“Abigail!” Abby hears her name being called and she looks up, finding her mother and Irla. She was not in the least bit surprised to find that her father wasn't with them. She knew better than to expect him to come to along and welcome her home with open arms. Running across the police station parking lot, Abby launched herelf into their arms. It has been six days since she has seen them and she truly missed them. Once they have her in their arms, both of them seem reluctant to let her go.

  “What?” Abby looks over her shoulder at the man, with a deep frown on her face. Detective Garcia stands there, watching Abby with a frown. Behind him is her father, whom Abby doesn't even want to see. “Why not?” Abby demands of him. “Gabriel Davis still broke the law. There is no getting around that. I am the officer in charge of Mister Davis's case. If you want to tell me the story, maybe I will alter the charges against him, but officer Jones here has no authority in the matter concerning Mr. Davis.

* Extremely Graphic Content Warning * Contains strong domestic abuse, verbal abuse, thoughts of suicide and strong graphic violence. This chapter may be disturbing for some readers.~       Two days later, Abby is sitting in her window seat, staring at the same old lawn that she has stared at for years. This time, though, she doesn't wish to be down there playing in the leaves or riding a bike. She does not long to climb the tree or to enjoy the great outdoors. Oddly enough, for today, she is content to sit at that window and stare down at the grass, without being able to touch it.

Denise entered Abby's room two days later. “Happy Halloween, my dear.” Abby lay face down on the bed, because that is the only way that she can rest without feeling excruciating pain. Some of the deep gashes on her back had started to scab over except the ones that had needed stitches yet had only gotten super glue or steri trips to close them; they were still not healing yet, but at least they were not bleeding still. Abby had really needed to go to the hospital, both she and her mother knew that, but she was still a prisoner in her her father's house. She

   Over the next two days Lorenzo finds reasons to stop by and see Abby, usually staying a few hours to talk to her. He is nice enough to talk to and Abby enjoys the conversation, but she fears that he is reading more into it than there is, because he has gotten steadily more bold in his manner of flirting with her. He finds reasons or excuses to touch her, which ometimes makes her uncomfortable but he never takes it too far, or does anything inappropriate, so she does not let it bother her. Maybe she is just being overly sensitive to hi friendliness. She could be reading into things that are not even there. She because he is nice to her does not mean th