Page 26 of Fight
Shivering as if she’s cold, she forces herself to take a deep breath as she focuses on disposing of the needle that’s still in her hand.
“Tommy, there were dried male fluids on her body, blood, and teeth indentations,” she says softly. I can tell that the medical professionalism that nurses hold tightly to when they’re working is slipping, and standing in front of us is an omega facing one of her worst fears.
“Six, maybe seven bite marks on her breasts, stomach, sides. I cleaned them up with medicated wipes and put ointment on them to keep them from getting infected or scarring. You’re probably smelling the wipes and ointment, and the clinging scent of garbage. This girl won’t have to carry the scars of tonight on the outside if I can help it. I picked out so much glass out of her scalp and skin too. These people really had it out for her, and I’m worried this may not be the end of it.”
“Did you run a rape kit yet?” Tommy barks, and Marie shakes her head.
“No. I can’t do that without her permission,” she says, swallowing hard. “Tommy, I can’t. She’s been through so much already. You can see the bruises for yourself. Do you really need to know? Tommy!”
Marie screams as her brother moves so fast I almost don’t realize he’s no longer seated on the mattress, until I see that he has his hand around his sister’s throat and her feet are dangling over the ground.
Marie’s back is pressed against the wall and she’s hitting the fuck out of Tommy. God, these two are ridiculous, never changing. She may seem calm and meek, but she’ll beat the hell out of her brother when he’s being a dick the way he is now.
“You’re going to run that test,” he growls. Marie manages to knee him in the dick, making Tommy grunt as he squeezes her throat harder until she begins to choke from the lack of air.
He’ll probably let her breathe before she passes out if she agrees to do what he wants in time. This isn’t the first time they’ve had a knock down drag out fight.
Marie makes a choked sound, slapping her brother in the face, to which Tommy merely grins around the red splotch on his cheek.
“I need to know, Marie. Don’t be a pain in the ass about this. I can’t figure out how to help her if I don’t know what I’m walking into. Please? It’ll be easier to do it while she’s unconscious. I’ll even step out of the room while Jasper watches if it makes you feel better,” he grunts.
Fuck, why is he dragging me into this? Marie glares at me as if I’m the enemy while Tommy explains. If he doesn’t hurry, our nurse will pass out from lack of air.
“Someone needs to keep her calm. You can’t medicate her again so soon after the last time, right?” he asks.
Marie shakes her head, her fingers digging into his hand to get him to let go.
“Good, so we’re in agreement,” he mutters, dropping her onto her ass as she gasps and coughs.
“You’re an asshole,” she wheezes, and I have to agree with her. “Fucking get out of the room while I do this, then. I have a kit in my bag here.”
Struggling to regulate her breath, she watches as Tommy smirks as he leaves.
“You two haven’t changed,” I chuckle. “Always at each other’s throats over something. What do you want me to do?”
“The first time you see her naked shouldn’t be like this,” she grumbles.
“She was naked in the dumpster,” I remind her. At her glare, I sigh and stand from the bed. She's right, I was being a dick. “Okay, fine, what do you want me to do?”
“Face away and purr,” she grunts as she moves to the bed with a kit wrapped in plastic from her bag. “And try to stop being an asshole.”
“I’m pretty sure that’s impossible,” I mutter, turning my back as I start to purr.
My skin crawls as I hear Marie work, my heart stuttering when I hear Cerenity whimper in her sleep. My snarl makes the nurse gasp before she reprimands me and tells me to go back to being a calming source for Cerenity.
My mind goes wild with what she could be doing when Marie begins to talk.
“I’m just collecting evidence, Jasper. I’m not hurting her,” she says soothingly. “Her anus is red as if there was something forced inside, but I don’t see any semen. I also don’t think a penis penetrated her. Her vagina also seems untouched. There’s blood along this area, but I cleaned up a shallow cut on her thigh, so it could be from there. There’s not enough damage for them to have forced themselves into her anus or vagina.”
She’s quiet as I hear her cover Cerenity back up and pack her supplies. I can’t see, and my purr is quickly turning into a growl.
“You can turn around, Jasper,” Marie says, exasperated. “I’m putting my collections away to drop off for processing at the hospital. I want to have the evidence processed in case she decides to press charges.”
“We’re going to kill the people responsible,” I rumble as I turn. “I thought it was mostly done by one person, but to hear what they did, I see I’m wrong. They’re not going to get away with an easy death.”
“I typically suggest against violence,” Marie begins as she packs everything away and gets ready to leave, “but I think I’ll fully endorse your way. The people who did this to her are animals.”
As she walks out of the room without a second glance, I have to admit that she has taken good care of Cerenity, and I have no idea what we’re going to do with the girl in the bed. I’m still gazing at her with my mind wandering through multiple directions, when Tommy joins me.