Abused

Difficult

Jacob watched Connie sleeping peacefully on the hospital bed, she'd had her shoulder relocated but she was still refusing to let anyone close enough to look at her hip.

He waited a further twenty minutes before attempting to wake her, "Con?", he gently brushed a few strands of hair from her face,

"Get off me!", her hand shot to his shoulder as she woke up, she stayed motionless, breathing heavily with her nails digging into his skin, "I told you not to touch me".

"I know you did but I was just waking you up to see if you wanted someone to look at your hip yet", he slowly moved her hand away from his shoulder and sat on the edge of the bed,

"I just want to go home", she sat up, moving closer to him as she did so,

He smiled once he realised what she was doing and carefully pulled her on to his lap, "You're so beautiful".

"Really?", she relaxed against him and closed her eyes, "I love you",

"I love you too... I know you want to go home but will you please let-",

"No, I want to go home", her voice became panicked, "You can't force me to stay, please let me leave".

"I promise you can leave as soon as we know you're OK, you know you can't go if there's still a problem",

"There's no problem", she moved off his lap and pushed him away, "I want to go home",

"Why are you always so difficult? Just let us look then you can go", Jacob sat in one of the chairs beside the bed and watched as Connie pulled her knees up to her chest.

"I'm not difficult, you're not listening to me, there's no problem", she stood up, briefly wincing in pain before she started to walk towards the exit,

He easily caught up with her given the fact that she could hardly walk, "Connie", he wrapped his arms around her, "I know you want to go but at least let me look?",

"Jacob, let go", her breathing quickened and tears were soon falling from her eyes, "I mean it, let go".

"Con, relax, it's just me... I won't hurt you", he picked her up and kissed her cheek,

"Please don't hit me, I'll be good, I'll let you look just don't hit me", she freed herself from his grasp and backed away, shaking her head when she realised that she'd cornered herself.

"Con, I'm not going to hit you", he backed over to the other side of the cubicle and sat on one of the chairs,

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be difficult, I just don't want to get hurt again", she carefully made her way over to the bed and sat on the edge of it, "Six".

"What do you mean? Six what?",

"Two for yelling at you, one for being difficult, one for crying and another two for resisting when you restrained me", Connie knelt in front of Jacob and lifted his hand to her face, "Six slaps, make it quick".

"Oh, Connie, I'm not going to slap you", he moved his hand from her face but she quickly moved it back,

"You have to, I broke the rules, bad girls get punished",

"You're not the only one who broke rules, I shouted at you, made you cry and called you difficult, I think that's worth at least six slaps... But there's no point in us hitting each other so let's just forget about it?", he carefully pulled her up and on to his lap.

"I love you!", she wrapped her arms around his neck and smiled when she felt him running his fingers through her hair,

"I love you too, beautiful".

A/N: This chapter is boring but I wanted to update before I go to Barcelona, I don't know if I'll have WiFi there but I'll update when I get back on the 23rd 💞♥️