Finding Family

Chapter 8

TW: sexual assault, self harm

The next few weeks went by quickly. Lily was still not eating and she was sleeping less and less. JJ and Emily would try and get her to eat some, but it wouldn't work well. School wasn't great either, she was still bullied constantly, so her body was literally covered in bruises. Lily was thankful that JJ and Emily were called away on cases so often because she was able to hide things more easily.

"Hey Lily, how was school?" Liz asked.

"Fine."

"How's gymnastics? I hear you are really good." Liz asked as Lily grew uncomfortable. This did not go unnoticed by the therapist.

"It's fine" Lily replied, not wanting to talk about it.

"What's your best event?" Liz continued, trying to get her to talk more about it.

"Can we just not talk about it right now?" Lily replied.

"Ok..Ok...We can talk about something else, your moms told me you haven't been eating much lately.. You wanna talk about that?"

"No" Lily replied and with that, she stayed silent for the rest of the session. She hated therapy, she didn't see the need to pay someone to talk to. After the session Liz went out to talk to JJ.

"Something is off about her, she doesn't want to talk about anything though. She got very uncomfortable when I mentioned gymnastics, so maybe it has something to do with that?" Liz stated.

"Ok, I will try and talk to her." JJ replied. The two left to go back home. Lily fell asleep in the car, she was so tired since she didn't sleep much last night. When they got back home, Lily went straight up to her room and fell asleep.

Lily's Dream

She was at practice. Things were going well, she was practicing her dismount on uneven bars. Her coach looking closely, as always, but this has happened so many times, she has numbed the feeling of nervousness out. Lily could feel his eyes burning into the back of her head as she went for her dismount. She landed it perfectly, no steps taken. Her coach was still up her ass for the rest of practice. At the end of practice, he quickly pulled her into his office. He pulled his pants down and he quickly shoved himself into Lily's mouth.

"Lily"

"Lily, come on get up, you can sleep after dinner" JJ softly nudged Lily awake.

"No, please stop, don't touch me" Lily shot straight up, gasping for air and moved as far away from JJ as she could.

"Hey, it's just me, you are safe" JJ said pulling the young girl into her arms. Lily cried into JJ's arms.

"What happened?" JJ asked, worried. But Lily was unresponsive, all she wanted to do was to get the feeling of his touch off of her. She just wanted to stop her thoughts, she quickly got up and ran to the bathroom and locked the door. JJ quickly ran after her, but she just barely missed the door. She quickly ran downstairs to get Emily and the master key and she ran back up opening the door to find Lily cutting into her arm.

"No, Lily stop!" JJ said as she pulled the young girls arms back behind her back as they fell to the floor. Emily went to grab the razor from the girl's hand.

"No, stop, give me that, it's mine!" Emily quickly flushed the blade down the toilet and moved to help JJ hold the girl down to try and prevent her from further injuring herself. The girl was struggling to get out of their grip, eventually exhausting herself.

"Lily, what's going on?" JJ asked, as she brushed the girl's hair out of her face. Lily didn't know what to say, all she wanted to do was run and hide.

"Come on, lets get you cleaned up." JJ said as she picked up the young girl. She's getting really light. JJ thought as she brought her to their bathroom.