Thalia pulled her Honda CRV into the parking lot outside the police station. She threw the gears into park. Her heart still hurt something fierce. Thalia could feel the spiderweb cracks grow even more across her heart from the pain her now-ex-boyfriend had afflicted upon her the day before. Thalia didn't want to walk in to the station to carry out her decision, but her now-ex-boyfriend had crossed a line that he very well knew not to cross, but did it anyway. Help had arrived just in time, but the damage already had been set in motion when…..
Thalia shook her head. She wouldn't think about it right now. She needed to focus on the task that needed done.
Unbuckling the seatbelt from strapping her to the chair, Thalia slid out of her Honda and after a brief moment of hesitation, she grabbed the handle of the police station door and walked into the building to give the police her incriminating evidence to show how her now-ex-boyfriend had assaulted her.
Thalia stopped at the front desk and the woman sitting behind it.
"Can I help you?"asked the woman. She reminded Thalia of her grandmother: short curly hair, a kind smile and a sweet disposition.
Thalia swallowed hard. "I'm here to see Detective Shroyer."
"Name please?" asked the woman.
"Thalia Vascov." Thalia patiently waited while the woman typed along the keyboard.
"Thalia Vascov here to see Detective Shroyer at five thirty?"
"Yes."
The woman typed across her keyboard some more then finally let Thalia she was checked in.
"Go ahead and have a seat. We will let Detective Shroyer know that you are here."
Thalia kindly thanked the woman and moved to sit in one of the empty chairs.
All but five minutes had passed when Detective Shroyer strolled out into the waiting room and the woman behind the desk gestured the brunette over with a finger.
Thalia figured the woman was informing the cop about her by the way Detective Shroyer kept looking over in her direction while listening to the woman behind the desk.
Thalia glanced up when the detective knelt down in front of her.
"Thalia?" Detective Shroyer's voice is as soft as silk when she asks Thalia her name to make sure she has the right woman.
Thalia swallowed hard as she nods while trying to keep the tears back - though a single tear falls down her face. Detective Shroyer gently took her hands in hers when Thalia starts shaking. "Shh." Detective Shroyer soothes. "It's alright. You're safe. What we're going to do is process the rape kit. That's all."
Thalia internally sighed out the breath of air she had been holding upon hearing Detective Shroyer ease her fear. She had already been traumatized at the clinic when getting the rape kit done - shaking like a leaf. Then she was shaking like a leaf during the whole drive from Mister Barn's office to the police station.
Thalia normally didn't mind hospitals and clinics. The people she had to be around was what Thalia disliked. She didn't like feeling all of the stares slamming against her because of all of the bruises and cuts and burn marks that hurt so much. Thalia could only wear sleeveless shirts and shorts.
After Detective Shroyer finished explaining everything she was going to do, Thalia allowed the brunette cop to gently help her stand. Thalia threw up a mental wall against the traumatization threatening to enter her mind by focusing on the gentle touch Detective Shroyer's hands provided while the woman's soft silky voice enhanced the gentleness through verbal soothing; able to actually breathe and feel at ease for the time being.
Thalia let out a deep sigh after allowing herself to be completely washed of any anxiety so she could focus on the matter of Detective Shroyer processing the rape kit after entering exam room; handing all of the photos of her bruises, cuts and burn marks to Detective Shroyer so she and her fellow cops could go and arrest her scumbag now-ex-boyfriend who carried out the many forms of assault once all of the evidence was documented.
"Detective Shroyer?" Thalia asked while the cop took the rape kit and photos from her.
"Yes, sweetie?" asked Detective Shroyer.
"Can you give me a ride to my house once all of this is done - before you arrest my ex?" Thalia added, "I'm scared, and I don't feel safe."
Detective Shroyer nodded assuringly. "I would be happy to."
Later that night, Thalia was in the middle of packing only what she would need for her one way trip to Greece, when she heard the faint sound of car tires pull up the driveway. Curiously, Thalia went over to the window and horror filled her core when she saw the familiar truck pull to a stop.
