Kegan finding about Thal's Nightmares/Rape Truama

[Thalia Manson]

<sup>She was in the kitchen getting Cole ready to eat like normal, having the news on in the living room when she heard his name and picture come up on the television. " Rivers Pataki out of jail and charges for rape got dropped when someone stepped forward with a alabi showing they were out at a restaurant just by showing a receipt and speaking upon his behalf. He has the choice to continue his senior year at Somerset high school or he can switch to another school. Rumors say he has chosen to go back."

The bottle of Cole's food fell out of her hands when she heard a loud knock at the door. She muttered 'fuck' to herself before leaving the bottle on the group for a minute and walking to the door. When she opened the door she realized who it was. River's was standing there with a smirk on his face and all. Before she had the chance to fully shut the door he had his foot in the way and pushed it back open.

River's stepped inside and immediately put his hands around her waist pulling her close against his body. "No, please don't!" She tried to push him away but he was too strong. Soon enough she felt his lips against he neck heading down to her chest. She stood their shaking in his arms completely terrified on what he was going to do to her.
She let out small little cries saying "No." But he didn't stop. He slid one of his hands under her shirt and headed up to her bra and the other hand was starting to undo her shorts. "NO!" She yelled pushing him away but he continued to fight her.


Thalia jolted up saying a somewhat loud "No! Get off me!", her eyes filled with terror. She touched her face to be assured it was only a dream.
and she could already feel her eyes getting watery. She looked over to her right but saw Kegan wasn't there. She sighed in relief that he wouldn't know about her night terrors. Especially since she had woken up talking this time.

Without looking at her phone for the time she figured he was already driving to work since it was Saturday and he probably had to go in early. She leaned back against the backboard of the bed letting out a small sigh. Warm salty tears started to drip down her cheeks as she pulled her knees up to her check.

She sat there quiet, wrapping her arms tightly around her knees and having her chest against there, hoping to comfort herself. Her body rocked gently back and forth as her crying became harder. Her breathing was heavy and shaky as she continued to sob. Her cheeks were beginning to stain with the endless stream of tears coming from her glossy red eyes.

She hated this; Living in constant fear of Rivers Pataki getting out of jail. She knew it wasn't likely though. It was just the Rape Trauma Syndrome talking. She had a lot of the symptoms of it and this was one of them. The flashbacks and nightmares of the event taking place or happening again.</sup>

[kegan]

Kegan had to get up to go to the bathroom, and then he decided to make himself a sandwich. It was 4am and he didn't have to wake up until 6, so he was going to eat a little something and then lay back down before his alarm went off.
Upon walking back in their room though, he saw Thalia sitting up in bed. He thought it was a little weird because she was dead to the world when he left, but he smiled anyway.
"What are you doing awake, mama?" he asked her as he walked in. Lately he'd been calling her that, short for hot mama, not some weird mommy issues thing.

He sat down on the bed and took a bite of his BLT before he turned on the light and looked over at her.
His heart dropped. "Are you crying?" He asked her. He tried to comb back through his memory to see if there was something he had done. He didn't come up with anything, so he just scooted closer to her and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
"Baby, what's wrong?"

[Thalia Manson]

When Thalia saw Kegan in the doorway asking what she was going awake , she tried to wipe her tears away as fast a possible but it was no use. By the time he sat down and turned the light on he had seen her already. "No" she muttered under her breath turning her face away from him when he asked if she was crying. When she felt his arms wrapped around her she jumped slightly from just now looking over and feeling something touch her. When he asked whats wrong she broke down crying worse than before. She turned her body against his where she could put her legs across his lap, arms around his waist, and hide her head into his chest.

"He... He was all over me, Kegan. Touching me and - " She couldn't talk her body started shaking and she grabbed onto Kegan tighter. "I don't want him to hurt me again, I don't want him to get out of jail. He'll come for me, I know he will. And he won't even care about going back, he'll just want me and I don't want him to get out Kegan." Her crying was ridiculous by now, to the point of the ugly cry. Where you cant breath, your crying is loud and whatever you're trying to say probably comes out a bunch of nothing unless the other person is really good at listening.
"Rivers..." Thalia let out during her crying in a small voice while she was trying to come down as she held onto Kegan.

[kegan]

Kegan was confused until Thalia finally said his name. He felt his blood boil at just the thought of him. After the rape last year, he'd beaten the punk with a baseball bat and was still on probation for it, but he wouldn't do anything different if he could. Especially knowing how much it affected Thalia.
He hugged her tighter to himself, "Baby, no...Rivers is in jail, and he's not getting out for a long time. And even after that, he'll have a restraining order and he'll be a registered sex offender. He's never going to get you again."

He rocked them back and forth, trying to slow her crying. He didn't know she hurt like this. He never could have imagined it, and knowing she left like this broke his heart. He wished she'd told him earlier so they could talk about it and try to get her help.
"Baby..." he cooed, resting his chin on her forehead. He just wished he could take all of the pain inside of her and carry it for her, so she wouldn't have to feel like this. She was the most amazing person he'd ever know, so perfect and wonderful...he couldn't stand seeing her so sad and so broken.

[Thalia Manson]

Thalia felt her stomach drop when Kegan pulled her closer to him. One arm was wrapped around his back and the other was on his upper arm holding onto him tightly. As he rocked her back and fourth she started to calm down a bit. Her breathing getting lighter but it was still very shaky.
"I keep him dreams he's getting out. He knew where we lived and he got out on an alibi saying he was out at dinner when the rape occurred. Then he came to the house and he started to try to undress me. His lips were all over me and he tried to get into my pants and..." She stopped talking as her crying started to get bad again.

Her face was buried in his neck as she held onto him trying to calm down. It had been like this the past couple weeks but instead she was in the other room sitting and crying to herself for hours. Having Kegan here holding onto her seemed to make everything better. She moved her hand that was on his arm to back around him so both arms were wrapped around his torso.
"I've been having dreams like these the past month." She said in a shaky voice a her crying slowed down. "I haven't wanted to wake you up so I've been going into the guest room... I shouldn't have. I should have told you." She didn't want to talk anymore but she knew she should spit out this last little part and keeping talking about it with him because this was going to help. "I show various sighs of Rape Trauma Syndrome ." She whispered moving her face from his neck and wiping her eyes so she could look at him.