Chapter 7

Thank you for all your reviews KaneCenaZombie12 J I had a very hard time writing this chapter. Trigger warnings for sexual and physical abuse. I promise to be much nicer to Lina in the future. The poor girl deserves it.

She got to enjoy two whole months with David before everything went to hell. Right before Christmas, David had done a complete turnaround. He had always moved fast asking to see her all the time, which Lina couldn't do because of Johnny, but still found flattering. He had been pressuring her to meet Johnny for a while, and now he also pressured her into bringing Johnny over on Christmas to Atlanta to spend with him and his family. Lina had politely refused, it was Johnny's fist Christmas and she knew the brothers would want to spend it with him. Despite being angry with them, she had made them a promise and she wouldn't go back on it. David had first shown her his anger then.

"You're choosing his dead beat father over me?" David got in her personal space

"No, it's just…"

"You said he wouldn't even admit he was Johnny's father."

"I know, but Johnny loves th..him and it's his first Christmas." Lina hoped he hadn't caught her slip up.

David eyed her suspiciously

"Are you sure it's Johnny who wants to be with his father and not you? Am I wasting my time here? You won't even introduce me to your son?" he pushed her shoulder and stepped even closer to her.

"No!" Lina felt a little bit of panic, she was messing things up "You're not wasting your time. I just want to make sure my son is happy! His father and I don't have anything, he doesn't care about me, never has."

David grabbed her face then gently "I care about you." He gave her a sweet kiss on the lips, "just think about it ok." He gave her cheek a squeeze that was just a little too hard.

She had nodded, but the decision was made in her mind. She would not keep Johnny from his fathers on Christmas and she didn't want David to meet Johnny yet, his show of temper scared her and the timing still did not seem right.

The next day David had called and asked to come over that Friday before Christmas. Eager to make him happy she had agreed and even gotten the brothers to take Johnny for the night.

David had come over and while she could tell he was shocked at the size of her trailer, he covered it by complementing her on all the Christmas decorations and the small tree she had managed to squeeze into the living room. Lina was proud of what she managed considering what an eyesore her trailer usually was. She had even managed to hang some lights outside and put out some lawn decorations of Santa and his reindeer.

David had brought over a couple of bottles of wine and a movie. They had been having a pleasant evening until he started to let his hands wander.

"No, David I'm just not ready yet." She tried to tell him gently. She knew she was testing his limits but she was determined to get thing right this time and not let herself be used again.

"Maybe, we could just…I don't know….do other things?" She was nervous about this too, but felt she should give him something. It wasn't enough for David. He wasn't understanding this time around.

"Are you fucking kidding me Lina! How long am I expected to wait? You fucked that dumbass that knocked you up! But I'M not good enough for you?"

"David, I.." Lina was in shock. He had never been so angry at her before

"Save it Lina, we're doing this. I bet that asshole is trailer trash just like you. You can fuck him, then you can fuck me." He advanced on her with a look of determination.

That night was the most painful and terrifying of her life.

David grabbed her by the arm and began dragging her into the bedroom. She tried to fight, she really did, but he was too big, too strong, she never had a chance. Before she could fully register what was happening he had her on the bed. Three well placed punches to her ribs and she stopped fighting. David crawled over her curled up body and began kissing her forehead.

"There now baby, see just relax. I can make it good for you, just relax." Kissing her ear he ripped her shirt in two with his right hand and used his left to turn her over and pin her to the bed by her throat.

The lack of air brought back the panic and she began to try and fight again. Her punches did not phase David, he dodged her kicks also and worked on pulling her jeans down, squeezing her throat tighter when she got in a good kick to his stomach. The lack of air made her dizzy and disoriented. She felt her limbs get heavy and her vision began tunneling until everything went black.

She awoke a few minutes later to an excruciating pain between her legs. David had released her throat and was forcing himself inside her dry. The pain was so much worse than her first time with Merle, her insides felt like they were on fire and she felt herself tear after a forceful thrust, which brought a cry of triumph from David as he slid entirely inside her.

Screaming she tried to squirm away "Please, David stop!"

"Shut up bitch!" grabbing her by the hair he dragged her back into position and began pounding into her.

