Cry

A/N: 17 year old Madeline tries to break up with her boyfriend, but he doesn't want her to. He likes using her for something that no one should have to go through, but Madeline is terrified to tell anyone. However, when he attacks her one day during school hours, she finally lets go. Each chapter is named after a song by Kelly Clarkson. I don't own SVU or Kelly…

Chapter 15: Breakaway "I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly, though it's not easy to tell you goodbye, gonna make a wish, take a chance, make a change, and break away." -Kelly Clarkson.

PREVIOUSLY: Alex is speed walking down the steps to find the judge that had a difficult time controlling a teenage boy in her courtroom.

She approaches the woman and realizes that she has her head in her hands and is trying to take steady deep breaths.

"Liz, are you alright?" the ADA asks.

The older woman looks up, "Oh, Alex. Yeah, except for the fact that I watched a pregnant seventeen year old girl be reduced to tears in my courtroom and I couldn't do anything to comfort her…"

"I know this case is tough. That boy is horrible. But we'll be done soon, and Maddie will be okay once this is all over and she can focus on the baby." Alex reassures her.

"I have to ask, is the baby…"

"Travis's? Yeah…" Alex answers, "I'm gonna go check on her. I'll see you tomorrow."

MRS. HANSON'S CAR
EN ROUTE TO COACH YEARWOOD'S APARTMENT
10:15am

The group had decided that since Maddie didn't feel ready to go back to her house yet, they would go over to Coach Yearwood's for the time being. Maddie hadn't said a word since being in the courtroom and her mom was beginning to worry.

"Honey?"

The teen doesn't respond, but continues to cry. She was sitting in the back seat next to Lindsey, who reaches over and gently puts her hand on the girl's shoulder. "Are you okay sweetheart?"

"They're gonna… think that… I'm lying. Since he… yelled at me in there… now he's gonna… get away with… with…" she sobs, unable to completely finish her sentence; but Lindsey and her mom understand what she's trying to say.

"Shhh… It's okay. He's going to be in even more trouble. You probably didn't notice, but Elliot arrested him again baby. So he can't get out." the woman reassures her.

Maddie doesn't say anything but continues to cry until she's asleep and in fifteen more minutes they are at Lindsey's apartment. Maddie's mom parks the car and turns around to look at her sleeping daughter curled up against the door.

Both women get out of the car and walk around to the passenger side. "I don't want to just open the door and scare her…" Lindsey says.

"Okay. I'll go in on the other side and wake her up, then you can help her get out…" Hillary suggests as she walks around to the drivers side of the car, opens the back door and crawls in.

"Maddie sweetheart, we're at Coach Yearwood's now…" she gently says, rubbing her daughter's arm.

The redheaded teen slowly opens her eyes and looks around but doesn't say anything. "Lindsey's gonna open the door so you can get out. Can you sit up for me?" her mom asks. Maddie slowly sits up and allows Lindsey to open the door. She then unbuckles her seatbelt and eases herself out of the car.

Maddie doesn't say anything and starts walking up the steps to the third floor where Lindsey lives. The two women exchange looks and follow behind her. Once they reach the apartment, Maddie runs inside and slams the door of the guest bedroom. "He's scared the crap out of her and I don't like it one bit…" Lindsey tells her mother. "She was slowly getting better until today. Now I have no idea how we're gonna convince her to go back tomorrow…"

"I hate to see her like this. She seemed scared when we were leaving to go to the airport on Tuesday, I tried to ask her if she was okay but she didn't say anything… I wish I'd tried harder to get her to talk, maybe this wouldn't have happened…" Hillary replies.

"We just need to give her some time. But I will warn you though, when this first started I did find her on the bathroom floor with a razor in her hand crying. We really need to keep an eye on her just incase something like that were to happen again…" Lindsey says.

"Oh my god. We can't let her do something like that now, especially with the baby…" Hillary says, walking towards the guest bedroom. As she approaches the closed door she hears her daughter's sobs coming from inside.

She slowly opens the door and sees her daughter laying on the bed face down sobbing. "Baby girl?"

"I… can't do this anymore…" she cries.

"Do what sweetheart? The trial?" Hillary asks.

