Chenford Story ✔️

11

Tim's POV

I sat down in a private corner, the doctor stood in front of me. Everyone else from the station was left in the waiting room. "Luckily, Lucy Chen is still alive. She has sustained significant damage to just about everywhere, over 100 broken bones, luckily her spine seems to be ok enough to not suffer paralysis. However she is in a coma, and we don't know when..... or if she will ever wake up. As her emergency contact, you can decide to pull the life support at any time"

"Oh. No keep her on life support, as long as it takes" I couldn't even be sad. Lucy had been lucky. Most people would have died falling from even a tenth of that height. I was grieving for the living. For someone who wasn't even dead. But may never be alive, or the same again.

I left the hospital. The were going to try and wake Lucy up in 2 weeks. Two weeks to try and figure out what the hell was so bad that Lucy would try to kill herself? Especially after only getting married last week?

I went to the station, reviewing everything, and I mean everything about Emmet Lang.
I had done it before, when Lucy first started showing up looking scared and dazed, but not in this much detail.

Emma Smith, Emmet Lang. There he was.
Age 36, career paramedic, priors........ accounts of abuse from his ex girlfriend. Nothing that could stick in court but.........
If he had abused his ex...... maybe he had..... Lucy

I practically raced over to the address listed for Emmets ex girlfriend, Sofia Cadman.
I knocked on the door. Preying she would open it.

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he door creaked open, "hello officer? Why are you here?" The girl looked like Sofia Cadman, that was a good start.
"Um.... Hi are you Sofia Cadman?"
"Yeah, have I done something wrong?"
"No, not at all, I'm here to talk about Emmet Lang, your ex boyfriend."
I saw here entire demeanor change Sofia now seemed scared, getting pale and on guard. "Why?, I filed my complaint 2 years ago. The LAPD dismissed it."
"I... I believe you were telling the truth."

Sofia invited me inside. I started telling her about Lucy, not giving certain details but enough so she could get the jist of it.
"So Emmet is abusing her as well......"
"I believe so. What exactly did Emmet do to you, if you don't mind me asking?"
"Hit me, mostly, always saying I wasn't good enough, that I was weak and pathetic. That no one would believe me if I told them..... he was true on that part. One time he grabbed a knife, I left that night, filed a complaint and haven't seen him since."

I thought for a second. Lucy has seemed, on edge recently. Anyone shouting or loud noises seem to scare her. She must have been suffering so badly. Why didn't she tell anyone, we would have believed her. Especially if there were bruises and cuts, evidence against him.
"Sofia?" "Yeah" she replied
"If we made a case against Emmet, once Lucy wakes up, would you testify against him?"
"Um...." Her reply was understandably hesitant "sure, if it means he stays in prison longer"
I practically hugger her. Before swiftly realising that hugging someone was very unprofessional and letting go.
I left soon after. Heading back to the station to document my findings.

Emmet had been abusing Lucy for so long..... it drove her to suicide. I couldn't even imagine how bad I must have been. Isobel overdosing was bad sure. But never did either of us try to take that way out.........
It wasn't the 'easy way'. I saw the pain on Lucy's face as she did it. It was a strange emotion. Pain mixed with sadness, sadness that she knew everyone would feel when she was gone, but also an overwhelming sense of relief. That it would all be over in a few seconds.