CHAPTER 6
The police and everyone in the room turned to the person who confessed.

"Excuse me but who do you suppose you killed? Miss Valentine or Miss Davies?" the police man asked, still holding Oliver in handcuffs. The Miss Davies was the one who was the ringleader in the gang who killed Jess.

"Miss Davies" the person replied.

"What is your name?"

"Mary Claire Carter" she replied.
The police took the handcuffs off Oliver and put them in handcuffs and said

"Mary Claire Carter, I am arresting you on the suspicion of murder, you do not have to say anything but anything you do say will be given in evidence, do you understand?", Mary Claire didn't reply.
Everyone in the room was shocked at the fact that she had killed someone when she normally seemed like a gentle person. Jac walked over to Ollie and asked him

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah. Yeah I'm ok thanks, just want this day to be over, tired of putting on a brave face for everyone" he said to his friend. They both went quiet and were staring into each other's eyes until Jac realised what was possibly happening between them.

"I'd better go, I'll see you in a bit" she said as she walked off quickly.

That night when Oliver and Tara were both in bed, Tara was fast asleep but Oliver couldn't sleep, he kept thinking about Jac, he couldn't understand why he was feeling like it. He thought maybe they were just good friends and then thought that they liked each other but then kept remembering that he has a wife who he loves. With all the aftermath of Jess's death his head was slightly messed up about everything.

Oliver got up a lot earlier than normal the next day and left for work before Tara had even woken up. He knew that Jac always got to work early and he needed to talk to her. Tara woke up about an hour after Oliver left and noticed he was gone, she phoned him but he didn't answer so she figured he had gone to work.

Ollie found Jac in the staff room when he got there; she heard him come in and turned to face him.

"Oh hi, you're early, you ok?" she asked,

"Yeah, well sort of, look I need to speak to you" he answered.

"About what?" Jac asked sounding puzzled,

"About you and me". They both went silent.

About half a minute later she walked up to him and said

"There is no you and me"

"You don't mean that though, do you?" Oliver questioned.

"Yes, No, Oh I dunno ok!" she said in a frustrated way.

"What's happening between us Jac?" the young lad softly said

"Nothing" Jac snapped, "It's all in your head! I mean, you just buried another sister yesterday, you're probably confused and upset and a little messed up, there is..." Jac didn't have time to finish her sentence because Oliver pulled her into him and kissed her. Jac pulled away but then looked into his eyes and kissed him. They then heard Tara's voice from outside and then quickly pulled away from each other and pretended to be doing work.

"Hey, I was wondering where you were, I woke up and you had gone?" Tara said when she saw Ollie in the staff room.

"Yeah, sorry about that" Oliver replied then looked at Jac.

"It's ok, I was just worried about you, everything ok?" she asked her husband, "Is there any news on Mary Claire?" she asked both Ollie and Jac.

"Yeah everything's cool. I haven't heard anything about Mary Claire, have you Jac?" Oliver asked

"Nothing yet, Jonny told me this morning that she's most likely getting sent down for 20 years for murder, I wonder why she did it?" Jac said.

"Oh right. Well I better go, they've put me on Keller today" Tara said sounding disappointed, "See you later"

"Yeah bye" Oliver quietly said. "That was too close" he sighed once Tara had gone.

"That never happened ok?" Jac said as she walked past him and made her way to the door.

"Whatever" Oliver sighed again. Jac paused for a second or two then walked out like nothing had happened.

CHAPTER 7
Things were awkward between Jac and Oliver for the rest of that day and Jonny and Mo could tell.

"What's going on between you and Valentine then?" Jonny joked.

"Nothing, just get lost Jonny!" Jac shouted, but not loud enough for many people to hear.

"Oh ok calm down, I'm only messing, god woman!". Jonny backed off.

"What did she say?" Mo asked him

"Nothing but there is definitely something going on" Jonny answered.

A few hours later Jac went up to Oliver and said to him

"We need to talk, now!"

"But you said..."

"I don't care what I said Oliver! We need to talk about this!" Jac snapped.

