Mad World (Gone Editing)

Chapter 18

<Hello everyone!! Hopefully you've had a good weekend. Sorry it's been so long since I posted but this chapter ended up being much longer than I expected. So hopefully that makes up for the wait. Also the chapters will now be posted as Cori's POV since her real name has been revealed. Please feel free to let me know what you think of the story so far. There are only 8 chapters and en epilogue left.>

Cori's POV

Without Me by Halsey

When Elliot wheeled me into the Wolf Lake ER, everything that had happened finally hit me. I broke out in racking sobs as the intake guy tried to ask me what happened. How could I explain what had happened?

"Her name is Corinna Johnson, age 25. She was attacked by two men," I could distantly hear Elliot telling him.

Whatever else was said by the two men was lost as the scene began its loop over in my brain. Mr. Gold and Mr. Silver kicking down my door, tying up my friends before forcing me upstairs. A hand on my shoulder broke me out of my thoughts.

"Ms. Johnson, we're gonna take you back so the doctor can look you over," a woman's gentle voice came.

I instinctively looked to Elliot.

"Can I come back with her," he asked.

"Are you her significant other," the nurse asked. He shook his head and she said, "Sorry sir. Family only."

"I'll be here whenever," he said. Then quickly added, "If that's what you want."

I nodded, using the sleeves of my shirt to wipe at the tears still falling from my eyes.

"I'll check on Tasha and the others, too," he shouted as the nurse wheeled me back to a cramped exam room.

She helped me out of the wheelchair and onto the table. I winced at the movement required to scoot back on the bed. Nurse Tina gave me a kind smile.

"Um...Can I ask? Is the doctor a woman," I asked in a near whisper.

"I'll get Dr. Bossé for you," she said as she left the room.

I laid back in the bed but couldn't get comfortable, everything hurt, and I kept waiting for this to all be a dream. I would wake up back in my bedroom those awful men doing terrible things to me. I jumped at every little sound I heard. The rational part of my brain knew that Elliot had killed them both, that they were dead and wouldn't be the ones coming for me anymore. But I figured someone would be coming after me and since Mr. Gold and Mr. Silver had found me, so would whoever would take up the contract now.

There was a knock on the door startled me so bad I let out an eep before I could stop myself.

"Ms. Johnson, it's Doctor Bossé," a high, Marilyn Monroe type voice called through the door.

"Yes," I tried to say but my voice came out as a croak. I cleared my throat and tried again, "Yes. Come in."

The woman who came in the room was 4'11" with long blonde hair and kind, emerald green eyes.

"Hello, Ms. Johnson. I'm Dr. Kendra Bossé, can you sit up for me," she asked.

I did and she began looking me over. The nurse had cleaned some of the dried blood from my nose and lip, but they were both still bleeding slightly.

I kept expecting her to ask me questions about what happened, but she didn't.

"Your nose is broken. You have a concussion, mild. Your lip needs two stitches and your wrists and ribs are pretty banged up. Your...neighbor told us what happened. Do...do you need me to do a rape kit," she asked in a soft tone.