Once back at Megan’s room Logan stopped her at the foot of her bed. He sighs and sat down looking at her. She was still crying and she wasn’t making any eye contact with him.
“Why did you want to see him?” Logan finally asked.
“I needed to tell him how I felt,” she muttered, “I’m sorry if you’re angry with me,” she says.
“I’m not angry with you. I was just confused as to why and well now I know why,”he states. He got on his knees and pulled her close to him as she cried “you shouldn’t feely dirty, as you’re far from it ok,” he hushed as he stroked her head. Megan remained silent and cried into his chest. He knew she wouldn’t believe anything he says to her but he also knew that if he told her enough times she just might.
Logan pulled back from the hug slightly as he heard the door open. He looked to see a tall man with silver hair in an expensive suit glaring at him slightly.
“Are you Logan Peters?” the man asked.
Logan felt Megan sigh and turn to the man “go away,” she snapped “why don’t you listen?” she asks rhetorically.
“I’m your grandfather and I’m not just going to leave you alone when you’ve just nearly died and need someone to take care of you,”he states.
Logan looked at Megan to see her looking at her lap and then looked back at Megan’s grandfather. He sighs slightly at her grandfather’s sort of desperate look and then looks back at Megan.
“Why don’t you just hear him out?” he asks “I’ll stay with you,”he states.
“Ok,” she says quietly and Logan wiped the tears from her cheeks and sat in a chair next to Megan. Her grandfather sat down and looked at Megan.
“By the way my name is Carlton,” he says to Logan and turns back to Megan. “I know you don’t want to see me and I do understand why, heck I wouldn’t want to see me either but given the circumstances,” Megan cut him off.
“Given the fact your son decided to go loopy and attack and rape me,” she snapped. Carlton closed his eyes and inhaled deeply.
“Yes,”he says quietly and then was silent for a few seconds “he came to see me about two weeks before you came into hospital asking me if I would let you live with me for a while,” he informed. Megan frowned slightly while looking at him “he said he needed to go away for a while he didn’t know when but he says he’d drop you off at mine one day unexpectedly and leave for a few months. I obviously asked him why but he wouldn’t say and well in the end I agreed,” He paused and looked at Megan “unfortunately he decided to get help just a little too late.”
“What do you mean?” she asks
“The day that put you both in here, he had organised to get help, he was suppose to be seeing the psychiatrist on the Friday and he was most likely going to check himself into hospital as when the police checked the house, they saw papers he had printed off all filled in and his stuff packed for when he got there,” Carlton explained.
“How do you know all this?”
“Your uncle he’s on his way back from India he just needs to finish off the job he’s on or hit I don’t know you know it’s all secret but he hacked into the police file and got some people to tell him everything and it seems Jonathon had organised to get help a few times but always failed to turn up to the sessions,”
“He’s on his way back?” she asks. Carlton nodded and ran a hand through his hair.
“He’s not happy as you would imagine but he’s promised to be on his best behaviour,”he states.
There was a moment of silence. Logan held Megan’s hand while stroking it; fresh tears had formed in her eyes as she looked out the window.
“Urm...” she says, breaking the silence, “how did Jonathon get what he has?” she suddenly asked.
Carlton stayed silent for a moment and looked at her “when he was five he was taken from me and your grandmother and so was his mate, the kidnapper thought it was Brett but it wasn’t and well the guy that took him made him change his name to Benjamin. He would call him Benjamin and well long story short he was tortured and raped by him for about eight years when we finally got him back. His friend however died,
"Jonathon was forced to kill him when he was nine. When we got him back he had therapy but he wouldn’t talk to no one and he was obviously messed up but when he was 15, something snapped in him. We had noticed differences in his behaviour but this just proved it. We had a dog and well he killed it, he beat it and then burnt it while it was breathing and he just kept having violent outbursts. Carl had to move out as Jonathon, well Benjamin tried to kill him several times and we only realised what had when his mother was saying his name and he kept saying ‘don’t call me that, that is not my name’ and he would do things to punish himself if he felt he had done wrong. It did all go away once we got him the right help and he was fine and then he met your mother.”
“What about my mom?” Megan asked.
“Well when he started going out with her he wouldn’t take his medication in front of her because she didn’t know for a while and well before they got married I had found out he turned on her just the once and this is how she found out, he attacked her just randomly she didn’t expect it no one would have because of how in love they looked, but he did and he started taking his medication again and what you overheard at the wedding was wrong,” he paused “I was telling him not to go through with it because he didn’t know when he was going to have another episode and I didn’t think you or your mother was able to handle him with the
way he was and I wasn’t saying your mother was bad for him because of her background, I was saying it because of how in love with her he was.”
“Isn’t that a good thing?” Megan asked.
“Yes and no, the last time they had a major argument and you thought Jonathon had gone on a business trip he hadn’t he was in hospital for attempting suicide because he felt he would go back to being Benjamin without her and well when she died he obviously proved himself right,” he paused “I am sorry for not contacting you over the past few years,”
Megan sighs slightly and looks at Logan to see him staring down at his feet “how can you say sorry to her and expect her to be ok with you afterwards, you could see all this coming yet you didn’t do anything,” Logan growled still glaring at the floor. “Did you expect her to go through the shit she has gone through and be ok afterwards?” he snapped.
“No and I did try every so often but she didn’t want to see me and I know I probably should have tried harder,”
“Yeah you should have,” Logan snapped and then looked at Megan “I’m sorry I don’t mean to get angry in front of you,” he states and hugged her.
“It’s ok,” she said quietly and then pulled back from the hug and looked at her grandfather. “I don’t want to live with you,” she states “as it means leaving my friends, and well I’ve met your girlfriend and I don’t like her”
“I know you don't,” he paused. “I’ll try and find something that you will agree with ok?” he asks. She nodded slightly “as I’m now officially your guardian and everything. I’ve already paid the hospital bills for you both,” Logan looked at him “It’s really the least I can do and I know you probably wouldn’t want to go to this but you do have to I’ve arranged a psychologist for you and I can if you want bring you a file of the two that I think are the best,” he paused “and then once you’ve picked we can arrange on your living arrangements,”he states and stood up “I’ll be by tomorrow,”he states “see you tomorrow princess,”he says and moved his hand on her head ruffling her hair a little and walked out f the hospital room.
There was silence as Megan sat staring at her lap. Logan turned her in the wheelchair so she was facing him. “It’ll be ok,”he says looking at her. She looked at him and tried her best to smile back at him but it obviously didn’t work as his facial expression didn’t change.
“What if I end up like him?” she asks as her voice broke.
“You won’t,”
“I may do, what if I end up being psychotic or something,”
“You won’t because you have people around you that love you and will try their best to help you whenever you need it even if you think you don’t need it,” he explained. Megan sighs and looked down at her lap “I’m being serious Megan I won’t let you go in that direction if anything I’m going to go in that direction before you,” she looked at him “in fact I forbid you to go mental before me do you understand that,”he says. Megan smiled slightly “Are you smiling,” she looked away from him and shook her head. “Yes you are,” he says smiling too “about time I saw those dimples,” Megan slowly moved her hands to her face. “If you hide them I will cry,” She looked at him and raised an eyebrow “I am not joking I can make myself cry,”
“Go on then,” she says. He frowned and shook his head “because you can’t,”
“Yeah you’re right I can’t,”he says smiling and then takes her hands in his “and you cannot go mental before me understand I’ve told you this now in fact promise me you won’t go mental before me.”
“I promise,” she muttered. He moved his ear closer to her, acting as if he didn’t hear “I promise,” she says louder.
“Good,”he said and hugged her tightly.