EmPov

Emmett hadn't exactly lied to Jasper, he wasn't going to participate in what was going to happen at the academy when Edward showed up for the hands on Domestic Violence training, but he wasn't exactly going to stop it either. Edward needed to get his ass kicked, and Sam, Paul and Seth were just the boys to do it. They liked Jasper, and they admired the fact that though he was the smallest guy in the class, he went out of his way to work harder than every one else, and he out ran everyone. He had spent time tutoring them when they had struggled with some of the academic areas, and he had even gone above and beyond to make sure that his entire class had everything they needed to be successful. Jasper was a born leader and a caretaker, and they loved him for it. Edwards abuse of him had not gone unnoticed and it was resented. Now that it had gone to far and Jasper had been hurt, they had decided it was time for payback.

The plan was that when the scenario started, they would all three rush Edward, take him down hard and then just as fast as possible, administer as many hard strikes as possible before they were pulled off. All three of them expected to get into trouble, but due to the history of the difficulty of the scenario, they were anticipating that it would not be significant. In the past cadets had often ended up in the hospital or with injuries, so an ambulance would be standing by, unlike when Jasper got hurt and they had to wait for one to show up. They all knew Emmett wasn't going to participate, due to his affiliation with the sheriffs department but he gave his blessing.

Emmett tried not to glare at Edward as they prepared for the training scenario. He was among the few, and the air in the gym was thick with tension as the cadets gathered in their teams for the sessions. The gunny gave each approach team their scenario and as the time came for Paul, Seth and Sams team to approach Edward and the other officer in the scenario, a silence fell over the gym as the other teams watched when the voices of the cadets sounded at once, very loud and angry with the agreed upon signal of, "Let me see your hands" as all three charged Edward, taking him to the floor hard.

Emmett saw Edwards head finally hit the floor as Sam and hit him in the knees with his baton and Paul caught him in the lower back with his as Seth took him the rest of the way down. There was a flurry of fists that struck Edward and shouts of " Stop Resisting" as they continued to act as though they were arresting him. He was cuffed and they had his arms bent up behind him but he was unconscious and the other officer in the scenario was shouting for help from the other training staff. A halt was called to the scenario as the Gunny and the rest of the sheriffs department staff came running over to help. The three who had beaten Edward were pulled aside and told to not move until their supervisors arrived. The ambulance crew was called over as Edward was uncuffed by Emmett.

Edwards face was bloodied and was swelling rapidly. It was pretty evident that the guys had gotten in some good shots as they had him down. He was out cold and not showing any signs of coming around. The ambulance crew was packaging him up like he had been in a car wreck and as they cut his shirt off, Emmett could see some pretty damn big bruises coming up on his chest. He had probably gotten at least as good as Jasper, if not worse. Emmett knew it was going to be bad once Jasper found out Edward had been hurt, and he hoped that the director cancelled the rest of the training for the afternoon so that he could get to the hospital and break the news to Jasper before he found out through someone else and freaked out.

Epov

I knew the shit was on. I should have been better prepared, but fucking hell! I was expecting McCarty to kick my ass and settle things up, not 3 of those monsters from the city! I mean, Jesus! What the hell do they care? I didn't even have time to brace myself before those motherfuckers hit me like a mack truck. They hit me, I guess my head hit the floor and the next thing I know I am waking up in the God Damned ER with that same crazy assed nurse jamming a tube up MY dick. That shit HURT! She was lucky I don't believe in hitting women. I got to say I was a little freaked out ot see that what she got out of that tube was red! So I was pissing blood? Son of a bitch. What the hell all had they done to me? I was strapped to a motherfucking back board, a collar around my neck, I couldn't move a muscle and…of fuck me running that damned rent a doc was looking at me with a smirk.

'So Captain Cullen, It appears you ended up on the wrong end of a few fists and batons? That's a surprise." Motherfucker…I was gonna kick his ass when I could get up. He started walking around me. " It appears that you might have some broken ribs, and a bruised collar bone." He ran his hand up my leg, and I realized I was completely fucking naked, " We need to x-ray your knee to see how bad the damage is to it, but it appears it might be fractured' What. The. Fuck? They broke my knee? They knocked my ass out, broke some of my ribs and broke my fucking knee? What the hell? Was I deserving of all that? Had my treatment of Jasper been that bad? The pain was starting to build and I couldn't help the groan that escaped me as the crazy nurse walked up by my head, " Im going to make sure you are put in the room with him. You guys need to talk before one of you ends up dead."

I ended up spending the next 4 hours laying on the damned board, shuffled between the x-ray department and the damn ED while the rent-a-doc took his sweet ass time figuring out what was wrong with me. The little nurse kept shooting me up with pain meds and stopping by to check on me and cover my up whenever that bastard doc left me uncovered. I hoped that son of a bitch planned on leaving town when he was done with me down here, because once I loose and on my feet, I was going to make sure his ass got some payback. The nurse, "Alice" finally got some help and finally got my ass off that damned back board and out of the collar after the x-rays came back and cleared my neck, but the bastard doc seemed to get some sick pleasure out of telling me that I had 4 broken ribs and my knee was indeed broken.

