Just a warning for this chapter, it is very dark. I apologise if you see the name Poppy on here it's supposed to be Emma, her name was originally Poppy but at the last minute i changed it to Emma, you'll get it when you read it. Sorry for another sad one. Anyway I hope you enjoy Hanna's grandmother. Leave a review xx
Chapter 16 Recap
- Hanna doesn't want Penny to help her.
- Spencer has a miscarriage.
- Penny comforts Spencer.
- Penny reveals to Spencer she had a miscarriage that no one knows about
- Penny & Jason kiss.
2 weeks later.
Alison P.O.V
"Hey I just realised, that if you and Jason get married your initials will still stay the same." I joke with Penny. "Oh my god, Ali, we've only been dating two weeks." Penny laughs. "Anyway on a more serious note what time do we have to be at Hanna's house." I ask, Hanna's Grandmother is going to be there when Hanna is asleep.
"I think like ten." Penny answers while taking a sip of her coffee. "Hey how's Spencer doing?" I ask the blonde who councils my friend. "She's doing good, I think focusing on help Hanna has really taken her mind off it." Penny answers finishing her coffee.
"What's Hanna's grandma like?" Penny asks me while washing out her mug. "Oh you'll love her, Hanna definitely gets her sassiness from her." I answer causing Penny to chuckle. "Aria will have fun picking her up from the airport, I wish I could've." I finish. "Then why didn't you." She asks. "Because as soon as Emily said Regina's coming here, Aria practically jumped at the opportunity to pick her up.
A Few Hours Later
Aria P.O.V
"Regina!" I yell excitedly as I see her come into view. "Oh Aria, you haven't changed a bit other than your hair and your clothes." She jokes before giving me a hug. "Have you got everything." I ask her. "Yes let's go, I hate airports." She says pulling her luggage behind her.
"How was Australia?" I ask Regina once we are in the car. "Oh it was wonderful the people are so nice there and they have beautiful beaches." She smiles thinking of the memory. "What's been happening in your life Aria?" She asks me while looking out the window on my side. "Um well I became an author and I'm back together with Ezra." I answer. "Wonderful." She says.
"Hey it looks like we're going to be a little earlier than I expected, would you like to go do something before we go see Hanna?" I ask. "Yes." She responds immediately before continuing. "I wanna be there when Hanna's sleeping because I figured what you want me to tell you about isn't a happy subject." She answers looking down at her blue manicured nails.
"What would you like to do then?" I ask. "Well I would like to go visit Ashley in hospital." She asks hopefully. "Yeah sure we can do that." I smile at her before looking back at the road. "Hey what's that your arm?" I ask about the black dot on her arm. "Oh this." She says pulling back her sleeve revealing a small heart tattoo with the letters H.D.M written inside.
"What does it stand for." I ask curiously. "Oh I've had this for years, me and my husband before he passed away both got tattoos of Hanna's initials on our arms when she was only a few days old because we new she would be our only grandchild." She finishes.
"I thought Patrick had kids." I ask thinking about her other son. "Oh no sweetheart neither of my boys ever really wanted children." She says before continuing. "So to make up for it Hanna better pop out eight." She jokes making me chuckle. "And a few days after Hanna was born she got sick and the doctors didn't know if she would make it, so incase anything happened we made sure she would always be apart of us, that's why we got her initials on our arms in a heart." She answers smiling thinking of her granddaughter. "What is Hanna full name, she's never told us her middle name because she wanted us to guess but we never could." I ask curious about her middle name.
"Oh Hanna loved to make people guess what her middle name was, no one ever has because it's an uncommon name, Hanna's full name is Hanna Destiny Marin, her grandfather actually chose Destiny because of her blue eyes, the blue in her eyes made us think of outer space and Destiny kind of suited that, I know it's weird but we think it sounds beautiful." She answers tracing her tattoo with her finger. "I agree with you, It does sound beautiful."
A few hours later.
