Dani gasped as Josh moved his hand away from her mouth. He kept the gun pointing at her forehead.
"I thought you loved me, Josh."
"You don't love me anymore, so what's the point?"
"Please..."
"You're depressed, aren't you?"
"What...I, well, I guess so."
"Hmmm...I could make it look like suicide. First you're raped, then you lose your court case, then your boyfriend cheats on you. Next, you find that you can't deal with the rape so you get counselling but that fails aswell. I could make the police think that you just totally broke down. You know, saying all that out, Dani, you're quite strong really. Not nearly strong enough though. Pity. I could make you write a suicide note or something...ooo this could be fun!"
"Josh, you're talking like a madman."
"How do you know that's not what I am?"
Dani had sat listening for hours to Josh rambling on about how he could cover up her death and how this was all her fault. She thought it best not to speak.
"Well, say something!"
"I can't believe this is happening. What have I ever done to you?"
"Nothing! And that's exactly the point! I want to move forward in this relationship but you don't have time for me anymore."
"For 8months, I've been trying to please everyone else. I've been putting Kane and the rape to the back of my mind but it just does not work like that. I need some time for me now. We have no relationship anymore, Josh. We're over, we're finished and I decided that the first time you pushed me."
Josh was hurt by Dani's words. Why couldn't she understand that he was hurting too? He needed someone to comfort him and it wasn't always the other way around. He walked towards her and slapped her across the face.
"I can make you have a relationship with me."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You came over here at 3.30pm, it's only 7.45pm now, no one's going to be worried about you, you're with your loving boyfriend! I can do whatever I want to you!"
"Josh..."
"Yeah...a guy has his needs, all those times that you've been too scared or confused to have sex, I could get my own back right here, right now."
"No..."
"I think that would be fun, don't you?"
Dani didn't answer. She just cried. She knew that when Josh had his mind set on something then there was no stopping him. The one man who she thought she could trust, the one man she thought she could rely on.
"Answer me, Dani!"
He grabbed her by the hair and pulled her along the caravan. She was uncontrollably shaking and crying. He lay down on top of her and she thought it was all over. She tried screaming to make him change his mind but he put his hand over her mouth. She couldn't do anything. He was holding down her wrists and it was just like last time. She couldn't do a thing. Josh was much stronger than her, just like Kane had been. All she could do was lie still and hope that he would remember who she was and have second thoughts. He wouldn't do it, would he?
Outside...
Two people were walking by outside. They were holding hands and talking. They were Kirsty and Kane. Kane had discharged himself from hospital and they'd gone down to the wharf and chatted for hours. They had had a severe talking to by Flynn about the consequences of their relationship but he'd promised not to tell the Sutherlands. Kirsty had persuaded him that it wasn't the right time because Dani was so depressed and he reluctantly had agreed.
When they heard the shouting, they stopped.
"Kane, that's Josh's caravan!"
"Shhh...I want to hear what's going on."
Inside...
"Josh, you can't do this to me, you can't."
"I can do what I want, Dani, no one is suspicious of me."
Outside...
A loud bang was heard as Josh kicked Dani into the wall. After the bang, followed a scream, Dani's scream.
"Kane, we need to help her. She needs someone!"
"I hardly think she needs me, Kirsty. I'm the last person your sister will take help from!"
"Well, I'm no match for Josh, please, Kane, do this for me!"
"Ok, ok! But call the police, and Flynn, he'll be able to talk Josh round."
Kane took off his jacket and pushed in the door of the tiny caravan. What he saw was a very frightened Dani lying on the floor below Josh who was standing aggressively above her. Dani was uncontrollably shaking, preparing herself for her fate. Kane could see that she'd clearly been beat up, her head was bleeding and her face was bruised. He didn't know what to do.
When Dani saw who entered the caravan, she began to shake even more. This couldn't be happening to her, she thought. Not only had Josh gone mad but now Kane was here aswell. She was petrified and she tried to push herself further and further away from the two men but there was no more room in the caravan.
Josh noticed that Dani was looking behind him and he instinctively turned around. He was not prepared for who he saw. He had expected Kane to be dead or if not dead, very close to it. Josh was slightly afraid. He'd only managed to beat Kane before because he'd had the upper hand, but did he now? Then Josh remembered about his gun!
"What the hell are you doing here?"
"We heard you shouting, what have you done to her?"
Kane gestured in the direction of Dani, who was still trying to back away. She was looking at Kane with an amazing amount of fear in her eyes, the mediation had helped her but it wasn't enough, she was still terrified of him.
