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Moments later, Martin walked in.

"The police said they'd be here with Child Protective Service in a few minutes," he reported.

"Good," Elaine approved in a hard tone.

"Lanie, you can't possibly---" Cecilia began, as she stood up.

"My name is Elaine," Elaine interrupted.

"He wanted this. There were two of us," Cecilia said.

"Next time, try that on someone who doesn't know what he's going through," Elaine shot back. "I don't believe this. How can you do this to me, Cecilia? After everything that I went through with my father? Why would you deliberately bring that pain to someone in my family?"

"Elaine---" Cecilia interjected.

"You make me sick," Elaine spat out. "I can't believe I ever trusted you," she snarled.

"Why are you doing this? You're my best friend," Cecilia reminded her.

"Think again. I'm not friends with skanks," Elaine snapped. "Where are those officers?" she wondered. A few minutes later, they heard the doorbell.

"Let's go," Elaine softly said to Scott. With that, she and Scott went downstairs, with Martin and Cecilia on the heels. Elaine opened the door.

"Come in, officers," she invited. One of the officers looked at the young woman with raised eyebrows.

"We got report of a rape?" an officer asked.

"Back there," Elaine answered, gesturing to Cecilia.

"What exactly happened?" the same officer questioned.

"Well, Martin and were at a party, but I kept getting this bad feeling. You see, Scott's been pretty tense for a while, but I hadn't been able to put my finger on it, but I just knew we had to come back home and when we did, we heard noises from Scott's room. We upstairs to check and found her---" Elaine shot dagger eyes at Cecilia. "Raping my stepson," she finished.

"That's a lie! I never touched Scotty! It was Elaine!" Cecilia protested.

"SHUT UP!" Scott screamed. "Don't even try to pin this on Elaine! You did this, Skank!"

"Everybody calm down," one of the officers said. "Now, let's just get Scott to the hospital and give him a physical and do a rape kit," he continued.

"No. No," Scott said fearfully.

"Scott, it's okay. They're relatively short," Elaine soothed. At this the officer looked at her.

"You've been raped?" he asked.

"When I was a girl," Elaine answered. The officer decided not to respond to that.

"I'm scared," Scott said to Elaine.

"I know. But it'll be okay," Elaine assured. With that, she walked out. As they did so, they could hear another officer reading Cecilia her rights. At the hospital, Scott sat in a room.

"Do you want us to go or stay?" Elaine asked.

"Stay…please," Scott said. Just then, the doctor came in.

"When will CPS talk to Scott?" asked Elaine.

"A little after the rape kit. Or when Scott feels up to it. Whatever comes first," the doctor answered. He then did the kit. Afterwards, Scott lay back down.

"Scott, I know you just went through torture, but are you up to talking to CPS?" Elaine gently asked a few minutes later.

"Elaine---" Martin began.

"Let's just get it done," Scott decided.

"Okay," Elaine said. "Martin, would you go get them please?" she continued.

"Sure," Martin said. He walked out of the room.

"You'll think they'll believe me?" Scott queried.

"Scott, you don't have to---" Elaine began.

"Yeah, I do," Scott interrupted. "It's---it's gone on long enough," he added.

"I understand," Elaine said. Before either could say anymore, Martin came in with a man at his heels.

"Scott, I'm Rick Feltman from CPS," the second man replied as he set everything up.

"Hi," Scott greeted.

"This is case number 45324832. For the record, would you mind stating your name?" Rick asked.

"Scott Barringer," Scott answered.

"Now, you wanna tell me what happened?" Rick questioned.

"I was raped," Scott said.

"By who?" Rick questioned.

"Cecilia Robbins. She was…a friend of my step mom's," Scott answered.

"And was this the first time?" Rick questioned.

"No," Scott replied. Martin's eyes flashed. Not the first time? This had happened before?

"When did the first incident occur?" Rick queried. Scott sighed.

"A year. Since Elaine and my dad met," Scott responded.

"A ye---" Elaine cut herself off angrily. "From the start? Oh, my gosh! I can't---" again, she trailed off.

"Elaine, I am so sorry," Scott said.

"Scott, this wasn't your fault," Elaine told him. Scott went on to say that things had changed during a vacation the four of them had gone to the beach.

"She glanced at me as I walked by her towel. But it was different, like looking me over," he continued.

"So that was the first time she tried to seduce you?" Rick queried.

"Yeah, I guess you could call it that," Scott answered.

"I can't handle this. I'm sorry," Elaine told them and walked out.

"Elaine---" Scott said.

"It's not you, Scott. I'll go check on her," Martin assured. Then, he followed her.

"Elaine?" he asked. He found her sitting in a hall chair, crying. "Elaine, you okay?" he asked softly, kneeling down so they were eye-level.

"Oh, Martin. How could I have been so stupid?" Elaine wondered.

"Elaine, no one's blaming you," Martin told her.

"But I should've figured it out sooner! I mean, all the signs were there! The way he freaked out when we told him she was coming to stay with, all the times he flinched when she touched him…I should've seen it," Elaine sobbed.

"Sssssh, ssssssh, it's okay, honey. It's okay," Martin comforted, hugging her.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

I don't know how long a rape kit takes---thank God---and what I know of rape kits comes from what I've seen on Law and Order: SVU. I don't know how a rape kit is done, so it was skipped over, but certainly not to gloss over it.