"Oh Ashley what have they done to you." Regina says stroking her ex daughter in law's hair or actual daughter as Regina says. "How long has she been out for?" She asks. "About five months." I answer. "Oh god." She says before continuing. "Ash, I don't know if you can here me right now but if you can listen, you need to wake up, your not going to die, you can't die now, you're not going to leave us right now, Hanna needs you to much right now, please you're my only daughter, parents shouldn't die before their kids, please Ashley we love you." She cries. I rush over and give Regina a well needed hug.
12:00 am
Regina P.O.V
"She's asleep." Emily announces coming down from Hanna's room. I'm sitting in Hanna's living room with Aria,Ezra,Jason,Penny,Caleb,Spencer,Toby,Alison & Emily. Getting prepared for them to ask me questions about Hanna, questions they deserve answers to but it's still hard for me to answer. "So what would you like to know?" I ask nervously.
"Are the events in Hanna's memory the reason Ashley has a heart condition?" Spencer asks me desperate for an answer. "Yes and no." I answer. "Ashley was born with a heart condition but that incident pushed it to the point where she needed to take medication." I finish. "Who was Hanna so afraid of in that flashback?" Caleb asks me. "Her father." I answer before elaborating, "I didn't know of that incident until Hanna was sixteen, she told me when Tom threw me and Hanna out of his engagement party to Isabel, on the way home she told me in the car about that incident." I finish holding tears back preparing for the next question that I already know what it will be.
"Regina, what happened to Hanna."
Flashback (The flashback is from what Hanna has told Regina but it take place through Hanna's eyes)
"No you listen to me Ashley!" I hear my Daddy yell at my Mommy. My parents are fighting downstairs as usual but this time its one of the badder ones my Daddy drank this drink that makes him even meaner to Mommy and Me. They are fighting in the kitchen while I'm upstairs in my room.
"Do you think Daddy will ever be nice, Emma?" I ask my Teddy Bear. "I don't know Han." Emma says to me. "Why doesn't Daddy love me?" "Because he's mean Hanna but Me and Mommy love you." Emma says back to me. "Thanks Emma, I wuv you too." I say to my favourite Teddy as I cuddle her and pull the blankets over the top of us trying to drown out the noise of my Daddy yelling.
"Tom you're drunk, go to bed you'll feel better." I hear Mommy say. "Stop being so fucking stupid, I'm not going to bed, I need to deal with you!" He yells. "Daddy please stop." I cry to myself as I get out of my bed with Emma preparing to go downstairs.
I tip toe down the staircase, quickly running past the hallway where Mommy & Daddy can see me, I quietly walk up the other hallway, the one that is further away from my Daddy. Once I reach the corner I poke my head out just enough so I can see them, they are fighting between the counter in the middle of the kitchen and the ones against the wall.
"Tom be quiet you're going to wake Hanna." My Mommy says trying to calm down my Daddy. "I don't give a fuck about that stupid little brat, who probably isn't even my goddam kid, all them men you hang out with you cheating slut." He yells getting really red in the face. That means he's really mad. "Tom, Hanna is your daughter, she even looks like you, who do you think she got her blonde hair from it wasn't me I have red hair and those guys are just my friends, I've never cheated Tom, you idiot." She yells back at him. Uh oh when my Mommy says something back to him that always makes him madder.
"Stop it!" Daddy yells pushing Mommy up against a wall. "Don't you put me down in front of my child." He yells at her not realising that I'm there but Mommy sees me now and looks even more scared. "Tom go to be please." She begs him, crying at the same time. I think she wants him to go to bed so I don't see this but I don't want to leave my Mommy alone incase he hurts her. Which now he does now , Daddy slaps Mommy across the face.
