Mental Health One shots

6. Addison Montgomery

Tw: Abuse

Y/n Avery, daughter of Harper Avery. From the outside her world couldn't have been more perfect. She was accepted to one of the best medical schools and graduated with 17. But to everyone's surprise she didn't chose to do her Intern years at her fathers clinic. She went far away to GreySloan. It was the only hint to what was really happening at home and how brutally Harper Avery could be.

Y/n pov:

"Dr. Avery?!"

"Y/n?!"

I was snapped out of my thoughts when a hand was placed on my shoulder. I quicky fliched away and brought my arms up, in case of any punches that could pontentally come after.

"Woah woah, I am not going to hurt you Dr Avery."

Shit! Why did this always had to be my first reflex? Now Dr Montgomery was standing with her hands up infornt of me.

She looked at me critically and continued to keep her distance. I quickly stood up straight again and straightened my coat. After all, we were alone in her office. She actually wanted to show me something; a rare change in the fetus. But I must have been a bit lost in my thoughts...

"Dr Avery, what's wrong?"

I took a deep breath and put on a fake smile.

"I just got frightend a bit, everything is fine, Dr Montgomery! How can you determine the exact change in the fetus again?"

Dr Montgomery couldn't know what my father had done to me! No one was allowed to know! And even if someone did, no one would believe me that the Dr Avery would do something like that to me, his daughter.

"Dr Avery, please sit down."

She pointed to a chair for me. I sat down and she sat down opposite me.

"I know you're not just 'frightend'. So please tell me the truth."

I couldn't, the words seemed to be stuck in my throat. Slowly, hot tears began to make their way down my face. This was not good, Avery's don't cry! They never cry, especially not in front of other people.

"I'm telling the truth, I'm fine!"

I lowered my gaze and nervously played with my fingers.

"If that's the case, could you please take off your top?"

I froze. Why? And most importantly, how? How could she know about the injuries?

"N-n-no, I-I'm fine... r-really"

Two fingers placed themselves under my chin and forced me to look Dr Montgomery in the eyes.

"Y/n, I know about the injuries. I've seen them too and the other interns have also expressed their concern. You don't have to show them to me or talk to me about them, but things can't go on like this!"

Now the tears just started flowing, I couldn't do anything about it. Dr Montgomery wrapped me in her arms and just held me tight. And me? I leaned into the hug and finally broke down.

Dr Montgomery just held me and didn't let go. Only when my tears slowly stopped and I had a clear head did I realize what kind of situation I was in.

"I-I'm so sorry, Dr. I shouldn't have-"

As I pulled away from the hug, Dr Montgomery's hand stroked one of my ribs and I winced in pain.

"Addison is fine and please let me have a look at those bruises."

I nodded in defeat.

"Could you follow me to an exam room please?"

I did still thinking about wheter to ran away now or let Addison help me.

"Could you please take off your top? I just want to make sure that nothing is seriously injured."

I did as she said. Addison inhaled sharply when she was able to see the extent of all the bruises. She guided me to lay down and inspected them. She was quick but it hurt a lot. And she didn't even touch my ribs yet.

"Y/n, I'm going to look at your ribs now. If it hurts too much, let me know."

It hurt a lot! It was so bad that I could have screamed. The stabbing pain ran through my whole body.

"The ribs don't look fractured but I'd like to take an x-ray to be sure, is that okay with you?"

I nodded. Luckily, nothing was broken, just badly bruised. But now came the thing I was most afraid of; I had to talk.

I was sitting in Addison's office again. She came with an ice pack and two cups of hot chocolate.

"You know you should tell me how the injuries came about. I suspect something but I want to hear it from you."

I slowly got nervous and started playing with my hands.

"Hey, I'm not judging. I'll listen to you and no matter what you say, nothing will change. You're in a safe environment here."

"My father, Harper Avery, isn't exactly the best father... Ofcourse I had everything I needed and always the latest clothes, could go to the best schools and was supported, but unfortunately my world wasn't like that. As soon as I started studying medicine, things got bad. He pushed me and pushed me until I couldn't anymore and then he got angry or was disappointed. He drank and became aggressive, but it's my fault, if I had studied more, if I had gotten a better grade, it would never have happened."

"Y/n, whatever he did to you wasn't your fault and you have to listen to me; no matter what you would have done, what he did was wrong and nobody deserves that, especially not you! You are so much more than a grade! Please don't forget that!"

"I know, but sometimes I doubt it. I came here to GreySloan specifically to get away from my dad, it was the only option, because at 17 there's almost no other way. But yesterday he was here. He waited for me in my apartment and he was so, so incredibly angry. He said such terrible things. Somehow he also had access to my exam results and then he got violent. I couldn't defend myself. It's never been this bad. I'm scared!"

Addison carefully pulled me into another hug and I just enjoyed it. I knew that nothing would happen to me as long as I was here.

"Y/n, you're coming home with me today. I don't want you to meet that asshole again. Besides, I have to make sure you rest your ribs. I'm not sure how you got through the day. But you have to go to the police! There's no other way. That asshole has to be punished."

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