The next morning.
Nick walked into the RWHC.

"Hey, Lana." he said as he looked though the filing cabinet.

"Hi."

"Tell Lu that a patient of her's is have her baby. Linda Something."

"K. Should I cancel Dana's appointents?"

"Why are you asking me?"

"Because you're married to her. You'd know if she is or is not coming."

"She's not here?" he asked "Are you sure?"

"You, moron, of course I'm sure. How can I not be sure?" as Lana finished he sentence. Dana walked in and approached the desk.

"Hey." she said

"Where the hell have you been." Lana and Nick asked at once.

"Jessica refused to stay at your mother's house."

"So you're the famous Jessica! Haven't seen you since you were three." Lana said to Jessica who was hiding behind Dana. "Hasen't changed at all. Like mother like daughter."

"I'm gonna be here late. I don't know is Jess will be able to survive here that long." Dana thought

"I gots double shift, don't look at me." Nick said.

"I'll watch her." Lana offered.
At about 12. Dana entered her office. Jessica was playing on her computer.

"Can you go for a break now?" she asked

"Yeah, I have twenty minutes." Dana said

"We can't do anything in twenty minutes."

"Jess, I wanted to ... check on that bite you had."

"It's almost gone, there is like nothing left."

"Go into te exam room, there's a gown there, change into it. And I'll be there momentarily."

Jess did as she was told. She was sitting on the exam table when Dana walked in.

"Is this going to hurt?"

"No, it's not. Lye back.. Relax." she instructed "I'm gonna press on your tummy, you tell me if it hurts. Okay?"

"Okay." she took a deep breath as Dana touched her. He eyes were tightly closed. Dana moved a little more to the left.

"Stop, it. You're killing me, stop!" she yelled

"Sorry." she said as she pulled the gown up. Bruises on Jess's lower abdomen became visible.

"Don't touch it." Jess warned

"When did this happen?"

"A while ago."

"Jessica these are not old bruises, they still hurt when you touch them."

"It happened five days ago, when I fell of my bike. Just leave it alone, I'll be fine."

"Okay, I'm gonna listen to your heart then lungs." she took the stethoscope off her neck. She untied the back and pulled it apart."What the fu...hell is this." she gasped at the sight of Jessica's bruised back.

"Nothing."

"Jessica, what happen?" Dana repeated

"I was hit, with the medal side of a belt." she answered

"Did Daddy hit you?"she asked as she tried the back

"Not this one." she whispered

"Jane and Tim hit you?"

"Not all the time, Dana. Just when they were stressed, or mad."

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"I didn't wanna give you any ideas,"

"I could never hit you, no matter how mad or stressed I am."

"That's exactly what they said."
That night. It was about 11 pm. Alexa was still with Nick's mother. Dana walked into her dark office. She turned on a dim light and saw Jess asleep on the couch in the corner. The door opened she turned around. Nick had walked in.

"I'm doing home." he said.

"Nick... we have to talk."

"I'm listening." he said, she pulled him into the exam room.

"I gave Jess a physical, like you told me to."

"Congradulations." he said sarcasticly

"She's been abused. Her entire back is covered by one giant bruise, a part of her abs are bruise. Tim you to whip her with a belt."

"They paid all that to buy a kid so they could abuse her?" he asked in confusion

"Apperently."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"You're her father. I thought you might want to know."

"You though wrong." he said

"Nick." she whined "She needs us, more then ever. You have to show her that you care."

"You care enough for the both of us. In fact you care so much you have forgoten about Alexa, and me for that mattter. Within the past 24 hours you forgot that you have another child who needs you just as much."

"That's not true..."

"Bull Shit, Dana! You know it is. You don't give a fly shit about anything other then Jessica. It's like we don't even exsist anymore. I like in better when she wasn't here. Life was easier."

"She's you daughter Nick, how can you say that?" she asked, he ignored her and walked out. A minute later heavying was heard along with banging on the door. Dana walk out, she saw Jessica trying to open the door to leave the clinic. She was crying. Dana walked closer, Jessica turned around at the sound of Dana's heals moving across the floor.

"Leave me alone!" she yelled "I knew you were another one of those idiots that are pretending to love me. I'm not stupid. I have brought and sold by and to three diffrent couples. I'm used to it."

"That's not true, Jessica."

"Come On! I heard your conversation." she yelled

"No, he's just stressed, he took all his anger out on you."

"That's what put me in this postion. Stressed men taking anger out on me. Seams as if that all I'm useful for."

"I didn't mean it that way... Let's talk about his, clamly."

"There's nothing to talk about." she said as she ran from the main entrence to the back enterance. Dana ran after her hopeing the other door was locked. Jess pushed ans pulled up the door wouldn't open. She look around and ran toward an open window. She jumped on a chair to climb out. Dana held her back.

"You really don't have to torture me." she said as she carried Jess off the chair. "We didn't mean that we were giving you away. He's just having a hard time ajusting."

"Why do you acpect me to beleive that you're my parents?"

"Because we love you. We'd do almost anything for you."

"All of them said that."

"All of them? I thought there was only one of them."

"Three." Jessica corrected "I have been pasted into three diffrent families. I was told my real parents gave me away because they didn't want me."

"We didn't give you away, you were kidnapped."

"What does it matter? You're going to give me away... like all of them."

"Jessica, look at me." Dana paused until they made eye contact. "I won't ever give you away. For any reason."

"You promise?"

"I promise."

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