sweet - as - honey: Thank you for the review. I love writing caring Cal.
Please don't read if you'll think you'll get upset. The reason I say that is because there is a sexual assault scene in this chapter and I don't want anyone who reads this to get upset.
No idea how the court system works, so I watched a couple of court scenes from the show as well as Home And Away.
The Secret Life Of Casualty.
Chapter 189.
Linda was off work and so was Lenny, so Linda decided to take Sarah - Louise to play in the park as it was no good for her to be locked in the flat all day. She got her things ready and grabbed her own handbag before leaving the flat as she locked up, she didn't want to risk getting what she owned, robbed. Mum and daughter began the short walk to the park.
"Lenny, what are you doing here?" She asked, spotting him sitting on a bench.
"I wanted to spend some time with my daughter" Lenny told her, during Linda's pregnancy, he had been in Birmingham, as he had been offered a post. He came back when Jessica told him that Linda was pregnant as she was the only person Linda had told.
Linda nodded and left her daughter as she knew that she was in safe hands with her own father, she walked over to a bench and sat down.
"Hey, you!" A man shouted, Linda looked up from Heat magazine that she had brought with her. She opened it up and began reading it.
The man pulled off Linda's clothes, and she tried to stop him but he was too rough for her. He thrust himself inside of her and then pulled himself out, twisting her arm.
"Stop " Linda whispered, it was rape if you were touched without your consent.
Tears rolled down her face, being assaulted was the most horrible thing to happen to a person. The man ran off.
"Linda?" Lenny questioned, running over to her.
"He attacked me" She cried.
Lenny nodded as he felt Linda cry in to him more. He helped her up and then got his daughter away from the bench.
Linda walked in to the interview room and sat down.
"For the benefit of the tape, can you please say your name and address?" The officer asked, turning to a fresh page in his notebook.
"Linda Andrews, 2A Farmead Estate " She told him.
She told him what had happened.
The officer thanked her for her time and Linda left the office to find Lenny waiting for her, he hugged her as they left the station, driving to the hospital.
Lenny had text Zoe to let her know what had happened to Linda and in turn, Zoe had told Tess. When Linda arrived, Zoe put an arm around her and guided her to a cubicle. She put on some gloves and checked her over.
Zoe found that she was bruised, they would be painful, but they were nothing too serious.
Linda pulled her top down as Zoe left her to it.
Jessica decided to visit her friend, when she was at home. Zoe had told her what had happened.
"Are you ok?" She asked, sitting on the couch.
Linda nodded and Jessica gave her friend a hug as Sarah - Louise walked in to the living room. Linda scooped her up, as Jessica went to make them both a cup of tea. She brought them in and put them down on the table.
A few days, later, at work, Linda got a call, saying her attacker had been found as he had went on the run.
"Are you ok?" Jessica asked, quietly.
Linda nodded, but it was clear that she wasn't, she was staring in to space, her make up was smudged and she was shaking.
Jessica tried to think of something reassuring to say, but she couldn't, so the two of them sipped their drinks in silence before Jessica said her goodbyes and left the flat, driving home to her house.
Adam, Jessica, Zoe and Lenny were supporting Linda in court. Sarah - Louise was being looked after by one of Linda's friends, on Farmead, the people who lived in the flats there supported one another.
Linda, had, had to recount her ordeal, she didn't want to, put she knew she had to in order to bring her attacker to justice. When the judge had heard the evidence, she sent the room to a break, so she could deliberate the evidence.
"Have you decided on a verdict on which you are all agreed on?" The judge asked.
"We have your honour " The main person replied.
"What is that verdict?" The judge asked.
"Guilty " He replied.
The man was handcuffed, and put in to a van which would take him to "Holby City Jail "
All Linda wanted to do was to go and give her daughter a hug, but Lenny wanted to take her out for a drink, but for the first time in a long while Linda refused and the two of them headed back to the flat. She sat down on the couch.
"Mummy" Sarah - Louise, said, delightedly. Linda bent down and hugged her daughter close to her. She had her family and her friends to support her and she knew she was going to be ok.
She picked up her daughter and carried her daughter out of the living room, and in to her room, she lay her on the bed, took off her shoes and pulled the duvet over her before bending down and kissing her on the forehead and leaving the girl's bedroom, after switching out the light.
Lenny kissed her cheek and then went for a run with Adam as Jay had put a bet on the two to see if they could outrun each other.
Linda headed back in to the living room and switched on the TV, watching a movie that her and Jessica watched when they were younger.
Thanks for reading.
