So, it´s Friday, so here we have another chapter :-))

I hope you´ll like it... I kind of decided to move the story in M rating considering future situations... so just to inform you :-)))

I know it´s kind of ... sad reading but still I hope you´ll enjoy it :-)))

I wish you nice weekend :-)))

A/N: as I usually, I don´t own anything from the Twilight...

Chapter 16

If only they knew that Carlisle was standing outside listening to their conversation. It tore his chest apart but he knew that Ellen was right. But desperately he wanted to see her. Or at least the little one. He missed them both so much.

Then he decided to do it, after Patty fell asleep, he went slowly to their house and climbed the balcony. They had a partially opened balcony door and he managed to open the door and came closer to the little bed where Patricia was sleeping. She was moving from side to side and he felt sorry for her. She had to go through many bad things and he worried about her. He was sure that Ellen wouldn´t let Derek to hurt Patricia. But he didn´t trust the man. Patricia sobbed out of the sleep and he immediately moved to her and held her hand. He whispered some sweet words in her ear and she fell asleep again. She smiled and whispered in the half-sleep: „ Uncle Carlisle…you are here….." He held her hand and caressed her forehead. When she was sleeping deeply and was calm again, he kissed her cheek and left through the balcony again. He sat down on the ground and gave the head in his hands. He was so sorry for the young one. She changed in the few weeks he hasn´t been with her. She must have gone through many things not understandable for her. He still wondered why Ellen lets him to hurt her so much. He didn´t get it. She knew that she would be more than welcome in his house and he would make sure nothing happens to them and Derek couldn´t hurt them anymore. He wanted them with him so much, he was missing their company. He felt that if he could cry he would definitely have tears in his eyes. He loved both girls so much. Derek had the greatest treasure at home and behaved to badly to them. In few minutes he stood up and ran away to the forest. He needed to hunt in order to calm down. It´s been too much to him recently.

When he was gone away from the house, he dialed Ellen´s number. He knew that Derek wasn´t home and therefore she might be ready to talk. He tried three times but she didn´t pick up. When he was sitting at Patty´s, he heard her downstairs. She was doing the washing up and he could hear the tears and the sobbing. He could feel her confusion and anger but knew that he cannot come downstairs. That would complicate things more…..He would not be able to explain properly and it was so hard for him not to go closer to her. But he knew that it is not possible.

A week later one day in the morning Patricia wanted to put her shoes on but it was kind of tight. She couldn´t suddenly walk in them. She called at Ellen: „ Mum, I can´t get in the shoes….." Elllen came closer and noticed that Patty´s foot has grown again. She sighed: „ Don´t worry….I have some money left in the closet, we will go in the afternoon and buy new ones…." Patty nodded and Ellen headed in her bedroom to search for the money. But she couldn´t find it. The money was gone. Disappeared. Somebody stole them, just yesterday. Ellen took some few days before but now everything was gone. Few hundred dollars of her savings. The only person who could have taken them was Derek.

She had to sit down on the bed and couldn´t stop crying. How could her own husband steal her own saved money? She just couldn´t believe it. What kind of man had he become?

Ellen wiped her tears as Patricia appeared at the bedroom door: „ Mum? Did I do anything wrong?" Ellen shook the head: „ No, honey, you didn´t…."

Patty smiled: „ So are we going for the shoes after school?"

Ellen stopped for a second and then remembered Carlisle´s words….."if either of you needs anything….." and smiled at her daughter: „ don´t worry, honey, we will buy you new shoes…."

She held her hand and led little Patricia in her class and then headed to her kids. She was sure that Carlisle wouldn´t mind if she used his money for Patricia´s shoes. It calmed her down a little bit. Otherwise she would have bad remorse.

