Please don't hate me when you read this…. It's a HARD chapter!!! I warned you!!!

It was 6pm now and Melinda still was asleep. He decided to wake her up because otherwise she wouldn't sleep at night anymore.
"Mel… Honey, wake up…" he whispered in her ear while he was rubbing her arm softly. She slightly began to move and turned around to face him with tired eyes.
"What is wrong?" she asked him with a sleepy voice.
"Nothing, I just thought that it is 6pm and if I wouldn't wake you up you'd have problems to sleep this night" he explained.
"Good point… Thank you, Jim."
"Are you hungry now?" he wanted to know.
"Actually yes… I'm starving!"
"That's good. I brought you some pasta and a piece of cake but I guess the pasta is cold now…" he said and called for the nurse. One of the nurses came running in.
"What happened?" she wanted to know.
"Nothing happened. The thing is I bought something to eat for Melinda but she had fallen asleep. Now it is cold. Is there the possibility to reheat it?" Jim asked.
"Sure. Give it to me. I'm gonna bring it in the kitchen and then back to you, okay?"
"Thank you!" he handed her the plate of pasta. Then she left. There was silence in the room for some minutes. Then Jim decided to tell Melinda about what happened before. "Honey, we need to talk…"
"What about?" she asked worried.
"About you…"
"Me?"
"Yes, when I came back from the cafeteria you seemed to have a nightmare. You were murmuring and kicking in your sleep. Then I sat down behind you again and it stopped…"
"You're right… I was in this cabin again. I guess it has something to do with a new ghost. I really need to figure out what it is."
"Mel, it's not about a ghost… It's about you!"
"What do you mean?"
"You have to find it out yourself. I can't tell you."
"Why can't you?"
"Because the doctors told me so. You have to find out yourself or not… But back to topic. Because you couldn't sleep I called Jerry and I won't get scheduled for the night shift anymore. Of course I have to work at night if there's a big emergency but not on a regular basis."
"What? You risk your job for me. You can't do that."
"Mel, that's my decision and Jerry actually is fine with it. He also told me not to come to work until you're completely recovered!" Jim told her.
"When did you see him?"
"I didn't see him. I called him after your nightmare."
"I didn't hear that you were talking to anyone. I just know that all of a sudden I was laying more comfortable in my bed and the bad dream was away."
"That probably was when I hugged you" Jim concluded.
"Probably" Melinda repeated thoughtfully. Then someone knocked at the door and entered. It was the nurse with the reheated pasta for Melinda. She put it on the nightstand and went out of the room again. Melinda wanted to grab the plate but Jim was faster.
"No way… I'm gonna feed you" he said in a deciding voice and took the plate.
"And how do you want to feed me if you're behind me?" Melinda wanted to know.
"I'm gonna get up and sit down in front of you and feed you."
"But I want you to stay in this position. You're so comfy" she said playfully.
"Well, in that case I have another plan" he played along with her game.
"What is your idea?" Melinda asked a bit dirty.

Meanwhile Aiden was sitting at home in front of the TV. Spongebob Squarepants was running. Faith did the laundry because Jim didn't have the time to do it himself the past week. Aiden was at home. Aiden woke up at lunch time and was confused that he was at home. Faith had told him why they were there. Now Spongebob Squarepants was over and Aiden ran to his grandmother.
"Granny" he hugged her.
"Hey, what are you doing?" she asked curious.
"Nothing. Spongebob is over… Can we go to the hospital now? I want to visit mommy."
"Honey, we can't go there now."
"Why?" he wanted to know.
"Because it's getting dark and I don't like to drive at night."
"But it's not dark."
"Not yet. In half an hour it will. But we can go there tomorrow, okay?" she offered him.
"Okay" he said a bit sad.
"Honey, don't be sad. I just don't want to have an accident. Your parents would kill me if anything would happen to you."
"Okay, I understand…" Aiden said and walked up in his room. Suddenly he saw his parents. They were laying on Melinda's hospital bed. Jim held her like a newborn in his arms. Her head was resting on his left arm and he fed her some pasta with the spoon. She hugged him tightly and they shared a lot of kisses. Aiden made a disgusted face on that look. When Melinda had finished her pasta Jim took the cake and fed her with it. He didn't give her the time to chew because he immediately kissed her. There was chocolate crème on the cake which was now distributed all over Melinda and Jim's faces. Aiden's face had an even more disgusted expression now. He decided to go back downstairs to Faith in order to stop his connective vision to Melinda.

