When the movie ended they headed back to the hotel, stopping just outside the door to make sure that Tina was okay with going back in. Tina told them that she fine and that she was too tired to really care about anything but going to bed. They walked in the lobby of the hotel and met with a few other guys that stopped and talked to them for a few.
"I'm going to go head on up to the room." Tina told Dave as everyone else continued talking.
"I'll walk up with you."
"That's okay you stay here and talk I'm just going to go to bed."
"You sure you're okay?"
"I'm fine." Tina smiled told everyone good night then headed up stairs to her room. When she got to her floor the hall was empty, Tina walked to her room door, slide the key in and turned the handle to open the door. As she opened the door Tony came up behind her, grabbed her by the arm and shoved her in the room.
"What in the hell do you think you are doing?" He yelled pushing Tina against the wall beside the door. Tina tired to move away from him but he had a tight hold on her arm and was not letting go. "I asked you a question. You better answer if you know what's good for you." Tony yelled getting louder.
"Tony, we are not married any more you can't order me around I don't have to answer to you. Now let go of me and get out of my room." Tina told him trying to stand her ground with him. When Tony heard the words come out of her mouth he back handed her across the face. He grabbed Tina and pushed her against the wall harder this time.
"Don't you ever speak to me that way do you hear me." Tony paused when he realized he room door was still open. He let go of her long enough to shut the door, when he did Tina took off for the other side by the kitchen where she knew there was a phone. Tony saw her reach for the phone he ran and grabbed a hold of the phone and yanked it out of the wall. "You think you're real smart don't you. You think that if you file for divorce then I'll leave you alone." Tony grabbed her by her hair and pulled her to him. "You are my wife and you will always be my wife you got that."
"Tony please your hurting me." Tina begged him to let go of her. Tony smacked her once again causing her to slam her head against the counter cutting her forehead.
"Don't you interrupt me again. I never told you to speak now did I?" Tina shook her head knowing if she didn't answer him he would hit her again. "I saw you nice and cozy with him down stairs in the lobby, what are you doing with him? Are you fucking him?"
"No I haven't touched him. I'm working here that's all." Tina placed a hand on her forehead putting a little pressure on the cut to slow the bleeding. She was trying real hard to hold herself together but it was getting harder to do so as she felt the warm blood fall down her face from her forehead.
"I'm sure you are working. Is he paying you?" Tony asked as he grabbed her by the hair and backed her against the wall. Tina shook her head in response. "Since you're giving it to him you won't mind giving me a little will you?" Tony brought his hand up and grabbed her breast through her shirt. Tina closed her eyes knowing what was going to happen next. He began to kiss her neck, he began to undo her jeans Tina took his hand from her jeans and tried to shove him off her.
Dave and Randy was just reaching the room door when they heard Tina scream Dave quickly opened the door and found Tony pinning Tina against the wall and raising his hand to hit her. Dave ran over grabbed Tony's arm and pulled him off her, and shoved his against the wall. Randy, knowing exactly what Dave was going to do to this man, grabbed Dave's arm and pulled him back.
"You go take care of Tina." Dave reluctantly let go of Tony and walked over to Tina who was sitting on the floor with her knees pulled up to her chest. Dave knelt in front of her and moved the hair that was covering the cut on her forehead then he looked at looked at her, now blood covered, face. He helped Tina to stand then took her in the kitchen as Randy called the hotel security on his cell phone.
Once in the kitchen Dave ran water over a dish towel and began to wipe the blood from her face.
"I should have walked up here with you." Dave spoke as he cleaned her face.
"It's not your fault." Tina paused and winced as Dave ran the towel over the cut. "How bad is it?" She asked.
"Pretty bad I think you should go to the hospital." Tina shook her head. "How is the rest of you? You're not hurt some where else are you?"
"I don't think so." Tina shook her head as she looked down to the floor.
"How did he get in here?"
"He came up behind me when I first opened the door. He grabbed me by the arm and pinned me against the wall he asked me what I was doing I told him to let go of me and that's when he hit me." Tina paused for a minute. "My head hit the counter." Tina looked up at Dave who began wiping away the new blood that had begun to fall. "I should go check it out in a mirror to see how bad it is." Tina turned to leave the kitchen as Dave followed.
Hunter and Ric walked in the room as Dave and Tina walked into the kitchen.
"What in the hell happened in here?" Ric asked seeing the chair turned over and the phone laying on the floor, then he noticed Randy had a hold of Tina's ex husband. "What is he doing in here?"
"Dave and I came up and this guy here had Tina pushed up against the wall beating her."
"Where is Tina is she okay?" Hunter asked stepping the room further.
"Dave took her in the kitchen she was bleeding pretty badly. I just called hotel security they should be here any minute." Just then three guys walked in the room.
"What's the problem?" One of them asked. Randy filled them in on what he saw.
"Okay do we need to get a squad here for the lady?"
"No." Tina answered walking out of the kitchen with Dave. "I'm fine." Tina looked from the three to Tony who was in hand cuffs standing by the door.
"We have called the police they should be here shortly they might want to ask you a few questions." Tina nodded her head, then the three left taking Tony with them.
Tina sat on the couch after they left, Dave walked over to her handing her the towel that he still held she could wipe away the newly fallen blood from her forehead.
"Are you sure you don't want to go to the hospital?" Randy asked noticing that the cloth was covered in blood. "You might need stitches."
"If I do I'll do it myself. It's not that hard." She replied standing and walked down the hall to the bathroom.
"I can't believe he did that. I can't believe that he got in here, I thought that we were the only ones allowed on this floor." Hunter said once they heard the bathroom door shut.
"He'll be locked up for a while I hope." Randy sat the chair back up.
