Beaulieu's Girl

Chapter 11

****Nathan's POV****

A couple of days later Rosalie was ready to go to the police about what happened to her. They told her that they would go back to the club where it all happened and do an interrogation. Turns out that the guy was named Luca. They found his photo ID and he happened to be Rosalie's ex. Today Rosalie has to go to court, and try to win. These kinds of cases never end well because it's such a sensitive case and you need the right evidence to convict someone of rape. But we do have the forensic evidence and a control of Luca's semen so the forensics scientists can test to see if it's a match. (I take forensic science so that is why I know about this kind of thing, it's a very interesting course) And I'm going to have to give my eye witness account.

Right now Rosalie, Lars, and I were all getting ready to go to the court house.

"I'm scared, Nathan." Rosalie cried.

"It's going to be okay, you're going to be okay." I tried to calm her down.

"I don't think that I can look at him. He terrifies me."

"Hey look at me. You are the most beautiful and strong woman that I know. If I was in your situation I don't know what I'd be doing. But you, you have been pretty strong through this whole thing."

"I don't think we'll win."

"We have so much evidence against Luca."

"Sometimes it's not enough." She said.

"We even have two written testimonies from Mads, your dad, and mother." I explained.

"Really?"

"Yeah it just arrived at the court house this morning."

"Guys it's time to go." Lars said.

"Okay I'll go pull the car up front."

I went down to the car garage and pulled up in front of the building. A couple minutes later Lars and Rosalie came to the car. We arrived at the court house, and there were lots of reporters there with cameras.

"Rosie are you ready?" Lars asked.

"No there are too many people." She replied.

"Here take my jacket and cover your face with it, and here are some sunglasses." I said handing her a pair of my Ray Bans and and jacket.

"Let's do this." Lars said getting our of the car, and started to make a pathway for Rosalie and I.

We successfully made it inside the court room without too much drama. Although Rosalie looked like she was about to throw up at any second. She hasn't seen Luca in years, and the fact that she would be seeing him in just a few minutes terrified her. Rosalie, her lawyer, and I were put into a separate room until it was time for court. Twenty minutes later the jury and judge were ready for us. I had to sit were the witnesses sat, which was only me, Lars, Brendan, and some club workers. Finally they brought in Luca. He was staring Rosalie down. She looked as if she saw a ghost, and turned very pale. She was called to the stand.

As she was walking up to the stand her whole body was shaking. I felt terrible because I couldn't just get up, and comfort her. The whole time she was giving her testimony she was staring at me and no one else. After she told her side of the story Luca was called up and started laughing.

"She crazy." Luca said "She has no clue what she is talking about because she was probably drunk. Knowing her past you would say the same. You should take a look at her past."

"Objection your honor." Rosalie's lawyer said.

"Sustained."

Her lawyer got up and started questioning Luca.

"Now sir, where were you on the night Rosalie was rapped?" her lawyer asked.

"I was bar tending at the club that I work at." Luca said.

"And what is the name of the club?"

"The Thirsty Beaver."

"You do realize that Rosalie was at that same club that night."

"Oh shit really, wish I could have seen her." Luca said with a smirk.

God this guy was a psychopathic lair. The questioning went on for about ten more minutes, but nothing significant happened. Then the judge read out Mads and Rosalie's father's testimony. In the testimonies they talked about Luca and Rosalie's past relationship, and how toxic it was. Luca looked like he was slapped in the face because he had no clue that Mads and her father testified.

"Can I have Mr. Beaulieu to the stand please?" Luca's lawyer asked.

"Do you swear to tell the absolute truth and nothing but the truth?" The judge asked.

"I swear to."

"Mr. Beaulieu where were you on the night that Rosalie Eller was rapped?" the lawyer asked.

"I was at The Thirsty Beaver with Rosalie Eller and Brendan Gallagher." I said.

"Please tell your story of what happened, please."

"Well we went to the club, Rosalie, Brendan, and a couple of Brendan's friends. Yes Rosalie was drinking a lot alcohol, but it didn't affect her. She went off to the bar with Brendan to get more drinks. After a couple of minutes when they didn't return I got nervous so I search the whole entire club for Rosalie or Brendan. I went back to the table we were sitting at, and only Brendan was sitting there. I asked him where she was, but he didn't know. I went to the only place I hadn't checked. That was the alley way behind the club."

"So Mr.Beaulieu, were you drinking?" he asked.

"Objection." Rosalie's lawyer asked.

"Overruled." the judge said.

"Yes, but I only had one shot. That was all the alcohol that I consumed." I said, and it was the truth.

"What happened when you went outside?" Luca's lawyer asked.

"I saw someone on the ground, and realized that it was two people. One being Luca, and the other being Rosalie. Luca was on top of Rosalie, and she was completely naked. I grabbed him by the collar, and punched him. Hence why he was a black eye. He got away because I had to take Rosalie to the hospital. At the hospital they said that if I found her a minute later she would probably be dead." I said and at this point I just wanted to cry because the memory was too painful.

"That all for today court will resume tomorrow morning at 8 am." The judge said.

Policemen escorted Luca out of the room first, then they escorted us back to our car.