[[[all of your flaws]]] [[[part i]]]

63.

The police wanted to talk to me. Dan had protested, saying I wasn't ready. But I just wanted it over with.

'He's out of surgery now and expected to recover.' The female officer told me, gently. I was surprised they weren't being nasty to me. I'd stabbed a man. 'We need to take statements from the both of you and him.'

'Ok.' I nodded. I'd only just been able to sit up and that was pretty painful. My head hurt, a lot, and talking hurt too. But I needed to explain what I'd done. I told them the truth, from the start, as I had done to Dan. He interjected where he could, when I had to stop and up my morphine.

They seemed satisfied that it had been self defence and they actually thanked me for apprehending him. It would be going to court in a few months and they were confident that they had him on various drugs charges, assault and battery, kidnapping, rape and attempted murder. Hopefully he'd be locked away for a long time. And for the first time in nearly five years, I could breathe easy.