I get so scared that I almost pee my pants but instead I throw myself on the floor crying. This time I make him aware of my presence, "you promised Daddy, you promised you wouldn't hurt Mommy again but you lied." I cry at him. He realises that I'm there he steps away from Mommy, I think for a second that he's finished but I'm wrong he hasn't he picks up one of those bottles that makes him meaner and hits Mommy on the head with it, making her fall asleep on the floor. "Mommy." I cry running over to her. Once I reach her I put he head in my lap, she's bleeding. I look up at Daddy helplessly with tears coming out of my eyes. "Daddy please help her." "No Hanna!" He yells at me.
"Please Daddy she's hurt." I crying begging him to help Mommy. "No Hanna I'm not helping her, she deserves it for cheating!" He screams at me. I don't know what cheating means but it sound bad and Mommy's not bad, Mommy's nice, Mommy loves me, she sings songs with me, places princesses and mermaids with me, she reads me bedtime stories and gives the best hugs when I'm upset or scared, so that means she good not bad so Mommy didn't cheat or cheating as he says, she wouldn't do that. I love Mommy.
"Daddy she didn't do cheating, Mommy's nice." I try to tell him but he doesn't listen to me. "Yes she did you stupid little brat." He yells at me, whys he being so mean to me, i didn't do anything. "I hate you Daddy." I yell back at him, I've had enough, he's to mean to me and Mommy. "That's it we're leaving." He yells violently picking me up and taking me away from my Mommy. "No Daddy." I struggle in his arm as he carries me away. He gets as far as the stairs before I mange to free myself by grabbing on to the basement door handle but it hurts when I get away because I fall out of his hold and onto the ground. I quickly run back to my Mommy. Daddy begins to walk back to me but instead he walks out the back door leaving me and Mommy alone.
I try and think what to do to help Mommy but then I remember what Mommy said "If you ever need help can 911." I quickly run over to the desk with the phone on it but it's to high so I move the chair and climb up on it. As soon as I'm about to reach it Daddy comes back, I quickly jump down from the chair and run away back upstairs grabbing Emma in the process.
Once I reach my room I realise thats probably where he'll first look so I quickly run into Mommy & Daddy's bedroom. I look for a place to hide, their bed has to much stuff under it so I can't hide there, I see the closet but the handles are too high up for me to reach, I try and push the bedside table to the doors so I can open them but it's to late I hear my Daddy coming so I duck down under my Mommy's vanity.
I see him looking around for me, he checks under the bed, I cover my mouth with hand to avoid him hearing me. Suddenly he stops dead in his tracks, he staring at something on the ground but I can't figure out what it is, then I realise what it is, it's Emma. "Huh." I shriek accidentally giving away my location, He looks us and see me. This is it, I realise now that he's going to hurt me too. I try and get out of it by using the only thing I can think of.
"Daddy, I'm sorry." No response. "I promise I'll be good." Still no response. He gets even closer to me kneeling down to my level. "What happened to night never happened ,do you here me and if you ever tell anyone about this, I'll kill your Mommy Hanna and it will be all your fault." He laughs at me. "YOU LIED!" I yell at him. "What did I lie about." He laughs putting his hand on my shoulder trying to scare me. I slap him across the face like he did to Mommy but I know it won't hurt him, he's to strong for me. "YOU SAID YOU WOULD NEVER HURT HER AGAIN!" I scream and retreat to the corner with Emma. He's red in the face again.
"Please don't hurt my Mommy."
I beg him even though I know he will. "You lied, you said you would stop, but you didn't, you promised you wouldn't hurt Mommy but you did." "I've never lied or promised a thing to you, you lying little brat, just like your Mommy." He yells at me. "I'm not a liar, "But you did promise before and you didn't keep it, you liar." I yell at him. That's when he explodes, I guess he hates it when he's being told the truth. He pushes me down and I hit my head on the floor, it hurts so bad. I start bawling my eyes out. Not because it hurts, I cry because he hurts, he's my Daddy he's suppose to love and protect me, not have it the other way round, he doesn't love or protect me instead he hates me and hurts me.
