"Jake let go! Please" Abby cried. She was pinned against her kitchen wall. Jake had his hands tightly wrapped around her wrists.
"I saw you! Flirting" Jake shouted, twisting her wrists as he did.
"No I wasn't I swear" tears stung at Abby's eye's.
"That's why you didn't want to tell people!" he pressed her harder against the wall.
"I told them just like you said" she forced the tears away. Crying would just make him worse. He finally released he from his grip. Abby rubbed at the red marks round her wrists.
"Cover yourself up you look a state" Jake threw a jumper at her before going into the bedroom. Abby's hands shock as she pulled the jumper over her head. Despite it been the middle of June and hot she was forced to wear jumpers to cover the bruises that were on her body. At fist it hadn't been bad. He lost his temper sometimes and lashed out but it had got worse recently he would lose it over the slightest thing.
"Abby are you coming?" his voice was harsh and angry as he stood at the door waiting for her.
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Abby sat on the El thinking about when she first met Jake. Him smiling at her, taking her out for dinner, buying her flowers. She hadn't a clue what he was really like not until that night. They had slept together for the first time. It was ever since then at first she thought he was just overprotective, questioning her all the time. Them he became jealous shouting at her every time she talked to a man with out him there. He had said she was his property and that meant she had to do what he said. Abby had shouted back at him and he slapped her. This caught her of guard she was so shocked she just stood there while he continued to shout. He hadn't even said he was sorry the next day, she had slept on the couch but he just acted like nothing had happened. Then he punched her, she was late home form a shift and Carter had given her a lift he said she was having it away with him. Abby had told him she wasn't but he hit her giving her a black eye. After that she was too scared to say anything it was like Brian. If she said something this time through she was stuck with Jake he could do what he wanted. He barley even acknowledged that he had hit her again the next day. Sam had been the only one to notice that Abby was different she kept questioning her about Jake.
Today was no different. Sam had her suspicions about Jake ever since she heard him yelling at Abby. It wasn't the normal fighting of a couple but the intimidation of one. Sam had noticed how Abby seemed to avoid him as much as possible.
"Hey Abby, aren't you hot?" asked Sam.
"No not really" Sam looked at her.
"Abby it's boiling in here and your wearing a long sleeved top!"
"I'm ok really" Abby began tugging at her top as if suddenly the bruise on her arm would appear through her top.
"Abby about you and Jake" Sam began "you know if you ever want to talk" Abby began to look around the room nervously.
"Were fine" Abby continued to put supplies in the cupboard dropping one.
"Here let me help" Sam grabbed a tray from Abby catching her wrist as she did.
"Ow" Sam looked at her
"Abby what's up?"
"Nothing just caught myself"
"I used to 'catch' myself all the time when I was with Steve" Sam looked at Abby meeting her gaze for the first time in weeks. Abby knew then that Sam understood and she knew.
"Wasn't much at first but I decided after he hit me in the face it was too much and I left" Sam sat herself on the gurney. "Mostly for the sake of Alex"
"If you want somewhere to stay" Abby looked away seeing Jake past the window
"Sorry, but I'm just clumsy as you can see" Abby began hastily picking up the supplies she had dropped.
"Abby wait" but Abby had already left.
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"Carter can I have a word with you?" Sam corned Carter in the drugs lock up.
"Sure what" Sam looked round checking for Jake.
"You've known Abby a while?" Carter nodded.
"Is she clumsy?" Carter looked at Sam. "no not really, why?"
"What do you think of Jake?" Sam asked looking around again.
"He's alright I suppose, Abby could do better" he mumbled the last part.
"Oh so you like him"
"Well I wouldn't got that far!" Sam though for a minute about how to put this next part.
"You still like Abby right?" at this Carter's cheeks burned red. "Yer but what's that got to do with it" Sam seeing Jake coming down the corridor decided to talk to him. "Just keep an eye on her ok" Carter nodded and Sam went after Jake.
"Hey wait up" Sam caught up with him. Sam had put more thought into what she was going to say to Jake. She in no way wanted to make him suspicious.
"I need your opinion on a patient. I think they might be hitting their wife" she looked at Jake for some kind of reaction. It was the one she dreaded. His eyes were cold and uncaring. "Call social services" he continued to stack shelf's.
"Well I'm not sure if he is. I mean she say's it was her fault she deserved it" Sam knew she would get a reaction from this.
"She probably did then" he walked out the room. "Oh and leave Abby alone I don't know what you said to her but she hardly talked to me since. We sort our own problems out" Damn! That was it he suspected Abby of talking to Sam. A knot appeared in Sam's stomach, he would take it out on Abby and it was her fault.
TBC?
Ok what do you think of this it's my first attempt at a drama, yes just drama and angst no muddled humour or anything else. Please review.
Special thanks to anyone who ahs reviewed any of my stories. Hopefully from reading your comments I am improving. Thanks guy's!
