chapter four
we had just pulled up to melindas when brooklyn started to mumble in her sleep. "liv?" i said to get her attention "what do i do?"
"wake her up but dont startle her too much" she told me and i placed my hand on her arm and shook her, but that didnt work.
"brook? come on time to get up" i whispered shaking her a little harder. that did the trick because she struck out at me and managed to catch me in the face pretty hard. "damn girl you got a hard hand"
"oh. im so sorry" she said waking up totally and looking absolutley terrified.
"its ok. were here" i said to her and she looked around.
"oh where is here exactly?"
"our medical examiners lab but that is only because we can trust her whole heartedly"
"oh ok then" she said and we got out of the car.

i was terrified to find out how far along i truely was, but i also wanted to be sure i was doing everything right by the kid. we walked in and a dark skinned women with brown curly hair walk over to us and hugged olivia and said hi to rollins before turning to me. "you must be brooklyn. ive heard so much about you" she said and i looked at olivia wondering what she had heard. "oh dont worry it was all from fin. not liv. now what may i ask did you need me for again?"
"brooklyn here is pregnant. and would like it if you could give her an ultrasound as well as tell her how far along she is" olivia told the women who i figured out to be melinda.
"oh and whos the lucky baby daddy?" she asked me and i glared at her. "oh no one good?"
"no one that deserves to be living" rollins said slinging an arm around my shoulders.
"oh ok then" she said and turned around beckoning us to follow her. we walked in to a back room the had a bunch of equipment in it and she picked one out. "welll im sorry to say i dont have anything exactly comfortable but thats because the people i normally see arent exactly as lucky as you are" she said "so you are going to have to lay on the metal table there" she pointed out the one behind us and i did as i was told.

brook hadnt said a word since we got out of the car and i was sure if it was because she was scared or just didnt know what to say. i hoped she wasnt shutting us all out and planning something drastic. "brook you alright?" i whispered helping her up onto the table and giving her my jacket to put her head on.
"fine" she said and layed back.
"ok now that we are all set up lets take a look." melinda said coming over with a paper towel and some gel stuff.
"ok"
"now can i roll up your shirt?" she asked brook so as not to freak her out to much.
"yeah" brook said and melinda rolled it up to just under her bra line and what i didnt expect to see was black and blue covering her stomach and looked like it spred down to her legs and around her back.

i thought that i was going to be doing a simple ultra sound on a rape victim that was related to fin and not on a girl who looked as if she had been beaten half to death. "jesus. what the hell happened to you?" olivia asked and brook just looked at her.
"brook does this hurt at all?" i questioned so that i knew if she would need to go to a hospital for something.
"no i dont even notice the bruises anymore" she said "olivia grab my lap top"
"why?"
"its got the story about when this happened on it somewhere"
"oh ok then" olivia said grabbing the laptop and bringing it over. brook sat up and pulled up the file with her fingers flying.
"here you go have fun its this one and there should be a few others in that folder that you can read. its all about me and what goes on at home. actually start at the top and you can read from the first time it all happened" she said seeming just fine with it but i could see her muscles contracting from the stress.
"brook you need to relax. its not good to get too stressed when youre expecting" i said then helping her lay back down because i needed to get a read on how far along she was and what damage mightve been done to the fetus. "now this gel is cold so dont jump too much" i said and then i grabbed the wand hoping that this wouldnt hurt the bruising she had on her. "just tell me if this hurts ok"
"ok" she said and i started to move the wand around on her stomach. to my releif i found a heart beat but i heard an echo of it and moved the wand around more.
"youre pregnant with twins" i said in shock.
"what?"
"youre going to have twins and youre doing just fine. just keep eatting and taking some prenatals that i perscribe you. ok?"
"ok and how far along am i?"

i didnt want one kid let alone two that were the bastards. i really didnt want to have his but i really wanted to have the kids at the same time. i guess with the help that olivia says i will be getting i will learn to love them. "youre three months along." melinda told me and i started to cry.
"brook whats wrong?" rollins asked me getting closer.

"the first time he... he" she was starting to freak out and having trouble breathing.
"hey hey brook look at me and breath ok?" i said gripping her arms and making her look at me. "good now relax ok nothing you say will make us think any different and what you tell us can help us help you" i said and she nodded "better?" i asked her when her heart rate was back to normal.
"yeah" she said
"now what were you going to say?"
"i got pregnant from him after he raped me the first time" she said and i swear you could have heard a pin drop in the lab.
"oh my god im so sorry brook but dont you worry we can help you tons" i said.

i hadnt been paying attention as to what exactly had been going on around me for the last few minutes but thats because i had been reading her stories and i got an idea. "hey brook can we print all the stories that have what your steo father and his friends did to you?"
"um sure olivia but im going to have to pull some files off my flash drives" she told me.
"can we use your printer mel?"
"of course" she said and i handed the lap top over with her pulling up all the files i went over to the printer and got it ready to print all the files.
"if possible can you print them in cronilogical order?"
"of course" she said and started to print. the files started around january 27 and went up until may 17 yesterday. it was nearly a hundred peices of paper that she printed and when she was done she grabbed the stapler and stapled the individual stories together so that the files made sense. "all of them are true and i just changed a name or two here and there other then that its all true." she said and then we said bye to melinda and thank you for letting us use the computer before leaving. on the way back to the precinct brook fell back asleep.
"this is going to be a much longer day than i thought it was going to be" i said to amanda.
"oh yeah" she said and looked back out the window.