At the hospital Melinda and Jim still were in action. They were kissing what seemed like a miracle to Jim because Melinda still didn't seem to remember that she has been raped. She was the same person as before. They were making out but Jim didn't dare to touch her. Melinda noticed it but didn't want to destroy the moment. She just wanted to enjoy it. They were making out for one and a half hours. Then Melinda was tired again and they both fell asleep.

In the morning Melinda and Jim were woken up by Dr. Martin who came in order to bring Melinda to her first therapy session. Melinda didn't want to go there but Jim talked her into it. So she went with the doctor to the therapy room. There she sat down on the couch and waited for Dr. Finn. Then she came in. She was a small lady with long blonde hair. Melinda didn't say anything.
"Hello, Miss Gordon, I'm Dr. Finn" she introduced herself.
"Hello" Melinda answered shyly.
"You don't have to be shy. You can talk to me about everything you want to. I won't tell anyone!"
"I don't know why I'm here. There is no reason why Dr. Martin called you…" Melinda tried to explain.
"I guess there is a reason but you don't even know it yourself."
"And how do we find it?"
"Well, are you open-minded?"
"Erm…" Melinda was shocked. "Yes?!"
"Good. So I think we should try it with hypnosis…" Dr. Finn thought out loud.
"Hypnosis?"
"Yes, maybe we'll find something in your subconscious?!"
"Good point" Melinda said.
"Okay. Lie down and make yourself comfortable…" Melinda lay down and looked at the doctor. The doctor said something and suddenly Melinda was in a trance.
In her trance Melinda relived everything that had happened while she was kidnapped. She told everything to Dr. Finn and she wrote it down. She was shocked about what she heard. Melinda was talking for two hours until she finished her story. Then Dr. Finn brought her back to reality. Now Melinda remembered everything what had happened. She couldn't take it and ran out of the room before the doctor could say anything. She cried while she ran to her room. Jim was standing in front of the window when he heard the door open and closing. He turned around and saw a broken, crying Melinda standing in front of him. He went over to her and hugged her. She sobbed heavily in his chest.
"Why?" she asked between sobs.
"What?"
"Why… Did… He… Do… Th-this?"
"Honey, I don't know."
"Did you… Did you know… It all the… Time?" she asked him a bit stunned.
"Yes, I knew it but I wasn't allowed to tell you because it was something you had to find out on your own…" Jim explained her while he was rubbing her back.
"How?"
"How what?"
"How can you… Still be so… Nice to me? I cheated on you…" she calmed down a bit.
"No, you didn't. You didn't tell him to do it. That's the difference!"
Suddenly Melinda had to think about the situation even more and forgot about that talk with Jim. She was lost in thoughts for some minutes. Then she broke apart in Jim's arms again. He lifted her and brought her to the bed. There he lay down with her and held her close. She cried for an hour until she was exhausted and just rested on Jim.
"Why are you so nice and protecting to me with me although I cheated on you?" she asked him in a whispering tone.
"For the last time… You didn't cheat on me. Gabriel did but not you! You didn't tell him to do this. He's too strong for you. He didn't give you the chance to defend yourself" he said in a calm and comforting voice.
"But…"
"No, Mel… There is no but. Aiden told me what happened weeks ago. For me it doesn't matter what Gabriel did. I mean, it's not like it doesn't interest me but my feelings for you won't change because of this. I can't tell you how much I love you. What we have is special and I don't want to lose it. Not now, not ever. You mean so much to me. You are the reason why I'm alive. You are everything to me. You, our love and family and our son are my world. You are the reason that I breathe and my heart beats. I can't express in words how much love I feel for you. All I know is that I can't live without you! Aiden can't either… He's the result of our love" Jim explained her. Melinda was stunned and couldn't say anything. All she could do was crying at the sweetness of her husband. Tears were streaming down her cheeks when she finally managed to say something.
"You're amazing… I love you." She didn't really get the part that Aiden saw her getting raped.
"I love you, too."

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