I'll Be Your Strength

Part 25

“Order in the court!” Shouted the judge, banging the small wooden hammer against the surface in attempt to silence the jury who by now were in deep conversation, the high pitched sound of the hammer startling them. Amy’s grip around Jay’s hand tightened as the thought of George being in her presence again dawned upon her.

“You will be fine, I won’t let go of your hand” Jay whispered in Amy’s ear. This seemed to do the trick as Amy began to relax remembering that this time she wasn’t in it on her own, Jay was right next to her to protect her if anything happened.

“We are here today to discuss the case of the abuse of Amy Brookes by the accused, George Black” Clearly began the judge in a powerful voice that projected around the wide expanse of people that sat before him and ricocheting off the tall walls that towered off them. On that cue George was dragged in by two heavily made guards. He was using all his strength to prevent moving any further but the combined strength of the guards overpowered him. They made it look easy, like he wasn’t resisting at all. George accidently caught one or two eyes in the jury causing fury to fill up inside him. Luckily for him within no time at all George had been carried to his seat before the judge and the case had begun.

Eventually it was George’s turn to speak, a shiver of fright shot down Amy’s spine as she prepared herself for his reasons why he did it and why he shouldn’t be found guilty. He had had lots of experience in this and would have enough knowledge about how to trick the judges into thinking he is innocent, considering the many times he got out of it before. Then he began to speak, “When I was a child I was too abused by my parents. It was constant, the pain never ended. I felt like I was trapped in a box and I had no way of escape. I was allowed to go to school on the terms that I didn’t tell anyone about what they do to me and so that teachers didn’t become suspicious as to why I wasn’t turning up. Then as soon as I returned home from a day of worrying of what was to come then the full dose hit me. I would be thrown against a wall, whipped with the belt, deprived of food and water until I got to school where I would eat as much as my stomach come hold. It was an ongoing thing and I couldn’t see any way of removing myself from this life” As he was explaining this, Amy winced as each part brought back years of pain that she had been through with no say in the matter. “Then the day I had been waiting for came, we went on a school trip and we didn’t have a choice meaning my parents had to give me permission to go with no excuse for me to not to without telling them the truth. Well it was obvious they weren’t going to do that. A long story cut short I didn’t go home but ran when I had the chance to. I had finally escaped the pain and torture but I still didn’t feel satisfied. I wanted my own back, it was like a fire burning inside of me. I wanted to show someone how badly I was treated as a child because no one seemed to understand. Well as you probably have guessed I chose Amy when I met her at college. I slowly gained her trust, she had no idea, thinking we were going out she did, but then eventually I took action. The fire burning inside of me so strong now that I knew there was no going back. I wasn’t able to stop, it was like a drug. Every time I hit her I felt a shiver of joy shoot through me. I never thought it was go that far…” Amy couldn’t believe it, so he was going to try and make the judge feel sorry for him just to get out of it. She took one look at the judge and could see that it was actually taking its toll, there was not a dry eye in the room. She had not seen anything like it! He was talking complete rubbish, she knew he meant every hit and knew he wasn’t planning to cease at any point. If he hadn’t been caught by now he would still have been abusing her. Then his words finally sunk in…