Evan's eyes fell on the horrible sight unfolding before him. Before the car came to a stop, before Billy could even kick the break paddle, Evan was out of the car. He staggered momentarily for jumping out like that from a running car but he was quick to get himself up straight and found his feet carrying him to the monster who was throttling Ramona to death.

"Fuc*ing..." Evan's incomplete curse bounded off into the cold, foggy breeze of the woods.

Hearing a car screech nearby and the noise of commotion made Lucas look up from Ramona's beautiful, seductive... pale face. There were intruders that's for sure, and he didn't like intruders when he was just about to settle things once and for all. But before Lucas could even catch a glimpse of the face of that fool running at his direction in inhuman speed, he felt a knee connect into his stomach.

"oomph..." It didn't help that Lucas had his body leaned down over Ramona, he found his body flying up, for a moment as if hanging in the air before his back connected to a tree.

Before Lucas could even breath the pain away, Evan had pounced upon him.

"You filthy... " A horrid punch that kind of devastated Lucas's nose was delivered by a red gone Evan. "sick..." Evan kept shoving his fist over and over on Lucas, not caring about where they landed. "bast***. What my Ramona had to go through, JUST BECAUSE OF YOU." A sharp kick this time broke into Lucas's ribs who was now coughing out blood. The sight only made Evan put more force behind his fists, aiming to somehow kill this horrid piece of an a** with his bare hands.

"Fuc*ing see how it feels like. Damn it, you..." Evan grunted out while punching yet once again in Lucas's destroyed nose when he tried to fight back. "...killed her unborn child."

Evan would have killed Lucas. But Oliver was yelling at him, "Leave him, Evan. You will kill him!" Evan guessed it was Oliver who tried pulling him back. In his fit of rage Evan shoved back Oliver who was about to fall back on his butt for his damaged leg making him extremely unbalanced.

Evan sneered back. "I'm actually aiming for the kill." He was about to go back to beating a groaning Lucas to a pulp, not that he already wasn't just that.

"No, Evan." Oliver shouted getting onto his feet again with the elbow crutch. "Ramona needs you. Now." Oliver said more firmly.

That got Evan to stop. Breathing heavily his head turned back to look at Ramona, the sight of her battered body made him want to cry. Harry and Billy was calling her name. Evan watched Harry sobbing over her unmoving body.

As Evan stormed towards her, in a frenzy of panic. Behind him, he heard Oliver tell him. "Lucas will be dealt with, Evan. Don't worry about the pimp."

Reaching her, Evan lifted up her blood covered head on his lap. He felt a tear slip down his one eye as he felt her faint breath against the skin of his hand. For a moment, he was afraid that they'd reached her too late, that she had already...

NO.

He didn't want to think that horrible thought anymore. She was here, she would survive. The cops and surely with them a medical team would be arriving any second.

With frantic gentleness, Evan began wiping the blood off her face with his own shirt.

"You'll be alright." He murmured with moist eyes. "You're safe."

From the corner of his eyes he saw after a while Harry and Billy walk over to where Lucas was sprawled on the ground, like a shrimp... trying to crawl away from a very evil looking Oliver.

Oliver was stalking towards Lucas, leisurely, with a slow grin. "You're too proud over your tiny dick, pretty boy?"

It would have been great to understand the expressions on Lucas's face but anything was actually hard to tell. When you have a nose that's basically shoved inside your face and with blood surrounding the whole area, it get's pretty much impossible for the onlookers to understand your facial appeal.

Oliver raised up his crutch slowly, pressing against the sharp bark of a tree and then pulling backwards, the black cap like material popped off and rolled away on the ground. Oliver raised the now sharp edge of the end of his crutch and waved it in front of Lucas's face. "You know where it will go into? Into your stinky balls, dick-face."

And it surely went just there.

Evan moved his eyes away at the end moment right when Lucas's scream echoed throughout the hill.

An owl flew away, a leaf fell down at the flapping of it's marvelous wings.

"Hear him, Ramona?" Evan whispered soothingly against her ear while flicking off a leaf that somehow fell on her cheek. He kissed the place where that leaf was a moment ago. "It's over now."

Noises of multiple cars shook the woods as the cops finally arrived. The paramedics were quick to place Ramona on a stretcher after checking out her vitals and giving her oxygen. Evan though wrestled everyone who wouldn't let him enter that ambulance. It took Fredrick and some others a heck lot to hold Evan back as the ambulance raced off.

Evan lurched around to glare at Fredrick. "Why didn't you let me get in with her damn it?"

