"Tommy?"
Jude's wispy voice called out.
"Hey, you're awake."
"Yeah, I feel like I got run over by a train," she
groaned. "What happened?"
"You don't remember?"
"Not really. I mean, I remember Jamie and I getting...oh
god, he did it again didn't he?"
Tommy nodded. "Yeah,
he did."
Kwest slipped out of the room in search of Sadie.
"Why does he keep doing this to me," Jude whispered to
herself, raising her hand to her forehead to push her hair away, but
winced in pain as she touched a gash above her eye. "Great."
"Hey, calm down a little alright? You had to have stitches,
it's not a big deal."
"Yes it is Tommy. It's going to
be in the tabloids now," she said as she started freaking out.
"Jude you have to calm down okay? Talk to me," Tommy
pleaded.
"About what?"
"Anything you want. You
can talk to me about the goddamn weather if it'll make you feel
better."
"When I married Jamie I thought we'd be happy.
We'd have a few kids, my music career would be good, but I would be
out of the limelight. I never imagined anything like this would
happen."
"I don't think any of us imagined this would
happen Jude."
"I should have saw it coming Tommy! I'm
so stupid!"
"No you're not Jude. This is not your
fault."
"Then why does it feel like it is?"
"I
don't know Jude. I can't answer that."
"I should have
never broke up with you," she whispered.
"That makes
two of us who think that then."
"Maybe I wouldn't be in
this mess if I hadn't broke it off."
"Maybe, maybe
not."
"How can you be so calm about this?"
"Because what am I supposed to say Jude? Yeah, if you would
have stayed with me, you wouldn't be in the hospital? Do you really
want me to say that?"
"No."
"This is all
up to you Jude. You have to decide wether or not your going to leave
Jamie, and you have to decide to press charges against him."
"If I leave him, he's just going to come back for me."
"You can stay at my place. I think I can handle Jamie
Andrews."
"Thanks."
"One question though,
do you love him?"
"I don't know. I mean I thought I
loved him, but now I'm not so sure I ever did. I think it was the
easiest thing to do at the time. I had just broken up with you, Jamie
was still obsessed with me, and I acted on impulse, and now I'm being
punished for it."
"Jude, I was so scared when I walked
into your apartment and saw you lying on the floor," Tommy
confessed.
"You were?"
"Yeah. I thought you
were dead and that scared the shit out of me."
"Do
you...I don't know how to say this so I'm just going to say it."
"Well that would be the smart thing to do."
"Do
you still love me?"
"I..."
