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"He left awfully upset last night, chances are he'll be back today," the nurse said waving goodbye to Jess and then walking out of the room.

Jess kept her eyes on her hands as the thought of Tanner being there, seeing her like that, seeped into her thoughts. Suddenly, she felt the pain all over her body that the night before had caused her. Jess quickly inhaled and settled back into the bed, closing her eyes for only a moment when she heard foot steps near the door. Jess quickly looked up and saw her father standing there, his arms crossed over his chest and he was using the door frame for support. Tommy sighed and walked towards the bed, pulling a chair up and sitting down.

Tommy saw only mere glimpses of the emotions that Jess had warring about inside of her. Tommy's eyes narrowed down, his jaw beginning to tighten, until he finally had enough and just jumped out of his chair knocking it down, and waking up Jude.

"How could I have let this happen?" Tommy exclaimed, running his hands through his hair.

Jude rubbed her eyes and quickly got up and pulled Tommy around so he was facing her. Jude and Tommy had their eyes locked until she leaned her forehead against his, trying to play the part of the peace maker.

"Breathe Tom. Please, just calm down and relax," Jude pleaded, her voice soft and full of fear. Tommy inhaled deeply and walked out of the room, leaving Jude and Jess behind, one shocked from the scene, the other terrified.

"Mommy..." Jess whimpered, her tears spilling down her face as she started to sob in her physical pain, and the torment of the previous night's events.

Jude quickly rushed over to her daughter and pulled her into her arms. Jess had quickly grown tense, having the feeling of being touched and with so much force, had only brought memories of the night before. But once Jess inhaled the scent of her mother, and recognized how comforting her mother's arms felt around her, she couldn't help but cry even more at the thought of even thinking about Ethan and the night before at that moment.

"Shh sweetie. It's...it's going to be ok," Jude cooed into her daughter's ear while brushing her hair out of her face.

Tommy was sitting on the floor in the hallway, his knees brought up to his face, and his eyes filled with fury. The two boys that he had once trusted with his daughter, are the reasons why she was in that hospital. Tanner, for being too much of a coward and doing the one thing Tommy had told him not to do. Ethan, for well, it was now at the point where everything for him was self explanatory. As angry as he was with Tanner, it was nothing compared to the degrees of hatred and rage that was coursing in his veins thanks to Ethan.

Jude held on to her daughter a little longer, until she was sure Jess was ok. Jude kissed her daughter on her forehead and reassured her she would be back. When Jude walked out into the hallway, Tommy was gone. Jude ran towards the waiting room and saw only Jamie and Kat there, with their 4 year old daughter and Jude and Tommy's son. Jude paced towards them, worry in her eyes.

"Where's Tommy?" Jude asked desperately.

"I thought he was in the room with you and Jess," Kat said with concern.

"Kat, go up to Jess's room with Derek and Lauren," Jamie said, his eyes still on Jude's, and Kat quickly understood. Once Kat was gone, Jamie started talking.

"I don't know where he is Jude, I'm assuming he bursted a few blood vessels up there?"

"A few is an understatement, and now I'm worried where he is, or what he's doing," Jude said, on the verge of tears when Jamie wrapped his arms around her.

"You need to go and look for him, Jude. Tommy's anger isn't something to mess with, and only God knows where he is right now. Look every where for him Jude, we can't afford for anything else to happen," Jamie whispered in her ear. Jude looked up at Jamie and just nodded and was out of the hospital before he could even say good luck.

Jude was back home, grabbing her purse and car keys and then jetting down the streets of Manhattan looking at every possible place where Tommy could be.

Tommy walked down the street, a little calmer than before. He knew exactly what he was going to do. Tommy had every intention at first of walking into any gun shop, purchasing the first pistol he saw, and opening fire on Ethan. But then Jude, Jess, and Derek entered his mind, and all of that disappeared. But, even though the thoughts were gone, why was he still walking into that gun shop?

And then he realized why.

"Is this one good for you sir?" the clerk asked the young man.

"It's perfect," the young man responded, handing him the money, and the clerk, in return, handing him the case with the gun in its contents.

Tommy felt like vomiting at the site, but instead he walked towards the young man and thrusted him up against one of the walls.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Tommy yelled at him, pinning him up against the wall.

"The same exact thing that you would do if you didn't have a family!" Tanner answered back.

Tommy punched him across the jaw and then let go of him. Tanner started to rub his jaw as Tommy grabbed the receipt from inside the gun case and went back to the clerk.

"What are you doing?" Tanner yelled until Tommy pushed Tanner down.

"Don't. Get in my face right now," Tommy said grabbing the money and exchange receipt from the clerk who was shaking.

"Why did you do that?" Tanner shouted as Tommy just pulled Tanner by his jacket and thrusted him into the passenger's seat of his viper.

Tanner just watched Tommy incredulously as he got into the driver's seat, locked the doors, and started the car, speeding off on to the street.

