HOUSE OF BROKEN SOULS Part 23
Warnings: This Chapter: Mentions of suicide & self harm. Overall: Slash, sexually explicit content, graphic violence
The fiction includes a mental illness storyline. I am not qualified in mental health, everything I know about it is googled. It's fantasy folks, please don't shoot me though helpful criticism is always welcomed.
*Not real. The folks aren't mine. No damage intended.
Many thanks to Lia (Cheebles) for all her help. I know..short chapters again...*runs away*
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Two weeks after Jared and Jensen fought Caitlin tried to leave Glenview. The orderlies found her in a floor duct, cover lifted open, trying to squeeze through the crawl-space. Okay thought Doc Carver, she really knows a thing or two about buildings. Glenview hired a builder to review security and Jared was informed.
Jared came after work, to talk to Caitlin. He brought a freshly printed document with him. “I thought you might like to see this Caitie.” He showed her the drawing, neatly titled ‘House of Broken Souls.’
“It’s been amended, see. We took the wall down, the door is open.” He pointed to the opening depicted, “You can come out now.”
For a brief moment she responded. She reached out and snatched it from him and studied it. She uttered one word before relapsing into her silent world, “No!”
The second time she tried to leave she removed some ceiling tiles, knotted bed sheets about her neck and hung herself from a beam. Doc Carver swore at her between resuscitation breaths, “Don’t you dare do this to Jay. Don’t you dare!” Her breath returned and she was taken, still unconscious, to the infirmary.
For a time Caitlin drifted between conscious and unconscious, dreaming or not dreaming.
The door opens. Dim light filters onto the blood stained floor. Emma blinks in surprise, wondering where the wall has gone. Caitlin walks to the open space and reaches to feel the nothingness. Jane strides right through the doorway, not a glance back. Emma tugs at Caitlin, pushing her out of the opening and another woman steadies her. Emma keeps moving, “Stupid bitches can stay.” She pushes the door and it begins to close.
At the last moment Caitlin grabs at the door and keeps it open with her finger, by a fraction. The other woman looks her in the eyes. “I need to come with you,” she says.
“You can’t. Emma will know, and they‘ll find out what you did.”
“I can be quiet. You won’t even know I’m there,” she pleads.
“Okay.”
They walk out of the room together, watchful for Emma.
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“You threw them off site?” Steve was aghast with his friend.
“They had their chances. They couldn’t hack it.” Jared glomped through the mud, glowering under the peak of his hard hat.
“You threw them off site. Wow Jay. Do you think that just maybe it’s time to admit that you have a thing for Ackles and a problem with commitment? Just maybe you should stop him from leaving or at least try to talk with him.”
“I don’t have a problem with commitment.”
“No, because you rarely get past half an hour.”
“What has that got to do with assholes who can’t get the job done?”
“Nothing, except you never, ever do this. You have been in an evil mood since the pair of you exchanged fisticuffs. You’ve been pissy and unbearable and I’m fed up of you denying it.”
They were interrupted by Jared’s mobile. The display showed Glenview’s ID, Jared flashed it at Steve, “I have to take this.” He stilled as he took the call. When he started to shake Steve was there to talk to Doc Carver and drive him to Glenview.
Caitlin woke with Jared by her side. She smiled faintly and looked about her, confused by her surroundings. “Hey you.” she said.
“Caitlin?”
“Was I out of it?” She asked.
“You could say that,” Jared choked out, half laugh, half sob. He held her hand tightly. “You scared me. Don’t you ever do that again.”
“Whatever it was, I’ll try not to.”
She took a drink of water and dozed off.
When she came around again Jared was still there and JD had joined him, resting in a chair, by Caitlin’s side. “Doc says you should have something to eat or drink.” JD smiled at her warmly and she returned it with a shy turn of her lips and reached for his hand.
“I’d love a coffee,” replied Caitlin.
Jared watched the exchange and wondered if Caitlin and JD had always looked at each other that way, like a light switched on in their eyes when they were together. It was a complication but somehow he didn’t think it was a bad one. .
Continued in Part 24 here: anniespinkhouse.livejournal.com/7533.html