This Time Around
Part two:
"I killed him. Yeah I killed him." The echo of the crazed voice sent chills up Lexxiss Anderson's back. She had worked for the small security Prison on Alfa 12 for ten years and counting as the prison's only therapist. She saw to the inmates, in hopes of helping them so that their time in prison might be lowered or just to set them at rest before they died. But never in her history as a prison therapist had she ever come across a patient such as this woman; accused of murder in the first degree of her very own husband.
"What happened?" Lexxiss asked, the same question she always started with when she talked to her patients. She sat down in a small office chair to look over at her newest and most troubling patient, the young woman sat in a corner with a full-body jacket holding her limbs tightly against her body.
"I killed him. He isn't going to hurt me anymore, no he can't now...cause I killed him." Lexxiss looked over at the bundle of fury,
"Who did you kill?" She asked.
"You people haven't identified his body yet? Well that just shows how smart you all are, now doesn't it?" The woman spat sarcastically. Lexxiss groaned and pulled out a manilla folder and pulled out several pictures of a burned body,
"Of course we've identified him, but what I want to know is if you know who he is." The woman thrashed about the wall, bucking her hips and throwing her body back and forth, trying in vain to free herself.
"If you know, then I don't need to tell you. I killed him..." The woman trailed off, as she slumped against the wall once more. Lexxiss looked down at the papers of information the prison had given her about this woman, reading through the different stats and deciding on a different approach to the situation.
"How long were you two married?" The woman's head shot up, blood shot eyes glared into dark green ones then shooting to the papers that Lexxiss held,
"Married?" Lexxiss raised a thin black eyebrow at the woman's confusion.
"You...don't remember?" Lexxiss asked sorting through the papers and pulling one out, turning it so that the woman in the corner could see it. Slowly the woman sat up and moved slightly closer before stopping and glaring up at Lexxiss once more,
"You're messing with me, I know you are!" She growled. Lexxiss almost jumped for joy, she hadn't made this much progress in a week,
"Why would I do that, Carolyn?" Lexxiss cocked her head to the side, with a hint of a grin playing at the corner of her mouth. Carolyn looked at the paper that the other woman held before blowing a piece of hair out of her face,
"We weren't married, where'd you get that?" Carolyn muttered motioning with her head towards the paper in Lexxiss' hand. Lexxiss looked down at the paper and back at her patient,
"It was from all the other marital files, they obviously didn't find one at your house, because-"
"Because I killed him, that's why you didn't find one, because there isn't one!" Carolyn interrupted Lexxiss, before scooting back into the corner she had started in. Lexxiss chewed the inside of her lip as she peered out over the rimes of her glasses, something wasn't right about the woman.
"Carolyn, I have the marriage certificate right here. If you want to I can show it to you, come on you've got to know what I'm talking about." Carolyn began to shake her head muttering no-nothings as Lexxiss stood up to walk closer to the troubled patient. Carolyn's head shot up suddenly, her eyes flashing with anger, for the first time Lexxiss saw the eyes of a killer and not the eye's of the woman she'd been attending to for the past week.
"Do you have any idea what he did to me? I was afraid to even look in his direction, in fear that he might beat me again! Tell me Doctor, does you husband beat you because he can't deal with his anger any other way?" Lexxiss was completely taken aback by Carolyn's sudden outburst. Lexxiss opened and closed her mouth several times trying to answer the woman's horrible question, but after a minute or two she just gave up,
"Don't know do you? Yeah that's what I thought, there's no way you could know the pain I suffered at his hands. But!" Carolyn's face contorted into a mask of triumph, bitter triumph, "He can't hurt me anymore, I made sure of that."
Lexxiss sat at her desk shuffling through papers, the cleansing system had long turned off leaving the building with an eerie silence. After another minute of furious scattering of papers, Lexxiss leaned back heavily in her chair and rubbed the bridge of her nose,
"Carolyn, Carolyn, Carolyn, what a puzzle you've given me." Lexxiss breathed out as she turned slightly to look down to the pictures on her desk. She still didn't understand how the woman rejected the idea of her very own marriage, what could have possibly driven the woman to such conclusions...such insanity?
Letting her sleep deprived mind fly off into different solutions to the problem, Lexxiss slowly drifted off to sleep with nothing but subtle buzz of the security lights to lull her.
Dreams filled Carolyn's mind as she thrashed back and forth on the patient bed she was strapped down to, dark bruised soars were beginning to show clearly through the rough fabric of her robe. Crying out she opened her eyes, every night she saw him in her room waiting for his chance to suffocate her with her own pillow, and every night she kept herself awake the best she could so she could scream for help. A creak in the corner of the room made her attention come to full alert looking and smelling for another person,
"H-help." Carolyn croaked out as she began to scream uncontrollably. Raw savage screams tore the lining of her throat as they had when she was with him, the problem was the security personal no longer paid her attention. No one ever did, no one ever would, it had come down to depending on herself and herself only. Suddenly she felt her chest being pressed back down to the bed, a sort of calm came over her and her mind drifted into oblivion where she drifted back to the hell she would have gone through. Something was different in these dreams, somebody was different. Carolyn could never bring herself close enough to the person to find out who they were, but she knew somehow she knew exactly who it was.
