A/N: WoW another update can you actually believe it? I am on a role here people! I have almost another chapter written. I know where I am going with this story and I know it's not going to be as long as Thoughout the Years I am going to try and shorten it a little bit so please don't be mad with me. I only have 6 days left until I leave for Europe I am super excited!
A/N: See why Brenda Hampton deserves to be thrown off as head writer of 7th Heaven and why I should be added and why this dream never will happen on the front chapter. BTW has anyone seen the latest T.V Guide about the spoilers? I'm do sadden about what's going to happen with Beverley Mitchell's Character.
Lying on the cold hard plastic benches Lucy started to shiver. She knew she was coming down with a cold by the way she had been feeling the last few months but since she had dropped almost 40 pounds by throwing up her food she had planned on it hitting her harder than it was.
She felt Kevin place his policeman coat on top of her to help keep her warm. She pulled it up closer to her chin and took a deep breath and smelled the cologne that he wore that she had missed for almost a year.
"Kevin?" she said groggily trying to sit up on the bench, she froze when she saw Tom sitting at the end of the bench. "What…what are you doing here?" she asked trying to take a breath without screaming for help.
Tom gave her a toothy smile. "I came back for you Lucy. I missed you so much and knew you just couldn't live without me either" he exclaimed showing her the sharp kitchen knife that was in his left hand he was holding.
Lucy felt tears beginning to surround the corners of her eyes. She looked to her left and to her right and there was nobody in sight to help her. Kevin had lied. He told her he would always be there to protect her and here was the man that she never wanted to see, who she was scared of sitting right in front of her.
"Tom, please I don't love you. I never have" she told him point blank. She thought that might have hurt his ego but he still continued to smile.
"Your wrong Lucy. You do love me. No one else will ever love you the same way I have loved you" he told her with the sound of his voice going deep into her soul she felt trapped, like there was no place left to go but letting him kill her.
She shook her head. "You don't understand Tom. I don't love you. I never have. I love Kevin. I love Kevin" she told him firmly.
Tom just chuckled. "You don't love Kevin. You only think you love him but I have news for you Lucy. He loves Mary not you. If he loved you where is he?" he pointed out to her, as he started to inch closer to her holding the knife tighter.
"If I can't have you no one else will" he whispered to her as the last thing she saw was the knife barely inching above her chest.
Lucy's eyes popped open, she sat up and started to scream. She saw Mary rush into the hospital room that they had placed her into while she was sleeping heavily. "Lucy? Are you okay? What's wrong?" Mary asked frantically quickly checking over her sister to make sure there was nothing wrong with her. Lucy had been sleeping for almost 4 hours and Mary hadn't left her side except to meet Kevin down in the cafeteria to grab a quick bite to eat before she went back upstairs to wait until Lucy woke up.
"Oh my god Mary!" Lucy exclaimed as she wrapped her arms tightly around her sisters neck. "I thought…I thought" she started to sob hysterically. "I had a dream. He was here. He knows where I am" she sobbed burying her head into her sisters shoulder.
"Lucy, look at me. He doesn't know where you are. While you were sleeping, Kevin and I were talking and we decided if it was best that you go home with him once they check you out oh here. Tom knows where I live and he'll be watching the house if he knows something is up. It's what's best for you at the moment. Also…" Mary paused and bit her lip. "We think it's a good idea that you go to the police department and file a report and a restraining order against him. I'm going to call Mom and Dad tonight and tell them what's going on."
Lucy's eyes grew extra large. "Mary. Please don't tell mom and dad they will be upset with me that I let this get so far. I don't want them to know please." She begged Mary.
Mary shook her head. "I have to tell them Lucy. If I don't something could happen to them because Tom wanting revenge. I won't tell them everything. I promise I'll only tell them what he has been doing and I swear to you I won't say anything about…well you know" she responded nodding her towards the bathroom. Lucy pressed her lips together and slowly got up from the bed.
"No, tell them I want them to know they don't have a perfect family like they thought they did. Tell them I'm not the perfect daughter they want me to be. I have bulimia and I'm not ashamed to admit that and get help. I want to get help" she whispered the words so softly that Mary had to strain as close to Lucy as she could just to hear what she was saying.
At that moment Kevin walked into the room and Lucy froze. "Luce? What are you doing up out of bed? The nurses said that you were suppose to stay in bed until you felt almost 75 better" he told her frowning over at Mary who gave him a guilty smile.
Lucy sighed. "No one told me I couldn't get out of bed. I have to use the bathroom. Am I even allowed to do that?" she asked placing her hands on her hips. Kevin nodded and Lucy walked into the bathroom and shut the door and Kevin turned and looked over at Mary.
"How is she feeling?"
"I think she's doing better, but Kevin I think she's having nightmares that he knows where she is. I had just walked into the room when she woke up screaming and when I asked her what happened she nearly fell apart. So I told her that it would be best that she goes and lives with you for a while until we get everything cleared."
Kevin sat down on one of the chairs and ran his fingers through his hair. "What'd she say?"
