1Let Me Go
Chapter 8. Thanks for your reviews. This chapter shows what happens after Arielle is faced with her demons.
Aiden was standing outside when Flack came out. "How is she?" she asked.
"Not too good... it was a big shock to her when she was faced with that again. I'm starting to wonder if I did the right thing."
"Listen. You weren't wrong. She got hurt. She needed help a long time ago. It looked as though she had gotten over it, but I guess she hadn't."
"What are you talking about?"
She sighed. "When she was 15, a girls' gang recruited her, and she briefly joined them until they wanted her to kill a crackhead- one that turned out to be her mother. When she couldn't do it, they beat her so badly she almost died. That was when she went back to school and got her GED, then went to Columbia and got her degree. After that, she went into law enforcement, but her stepfather came out of the woodwork to start stalking her. He tried again to... you know..."
Flack shuddered and nodded.
"And she fought him off. He wouldn't quit, though, and pretty soon she started trying to kill herself."
Holy... he thought. This girl's messed up. "Where... where did you get this?"
"I have my sources. The bottom line is, we need to help her before she tries something else."
He nodded. Turning his head he saw Danny, frozen in the doorway, listening to it all.
"Danny..."
The CSI's blue eyes were wide and furious. "That bastard." He shot out of the doorway, down the hall, and Flack and Aiden hurried to catch up with him.