A\N Hey everyone :D Here's the next chapter, I'm sorry for the long wait, but its been a really crazy week. Anyways thank you once again to horsegirl888 for editing this chapter for me. You rock! :D :D Oh and again whe you see Flashpoint in bold it means a scence change since I still can't figure out how to get line breakers.
Disclaimber: I don't own Flashpoint, CTV or CBS
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Talk of abuse.
Our Parents Children
By the time Jules returned home she was fuming with anger. Never in her life would she think that Sam of all people would attack her. He was the most protective and loyal boyfriend, or friend, she had ever had, and other than Wordy, the most outspoken person against Child Abuse and abuse in general.
"I knew he had a short temper but—" Jules fiercely hit the punching bag in her bedroom when it dawned on her. 'The only thing I ever got from my father was his temper' Sam had told her one time. 'Luckily it's never gotten to that point', he had said briefly and Jules remembered she was very confused.
"Oh, Sam!" She gave the punching bag one last punch; her anger turning into brief sadness as she fell onto her bed and thought about what she could do. "I can't get back together with him, not now," She concluded. "He needs help, but if I tell his Sergeant, he won't be able to work and if I tell anybody on my team they'll kill him."
She fell onto her bed as she came to the most obvious conclusion. "Adam!" She hit herself over the head with her hand as she quickly got up and called her brother's office. Lucky or unlucky, Jules did not know, but she received his voicemail.
"Adam it's me. I need an unofficial assessment of Sam's state of mind. Don't tell anybody and don't play older brother, just give it to me," She told him as she hung up the phone and fell onto her bed once again.
Flashpoint
Sam was not out cold and he was not delusional. He was however having cold sweats and nightmares about his childhood; something he experienced while in the army, but his bunkmates always put it off as restless sleeping. If the army had known that the renowned Alexander Braddock abused his wife and son, there would be eyebrows raised and questions asked as people tried to figure out how the 'family man' could do such a horrible thing.
Not a word had been said about what happened behind closed doors of his family's home. The world lived in the darkness, even though as far as Sam was concerned, it was the elephant in the room, especially when he had six broken arms, a broken leg, rashes, burns and marks all over his body. However he gave credit to his father for abusing him in unseen places and for coining the phrase 'boys will be boys'.
As his shaking died down and his brain, however damaged, returned to normal he realized he had never came so close to hitting anybody as he had to the woman of his dreams.
"Maybe we are just our parent's children." He miserably ran both hands over his face and fell into a deep, restless slumber.
TBC
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