Darling

Chapter 4

Clark's p.o.v.

I start walking through the puddle but stop midway. I realize I don't know where to go, the one time I escaped it was dark and I guessed...

There's a loud bang then another. Then the sound of wood splintering. I throw myself down onto the flood and scream. I cover my ears and start to cry. 

"Go grab a blanket and cover her up. Take her to the ambulance and clean this fuckers blood off of her." A voice shouts.

Something soft and warm covers my naked body and I'm flying. I start kicking and screaming. 

"It's okay. Everything is going to be okay." A female's voice soothingly whispers.

I can't calm down but I'm too afraid, I cant breathe, I can't open my eyes. The lady sets me down on something fabric but it's firm. I open my eyes to see a man in a crisp white uniform. 

"My name is Court. I'm going to clean you up and take care of your wounds. Is that okay with you?"

I just stare, too afraid to do anything. He grabs a white cloth with his blue hand and pours something onto it. He goes to wipe my arm off but I jerk back.

"Are you okay?" He takes another look at my arm. " I don't see any injuries."

I want to say something but my throat feels like it's been stitched shut.

He gives me a warm, soothing smile. I have the urge to smile back but instead I frown. I can't trust these people. This could be a trick.

"Can I continue cleaning the blood off?"

Slowly I nod, but deep down I don't want the blood to come off. It proves that he's dead. It proves that he can't hurt me ever again.

He cleans my arms and legs. He wraps the blanket around my breasts and another around my waist while he cleans off my sides and bandages my back.

"Lay down and stay calm, this may be just a little bit uncomfortable," he warns me as he pulls this contraption out of a side panel in the ambulance.

"What are you doing?" I say, frantically moving back, I'm starting to drown in my own body. The panic squeezes all the air out of my lungs.

"It's okay. It's called a rape kit. I'm seeing if he hurt you sexually unless you would like a female officer to do the rape kit."

"He did. You don't have to do that. I can tell you he did. He did it. He hurt me. He did."

"A statement is good but physical evidence is better. Can I continue?"

Slowly I nod. I squeeze my eyes shut tight as I lay back on the stretcher. After a few minutes, he hands the rape kit to a police officer. He lets the blanket cover me again. They begin to talk but I can't hear everything but I catch a few words and phrases. 

"There is...evidence... I can't... why would someone do such.... I know... I know I shouldn't... Hard though..."

"Good work...Court don't get too attached... it's part of the job...It is difficult..."

Court walks back to the ambulance.

"We're going to take you to the hospital so that a doctor can fix some of your other injuries."

"Will it hurt? Will you stay with me?"

"It'll hurt but I'll stay for as long as they'll let me."

I nod, still unsure if this was all okay or if I'd wake up in that room again, all of this just a dream...

He turns around and enters a code in the box. He grabs a needle full of a clear solution. 

"What's that?"

"Don't worry, it'll help the doctor and it will let you get some sleep without nightmares or night terrors."

I cant breathe, so many thought cloud my mind. I feel the prick of the needle and I scream. Worry races though me as my vision blackens. Then there is nothing. No sound, no light, no thoughts. Just nothing inside of nothing surrounded by pure nothingness.