Maura heard Jane yelling down the hall and the front door open and close before she heard him dragging something down the hall toward her room. As he got closer she could hear Jane kicking and fighting to get away. Suddenly the door crashed open, she could feel the breeze on her face and she cowered deeper into the corner, whimpering in fear. There was a thump and she assumed he had dropped Jane to the floor, and then he was screaming. Maura could hear the hollow thumps of his boots on Jane's body, her gasps and whimpers of pain as he beat her. She longed to go to her, to protect her, but she knew that if she did, she would be beaten too. She thought he must have beat her for over half an hour by the time the sickening thumps stopped and his boots stomped through the door which slammed behind him. Slowly Maura uncurled her body from the corner and crawled forward, waving a hand in front of her. Suddenly her fingers became tangled in damp curly hair.
"Jane?" she asked. Jane didn't respond or move under her hand. Maura got to her knees and moved so that Jane's head could rest on her thighs. "It's okay Jane. Someone will come get us. Please, just, don't die." She began to slowly move Jane's curls away from her face and felt a warm sticky liquid on her fingers. Tears pricked at her ruined eyes, "Oh Jane," she whispered, and carefully she ran her fingers through Jane's hair.
Hours later Maura felt Jane shift slightly and moan in pain. "Jane?" Maura whispered.
She felt Jane move again, "Maura? Maura, w-what happened?" She could hear the grogginess and pain in Jane's voice.
"Jane, don't you remember? Yu came to get me but..." Jane shifted more and then her weight lifted from Maura's lap. She could hear Jane shift and her groans of pain and she flinched back as Jane's hands were suddenly on her face, ghosting over her cheeks and around her eyes.
"What happened to you?"