Things Unseen

Get Yourself Together

Your POV:

Tate had passed out onto the ground in front of you from the bleeding of his wound."Tate!"You screamed shaking him but nothing happened. "Please someone call 911!"You begged sobs getting caught in your throat. Looking around you see the spirits not concerned in the least about him and it confused you deeply. "Please!"

"Step aside girl, I will take him to the surgeon. Go upstairs and call the police. Tell them that down here they killed each other fighting over who got to rape you. In your room you had to bash the guys head in when he tried, what ever you do...do not mention Tate. Do you hear me?"Hayden said firmly making you look at her.

"W-why not?"You asked unable to mask your obvious confusion. "He saved my life now I need to do the same for him! He is bleeding everywhere!"You cried out in horror. "I have to get him to a real hospital."You said shaking your head trying to pull him up the stairs but you both slid right back down because you were no where near strong enough.

"Honey, listen to me. We have this under control, he could get in a lot of trouble. Please just do as I say, and stay away from here for a couple of days. He is going to be in pain, and it won't be pretty."Hayden insisted helping you get to your feet. "Now go check on your mom and do as I asked. I promise you that he will be okay but only as long as you help him."She explained with a sympathetic smile on her face.

Numb and in despair you nodded backing up the steps not taking your eyes off Tate until you reached the entryway. Tears silently fell down your face as you turned around running off to go check on your mother. That girl promised he would be fine but why did every bit of you fear that she was wrong? You cared about Tate, in what way you weren't really sure yet. Flashing back to a few hours before when you were kissing you thought you felt something, but it was hard to describe. There were only a few things that you knew about him, and were those things enough to let you fall for him? The few short days that you had spent together meant more to you than any days spent with anyone before. Shaking your head you felt stupid, he was just comforting you last night nothing more and nothing less.

There was no way that there could be anything between you that quickly, and chances were more than likely that he was just being nice to you. You were fucked up, anyone could see that and most pitied you why should he be any different. Of course you cared about him, and he cared about you at least for that moment, but only friends is what you would stay. You couldn't afford to ruin your first friendship since you were a child with complicated feelings. Taking a deep breath you called out for your mom. "MOM!"You said trying not to cry yet again. Deep in your heart you knew that you had to be stronger than that, for not only yourself but for your mother, and for Tate. There was no way your parents were going to work things out now, not after he had surrendered you to his morbid debt collectors.

"[Y/N]!!!"She screamed out in relief running down from the second floor, yanking you into her arms against her chest. As she tried to catch her breath you heard her heart beating loudly against her from fear. "I called the police they are on the way. Where are the others? Tate?"She asked worriedly afraid that they were still alive but since you were alone she was more relaxed.

"They are dead, downstairs they killed each other trying to figure out who was going to get me."You said making you shiver in disgust at the very thought of it. "Tate went home, he needed to breathe after all of that. We don't need to involve him."You explained to your mother."There is another guy upstairs, he tried to hurt me so I hit him with my heavy encyclopedia over and over again."You said letting out fake sobs, in reality you didn't pity them at all. They were rapists, murderers, and who knew what else. "I can't believe he sent them here after us. I knew he was an asshole, but I never thought he would risk our lives for his stupid addictions."You said holding on to your mother tightly.

"I didn't either. I don't know what to do anymore. I still love the man but after this...can I really forgive him?"She asked softly looking out into the darkness.

"How can you still love him after what we just went through?! He doesn't love or care about us! All he cared about is his drugs, his alcohol, his women, and his own ass."I spat angrily unable to believe that my mother still had sympathy for the bastard. "When will enough be enough for you? When he actually gets us killed or worse? Come on and have some kind of common sense woman! Get yourself together and realize that you are happier when he isn't here! You smile and you are easier to talk to. Grow a pair of balls, suck it up and leave his ass."You said letting out all your pent up frustrations at not only your father but for all the times he beat you both and she took him back.

"I am still your mother, you will not talk to me that way. Even if you are right."She said starting off scolding but by the end she too was sobbing. "I hate him!"She balled out sitting down on the floor hitting the hardwood several times with her clenched fists. There was a knock at the door and you could see she was in no shape to answer to it. Walking over to it you left her there knowing exactly who it was by the red and blue flashing lights apparent in the windows.

"Come on in Officers. They...they are dead now."You said your face wrinkling up as you let crocodile tears out. "The men downstairs all killed each other fighting over me...they wanted to do unspeakable things. The one upstairs attacked me in my sleep, I had to defend myself."I said gasping for air pretending to hyperventilate a little bit. The truth was, I wasn't sad at all that they were dead, and Tate was the reason I was still alive. I had to really sell it like it was how that girl told me, I didn't want any trouble for the man who was actually there for me. "They said my father had sent them there to collect his debts but we have no money here at the moment. I don't know where he is, or when he will be back if ever. He has a long history of drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and a sex addiction. Been in and out of rehab as long as I have been alive."You said calming down wishing that you had a cigarette to smoke even though your mother hated it when you did.

"It's okay now, we are going to take care of everything. We will find your father, can we speak to your mother?"They asked with glances that showed how sympathetic they felt for your situation.

"She is in the parlor, she is not in much of a talking mood but you can try."You offer pointing the way to them shutting the door behind them. Walking over to the stairwell you sat down on the bottom step the rest of the early morning a blur. Body bags and stretchers, doctors, police officers, questions, they just blended together in your mind. Alone once more you went to the kitchen grabbing a metal bucket, bleach, and a sponge. Blindly you didn't even know how you got to your room but there you were. Twisting the faucet of the sink you filled the bucket half full with water, pouring some bleach into the mixture. Sinking the sponge you squeezed it making the liquid to protrude from all the orifices, rubbing it against the pool of blood that remained behind.

Staring off into space you just sat there staring out the window as the sun rose, not even realizing you were in the middle of a full blown panic attack. Sleep wasn't important, eating wasn't important, nothing was important at that point. Were you going crazy? Was this going to be your breaking point? The only thing you could think about was Tate, you wanted to go downstairs to be with him. It was only fair after all he was the reason you, yourself and your mother didn't leave this place in a black bag. Sighing you heeded the warning of the girl even though you had no idea who she was or how she knew him. You had no choice but to trust her she would keep her promise to you as long as you did what she asked.

A/N: I know this is kind of a filler chapter but an interesting plot point is going to appear in the next chapter. There will also be a minor time skip of about a week. Let me know if you are enjoying it and please share! Thank you so much for reading! <3 -A