A/N And only a few chapters of the assistant left, again thank you for all the alerts, favourites, reviews etc, I may have a part two but right now thats up in the air, anyways onwards with the show tonto!

Chapter 18 Waking up

Raven's POV

When one wakes up they seem to know all the little things, where they are and what happened. I pried my eyes open to find that I didn't know anything, I had no clue where I was or where here even was, I had no idea why I was in pain and no idea why Randy was clutching my hand tightly as though I would never wake up. His handsome face stained with tears, obviously it was huge, the reason I was here.

"What happened?" I asked groggily, my body was heavier than usual and hard to navigate. It wasn't listening to me anymore and I had to fight very hard just to sit up a little.

"You were attacked Raven"

His voice broke when the words left his mouth, the tears that I never imagined threatening to spill over again. "Phil, I take it"

"Yeah, he's in jail now"

"Where he thinks he's safe but if I know my sister then jail is the last place he wants to be" I slumped back against the soft bed, right now I was useless for the one thing I was built for, work. "Randy I am so sorry"

"For what?" He looked at me in confusion, it wasn't exactly my fault that I was here. "Raven you have nothing to be sorry about"

"I've let you down"

He kissed my hand gently "You have done no such thing, if anything I'm even prouder to be with you, you pulled through. You didn't let him beat you"

It went quiet for a few moments, I kept thinking about Dad, I really thought I was on the way to see him but a part of me didn't want that. I didn't want to be stuck with Dad, I wanted to be with Randy. Did that make me selfish? Choosing Randy over my father, for the second time, back then I was naive but now I knew the truth and I still chose Randy over Dad. Yes, I was selfish. No wonder my family ditched me, blood was meant to be thicker than water. Apparently my actions didn't think so.

"Raven?" Randy pulled my from my thoughts, "I wanted to know if you would move in with me?"

That came out of west field. That was faster than usual but I guess I could understand it, he didn't want me to get hurt again. In all honesty I didn't want to go back there, it would only remind me of Phil. "So will you move in with me?"

That look in his eyes told me that it was just as hard to ask me than it was to hear my answer.

"Yes, I'll move in with you" I sighed happily, "What time is it?"

"A little after ten." Randy checked his watch, he always wore a watch. He simply loved watches, he told me that trying to get something personal about me. I gave him I like chocolate which was no secret to anyone that knew me.

"How long was I in here? A few days?"

"A month" Randy slipped out making me think WTF.

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah, we were waiting for you to wake up. Doctors say you have multiple injuries and recovery is the only thing you should focus on."

"One month? Fucker got me good, I admit"

Randy opened his mouth to say something but decided against it, I left it alone. I don't think I could take anymore news.

"Randy I think I should step down as your assistant"

"What? Why?"

"I'm gonna need to recover like you said, and you need an assistant so why not replace me."

"Because I don't want to replace you" He snapped, he always got like that when it came to me leaving. Now I knew why. "Raven you take all the time you need to recover and in the meantime I can make do with temps"

"Randy, thats not fair on you so why not just let Eve have her way"

He shook his head at me "No. You are my assistant Raven. Your the only one that knows the job and I don't want Eve anywhere near me"

"Randy I have to step down eventually, you know that"

"No." He folded his arms stubbornly across his chest, "You are the best and I only want the best. So you will recover and then you will re-join me by my side as partner and assistant. Is that clear?"

"Yes sir" I said quietly as the door opened. Luckily it was my sister, maybe the ties I cut weren't cut all the way through.

"Glad your ok Raven, I knew you would pull through. Phil was an idiot who is getting beat down as we speak. Apparently someone told the biggest, baddest prisoner there was that Phil was a little too fond of children." Iziah slipped out an innocent grin "I have no idea how that happened. Honestly"

"Thanks Izzy, I knew I could count on you"

"As always. Randy can I have a moment please?"

"Sure" He lent down and kissed my forehead, "Get some rest. The doctors will check you over and when your given the all clear, I'll take you home"

Randy walked a short distance down the corrider with Iziah, feeling a little un-comfy. She hadn't let him forget about the hell he made Raven go through.

"I've talked to the doctors who have made a proper look at your girl."

Randy needed to hear the bad news, all the while Raven was out, the doctors had tried to determine whether or not Raven was raped per her sister's request. Randy wanted to know as much as she did, but then again he didn't want to know.

"Just tell me the bad news Iziah"

Her eyes pricked with sadness as the horrible truth prickled into his system, "NO!"

"I'm so sorry Randy"

"Please tell me that Raven doesn't know, she can't know Izzy. It would kill her"

"She probably won't remember, the attack happened after she was knocked out and before you found her. She'll remember the assult eventually but not what he did afterwards"

To Randy that was something, Raven would always think that she was still un-touched and pure. Randy didn't want her knowing the truth, he almost lost her once, he didn't want to lose her again.