Every night she got closer to touching the unknown and every night she suffered from the trauma she would have gone through. Her breathing slowed as she reached the dark figure, her refuge, her savior...A hand gripped her from behind and pulled her back, without warning she was slammed forcefully against the wall.
"Hush little baby, don't say a word..." He hissed as he stroked her chin. Carolyn's nervous eyes darted around trying to find her safety, but like everything else in her life, it wasn't there. Fighting helplessly against his strength, Carolyn knew the losing fight and soon her exhausted body gave into temptation and she fell limp. A fist plundered into her already soar stomach and she felt her breath leaving her body, tears streamed down her face as she began to cry,
"Don't hurt me," she choked out before he grabbed her hair and threw her down at his feet,
"Look what you've done to me Carolyn! Look at me!" He kicked her hard in the ribs, a sickening crack giving affermanation that at least one of her ribs was broken. Carolyn curled, her body trying its best to protect itself. As he continued to rant he delivered several more blows to her her stomach and finished her off with a kick to the face, her nose exploding.
Carolyn awoke, alone, cold, and hurting. Every morning she awoke this way, she could feel exactly where the broken bones were and she could feel the dull throbbing emitting from her bruised ribs and her face hurt like hell. The restraints on her wrists and feet kept her from hurting herself, but they allowed anyone else to do anything they wanted while she had no way of protecting herself. Light streamed in through the small window of her door and then two men walked in to wake her up, just as they had every morning.
"A'ight there, little miss?" One of the attendants asked as he lifted her up and off of the bed. His dark eyes shone with sympathy as he helped her to the lavatory, Carolyn froze, the world came to a stop as she seemed to leave her own body to watch from an outside perspective. She didn't understand,
"Who are you," her voice failed her as she slipped back into unconciousness. The attendant closest to her grabbed her body before she it the floor and carried her out of the room,
"Ms. Anderson'll want to see her," he said to his companion.
Carolyn woke suddenly, looking around to make sure she was still safe. After a few seconds she could make out the figure of a woman sitting at a desk staring out the window. A familiar scent hit her nose, though she couldn't quite remember, yet she knew it so well. Carloyn let her eyes dance around the office trying to find something out of the ordinary that might give it away, and then her eyes landed back on Lexxiss, who was still daydreaming.
"My father wanted me to marry him," Lexxiss jumped at the solemn sound of Carolyn's voice. Looking over at her patient, she was surprised to see a calm set over the woman's body, sitting forward she nodded for Carolyn to continue. "Though I had no desire whatsoever to marry at such a young age, he wouldn't listen, he said it was for the best. Maybe for him..." Carolyn trailed off as she looked down at her feet, regaining herself before looking back at Lexxiss. "I wouldn't let him force me into it, so I ran. I had made plans, without my father's knowledge, to enroll in a flight academy. They were expecting me when I showed up. My father was outraged, but there was nothing he could do to get me out of the academy, so he just kept quiet and I finished my courses and graduated in less than two years." Carolyn smiled to herself, remembering all the good times she had back then.
"What did you do after you graduated?" Lexxiss asked after a while. Carolyn's smile faded,
"I went home and that's where I met him. I don't think I'll ever forget the first time I laid eyes on him, he was the devil in a man's skin, and I had two choices; go to hell or die trying to get away. But I killed that devil, oh yes!" Carolyn laughed, her eyes dancing in their glory. Lexxiss scowled as she tried to fit all the pieces together,
"But Carolyn, how long were you married?" Carolyn's eyes flashed in anger as she turned them upon Lexxiss.
"I told you before, I didn't marry him! I wouldn't let him do that to me, try to tie me down so that there was no way out, oh no I was too smart for that." Lexxiss sat back in her chair trying to figure out just what Carolyn was talking about. An idea suddenly occured to her as she sat forward again to look on Carolyn with fasination,
"How old was he then?" Carolyn shrugged slightly, her eyebrows furrowed as she tried to recall,
"I think David was almost ten yea-"
"David?" Lexxiss cut her off quickly, searching through her papers to find the folder that held all the information about the man that Carolyn had been accused of killing. Carolyn stopped in momentary confusion at the woman's antics, her mouth went dry as if sand had gotten into it, and she could smell that scent again.
"Yes, David Joseph Adams." Carolyn answered finally, confusion still clear in her voice. Lexxiss stopped what she was doing, looking up at Carolyn with a glimmer in her eye,
"Carolyn, David Adams died two years ago."
A/N: I definately fell off of the face of the earth, sorry guys! I know a lot of you wanted me to update and I didn't do that for well…a long time, but here I am again, and I hope that all my reviewers come back to read this!