Melissa./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah," Johnny whispered, nodding as the adrenaline finally began to ware off./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Come on," Liam said, pulling Melissa up and bringing Johnny into his grip on his other side./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"Inside the quiet room Sapphire covered Elektra with 3 more blankets after feeling how cold she was. Rick came to the door and came in./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh my God," He said and Sapphire turned to him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Don't let any of the smaller ones in ok."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I've asked Gus to call for an ambulance and the police, and Frank's watching the rest of them."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Good because this is bad Rick."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Why? What happened?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Apparently Elektra's parents did this to her."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What?!"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah I know. She's freezing and her pulse is very weak."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ok, we have to be careful who comes into this room./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I agree."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Hello, police," Someone called and Rick left./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We found Elektra," Gus told him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Right and where is she?" The policeman asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She's hurt, like really badly," Rick explained, coming to the door./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ok, can I come in?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Of course," They said and let him in./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So where is she now?"br /"In the quiet room."br /"Can I talk to her?" The police officer asked, walking towards the quiet /"I'm afraid not," Rick said, putting a hand on the policeman's chest to stop him moving any /"Rick," Tee said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Rick, what are you doing?" Carmen asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She's unconscious and we think that it's serious," Rick told the police officer./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I've called for an ambulance," Gus told him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Right, but as a police officer of the law I would like to assess her for myself."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Let him see her Rick," Frank said and Rick moved aside./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Thank you," The policeman said and went into the quiet room. He quietly knelt by Sapphire and assessed Elektra./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We have to keep her safe. Liam, who brought her back, said that her parents had done to this to her," Sapphire told him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Did he? And where is Liam? Can I talk to him?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He's gone back to get Johnny and Elektra's sister."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Right. I'm going to wait to talk to Liam and an ambulance is on the way, ok…"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Sapphire."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Sapphire," The policeman said and came out of the quiet room just as Liam appeared with Johnny and Melissa./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Oh," Liam said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Are you Liam?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah, I am. What have I done now?" Liam said, resting Johnny and Melissa onto the ground where Melissa lay on the floor almost unconscious and Rick went to her./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You found all of these individuals yes?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah I did. Johnny rescued them but he needed help to bring them here."br /"Is that police, are we safe?" Johnny asked Liam as he sat on the ground with his head hanging /"Yes Johnny, we're safe," Liam said and Tee finally darted forwards./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny!" Tee cried out and hugged Johnny. "Are you ok?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Not really," He replied./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Is she ok?" The police officer asked Liam as asked as he knelt by Melissa./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No, she's hurt her head."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What's her name?" The police officer asked, kneeling beside Rick./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Melissa."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ok Melissa, Melissa can you hear us?" The police officer asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She tied me up," Melissa muttered. "She hurt me and… Mandy… Mandy, I need to find. Rolling pin, I…" Melissa muttered./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ok, this is serious," The police officer said. "Liam, can you carry Melissa into the quiet room with Elektra please," He said and Liam did so. The police officer the addressed the kids. "I need you lot to stay here and do not allow anyone into the quiet room without my permission, understand?"br /"Yes officer," Came the replies./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Good."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny! Johnny!" Tee cried out as Johnny passed out in her arms. The policeman came over and pick him up./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Are you his sister?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah. I'm Tee, Tee Taylor."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ok, just stay calm, Johnny will be ok," He said and took Johnny into the quiet room as well. Carmen came over and shushed Tee./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm scared Carmen."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We all are. Johnny will be ok."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We don't know that."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny," Rick said as PC Watkins carried him into the quiet room./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Is Johnny ok?" Liam asked as the police officer lay him down on the floorbr /"Johnny?" Sapphire said, turning to him as he shone a light into Johnny's /"I think that it's just exhaustion."