"Yes that is true." Hugh replied.
"And is it also true that you are the father?" Jack asked.
"Yes that is also true."
"So how did this happen?" Jack asked. "Are you two in a relationship?"
"We are in a relationship."
"How long has this been going on for?" Jack asked, Phil was listening, waiting for the right moment to say something.
"Well it started a couple of days after she moved in with me." Hugh said.
"A couple of days! She was in a fragile state and you decided then would be the best time to seduce her?!" Phil spat.
"If anyone did the seducing then it was her, she came on to me." Hugh defended.
"But you didn't push her away?" Jack asked before Phil could say anything.
"No, by that time I'd already fallen in love with her." Hugh said.
"So have you regularly slept with her since?" jack asked.
"Yes most nights." Hugh answered.
"And she gave consent to every time?"
"Are you trying to imply that she's pregnant because I raped her? Because if that is so then you are wrong. She always gave consent, she always wanted it. She always enjoyed it. Ask her yourself if you don't believe me." Hugh shot back.
"Don't worry we will be asking." Phil said through gritted teeth.
"Good, and while your at it check she isn't too stressed out. I don't want her to damage her or the baby's health."
"Oh how caring." Phil said sarcastically. Phil looked across at Jack who gave a small nod. Phil almost happily got his folder out and took Abi's statement out of it. "You know what this is?"
Hugh shrugged. "Someone's written confession, let me guess somehow I wrote it?!"
"No, but it has got something to do with you. And Sam. Quite a bit about your relationship actually." Phil replied vaguely, he looked up and saw the curiosity that Hugh was trying to mask. "This here is a statement from none other than Abi Nixon. She's says quite a lot about you. Let's see there's:
'Hugh said that if I left with him and we made it look like I'd committed suicide my mum would turn to him for support. He said that knowing her she'd probably think I was abducted and we could play on that by making her friends not sure whether I was abducted or had just ran away again …'
'I thought if I did this then it would sort out all our family problems. Hugh seemed like he wanted to help me and my mum a lot. He said that he loved her and that he knew what was best for her but she had to see it for herself first. He swore that once I was found safe and well everything would be ok. All the pain he'd put her through would be forgotten and she would just realise how great a friend he'd been.'
My personal favourite must be this part though: 'Hugh not only loved mum though, he started getting obsessive. Like he thought only he could comfort her and be there for her. One day he saw Phil Hunter hugging her because she was crying. Later when he saw me he was really angry, saying that Phil was trying to ruin everything and steal her away. Phil isn't bad like that though, he's nice and generally cares for mum.'
Sweet of her to refer to me as nice." Phil said, dripping poison into Hugh's wound. "So what have you got to say about that then Hugh?"
"It's a silly little girls word against mine. You know actually Sam and I expected Abs to try and hurt us in some way." Hugh said, keeping cool and calm.
"What do you mean?" Jack asked.
"Well yesterday when we told her about the pregnancy she flipped. She didn't want us to have this baby. Abs and Sam argued and exchanged extremely heated words. Sam snapped and slapped Abi before Abi ran off. Then where did she go I wonder?" Hugh said pretending to think. He turned to Phil. "Your house? You two have cooked this up. You can't deny that you've always hated me being around. Especially recently when you were making up bull about a laptop. I only have one laptop for work purposes and Sam's been on it enough times. You think if I abducted her daughter, and then her, she'd come and have a baby with me?"
"Maybe you've threatened her." Phil said.
"Maybe you don't know what you're talking about." Hugh said smugly.
"Interview terminated 11:07." jack said, he turned the tape off and Phil opened the interview room door. "Can you take Dr Wallis back to his cell? Thank you."
A uniformed officer walked in to take him away while Phil and Jack went in the opposite direction. "What do we do now?"
"Go talk to Sam, see what she has to say." Jack replied, they went up to CSU where Sam was sat, fiddling with the bottom of her jumper sleeve. "Hi Sam."
"What's going on?" Sam asked.
"Look lets go in here and talk yeah?" Jack said opening the door to the soft interview room. Sam followed him in with Ramini and Phil behind.
"So what's this about? Where's Hugh? Is he ok?" Sam asked.
"We want to talk to you about an allegation that's been made against him." Jack said.
"What kind?" Sam asked.
"Abduction and possibly rape." Phil replied.
"That's absurd, I've been with him." Sam said.
"We know, we want to know about this baby. Sam I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you straight. Did you give consent to Hugh having sex with you?"
Sam laughed. "You think Hugh raped me? No way, Hugh wouldn't do that to anyone. And he certainly hasn't done it to me. I always gave consent. Why are you asking stuff like this?"
"Well Abi came in today and gave a statement about him abducting her. As well as abducting you. Plus now your pregnant and we had to check he hadn't raped you too."
Sam sighed. "Look I'm sorry Jack but she's wasting your time. Abi and I had a row last night and I slapped her. Now the next morning she writes a statement about Hugh. She's just trying to get at us. She's just looking for attention and you've fallen for it. Hugh never hurt me, Hugh never will hurt me. Now we've cleared that up can you release him so we can go home?"
"Yeah, you can go and wait for him I just need to talk to these two a minute." jack said, Sam left the room. Shutting the door behind her.
"You're going to let him go?" Phil asked.
"Yes, he hasn't done anything wrong according to Sam. You have to admit it won't stand up in court, especially since she stayed with you last night."
"Yeah sorry guv but was I just suppose to send her back to her empty house?" Phil asked. He sighed. "Can I quickly go speak to Sam, not bring up about the laptop just quickly speak to her?"
"Sure but don't push her too far Phil." Jack warned.
Phil ran out of the room to catch up with Sam who was about to walk down the stairs. "Sam …"
"What do you want Phil/ If your going to keep brining up crap then leave it, I've had enough for one day." Sam said, feeling tired.
"I was just going to say that Abi's downstairs. Why don't you go speak to her?"
"No! I'm not going to talking to her, not after everything she's said." Sam replied.
"Oh come on Sam, she's your daughter. She's been through a lot."
"And I haven't?! What about me?! So far everyone listens to a deranged seventeen year old who's spreading lies for attention. She didn't have an overdose and have to have her stomach pumped! I'm your friend and you won't even believe me, so far all you believe is your own assumptions and Abi." She walked away before turning back. "You know the only person who's cared about me and made sure I was ok is Hugh. And everyone hates him for caring about me so just leave me alone Phil."
"Sam I don't want to fight with you, look just stay safe. I do care. I don't want to see you get hurt." Phil said, holding on to her arm.
"I'd better go and wait for Hugh."
"Ok." Phil said, heartbroken that after everything she still chose being with Hugh over being with him.
I don't want to fight no more
I've run out of words to say
I see your aching inside
I wanna keep everyone away
I see your pain
You feel mine
I'm trying to make it
So you can shine
Your smile has faded
Except when he's around
Then it comes back
Big and proud
I don't want to fight no more
I've run out of words to say
I see your aching inside
I wanna keep everyone away
I wanna keep everyone away
I just wanna keep everyone away …
I don't want to fight no more
I've run out of words to say
I see your aching inside
I wanna keep everyone away
-Fight No More by well me.
Tune: "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls kinda-