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When Will got back to his apartment with Karen she was asleep, or passed out he didn't really know. Her arms were wrapped loosely around his neck and her face was resting in the crook of his neck. It broke his heart, he couldn't imagine himself without her; he swallowed the lump on his throat and held onto her tighter. He reached his apartment and put Karen down in Grace's old room. He kissed her forehead and went to his room to get some sleep.
The next morning Karen woke up and realized where she was and what happened. She choked back tears when she recalled the events that occurred the night before. She felt awful, she loved Will, more than she ever thought it was possible; but she was afraid, she was afraid that history would repeat itself, like it always did. She hadn't had the best experiences when it came to her love life and she knew that she couldn't go through the pain that she once went through again. But she loved him, and she knew that he was different than the others. She had to tell him the truth. She got up and walked into his room; he was still asleep, so she climbed into the bed and nuzzled into his side waking him up.
He sat up slowly wondering if he was dreaming. He couldn't believe that she was there. He looked at her and saw that she had tears in her eyes.
"I'm sorry." She whispered. A single tear rolled down her cheek, and he wiped it away with his thumb. Then she began to speak again,
"I love you, so much, and I do want to spend the rest of my life with you. It's just, I've had a pretty bad past when it comes to marriage, and I get so scared. Even though I know you're not anything like any of the other men I've been with, I can't help but be afraid. I've been through things that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, and I know that's not going to happen with you but even thinking about it scares me. So, I'm sorry and I do want to marry you, if you still want to that is. I love you." She finished, trying her hardest not to breakdown.
"Karen, of course I still want to marry you. I love you more than you could ever imagine. You don't have to be afraid. I would never do anything to hurt you." He kissed her, and held her close. They smiled at each other, but her smile soon faded.
"I think the only way I'm going to get over my pats is to tell you."
"I think you're right, and remember you can tell me anything." He said stroking her cheek.
"Okay, well let's start from the beginning, my first husband." She took a deep breath. "I've never told anyone any of what I'm going to tell you so…"
"I know. It's okay, you can tell me."
"Okay, well when I met my first husband I was 24 and he was 28. I young and stupid, and I had no idea what love was, but I thought I'd found it. We dated for a year and then decided to get married. I thought we were doing well, but one day the police came to my door and asked to talk to me. They told me that my best friend LeeAnn was murdered, and my husband was the main suspect because they were seen together at a bar the night she was killed. He was found guilty, and I obviously divorced him."
"Oh my God Karen, I had no idea…"
"It's okay, it was a long time ago. I'm over it." She reassured him. He was shocked. He had no idea Karen had been through anything like that.
"Well you know everything that happened with Stanley, so I guess this is the last one." She took a deep breath, "This one is going to be hard, so just bear with me."
"It's okay, take your time." He said noticing that she was obviously very uncomfortable.
"Okay, here goes. When I met my second husband I was 26 and he was 35. We got married after dating for two years, and I thought I knew him really well. I obviously developed trust issues after my first marriage, but I felt so comfortable with him and we got married. We'd been married for a year, and he had a good job right from the start, but that's when he started becoming really successful. But with the success came a lot of stress for him and we would fight, and he would take all of his anger and stress out on me. One night we got in a really big fight and he hit me. He just back handed me right across the face. I had a black eye and I told everyone that I told a woman her shoes were ugly and she punched me. They all bought it of course, and no one questioned it. Then he started hitting me more often, each time it got a little bit worse, and each time it became more frequent. After about 4 months he hit me every night. Sometimes he would really hurt me too. I'd be on the ground crying, and he would just keep kicking me. It was awful. Then, one day I found out that I was pregnant. I was so happy, I thought that once he knew I was pregnant he would be happy, and wouldn't hit me anymore. I was wrong. I told him and he screamed at me saying that I planned it without telling him just so I could make him angry, and he beat me. He beat the shit out of me. It was far worse than any of the other times. He was throwing things at me. He threw a vase at me and it shattered, a bunch of the glass cutting my face. Then he threw a chair at me, I fell to the floor and couldn't breathe. He kicked me a couple of times then left. I saw that there was blood everywhere so I crawled to the phone and called 911. It turned out he fractured my jaw, broke my collar bone, broke three of my ribs, made one of my lungs collapse, and I lost the baby. I've never been through anything worse than that."
By the time she finished there were tears spilling down her cheeks. Will's eyes were threatening to spill over with tears as well. It broke his heart to think that anyone could ever do that to another person, let alone Karen.
"Oh my God, Karen… baby I am so sorry, I am so sorry…" he didn't know what to say. He held her close to him as she cried.
"Karen, you have to trust me. I would never do anything to hurt you. I love you, and it breaks my heart hearing all of that, you have to believe me." He finished
"I know, I love you too." she said softly.
He sat there holding her until the pain of her past was paralyzed enough by his love.
Author's Note : Kind of depressing I know… but they're back together:-) ! I know you've been waiting for this one... thanks for all of the reviews kids, keep it up!