Of Devils & Angels

Tangled Mess

2:00 a.m.

Maria left soon after collecting the evidence not wanting to waste a minute in delaying the case but not before assuring Meryl they'd catch her perpetrator and asking the doctor to send in the medical reports and evidence as soon as they were done.

"Hello I'm Cara. We can start when you're ready, I will explain the whole procedure to you." the doctor smiles.

"You can call me Meryl. Brigitte, I'm fine, you go rest for a while." Meryl says again conscious of not wanting Brigitte to see her like this

"No Meryl, I stay." Brigitte says with finality inspite of her quiet disposition, "Cara please start."

"Okay first I'm gonna have to check for any DNA the attacker might have left behind, I'll scrape under your fingernails and take a swab from the vaginal cavity. Is that fine with you?"

She had already undergone enough humiliation in the past few hours and this was nothing, she nodded her head in consent.

The doctor got to doing her job. Scraping under the nails and then pulling her gown up to have a closer look at the assaulted body part.

"I will prescribe an ointment which you'll need to apply, well someone will need to apply it for you. There are first degree tears in the vagina which might have been due to the dryness and the force, it'll be sore and stingy for a week or so but should get better with time. Nothing lasting" the doctor said clinically garnering a wince for Brigitte.

"Now, um Meryl, does it hurt anywhere? Real bad?"

"It hurts everywhere," she sighs, "but no, I don't think anything is broken. Except maybe my left wrist and my breasts feel exceptionally sore though, but then again they've been feeling that way for a while."

"Oh, well as a doctor Meryl I'd say never leave a breast pain unexamined. Anyway, I'll check you externally for any tears." The doctor said pressing around her body to see her reactions.

"Well I was afraid one of your ribs might be broken, but I think it's a hairline crack which will only heal by itself, it might be a little hard to breathe at times but take deep breathes no matter what. And yes you do have ligament tear on your left wrist. I'll bandage that up. For now I'll give you a painkiller and an extra dose of sedative, you need your sleep but before.."

"No! I need to get back home!" Meryl pleaded.

"Meryl I will have to take a blood sample of yours, to check the transmission of any sexual diseases. It's going to be a while before I get the results, it would be best if you could catch up on some rest till then." The doctor said firmly.

"Well can't you tell me the results if I go back."

"No, strict protocol doesn't allow us to reveal such sensitive information over the phone. Now please, the faster you do this the better."

After everything that night Meryl no longer had the courage to put up a fight and Brigitte too was adamant and in conformity with the doctor, so Meryl soon gave up her fight. The doctor quickly took a sample of her blood, wrapped up her wrist in a bandage and administered doses of sedative.

Soon Meryl was out like a light, the physical and mental trauma having taken its toll.

"I suggest you use this time to rest yourself too, since this is a special case I should have the result in about 2 hours time, I'll let you know at the earliest." Cara told Brigitte sweetly seeing how concerned the woman was for her friend.