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He didn't have any visible injuries when I got to him," Liam told him, coming over to Johnny./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Guys?" Mike asked as he came in the door. "What's a police car doing outside?" Mike asked them and Gus stepped forwards. Inside the quiet room Liam, Rick and Sapphire were all listening intently./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We found Elektra, and I called for the police and an ambulance," Gus told /"An ambulance?!" Tracy asked in shock. "Where is she Gus? Is she ok?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What's going on Gus?"br /"You can't see her," Gus told them forcefully. "The policeman told us that you can't go into the quiet room without his permission."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I know that you're trying to help Gus but we really have to talk to Elektra," Mike said /"You can't." Tee said and they turned to her. "She's unconscious,"br /"What?" Tracy asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Come on guys, what's really going on?" Mike asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Liam carried her into the house. And she was naked," Harry said and Tracy and Mike's faces became /"Ok, time to move Gus," Mike said, forcing his way past him but he stopped in his tracks as Liam came out of the quiet room with a police officer behind him. "Liam?" Mike said. "And you are?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"PC Watkins."br /"Can you please clarify what is going on here?" Mike asked /"I think it's better if Liam explained."br /"Liam?" Mike asked in /"I came across Johnny on my way to visit Elm Tree. He was holding Elektra up and Melissa was on the ground beside him. Elektra was naked and bruised and Johnny looked exhausted. I took Elektra off him and we managed a few hundred meter's before Melissa collapsed. Johnny told me that they were in danger and Melissa said that their parents had done this to them."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Their parents had injured them?" Tracy asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"They almost killed them," Liam said seriously./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Melissa has a serious head injury and suspected broken ribs meanwhile Elektra has multiple life-threatening injuries as well as suspected hypothermia," PC Watkins explained and Mike and Tracy were taken /"And where is Johnny, can we talk to him?" Mike /"He's unconscious."br /"Is he ok?" Tracy asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It's mostly likely exhaustion but we can't be sure that he wasn't injured. We'll get him checked out at the hospital just to be safe," The police officer said and Mike and Tracy stood in silence./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"This is impossible," Mike said after a few moments. "We were just at the house and their mum was a lovely woman."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"People can be very deceptive, now please wait here until the ambulance comes," The policeman said and Mike and Tracy took a seat./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"We've got a problem," Rick said, poking his head around the door and everyone turned to him. "Johnny's having some kind of seizure," He said and everyone's faces turned to panic as PC Watkins went into the quiet room./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No Johnny!" Tee cried /"It's ok Tee," Liam said before he followed the police officer./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm going to help," Mike said, standing up./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No, you know what he said," Tracy said, stopping him before there was a knock at the /"Hello, ambulance."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Perfect timing," Tracy said, letting them in. The ambulance crew went to the quiet room and took Elektra, Melissa and Johnny to hospital. Everyone watched as they left./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Elektra," Mike gasped as he glimpsed her pale, bruised and unconscious face./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny," Tee whispered as he was wheeled past on a trolley and Carmen stroked her back. PC Watkins knelt in front of her./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny didn't have a seizure, it was post adrenaline shakes. He is just sleeping and he should be fine."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ok," Tee breathed./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What about Elektra and Melissa?" Frank asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Tracy is going to the hospital with Elektra. It's touch and go at the moment but the paramedics say that Melissa will be ok."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What do you mean, touch and go?" Gus pressed him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Gus," Mike said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"It's ok. They don't know if Elektra will be ok but they will do all they can for her."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Why has Tracy gone with her, Mike is the head care worker," Gus persisted./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Elektra and Melissa have been through a tough ordeal and Tracy and I decided that it would be better if the person with them was female."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Why do they have to be female?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Come on Gus, it's lunchtime," Sapphire said and herded the crowd towards the kitchen./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Thank you," Liam said to PC Watkins./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No, thank you Liam. You brought them back safely. We'll need to bring you into the station to get your official statement but unofficially, you saved their lives," Liam smiled./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'll pass that onto Johnny."