Hey guys, here's the next chapter I promised. I'm working on the next one but my so called 'holiday' is filled with essays.

Again, the only character I don't own is Jenna.

"Charlotte" she felt a warm hand clasp her wrist but her eyes never left him, whose eyes were filled with an equal amount of panic. "Charlotte" the voice was firm "Charlotte what's wrong? Charlotte, you're shaking" her head snapped to Jenna whose eyes were full of concern "You've gone white Charlotte" Charlotte watched as the girl's eyes rested on the man she'd been staring at, even more panic gripped her, she had them both in a dangerous situation. In her peripheral vision she saw Lee get to his feet and before she could do anything Jenna was dragging her toward the car "Come on, we'll get take out or something". Instead of climbing into the driver's seat, Jenna opened the passenger seat door and pushed her into the car, shutting the door and climbing in on the driver's side; she locked the doors and began to drive. Charlotte could see Lee in the rear view mirror; Jenna noticed too but only put on some speed. Charlotte stared out into space as the shaking subsided, her eyes blank and glassy but she was soothed by the sound of the car, by the feeling that Jenna was driving her away. Finally Jenna stopped the car "You look like crap" she said finally "I don't know what has just happened but I want to call Cooper"

Immediately Charlotte snapped to attention "No, I'm fine- you can take me back to work"

"No" Jenna's voice was stronger and defiant, she was surprised "I won't call Cooper if you don't want me to but you need to go home, we'll get take out and watch TV all day. The only problem is…"

"What?" her heart rate was slowly returning to normal

"I'm lost; I just drove wherever, to get away"

Charlotte nodded "Thank you, I think I can get us home from here" The two switched places and as she drove Charlotte felt herself tensing, was Jenna going to ask any questions? She didn't think she could handle that now. She glanced once over to the girl who was staring out of the window, frowning- but when she realised Charlotte was watching her she gave a small smile.

"It's okay" she said finally "If you don't want to tell me it's up to you" a wave of relief washed over her, followed by a small amount of guilt- the girl was too good to be true. They stopped only long enough for Jenna to jump out and get some food "They do good sandwiches and stuff here" she said as she climbed back into the car, causing yet more guilt for Charlotte- she knew that this was what Jenna had been eating whilst hidden in her room.

They ate pretty much in silence whilst they watched TV- Jenna had put on her favourite programme, CSI. It was her worst nightmare; it was to do with a rape case. She didn't feel she could make the girl turn over after today so she sat in silence, gripping her coffee in her hand, determined not to go to sleep tonight.

At about 11, when the program was finally over Jenna got to her feet "I'm off to bed" she gave Charlotte a smile; having learnt that hugs weren't her thing and headed for her bedroom, leaving Charlotte curled up on the sofa.

Jenna was woken by screaming, this wasn't the crying she'd hear before; this was a full on, blood curdling scream. She leapt out of bed and grabbed a thick book, something she could use to hit with. Instead of running straight to Charlotte, who she knew was the one screaming, she checked the front door- bolted just how she'd left it. No one was in the house. Next, she moved to Charlotte and Cooper's room, she opened the door quickly and found Charlotte writhing on her bed, twisted in the sheets. Without thinking she climbed onto the bed and tore the sheets away from Charlotte, freeing her. Now Charlotte sat up, her eyes wide and darting yet unseeing, tears were pouring down her face and she still let out screams of pure terror. Jenna wrapped her arms around her, holding her tightly and raised her voice above the cries "Charlotte! You're safe, the doors are locked, there's no one here, you're safe" and she kept repeating it, over and over again as Charlotte's cries became quieter, her shaking less violent and her tears lessened as she slowly came back to reality. Finally she lay like a broken doll against Jenna, taking deep gasps of air until she turned all of a sudden and hugged Jenna tightly, her whole body shaking as she cried. "It's okay" Jenna murmured.

The spell was broken; Charlotte pulled free and turned away, fiercely wiping her eyes "No, it's no okay" her voice was low, broken and growled "I woke you up and made a complete fool of myself, it's not okay!" she turned again to face her, her tearstained eyes blazing at Jenna whose own eyes were widened in confusion.

"Charlotte... what the hell happened to you? Who was that guy?"

Charlotte got to her feet and began to pace back and forth "I was raped okay?" she spat, her words laced with bitterness "About 5 or six months ago" she turned to see Jenna's reaction "and don't you dare give me the dammed pity eyes, I'm sick of them."

Jenna held her hands up in mock surrender "I won't" she said quickly "So that guy…"

Charlotte gave a harsh laugh "Yeah that was him, they can't prosecute him."

"And I made you watch… shit Charlotte I'm…"

"Don't say you're sorry, Cooper says that too much"

Jenna nodded "So that was a flashback" Charlotte stopped, looked at her in surprise and nodded "Charlotte it's nothing to be ashamed of. It happened and I'm sorry it happened" she continued quickly before Charlotte could cut in "But avoiding it all makes it worse, I had no idea."

"That's how I wanted it to be."

"Why?"

"Because I'm already damaged enough!" she spat, "Cooper's family will want me to be the perfect woman to marry their perfect son and I'm…" she sat back down on the bed and continued quietly "I'm broken."

Jenna moved toward her and sat beside her "Well I'm Cooper's family and I don't care." Charlotte looked at her "I think you're amazing, I couldn't get on with my life like you have." she carefully put her hand on Charlotte's and squeezed it "Yeah you don't have to tell everyone" she admitted "But my family's not going to chuck you out or hate you for something that happened to you that was beyond your control" she sighed "Now just take a sleeping pill and I'll stay here till you fall asleep"

"I can't"

"Why not?"

Charlotte gave another harsh chuckle "I'm NAA, recovering addict."

"Fine" Jenna got to her feet and pulled Charlotte up with her, pulling her into the main TV room "sit down" Charlotte sat, waiting as Jenna moved into the kitchen. A few moments later she emerged with two steaming cups of hot chocolate "Drink" she handed her a cup "It'll make you feel warm and sleepy" she turned on the TV and flicked through the channels "and we're going to watch TV, crappy TV. Have you ever seen Total Wipeout? You'll love it, and we'll have it on low until you fall asleep, and I'm here to make sure everything's okay" Charlotte nodded and felt her shoulders fall as she relaxed, watching the television with Jenna, she felt safe again.

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