Note: Jack and Will find out

"Karen! Karen! Karen!" Grace called from across the room. Karen looked up.

"What, honey?"

"Your ignoring me!" Grace pouted.

"Honey, don't I always do that?" said Karen, making a weak attempt at a joke.

Grace looked at her, puzzled. "You okay, Karen?"

Karen didn't have a chance to answer because Jack came striding through the door. "Guess whoooo?" he called out.

"Hey, poodle" Karen beamed, stood, and kissed him on the cheek.

"Ready to go?" Jack asked Karen.

"Ready to go to what?"

"We were gonna go see that new scary movie, Cry Wolf."

"Oh, right. Right, right right. Uhh, well, I can't today."

"Kare, are you okay? You were so psyched about screaming in the movie when nothing was happening so everyone would freak out."

Karen smiled weakly, and looked down at her knees. "I need to talk to Will about something, do you know where he is?"

"Well Karen, he's probably at work."

Karen nodded, and stood up, grabbing her purse. "Well, then. I'm off." She swallowed, kissed Jack on the cheek, and left.

Grace gaped at the door. "What the-

"hell?" Jack finished for her, sitting dejectedly down in Karen's chair and picking up a bottle of her blue nail polish. He unscrewed the top and began painting his nails.

"Jack, what are you doing?" Grace asked, but got no answer. "

"Never mind….there's no point now.." she muttered and sat back down at her desk.

Karen knocked on Will's office door. "Come in" he muttered irritably, scribbling down something on a notepad. His face brightened when he saw it was Karen.

"Hey Karen! What's up?" he asked cheerily, and she sat down in a chair across him. She folded her hands in her lap, and stared at them for a minute. Will was confused. Whatever she had come here for must have been very serious, because she hadn't called him Wilma or made a sarcastic comment.

"Yeah…Um…..listen….you know my stepdaughter, Olivia?"

"I've heard you talk about her.." Will said nodding his head thoughtfully.

"Well, I-I…well- she- she was attacked, see-'

Will's mouth fell open. "Attacked? What do you mean attacked?"

"Well" she said, catching her breath, "this boy…Kyle…tried to…you know…and she told me….but she doesn't want to do anything about it….but she's at school with him….everyday….and I just…I just don't know what…what to do." She pinched the bridge of her nose, and sobbed slightly.

"Hey" Will said, filled with sympathy and a slight bit of shock, he didn't think Karen cared at all about her stepchildren.

Will walked around his desk, kneeled down in front of her, and took both of her hands from her face.

"Karen" he said softly, and before he knew it, she threw her arms around him.

Will was a little surprised at first, he had thought Karen would never show her vulnerable side, to him of all people, and here she was, doing just that. She sobbed into his neck, and he rubbed her back gently. "I just don't know what to do" she gasped, "I love her. I mean, I know I've always acted like this coldhearted bitch, but I felt like she would push me away if I tried to get too close, and I couldn't have that happen, it would hurt too much. And now, she is confiding in me, and Will, I don't know what to do!"

"Shhh" he whispered, as he rocked her back and forth.

Jack stood by Will's office door, listening to the whole thing. He bit his lip in anger, thinking of the pain Olivia was going through. That rotten little bastard! He thought to himself, picturing Kyle as some fifty-year-old tattooed motorcycle rider. He knew what he had to do.

Olivia awoke in Karen's bed, shivering. The huge comforter wasn't enough to keep her warm, and she started to violently sick. She woke up from another Kyle nightmare, where he had actually gone through with raping her. Her stomach heaved, and she bolted to Karen's bathroom as fast as she could. She threw up into the toilet, and slumped back against the bathroom wall. Once she could muster the energy, she flushed it, stood up, and made her way out of Karen's bedroom to her room. She pulled on a tanktop, sweatshirt, and jeans, combed her hair, and went down stairs to see if Karen was there.

She was greeted by Rosario at the bottom of the stairs. "Miss Olivia" she said quietly, "Jack is here to see you."

"Jack, Karen's friend? The gay one?"

Rosario nodded. Olivia trembled slightly, she remembered being rude to Jack about his outfit or something when she was about twelve. Rosario led him to where Olivia was standing.

"Olivia" he said as gently as possible, laying his hand upon her own.

"Hey Jack.." she weakly smiled, and squeezed his hand.

"I know, Olivia. Karen didn't tell me, but, I know."

Olivia ripped her hand away almost instantly. "God!" she cried "I never should of told anyone! I know how fast these things spread!"

"Olivia, only Karen, You, and I…..and Will know." Jack said, stepping carefully towards the agitated young girl.

"WILL KNOWS!" she shrieked, immediately filled with panic.

"No no no no no" she groaned, sitting atop one of the stairs, covering her face, "he's a lawyer isn't he?"

Jack nodded, and tentatively sat next to her on the staircase. She looked at him frantically, her eyes pleading for an answer she was not going to hear. "I'm sorry, Liv. I don't know what Karen's decision is, I can't tell you anything."

"I know, I know" Olivia said tearfully, "Karen's decision is best….I guess….but…Jack…is she worried? Because I don't want her to be…"

Jack laid his hand on her arm. "Yes, she is very worried."

"It's all my fault!" she whispered, as a tear rolled down her cheek.

"No it's not. It's that son of a bitch's fault for ever touching you. You had to tell. You didn't have any other choice…"

"Yes I did! I could of shut up and kept cutting until the pain just went away!" she shrieked, stood, and ran into her bedroom.

Jack watched the redhead slam her bedroom door. He took a minute to get over his shock, he didn't know Olivia could be capable cutting herself. Of course, he didn't know her very well, but she always seemed like such a good spirited young girl. Except for the time she trashed his Uggs. He smiled faintly at the memory and looked down at the wooden stair. His legs felt like lead as he stood, and their weight kept increasing as he approached Olivia's bedroom. He knocked twice, and waited for a response.

The door creaked open, and revealed Olivia's tearstained face. Abandoned Pools 'The Remedy' blared from her stereo. Olivia pulled the door all the way open, yet another lump forming in her throat. She turned her back to Jack, and sat on her bed. "I'm sorry I dragged you into this, I'm sorry….."

"Stop it." Jack said, and Olivia turned to him, a shocked look on her face. She'd known him to be a very sensitive, light-hearted man, and had never actually heard him give an order. She swallowed, and looked at her knees. Jack sat next to her, and took her shoulders.

"Now you listen to me" he said heavily, "stop blaming yourself. That's exactly what these guys want you to do, they want you to believe it was your fault, and it's not. Don't say your sorry for telling someone, anyone of us would help you if something like this was going on."

Olivia's chin trembled. "Thank you, Jack" she whispered through her tears, and wrapped her arms around him tightly.

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