Reassurance
Feb. 18th, 2005 05:46 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
[Takes place the night of the day Christian and Harry left Liam's -- here.]
Johnny lay curled up in bed, his arms wrapped around Leopold, trying to fight off the nauseous feeling in his stomach. Liam had told him what had brought Robert all the way out here so unexpectedly that afternoon, that Carstairs' lawyers were trying to play a trick with the witnesses. They were calling all the kids who'd been at the house that night to testify at his trial, the first trial, including the ones who weren't ready -- Sara, Linus, Ben and others who were being cared for elsewhere. Liam had told him not to worry about it yet, that the Crown lawyers had just gotten the word and had barely started working on a response, a strategy to deal with it. Time enough to worry later if they failed. But all Johnny could think of was that bastard going free, and he wished more than anything that Christian was there to hold him and tell him it was going to be all right. He closed his eyes and thought, Christian? Are you there?
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Johnny lay curled up in bed, his arms wrapped around Leopold, trying to fight off the nauseous feeling in his stomach. Liam had told him what had brought Robert all the way out here so unexpectedly that afternoon, that Carstairs' lawyers were trying to play a trick with the witnesses. They were calling all the kids who'd been at the house that night to testify at his trial, the first trial, including the ones who weren't ready -- Sara, Linus, Ben and others who were being cared for elsewhere. Liam had told him not to worry about it yet, that the Crown lawyers had just gotten the word and had barely started working on a response, a strategy to deal with it. Time enough to worry later if they failed. But all Johnny could think of was that bastard going free, and he wished more than anything that Christian was there to hold him and tell him it was going to be all right. He closed his eyes and thought, Christian? Are you there?
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