Flower Girl. (Chris Evans)

Chapter 42

CHRIS.

I'm so proud of the woman I love, she started to see a therapist and has been since remembering everything through trial. She is the strongest person I have ever met; she never gave up and after almost 4 months we got to close the nightmare that was Peter Danes.

"We won." I tell Flor, she keeps staring to the front in shock. "Baby?" she turns to look at me and I can see she's about to break "do you want to go home?"

"Can we bring Robert with us?" I nod before taking her hand and help her walk out of the courtroom, I can see the whole family following behind with the lawyers, they all want to congratulate Flor, but I don't let them "Robert, could you come home with us?" He frowns at me and is about to say something when Susan gets his attention and tell him to go with us. I say goodbye to everyone before going to the parking lot without letting Flor go, I help her get in the backseat and Robert gets on the front one.

Robert turns to me after he gets his seatbelt secured "What's going on?" I shrug and start the car to go home.

FLOR.

I've talk with Chris about everything that happened, after remembering I started to see a therapist and everything was going great, until I met Peter Danes' last victim's family.

Seeing how much they lost, how much it changed them, and how deep she suffered made me realize how lucky I was and how bad it could've been, that somehow gave me nightmares.

I'm safe, I survived, he didn't get to touch me, and more important I wasn't gonna let him win ever again, it took a while, but trial went pretty smooth since I didn't know him before the attack, everything was recorded, and he had priors. The moment they gave the sentence I felt everything sink in, he was gonna be put away, but besides him not attacking anyone again what good would that be on everyone he hurted before? He wouldn't be in jail for life, 40 years, it's a long time yes, but still, it didn't feel enough.

I can hear Chris talking to me, but I can't focus or get what he's saying I just ask him to grab Robert, I can see my family and lawyers in front of me, but everything is in a blur, Chris puts me in the car, and I can her Robert wonder why he's going home with us, when we arrive home Chris gets me out of the car and into the living room, but I shake my head and stand up, I walk to Chris, kiss his cheek, before grabbing Robert's hand and walking with him behind me to the guest bedroom.

"Flor?" I just shake my head and sit on the bed, he comes sit next to me "Sweetie, you need to talk to me, I don't know what's wrong."

"Can we watch Mary Poppins?"

He takes a deep breath "of course."

He stands up and helps me go lay in the bed, before taking the remote control and lay down next to me, the movie starts and not 3 minutes later I start to cry, Robert hugs me and rubs my back, neither of us say nothing, he just lets me cry.

I don't know when I felt asleep, but I wake up and see that Robert is still next to me, also asleep, I leave him there, stand up and walk out the room, in the living room Chris is asleep also, the TV is on, but he's asleep, I can see there's no light coming from outside so it must be night.

I sigh and kneel next to the sofa where Chris is laying before shaking his arm, waking him up. He opens his eyes slowly "hey love, are you okay?" I shake my head and he sits up "what's wrong?"