"Are you sure?" George asked softly as he walked over to her.

"Yeah" she said as she took a sharp intake of breath. "I need to do this."

"Okay" George said as he took her hand and walked her over to the bed.

"Amy, honey your mom is here too. We're both here for you sweetheart. We're right here."

"Oh God" Anne gasped as she looked at her. She buried her face in George's shoulder and started to cry.

"Hey" he said softly. "Shhh, you need to be strong Anne. You need to be strong for Amy."

"Right" she said as she cleared her throat and took the seat next to her. "Hey honey" she said softly. "Gosh, you're strong. I don't know where you get it from."

"She gets it from you" George said softly. Anne looked up and him and smiled and then returned her attention to Amy.

"You've got a whole lot of people who love you kiddo. And we're all going to be right here waiting to see you when you wake up."

"That's right" George chimed in "we love you Amy, we love you so much."

"God" Anne sighed. "George, look what he did to her."

"I know" George responded clenching his fists. "I'd really love to get my hands on him…"

"I can't imagine how scared she must have been" Anne said, her voice breaking.

"It's okay" George said as he put his arm around her. "It's all okay now, she's going to be okay."

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"Was she scared?" Ricky asked tearfully breaking the long silence that existed between him and Grace.

"What?" Grace asked being startled out of her thoughts.

"When he was…. Was she scared?"

"Yeah" Grace answered honestly. But, she passed out pretty quickly, so it didn't last that long."

"Did she um, did she say anything?"

"What do you mean?"

"When he was attacking her, did she say anything?"

"No" Grace said, her face draining pale as the memories came flooding back to her. "She was just…"

"She was just what?"

"Screaming, she was screaming."

"God" Ricky sighed.

"I don't think he would have stopped for a long time" she said through tears. "But Ben, and another guy heard what was happening…"

"They stopped him?"

"No, they scared him away, he ran off."

"I wish they could have kicked his ass" Ricky said angrily.

"I wish that too" Ben said as he entered the waiting area.

"Ben-" Grace called out. "What did the police say?"

"They just asked me a bunch of questions. They still haven't found the guy."

"God" Ricky said angrily. "That bastard's still out there…"

"Yeah" Ben said. "But he won't be for long, they're going to find him. They have to."

"I guess, um, I guess I owe you a thank you Ben. You saved Amy. I have no idea how I can ever repay you for that."

"Don't force her into a life she doesn't want" Ben said angrily. "That's how you can fix this. Let her go to New York…"

"Ben!" Grace interrupted. "Do you really think this is appropriate to talk about now?"

"I just want Amy to be happy" Ben replied.

"Well Ben" Ricky said angrily. "Right now Amy's in a hospital bed, unconscious, and hooked up to a bunch of machines. So this really doesn't seem to matter."

"Amy's happiness doesn't' matter?"

"Guys!" Anne yelled as she ran to the group of teenagers in the waiting area. "Amy woke up!"

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