Jack's PTSD

chapter 8; the slight picture

The time was slowly aproching mid-day, Lane was preparing a English lunch, she was cooking eggs bacon beans and of course Richmond Sausages,

Jack's favorite kind for their juicey ritch taste and their reassuring tender skin that was easy to bite through,

Mark's car pulled up and parked at the end of the driveway, Mark got out the car and headed inside,
He opened the back door and looked at Jack who was sat on the red wooden chair next to Mark's,

"I see that your ready to come and see the dirt bike's then Jack"
Mark said as he sat next to Jack who was innocently picking his nose before nodding his head,

"Well" Mark said "if your mummy and Nana Lane are okay with it, I will let you ride one that I have been building for your birthday next year" he said to Jack softly,

"No Mark, my son's to Young to get a dirt bike let alone drive one that you have been building" Taylor said jokingly hoping that Mark would find out what D.H had done to Jack,

Lane finished dishing up the food and went into the conderments cupboard behind Marks blue chair,

"Ketchup for jack, BBQ for Mark, and salard cream for the girl's and mayo for me and Taylor" Lane said as she grabbed the sauce's out the cupboard,
She placed them on the table and looked at Mark,
"Do you want me to prepare you both some food Mark? As won't you been out until half five as dinner will be at six and I know how hungry both you boy's get while working on your dirt bikes" Lane said caringly,

"Yes love, as I need a quick shower and to get Jack's spare clothes..." mark said as Taylor interpreted
"Already done Mark" she said holding Jack's Bob the builder backpack up above the table,

Mark chuckled and looked at Jack
"Here son eat up we're leaving in 45 minutes time and where do you want the ketchup?" He asked to show Jack that his pickiness was nothing more than just a O.C.D which was understandable considering what D.H had done to Jack and Annabell,

Jack pointed to a spot on the plate after he had cleaned an area in which the ketchup could go without touching the baked beans which was of the  Heinze variety Jack's favorite bean brand,

Jack ate his lunch as fast as he could before running to the toilet and grabbing his Bob the builder bottle and running it through to the kitchen for Lane to fill up,

Jack looked at the 4 bottles on the floor and grabbed one of them, it was coca cola,
Now usually Jack wasn't aloud this drink as at the time it would make him hyper, but this time he was allowed because they wanted to find out what D.H had done to Jack aswell but jack wouldn't tell anyone about it as he was to scared and to ashamed to,

Mark hurried up and finished his lunch, eating as fast as he could, he got up and headed for the shower nipping into his and Lane's room to get out some clean clothes and his dungeries to get ready for heading out straight after his shower,

Jessica looked at Lane and said "Why doe's Jack get to go out but we don't? That's so not fair. No one even Like's or want's jack Nana, he's nothing but in the way all of the time, it's also his fault that D.H done everything he done to us." She said horribly making Jack have a briefe episode and to collapse on the floor holding his head in complete agony,

Jack closed his eye's and was taken back to a caravel, it was packed with men and women and children, there was rides and  Stool's, candyfloss machines and hundreds of game's and activities, D.H got out of the car and undid Jacks seat belt walking him in to the place,

"Right you little cunt you stay here, if you move I will kick the living shit out of you. I'm going to go find Mandi and get my dick wet. Your only here because your mum made me bring your retarded arse. So don't FUCKING move." He said as he chained Jack to a pole behind the candy stool,
Before saying "ahh fuck it while I'm here, you dont deserve to not be beat" and then battered the poor boy leaving him on his ass and chained to the incredibly cold metal poll with tears rolling down his swallen red and blue cheecks bruised and dazed while his head was bleeding corsing Jack to black out,

"Jack!" Mark yelled as Jack was having this mild episode with the pain from that day covering his entire body as he silently cried in agony,

"Jack are you ready son?" Mark asked him handing him a packet of chrisps and a custard doughnut reminding jack that it was all okay because he wasn't there anymore and D.H wasn't there with them either,

Jack took the chrisps and doughnut and slowly walked to Marks black BMW which had all the stuff that they needed to fix the bikes and go to the dirt tracks in it,

"Jack?" Mark asked softly as he reversed out of the stoney driveway at Lane's home,
"Are you scared of D.H?" He asked gentally as he put the car into drive,
Jack silently looked down and started to eat the doughnut ignoring the question because of who was mentioned and Jack had been told that if he told anyone or spoke D.H would kill him and his family,
"Thats okay kiddo" Mark said reasureningly "you do not have to answer that question, just I don't like D.H and your like the Robbin to my batman and if he hurt you Jack, well I'll just have to make it even" Mark said trying to cheer Jack up which worked as Jack grinned slightly as he finished his doughnut,

They reached the bike's and Jack had fallen asleep due to the drive up Mark woke Jack up and the pair of bois walked into Mark's private shed and unloaded the boot,

"Right Jack you can help me if you want or you can watch the Telly over there like alway's,
There's colas in the mini fridge and there's biscuits and chrisps in the blue plastic box and we have the food that Lane made up" Mark informed Jack,

A couple of hours passed and Jack was calmer than he was at Lane's, he started to draw a picture of what had happened to him month's before what happened to Annabell with the quote in which D.H had said 'Tell anyone I will kill you and your family'
Mark walked over to Jack and looked over his shoulder and saw the drawing but went to get a drink from the fridge,

"Do you want a cola Jack?" He asked Jack with concern in his voice as he was looking at Jack and Jack nodded as jack folded up the drawing and grabbed a lighter from the TV unit setting it on fire,

Mark brung the drinks over and sat with jack and watched abit of power rangers as he had a fag,

Eventually it was time to head back and Jack had fallen asleep because he had barely slept that night,
Mark strapped him into the car and they headed back to Lane's,

The drive was long and it grew darker and started to rain, Jack still asleep and Taylor heading to the car,

"Did he tell you mark? And where is he?" She asked,
"No he didn't and he's asleep in the back, and he drew something then burnt it, so get him to draw, it might help, I'll put Jack to bed" Mark said as he got Jack out his car to carry him to bed as he slept soundly in Mark's arms.