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TW: MENTION OF RAPE AND ABUSE

Two

"It will help us get you better quicker to know why you're here," Kemper stayed quiet for a minute, picking at her nails as she looked down.

"I know it's hard," Ashton said, "but we want you to get better,"

"Glenn likes to hurt me cause he's always mad, and tonight he came into my room angrily and cut me here," Kemper pointed at the now stitches cut. "And then he pushed me on the bed and used this rubber thing over his private part and put it in mine, and it really hurt. I was crying a lot and asking him to stop, but he wouldn't, and our neighbors heard and called the police, but I was bleeding a lot so they but me on an ambulance and brought me here cause of that,"

"I'm so sorry angel," Ashton whispered as tears filled Kemper's eyes.

"I don't know why he did that," Kemper looked over at Luke and Michael, who felt sadness and anger for her story.

"People can do bad things," Luke told her, "and that was a bad thing to do,"

"But we're going to help you get a lot better and you'll feel ten times better than you have in a while," Michael reassured her and Kemper nodded. Luke got up and paged his wife, Sierra, also warning her it was a rape case with a code while Ashton asked Kemper how old she was.

"I'm seven," Kemper held out her hands. "That's one whole hand, and then two extra fingers," Kemper held up seven fingers.

"Wow, seven years old," Ashton exclaimed, trying to break the tension in the room to make Kemper more comfortable. "Do you go to school?"

"I haven't been in a week, but I'm in second grade and I'm the best at math cause I can already do long division and we don't learn that til fourth or fifth grade,"

"Whoa, you are so smart,"

"I also read lots and lots of chapter books," Kemper added.

"Chapter books?" Michael acted surprised and Kemper nodded while giggling. "That's amazing," Before the conversation continued, there was a knock on the door and Sierra entered. Like everyone else, she was shocked when she saw a seven year old in there, "Hi darling," Sierra smiled, pushing her emotions aside. "I'm Dr. Deaton, but you can call me Sierra, what's your name?"

"Kemper,"

"It's so nice to meet you," Sierra told her. "I heard you were in pain, can I have you change into a hospital gown so I can check it out?"

"I can't sit up," Kemper told her quietly.

"Do you want me to help you?" Sierra questioned and Kemper nodded. "Alright, I'm going to have Luke, Ashton, and Michael leave, but I can have Ashton come back once you're all situated," Sierra offered. Kemper looked over at the boys, which was when Luke spoke up.

"You can trust her, Kemper," Luke reassured her, "that's my wife," Luke whispered, making Kemper's eyes widen.

"What?" she asked, making everyone laugh. "Do you like each other or likey like?" Kemper asked for clarification.

"Likey like for sure," Sierra answered.

"Oh yeah, likey like," Luke agreed, making Kemper giggle.

"But boys are icky," Kemper's face scrunched.

"They are," Sierra agreed, "they don't get any less icky," Kemper giggled at her statement.

"Alright Kemp, we'll leave and come back once Sierra tells us," Luke said and Kemper nodded. Once they left, Sierra went over and grabbed a child size gown. Kemper did shed a few tears, but managed to get the gown on. Once she was changed, Sierra called Ashton back in, who sat right back down next to Kemper and held her hand as Sierra examined the area.

"Ok, sweetheart," Sierra sighed, "I'm going to apply pressure on it, and it's going to hurt, but I need to make sure there isn't any tearing," Sierra explained. "But I'm going to ask you questions first," Kemper agreed and rested her head on Ashton's chest, clearly exhausted. "Can you tell me what happened?" Kemper explained the same story again, not changing any facts about what she said.

"I know this is hard honey," Sierra said. "But I have to ask questions so I can understand it better," she explained and Kemper nodded. "Did everything happen quickly? Or did he do anything else in between the cut and incident?"

"Quickly, he didn't do anything else," Kemper answered. "I don't understand it at all," Kemper muttered. "Why did I bleed?"

Sierra sighed, knowing she had to explain the whole thing, "People do that action when both adults are ok with it and want to, but sometimes people do it to other people when they don't want to," Sierra explained the best she could to a child, "And when it happens the first time for women, they bleed sometimes," Sierra finished her explanation.

"I'm not a woman, I'm a kid," Kemper said with a giggle. Sierra had no idea how she was still smiling, but that's how kids were.

"You're not," Sierra nodded with a sad smile, "you're a little girl," Sierra told her.

"You're a little baby," Ashton kissed the top of her head, making her giggle.

"Alright sweetheart, I'm going to check it out now, ok?" Sierra asked and Kemper agreed. She was relaxed at his, but with the slightest little touch, Kemper bursted out crying.