Disclaimer: Nah, well OK. No ownership to Will&Grace.
Chapter 15.
At the therapist
They both went inside the hospital to be greeted by the doctor and a woman in her 40s. She was blonde, thin and had an empathic face.
"Mr Truman, mrs Walker. This is the therapist, dr Martin" the doctor greeted and presented the woman beside him. "She specializes in these kinds of cases."
"Nice to meet you mr Truman, mrs Walker" she greeted and shook their hands.
Karen grabbed Will's hand and refused to let go.
"Shall we go and talk mrs Walker?" dr Martin asked.
Karen stood perfectly still, looking down on the floor and refused to let go of Will's hand. She hesitated, maybe this wasn't such a good idea.
"Karen, sweetheart, I promise that talking to dr Martin will make you feel better" Will said and put his fingers under Karen's chin and tilted her head up so he could look into her eyes. They were filled with tears again. Will gave her a hug and whispered in her ear:
"I will follow you to the doctors room OK? But I don't think she will let me be in there with you."
Will let go of her and took her hand to lead her the way dr Martin showed them.
They walked up the corridor to a room in the other end. They went inside and saw a small waitingroom that was empty at the moment. Dr Martin opened another door and revealed a smaller, more office-like room. Karen hesitated, but finally let go of Will's hand and followed dr Martin inside. She was nervous and was constantly twisting her hands in her lap as she was sitting in a chair and later on the couch.
Will sat down on a comfortable chair in the waitingroom, picking up a magazine to read. He couldn't concentrate and found himself reading the same page over and over again. Finally he put it down and just sat and thought while twisting his hands out of nervousness and guilt for not being there with her like he promised.
'How could this have happened to her?' he thought. 'Why wasn't I there for her when it happened? Of course I'd always thought that in your own home you'd be safe. I never in a million years thought that this could happen, especially to a woman like Karen.'
He was nervously getting up of the chair and started pacing back and forth in the small waitingroom, sometimes stopping by the window to look out on the people walking by, minding their own business and just living life as normal as they could, never expecting anything bad to happen to them.
The time went slowly by for him, but soon three hours had passed and Karen slowly walked out of the door, drying her eyes with a Kleenex. Will hurried to her side and looked worried and wondering. The doctor came up behind them and said:
"I'll see you in a couple of days then mrs Walker, OK?"
Karen nodded but didn't say anything.
"Well, how'd it go Kare?" Will asked when they were on their way home.
"It was awful Will" she said. "It was just awful. She made me talk about my family and stuff. Then she made me talk about the rape. I couldn't talk about it at first, but she forced me to. I don't like it and I don't want to go back."
"Karen, sweetheart it's going to get better, I promise" Will tried to comfort her.
"You promised I would feel better after I'd spoken to the therapist and I don't."
"Karen, it's going to take a while, but soon you will feel better" Will said.
She didn't say anything but took his hand, even though she was mad at him for promising her to feel better when she didn't. They went home and she got to bed. It's been an exhausting day.
Will let her sleep and went into his bedroom to change from his suit to sweats and he decided to go for a quick run. She was disappointed not feeling better, he understood that, but it would take a while. He only hoped the therapist would help her decide whether or not to keep the baby. He himself would not have kept it, he knew that. However, Karen had wanted a child of her own for so long now that he understood her dilemma very well.
He had to go back for work in the morning and Karen didn't know that yet, and he who had promised to follow her to next appointment, well not as much promise as saying that he thought he could. When he got back, he had to tell her that he was going back to work the next day. He hoped she would accept it.
At home, Karen woke up finding that Will was gone. She went to look for him. On the way to the bathroom she met Rosario and asked where Will was.
"Mr Will is out running" Rosario answered and looked at her mami.
"Oh" Karen said and turned around to go back to her own bedroom to lay down and try to sleep again.
"Ms Karen" Rosario said.
She turned around.
"Yes?"
"Ms Karen, I'm sorry I didn't wake up that night."
Karen didn't say anything, but turned around and got into her bedroom. She threw herself on the bed and cried herself to sleep.
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A/N I'm not completely satisfied with this chapter, but I couldn't come up with another way or solution. Hope you like it anyway. R&R please.