"It's my decision if I want to kill the damn bastard or not!" Tanner added, and Tommy had heard enough. He quickly made a sharp turn into an empty parking lot and hit the brakes so hard that Tanner had hit his head on the dashboard.

"Your decision or not, have you not learned anything from this at all!" Tommy exclaimed pulling off his shades and looking Tanner right in the eyes.

"Besides that I'm the epitome of a coward and worthless? Then it looks like I've missed the goddamn point," Tanner rebutted.

Tommy opened his door and then proceeded to pull Tanner out of his side and pushed him on the ground. Tommy may be 45 and a father of two kids now, but he had not forgotten how to get a guy to think straight with good hard words and a few hard hits.

"You are so, stupid! Do you have any clue on what love is?" Tommy yelled at him pushing Tanner back into the ground when he tried to get up.

"Looks like I missed that memo,"

"Shut the hell up!" Tommy shouted kicking Tanner in the leg.

"What the hell is your problem?" With those words coming out of his mouth, Tanner quickly regretted saying them.

"Besides my daughter getting her heart broken by you Hudson, raped by Ethan, and catching you purchasing a god damn gun ready to go all Scarface on his ass, not a damn thing. And if my daughter didn't love you and if I had no humanity left, I'd have been by your side watching the low piece of shit bleed to death. But I'm still human, I have a family to love and care about and watch over. Just like you have Jess who is still in love with you," Tommy said pushing Tanner flat on his back.

"I broke her heart. I don't deserve her and there's no way on earth she'll ever forgive me," Tanner admitted propping himself up on his arms.

"Do you wanna bet on that? Get your ass up and get in the damn car," Tommy said grabbing Tanner and pulling him up.

"Why are you doing this? I'm half the reason Jess is in the hospital," Tanner added.

"Because you love my daughter and didn't intend to hurt her, you didn't know things would end like this. Ethan on the other hand, he knew what was going on, he knew what he was doing despite being drunk. He has no excuse, you don't either, but you would never purposely hurt my daughter," Tommy said and before Tanner knew it, they were both at the hospital.

"I can't go in there," Tanner said, staring right at the hospital doors.

"I don't care if you can. You have to," Tommy said grabbing Tanner again and pushing him through the hospital doors. Once the two had entered the hallway, Tanner froze in his steps.

"I really don't think I should be here," Tanner added.

"Stop being such a damn girl and go in there, now," Tommy said firmly pushing Tanner through the door. Jess was sitting up right on the bed talking to Kat while Lauren and Jamie were on the floor playing with Derek.

Jess looked up and saw that it was Tanner. Her heart stopped, but only for a moment before she looked down in her own shame. Tanner had no idea what emotions were inside of him, he wasn't sure if he should be angry with what happened, or just plain hurt. Kat got up from her chair and nudged Jamie to get Derek so the four could join Tommy outside in the waiting room.

Once everyone was gone, and it was just Tanner and Jess in the room, Tanner maintained his distance. Jess kept her eyes down and didn't look up at all. Tanner wasn't sure what to say at all, so he decided it was better to just say his thoughts, once he had found his voice.

"So, aren't you going to say anything?" Jess said her eyes still down.

"I don't know what to say," Tanner remarked.

"Hmm, how about, how stupid I was for drinking all of that. If my parents hadn't found me-"

"Don't lie to me."

"I'm not lying, I'm just-"

"Lying. I know what happened last night Jess. I know you got drunk and went over to Ethan's..."

"Stop."

"I know you got him drunk..."

"Don't say it,"

"And he ended up raping you,"

"SHUT THE HELL UP!" Jess cried, covering her face up.

Tanner stood back, shocked by her outburst. He didn't intend on that happening, but once he had started, he just had to let it all out. Tanner walked over to Jess, with the intention of comforting her. Once his hand met the small of her back, the next action he hadn't expected.

"Don't touch me!" Jess yelled slapping his hand away.

Tanner looked at Jess with hurt in his eyes, what was he supposed to do. The young woman he was in love with wasn't the same girl that was sitting on the hospital bed wiping her own tears and guarding herself up from anyone that was around her.

"Jess, what do you want me to do? Please, I...I...I just want to help," Tanner said, his voice so soft.

"I want you to leave me alone!" Jess yelled curling herself up and facing her back towards him.

Tanner, hurt and rejected, walked out of the room and down the hallway. Jess was afraid to go to sleep, or even close her eyes at all. Everytime she had, she saw Ethan's intoxicated face, and felt him every where. She couldn't escape him, he had gotten under her skin and all she wanted was him to leave her.

But it was what I had wanted...

Jess started to cry at that thought. All the things she had done that night pointed to her provoking the whole incident, but she had said no. She didn't want it in the end, she begged him to stop.

It doesn't matter, I went there to hurt Tanner...

Jess continued to cry, hoping for all the pain to just leave her, but if anything, she felt as if it were increasing. Her emotions were becoming overbearing, and she only wanted to pack them up and ship them off the face of the earth.