Thalia opened the front door and stepped out onto the front step with her arms crossed while her ex-boyfriend's friends hopped out of the truck.
"You guys are trespassing!" Thalia yelled.
"That's fine with us, Vascov! You see, we don't care about us! What we care about is taking care of our boy's ex who got him arrested!"
"Your friend raped and abused me, Garrison! He crossed many lines he well knew not to cross but did anyway because his stupid friends got into his head about sex and clouded his judgment, and I ended up paying the price! And now you guys come out here and threaten me?!"
"We know what he did, Vascov. But he's still our boy."
Thalia didn't need anymore answers. She saw the look in the ten pairs of eyes that revealed the horrifying answer as to what her ex's five friends planned on doing. Instinct shot to her feet and Thalia heard her ex's friends chase after her when she hightailed it through the house.
"Seal off all exits!" Garrison ordered while he and one other guy chased Thalia through the house. "She does not get to leave!"
Thalia bolted up the stairs two at a time while her ex's friends made sure she couldn't escape. Thalia felt all sense of time slow down when she felt a hand latch around her ankle when she ascended the last step. But Thalia delivered a hard kick to the face and sent the guy rolling down the stairs - to no avail, because Garrison grabbed at her opposite ankle.
Thalia managed to jump back and deliver a kick to Garrison's face before fleeing down the landing that led her to her bedroom! But slid to a stop just outside her room door at the sight of her ex's third friend, who snaked out an arm to try and grab Thalia's throat. But Thalia grabbed her bedroom door and slammed it hard against the hand that threatened to grab her throat; catching his wrist and listened as the bone snapped! Thalia kicked the guy in the balls; dropping him to the floor.
Eyes darting to the baseball bat gifted by her brother; leaning against the wall, Thalia snatched it up and swung around at the sound of pounding feet and swung the bat at another one of her ex's friends from the adjacent hallway, wooden object connecting with a loud whack to the side of his face, causing him to stumble backwards while clutching the side of his face. Not letting up, Thalia raised the bat and brought it down hard against the guy's head. Normally Thalia would count the guy as number four, but she didn't put Garrison and the other guy down at the stairs, so she still needed to do that on top of putting down the fifth guy.
Thalia moved to the side as the guy fell to the floor at her feet after the second blow to the head. Thalia bolted for the back stairwell that would take her up to the third floor! Thalia just makes it to the top of the landing, when she almost collided with Garrison.
Thalia strikes out with the baseball bat, but Garrison ducks the swing and lunges at her, arms wrapping around her torso, knocks her off balance and both tumble head over heels down the stairs. She expects herself to hit the stairs with her back for a second time. Instead, she feels a magnetic pull of air pulling her down - bare flesh feeling as if it's being torn to shreds by a thousand needles. Thalia feels her back slam against something hard, knocking the wind out of her lungs - Thalia forced ego inhale a deep breath upon impact.
Thalia only has a few seconds to register the low ceiling her eyes now took in - the whirring portal swirling above her head as Garrison falls through after her. She manages to grab Garrison and with rushed momentum, uses her feet to throw him head over heels over her head and onto the floor; landing on top of him.
Scraping chairs against wood fills Thalia's ears as many chairs are pushed back, but she is too busy fighting Garrison. "Are you going to rape me too, Garrison?" Thalia snaps when Garrison pins her.
Thalia feels Garrison ripped off her and sees a man barely taller than her, smash Garrison's head against the table so hard, he quits moving for good.
Coming into her line of sight, Thalia sees the most beautiful pair of beautiful blue eyes framed by thick blonde eyebrows and long blonde braids braided into the most beautiful longe blonde hair that reminded her of a lion's mane. Below his long aquiline nose, Thalia spotted blonde braids braided in the man's mustache either side of his mouth. Her eyes lock with his to find they had blown wide from the sight of her brown eyes and long brown hair with multi colored streaks of red, orange, yellow, purple and blue. Next thing she knew, Thalia feels his strong arms protectively wrap around her just as black spots danced across her vision, holding her tight just as she passes out from being exhausted.