I look up as I cry and realise he's gone, I look around for Emma but I can't see her, did he take her but then luckily I do see her she's behind me, immediately I grab her, pulling her body close to me, I cry onto her, I watch my tears dry on her face. I think what did I do to him to make him hate me this much.
Flashback Ends
"Tom hurt her." Emily cries. I wipe a few tears off my face and nod answering her question. "I'll kill that mother fucker." Caleb says. "I'll help." I say before continuing. "I feel bad because the was a stage where I wanted Ashley and Tom to get back together, I didn't know he was violent and I thought they were both alcoholics, he stopped drinking when Hanna was fifteen but since she told me about that incident, I haven't spoken to him since. The night she told me what he did, as soon as I dropped Hanna home I immediately went to his house, Isabel opened the door so I pushed past her. When I saw him that was it, I screamed in his face." "How could you do this, she was only a baby, You were her Daddy and she trusted you." I hit him and left, I've never spoken to him since." I finish, everyone one in the room is crying.
"What happened after that?" Aria asks. "A few weeks later the police came to there house because a neighbour reported Hanna picking up one of the beer bottles in the front garden and drinking it, Which she wasn't. Hanna told me as an adult the she she didn't drink it, she was pouring it out so Tom couldn't drink it but the police didn't believe that when they saw the state of their house.
Flashback
"Mommy please stay." Hanna cries as Ashley says goodbye to her. We had just been to court, the state was trying to remove Hanna from the home and place her in foster care, there is know way I would ever let that happen. It was originally supposed to be Ashley against the state for custody of Hanna but i knew she wouldn't win so I stepped in, I had to try against her and go for custody of Hanna. I won.
"Ashley, you and Tom need to get better and when you do Hanna can come home." Charlie (My Husband) says to Ashley as she cries, he wasn't yelling at her, he was comforting her, giving her reassure that she would get Hanna back. (If only we knew at that time it was only Tom, who was the alcoholic not Ashley.) Ashley nods as she hugs Hanna for the final time "Hanna sweetie listen, Mommy loves you so much and I will get you back, I promise." "I love you too Mommy." Hanna cries as she's being picked up and places in my arms as Ashley leaves.
We walk out the other door with a screaming Hanna. "I want my Mommy." She cries as I pull her tightly against me to try and calm her down but it doesn't work nothing will. Hanna fights us as we try and strap her in her car seat, it takes us fifteen minutes before we finally do. My husband takes a few minutes to collect his emotions as do I. Before driving off.
Flashback Ends
"How long did Hanna stay with you?" Alison asks. "Six months." I reply. "Just so you know none of us have any resentment towards you for taking Hanna, you didn't know and I think I can speak for all of us by saying if we were in you position we would've done the same thing." Spencer says reassuring me. "Thanks it means a lot." I say.
"What happened when Hanna came back?" Penny asks. "Well during the time we had Hanna, Tom & Ashley had to go to rehab, which they did. A week after Hanna returned Tom went back to his old ways." I answer.
Then Emily asks a question that I didn't want to answer. "Regina, Hanna has a scar behind her ear that she says is from falling into a pile of sticks, with everything thing you just told us, was she telling the truth or did Tom do it?" She asks already knowing the answer. I sigh before I begin.
Flashback (Again this will take place through Hanna's eyes, with what Hanna has told Regina, Also Hanna will be eleven in this flashback)
"I think purple." I say to myself, I'm in my room painting a picture of a flower on my desk. I like being in my room it's quiet and my door has a lock on it. I hear a door slam downstairs, I know it's my Dad because my Moms at work. I hear him yelling about something to himself, I can already tell he's drunk.
"What are you still doing awake!" My Dad yells as he enters my room. "It's only three in the afternoon." I try and explain to him but he doesn't listen. "Exactly, its late you need to be in bed, bitch!" He yells standing next to my desk. "It's three in the afternoon, it's to early for you to be drinking." I sass him, it immediately angers him. He knocks the paints over ruining my picture. "Why did you do that." I yell beginning to cry. "Because you disobeyed me." He laughs.