During the day she texted Carlisle and apologised for not picking up the phone. She claimed that she was too tired. She didn´t know that Carlisle was already in the house checking Patricia. She wanted to calm him that everything is alright, no matter how hard she tried, Carlisle didn´t believe her. He knew that there was something going on and that he has to watch them better. He wouldn´t forgive himself if anything happened to her or the child. He wanted them to be happy but couldn´t convince Ellen to do a serious step and get out of the unhealthy relationship before it destroys her. He felt he isn´t entitled to intervene in Ellen´s life no matter how hard it was for him to understand her choices. Now he really couldn´t . He didn´t get it. The only thing he could promise to himself was to watch her. Try to prevent anything bad to happen.

In the afternoon Ellen bought her new shoes. They went to the shop and Ellen let her daughter choose the ones she liked. Patricia wanted the red ones and so Ellen paid for them. She took the card that Carlisle gave her. It was a weird feeling to use somebody else´s money. But she knew that Carlisle would insist on this and therefore she did it. She didn´t want to use the card, she promised herself that she wouldn´t do it but she wanted Patricia to have new shoes. She couldn´t walk in small ones. She just couldn´t let her sweetheart be unhappy. She wished just the best for her daughter. And yet, the whole situation with Derek. It was unacceptable. He has to explain why he did it. How could he allow to steal her money? She has to ask him as soon as possible.

Patty was invited to the neighbours´ child party. The girl was Patricia´s class mate and she wanted to have Patricia on her party too. Ellen led her to the next door and promised to come for her in two hours. Ellen was coming back home and was glad that Patty is outside of the house and they can have some talk with Derek. They need to clarify few things. This cannot go on like this.

Derek was at home sitting at the table while she was opening the door. He was looking at the magazine and barely greeted her when she came closer. She sat down next to him on the chair and could smell the alcohol from him.

Suddenly he moved closer because he wanted to kiss her but she moved away instinctively. She was disgusted by him and yet the alcohol. When she met him, he always claimed that drinking was wrong. He noticed that she pulled away and asked impatiently: „ What´s up?...why don´t you kiss me?"

She looked at him: „ Derek, what happened with the money?" He asked with anger in his voice: „ The money?" She nodded and continued: „Yes, the spare money I had for anything we needed…" He immediately replied: „ You might have bought something and spent them and you don´t remember it anymore…"

She gave him a bad look: „ Come on, I was checking my closet yesterday in the morning and they were on its place…."

He came closer angry: „ You want to say that I stole them?"

She replied: „ Nobody else was in our bedroom…."

He hit her in the face immediately: „ Bitch… I am your husband…..we have common property, I can take whatever I want…you have no right to hide money from me…..it belongs to both of us….perhaps the little bastard did that…."

She cried: „ Don´t call our kid like that..She doesn´t deserve it…."

Derek was angry and pushed her with force and she fell on the ground…..She was holding the nose and crying.

He stood up and continued: „ And now….if you think that I steal your things…..we will make new rules….it seems you have had too much of freedom…..it is time to tighten the belt and make sure you will obey me."

He shouted and she stared at him. She couldn´t recognise him, this person was somebody else than she had married.

Then he looked at her and shouted: „ First, give me your mobile phone…."

She pointed at the shelf and he took it and put it in his pocket.

Second, you are not allowed to go anywhere but work and home….the same counts for Patricia….."

And third: „ you will respect me, do whatever I tell you to do, this means to keep the house clean and do everything what a wife should do…it means also your duties to me…. I have a feeling I have not spent a proper time with you in our bedroom….."

As he said that, Ellen began shaking completely. She cannot have anything with him… He drank the glass he had in his hand and said: „ Now, I have to go somewhere, but I haven´t forgotten…we will deal with this later…"

Ellen stood up from the ground and couldn´t believe her own eyes. He hit her and now he wanted to limit her freedom. What will she do? She didn´t want to stay with him but she knew that she didn´t want to bother her dearest Carlisle. He had enough of his own problems certainly and she was feeling ashamed. She decided to pretend. She cleaned herself and after cleaning the whole house, she went to pick Patricia from the neighbor children party. She didn´t tell her a word to Patty about her father. She just prepared her the meal and then stayed with her in the bedroom.

