Protection

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TW - ABUSE

"I- I went to get your sandwich... R-remember?" I panic knowing what he was going to do. "THAT WAS HOURS AGO!" He walks over to me with a quick pace and punches me in the gut. I fall to the floor in pain where he continues to hit me over and over in the head and torso. This goes on for about an hour. Once he was finished, he smashed his bottle over my head. I stumble up to my room crying and go into my bathroom that was attached to my room. I find my razor blade in my cabinet and slowly glide it along my thighs and wrists in turn. After 10 minutes of this I felt relaxed so I went to bed. This was gonna be a problem when it comes to school tomorrow.

TIME SKIP (next day)

I wake up shakey and in pain. I do as I always do on a morning. Get changed brush my teeth cover my bruises and head for school. Today went like any other day does. I go to all my lessons with my hood up hiding in the back and just getting on with it. I avoid the popular kids at break and lunch and leave at 2.50pm. The one thing different about today was as I left school I found Erin sitting outside looking straight at me. I pull my hood up making sure my neck was covered from bruises and continue going. "Amber! Wait up. We need to have a chat about you running off last night." "I'm okay thanks Erin. I-I need to get going..." I try to continue going but she grabs my arm to stop me causing me to wince. "What was that?" I look panicked. "Amber come with me please." "Where are we going?" I ask apprehensively. She just takes my hand and leads me to her car. She sits me in the passengers seat and gets into the drivers seat. She drives to a nice looking house then gets out and I follow suit. "Follow me inside Amber." "I- I need to go home Erin Matthew will kill me if I'm late home again." Erin gives me her famous stern look and gives me a slight nudge towards the door. "Well I'm a police officer so it's fine I guess."
I walk to the door but stop so she opens it and pushes me lightly so I go in. Once we were inside she closes the door and sits down at the breakfast bar in the middle of her kitchen. "So Amber. Why did you wince when I took ahold of your arm?" I quickly think of and excuse. "I had gym class today so my arms are sore?" I ask unconvincingly. "Now I want the truth Amber?" "I have to go Erin" I grab my bag that Erin had brought in and leave the house heading home. I go straight upstairs as Matthew wasn't at home yet so I lock my door and stay in there all night.

TIME SKIP (next night)

I got home from school to find Matthew already there. I knew this couldn't mean anything good. He walked straight up to me and smashed a bottle over my head. "WHY THE HELL DID I GET A CALL FROM YOUR SCHOOL SAYING YOU HAD BRUISES ON YOU!? I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO COVER THEM UP!?" I don't say anything knowing it will make it worse. In the end I'm on the floor screaming for him to stop. In the space of 30 minutes, he raped me and abused me more than he had ever done before. I manage to crawl over to where the glass from the smashed bottle was. He continued towards me so I stab him with a shard of glass in the shin. I kept fighting against him until I hear a knock on the door and somebody familiar shouting through it, "CHICAGO PD! OPEN UP!" I don't listen and neither does Matthew he kicked me again and I stab him really hard so he falls to the floor. He looks at me so angry but doesn't come back towards me so I roll up my sleeve and start to hurt myself as well then we hear a thud and look towards the door to see 3 police officers storming into the room. I ignore them and continue to hurt myself until I feel a soft hand on my hand with the glass in. I don't look up but they are trying to pry the glass out of my hand. "Amber honey. Let go of the glass. You're safe I'm here." I don't let go so one of the other officers come over and help Erin to force it out of my hand whilst Voight puts Matthew in cuffs. Erin and the brunette officer take over taking Matthew out whilst Voight comes to get me as I'm guessing he is more accustomed to dealing with things like this. "Hey kiddo. Can you stand up for me?" He asks me calmly but I back away from him trying to get to the stairs. He was gonna call CPS like he said he would just a few nights ago. I wouldn't go.
He tries talking to me again but I block the sound of his voice out. He ends up walking over to me and picking me up. I hit him over and over screaming at him trying to get out of his grip. "PUT ME DOWN! I'M NOT GOING!" He puts me in a hold that I can't get out of and carry's me out to his car where we find Erin sitting in the passengers seat. Voight puts me in the back of the car and climbs into the drivers side locking the door so I can't get out. "Voight we're gonna need to take her to med" I start pulling on the door. I wasn't going to the hospital. I couldn't. After about 5 minutes, Voight pulls up outside Chicago Med and climbs out of the car then coming to get me out of the car. I  instantly start kicking and punching him so he ends up putting hand cuffs on so that I won't hit him anymore. He carry's me inside with Erin following along behind. A brunette doctor led us into a room and she started talking to Voight and Erin. "What's going on guys." She asks looking around them to see me trying to get off the bed without them noticing so she comes and lays me back down. "Abuse. We don't know to what extent it is we know there's physical abuse but we don't know if there's any other. She has cuts all up her arm that are self inflicted." She walks over to me cautiously and starts trying to check my heart rate. "Get your hands off of me!" I didn't want anybody touching me. "I'm Dr Manning. Can you tell me your name?" I try to get up again so Erin sits on the bed with me holding me whilst dr manning does some basic health checks. "Her names Amber." I scowl at Erin as she holds my arms still for Dr Manning to take a look at my cuts. She puts a bit of pressure on one of my cuts so I try to pull my arm away but Erin stops me. "I'm sorry Amber I didn't mean to hurt you. Voight I need these cuffs off her so that I can get a better look at her wrists." Voight undoes the cuffs and Dr Manning starts taking a closer look. After a while I end up falling asleep into Erin's chest.
ERINS POV
After a little while of Dr Manning looking at Ambers cuts, Amber ended up falling asleep on my chest. I hold her close so that she feels safe.