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'll tell him myself. You did good Liam," PC Watkins said touching his arm before leaving./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Come on mate," Rick said and led him towards the kitchen./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny?" Came a voice. "Johnny can you hear me?" They asked again and Johnny groaned. "That's it Johnny, you're ok, you're safe. You're in hospital,"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Hospital?" Johnny asked as he opened his eyes./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah, that's right. My name is PC Watkins, I was at the house when Liam brought you back."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Elektra, Melissa," Johnny said, sitting /"Careful Johnny, you've been out for a while, just lie back down for me," PC Watkins said, lying him back /"Are they ok?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"They're here being treated. They have police officers with them to keep them safe and their parents have been taken into custody."br /"Good."br /"How are you feeling Johnny?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm tired."br /"That will be the after effects of such a long adrenaline rush. You scared your sister Tee silly."br /"Is Tee ok?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"She's fine, she's back at the house. She's just waiting for news, like everyone else."br /"And what is the news?"br /"Elektra will pull through. Her injuries are severe but in time she will heal. Melissa is going into sheltered accommodation until her head heals and we can find her a flat."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So it worked?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You saved their lives Johnny."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Can I see them?"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Not right now. Melissa's being moved to the accommodation as we speak and Elektra has just come out of surgery. But the good news is that once we get you on your feet you're free to go Johnny."br /"Why did I black out like that?"br /"A mixture of exhaustion and adrenaline. Nothing to be worried about or long term. You just stay there and I'll get a nurse ok."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ok."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Just in here Johnny," PC Watkins said, leading Johnny into the kitchen./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny!" Tee shouted, running to him and Liam followed./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Johnny, you're back mate," Rick commented./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Are you ok?" Liam asked /"Yeah, I'm a bit unsteady but I'm ok," Johnny /"Lets sit you down," PC Watkins said, leading him to a seat and sitting him /"Any news on Elektra and Melissa?" Rick asked /"Yes," PC Watkins said, sitting down himself. "Elektra has just come out of surgery and with time she'll make a full recovery."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Thank God," Sapphire said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"And Melissa is going into sheltered accommodation until she heals and we can find her a flat to live in."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"So their parents have been arrested?" Rick asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yes. They will be tried for attempted murder next week."br /"Oh my God," Carmen /"I made fun of Elektra, before all of this happened. I didn't understand why she didn't want to be Mandy Perkins," Johnny /"It's not your fault Johnny, we all fall out sometimes you know that," Tee reassured /"I know but I could have cared more."br /"You saved her life Johnny. You couldn't have done more to help her," Liam told him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"What was the surgery for?" Gus asked, opening his book./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Are you going to write this down?"br /"Yes, it's for my records, I write everything down that happens."br /"He does, don't worry about it," Sapphire said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"From the statement that Melissa gave to us, I'll tell you as much as I can," PC Watkins said and they all listened with interest. "Melissa was beaten and tied up by her parents in a cupboard and locked in there. After a while Elektra found her but their mum appeared and beat Elektra unconscious with a rolling pin. They then dragged her away and tied Melissa back up. After another unknown amount of time Johnny opened the door looking for Elektra and he rescued Melissa by climbing with her out of a back window of the house."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah, that's right. We then found Elektra in the shed. She was naked and unconscious. After that Melissa and I carried Elektra back to Elm Tree house before Liam found us."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Why would her parents strip her naked?" Gus asked./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"To kill her faster?" Harry suggested and Sapphire /"No Harry! You shouldn't be listening to this," Sapphire said, grabbing Harry and leaving the room./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The hospital have confirmed Elektra's injuries as a broken arm, ruptured spleen, dislocated hip, knee and shoulder with severe bruising across her body and a shattered ribcage. This isn't taking into account any head injuries she might have obtained as they can only be assessed once she wakes up."br /"So the surgery was for the broken bones?"br /"Yes, and the relocations of her joints."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I think this is stressing Johnny out too much," Tee said and they turned to see him passed out on the /"I'll take him upstairs if you can show me where his room is please Tee," PC Watkins said, picking Johnny /"Yeah."/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Elektra's ok though?" Frank asked and PC Watkins turned to /"Yes, she's in recovery. I will tell you more as soon as I know it myself," He replied./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="background: transparent;"/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration: none;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;""span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Here she comes," Tee said, moving away from the lounge door. Elektra came round it half walking on a crutch and supported by Mike. She was wearing a blue /"Ey!" Everyone cheered and Elektra smiled as they /"Thank you everyone," Elektra said as it died down. "And thank you Johnny for saving my life," She nodded at Johnny and he nodded back, still tired out of stress over the previous days /"We're lucky to have you," Liam said and he went over and kissed Elektra. Everyone cheered./span/span/span/span/p