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Secrets

Chapter Six,

Guy's POV

There's an angry silence in the court room as the case is presented against Steve. I'm sat with the Duck's, I know I'm going to be called as a witness but I really don't want to be. I'm just trying to forget...

"Did you or did you not beat your step-son?" Bombay asked. He was the prosecuter.

"I never went farther than what the law allows," Steve lied.

"You sent him to hospital!" Bombay snapped.

"That wasn't my fault. It happened at hockey, that probably caused it," Steve looked directly at me and i could read the threat in his eyes. Oh God, what am I going to say when I'm up on the stand, I'm so afraid of him I'm seriously going along with what he says.

"I have here the hospital's diagnosis of Guy's injuries. Belt marks to the back and cheast, multiple bruises all over his body, a fractured wrist," Orion had been angry about that one, I hadn't told him I'd hurt my wrist, now it's in a cast, "Marks from a cane on his arms and shoulders and a deep cut down his back. How can you say you stayed within the laws limitations when the evidence obviously points against that statement."

"I didn't do those," Steve snapped and I flinched, yes I actually flinched. The jury look furious. Seems their on my side. I don' really pay attention to the rest of his questioning except that he lies about everything, and here was me thinking you had to tell the truth in court.

"You may step down Mr Germaine," the judge said coldly. "Mr Bombay you may call your next witness."

"Guy Germaine." Fuck. I stand slowly and all the Duck's pat me on the back as I walk up to the witness stand. God help me, I don't know what to say.

Adam's POV

He looks so nervous I wish I could take him in my arms and protect him...but I won't because no body know's I swing that way. Or that I fancy the pant's off Guy. Instead I look at him encouragingly as the questions start.

"Guy, has your father ever hit you?" Guy's dad's lawyer asked.

"He's not my father," Good start Guy.

"Your step-father then?"

"Yes."

"How badly?"

"He...I..." Guy's shaking badly and he can't seem to think. His step-dad's glaring at him from where's he's sat. "It...He..." Guy gives a terrified glance at him step-dad and then at the floor before taking a deep breath and looking at the lawyer. "He beat's me until I'm unconscious." His step-dad growled quietly.

"Why?"

"I don't know why, he just does," Guy refuses to look up.

"Do you have any evidence to support your accusation?" the lawyer is such a bastard!

"The bruises on his face?" Charlie thunders from his seat. Fulton put a hand over his mouth, good old Fulton.

"Do you have any evidence that he has done anything more than is legally allowed?"

"I-I collapsed..." Guy stuttered.

"At Hockey, isn't it a plausable explanation that you hockey practice could have been the cause of that?" the Lawyer asked.

"I don't know, m-maybe."

"Haven't passed out because of hockey before?"
"Yes b-but..."

"Well what makes this time any different to then?"

"Objection your honour. Guy has never been taken to hospital from Hockey injuries before. And the hospital report states that there were deep belt wounds in his back," GO BOMBAY!

A/N There we are, bastard of a lawyer eh?