She sees the teen nod as she sits down on the bed and starts rubbing calming circles on the girl's back. "Yes you can honey. Dad's gonna be there tomorrow, he just couldn't take off today because of that convention in Texas…"

"If you guys didn't have to go to freaking Texas, none of this would have happened!" Maddie screams.

"I'm so sorry baby. I wish you could have come with us, or I could have stayed home… but there were things that I needed to do there too." the redheaded woman calmly replies.

Maddie sits up and hugs her mother, "Call that lawyer lady and tell her I don't wanna go back tomorrow… that it's all my fault that we're not there right now…"

"Baby girl, it's not your fault. She knows and understands that. She even let you have a break when you thought you were gonna be sick, all of this is Travis's fault. Dad will make sure he gets punished for what he's done to you, you don't have to worry about him anymore." the woman reassures her.

"Promise?" the teen whimpers.

"Yes sweetheart. Now, how are you feeling?" Hillary asks.

"Exhausted, and a little queasy…" Maddie whimpers.

"I'm going to get you something to drink, I don't want you to get dehydrated. And if you want, we can talk about baby…" the woman replies.

The teen doesn't respond and watches her mother leave the room. As exhausted as she is, she lays back down on the bed and closes her eyes trying not to think about the days events when her phone beeps with a text from Coach Evans. She decides to ignore it and take a nap.

MANHATTAN COURTHOUSE
DETENTION FACILITY
10:45am

Travis sat on the bench in his cell very satisfied with the morning's events. He had yet again successfully made his ex girlfriend cry, and look like a liar in front of the entire courtroom. He was sitting straight up, very alert to his surroundings and smiling when Trevor Langan approached his cell.

"What the hell was that? Now you've got yet another charge onto your list and another six to eight months added onto your possible sentence…" the lawyer asks.

"That bitch is lying man. I never hurt her, she wanted everything I did. And I'm gonna tell them that in court tomorrow… she just cried because she knows I'm right and she's wrong." the teen answers.

"Man, if they found your DNA, they have surveillance videos of you beating the heck out of her in the hallway with every witness mentioned by the coach in her testimony, and the paternity test from the kid showing that you're the father…" I don't know why you're trying to get away with this.

"Wait, I knocked her up?" the boy asks.

"We told you this remember? In the interrogation room the other day. You're gonna be a daddy in jail, so that means your family's gonna have to pay child support to her until you get out and make your own money." Trevor angrily tells Travis.

"Shit. She said she really wanted kids, so I had sex with her…" the blond teen replies.

"Did you pay attention to her at all today? She said she told you to stop, but you kept going. That's rape…" Trevor explains.

"Is it a boy or a girl?" the kid asks.

"I have no idea, I don't think she knows yet either." Trevor answers, "But you better watch your mouth tomorrow, or you're gonna be a guilty man. So I advise you to talk only when you're instructed… and that includes not talking during the rest of her testimony tomorrow."

"Fine." the teen replies as his lawyer walks away.

THE NEXT MORNING
MADELINE HANSON'S HOUSE
6:30 am

Maddie hears her alarm singing Carrie Underwood's Undo It and rolls over to turn it off. Her mother comes in the room already dressed and ready for the second day of the trial, "Honey? It's time to get up. We need to be there by 8:30."

"I don't wanna go. Can you like tell them I threw up last night and I'm sick?" the redheaded teen asks.

"I wish I could baby girl. Unless you're really sick now, then it's possible…" the woman replies as she feels her daughter's forehead. "You're not warm sweetie, how's your stomach?"

"It hurts. I hate this, coach wouldn't let me run because of the baby, now I might not get to go to NYU, and I'm gonna be a single parent if I keep the kid…" Maddie replies.

Hillary sits down next to her daughter and hugs her, "Shhh… let's not worry about that right now. We go to the doctor next week, and you can talk to her about your options. I just want you to get dressed and ready for the trial, you can wear jeans if you're more comfortable…"

Maddie takes a few deep breaths, slowly gets out of the bed, and begins looking through her closet. Twenty minutes later she is completely dressed and ready.