"Why do you always have to make everything so fucking difficult? This could be good for you if you'd just loosen up a bit." He rammed into her, punctuating each word with a painfully hard thrust "You" slam "have to" slam "be a fucking" slam, slam, slam, "Bitch!" He grabbed her head in both hands and used her hair to pull her down onto him as he plunged into her.

Lina squeezed her eyes shut and prayed for it to be over. David thrust into her several more times before stiffening up and collapsing on top of her. Kissing the top of her head he slid off her and onto his back, struggled to catch his breath. He gathered her to him in a tight embrace and quickly fell asleep.

She lay there until his snores grew louder and his arm fell from her shoulders then silently got up. She wanted to shower and get his stench off of her but the need to get away from him was much greater. Pulling on a pair of sweats and a baggie sweatshirt, she grabbed her keys and ran out. Once she was on the road she couldn't think of were to go. She didn't have anybody, she pulled the car over and laid her head on the steering wheel. Her breathing was causing sharp pains on both her left and right sides, and she could feel a sticky wetness between her legs that could either be blood or semen. She needed help and there was only one place to go. She started up the car again and headed to the Dixon's trailer.

It was 1:00am on a Friday night and if they hadn't had Johnny, Lina was sure they wouldn't be home. She knew that at least one of them had to be here and she could see the lights of their beat up old TV flickering in the window. Hesitantly she reached her hand up and knocked on the front door.

"What the Fuck!" she heard Merle voice along with slamming and shuffling, before the door was yanked open.

"What are you doing here?" he looked at her in confusion. David had not touched her face but when Merle saw the look in her eyes he opened the door wider.

"Get in here, it's fuckin' cold."

She limped passed him and sat on the couch with a small hiss of pain. Merle took it all in before he sat next to her. Lifting her chin he examined the bruising on her neck.

"Yer boyfriend did this?" His eyes were cold as steel and the hand that wasn't holding her chin clenched on his knee.

"Yes." She whispered quietly, looking down ashamed. Merle's eyes were scaring her and she didn't know if he was angry at her or not.

"What else?"

She shook her head. Daryl walked into the living room before Merle could argue with her.

"Good it's you, I thought it was a junky, I…" Daryl noticed the tension in the air and stopped mid-sentence to examine Lina. He could see the bruising on her neck clearly, Merle had still not let go of her chin.

"What the fuck happened?"

"Prince Charming, turned out to be not so charming." Merle released her chin, "What else Lina? And don't tell me nothing."

She started crying softly, "He…uh…" she shook her head again, she could say it out loud.

Merle's patients ran out and he took ahold of her top and yanked it up. He let out an animalistic growl at all the bruising on her ribs. When he took note of the hand prints on her hips, he shot up and began pacing in front of Daryl.

"He fuckin' raped her too." Daryl looked at him sharply, he had been staring holes into the bruises on Lina's ribs.

"Lina, go clean up in the bathroom. You can take a shower, I'll give you some sweats and a t-shirt." Daryl said, never taking his eyes from Merle.

"He's still at my trailer." Lina sniffed "I can't go back tonight."

"No way in hell you're going back tonight." Merle spat out through clenched teeth. "You're gonna need shit for those ribs and something so you don't get knocked up with that pricks kid."

Daryl nodded at him "We need to talk, wait a bit." He helped Lina up and led her to the bathroom. Grabbing everything she would need he set it on the sink and explained how to get hot water, before closing the door and heading to the living room to speak to Merle.

"You want to go after him, don't cha." Daryl asked his pacing brother. Merle had a murderous look on his face as he clenched and unclenched his fists.

"I'm gonna go after him. He's at her house, be there in 20min."

Daryl shook his head. "You could get arrested."

Merle spun around and glared at him "Your fuckin' point!"

"I'll go with you, Lina's here she can take care of Johnny."

"Naw, it's for me to do." Merle shook his head.

"Why you? Johnny's belongs to both of us and Lina…."

"Look, you're right, OK, I could get arrested. I already got a record. Johnny will need at least one father. Don't ya think?"

Daryl rubbed his bottom lip. "Fine, what are you gonna do?'

"Make him sorry," with that Merle was out the door and speeding off on his motorcycle.

Daryl watched him disappear before going to check on Johnny. His boy was fast asleep, he smoothed his hair down, envious of the innocents his child still had. With the Dixon blood it wouldn't last long.