"Just back off."
"I'm not leaving you here with her, you looked like you were about to rape her."
"Scared of the competition?"
Kane quickly changed the subject. He hated to think of what he had done to Dani, it was horrific and he knew it. Why he had done it, he still didn't know. He had heard her say no and he knew that she had a boyfriend but he still persisted. He regretted what he had done to Dani everyday of his life, one mistake and it had changed everything.
"She needs a hospital."
"I'll decide what she needs and right now, she doesn't need you here."
Outside...
Kirsty dialled Flynn's number. She would have called the police first but she didn't know what was going on inside the caravan. She just thought that Dani and Josh had gotten into an argument and he'd gotten out of control, they'd been having a lot of arguments recently.
"Flynn Saunders..."
"It's Kirsty, come to the caravan park, please! It's Dani, I don't know what's going on, I'm outside but she needs help...please come!"
"Calm down, Kirsty, where are you?"
"Outside Josh's caravan."
"What's the problem? Tell me what's happened!"
"Kane and I were walking home when we heard shouting and screaming from Josh's caravan. Dani's in there and we think that Josh is hurting her, maybe they had an argument or something, I don't know, but Kane has went inside and now he's shouting at Josh and I can't hear Dani anymore."
"Why would Josh hurt Dani?"
"I don't know but we heard her screaming, please come now!"
Kirsty heard a loud thud and then Dani screamed again.
"I have to go, Flynn, she's screaming again..."
"Ok, I heard that, I'm coming now!"
Both hung up and Kirsty called the police and an ambulance. She moved closer to the door so that she could see inside. Her sister was helplessly lying on the floor, bleeding and bruised, whilst Josh and Kane were shouting at each other. Dani caught Kirsty's eye...
"Kirsty!"
"What the hell are you doing here, Kirsty?"
"What have you done to my sister?"
"There's no real harm done."
"Look at her!"
Whilst Kirsty and Josh were arguing, Kane was making his way closer to Dani. She was extremely weak and feeble but she'd figured out that Kane was here to help her.
"Dani..." Kane whispered, "grab my hand!"
"No..."
"You've got to."
"I can't"
"I know that you don't trust me, Dani, but this time you have to!"
Dani just wept. She didn't know what to do. She decided to trust Kane, she couldn't stay in that caravan for much longer. She held out her hand...
"Good, a little bit more, Dani..."
Josh turned around.
"What are you trying to do, Kane?"
He grabbed Dani's hand and pulled her closer to him. She winced as he squeezed her wrist even tighter, she felt like it was going to break.
"Did you think it would be that easy? We've been here for almost 5hours, I'm not giving up just like that! Like she'd want to go with you anyway! Would you, Dani?"
"I want to go home..."
He kicked her head. Kirsty gasped, feeling helpless and useless. Josh's outburst of violence made Kane even more determined to save Dani.
"You want to stay here with me, don't you?"
Kane leapt forward and pushed Josh, trying to knock him over. Josh hadn't been prepared for the attack and landed on the floor. Dani desperately tried to pull herself up but she couldn't see straight and she was hallucinating. Kirsty leaned down to grab her hand and Kane assisted them but Josh got up. He punched Kane, surprising him and pushed Kirsty so that she fell out of the caravan. He grabbed Dani and tightly gripped onto her wrists, he wasn't prepared to give up.
Flynn arrived at this point, closely followed by the police and ambulance. He picked Kirsty up and handed her to a police officer who lay her down behind his car.
"Joshua West, this is the police. We are armed and if you do not let your hostage go, we are willing to shoot."
"Guess what, I am armed and also willing to shoot."
A police officer moved towards the caravan and pulled Kane out. Flynn stepped forwards to try and negotiate with Josh. He entered the caravan and was stunned by the situation. Dani was hallucinating, crying and shaking, she wanted her dad and mum, she wanted her home, her bed and her room.
"Josh, it's Flynn, let her go man. You've not done any real damage yet, if you let her go now, it will be over."
"No."
"You're surrounded, mate."
"I don't care."
Josh's voice was shaking.
"Let her go, look at her!"
"She said she doesn't love me anymore! I was only trying to do a good thing for her."
He turned to Dani.
"Why can't you get that?"
"I..."
"Answer me!"
"Josh..."
Dani didn't have the energy to speak.
"Don't ignore me!"
"Mate, she can't answer you."
"ANSWER ME, DANI!"
"I..."
Josh was raging. Kane ran past the police officers, knocked Flynn to the floor and pulled Dani away from Josh. Two shots were fired.
