Chapter 11.
WARNING: Mention of rape.
When Calleigh came home it was around elven at night, she locked herself in at Julia's place as they had exchanged keys a week back making it easier on them both so they could come and go when they want. Not to mention they didn't always come home at the same time, like now. They usually decided earlier in the day when and where they were meeting and let the other know when they would arrive. This time Calleigh were however later than planned and she hadn't managed to text Julia on the way either.
"Sweetheart, is that you?" she heard Julia calling from her bedroom upstairs.
"No the gardener," Calleigh yelled back.
"Funny, so are you coming to bed?" she heard from upstairs.
"Yeah, just need a shower first, if that is all right with you?" she said in normal voice as she had almost managed to get to the second floor.
"Of course, you want me to join you?" Julia asked, popping her head out the door.
"Nah, maybe tomorrow morning though, I'll be quick I promise," she said and hurried in direction of the bathroom.
She was just about to go inside when she heard Julia ask, "You came from Ron now right?"
"I did yes," Calleigh answered.
"So did he sign the papers?" she asked.
"He did yes, they are on the table downstairs," said Calleigh with a sigh locking herself in the bathroom. And as the water was pouring down over her, cleaning every inch of her body she cried sadly. The tears didn't stop until she turned the water off. Then she sank down on the bathroom floor, twirling a towel around herself to get dried before joining Julia in her bed.
When Calleigh finally crept up in the bed with her beloved Julia she looked at her with worried eyes asking, "Sweetheart, have you been crying?"
"No," she said, looking the other way.
Julia turned her to face her, gently stroke her cheek and whispered, "What happened?"
"I can't tell you, as you will hate me," Calleigh whispered.
"I promise you no matter what it is, I will never hate you," said Julia in a very soft tone.
"Well Ron said the only way he would sign was to make me and Horatio to stay off him and also he wanted have his way with me," she said, and before Julia could say or do anything the blonde had manage to hide in her chest, clinging to her for dear life.
Julia was thinking that if the papers were as Calleigh said in on the table downstairs and she had a showered that long, and she was this upset something had to have to have happened.
"Can I assume as the papers are signed, that you agreed to this?" Julia asked calmly as she gently stroked her sweetheart to calm her.
"Yes, but it didn't go as planned, because when I felt his lips on my neck I realized I couldn't got through with it, so I struggled to get free, only he was stronger and he turned me so I was face down before…then I somehow managed to reach my gun and jam it hardly into him before I made a run for it," she explained.
"So you are saying he raped you," said Julia shocked.
"Yes," Calleigh cried out hiding in her deeper.
"Shhh, I'm here," Julia whispered in a soft tone, gently stroking the shivering Calleigh in her arms. The blonde slowly managed to calm down in her lover's protective grip. Julia had started singing an old lullaby making the soft sobs die away and soon she was instead listening to her making little sleeping sounds. She sighed knowing she would have to call Horatio the next morning to get him to arrest Ron for hurting her sleeping angel.
It was really early the next morning when Julia called Horatio. More precisely it was 5 AM and Calleigh was sound asleep in her bed still, in fact she had had a little trouble managing to break free from her.
She was now downstairs in the kitchen making a cup of coffee while calling Horatio. She assumed knowing him that he would be up, yet he sounded very tired when he picked up the phone and said hello.
"Hello Horatio, it's me," she said with a small yawn. It was after all a bit too early for her to be up as she usually wasn't up before 6.30 or so, but she figured she had to be early to catch him before work.
"Julia, is everything OK?" he quickly asked concerned, as it was not like her to call him this early.
"No, not exactly," she answered truthfully.
"I know you wouldn't call this early if it wasn't urgent, so will you please tell me what the matter is," he said.
"I do assume you know Calleigh wanted to find Ron for my benefit," she said.
"I do yes as I tracked him down for her and we agreed on a condition before she went to see him, please don't tell me something happened," he said as a million thoughts ran through his mind.
"It did as well he agreed to sign on the condition that you stay of his back and him having her, only she resented last minute, but…" she stopped.
As it at once got clear to him what she was saying, he said, "Oh dear God."
"Yes, she was a wreck Horatio, you cannot let him get away with this," she said.
"I have no intentions of doing so. Any chance you think she would be willing to do a rape kit when she wakes up?" he asked, knowing they would need that for a conviction later as Ron would most likely deny everything.
"Are you insane, Horatio you really can't ask me to ask her to do that, if you were a woman you would understand that," Julia said outraged.
"Julia, you know as well as I do without his DNA it would be hard to get a conviction, it's her word against his," said Horatio with a very heavy sigh.
"Horatio, please don't ask me to ask her to that," she begged as she heard a noise between her and turned to see a quivering Calleigh in the doorway, looking at her.
"If you do this, he will never see the light of day again and that is a promise," Horatio said in a firm tone.
"Fine, I have to talk to you later," she said, hung up, tilted her and glimpsed at her broken sweetheart. Her broken angel. Broken by the man she resented so much just to save her. Standing there, wearing nothing but underwear and an old shirt, looking back at her.
Julia slowly walked over, took her in her arms and whispered, "It is going to be OK, he will never come near you again I promise."
Calleigh held onto her hardly, harder than ever before, closing her eyes, feeling safe and as she stood there all wrapped up in her lover she choose to believe her words. After she knew Julia only had her best interests at heart. Just as she knew she would always protect her Julia, she knew deep inside Julia would do the same. And as they melted together as one nothing but they seemed to matter, nothing at all seemed too important, the only thing that was important at the moment was them. And right now not even a ring from a phone could or would interrupt them.
They just stood there, holding each other close, Julia's head on top of Calleigh's as she whispered soft nothing as the time for them stood still.
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