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Chapter 3

A few days later...

Melanie's POV

I was doing up the dishes from breakfast when Lee came in,

"I thought I told you to rest." he said sternly taking the dish towel from my hands.

"I told you, I don't want to rest anymore. It's been three days Lee, my injuries have healed, I'm fine." I said stressing the last part.

I hadn't been allowed to do anything for three days because of my injuries, I could understand that, but there was no need for it now.

"Physically maybe, but mentally no way." he told me, I glared at him.

"I'm going for a walk, alone." I told him and went into the hallway for my running shoes.

"I can't let you do that." he said following me, I got my shoes on and looked at him.

"Just try and stop me!" I shot back and went out the door.

I paused at the end of my block and looked back but there was no one there.

'Thank you.' I thought and headed off to walk around the city for a while, I felt like I could walk forever.

Lee's POV

I let her go, she had been going for walks since the day after she got back, I think she thinks I don't know but I do; the whole team knows.

I locked up the house and went to see Barney at the shop, he always wanted to know what Mel was doing and after he heard about this he wouldn't be happy.

"Hey," I greeted as I joined him on the couch.

"Hey, how is she?" he asked as I knew he would.

"She's mad because she's been cooped up so long. She says she's fine, but she's avoiding talking about anything as much as she can." I replied.

"She's detaching herself from everything and everyone, not good. Where is she?" he said.

"Mel went for a walk around the city again." I told him, it looked like Mel was going into depression, I didn't think it was possible for her, out of all people.

He nodded, "We need to find her." he said getting up.

I got up and we went to the car,'It shouldn't take long to find her, how far could she have gotten?' I thought as we headed down the road.

Melanie's POV

I sat on the ledge of the bridge looking down at the river below, just thinking when someone yelled, "Don't jump!"

I turned my head to my right to see a man slowly coming towards me,

"I wasn't going to jump, I'm just thinking. Please leave me alone." I told him, he stopped a couple of feet away from me.

"I can't do that miss, whatever you're going through it's not worth taking your own life." he said.

I shook my head and turned back to the water; it was calm and still which to me was a pretty sight.

"I'm Chris, what's your name?" he continued on.

"Melanie." I told him, as I heard a car stop behind me and two doors slammed shut before I heard more voices.

"Mel, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Barney said with an under tone of anger.

"Thinking, or at least I was." I answered annoyed.

"Melanie, come back up here." Lee ordered.

"No, just leave." I told them.

"Can't do that Mel." Barney told me.

I put my hands on the edge as if to push myself off.

"We can back off, just don't jump." Chris said.

"We're not going anywhere, that's my girlfriend." Lee told him.

I let my breath out in a huff, 'Looks like my alone time is over.' I thought getting up.

Lee offered his hand to help me over the fence, I gripped the steel pipe running along the top and jumped over it, landing beside him.

I looked to Chris, "Thanks," I said simply.

"No problem, my wife's a shrink. If you need someone to talk to." he said giving me her card. I nodded and he headed off down the bridge.

"Come on." Lee said opening the door for me to get in the car as Barney circled around to the other side.

I got in the car, Lee got in beside me. As we pulled away I said, "I've done that each time, I've gone out." that earned me two angry glares.

"What?" I asked innocently.

Lee's POV

I couldn't believe it, Melanie was out doing stuff like this and we didn't notice, she was slipping away from us.

We arrived back at Tool's but the guys weren't there so we sat on the couch together Mel in the middle with one of us on each end.

"Melanie, you've got to talk to us about what happened with Tony and Nicole."I said starting us off.

She shook her furiously, not saying anything.

"You can't go on like this, either shape up and start moving on like you did before or you're off the team."Barney told her, and at this point I actually found myself agreeing with him.

Mel merely shrugged; she didn't care anymore.

"Melanie, you're going to lose everything if you don't change your attitude."I informed her, she looked around the room.

"It wouldn't be a huge loss."she said, anger surged me in that moment.

"Not a huge loss? We've become like a family to you and after everything we've been through, you're just going to toss us aside?"I asked her not hiding my anger anymore.

"Maybe."she said but this time she hesitated, maybe she did still care.

I ran my hand over my face in frustration before asking my last question.

"Could you right now walk away from me and not look back?"I asked hoping for her to say no.

Melanie's POV

I knew I couldn't walk away from Lee, technically I couldn't walk away from the team either but I was so broken and lost I didn't know what to do anymore.

"No, I couldn't but I'm a wreck Lee. You've seen that, especially today."I replied.

"Yeah I did, but you're still here. What about making an appointment with the shrink?"he said looking relieved, so did Barney.

I bit my lip, "I don't know Lee."I told him with a shake of my head.

"Too bad, you're going whether you like it or not."he said reaching over and taking the card from my pocket. He took out his phone and dialed, he talked a little and then hung up.

"Tomorrow afternoon at three and you're going even if I have to drag you kicking and screaming."he informed me.

I got up hotly and went over to stand in front of the knife board, knife in hand. I threw it angrily, it stuck in the middle of the board, I walked out going home to vent out some more.

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