A/N~Wow, I haven't updated this story in a while now, so I'm back with another chappie to this story!
7/15/2004, Ludendorff Memorial Hospital…
Walking around in the waiting room, Michael became worried when he brought both Blake and Macey to the hospital as he found the red haired mother unconscious in the bedroom with a syringe next to her body. He couldn't believe that Blake's mother was shooting meth, when she had a job to do and it was to take care of her daughter.
But Michael was snapped out of his concentrating mind as he noticed Blake pulling onto his red plaid button up shirt to get his attention. When he look down at the dark haired child, Michael recognize that Blake still had on her teal colored coat as they were in room temperature hospital waiting room.
"Ain't ya gonna take your coat off?" Michael questioned.
"No." Blake answered, as she suddenly hugged herself while looking up at Michael. "I want it on, Uncle Mikey." She explained.
"Okay then…" Michael said, as he was starting to get more suspicious on Blake's behavior. "What do you need, baby girl?" He questioned.
"I'm hungry." Blake said, after removing her arms around her body.
"Again, kiddo?" Michael questioned and Blake nodded. "Alright then." Michael said, before getting down on one knee and pulled out his wallet from his winter coat, giving the dark haired child two $1 bills. "Go get yourself a soda and chips, Blakie." He said, as Blake started examining the two dollars in her hand, before looking back up at her uncle's blue eyes. "Hey, I'll still be here." He said, reassuring his daughter before she nodded and started walking towards the nearby vending machine.
As Blake stood on her tiptoes, Michael watched her as one of the dollar bills were insert into the machine, until his blue eyes widened in fear and noticed strange purplish markings on Blake's lower back. Walking towards his daughter, Blake reached down and grab her cold Sprunk soda from out of the slot, until she felt a large hand resting on her shoulder. Then her teal colored eyes widened in fear, as she dropped the soda can onto the floor along with the other $1 bill in her other hand.
"NO!" Blake screamed as she slapped Michael's hand back with her teal colored eyes closed and having her back against the vending machine. "Leave me alone! Don't hurt me, Mommy!" She shouted as tears started springing out the corner of her closed eyes and she started fighting back with her small hands and fingernails when Michael lighty grab onto Blake's arms.
"Blake... Blakie Bear, what is the problem?" Michael questioned, while Blake started sobbing loudly with her eyes closed, until the dark haired father wrapped his arms around his youngest daughter and pulled her close to his body. "Kiddo, chill out, it's okay. I'm here for you…" He whispered, until he pulled some of Blake's hair back behind her ear and noticed a cigarette burn mark. "Oh Christ…" He exclaimed quietly, before letting Blake go as she stop sobbing loudly and open her watery teal colored eyes.
"Uncle Mikey... Why did you scared me?" Blake questioned through her sobs.
"Blake, what is goin' on with you? Did something happen to you?" Michael questioned, while his large hands are now touching Blake's small ones.
"No…" Blake answered.
"Hey, I'm worried about you, Blakie." Michael said, looking at Blake's eyes. "I need you tell what's been going on at home. I won't judge you, baby girl. T."
"If… If I tell you…" Blake started to speak, while looking down at her purple snow boots.
"If you tell me what? Blakie Bear, don't be afraid to tell me anythin'." Michael said, using his left hand to touch Blake's cheek and wipe the running tear off with his thumb. "I'm here for you. And I'm goin' listen to you." He said, before leading her back towards the waiting room chairs as Blake climb onto one of them, as Michael stood in front of the dark haired child on one knee.
"Mmm…" Blake mumbled.
"Speak up, kiddo." Michael said once more.
"Mom… Mommy says if I tell anyone, she'll…" Blake started to speak once more, as she was looking down at her hands that were resting on her lap.
"She'll what?" Michael questioned once more.
"... Hurt me. And burn Bun-Bun and Kuma-chan with Daddy's lighter." Blake finally said, while looking up at Michael's blue eyes.
When Michael heard those words coming out of his daughter's mouth, he knew that he must believe his daughter's words when she told him everything and she was getting hurt by her mother.
Minutes has passed, since Michael told a nearby nurse to come check on Blake when she told her uncle that she was being abused by her mother who was still unconscious in the hospital. Knowing that his youngest daughter was hurt, he had to take action by letting someone at the hospital examines the dark haired child when he noticed the back bruises, the scared behavior and when Blake wasn't able to remove her winter coat.
"Michael?" Amanda called out as Michael walk out of the one of the examining rooms where Blake was dressed in a child sized hospital gown with a nurse. "Michael, what happened?" She questioned as Tracey and Jimmy were with their mother, before they ran towards their father.
"Daddy." Tracey said, before hugging her father. "What's wrong with Aunt Macey?" She questioned.
"Is she going to be alright, Dad?" Jimmy questioned, as Michael pull his son closer towards him.
"I'm not sure, you two. But she's getting the help she needs." Michael answered, knowing that he can't tell too much to his kids.
"Where's Blake, Daddy? Is she hurt too?" Tracey questioned.
