Pain Without Love (Complete)

36- I'm With You

The blare of sirens and the whir of blue lights filled the night air. Shawn's brutal assault on the front door was brought to an abrupt end as two police officers took him by the shoulders and dragged him backwards down the stairs

The crack of the wooden door giving way to the brute force of the to the police and their ram. Shawn dropped to the sidewalk and held his head in his hands terrified of what was to come, of what they would find as they pushed their way deeper in to her apartment,her desperate s reams still echoing through his head

"We need an ambulance, Now!" we're the first words he could make sense of and turning is head to the side he began to retch, his body becoming cold and covered in perspiration, his head going light and suddenly everything sounded so far off he thought he was under water and drowning

More police officers ran up the stairs to Camila's apartment and Shawn struggled to lift his head to see what was going on, afraid of what he was about to see when all of a sudden there was a commotion, he heard a female voice, loud and commanding, police officers scurried from the apartment and Shawn pushed himself to his feet, his legs feeling like jello beneath him.

More sirens cut through the night and he turned to see an ambulance mount the curb beside him. The paramedics rushed from the vehicle and up the steps just as a tiny figure appeared at the decimated front door.

"You will fucking pay to replace this door!"

"Camila?" Shawn stepped forward to be certain, her face was pale and tear stained, her hair a tangle of curls. The white shirt she wore was visibly stretched as it hung loose around one shoulder and the button and zip of her jeans hung open but there she was, barking orders and making demands. There was Mila and Shawn's heart stopped dead in his chest.

"I want him and all of you out of my Goddamn apartment"

"Miss. Cabello the paramedics..."

"Tell them to just leave him to die, he deserves it the fuckin piece of shit! "

Stepping forward Shawn's gaze met Camila's for the first time and he was sure he saw her chin quiver at the sight of him

"Camila..."

"Have you seen what they've done to my door Shawn?"

"They had to, we couldn't get in, we could hear you screaming" he took a step closer to her

"My carpet's ruined, they are trampling all over it in their big fuckin BLACK BOOTS!" She screamed the last 2 words in to the face of a close by officer and then raised a hand to a lip Shawn now recognized was split

"We'll clean it, hell we'll replace it" he took another step towards her and noticed her throat was red "Camila, it's all replaceable"

"Do you know how much I paid for that shit? The carpet, the door... This fuckin shirt cost 100 dollars and look at it ruined!"

"Camila..." he reached out and touched her shoulder and her eyes snapped up to meet his

"You should see the mess he's made in my room. There's shit everywhere, my favourite lamp, gone!"

"Camila..." he raised his other hand to her other shoulder and she dropped her gaze to the ground "Are you OK, did he...i mean I can see that he's hurt you but did he..." his eyes dropped to the open zipper of her jeans and he clenched his jaw at the the thought of what he was going to ask

"Are you asking if he raped me? No, he didn't the bastard didn't get the chance, fuckin pervert that he is! "

Shawn couldn't help the way his lips curled at her defiance

"There she is" he whispered as he pulled her to him and wrapped his arms around her, clutching her like he was worried she would disappear at any moment

"I hurt him Shawn" her voice was barely a whisper "he tried to... I lost control and I really hurt him"

"Ssssh" Shawn pressed a kiss into her hair "It will be OK, you did what you had to do"

"I don't want him to die though"

Shawns blood ran cold at the thought.

How badly had she hurt him?

Brent was a big guy compared to her, how had she got the upper hand to the point she could have potentially killed him?

Pulling her as close to him as possible he tried to find something to say that made this seem OK, that wiped the terrified look from her face but instead he said nothing as she trembled against him. He just held her and willed her to know that he wasn't going anywhere

"I thought I knew him better than anyone in the world but I didn't know him at all. All these years I thought he was helping me but he was only hurting me. The things he said... The things he said he'd done. I can't think straight Shawn"

"It's OK Camila, just breathe, it's going to be OK"

"What if he dies Shawn???"

"He won't"

"You can't know that"

"I do, he's too big of a bastard to go away that easily. It will be fine. I promise. No matter what happens, I'm here"

"Miss Camila Cabello?" they both looked up to see a female police officer looking at her gently but Camila said nothing, just put on her tough mask and stared the officer down "Miss Cabello if you would like to come with me I'm going to take you to the hospital to be checked over"

"No you aren't"

"Miss. Cabello..."

"I'm not going anywhere with you..."

"Camila..." Shawns hands moved to her cheeks and gently manoeuvred her face so that she was looking at him "They need to check you out, they need to see what he did, they need to know why you did what you did. Please, don't make this any more difficult for yourself than it's going to be"

"Miss. Cabello?" the officer once again asked, only this time Camila sighed and then laced her fingers through Shawn's.

"Will you come with me, please?"

"Where else would I go?" he asked whilst squeezing her hand "I'm with you Camila, whatever you need. I'm here" and with that they followed the officer to the squad car and Camila prepared to face up to the events of that night but with Shawn by her side she didn't feel so afraid of what was to come

*Thank God that drama is over 🙄