Carlisle knew that something was going on, but Ellen didn´t say anything. He hoped, begged her in the text messages to tell him but she always claimed there was nothing to tell. The whole family was asking about her all the time but he couldn´t give any positive news. Edward and Bella were already worried about her a lot. She wasn´t on Skype anymore, they didn´t talk to her since the moment in the woods some weeks ago. And the whole family was worried about Carlisle who was not able to get Ellen away from him. Alice knew that the time hasn´t come yet and so she became silent.

Derek decided to make Ellen´s and Patricia´s life harder. He has given them enough freedom. They got used to it and did incredible things that nerved him. He felt he had to punish them so they would remember who is the master in this family. Patricia needs an educative lesson, she was spoilt enough. She always takes her new doll, Ellen certainly bought it. She claimed that she didn´t spend money on toys but luckily he didn´t trust her. She hid it from him. He decided to break the doll so that Patricia would understand that she cannot misbehave to him. He did it and then went downstairs. He packed the TV and Ellen´s laptop and drove it to the pawn shop. He got some money for it and Derek gave it to his wallet. Then he returned home, drank a glass of whiskey and waited for his wife and daughter come home to see his lessons.

Ellen opened the door followed by her daughter. When she entered the room, she could see, something was wrong. Her laptop was gone and TV was gone too.

Patty sobbed: „ Mum? What happened with our TV? Where are we going to watch fairy tales?"

Ellen replied: „ It was certainly broken down Patty, dad must have taken it to be repaired…."

She sent her to draw something into her room and headed to the living room. She wanted Patricia to take some snack and then to calm herself in her room playing with Bella doll. Then she opened the door and entered the living room.

Derek was standing there, glass of whiskey in his hand and while sipping he was watching Ellen:

„ I told you I would fulfill my promise… you needed some lessons to learn how to behave to me….…your internet connection was cancelled, at least we spare some money ….and the TV and laptop were sold with a good price…."

Ellen gasped and couldn´t believe her own eyes: „ How did you dare?...it was also mine and you had no right to sell things here in the house…." He moved her jaw line to look at him and added: „ You let the kid in the bed and then we will finish our talk…." She wanted to say something and then head an incredible scream out of the child room.

Ellen was shocked what happened and ran immediately upstairs. Patricia was already on the stairs holding her favorite doll Bella in her hands. But Bella was broken in the two pieces…. Patricia cried and Ellen was not able to calm her down.

She stared back downstairs and noticed Derek with a mischievous look: „She will learn to behave !"

Ellen looked back at her daughter and had tears in her eyes. She caressed her blond hair and Patty whispered: „ mum, what happened to Bella?" Ellen said sadly: „ Sweetie, we will repair it, don´t worry….go to your room, I will bring you the dinner…" Patricia went to her room, and was still full of sadness, she laid in her bed holding the two pieces of her favorite Bella and fell asleep.

Ellen noticed her sleeping when she brought her the dinner. She closed carefully the door and went back to her husband. But this wasn´t her husband anymore, it was a man she felt an incredible hatred for at the present moment. For the first time she really thought about leaving him and getting a divorce.

But Derek wasn´t in the living room. She went around and noticed a paper on the table. She read the letter about the charges and the planned court trial in three months. She stared and couldn´t believe it. He didn´t quit the job, he was fired and charged for fraud and some other crimes. She just returned to the kitchen and gasped.

This was becoming really dangerous, she didn´t know what to do. She felt so incredible. How could her own father destroy her favorite toy? She couldn´t understand this at all. It was her favorite, she had her all the time with her except school. And it was visible that Derek did it purposely. He wanted to hurt the little one. He knew that Patricia loved her the most of all toys. What kind of man was he?

She couldn´t stop the tears reminding how happy Patricia was when Carlisle brought her the doll. It was day after the ER evening visit. Since then Patty had always her Bella doll with her because it reminded her of the real Bella.

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