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I must warn you...the story has some twists and turns coming up in this chapter and future chapters which some of you may not like and some characters may be OOC but I ask you to trust me. Just as Melinda does every day.....I'm going to have to ask you to keep an open mind x I promise you I am a fairytale fan and therefore partial to a happy ending...It just may be a bumpy road to get there x
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Jim had run straight to the hospital room and told Melinda the excellent news, excited to see her reaction, what he saw however, wasn't quite what he had hoped for. Melinda had told him that she was happy, the words had come out of her mouth but Jim thought that they didn't seem to come from her heart. She seemed to be more scared than happy, in fact...she seemed to be terrified. When Jim went downstairs to bring the car around to the hospital entrance he came back up to find Mel in hysterics, begging him not to leave her alone. It was now Wednesday afternoon; two days after Melinda had been released. Jim had reluctantly left Melinda sleeping after he received a call from the firehouse, only to find out that they needed him to work a double shift starting that night.
Jim walked out of the fire house feeling very nervous, he was worried about telling Melinda that she would have to be on her own for the night. Ever since she found out she was pregnant she had been acting strange, constantly looking over her shoulder and jumping at the smallest of sounds, like she was always terrified that something bad was about to happen. The night before when the pizza delivery guy knocked on the door Melinda had some kind panic attack, she was breathing weird and crying-I just don't know how to help her, I thought she'd be happy...she said she wanted this. I wish I knew what she's afraid of- Jim thought, disappointed that he couldn't seem to find a way to make Melinda feel better. He climbed into his car and began the drive home.
Since she found out that she was pregnant all Mel could think about was Marcus. Alice's words kept spinning around her head, over and over "When Marcus found out he took me to the basement and beat me so bad. He hit me over and over and over, he screamed at me, he kicked me while I tried to curl up on the floor. He tied me up and kicked me again and again in the stomach, he said he wanted to make sure he killed my baby" Alice broke down and her body wracked with sobs as she remembered all the pain and torture she went through.
"Dan came looking for me, even though I asked him not to. He went to Marcus' house to ask if he had heard from me and Marcus was acting all shifty, he kept looking over to the basement where I was laying, dying. Dan waited outside and when Marcus left for work he broke into the house. He picked the lock on the basement door and came down the stairs. I remember his face when he saw me, like he had just been hit by a brick wall, the shock, the terror, the pain.
He sat with me and cradled me in his arms as I died. Marcus had forgotten his wallet so he came back about ten minutes later. He came down to check on me and found Dan. You know it had been two whole months since I left Dan, but he never stopped looking. He was so good to me..a...and I never got to say thank you, I knew I was dying but I was just so grateful that Dan's was the last face I'd see. When I passed out of my body I couldn't leave...... I watched them fight and then Marcus pulled his gun, he laughed as he pulled the trigger, shot Dan in the head. Gave new meaning to the phrase 'over my dead body' huh?" Alice joked morbidly.
Melinda was terrified, when Marcus realised that Alice was pregnant he beat her so bad that she died. Her fragile body had finally given up. Mel knew that she had to keep her pregnancy a secret, she didn't want herself, the baby, or Jim to get hurt. She found herself being pulled into panic attacks over the smallest of things like the oven beeping or Jim standing up as though he was going to leave the room. She couldn't eat, she couldn't sleep she could barely just be.
Jim drove slowly in a long line of traffic leading out of town, there were apparently some road works going on so half of the roads were closed. As he sat drumming his fingers on the steering wheel in time with the music, he was startled by a vibration in his pocket. He opened his phone to see that he had one new message –I guess Melinda probably woke up and got scared, damn it! I should never have left her alone- he opened the message and was shocked to see that it was from Rick.
- I have to see her....to say goodbye.-
Jim was furious- How dare he! If Melinda sees him she'll panic. She can't know that he's leaving, it will send her straight over the edge!- he thought frantically. He looked up and groaned as he caught sight of the long line of traffic that wound all the way down the street –this is hopeless-.
Melinda woke up in a cold sweat, shivering and breathing heavily, there had been loud banging on the door. "Jim?!" she called "Jim where are you?!" Melinda could feel the panic rising in her chest as tears began to well up in her eyes. Refusing to give in to her terror, she pushed herself up from the bed and made her way downstairs. She opened the door with dread churning in her gut but felt herself immediately relax when she saw who it was....Rick. He pulled her into a heavy embrace, breathing in the scent of her hair and preparing himself for what he knew would be the hardest goodbye of his life.