NOTHING FEELS THE SAME

Chapter 9

"Gary, GARY!" She pushed his face up and looked at him. His eyes were open, that's good. "Gary, look at me!" She shook his body but he just stared ahead. Sam rolled him off and outta her and got up on her knees beside him.

'Oh my god, is he breathing, has he had a heart attack?' Sam fumbled around his neck looking for a pulse. She found it straight away. 'Good, not dead then' she tried again, "Gary! What's wrong?" He blinked and tilted his face towards her knees. "I- I" he couldn't out what he wanted to say so instead he just shut his eyes and began to sob into Sam's knees.

"I knew this wasn't a good idea! Gary did I hurt you?" "No" he gasped between sobs, "I- I dunno" if possible, he hid his face even more and brought his arms up around Sam's waist and hugged her. "I got scared" he mumbled from her legs. "Babe, what of?" "I- I lost it, thought I w- was back there" he sniffed. Sam reached for Gary's shirt and pulled it over her head before reaching down the bed to grab pants and pulled them on. She moved Gary and shuffled down the bed so she could hold him better.

She ran her hand over Gary's back and through his hair, gently rubbing in small circles as he continued to cry on his tshirt. "I've told you this already, you have nothing to be scared of, you hear me?" But but Gary had already cried himself to sleep.

Sam was half asleep herself when the phone started ringing. She got out of bed took her phone and went outside on the balcony. "Hello?" "Miss Rigby?" "Yes?" "Hi, it's DCI Madeline Leslie, we have a few leads on the Barlow case, a couple of suspects, some CCTV footage of the studios, stuff like that, and we were wondering if he's in a fit state to come and see us?" This is sounding positive Sam thought "Well, he's not too good right now and is sleeping, perhaps later in the day I could bring him?" "That would be perfect, whenever you come in just ask for me, but if he's not alright to come in please let us know and we should be able to sort something out, okay thank you bye"

Sam went back inside and saw Gary looking at her "who was that" he grumbled. "The police, they think they're getting somewhere and need you to go in. I said you weren't to good right now but we'd see later. Is that ok?" "Yea, I'll be fine" "Gary, you've said that before!" "I know, but this time I mean it"

**a/n so people still reading this? Not to slow moving? Please tell me what you think. Jess xxx**