Fredrick dodged the punch Evan threw at his way. "Because, Evan, you and your companions have clearly taken the law in your own hands." He pointed at Lucas's messed up form, the jerk-face had passed out at last. Apparently he wasn't that strong to endure a stab in his balls.

Oliver looked away hiding a smile.

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Fredrick had his eyes narrowed on Evan's form slouched down against the wall. They were all waiting in the corridor in front of the ICU room Ramona was kept it. The doctors had already informed them that she was out of life-risk. They were now seeing to the severity of her injuries.

Harry and his parents were sitting on a bench, all of them anxious yet as silent as dead.

"How come you guys were there before us?" Fredrick asked.

Oliver who was standing crossed armed leaning against the opposite wall, said innocently. "Shortcut. Our Billy over here turns out to be quicker than cops and FBI."

And then Oliver saluted Billy who gave Fredrick a nervous smile.

Fredrick now turned to face Oliver. "Your crutch seems to be more of a murder weapon you carry?"

"Hey! That came in handy at the moment." Oliver protested.

"And Lucas is officially impotent now. Someone has to answer about that, you know that?" Fredrick glowered back.

Harry cut in - in defense from where he was sitting next to a sobbing Maria. "The A class a**hole deserved that."

Paul added with a brooding look. "My boy's right. That stupid worm, not worth of even shit... deserved that and then some more. Besides, you cops were too late when these boys just saved my little girl! How about that, you... person of law?"

And then Fredrick and Paul went into a scorching glaring match. Fredrick here wondered in fascination, how he was loosing his cool and calm quite severely after he had taken this case.

"Fred..." Evan said something for the first time since they arrived at the hospital. "I'm responsible for everything, going there and taking the law in my hands, beating up Lucas and... yeah, about his freaking punctured balls too. Interrogate me if you need to."

Fredrick raised a brow as Evan continued, "Oliver has to go somewhere, he needs to be in Boston."

Evan gave Oliver a meaningful look and watched how his eyes glazed over. It took a few good moments for Oliver to snap back to reality, he sent Evan a thankful look. Grateful, that he wouldn't have to pass more days here. Oliver had a mission to fulfill.

"Work?" Fredrick asked.

Evan was about to answer, but Oliver cut in. "Love."

The corner of Fredrick's lips twitched up to a smirk.

The doctor came out right then, Evan sprang up instantly and was questioning him in a restless manner. Harry and the worried sick parents were in tow.

"She's alright. Though it would take some time for her wounds to heal. Two broken rib bones, some cuts and bruises, she also has a concussion in her left cheek, the back of her head was hurt too. Her throat's going to be soar... for a week max, no fatal damage there though. She'll feel slight pain if she tries to talk too much loud or move her neck too quickly or something. But what worries me is that..."

The doctor hesitated for a second.

"What is it?" Evan asked feeling it's going to be bad.

The doctor began speaking again. "She was hit quite a lot of times in her stomach, and earlier when I asked, her family informed me that she'd had a miscarriage years ago. I'm sorry to say she won't be able to bear a child ever. The damage in her uterus, it's not treatable. I'm sorry."

Another thing Lucas had snatched away from her. She had gone through so much, and now, this too.

Evan closed his eyes for a minute, gathering himself he looked up and heard the doctor saying....

"... she's still unconscious now, and most probably would be like that for the whole night. It's her body's own way of ignoring the pain that would follow when she wakes. Only one person can stay with her throughout the night after she's transferred to a room."

Evan slid back against the wall and sighed. Ramona's alive and will be well soon, that was what mattered to him. But what about the thing she would never have for the rest of her life. He had watched her with Julius, she was a natural mother. What would she go through after knowing that she would never be able to have her own children?

Evan banged his head back on the wall a few times. He heard Maria, Ramona's mother sobbing and saying her worries.

"Oh Paul! Her physical wounds don't worry me, it's her mental wounds I'm more scared about. How would she cope with this too? What has our girl ever done to anybody? I know what a pure heart she has. Then why she has to go through so much? Why her?"

Why her? Evan thought. Evan asked himself.

Thousands, and millions of human beings are falling prey to sick people like Lucas everyday. Some of them are lucky enough to be saved, some of them not. Why them? The question has been asked quite a lot, since a long time, but still the answer remains ever so unclear. It's hard to decipher what a sick mind chooses and why... in it's awake.

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(The chapter would be edited soon. I might add some dialogues later. Have been doing that to "You're Still The One" right now.)

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