Reach out for me - TNN Story

Chapter 53 (d) - Lost in the Dark Final..

A/N - So looks like I've ended up trying to force it all into only being three chapters of lost in the dark, but I didn't think it was physically that possible.. so this will be the final part of  'lost in the dark' as they try and find a resolution..

Tw: Swearing, Violence, Blood and bruising... mentions of child death (I personally know some people who have had people use their own child's death against them in an argument.. so I wanted to highlight that toll too..) - I know Mia and Charlotte wouldn't act like this but sometimes in anger things are said.

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Recap:
Janice tried to reach out to her, "Maeve..." but Maeve flinched away and a broken sound escaped her throat as she clutched her head tighter, sinking her nails into her scalp and melted away into the sofa before their eyes. Her breaths became even shorter, shallower. As if she was drowning, as if she was falling apart from the inside out.

Janice now turned back to Autumn... furious, "Are you happy now.. ?" she asked angrily and Autumn wasn't sure what she felt, she had wanted this. She wanted Maeve to understand.

But now watching her break, watching the last of whatever she had left to shatter before her, It didn't feel like winning. It felt like defeat.

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The door slammed behind Autumn as she walked out for the third or fourth time after she had ran back into the office, the echo of her rage still burnt through the air. Maeve sat there in silence as she was trying to pick apart what had just happened to her. Her body was motionless - the breath was heavy deep in her lungs.

The never ending weight of everything started to feel like it was caving in on her, suffocating, squeezing her body until it was drained and she couldn't tell where it ended and where it began.

Janice was gone now too...

"I...I don't..." she whispered out between her tears as she set left in the office. Maeve could still hear the venom in her voice as she left, "No please.." she whispered as she tried to plead out to herself and wrapping her arms around herself. All the hatful things that both Mia and Charlotte before the door had clicked shut behind her too.

She was alone in the office..
Or so she had thought..

Footsteps...
One pair... than another... two pairs..
And then...

The door opened once again and the door flung open, making a photo frame fall and shattered glass around it.. the photo was her baby...

Maeve has no time to register as they walked in, she had no strength to even lift her head that high. But it was clear she didn't have to, she knew who they were, they were Mia and Charlotte, her wives - some people they were...

Mia had crossed directly in the room first, arms tightly folded across her chest. Her face was hardened in a way that never had been seen before. Charlotte was stood behind Mia as if she was a little moth trying to follow a light, lips curling into something that wasn't a direct sneer but wasn't far from it either. It was almost like she felt everything tighten, as she was watching them come closer and closer to her desk.

"So.." Mia's voice was so blunt but also laced with the dangerous feeling underneath it, "Did your little Autumn have her outburst..? So sad that she wouldn't ever believe you.." Mia shifted on her hip as she watched Maeve swallow a large lump.

"I guess it means she's seen your true colours finally..." Charlotte sighed and came forward from behind Mia and tilted her head to the side to see how dishevelled Maeve was at the minute. "She really sees how pathetic you are..." Charlotte murmurs coldly and inches closer to Maeve and indents her finger into Maeve's chin, tilting her head up. Maeve sucked in a breath and dug her fingers into her sleeve, "w-what do you want" Maeve mumbles and feels Charlotte's finger dig deeper into her neck, he voice was barely audible.