"She wasn't very happy but I think she knows it's what is best for her at the moment. She trusts you Kevin and if you blow it…I don't know if she will be able to handle it.
"LUCE! I'm so excited you're here! I have so much stuff planned for us! I told Ben that we'd meet him and his brother Kevin for dinner later" Mary told Lucy as she picked her up from the train station. Lucy gave her sister a half hearted smile and thought about the boy that she had left back at home.
On the drive back to Mary's townshouse, Mary tried to make small talk with Lucy but she really wasn't in the mood to talk. She was to busy worrying about how Tom was going to fend for himself while she was away for a week.
Mary pulled into the subdivision where her townhouse was located and after a few turns here and there she pulled into the driveway and pulled the car into the garage. As she placed the car into park, and got out she grabbed Lucy's suitcase and started to open the backdoor. "I can't wait for you to meet Ben. He's the sweetest guy you'll ever meet" she gushed to her younger sister as she opened the door and let Lucy walk in first. "He and I are going to the Annual Buffalo Firefighters Fair for Care and we thought that you and his brother Kevin wanted to come along?"
Lucy took the bag from Mary and started to walk up the stairs. The fair sounded fun but if Tom found out she was with someone else he wouldn't let her forget about it. She touched her left cheekbone and tried to find the bruise that he had left only a month before when she had forgotten to tell him that she was going to the Library to meet her friend Josh for a study date. "Let me think about it" she told her sister and went into the guest bedroom to take a quick nap before she and Mary met Ben and Kevin for dinner.
About an hour later Ben, Mary, Lucy and Kevin met up at Le Crème. A wonderful Italian restaurant that was just built only a few months ago and Mary and Ben were waiting for a good occasion to go and spend some money on some decent Italian food. Mary and Lucy pulled into the parking lot and pulled into the valet section and dropped the keys off with an attendant. They walked into the front section of the restaurant and Lucy sat down in one of the over stuffed couches and waited while Mary gave the hostess her name and walked back over.
"They haven't arrived yet but the waitress said that she could seat you and I now if you want to" she explained to Lucy.
"It doesn't matter to me" Lucy replied picking the lint off of her black skirt that she had made in one of her classes. Mary rolled her eyes and sat down on the couch next to Lucy. She had only been there for not even four houses and already Mary was bored with her sister.
"So, how's that boyfriend of yours?" Mary asked. Instantly Lucy touched her cheek and then realized that Mary was staring at her and quickly put her hands back into her lap. "He's good. I'm just really worried about him" she responded softly.
Mary looked closely at Lucy and saw that there was a slight color distoration on the left side of her cheek. "Luce? What happened on your cheek?" she asked point blank.
Lucy shrugged. "I don't know I think when I was trying to make this cake that mom use to make I opened the cupboard door and hit myself in the face with it" she lied to Mary. If she told Mary the truth, Tom would find out and he would even be more upset and never let her go and visit her sister again. Mary looked even closer at Lucy's face and that was when she noticed that Lucy kept pulling her sweater sleeves down farther. Before Mary knew it she grabbed one of Lucy's arms and pushed back the sweater to discover a bunch of hand bruises on the arm. She dropped the left arm and grabbed the right arm and saw the same thing. Her eyes grew wide when she realized what was happening to her sister.
"Lucy is he hitting you?" she asked. Lucy shook her head no. "Luce, I'm your sister you can tell me anything" Mary pleaded with her. "I can't tell you or he'll get mad" she whispered to her sister.
"Something wrong Mary?" Kevin asked her. Mary shook her head. "I was just thinking about when I found out that all of this was happening. What he was doing to her. I'm so mad at myself that I hadn't seen it earlier." Mary responded tears threatening to spill out.
"It's not your fault. Most of us will believe the people that we love the most until it's too late" Kevin replied thinking of his training that he had gone through only a few years ago. "Even if you did notice something was wrong what would you have done? Confront her? That might have driven her away from everyone and thrown deeper into that bastards arms and you really would have lost her."
"If only…" Mary started to say when she was interrupted.
"If only I had listened to my gut the day I met him I might not have been in this predicament" Lucy told both of them crawling back into bed. "It's no ones fault but my own. I got myself into this mess and now I need to get myself out of it" she replied sleepily as she drifted off to sleep.
Kevin motioned for Mary to follow him out of the room to let Lucy get a few more hours of sleep before they checked her out. "I think you should go back to your house and pack all of her things and bring them over to Ben's apartment"
"What for?" Now, Mary looked confused.
"I'm just afraid that what's his name might have the bright idea to come and see if she is staying with you, so if you pack up her things in those suitcases and if he is watching you maybe he'll think you are moving into Ben's apartment. So make sure you bring some pillows and stuff"
Mary shook her head. She couldn't believe that this was becoming as big as it was. She thought once they had gotten away from him it would be over but she never really thought that he would follow them back to Buffalo.
Tom looked over at his clock in the motel room and saw that it read seven o'clock. God damn it. This was the time he should have been sitting down to a steak dinner that Lucy would have cooked but oh no. That little fucking bitch had to run away from him and now it was his turn to find her and bring her back to the place where she belonged.
