Too Close To Home

Chapter 7

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Olivia's POV:

I expect to see Ms. Nelson sitting with JJ, instead it is one of the regular nurses that's been so good to us through this whole ordeal. I give her a questioning look.

"She said she had to get to work." She smiles. "Dr. Washington will be in soon." She leaves the room as I help Trevor into the chair beside the bed. Looking at my watch I see it is in fact almost time for school. Reaching to adjust the blanket covering JJ, something under her hand catches my eye. Gently, I pull out a piece of paper and a flash drive. I unfold the paper and read it aloud:

"To whom it may concern,
I have information about a crime, more than one actually. If I had turned him in that first night it wouldn't have gotten to this point, but I was afraid, still am. That night I found out he was a fugitive, last night I found out that he's a rapist and murderer. Before he showed up at the house I didn't even know my husband had a brother, let alone that he was in prison. The night I found out he was a fugitive I asked my husband about it but he wouldn't tell me why his brother had been imprisoned, just that he was wrongly convicted. I now know he probably wasn't wrongly convicted. The flash drive contains the conversation from last night. He admits what he did at the school and what he did to the girl in New Jersey. By not turning him in when I should've, I enabled him to commit these crimes and I will forever regret it. You can find him at my house.
With my deepest sympathies,
Dianne Nelson"

My eyes meet Trevor's at the name.
"I need to call this in to Cragen." Pulling out my phone, I walk out of the room.

Trevor's POV:

After Liv leaves the room, my eyes land on JJ. The guilt consumes me every time I see her or think about it, I hear her screams in my nightmares. Everybody tells me I have no reason to feel guilty, that I couldn't have known the traffic lights had been tampered with, but nothing is alleviating the guilt. Liv wants me to talk to someone but talking won't change what happened, won't wake JJ up.

"You have to wake up, kid! It isn't the same without you. You have to wake up so Mom can teach you how to play volleyball and laugh when Mom tells me that I can't stop you from being a cheerleader because it's in your blood. You can be a cheerleader just like Mommy if that's what you want, minus the belly button ring of course. You can be anything you want, Princess, but you waking up has to happen first."

I don't even bother to wipe my tears when Dr. Washington walks in.

"We're going to take her for a CT scan. She'll be back in thirty minutes to an hour."

"Okay." Slowly standing from the chair, I lean down and kiss her forehead. "I love you, JJ."

I sit back down in the chair as they wheel her bed out. Liv walks in about five minutes later.

"They took her for a CT scan." I answer her unspoken question.

Nodding, she comes to stand behind me, draping her arms over my shoulders.

"Has he been under our noses the whole time?"

"That's how it is lookong, babe." She sighs. "You should be able to trust teachers."

"Could she have really stopped it if she had turned him in that first night?"

"I guess we'll never know."

Dr. Washington enters the room after the nurses pushing the bed.

"We've found the cause of your daughters coma. She has a subdural hematoma. She needs surgery."

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