The Truth of Things

Belldandy stands up suddenly knocking the table.

"We need to go to Heaven to report this immediately!" she says with anger and determination laced in her voice. Skuld and Keiichi are shocked to hear such emotions in Belldandy's voice, Urd and Peorth however look at each other fully understanding Belldandy's feelings on the subject.

"We will need to gather as much as we can from Lind before we go charging in with this allegation because all we know is that Lind has been injured in ways which point to rape, the rapist will have a chance to throw it all back in our faces if we don't have her account." Peorth says quietly not wanting to be the one who has to ask Lind for her story.

Belldandy sits back down, tears threatening to fall as she looks at the table.

"I wish that all of this could be resolved without Lind having to go through any more pain than she already has." Tears fall onto the table as Belldandy cries silently. Everyone is silent around the table until Urd speaks.

"I'll do it."

"But…" Skuld objects.

"She's already opened up to me, in a way, by allowing me to rub the potion on her head and she wasn't as tense either. She even sat up and came partially out of the blanket." Urd states miserably getting slowly up from the table.

Everyone falls silent once more as Urd leaves the room shutting the door softly behind her.

Lind doesn't even look up as Urd re-enters the room, too lost in the memories of what happened she doesn't realise that Urd is sitting right next to her. Seeing this Urd gently starts calling Lind's name.

"Lind…Lind, it's alright now, your safe, Lind." Lind looks up finally hearing Urd and turns around. Urd smiles sadly and brings out a few bottles of various healing potions for Lind.

"You feel alright? Nowhere hurts does it?" Urd prompts hoping for Lind to reveal the injuries rather than having to point them out herself. Lind looks back down at her lap where her hands are resting and sees her wrists once more. Tears begin running, unchecked, down her face as she stares at the deep gorges in her wrists.

Knowing what Urd is hinting at she raises her wrists up and offers them to Urd who begins to apply the purple potion to the cuts gently rubbing it in with much practiced precision expected of a potions mistress. As Urd finishes rubbing the potion in, she carefully lowers the hands back onto Lind's lap careful not to touch the lap itself.

"Do you have any other injuries?" Urd prompts once more selecting out more sensitive healing potions suited for sexual injuries. Lind begins shaking as she brings her arms around her not willing to face the full extent of what Peristome did to her.



Urd restrains herself from putting her arms around Lind knowing that it would aggravate the situation further and instead settles for sorting out the potions which she brought with her.

Knowing there was no way that she would be able to avoid it Lind lowers the blanket and slowly puts it aside giving Urd the view of her bruised abdomen as she reaches behind her back and carefully unclasps her bra, folds it and puts it on top of the blanket.

Urd holds back her tears as she sees the vicious bite mark and the series of deep teeth shaped cuts leading up Lind's thighs. Lind winces as she pulls off her underwear shaking uncontrollably as the last piece of her 'protection' is removed.

Urd begins to rub in more of the purple potion into the abdomen making sure all of her movements are slow as graceful as not to scare Lind with sudden, rapid movement. She picks up a lilac-grey potion and pours it into one hand as she cups the bitten breast and rubs the potion over the wound leaving a protective layer over the injury.

Lind is sobbing and begins pleading to Urd as she realises what injury is going to be seen to next. Urd stops and stays perfectly still as Lind throws herself at Urd and clutches the front of Urd's top as she cries into her chest. Urd realises that she is able to hold Lind now and wraps her arms gently around the sobbing warrior.

"Please tell me what he did to you Lind." Urd asks resting her head on top of Lind's as the Valkyrie quietens down.

"It hurt." Urd closes her eyes as tears fall down her cheek at the sound of the distort Goddess's voice.

"He just kept biting me everywhere and I couldn't stop him…he…" Lind whispered in pain as she remembered all that he did to her. Urd soothed Lind as she rocked her back and forth.

"It's ok Lind, he can't hurt you now. We've got you and he'll never be able to rape you again." The effect was instantaneous. Lind pushed Urd away as she sat up straight looking at Urd in horror.

"He didn't….HE DIDN'T!" Lind shook as she admitted what happened. "…he didn't rape me." A smile broke out on Urd's face in relief that her friend had not been raped but she quickly looked serious again as she put her arms back around Lind.

"I'm so glad to hear that but he did hurt you. Please tell me who it is, please Lind." Urd urged as she began lifting another lilac-grey potion out of her pockets.

"Peristome." Lind said so quietly that Urd had to strain her ears. "He tried to rape me because I failed with the Angel Eater and would have succeeded if it wasn't for Cool Mint and Spear Mint." Lind admitted as her two angels grew out from her back and enveloped Lind in a hug.

Urd just held Lind letting her cry her heart out for what happened and could have happened. Looking at the potion in her hand she spoke.



"I need to heal the bite marks." Lind just nodded her head and let Urd put the potion 'there' as she hugged her angels tightly with her eyes screwed shut. Urd smiled as she finished putting the potion and stood up.

"Belldandy, Peorth and I are going to go to Heaven to make sure that he doesn't get away with it. Skuld and Keiichi will bring everything you need…" Urd began.

"Not Keiichi, I don't think…another man…after…I couldn't…I…"Lind stammered as she began to get upset again. Urd knelt down and put her arms back around Lind.

"Not Keiichi then but Skuld and don't worry, we'll be back before you know it." Lind nodded her head as Urd left the room a pulled the door shut behind her.

Walking into the sitting room Urd said only one thing.

"We've got him."

A/N

I'm afriad that due to several things this story will be put on hold.

Obviously people do not wish to read it looking at the reviews and after being told how bad it is I will wait until I can review it.