Sorry it's so long since I have updated I've had major writers block. I'm actually happy where this chapter ended up, please read and review. Thank you for reading. Also I have decided to end each chapter with a quote that sums up the chapter but let me know if you don't like that idea.
I walked back into Adriana's room, she looked perkier this morning, she had the glow back in her eye that I so fondly remembered. As I walked in she looked over to me,
"Hey Jenny" she said, she had more strength in her voice than the day before which filled me with hope.
"Hey princess, this is Emily. She is going to do this thing called cognitive recall, it's not as complicated as it sounds, it is just a way for us to find out what happened to you by you telling us about what happened to you" I explained.
"Okay" she said shyly, she was always shy around new people and Emily was obviously no exception to this.
"Hi Adriana, can you close your eyes for me?" Emily asked in a comforting voice. I always thought Em would make a good mother but she never settled down. She continued, "I'd like you to take me through the events just before you came to the hospital, focus on the little details like what you can hear or what you can touch or smell."
"It's warm but its raining, he has taken me outside and we're walking towards the van, I stumble onto the ground and he pulls me back up." She told us.
"That's great Adriana, what happened next?" Em asked her.
" I'm in the boot of the van, he forgot to lock it properly after he put me in. There is a gap between the doors in the van. He starts the van and then drives off. I remember planning an escape for when he stops at some lights. We keep driving for a bit" she continued to tell us.
"Do you know how long for?" Emily asked trying to provoke some detail.
"No, I didn't have a watch and I had lost all sense of direction. We hadn't been this way before." She said visibly straining to remember what happened.
"It's okay princess, I'm here" I said stroking her hand, trying to reassure her and help her remember what happened.
"We've stopped, I prise open the doors and begin to run" she said panting slightly.
"What can you feel and see?" Emily asked.
"It's cold and dark, I can't see anything but trees and lights in the distance, I start to run towards the lights, I keep running. I turn around and I see he has got out of his a car, he is shouting my name. He is coming after me! Help me, Jenny help me he is coming for me." Her eyes shot open as she shouted for help, she grabbed onto my hand so tight I thought it would bruise.
"Shh baby it's okay, I promise he can't hurt you now." I said as I pulled her in close and held her as if she was my own child.
"I think we should stop for a while" Emily said not wanting to traumatise Adrianna -who was still shaking -anymore.
"Jenny, I'm scared" she said still shaking as she buried her head into my body.
"It's okay princess, I promise nothing can happen to you anymore, you're safe now" I said kissing her head and running my fingers through her hair, she was such a strong little girl and I knew this was draining her but to move on we had to look into to the past.
Emily left the room, to leave Adrianna to relax a bit. Once she left Adrianna pulled out of my embrace and looked me seriously in the eye.
"Jenny, where am I going?"
"What do you mean princess?" I was confused not thinking what she meant by the question.
"I have no where to live, what is going to happen to me."
"Of course you have somewhere to live, Will and I will take you" as I said that her face lit up with relief, she sat up a bit more on the bed.
"And the baby?" She asked, I completely forgot she hadn't met Henry.
"Huh?" I said looking confused.
"The baby, when you came to see us just before I got taken you were having a baby" she said remembering the last time we had seen each other before now.
"Ahah, he is called Henry and he is almost two" I said smiling, nobody had referred to him As a baby for a long time, he seemed so big now yet it only seems like yesterday that he was a baby.
"What's he like?" She asked, it was so good to know she was strong enough to be talking freely, it was so much of an improvement to just a day before when she couldn't even talk.
"He is absolutely perfect, he has blonde hair and blue eyes just like you. He is so sweet, you'll get to meet him in a few days.
"Really" she asked getting excited.
"Yeah, I talked to the doctor earlier and she said that you can be released in a couple of days" I said smiling.
"That's great"
"Yeah, but you need to get some rest. I will be back in later, but for now get some sleep" I said kissing her on the forehead.
"Okay Jenny"
I walked out of the door to the room where Will was waiting, as I walked through the door he turned to look at me. I walked and sat on the chair next to him.
"How is she?" He asked seeming concerned.
"She is getting better, we didn't get much out of the recall but she was asking about Henry." I said smiling.
"Maybe it's all to soon for the recall but that's great about Henry."
"She is so excited to meet him, you now it's not going to be long until she comes home now. Just home she settles down okay"
"It will be hard for her because of everything she has gone through but she is a strong little girl, she will get there" Will said supportively squeezing my hand."We just have to stick together, we need to do it together, we will never make it alone."
"I know" I admitted. After he kissed my hand that he hand that he has squeezed just before.
"We just have to stick together, we need to do it together, we will never make it alone.
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." Helen Keller