"What's wrong with you!" I yell crying losing my temper, I try not to swear. "Nothing I'm perfect." He smiles narcissistically. "Why do you hate me so much." I yell it him fighting back, every time he yells I always listen and do what he says but this time I've had it, I know I'll regret it later but right now I don't care at all.
"Because you ruined my life and your mothers, you cost us thousands of dollars a year on clothes, school and shit that you don't need, you're the reason we're going broke, get a job." He yells losing control of his anger. "I don't waste all MY MOMS money, all HER money is stolen from her by you and spent on alcohol, also I can't get a job yet I'm only eleven and if you want more money you get a job instead of sitting here every day and drinking, making her work for you." I spit at him.
"Excuse me but when you were born I worked for her when while she just stayed home all day doing nothing!" He yells trying to win this argument but I won't let him win this one. "First of all she couldn't work, she just had a baby, second of all by working you mean stealing fifty thousand dollars from Grandma and Grandpa and spending it all on beer, so no you didn't work, you did nothing for me."
"They're not your grandparents you're not my daughter, your mother cheated and got knocked up and made my family pay for it." He screams at me. That one hurt. "Dad unfortunately I am your daughter, for God sake I even look like you." I scream at him while still crying. "Ok daughter if I'm your Dad as you claim then why didn't you get me anything for Father's Day?"
"Because you deserve nothing and even if I wanted to get you anything we couldn't afford it because you spend all my Moms money on beer." I scream. "I deserve everything, I'm a great father, I stepped up and raised someone else's fucking kid, I applaud him, he's so mother fucking lucky to get away from you." He smirks.
"I am your daughter, get that though your head." I yell at him while tears continue to fall out of eyes. "You are worthless, you mean nothing, if you died no one would even care, look at you, you're pathetic, standing there crying in the middle of the room." He yells. Making me cry harder.
"Did you ever love me."
I scream at him already knowing the answer. "No I never have or will now get out of my sight!" That's when I loose it, I know he'll never give up, I have to let him win but I want to get one more word in. "I don't love you either, you are the worst person I've ever met!" I cry. Then suddenly he pushes me, I fall and hit my head in the end of my bed. He laughs walking off. I get up and run in to my bathroom and lock the door.
I hope he passes out soon so my mom can take me to hospital because I'm bleeding behind my ear but as I wait I fall to the floor and sit in a puddle of my own tears.
Flashback Ends
"That's it, he's dead!" Caleb yells, getting up to go after Tom. "Caleb you need to calm down." Ezra says blocking his path. "Don't tell me to calm down, no one ever hurt her when she was that young." Caleb yells pointing at Aria.
I step in, I subtlety tell everyone to leave the room except Caleb using a hand gesture. "Caleb listen, believe me I feel exactly the same way but what done is done and we can't change that and if you go after him, the cops will side with him because they're stupid, you could go to jail and Hanna needs you so much right now but if he comes in this house then protect Hanna at all costs." I can see his breathing slow down. "Are you calm now?" I ask "Not really but I'm not going to do anything." He says looking up at me, i can tell he's about to cry so I pull him into my arms and let him cry it out.
A few hours later
Caleb P.O.V
After Regina finished talking everyone left, Regina stayed here she is sleeping in Ashley's room. I crawl in to bed next to a sleeping Hanna and pull her on to my chest. "I promise I will never let anything hurt you again." I promise her as she sleeps peacefully, she looks so beautiful when she sleeps. "I love you Hanna." I whisper in her ear.
"I love you too Caleb. I smile and hold back tears before giving her a kiss on the forehead before falling asleep.
Well there you go, I hate Tom. Next chapter Caleb will make the worst mistake of his life. What do you think it is review and let me know also Mike & Mona will be back next chapter. Who do you think A.D, we haven't seen him in a while. Until next time xx