"I thought you loved me, Josh."
"You don't love me anymore, so what's the point?"
"Please..."
"You're depressed, aren't you?"
"What...I, well, I guess so."
"Hmmm...I could make it look like suicide. First you're raped, then you lose your court case, then your boyfriend cheats on you. Next, you find that you can't deal with the rape so you get counselling but that fails aswell. I could make the police think that you just totally broke down. You know, saying all that out, Dani, you're quite strong really. Not nearly strong enough though. Pity. I could make you write a suicide note or something...ooo this could be fun!"
"Josh, you're talking like a madman."
"How do you know that's not what I am?"
Dani had sat listening for hours to Josh rambling on about how he could cover up her death and how this was all her fault. She thought it best not to speak.
"Well, say something!"
"I can't believe this is happening. What have I ever done to you?"
"Nothing! And that's exactly the point! I want to move forward in this relationship but you don't have time for me anymore."
"For 8months, I've been trying to please everyone else. I've been putting Kane and the rape to the back of my mind but it just does not work like that. I need some time for me now. We have no relationship anymore, Josh. We're over, we're finished and I decided that the first time you pushed me."
Josh was hurt by Dani's words. Why couldn't she understand that he was hurting too? He needed someone to comfort him and it wasn't always the other way around. He walked towards her and slapped her across the face.
"I can make you have a relationship with me."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You came over here at 3.30pm, it's only 7.45pm now, no one's going to be worried about you, you're with your loving boyfriend! I can do whatever I want to you!"
"Josh..."
"Yeah...a guy has his needs, all those times that you've been too scared or confused to have sex, I could get my own back right here, right now."
"No..."
"I think that would be fun, don't you?"
Dani didn't answer. She just cried. She knew that when Josh had his mind set on something then there was no stopping him. The one man who she thought she could trust, the one man she thought she could rely on.
"Answer me, Dani!"
He grabbed her by the hair and pulled her along the caravan. She was uncontrollably shaking and crying. He lay down on top of her and she thought it was all over. She tried screaming to make him change his mind but he put his hand over her mouth. She couldn't do anything. He was holding down her wrists and it was just like last time. She couldn't do a thing. Josh was much stronger than her, just like Kane had been. All she could do was lie still and hope that he would remember who she was and have second thoughts. He wouldn't do it, would he?
Outside...
Two people were walking by outside. They were holding hands and talking. They were Kirsty and Kane. Kane had discharged himself from hospital and they'd gone down to the wharf and chatted for hours. They had had a severe talking to by Flynn about the consequences of their relationship but he'd promised not to tell the Sutherlands. Kirsty had persuaded him that it wasn't the right time because Dani was so depressed and he reluctantly had agreed.
When they heard the shouting, they stopped.
"Kane, that's Josh's caravan!"
"Shhh...I want to hear what's going on."
Inside...
"Josh, you can't do this to me, you can't."
"I can do what I want, Dani, no one is suspicious of me."
Outside...
A loud bang was heard as Josh kicked Dani into the wall. After the bang, followed a scream, Dani's scream.
"Kane, we need to help her. She needs someone!"
"I hardly think she needs me, Kirsty. I'm the last person your sister will take help from!"
"Well, I'm no match for Josh, please, Kane, do this for me!"
"Ok, ok! But call the police, and Flynn, he'll be able to talk Josh round."
Kane took off his jacket and pushed in the door of the tiny caravan. What he saw was a very frightened Dani lying on the floor below Josh who was standing aggressively above her. Dani was uncontrollably shaking, preparing herself for her fate. Kane could see that she'd clearly been beat up, her head was bleeding and her face was bruised. He didn't know what to do.
When Dani saw who entered the caravan, she began to shake even more. This couldn't be happening to her, she thought. Not only had Josh gone mad but now Kane was here aswell. She was petrified and she tried to push herself further and further away from the two men but there was no more room in the caravan.
Josh noticed that Dani was looking behind him and he instinctively turned around. He was not prepared for who he saw. He had expected Kane to be dead or if not dead, very close to it. Josh was slightly afraid. He'd only managed to beat Kane before because he'd had the upper hand, but did he now? Then Josh remembered about his gun!
"What the hell are you doing here?"
"We heard you shouting, what have you done to her?"
Kane gestured in the direction of Dani, who was still trying to back away. She was looking at Kane with an amazing amount of fear in her eyes, the mediation had helped her but it wasn't enough, she was still terrified of him.
"Just back off."
