Please Forgive Me

Chapter Ten

Cameron's kidnapper had cared for her the best that he could as Carl carefully tended to the tearing between her thighs due to Shea's cruelty once he found them a new place to hole up inside a small motel known for being a place where men would bring prostitutes for sex, then he washed her body down to try to keep her slowly rising fever from worsening and allowed her to get all the rest she needed so that her body could fight against the infection and her agony, hoping she would heal with time.

She had awakened nearly two nights after Carl had run with her to protect the doctor from further harm, finding herself lying unbound, but still naked aside from the thin white sheet that covered her body, while the monster responsible for her fear and agony lay naked beside her with his arm and leg draped over her. Allison struggled to lift herself out from under him and walk toward the door in hope of escape despite feeling weak, but before she could get more than three feet, she collapsed to the floor and Carl immediately awoke and rushed to her side to help her, then laid her back upon the bed. Over the next few days, she barely said a word while he tried to continue to care for her.

It was early in the morning six days after Carl Burton had abducted Cameron, six days from the time when he and his former friend had brutally raped and sodomized her and though he had never intended to hurt the woman he loved, her condition slowly continued to deteriorate the longer she remained with him for an unknown reason. When her fever spiked to a dangerous level, Carl finally realized that unless he brought her back to the hospital where he had taken her from to get the proper treatment she needed, Allison was going to die.

As he lifted her once again into his arms, Carl gently kissed her forehead and carried her out to his car where he laid her down in the backseat, then drove to Princeton Plainsboro while he spoke to her quietly saying, "I'm so sorry, Allison. I never wanted this. I never wanted to hurt you. I just wanted you to love me the way that I love you. You're going to be alright. You have to be."

Outside of the hospital…

Foreman, Thirteen, Taub, and Chase all arrived by six o'clock within minutes of each other, prepared to work after having taken almost a week to try to recover from the loss of their colleague and friend. Though Chase no longer worked under House as he swore he wouldn't, he remained at the hospital as head of surgery once again per Cuddy's plead for him not to quit entirely. They were back at work, but they weren't themselves since Cameron went missing and Chase barely spoke to them unless it was necessary for him to. Working to keep himself busy was his only solace, fearing that the woman loved was dead.

As they started walking through the parking lot toward the entrance, Chase suddenly took off running toward something the other doctors couldn't see, but swiftly took off after him. It only took a second for them to see that their friend was chasing after a man, who ran away from him as soon as he spotted the doctor coming toward him. However, when they came to Cameron's car still parked where its been since she was taken, Foreman stopped upon seeing one of its windows smashed in, then immediately shouted for one of the others to run and get a gurney.

As she ran over to him, Remy quickly asked, "What's wrong?"

"Oh my God, it's Cameron," Taub said in shock as he rushed forward to help Foreman pull the severely ill woman wrapped only in a bloodied sheet from the car, while Thirteen took off for help. "What the hell did that bastard do to her?"

"Cameron?" Eric asked fearfully as he pulled her into his arms and began to carry her toward the hospital's entrance after their colleague. "Cameron! If you can hear me, you're safe now. You're going to be alright."

Taub stayed at their side as he replied worryingly, "You don't know that."

Foreman ignored him as Thirteen as well as two other doctors and a nurse came running toward them prepared to help. As soon as she was taken care of, he motioned for his friends to remain with her, then took off running after Chase in hope of finding him before the Australian could kill the man Foreman realized was most likely responsible for his wife's grave condition.

By the time he finally caught up to him a quarter of a mile down the street from the hospital, Foreman rushed forward upon seeing Chase pummeling the man into the ground and swiftly fought to pull the blond off of him as he cried out, "Chase! Stop, he's not worth it. Think about Cameron! We found her and right now, she needs you. She's alive and she's being taken care of as we speak. Whoever this guy is…"

"He's one of the bastard's we found in Allison's files," Chase responded coldly when he finally let up and struggled to refrain from continuing. "The man who got away from the police after he killed that prostitute with his car."

"Carl Burton," Foreman stated upon getting a better look at the man while he glared at him. "Son of a bitch. Why did you take Cameron? Why'd you hurt her?"

Carl glared at the man he believed was Cameron's boyfriend, though he didn't know that she had left him, then he answered weakly, "I didn't… didn't mean to hurt her. I didn't want to. I love her."

Chase suddenly punched him again before Foreman could stop him as he spoke up again saying furiously, "You don't know the meaning of the word! She's my wife. I love her. What did you do to her?"

"What happened to her wasn't…. my doing," the criminal replied nervously. "I begged him not to… to touch Allison, begged him not to hurt her, but he didn't listen."

"How bad is she?" Chase asked fearfully as he turned to look up Foreman after he knocked the monster beneath him unconscious with one final punch to his head, then stood up with his friend's help. "Is she really alive?"

Eric nodded sadly and responded, "She's alive, but she's in a bad way. We just won't know how bad until we can get in there to take care of her. Taub and Thirteen are both with her and Wilson and Cuddy are too by now. Surely they've already called the police and security's coming down the street right now. Let them deal with him."

One of the guards called out, "Are you guys okay? What's going on?"

"He's one of the men responsible for kidnapping and hurting Dr. Cameron," Foreman answered as the officer and his partner pulled the guy off the ground, then dragged him between them as they slowly made their way back to the hospital. "He needs to be treated, but then is to be locked up so he can't get away this time."

"He deserves to die," Chase said cruelly, while Foreman looked at his friend with concern.