Dave stood there quite for a few.
"Are you okay?" Ric asked seeing a look of pure anger on his face.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just worried about her." Dave paused. "She is holding so much in, if she doesn't talk to some one soon she is going to go crazy."
"You can't make her talk about something that she doesn't wan to talk about." Ric replied understanding what Dave meant. "Maybe she just doesn't trust anyone right now, look at what she has had to put up with that right there is enough for her not to trust any one especially a guy." Dave nodded in agreement with Ric. "Talk to her and if she decides she wants to talk then listen. If not then leave it alone and let her bring it up. Just don't push the issue." With that said Ric turned to walk out of the room.
"Are you sure she is going to be okay?" Hunter asked before leaving.
"Yeah, you guys go ahead I'll take care of her." Randy and Hunter walked out of the room and Dave shut the door then locked it. He picked up the few things that had been knocked over then headed back to check on Tina. He knocked on the bathroom door then opened the door and stepped inside to find Tina standing at the counter with a small medical bag open. He watched as she applied peroxide and a butterfly band-aid.
"Are you okay?" He stood there and watched her face for a minute then he wrapped his arms around her and pulled to him. When he did this Tina broke down and began to cry in to his chest. Dave just tightened his hold on her and rubbed her back then ran his hand over her hair.
"I'm sorry I got make-up and blood on your shirt." Tina pulled back from him a little when she noticed what she was doing.
"Its okay don't, worry about it." Dave smiled at her. "It's just a shirt, it'll wash." Tina calmed herself a little, she couldn't believe that she had just broke down like that she was such a together person she never broke down in front of anyone like that, what has gotten in to her. "You okay now?"
"I think so." Tina gave a half smile. "This doesn't look good on me, my ex shows up and beats the hell out of me and it's only my second day on the job."
"Don't worry, it just shows how tough you are. You took a beating like that and kept on going without whining like most of the guys." Dave answered trying to make her laugh and seceding. "Come on I think you can use some rest after the night you had." Dave and Tina walked in to the bed room; Dave turned the TV as Tina sat on the bed. Dave sat beside her and they began to watch a few of the half hour comedy shows.
Tina began to think about what had happened, and why she broke down in front of him. She had never cried in front of anyone before. Not even anyone in her family, Tony was the only family that she had since she was seventeen. Sure she had a few friends at the hospital but no one that she thought she could talk to about what Tony had done to her, at least no one that she wanted to tell.
"Thank you." Tina spoke softly to Dave. Dave reached out and put his arm around her.
"You know if you want to talk to me you can." Tina nodded and began watching the show again.
"I've never had anyone to talk to, most people when I tell them things they turn around and tell other people. The hospital is full of gossip and I didn't want to be part of it so I just kept everything inside."
"What about your family, couldn't you talk to them?"
"I haven't talked to people in my family since I was seventeen and walked out on my drugged out mom and step dad." Tina paused. "You see my step dad was kind of like Tony, very successful lawyer and made all kinds of money so me family loved him. Plus he beat me and yelled at me and stuff like that. Him and my mom were in to drugs there wasn't a day that went by that one of them weren't high, I tried to tell my aunts and my grandma, but they didn't believe me said there was no way he would do drugs he made too much money for that. One night my step dad raped me, I told a friend's mom and she called children services and they did an investigation on it. They talked to my family about my step dad and me and my family called me a liar, they said that I was just trying to get attention. After everything was over he really beat me, so I learned just to keep my mouth shut about everything that happened to me."
"I'm sorry that all that happened to you, I wish that I could make it all go away but I can't. There is nothing that I can say or do to make any of that go away." Dave placed his hand on the side Tina's face. "I can tell you, that whatever you tell me will stay between you and me. I won't go behind your back and tell anyone about the things we talk about and I won't call you a liar or anything like that." He pressed a kiss to her forehead. "You need to talk to someone about what has happened to you, if you don't your going to exploded and I don't want to see that happen to you. It has already started; you quit your job to come on the road with people that you don't know."
"I know, I just don't know where or what to talk about."
"Start from the beginning, was Tony always like this?"
"He used to be a real nice guy, the type of guy that would send flowers to the hospital ever hour on the hour for my birthday. He used to be so kind and loving the type that would never hurt anyone."
"What happened to him?" Dave asked when didn't speak for a minute.
"Tony was a high priced lawyer. Took all the top cases, then the company that he worked for lost everything because of one case that Tony had. It turned out to be a wrongful suit and the guys turned around and sued the law firm that he worked for as well as Tony. After that no body wanted Tony working for them. Soon we lost our house and the cars along with everything else, we were living off what I made and that was it. So he became angry and took his anger out on me." Tina paused and looked at Dave. "Then he started to screw around behind my back, I know he was but I never said anything. Then I confronted him about it one night and he hit me." Tina looked from Dave to the bed. "It got so bad that the only time he acted like he cared was when we had sex. I got tired of that so one night when he came home from the bar he was all over me and pushed him away from me and told him that I wasn't in the mood I was tired and had to get up early for work the next morning. That just wasn't acceptable to him, so he raped me. That went on for about week every night he would come home and rape me. Then he would leave and go to his girlfriend's house." Tina looked at Dave and seen that he had really been listening to her. Dave reached up and wiped away the few tears that had started to fall.
"I've never told any one any of that stuff."
"Do you think it's because you know you can trust me." Could she really trust this man whom she had only known a couple of days? "You can trust me, I'm not going to judge you or tell anyone anything that you tell me." Tina nodded and took a deep breathe as a way to try and relax. Dave pulled her back against him and they laid there drifting off to sleep.
I think that is the longest chapter that i have ever written. I hope that you all enjoy and sorry that it's so long.