Mialotte Oneshots

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This chapter contains talk about abuse, panic attacks and fear of thight places
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Something not many people now about Mia is, that she absolutely hates thight spaces, it's even worse when they are dark, a little gift from Roger.

When she says not many people know, she means just Charlotte knows this information.

A few days ago:

They were laying in bed one night, when Mia had told her about her phobia. She didn't even know she had onw until someone accidentally locked her in an small office a few yeara ago, which wasn't that tight, but it soon felt like it. That was the first time she experienced a panic attack, and it luckily wasn't a bad one, it still scared her. In the following years she luckily didn't have that many, but it was weighting on her.

Char had been listening quietly, holding her as she opend up about her past.

"Do you want to tell me why you are so scared of thight places?" Charlotte asks carefully. Not wanting Mia to get trapped in a bad memory.

But Mia feels completly save in Charlotte's arms, knowing nothing bad will happend to her in the arms of her lover.

"It all begann as my father left us. My mom couldn’t handle it, and turned to drinking and drugs. She lost her job, and just stayed in her bed all day. I had to work to pay for rent and food, but as much as I worked, it was never enough. That's when Roger stepped in. He payed me good money to put that letter in Autumns locker, and while I am not proud of what I did, I knew I had to do it. We had just gotten the last warning, before we would be kicked out, we really needed the money."

Mia takes a shuddering breath, it's not easy to talk about her past, but she wants to be an open book for Charlotte, no lies and no secrets. They both had sworn that the day they made their relationship official.

"That's how he got me and one of the reasons why I couldn't leave. We finally had some money, and I could start to life a little again. At first Roger's tasks were harmless, put a note her and put a note there, follow Autumn to make sure she gets safely to her friends house, but as he wanted me to start dating Reecy, I refused. I already knew that I was a lesbian and Reece was my best friend. Of course he looked at me, every teenage boy was, but he would have never acted on it.
That day was the first time he did it.
He grabbed me by the arm and dragged me into the cellar, throwing me into a small storage room, locking the door behind me."

Mia has to fight to keep her tears at bay, focusing on Char's heartbeat under her ear and her smooth voice, whispering wweet nothings into her ear.

"I couldn't see. It was so dark. He left me in there for hours. After letting me out, I quit, but he just said that I will come crawling back to him sooner or later. He was right, without his money my savings didn't last long. And then mom got ill, cancer. I had no other choice than to crawl back to that man. Whenever I couldn't keep Reece on a short leash or couldn't fullfill his tasks he would punish me by throwing me into that cellar. Sometimes for hours on end. It was horrible.
Once I got older, Reece and I traveld a lot. Mostly to be away from that horrible man. I don't know why I never left after my mom died a few years ago. I had enough money and the only reason to stay were the informations about my dad. That's when you came along and got me fired. It made me realize I can make my own decisions and I don't need him anymore."

Tears were freely running down Mia's face now as Charlotte cries with her, holding her close. Whispering words of love into her hair.

To the present:

Mia and Charlotte are working side by side in the baby room. Mia had stepped in for a sick coworker after Marjorie hadn't found a replacement in time.

Mia is getting along with everyone now, having owned up to her mistakes and apologized.