MANHATTAN COURTHOUSE
COURTROOM OF JUDGE ELIZABETH DONNELLEY
8:45am

Madeline was back on the witness stand wearing a pair of dark jeans and an army green v-neck with brown Ugg boots, and her hair in a side pony tail. Alex approaches her and smiles, "When we left off yesterday, you had just identified Travis as your boyfriend. I would like you to explain the events that took place last Wednesday morning."

Maddie takes a deep breath, "I had gotten to school like any other normal morning, went to first period and nothing out of the ordinary happened. But after first period, I had finally decided to break up with Travis because of the way he had been treating me for the last two months. He tried to hug me but I wouldn't let him, I then told him I didn't want to be his girlfriend anymore and he went crazy. He started screaming at me and I tried to run away towards the girls restroom, thinking that he wouldn't go in there. But he caught me before I could get in there and dragged me outside to the football field…"

"I heard the bell ring to start second period and we were still outside. He had thrown me on the wet, muddy ground and lifted up my skirt. I tried to fight back, but like the last time he raped me, he told me I was dead if I told anyone, fought, or screamed, or moved. So I just laid there, while he raped me twice, fixed my skirt and walked inside…" the teen explains.

"Okay, what happened after he went back in the school?" the ADA asks.

"I laid there for a while, shocked, scared, and unsure of what to do next. I rolled over to find my purse still there and started digging for my phone. I texted my friend Brenda to get the teacher's aid to come stand outside of the classroom so I could tell her what had just happened…" Maddie replies.

The testimony continues with Maddie explaining everything up to talking to the detectives. When Alex feels like the jury knows enough information, "No further questions your honor…"

Judge Donnelley smiles as she sits down. "Langan, your witness…"

Madeline takes a big deep breath as Trevor approaches her. "How long did you date Mr. Young?"

"A year and a half…"the redheaded teen answers.

"At any time during your relationship did you consent to any sexual activity?" the lawyer asks.

"Never…"

"So what your saying is that the many times he had sex with you was rape?" Trevor snaps.

"OBJECTION!" Alex yells, standing up.

"Sustained… watch yourself Langan…" Judge Donnelley replies.

Alex sits back down and breathes a sigh of relief, smiling at Maddie.

"Did my client ever do anything nice for you?" the man asks.

"When we first started dating…" Maddie shyly replies.

"How long did that last?" Trevor questions.

"Five months… then he started being mean…" she answers.

"So for nine months you were with him even though he was mean, there must have been something you liked…" the lawyer smiles.

"OBJECTION!" Alex yells, becoming aggravated with the man.

"Sustained… Mr. Langan, you're on thin ice." Donnelley warns.

"Nothing further…" he breathes and sits back down.

Maddie gets up and rushes back to the bench to sit between her parents, leans into her dad and struggles not to cry. The rest of the courtroom watches as Olivia gives her testimony, Brenda also testifies and now it's time for Travis.

When Maddie hears his name being called to the stand by Trevor, she inches closer into her father and he can tell she's crying. All he can do at the moment is gently rub her arm and hope the next testimony goes without a hitch or outburst from the teen.

Twenty minutes later, Travis has finished testifying and is lead back into the holding cell. Maddie's father looks down and realizes that she's fallen asleep, "Baby girl, it's over. Let's go home…"

The redheaded teen looks up at him with red eyes and makeup running down her face. He gives her a hug and helps her stand up, "Sweetheart, it's almost noon, do you want something to eat? We're gonna have at least an hour or more before the jury decides…"

Maddie nods and slowly follows her parents out of the courtroom, "I'll call you when we're ready to receive the verdict…" Alex informs them.

"Thanks… do we need to come back or can you just let us know what happens?" the man asks.

"I guess it would be okay if you stayed home. You might want to come though, they may have something to say about child support or counseling…" the blond ADA answers as they leave the courthouse and get into the car.

A/N: So, the trial is over. What should the verdict be? And do you want to see the baby? The next chapter will probably be the last, which makes me sad and happy at the same time. I will have completed my first multi chapter story, but it also means one less for me to write. I'm sorry I only showed Maddie's testimony, but I couldn't think of anything for Travis'. The next story I will most likely complete is It's Time For a Change, or A Wild Karaoke Night. Please review this one as well as those.