Tanner walked into the waiting room and sat down on a chair, placing his head in his hands. Kat and Jamie had gotten a hold of Jude, and she turned around and had arrived as soon as she could. Jude walked over to Tanner and placed her hand on his shoulder. She then saw his hands, the dried blood and the horrible cuts and gasped.

"Oh my god, Tanner what did you do?" Jude said grabbing his hands and looking at them.

"I needed to get my frustrations out," Tanner said flatly.

"You need to get this cleaned up right now," Jude said as she shoved Tanner at a nurse. "Could you please clean up his hands? He was hitting that punching bag a little too roughly last night,"

The nurse had simply nodded and took Tanner with her to go ahead and get his hands cleaned up. Jude sat back in the chair, Tommy sitting down next to her and started to rub her back as she threaded her fingers through her hair. Later that night, Jess was dismissed from the hospital and the Harrison-Quincy family took her home, where she had immediately gone to her room and sat down on her bed. Jude nodded towards Tommy to stay with Derek, as she followed Jess.

"Hey," Jude said softly sitting on her daughter's bed, giving her a good amount of distance between the two.

"Hey," Jess replied, looking at all the pictures on the shelves in her room.

"You know, part of the whole being a mom thing, is that I'm always here. If you ever-"

"I don't want to talk about it," Jess snapped. Jude bit down on her bottom lip and looked down at her feet, and then back at Jess. Jude was partially aware of what Jess was going through, it had taken Jude herself a good amount of time to get over her assault.

"Ok. Night," Jude said walking towards the door, just as she was going to turn the door knob, Jess stopped her.

"Can you, stay here for a while? I just, don't want to be alone right now," Jess said looking down as Jude just gave her a comforting smile and nodded.

"Since I have a feeling this will turn into a chick flick movie night, I'm calling your dad to bring us up some reinforcements," Jude said grabbing her cell phone from her pocket.

"Isn't Dad downstairs?"

"Yeah, but I'm lazy," Jude heard Tommy's confused voice and told him to bring up a carton of Blue Bell Banana Split ice cream, Dorito's, gummy bears, and pie.

"Is that all? Would you like french fries while I'm at it?" Tommy asked.

"Do we have french fries?"

"Sarcasm babe, sarcasm,"

"Sorry, nah, that's good. Thanks a bunch," Jude said closing the phone as Jess was already settled at the foot of her bed putting in 'A Walk to Remember'.

"I so brainwashed you with the movies from my time," Jude commented.

"Yeah, but you weren't a big RENT fan, which we are going to watch after this one," Jess said as the door opened and Tommy entered with the doritos and gummy bears in a bag on top of the pie, and the carton and two spoons of ice cream.

"Ah, my savior," Jude said with a smile as she grabbed the food.

"Jude, after your down putting that stuff down, can I talk to you outside?" Tommy asked, a stern look on his face. Jude placed the food down and nodded.

Outside the hallway a few feet away, Tommy started.

"What are you doing?"

"What do you mean what am I doing?"

"Junk food and chick flicks? You're acting like she just had her heart broken," Tommy remarked.

"She did. I know what I am doing Tom. Right now she doesn't need us questioning her and making her talk yet. She's not ready for that. You should understand that after what happened on our world tour so many years ago,"

"You can't compare that-"

"Yes I can. I wasn't raped, but I almost was. I was assaulted and beaten. I didn't want to talk, and once I had finally remembered I didn't want to think about it. Give her time to let it sink in and then once she's ready, we're there for her all the way," Jude said firmly.

"You're sure she's going to be fine?" Tommy asked.

"I know for a fact. Jess is strong, Tom. She's not in her highest moment right now but she'll get through it, with you, me, Tanner, and Sarah there for her she'll get through this. She needs all the support she can get and as much encouragement as possible. I'm not saying go out there and become her number one cheerleader, and I'm not saying act like it never happened. Treat her like you would a normal person, but keep in mind what she's going through," Jude added.

"Right, you get back to your chick flick night, Derek and I will have fun with the latest cartoon craze," Tommy said with an assured smile as he kissed Jude on top of her nose and then walked back into the living room.

Jude walked back into Jess's room where she already had herself covered in blankets and the carton of ice cream on her lap. Jude smiled, knowing that there was still some sign that Jess was still in there, but it was going to take time and patience to help bring her back.

Tanner was sitting on his bed in his hotel room, thinking about the last two days. Things had gone from completely normal to insanely sick. He felt his insides churn at the thought of how Jess had been feeling, everything she had gone through. Tanner felt immense guilt towards what had happened. But deep down, he knew he wasn't the one to help her, at least not yet. Tanner grabbed his bags and walked towards the door. He knew right now he needed to give her space, as much as it pained him to let her be without him, especially right now, when she was so vulnerable, he knew there wouldn't be anything for him to do. And with those thoughts in mind, he walked out the door and checked out of the hotel, leaving Manhattan and going back to Toronto.