This story contains mild descriptions of sexual assault. If you fell like this story may trigger you, please do not read it.
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Maya could tell from the minute she saw her wife after she got back from taking the scumbag who hurt Andy to the hospital that something wasn't quite right. She knew that tonight had been a lot for everyone, but particularly Carina who had had to perform the exam and kit, but Maya felt like there was something more. She knew that doing sexual assault exams and rape kits were one of the hardest parts of her wife's job and it always weighed heavily on her. Maya decided not to push it tonight, knowing there was enough going on.
She did, however, convince Carina to spend the night, or what was left of it anyway, at the station. The thought of not sleeping close to her wife tonight was not something Maya could stomach. She had met Carina at Joe's bar, they had both been drinking there, Carina had flirted with her there. The thoughts that something like this could have so easily happened to Carina if she had just flirted with someone else pounded through Maya's head as she got ready for bed.
She knew there was about a 0.0% chance of her sleeping at all tonight, but she still wanted to just lay in bed and hold her wife close, maybe talk about what seemed to be bothering the Italian. However, she then realized that Andy was going to need somewhere to sleep and quickly offered her bed, telling Andy that she and Carina could pull in an extra mattress and sleep on the floor. She knew that would put the kibosh on talking to her wife tonight, but honestly, Carina looked spend and as long as she was close, Maya was just fine with it.
The entire station ended up sleeping in her bunk that night, or maybe resting was a better word for what happened.
She was pretty sure Travis and Theo both knocked out on the floor for a while and she noticed Ben's head dipping down and staying there for a long time. Jack just stayed in bed with Andy so she had no idea if he slept, but she was very sure Andy didn't because she could hear sniffling every so often. Vic also stayed awake the whole night, she and Maya communicating with looks from time to time.
Carina did sleep some, though Maya could tell she was very unsettled. She was cuddled impossibly close into her side, but her head just kept moving, small Italian phrases slipping out from time to time. Maya knew some of them and could tell the dreams were not happy ones. Carina actually jolted awake about two hours after they laid down, startling Maya a bit who had been running through protocols for evacuating apartment complexes when there was a carbon monoxide leak.
"You ok?" Maya said almost inaudibly as she heard Carina's erratic breathing.
"Si," Carina said, seeming to settle back down as she cuddled into Maya's side even more. Nothing else was said, Maya just running her hand up and down her wife's back.
Carina didn't fall back asleep again after that, but she just stayed curled into her wife's side. Eventually, Beckett came ambling through the locker room the next morning making way too much noise as he went to get a shower, waking everyone up.
"Why is he so loud?" Travis groaned, saying what everyone was thinking.
They all got up, dispersing to get ready for the day. They talked to Jack and it finally felt like they were making progress forward in their journey to become moms which put both of them in exceptionally good moods. However, all of that was squashed the minute the officers came in to arrest Andy.
Jack, Travis, and Theo were all furious and wanted to go fight the officers, Ben immediately made a phone call to his wife, Vic and Maya quickly got the boys to calm down, and Carina just went silent.
