When they finally reached the door, Cam lay Brennan in the back, Angela sitting with her, Brennan's shaking head in her lap, tears flowing softly down her legs. Cam put the car in gear and drove, to the only place she knew Brennan would feel comfortable, the only place she could truly call home.

Brennan's cries had softened dramatically and turned into somewhat of a sleepy whimper when Cam's car pulled up outside of the Jeffersonian institute,

"Brennan", "Brennan , wake up" Angela spoke softly, gently shaking her friends shoulders to wake her ,she opened her eyes slowly and for a moment, she couldn't even remember what had happened, she was home, alone , in her comfy bed, safe, where she should be, but sooner or later realisation has to dawn and she jerked bolt upright , violently pulling on the locked door handle in an unsuccessful attempt to escape her own reality, screaming defeated cries of sadness as the pain from her open neck wound and badly bruised legs overwhelmed her system.

"Brennan, Brennan honey calm down, it's me and it's Cam , you're safe, I won't let anybody touch you , ok?" Angela placed a reassuring hand on her friends shoulder. Brenna looked at her , but she couldn't really see her , her mind was in another place, back in the alley. Angela pulled gently on her friends back and somewhere between all the strength of the two women, Angela and Cam managed to get a semi-conscious Brennan through the doors of the lab, and through to Angela's office, where they lay her down on the comfortable sofa-bed. Angela sat down beside her holding her hand, Cam tried her best to remain emotionally distant and go into full doctor mode, she kept telling herself this was any other patient but the harsh truth was , It wasn't, It was her friend , and the best way she could help her right now was by making sure she survived.

"Brennan …" Cam murmured, clearly at a loss of what to say to comfort the noticeably frail woman.

"Don't ok j-just d-don't…" Brennan stammered, hugging herself tightly.

Zoe stared at her shivering form for several moments before moving to stand in front of her.

"Brennan I know you don't want to admit it, but you and I both know what happened tonight and you need to get help at the very least, even if you're not willing to tell the police at least make sure that he hasn't given you some disease or internal injuries." Cam said softly while rubbing her arms gently.

Brennan looked down at the floor, completely defeated. The last ounce of strength and defiance she had against the people who were trying to help her was gone. She untwined her arms from around herself and used her last ounce of strength to pull herself up, with Angela's assistance so that she was upright.

Cam sat down next to her, now gripping the shoulder with no bruises firmly. She was peering into Brennan's eyes with a worried expression on her face. She looked lost, terrified by the ordeal she had been through and unsure of how to overcome the pain she felt. Cam could still see the defiance of defeat written within her features, but it was somehow dulled by the rollercoaster ride of emotions she was feeling.

"Brennan." Cam whispered gently, "Will you let us help you?"

Brennan looked at Cam as if she had only just noticed she was there, her eyes were wide and childlike and her mouth slightly parted with fear. She looked down at Cam's and Angela's hands, which they had entwined with Brennan's own, carefully avoiding her broken fingers.

She stared at them for a moment, then into Cam's eyes before answering with a single stiff nod.

"Ok " Cam said , before delicately taking a look at the wound on Brennan's neck, "Angela, could you please get my suture kit from my desk drawer"

"Sure , no problem " She replied as she stood up and walked off.

Cam had her mouth half open and was about to say something to Brennan, when the re-lighting of the outdoor security light and the sound of someone scanning them self into the building gave Brennan the terrifying feeling that her secret was about to be exposed to another person.

Angela ran breathlessly into the room "Cam , we got a problem".

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