Oliver followed Jac into the staff room and and he sat on the sofa and said

"Well?"

"Jonny's figured out that something is going on between us" Jac stated.

"Oh" Ollie sounded surprised, "Let's just hope he don't say anything to Tara!"

"Nothing can happen between us, D'you understand, you are married Oliver, Tara is the one you love, not me!" Jac said.

"What if I love you more, what if I always have done, what happens then?" Ollie questioned,

"You don't" Jac said.

"You can't say that! You don't know how much I like you!" Oliver was getting annoyed,

Jac went silent.

Back on the ward, Tara was on a break and went up to Darwin to look for Oliver. Jonny saw her and asked her

"What's going on between your husband and Termi-Naylor?"

"What do you mean?" Tara was confused.

"They've been avoiding eye contact, not speaking to each other, ignoring each other, there's been a really awkward atmosphere between them!"

"Oh, I'll ask them, where are they?" Tara asked.

"Staff Room" Jonny answered.

The door of the staff room was slightly open and Tara looked through the gap. As soon as she did she saw Jac lean in to Ollie and was very close to kissing him but then pulled away.

"See, I know you feel like that! It's bloody obvious!" Oliver pointed out.

"Shut it Valentine" She said calmly but with a sound of frustration in her voice.

"You can't deny it though!" Oliver went on.

"I SAID SHUT IT!" Jac shouted.

Oliver backed away. "You can't though can you?" he said

"Ok no I can't ok! I can't deny that I like you! Alot..." she said quietly but loud enough for Tara to accidently hear outside.

Tara walked it and looked at Jac and said

"You cow!"

CHAPTER 8
"You what?" Jac said

"You heard" Tara was very frustrated with both Oliver and Jac

"Tara calm down yeh" Oliver calmly said

"You think I'm angry and mad! Neither of you have seen anything yet!" she assured them. "I want you gone, if I get home and you are still there, you will regret it"

After Tara had gone Oliver and Jac were both silent, that was until Ollie punched his way through the cupboard door in just one punch.

"She don't mean it, she just needs time to calm down!" Jac tried to say to him.

"Oh no she does mean it!" Oliver said as he kicked the chair.

"Look you can stay at mine till she does calm down" She said softly.

"Thanks" Oliver replied as he walked out of the staff room.

That night at about 9pm there was a knock on Jac's front door. It was Oliver, carrying his bags and with his head looking down.

"Hey, I was wondering when you were gonna turn up, your room is the first on the right, let me know if there's any problems ok?" Jac said but Ollie didn't reply, he just walked up the stairs in silence.

About 20 minutes later Jac went up to Ollie's room and knocked on the door.

"Can I come in?" She asked. There was no answer so she went in anyway. "You ok?" Oliver just remained silent and carried on unpacking, his head still down. "Ollie speak to me" She pleaded, "He walked to the other side of the room to put something back but when walking back to where he was originally, Jac got in the way and caught a glance of the huge cut on his face. "Ollie what the hell?" she said very quietly and softly.

"Nothing, i'm fine! Just let me unpack please!" he demanded that she left but she wouldn't.

"Did Tara do this to you?" There was no answer. "Ollie?"...

"Yeah" he said as he sat on the bed.

Jac sat next to him and put her hand on his back but he flinched and made a little noise, a noise that a person in pain would make.

"Ollie what's going on? First you avoid eye contact with me because you have a huge cut on your face and now you sound in pain when I touch you? Oliver is there anything like what's on your face anywhere else on you?" she asked him.

"No" he quickly said as he looked away.

"You're lying aren't you" Jac noticed. "Ollie take off your shirt, I want you to prove to me that you're not lying"

The lad reluctantly stood up and took off his shirt, revealing probably hundreds of old cuts, bruises and scars.

"Oh my god Ollie! How have you got all these?" his concerned friend asked him. "There's possibly hundreds there!

"I don't want to talk about it" he sighed as he lay down on the bed.

"Well you're going to, is it Tara?" Jac was sounding quite worried.

"No, look I said I don't want to talk about it, it happened a long time ago and I'm tired" Oliver was trying to not get upset and turned away from her.

