Ch 7

"Who are you?" Nikolas asked as he got closer to them

"I'm Paige Bowen, Emily's mother"

Nikolas stood there in shock, he had never meet Emily's mother and did not really know what to say to her. But he did know one thing and that was that Emily didn't want to see her.

"You know what; Emily's not feeling up to visitors right now."

"You can't stop me from seeing my daughter"

"Actually he can" Monica said as she came up behind them

"You only get a visit with Emily every to weeks and she just saw you a few days ago."

"This is not me just wanting to get another visit. Someone attack her and hurt bad enough to land her in the hospital. I just want to make sure she's okay"

"She's okay now, but seeing you will make her worse"

"She'll see you once she gets out of the hospital and is feeling up to seeing you"

Paige turned around and left not wanting to cause more of a scene.

"How's Emily really doing?" Monica ask Nikolas as she watched the elevator doors close

"I'm not really sure. We tried to distract her with the pizza and pixie sticks, but I'm not really sure how well that worked"

" What do you mean?"

"Well she says it helped distract her but I think she's lying. She's doing what she has always done"

"Internalizing and trying to protect everyone else?"

"And in the process hurting her self more. She's trying to act like nothing happened so we won't see how much she is hurt and afraid"

Nikolas paused and then continued

"I was sitting in there when she woke up before. She was so afraid, she had just woken up and none of her defenses where up. I left so

she wouldn't be afraid and when I came back with Liz and Lucky she tried to act as if nothing was wrong."

"I'll try and get her to talk to me and if she won't, I'll get her doctor spend some to talk to her. Maybe one of the trauma therapists"

Emily's room

Monica walked over to Emily's beside and watched her sleep. She saw Emily tossing in her sleep. She could imagine what Emily was going through, but one thing was for certain, this was one thing that Emily was going to have to let others help her over come.