Will stopped a few feet away from her and called her name a few times more, but still getting no reaction from her.
“Baby!” Will said in a slightly raised voice and finally, Aria's head snapped in his direction, her laughter stopping completely.
“Will?” she whispered, as if making sure that Will was really there.
“Yes, baby. I am here, love.”, Will said soothingly as he slowly stepped closer to her. Aria's eyes suddenly filled with tears, her bottom lip quivering, and upon releasing a loud sob, her knees buckled and Will had just enough time to catch her before she fell.
“You came for me. You came, you came…”
“I am here, baby. I've got you. I've got you, baby.” Will kept repeating in Aria's ear, his hands holding her tightly and all the while Aria kept wailing, her face pressed to the side of Will’s neck.
“I had to do it; it was the only way. I had to make him drop his guard. I am sorry! I am so sorry!” she kept saying, over and over again as her fists squeezed the man’s shirt tightly.
Will just continued to hold her, his heart breaking for her. He had an inkling about what Aria was apologizing for, but instead of feeling jealous, all he felt was excruciating pain for allowing this to happen; for not getting to her sooner.
“I know, baby. I know. You have nothing to be sorry about. I understand. I love you. I love you so much, baby.” Will whispered in her ear while his hand caressed Aria's hair, and soon she started to calm down, her breathing slowing down until she drifted off to sleep.
Will slowly stood up, as not to wake her up, and walked out of the room to see Fabian standing there with another man Will had never seen before; quietly talking.
“He is in there. If Aria hadn't killed him, finish the job.” Will said quietly and Fabian simply nodded and motioned with his head as the other guy turned around and started walking toward the room without a word.
“I am taking her home. She needs a doctor. I trust you to finish this quietly.”
“Of course.” Fabian said with a smirk, before turning around and following his friend.
Once they got back to the apartment, Will called Nate, to come and examine her. After doing so and giving her a few sedatives, Nate assured him that aside from a few bruises and overall exhaustion, everything was going to be okay with Aria.
Thanking the man Will escorted him out, and then went back to the room and laid beside Aria, pulling her onto his chest and sighing in relief.
An hour later Aria started to stir and he felt her tensing as her whole body went rigid.
“It's okay, baby. I've got you. You are safe.” Will whispered, scooting closer to her, and rubbing his hand across Aria's back until she relaxed.
“Are you alright, baby?” Will asked, feeling stupid as soon as the words left his mouth. She had been kidnapped and forced to do God knows what; of course, she wasn’t okay.
Aria raised her head and looked at him, her blue eyes shining and a sad smile etched across her face.
“No. But I will be.” she said, barely above a whisper and leaned closer as her fingers caressed Will’s cheek. “I love you, Will.” was the last thing she said before falling asleep, once again.
Healing
4 months later
“Have you been having any more nightmares since the last time I saw you?” Jasmine asked as she watched her closely over her round glasses. Aria slowly shook her head and looked down while biting on her bottom lip, the skin turning red between her warring teeth.
“That’s good Aria, it means that we have made some progress.” Aria wordlessly nodded again, before looking away.
“You are being awfully quiet, today. Is there something on your mind that you would like to share?” Jasmine asked her as Aria closed her eyes and sighed.
“It’s about Will.” she murmured before clamping her mouth shut, already regretting mentioning anything at the look of interest that appeared on Jasmine’s face.
“What about Will?”
She took a big breath and decided to just get it out because she knew that if she didn’t talk to someone about it, she would just continue to torture herself like she had been doing for the last couple of days.
“I caught him watching porn a few days ago.” she whispered, blushing almost instantly and feeling stupid about it. She had told Jasmine her entire story, and here she was blushing like a school-girl over a stupid little word like ‘porn’ as if after everything Jasmine had heard from her, that was the thing that was going to shock her.
“Okay. Were you bothered by it?”
“It’s not that I was bothered that he was watching porn, that would be just stupid on my part. It was more about him needing to do it.” she said, shaking her head and sighing.
“And why do you think that is?”
Aria looked at her with a raised eyebrow, before huffing and standing up.
“Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? He is not getting any from me, so he has to resort to the internet.”
“Okay, but I still can’t see what the big problem is. I thought that you would be glad that he is not pushing you or demanding anything until you are ready to give.” Jasmine said and Aria swallowed and turned her back to her, the underlying question beneath Jasmine’s words straight
