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Title: What Empty Is - Part Four
Pairing/Characters: Mike Chang, Will Schuester, Mike/Tina
Rating: R - Rape Warning.
Summary: When Mike Chang disappears, Will realizes just how much he meant to Glee Club.
Genre: Drama/Angst
Word Count: 800 this chapter // 4085 overall.
Note: So yeah, you guys win. I used the end of this chapter to transition from Will’s pov to Mike’s pov. I’m not quite sure how many chapters this series will have. - Kay.
Previous Chapters: At my directory.
Will was devastated. Emma had run off when he told her about Carl and what could he do if that man hurt her next? It made him physically ill that he had been with her all this time, when he had the capacity to do what he did to Mike. He could have hurt her, and that was not acceptable. Of course, there was nothing acceptable about what Mike.
Mike had agreed to come back to school, if Will would supervise them while he talked to Tina.
“She needs to know the truth,” he had told his student, when asked what he should do. It was the best advice he could give. He was always trying to give the kids that meant the world to him the best advice possible, but that was all he could come up with for this instance.
Mike had nodded. “Can I talk to her in your room maybe?” he asked softly. “I don’t even know how to do this and I can’t be alone.”
So he had agreed to supervise them. Mike and Tina sat at the opposite side of his otherwise empty Spanish classroom, sitting on the floor. Mike had his head just inches away from his girlfriend’s ear and was talking to her in quiet, hushed tones. He focused on a stack of papers, ungraded since this crisis began. He looked from the papers, back up to Mike and Tina.
Tina let out a gasp that he couldn't help hear. He looked away, afraid he wasn't giving them enough privacy. He busied his way through the papers, only catching a quick glimpse of Tina crying and touching Mike's cheek and Mike crying too, face screwed up tight to hide emotion. He then looked away, back down. The Spanish writing didn’t make any sense.
He tried to keep himself impartial and distanced from the goings on, though Mike had begged him to be there. "I love you Mike!" Tina yelled and that made him look up a little. The girl was practically clinging to the boy's side and Will knew they'd be okay. Tina had never been that loud, not in all the time that he knew her.
This was a long road; the path to filling the emptiness wouldn't be an easy one for any of them. Yet, they were all strong.
He shoved the stack of papers aside as Tina kissed Mike insistently. "It doesn't matter," she said, catching her teacher's eye over Mike's shoulder. "I love you."
A buzz startled him out of his smiling at Tina. His cell. A voicemail. How had he not heard the sound? Emma. He checked the voicemail.
"H-hi Will. It's me. It was Carl. I confronted him and he kept evading it like before. So I looked for proof. I found it. Oh my god Will, I'm so sorry. I called him out and he confessed. The cops came. Tell... Tell Mike he's been arrested. He needs to come testify again...I'm so sorry Will."
Relief flooded him. “Give me a minute Em,” he mumbled, though he wasn’t talking to her. He just watched the teenagers, they’d be okay. They needed a moment.
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Testifying against Carl Howell was the hardest thing Mike had ever done in his life. He had tried to keep his composure but the moment he heard the man talk he had lost it. If there was any doubt in his mind that the dentist was the one to rape him, it vanished the moment he spoke. Mrs. Pillsbury assured him quietly through her own tears, poor woman, that he'd already confessed to her so it wouldn't be too difficult.
"It's all Schuester's fault," the man had said and the recognition had burned through Mike. "He didn't know no meant no."
Mike didn't look him in the eyes, just tried to keep his cool as he told the police officer at his side, "he did it. I w-would know h-his voice anywhere." Mike sighed and was ushered out.
He sat down outside of the holding room, legs giving out. The officer knelt down at his side. "Can you manage talking to me in my office?" he asked gently. "I'm sorry that you're going through so much but we need to take your testimony to convict." It was cold, detached protocol but Mike just wanted to get it over with.