Trapped in fear as history repeats

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"So.. dad left?" Meredith asked when they entered the house

"He didn't want to see your face anymore and now I'm stuck with you" Ellis told her

"Oh" Meredith said

"This is all your fault, I could have been happy if I never got pregnant with you"

"I.. I'm sorry" Meredith said staring at the ground

"Go to your room" Ellis said

Meredith went to her room, after a few hours she heard Ellis leaving in her car. Meredith was terrified, what if Thatcher would come back, what if he wants to kill her

No one knew that Thatcher started hitting Meredith a few years back. It started with pushing when she did something wrong and it went as far as he once had thrown a chair to her head but it missed her, the chair broke when it hit the wall. Meredith suspected that Ellis knew about this but Meredith was too scared to actually tell her. Ellis always said that Meredith couldn't complain about these things, Thatcher was under a lot of pressure, just like Ellis and they blamed Meredith for being an annoying kid.

A few weeks passed but no one really knew what was happening, she went to school everyday and she didn't talk that much to her classmates, she had good grades and after school she didn't hang out but just went home and started to study. She wants to become a surgeon herself. Until one day, she was studying and she heard the front door opening, she knew it couldn't be Ellis so she decided to lock her door, she shut down the lights and hid behind a chair. She heard loud footsteps coming up the stairs, someone tried to open the door but it was locked.

"I know you're in there, open the door!" Thatcher yelled

Meredith froze, she couldn't answer, she grabbed her phone but she had no one to call

Thatcher was now trying to open the door, he stomped against the door until the door went open. "I told you to open it" He said while trying to find her

She was still hiding behind the chair until he throw around with different stuff when he hit her with a book

"AAH" She screamed when it hit her

"There you are" He said while taking the chair away and throwing her around in the room

"Stop, please"

"You're the reason I had to go"

"You.. left.. mom.. said you.. left" She said scared and in pain, it feels like she broke a few ribs and she had a cut on her arm

"Your mother made me leave because you were afraid of me" Thatcher told her

Wait.. mom told him to leave because I'm afraid of him? Would she really care about me?

Thatcher throw her against the wall and started to choke her

"S..Stop" She tried to say but he didn't stop, he enjoyed the fear in her eyes, but let go before she went unconscious.

Meredith lay on the ground and he started kicking her, she felt her ribs cracking and having trouble with breathing until she heard the front door opening

Please let it be mom, please..

Thatcher left her room and made his way downstairs

"What the hell are you doing here" Ellis asked

"Just.. Ah whatever" He said before leaving

Ellis walked upstairs, not hurrying

"Meredith? Get up!" She yelled

Meredith winced in pain but she couldn't get up, mentally and physically she was too much in pain

"What's wrong" Ellis asked harsh

"Dad.." She moaned in pain

Ellis turned Meredith on her side and started to examine her

Probably a few broken ribs, a cut on her arm but not too deep so it doesn't need stitches and a lot of ugly bruisings.

"Come on Meredith, I'm not gonna ask you again. You're not dying and you don't need to go to the hospital. Stand up and go to bed, I'm gonna give you some painkillers and I'm gonna call you sick for the next week

"Okay" Meredith said, trying to get up. She used her last bit of power before collapsing on her bed, starting to cry but her broken ribs made it so hard to breathe

Ellis handed her some painkillers and a bottle of water before she went downstairs again, leaving her 12 year old daughter, injured by herself