"I'm not leaving you here with her, you looked like you were about to rape her."
"Scared of the competition?"
Kane quickly changed the subject. He hated to think of what he had done to Dani, it was horrific and he knew it. Why he had done it, he still didn't know. He had heard her say no and he knew that she had a boyfriend but he still persisted. He regretted what he had done to Dani everyday of his life, one mistake and it had changed everything.
"She needs a hospital."
"I'll decide what she needs and right now, she doesn't need you here."
Outside...
Kirsty dialled Flynn's number. She would have called the police first but she didn't know what was going on inside the caravan. She just thought that Dani and Josh had gotten into an argument and he'd gotten out of control, they'd been having a lot of arguments recently.
"Flynn Saunders..."
"It's Kirsty, come to the caravan park, please! It's Dani, I don't know what's going on, I'm outside but she needs help...please come!"
"Calm down, Kirsty, where are you?"
"Outside Josh's caravan."
"What's the problem? Tell me what's happened!"
"Kane and I were walking home when we heard shouting and screaming from Josh's caravan. Dani's in there and we think that Josh is hurting her, maybe they had an argument or something, I don't know, but Kane has went inside and now he's shouting at Josh and I can't hear Dani anymore."
"Why would Josh hurt Dani?"
"I don't know but we heard her screaming, please come now!"
Kirsty heard a loud thud and then Dani screamed again.
"I have to go, Flynn, she's screaming again..."
"Ok, I heard that, I'm coming now!"
Both hung up and Kirsty called the police and an ambulance. She moved closer to the door so that she could see inside. Her sister was helplessly lying on the floor, bleeding and bruised, whilst Josh and Kane were shouting at each other. Dani caught Kirsty's eye...
"Kirsty!"
"What the hell are you doing here, Kirsty?"
"What have you done to my sister?"
"There's no real harm done."
"Look at her!"
Whilst Kirsty and Josh were arguing, Kane was making his way closer to Dani. She was extremely weak and feeble but she'd figured out that Kane was here to help her.
"Dani..." Kane whispered, "grab my hand!"
"No..."
"You've got to."
"I can't"
"I know that you don't trust me, Dani, but this time you have to!"
Dani just wept. She didn't know what to do. She decided to trust Kane, she couldn't stay in that caravan for much longer. She held out her hand...
"Good, a little bit more, Dani..."
Josh turned around.
"What are you trying to do, Kane?"
He grabbed Dani's hand and pulled her closer to him. She winced as he squeezed her wrist even tighter, she felt like it was going to break.
"Did you think it would be that easy? We've been here for almost 5hours, I'm not giving up just like that! Like she'd want to go with you anyway! Would you, Dani?"
"I want to go home..."
He kicked her head. Kirsty gasped, feeling helpless and useless. Josh's outburst of violence made Kane even more determined to save Dani.
"You want to stay here with me, don't you?"
Kane leapt forward and pushed Josh, trying to knock him over. Josh hadn't been prepared for the attack and landed on the floor. Dani desperately tried to pull herself up but she couldn't see straight and she was hallucinating. Kirsty leaned down to grab her hand and Kane assisted them but Josh got up. He punched Kane, surprising him and pushed Kirsty so that she fell out of the caravan. He grabbed Dani and tightly gripped onto her wrists, he wasn't prepared to give up.
Flynn arrived at this point, closely followed by the police and ambulance. He picked Kirsty up and handed her to a police officer who lay her down behind his car.
"Joshua West, this is the police. We are armed and if you do not let your hostage go, we are willing to shoot."
"Guess what, I am armed and also willing to shoot."
A police officer moved towards the caravan and pulled Kane out. Flynn stepped forwards to try and negotiate with Josh. He entered the caravan and was stunned by the situation. Dani was hallucinating, crying and shaking, she wanted her dad and mum, she wanted her home, her bed and her room.
"Josh, it's Flynn, let her go man. You've not done any real damage yet, if you let her go now, it will be over."
"No."
"You're surrounded, mate."
"I don't care."
Josh's voice was shaking.
"Let her go, look at her!"
"She said she doesn't love me anymore! I was only trying to do a good thing for her."
He turned to Dani.
"Why can't you get that?"
"I..."
"Answer me!"
"Josh..."
Dani didn't have the energy to speak.
"Don't ignore me!"
"Mate, she can't answer you."
"ANSWER ME, DANI!"
"I..."
Josh was raging. Kane ran past the police officers, knocked Flynn to the floor and pulled Dani away from Josh. Two shots were fired.