Requiem for the boy

Chapter 23

"GET OFF HIM!" Dave yelled at Lacey as he opened Deeks' door.

"Kenz? Dave what are you doing, get off her!" Deeks said moving between 'Kensi' and him.

Dave called another orderly who took Lacey from Deeks, "Kensi, no…give her back!"

Dave took one look at Deeks and sighed, "Marty! What have you taken?"

"Dunno…" Deeks slurred as he stumbled back onto the bed.

Dave turned to Lacey, "What did he take?"

"Me…I'm addictive…." She giggled, obviously high as a kite.

"Lacey?" Dave growled.

"OK so I slipped him E. It's no biggy; he just needed to lighten up a bit."

"Get her back to isolation." Dave said to the other orderly.

He turned back to Deeks who was walking in circles. "Marty…you need to relax."

"I….I can't I need to do something. I can't stay here…" Deeks was walking frantically between the door and the window.

"Come on, it's too late to pump your stomach, you're gonna have to ride it out, you need to go to isolation."

Deeks nodded numbly, his brain not processing where he was going.

Bryan came running down the corridor, "What happened?" He asked as Dave and Deeks walked down the corridor.

"Lacey got hold of some E and decided that she and Marty were soul mates, she slipped him some I don't think he took it voluntarily." Dave said looking at an overanxious Deeks with sympathy.

"I'll have to let his sponsors know." Bryan said deliberately not using the word Hetty.

Deeks looked around and saw Bryan, "No…..No….I'm not going you can't make me….Dave, don't let him take me back there! I won't go….I'll be good!" his eyes were wide and Dave realized he was headed into a full-blown panic attack.

"Marty?" Dave walked over to the wall and leant his friend against it.

"You're going to be ok….just breathe,"

"No….you know who that is?" Deeks said keeping his voice deliberately low, "He's a social worker, he wants to take me back, if I go back 'he'll' know and he'll kill me…don't let him send me back…please…."he begged.

Both Dave and Bryan looked at each other, "Please, if he finds out I've been getting help he'll hurt momma again…Fern's so small please D…don't tell" he sank down the wall sobbing.

"Carry on Dave, I'll deal with this." Dave led a sobbing Deeks to one of the padded isolation rooms and settled in for a long night.

Bryan went back to his office and picked up the phone, an hour later as he replaced the receiver he sighed, he'd had a look at his work file, the one Hetty had supplied but nothing had prepared him for the rest of what he'd just learned, it seemed what Deeks had shared with him, was the sanitized version of his life.

"Oh my poor boy," Bryan sighed. He knew he wasn't supposed to get emotionally involved in his patients lives but this…it was almost too much for him to hear, how that poor boy had managed to live through so much was beyond him.

Hetty replaced the receiver schooled her features and walked out to the group that were sitting in the living room, they were staying at the house for the rest of the week and were planning on picking Deeks up on their way back.