Since I haven't uploaded in a while I decided to give you an extra chapter.
She was about five years old and was lying on the bed crying as an adult Eliot Spencer approached her with a maniacal smile on his face; the smile widened as he started to undo his belt buckle, his southern accent ringing through her years "I'm just gonna show ya some love..."
She was so small and so helpless and it hurt so much that of all the people he was the one doing this to her. It hurt even more that a grown-up version of herself was there too, lying against the door frame, watching and doing nothing...
Parker woke up shivering and feeling sick, she immediately ran to the bathroom as she knew she'd only get worse.
It was always like this, first she had those horrid dreams, then she'd woke up sick to her stomach and panicking; it had been like that ever since she had known she was pregnant.
It started with small things, Eliot just staring at her maniacally, her own self standing on the door way, but as time passed the dreams got more elaborate and more real and she couldn't control them anymore. The real life Eliot got scared every time she woke up in the middle of the night to puke, he attempted to comfort her, however, hugging and touching her only made her feel worse as the images of her dreams haunted when she was awake.
She couldn't bring herself to tell him something so evil so she didn't and when he started asking too many questions, when his hugs after each dream became unbearable, she stopped sleeping with him, thinking that maybe that would make it go away.
Then she saw the hurt in her husband's eyes and became repulsive to his touch, her nightmares got worse, more intense, making her shake from head to toe every time she was assaulted by those images; a night came when she left home.
Once again the nightmares didn't stop and now, even during the day she couldn't find peace thinking something like that could happen to her baby years later in the future; because the little Parker in her dreams was nothing but her baby at the mercy of those who should have protected the most, just like it had happened to her.
Parker crawled to her bed and tried to fall asleep again, yet as soon as she closed her eyes her mind drifted away and images of Eliot and the little girl burned into her mind. She started crying not knowing what to do, she wanted it to stop! She wanted to come back to the man she loved; she wanted to have a family again...
She grabbed her cell-phone and dialled a number, giving the person on the other side the address of the apartment she had temporarily stolen.
Twenty minutes later very worried Nathan Ford and Sophie Deveraux were there.
She watched as Nathan passed the floor, his mind processing all the information he had received, Sophie's hand gently stroking her head and back as the thief laid her head on the grifter's lap.
"I couldn't tell him!" She said between sobs. "Please don't tell him, he'll think I don't trust him!"
"We're not going to tell him, Parker, I promise!" and Sophie's voice seemed so soft, like velvet.
"The problem is not that you don't trust him Parker, the problem is that somehow you're still trapped in your past!" Nathan stated.
"No, I've moved on!" Parker pouted.
"Apparently you didn't or else you wouldn't be having these nightmares" Sophie replied.
"Maybe you did move on, but didn't really get closure on that matter and now that you're pregnant you're starting to get scared your child will ever go through something similar so your past followed you to the present..."
"How do I stop this?" She asked in a very frail voice.
"You have to deal with your past first, get real closure on this." Sophie answered, her hand still rubbing Parker's back.
"How do I do that?"
"That's something I can help you with." He said as he sat on the couch, next to Sophie. "I am sorry, but you have to figure it out on your own…"
Parker didn't answer and they all kept silent as she thought about those words.
"You both said to me once that you'd kill the mend that did this to me if I asked you to…" She started "There's only one left, will you do it?"
"Of course!" Sophie replied immediately, she always knew it would come to this one day.
"Give us his name and let's kill that son of a bitch!" Nathan said as he got up from the couch.
So, the team is finally going to avenge Parker, what do you think it will happen?