Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Ghost Whisperer or any of the characters in it.

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"Where is he?" asked Melinda after a few minutes while everyone let the new information sink in.

"I dunno," Cassie answered looking at the ground, not wanting to look into anyone's eyes. When she did look up everyone was staring at her waiting for her to tell the truth. "At home I think, yeah, he'll be at home." Tears were coming to her eyes again threatening to spill.

"Is you dad in?" asked Ned. Cassie looked at her watch before answering.

"I dunno. Probably not, he'd probably be at the pub by now." They all gave her a concerned look. "Kieran's gonna be fine, he's on his way over. That was him on the phone."

"You sure?" asked Jim who walked over to be at Melinda's side. Cassie nodded her head. "You can go see Ally now if you want." Cassie smiled as she walked through the door and out into the hallway. Melinda sighed.

"What?" asked Jim.

"I just hope she's going to be okay now."

"Me too," said Ned.

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Cassie walked through the door into a small room. Ally was laid on the bed in the middle of the room, tubes still attached to her body. Cassie gasped once again as she saw how fragile she looked.

"Hey, I'm sorry Ally. I didn't know he was going to do that to you. I promise I'm going to be a better sister when you wake up," said Cassie to a sleeping Ally as she sat on the chair next to the bed.

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Melinda, Ned and Jim were stood outside looking in through the window at Ally and Cassie.

"Poor girls, just think about what they've been through," said Jim. Melinda sighed as she leaned into his chest.

A young man about eighteen years old walked towards the three of them.

"Erm... I'm Kieran. I'm looking for my sisters, Ally and Cassie," he said.

"Yeah, they're just through there," said Ned pointing towards the door. He looked back at Melinda giving her a look which said 'She was telling the truth."

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Kieran walked through the door and went over to hug Cassie.

"Hey Cass" She smiled weakly at him before looking back at Ally. Melinda walked through the door followed by Ned. Jim waited outside but still looked in through the window.

"Cassie, you need to tell the police about your dad."

"You told them, why?" said Kieran looking between Cassie and Melinda, his voice slightly raised.

"It wasn't my fault they just… guessed."

"JUST GUESSED. You know how much trouble you're going to be in? He's going to kill you."

"I know that's what I'm scared of," said Cassie quietly looking at the floor hoping that it would swallow her up right there.

"It'll be alright," said Melinda reassuringly.

"Yeah. Ok. At least you can go home and have a nice long sleep. We have to go home and face him, have no food, and get beaten a bit then sent down to the basement," started Kieran, his voice raising. Melinda could hear the anger in his voice but she could also hear fear.

"Kieran don't, Please," begged Cassie trying to calm him down.

"No it's not fair anymore. People think they can just shove they're nose into other people's business and then just magically sort it out. It doesn't work like that."

Two police men walked in after quickly chatting to Jim outside who had directed them to the room.

"Great, PC Plod's come to the rescue," he said sarcastically.

"Now, now, we're just here to get some details." Kieran sighed shaking his head.

"Would you please step into the waiting room," the taller one asked pointing out the way with his arm. Cassie was about to follow his direction but was stopped by Kieran who grabbed her wrist.

"Why should we?" he said standing in front of Cassie as if he was defending her.

"Kieran please we should just go," Cassie begged.

"No. We can look after ourselves right?" Cassie looked as though she was about to object. "Right?" Cassie nodded her head and sighed. She shot a apologetic look over at Ned, who just walked out of the room.

"Mel, will you come with us for a minute?" asked the shorter police man. Melinda nodded and followed them out of the room.

"Now look, you've gone crying to that woman and now she's gonna tell everything to the police," Kieran yelled turning around to face Cassie who now had tears running down her face.

"Stop shouting, you're turning into dad."

"I AM NOT TURNING INTO DAD!" he yelled as he raised his arm to slap Cassie.

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Little Miss x