Brett & Casey: Recovering

I Can't Do This

WARNING: The rape will be mentioned in this chapter; nothing too graphic will be included. If this is hard or upsetting for anyone please don't read.

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Chapter Nine: I Can't Do This

Sylvie and Sasha stayed in Sylvie's room for a little while longer. They both sat in silence for a couple of minutes before Sasha stood up and told Sylvie that she had to leave and get to the station. Sylvie nodded and told her thank you before she went back to staring out the window. She was so paralyzed with the thought of being pregnant with her rapist's baby, she didn't know what to do. The only thing she knew in this instant was that she needed time alone to think.

Sasha hated to leave Sylvie like this. She had been in Sylvie's shoes and she knew exactly how she was feeling. It was hard. It was hard to go through it, and it was hard to see anyone go through it. Everything hurt and cut very deep when it was fresh from a rape.

Sasha gave Sylvie one last sympathetic look before she opened her bedroom door and walked out. She had to get going so that she could get everything started with the case. Considering the rape happened a few days ago, there was no telling where Owen was now.

"How is she?" Asked Matt as soon as both he and Emily hopped off the couch and went up to meet Sasha after she quietly closed Sylvie's door.

"She's...okay. That was really hard for her, she's going to need a lot of support from you both and everyone she has in her life. I think I got everything I'm going to need from her today."

Emily nodded and was about to step forward and go to Sylvie's room, but Sasha quickly held her hand out and stopped her, "She said she wanted some time alone after I left."

"Is she okay?" Quietly asked Emily before she took a step back and went to stand next to Matt.

"Like I said before she's okay; that was just pretty hard for her. It usually is for all victims when they first report it."

Emily and Matt both flinched at the word victim.

Matt mentally put that word on a list of things he never wanted to hear again before he asked the question he had been dying to know the whole time Sylvie and Sasha were talking. "Umm...so what's next with this Owen guy now that you have Sylvie's statement?"

"Well, to tell you both the truth, it's not as simple as we hope. I have to find him, get his statement, view the evidence, and make sure there's enough of it before I can bring any charges against him. Since she didn't report it the night it happened it makes it a little harder to nail him, but I promise you both that I'm really good at my job."

Emily and Matt both looked at each other and shared a look that only the two of them understood before they followed Sasha to the door and watched her put on her coat.

"Oh, before I forget, here's a card with a recovery group on it. I meant to give it Sylvie earlier but it must have slipped past me. Will the two of you make sure she gets it?"

Matt nodded and took the card from Sasha. "Yeah, we'll give it to her here in a little bit. Thank you, Detective Adams. We really appreciate everything you're doing for Sylvie."

"Anytime." Smiled Sasha, "You two let me know if anything happens or if Sylvie needs anything."

They both nodded and said their goodbyes before Sasha was gone and it was just the two of them standing in the living room not knowing what to do.