Stacey's P.O.V
I had asked everyone to leave the room so I could change in to the clean clothes Delinda had bought me. I was just putting my top on being careful to not strain my ribs. I managed to just as someone knocked on the hospital room door.
"Come in" I called just pulling my top down properly. The door opened and Danny appeared.
"Hey" he said softly
"Hi" I replied turning my head away from him. I don't know why but I was ashamed of all of this. I knew deep down it wasn't my fault yet I was still ashamed of it all.
"How you feeling?" he asked me still standing in the open door way.
"As well as can be expected. Glad you're here and not searching for Kyle!" I told him. He walked further in to the room and closed the door behind him.
"We can't find him" Danny said sitting on the edge of the bed.
"And Kay?" I asked
"She's in custody back at the casino" he said.
I turned to look at him confused "custody why?"
"You need to come see her" he told me "she can explain everything to you" he added standing up.
"Let's go see her then" I said ushering him to lead the way.
"She can wait, I wanna talk to you first" he began taking my hand in his. "Mike told me the first name you said was mine when you woke up, any reason for that?"
"When Kyle knocked on my door I thought it was you coming back to apologise. When he was hitting me I blocked it out. I was just thinking about all the fun times we've had together. I knew I had to survive and fight back so I could spend more time with you" I explained not breaking eye contact once "or it could be the fact that your voice was the last voice I heard" I added less seriously
"Oh is that right?" Danny asked smiling at me and moving closer to my lips. We kissed and it was just like I remembered it in the airport the first time we met.
"of all the opportunities we've had you choose to kiss me now?" I asked him coming out of the kiss."When I saw you lying on the floor and the state you were in. I knew if you didn't make it through and for a second there I didn't think you were going to my only regret would have been not telling you exactly how I feel and not kissing you one last time"
"And how exactly do you feel?" I asked him intrigued to know his answer. He kissed me again then we heard Mike clear his throat to get our attention.
"Er…sorry to interrupt but Ed's called he wants us all back at the casino" he told us.
"We're coming" Danny said picking up my bag and leading me out of the hospital room.
Danny's P.O.V
I lead Stacey to the interrogation room that Kay was being held in. I opened the door and Stacey went in.
Kay was sat at the table teary eyed and smoking. "Oh god what he's done to you?" she asked seeing Stacey's bruised and swollen face. "I swear I had no idea this was his intention he said you owed him money and he would give me some if I helped him" Kay sobbed.
"Slow down darling slow down" Ed told her stood in a corner of the room "from the beginning please" Ed said as Stacey sat at the table in front of Kay.
"Me and Kyle aren't here to get married I'm a friend of his sister-in-law. His brother set us up on a blind date. We got along and went on a few more dates. On our fifth or sixth date he told me he had an ex girlfriend who owed him $30,000 and she'd moved to Las Vegas.
He asked me if I wanted to come to Las Vegas to get the money back and help him spend it. So we booked flights. I didn't know he'd put us down for the wedding party thing. He told me on the plane that he loved me and wanted to marry me and had booked us to get married. I said yes I know it was soon but he was a nice guy. Anyway a week before we were due to fly he told me he'd spoke to you and you had the money ready for him." Kay explained everything.
"He always was a convincing liar" Stacey agreed with her.
"When you ran out of the club I knew there was more to it than money your expression told me that so I asked him about it. He flew off the handle and smashed up the hotel room. I haven't seen him since" Kay finished
"He'll be in a hospital" Stacey said standing up slowly holding her right side "I gave him a good beating and through the big vase at him hit him on the head cut him pretty bad. There's no way he could stop it bleeding without getting stitches" She gave us the information we had needed for the past two hours. I guess she knew when a cut was bad enough for stitches or not cause she had probably had hundreds.
"Do you wanna press charges against her?" Ed asked walking over to me and Stacey.
"No. I believe her, let her go" Stacey told Ed looking at Kay who was sat sobbing in to her own hands.
"You sure?" I asked. Stacey just nodded her head obviously in pain. "You ok?" I asked her concerned.
"Yeah just gone a little light headed that's all" Stacey told us.
"Danny take her to her room, then get back here so we can find this guy" Ed said as if Stacey wasn't stood beside him.
"No I'm ok I don't need to go to my room. I wanna watch what you two are doing" She said suspiciously
"We're not going to hurt him" Ed reassured her patting her on the arm.
Stacey's P.O.V
Ed was a crap liar just like Delinda. "I don't trust you though" she told him.
"I don't get you" Danny began I took my attention from Ed to Danny. He shook his head and went to say something changed his mind, sighed then left the room. I followed him.
"Danny wait" I said trying to catch up with him but trying not to run it hurt to walk let alone run.
He stopped and turned around he had a furious look on his face and it scared me "have you looked in the mirror since you woke up?" he bellowed.
"Yes I have" I said calmly not liking the look in his eyes.
He wasn't close enough to strike me. I was kinda scared that he was going to although I knew him better than that. But I guess I thought that about Kyle once upon a time and look where I am now. I suppose it was the price I paid for being with Kyle. There was always going to be a fear of a man hitting me.
"OBVIOUSLY NOT CLOSE ENOUGH!" he shouted in the echoing corridor. "HE'S TOTALLY MESSED YOU UP AND NOT JUST PHYSICALLY. YOU WERE SCARED TO DATE ME CAUSE YOU DIDN'T WANT TO TELL ME ABOUT HIM. GOD HAVE YOU EVEN COMPREHENDED WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? HE CAME HER TO DO THIS TO YOU MAYBE EVEN KILL YOU. YET YOU STILL DON'T WANT US TO FIND HIM AND MAKE HIM PAY FOR WHAT HE DID."
"I KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE OH TO WELL. YOUR NOT THE FIRST GUY TO WANNA PUNCH HIS LIGHTS OUT CAUSE OF WHAT HE DID TO ME, BUT I SAW WHAT HE DID TO THAT OTHER GUY AND I DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN TO YOU" I screamed back. I could see Ed stood in the door way to the interrogation room in the corner of my eye.
"I'm finding him whether you want me to or not for my own satisfaction" he told me still angry but not shouting.
"And then what Danny? What happens when you find him?" I asked him tears filling my eyes.
"I don't know what then" He answered honestly.
"Please think about this. If you hit him he'll press charges then he's won anyway. If you find him hand him over to the cops. He'll go down it will be a better punishment, god pay some guys inside to beat him up once a week or something…just please do this right" I pleaded.
