Far Away
Chapter 25
Lexie was certain she hadn't heard Nicole correctly, surely she was mistaken. Her younger brother couldn't be responsible for this type of injury to anyone. She shook her heard hoping she was wrong, but when she asked Nicole to repeat the name of her attacker, once again with her straining to hear voice since she wouldn't face her, Nicole only called out EJ's name.
"Dr. Carver, are you all right?" Calli questioned her once more when it appeared that the doctor standing in front of her looked like she was about to faint too.
Lexie shook her head, wiped a tear from her eye and with a firm shake of her head replied, "I have to call Abe, please stay with the patient until I return."
"Of course Dr. Carver," Calli answered as she prepared to take Nicole's vital signs to help ascertain what would be needed to be done to begin treatment for the poor woman and by the time she turned around Lexie was already gone, the hospital curtain moving from her abrupt departure.
Lexie took a deep breath trying to calm her nerves, still disbelieving EJ could have done something so heinous to anyone and she still needed to obtain information if Nicole had been sexually assaulted as well. She had to sit down for a moment or she was sure she was going to start crying. With a shaky hand she took out her cell phone and dialed her husband's telephone number knowing she would awaken him from his sleep, "Abe I need for you to come to the hospital immediately."
"Lexie is everything ok? You sound upset," Abe stated as he looked around the bedroom he shared with her and noted the time on the bedside clock.
A sob broke before she could stifle it, "Oh Abe something terrible has happened and I need you here."
"I'll be right there as soon as I can drop Theo off at your mother's."
"Okay, come quick and I'll tell you everything as soon as you get here," Lexie clicked the button to end the call before she broke down completely while talking to her husband on the phone.
Abe heard the line go dead and he scrambled to get ready, he needed to get to University Hospital quickly, something must be terribly wrong for Lexie to sound so upset.
^ ^ EJami ^ ^
Almost two hours later, Sami was awakened by Rolf, announcing that her father was in the foyer requesting to see her immediately. She quickly arose, thinking to herself that something awful must have happened for her father to come to the DiMera mansion since she knew he hated Stefano and in turn his sons so for him to come here in the wee hours of the morning it had to be bad.
She tugged on her robe as she walked down the stairs and her apprehension grew as she saw her Uncle Bo standing alongside her father.
"Daddy, what's going on?"
"Sami where is EJ?" Roman asked his voice gruff as he looked beyond her hoping to catch sight of his daughter's fiancé behind her. He didn't like that Sami was still living here, much less going forward with a relationship with the likes of the younger DiMera, but if what Abe and Lexie had told him at the hospital was true Sami may not be marrying the guy after all.
"No Daddy, EJ will be at our new house. Remember I told you he was staying there working on the renovations and making sure everything would be ready for me and the twins to move in as soon as we get remarried."
"Well you may want to rethink that when you hear what I've got to tell you."
Sami looked between the concerned faces of her father and uncle, "Has something happened to EJ? Is he okay?"
"Sweetie we need the address of the house, I've got to find EJ."
"Why so you need to talk to EJ Daddy? Uncle Bo what is going on?"
Roman and Bo looked to the floor, not wanting to answer her as she moved right in front of them.
"I deserve an answer, tell me what is going on."
"Its police business," Roman hedged not wanting to divulge anything more to his daughter, he and Bo needed to go find EJ and bring him to the police station for questioning.
"He is my fiancé and whatever is going on is my business," Sami stressed and if you are going to find him I'm going with you.
"No Sami, you need to stay here," Bo finally spoke up, it wouldn't do any of them good for his niece to come along with them on this investigation.
"If you don't let me go with you, I'm just going to follow you to our house," Sami stated matter of fact and both of the men knew she would do just that and raise all kinds of hell with them if they didn't allow her to accompany them. Roman knew it was against policy, but he also didn't want his daughter having a wreck either since her driving skills weren't the best in the world.
"Hurry and get dressed then, we've got to go," Roman told her in a terse voice, wishing that Sami wasn't going to find out this way, but what other choice did he have, he had to find DiMera and take him in for questioning and if what Abe was suggesting had happened he was going to have to be there for his daughter as well.
Sami flew up the stairs in a hurry, praying that EJ was all right. She had a bad feeling about this, but she wasn't going to let them get anywhere near EJ without her being present.
^ ^ EJami ^ ^
EJ awoke with a start in the dark, his head instantly hurting as he tried to figure out exactly where he was, the last thing he remembered was walking into a room and then nothing. He reached back to his neck and was startled to feel a sticky substance there and vaguely wondered if it was blood. He tried to get up, he needed to find some source of light but he stumbled on something as he was attempting to gain his balance and fell to the floor once more.
He felt like hell and he wasn't sure what was going on. After a few moments he attempted to walk again, this time actually making some progress albeit very slowly and he painstakingly made his way to what he hoped was a wall with a light switch on it. He ran his hand on the wall until he found one but when he switched on the light he was even more confused than before.
In the room he was in, it looked like there has been a very bad struggle of some sort, furniture was in disarray and on the floor there was what looked like a torn shirt and lots of blood in several places. He almost threw up at the sight of everything and then felt a fear come over him. What in the hell had taken place and why couldn't he remember anything?
Something was extremely wrong and he wasn't sure what exactly, but he needed to find out. He went to reach for the bloodied shirt which appeared to be a woman's and his consternation grew as his fingers felt the blood stained material.
"What in the bloody hell happened?" EJ asked aloud to himself, suddenly startled by a racket as Roman, Bo and Samantha came into the room.
"That's what we'd like to know. EJ you need to come with us."
EJ's eyes grew wide as he looked over to Samantha who immediately rushed to his side, only to have her father pull her back away from him. He immediately reached out for Samantha only to have Bo step in between them.
"Come on Junior we need to the get to the station."
EJ saw Samantha's eye fill with tears as his heart filled with dread. Something was seriously wrong, he dropped the torn shirt to the floor and let himself be led out of the room and feared for the worst and prayed that somehow he would be able to remember what had happened because it was as if his life had suddenly went from good to bad in the space of a few hours this evening.