Once I was off the board, Alice helped me to sit up so she could wrap my ribs. I was going to have to wait for a ortho guy to come down to talk to me, but apparently I needed surgery? Fucking hell! My kidneys were badly bruised, collarbone bruised but not broken, ribs broken, concussion, with a laceration on my damn head that Alice had already made sure got stitched up before she let me sit up, but now my hair was all fucked up, and now I was going to have to have surgery on my fucking knee. I knew I should have never started seeing anyone. It was just safer to drive to Vegas once and awhile to get the itch scratched . No one ever got hurt, I never had to worry about anything. Now both me and Jasper are in the hospital all fucked up and within a hairsbreadth of outing ourselves to the world.

The news from the ortho guy was not good. My fucking knee cap was shattered! What the hell? He was going to have to do a total replacement and I was looking at being on crutches and in physical therapy for months. Alice came by to shoot me up with more happy juice and as I was dozing off, I heard her say, " When you wake up, it will all be over and it will be time to start fixing things."

Empov

Emmett was chomping at the bit to get away from the class. He was shocked when the director announced that the training would go on as scheduled. The Gunny had left to go check on Cullen's status and had not returned, but other than that, things had gone on as they normally did. The director eyed Emmett critically a few times , as if he were looking to see some kind of reaction to the stress of the situation, and perhaps he did catch Emmett checking his watch more than a few times, but nothing to make him think that Em was involved in anything. The three that had beat down Edward were written up for misconduct and referred to their hiring agencies for appropriate punishment, though it was likely they would only be written up as using "Excessive Force in a Training Scenario" which was not all that uncommon of an occurrence.

The rest of the day went without incident and the class was dismissed with the admonishment that they were expected to report on time the next day prepared to participate. Emmett didn't even go home to shower and clean up, he went by their favorite Mexican restaurant and grabbed Jasper a decent dinner and he headed straight to the hospital to get an update on Edward,(hopefully from Gunny or someone from the department) and then on to break the difficult news to Jasper that a message had been delivered on his behalf.

Jpov

Jasper was bored. He had been stuck in the stupid bed all day long and he wanted to get up and move around, but the nurses were insistent that due to his head injury and the fact he had nearly passed out a couple of times upon sitting up, that he couldn't even get up to go to the bathroom. It was aggravating and a little embarrassing. He had no one to talk to and the tv was boring and he could only sleep so much, though he suspected that the nurse was slipping him sedatives to keep him drowsy. He was just dozing off again when the nurse came back in and pulled the curtain that separated his side from the empty bed by the door. It appeared he was going to be getting a roommate. He was apprehensive about that, hopefully they would be somebody he could talk to or that would at least not be noisy or rude, especially since he didn't know how much longer he was going to be stuck in there with them. He heard a commotion at the door and Emmett came bursting in. "Jas, I have something to tell you and you aren't going to be happy."

Empov

Emmett couldn't believe his crappy luck. They were going to be putting Edward in the same room as Jasper? really? It was bad enough that Jasper was going to freak out over how badly Edward was hurt, but to be in the same room as him? Fuck! At least he got there before they got him actually into the room!

"Jas, there was an incident this morning at the academy and some of the guys kinda got a little rough during the D/V simulation and…welll, Edward got hurt."

Jaspers eyes widened in shock as the color drained from his face, " How bad Emmett?" Emmett looked around nervously and he glanced at the curtain that was pulled between the two beds. "Well Jas, he is going to be your roommate for a while. Hes got a concussion, some broken ribs, bruised kidneys, and his knee was shattered," "What the FUCK EMMETT! What did you do?" Emmett shook his head, "Jas! I didn't do it! It was Paul and Seth and Sam! They did it. I had nothing to do with it! I didn't lay a hand on him except to take the cuffs off of him and help with getting him into the ambulance."

Jasper was trying to get out of his bed, causing the monitors to kick off and set off alarms that brought his nurse into the room, "Mr. Whitlock! What on earth are you doing? You are not to get out of bed!" Jasper glared at her, "Where is Captain Cullen?" She looked at him funny, "You mean your new roommate? He will be here as soon as he is out of recovery. We are just waiting for him to wake up from his surgery and then he will be here. Now if you don't relax and settle down I and going to tie you into that bed, and YOU young man, if you keep upsetting him, you are going to have to leave. Emmett nodded at her and sat down.

Jpov

Jasper was a storm of emotions. He wanted to be with Edward right then. He needed to know he was alright and that he wasn't suffering. He was angry that he had been hurt because of him. He was scared that because of this, Edward was going to break things off between them, and he was relieved that he was going to see him soon. " What happened Emmett, don't blow smoke up my ass either, give me the whole damn story." Emmett looked unhappy as he set the food in front of Jasper and gestured at him to eat it. "Well, the guys were all pretty fired up about what has been going on with you and all the bruises on you. I mean, fuck! Jasper, everyone has seen all the marks on you in the showers and we know that he was responsible for them. Training or not, nobody else is beat up like that, nobody else has had to put up with him just constantly pushing and demanding more of them like you have, and when you got hurt so bad, well…the guys decided that they had seen enough. I didn't do anything, but I didn't stop them either, and neither did anyone else Jasper. His own staff saw it go down and they looked the other direction until he was unconscious."

Jasper was stunned. Was it that clear to everyone but him that he was being brutalized? He didn't feel abused, he just felt like they were both caught in a difficult situation and maybe Edward was handling it in the only way he knew how. As the door to the room swung open and a gurney came rolling in with a semi-conscious Edward on it, the words that Edward was mumbling left him believing that in spite of the rough treatment, he really did care.