"Abi, what happened to your face? It's red raw." Phil asked concerned. "Wait is Sam alright? What's happened?"
"She's alright, well kind of." Abi started crying. "She's having a baby with Hugh."
Phil hugged her. "I thought that was what you wanted."
"No, well yes. Oh I can't explain very well because if I do then I'll be in trouble." Abi sniffed.
"Look Abi, don't worry about being in trouble I just need to know what's wrong." Phil said.
"Well I was abducted, Hugh took me so we could show my mum that when she was distraught he'd be there for her and comfort then. Then when I returned she'd admit how she loved him. I thought he was doing because he just wanted to prompt her to tell him the truth. But she never loved him. Anyway, he kept me at a house he'd rented opposite Peter Baxter's. One day he came home and was so angry, he was just furious at my mum but he was furious at someone else more. You. He said that he'd walked past the briefing room and saw the pair of you all over each other. He thought you were taking advantage because of her fragile state." Abi said.
"Fragile state?" Phil cut over her. "I was never all over your mother - no, there was one time when I comforted her but we were only hugging. He passed the window and looked angry or more shocked when he saw us. She didn't see him though, only I did."
"But he was saying that he needed to make her think I was going to die, or that I was dead just to toy with her and punish her for her actions. He made it sound like it had to get worse in order to get better. Well then apparently she broke into his house and took a laptop with all the evidence on so he abducted her too. He kept her in an abandoned underground tube station, he let me see her once but she knew I was acting differently. Seeing Hugh like he was perfect. She hated him then. But a couple of days later we were found and she was different, happy with him. I just thought she'd realised how much she loved him. But I wasn't aware of them sleeping with each other. I didn't think they were a couple. But now she's pregnant."
Phil took a deep breath, running all the facts through his mind.
"Right, are you prepared to make a statement?" Phil asked.
"Yes." Abi agreed.
"Then we'll do it first thing tomorrow." Phil replied. "We can't tonight as it's too late. You ok with that?"
Abi nodded, she wasn't up to it that night anyway. She was too tired and upset.
"Where are you staying?" Phil asked.
"Well my mum's house is empty so I can stay there." Abi said.
"No, you can stay here. It's better you being with me than on your own." Phil replied kindly.
She smiled. "Thanks."
"How did you know where I lived?" Phil asked, later that night when they'd eaten dinner and were sat on the sofa together.
"My mum's address book at home." Abi replied.
"I see her detective streak rubbed off." Phil laughed. "It's the kind of thing she'd do."
"I know. Look I may come across as hating her and hating her job but I don't. I love her and I'm proud of her too." Abi said.
"Why don't you tell her?"
Abi sighed. "At the moment she won't listen, under normal circumstances she either wouldn't be around for me to say it or she wouldn't believe me."
"Maybe she doesn't believe you because she thinks your lying or just saying it to make her feel happy. When you tell her it has to come from your heart." Phil replied, it appeared that he talking about himself a bit. "Prove that what your saying is what you think and want."
Abi listened to him, recognising that he was talking about himself. Even if only a little bit of her was recognising it. Problem was she didn't want to recognise it too much because she'd rather it be just her and her mum for a while.
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