"I can't talk about it to you. It's for grownups to talk about." Michael answered, before the nurse walked out of Blake's examining room with the clipboard in her hands.
"Mr. Townley?" The nurse called out to Michael as he turned around to face her.
"Yeah?" Michael said, as Tracey and Jimmy stayed with their mother and the dark haired father stood in front of the nurse. "How is she?" He questioned.
"Well, your predictions are true about young Blake." The nurse answered, while checking over her clipboard. "There are so many bruises and scars on her small body, and they were all cause by different things. Like belts, cords and even switches." She explained.
"Michael, what is she talking about?" Amanda questioned, as the kids both sat down in chairs that were in front of the parents and nurse. "Did something happen to Blake?" She questioned once more.
"Amanda, this is between me and the nurse. Just keep an eye on the kids." Michael said, reassuringly.
"No way, damn it." Amanda retorted quietly.
"Miss. Nurse?"
Then they heard Blake's voice as she open the door of the examining room and reveals herself, wearing a child sized hospital gown while walking towards the nurse. Amanda's blue eyes widened in shock, as she had both of her hands covering her mouth when she saw the bandages on Blake's wrists, arms and legs.
"Oh my God, Blake." Amanda exclaimed shockingly.
"Oh no. Auntie Mandy knows." Blake said as her teal colored eyes widened in fear while gripping onto her hospital gown. When Blake noticed Tracey and Jimmy, they too saw her and her bandages. "And Tracey and Jimmy too. Mommy's gonna be more mad at me." She said, getting worried.
"And I'm only going to tell this once…"
Blake heard her mother's voice in her mind, as she closed her teal colored eyes and open them back when she was surrounded by darkness until Macey appeared underneath a yellow spotlight with a black belt in her right hand. As Blake's eyes widened, she started to back away until her back hit against something behind her as the palm of her hands were touching a wall from behind.
"If you dare tell anyone like Miss. Katie, Uncle Mikey of even that whore of a wife of his, Mommy will be very, very mad. And we don't want that, right? If that happens, Mommy will have to hurt you and make sure that you will listen…. Look at you... Nobody won't listen you since you're crying like a crybaby, instead of being your Dad's child."
"No. Leave me alone!" Blake cried out, before running back into the room and slamming the door shut. When the nurse had her hand on the doorknob, she and Michael heard Blake locking the door on the other side and her small footsteps getting quiet.
"Here, let me." Michael instied as the nurse moved out of his way, and started pushing his body against the door to break it open.
On the other side of the door, Blake started backing away from the door as Michael was trying to bust it open. Thinking that it was her mother trying to get into the room and come get her, Blake decided to hide underneath the hospital bed while covering her ears and crying quietly, hoping that it will all go away.
Blake hid underneath her bed as soon as she was left alone with her mother while Carter and Ethan had left to have some father and son time.
As she stayed quiet for a few seconds, Blake can hear her mother's footsteps coming towards the shared bedroom and open the door to see her mother's feet. Blake had her mouth and nose covered as she can smell the deadly smoke of a Redwood cigarette, until she gave out a few small coughs, giving away her hiding place. Then the dark haired child saw a syringe dropping onto the floor in front on her, as Macey got on her knees and used her left hand to grab onto Blake.
"Where are you, little kitten?" Macey taunted as she was already high on meth at the moment while her left hand was touching the hardwood floor, until she grabbed onto the top of Blake's hair, hearing her daughter yelping out in agony.
"There you are, little kitten. Now…" Macey said, gripping onto the top of Blake's hair, before pulling her out from underneath the bed. "It's time for you to suffer the same pain I went through." She finished as she still had her burning Redwood cigarette between her fingers…
"No!" Blake cried as Michael finally got the hospital door open, before getting on his knees and taken the dark haired child into his arms.
"Blake, it's okay, I'm right here, kiddo." Michael said, trying to calm down the dark haired child. Blake was still sobbing loudly as she had her small hands against Michael's chest when she felt him touching her.
"NO! Don't touch me! I don't want another spanking again!" Blake cried out, with her eyes closed.
As Michael was telling her to stay calm, Blake's cries were dying out while staring at Michael with her watery teal colored eyes, before her small hands were resting against his chest and now touching his stubble chin, knowing that its the real him.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Uncle Mikey." Blake tries to apologise as her watery teal colored eyes weren't looking up at Michael's blue ones. "I said too much." She said quietly, wiping off her tears with her small hands.
"No, you haven't Blakie Bear." Michael disagreed, before pulling her close to her chest. "I believe every word you've said. That's what a father supposed to do. Protect the ones they love." He whispered the last two parts, as Blake closed her eyes. After all that crying, Blake felt exhausted as she decided to fall asleep onto the warm chest and familiar body scent of her uncle who told him about her abuse.
With the dark haired child sleeping in Michael's arms, Blake hopes that it will be a dream come true when she wakes up in his arms, instead of being in her own bed back at the Grant-Rose trailer home after when she dealt with the pain.
What will happen in the next chapter now, since Michael and Amanda knows that Blake's getting physical abuse by Macey? How will Carter and the others reacted towards this? And what should happen to Macey next?