"Please tell me, i'm worried about you!" Jac was begging her friend to open up to her about his past. "You didn't do some of this yourself did you?" Jac asked him, she was starting to get very worried about the lad.

"I SAID I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT IT!" he shouted. Jac could see that whatever happened in the past was really affecting him.

"Ollie, please, look I'm really worried about you and whatever has happened in the past is bugging you, I can tell. But whatever has happened, I can help you, only if you let me and only if you tell me what happened! Please Oliver."

Oliver turned back the other way to face her again, he looked into her eyes, he could see how worried she was. He closed his eyes and breathed deeply for a second before sitting up and saying to her,

"My dad is quite violent, whenever anything went wrong, regardless of whether it was our fault, he would take it out on us. Never Penny so much but he always used to hit or kick or burn me. He didn't ever do anything like that to Jess because she either wasn't born or was really young. Until she was about 8, then he started hitting and doing all that stuff to her. It went on for years and there was no way we could stop him. Even when I was like 20 ish, I could never stop him then, he was too strong. We've always been too scared to tell someone about it. I struggled to cope at one stage when it got really bad, people in school were winding me up, they didn't know what was going on and they thought I did it to myself. They started going around calling me emo and cutter and saying I'm mentally ill. I went home every night, dreading what was going to happen, I just used to open the front door and run to my room and lock myself in there, too scared to come out. It got so bad at one point that the only way I felt better is to be what they were calling me, a so called emo and cutter. Anything I could find that was sharp, that was it." Oliver told Jac everything and that brought tears to her eyes.

"Oh my god Ollie" she said as a tear fell from her eye. "Did anyone know what you were doing?"

"Not for a while, I kept it to myself for as long as possible. Until there was a school party for years 7-11 in the swimming pool. Penny was in year 11 then but I hadn't long started that school in year 7. I just sat on the side in my clothes because I didn't want to get in there and have to take my top off and reveal all the cuts that were on me. Penny came over to me and asked me why I wasn't coming in the pool, I said because of dad and she said that surely it can't be that bad, She had no idea. I walked off into the bathrooms and she followed me and asked me to show her. I started saying no but she was older and stronger than me and she won, she saw all the cuts on me and backed away slightly saying Oliver what the hell"

"What did you say to her? Or did she figure out that you did it to yourself?" Jac asked.

"I tried to worm my way out of it but she figured it out. She said that she knew what dad had been doing and thought that it couldn't possibly be as bad as what was on my stomach and my back. She asked me had I done some of that myself and I said yes. She came up to me and hugged me, I was crying at that point because I was scared of her telling someone but she promised she wouldn't."

"Did she?"

"I don't think so" he said

"What happened after all that?"

"Nothing, she just kept a really close eye on me, texted me at break and lunch to check if I was ok, even if I wasn't I would say I was fine, I think it pissed her off though" he laughed slightly.

"I bet!" she laughed a little back. "Ah come here you" she said as she hugged him. "Feel better that you've told someone?"

"Yeah I think" he said as he yawned.

"You need some sleep" she said as she stood up.

"Erm, can you stay with me tonight please? I don't want to be on my own" he asked her.

"Yeah course I can" she replied as she lay down next to him.

CHAPTER 9
Jac woke up the next morning to find Oliver wasn't there, she guessed that he would be downstairs getting ready for work. She went downstairs to find him fast asleep on the sofa,

"Morning sleepy, how long have you been down here?" she asked him as he started to wake up.

"Um, I dunno, sorry" he yawned.

"It's ok" she laughed.

"We better get ready for work, I would steer well clear of Tara if I was you" Jac warned Ollie.

"Yeah I will".

They arrived at work an hour later and Tara was already there seeing to her patients. Oliver got asked quite a bit about the huge cut on his face caused by Tara but he lied saying he was drunk and walked into the door. The day went quite well, Tara and Ollie didn't go near each other and there were no arguments. The next day was court case for Mary Claire about the murder, only tomorrow will tell why she did what she did...

TO BE CONTINUED!