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Title: What Empty Is - Chapter Five
Pairing/Characters: Mike/Tina.
Rating: R
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Genre: Drama/Angst
Previous Chapters: can be found at the directory.
He stood up.
He was ushered into an office with only a thin partition to keep the sound out. He sighed. It wasn't like anything was private or sacred anymore. Everyone in the world could know what happened to him, because who really had the energy to care about such things?
"Where were you when he attacked you Mike?" the officer asked calmly.
"I was by the bleachers at my school..."
He could see the image clearly in his head. He had just been heading home. Tina was helping her parents with something and there was no glee rehearsal so he had just decided he was going home. He cut across the field, not paying much mind to anything. It was a route he had cut through so many times, with nothing like this ever happening to him. He had been completely at ease with the world around him. How could he be so stupid?
A big hand pressed against his shoulder blades, holding him down. Mike was strong, flexible but he was pushed down to the ground before he could react, something held against his stomach. "Don't move," said a gruff voice but he hadn't figured it out there. The sharp point of something - a knife maybe - dug into his side.
He had stopped struggling, his mind frozen with fear. There were a million ways he could have reacted but he went still and froze completely.
"H-he came up from b-behind me and told me not to move. I couldn't tell who he was by then. S-something was pushing into my side. Like a knife."
He had his eyes closed half the time, his pants being shoved down and all he remembered before it happened was the horrible realization that this mysterious attacker was going to rape him. It sent cold shudders down his chest even remembering that icy realization.
"He shoved d-down my pants and I knew he was going...to."
Mike groaned, rolled his eyes and leaned back. He felt like crying again. He was so goddamned tired of crying. He had never been the type to cry and now the water works kept starting up. He inhaled deeply but it didn't help. The police officer got up and handed him a tissue and a paper cup of water. He took both. He was a seventeen year old guy and wasn't supposed to cry like this.
It had been a blur of pain as the man shoved into him. He had never been so paralyzed; he could not move an inch and there was just no hope. He had cried and tried to scream but a hand circled his mouth and held tight as he was just torn apart.
"Covered my mouth and ...did it," he whispered, sure the Lima PD didn't need graphic descriptions of his rape. "I..was...couldn't move."
"How'd you realize who it was, if you didn't see him..."
Mike shut his eyes and downed the rest of the water.
"He started talking while he was doing it..."
The words had been so gruff in his ear. They had been desperate, like he was trying to convince himself that he was doing the right thing for his girlfriend’s honor. “He needs you like she needs me.”
"I know it was h-him because...he had auditioned for a g-glee club play we did. He spent a lot of time after talking to me and my girlfriend Tina."
"What do the things he said mean?"
Mike closed his eyes tighter. "My glee club t-teacher. He kept m-making moves on his girlfriend."
"I see."
Mike knew that Ms. Pillsbury, Mr. Schuester would be interviewed. He couldn't bring himself to care.
"Thank you Mike. Do you have a ride home you can call? Your guidance counselor and teacher will both be rather busy today."
He nodded. He was offered a phone. He was about to dial his parents but instead dialed Tina.
"T, hey," he said when she picked up.
"Mike, hi. Are you ok?"
He felt bad that every time they spoke she asked that. "Yeah. Do you have your mom's car today?"
"I can get it."
"Can you pick me up at the police department?" he asked. He needed her pretty badly.
"Of course," she said and he could sense the excitement in her voice. He had missed her badly and she had missed him too.
"I love you, see you soon."
He thanked the officer and went to wait for her outside.