A Shattered Angel

"Carson you did not finish the dishes, do the laundry, clean the house and mow the grass! Get off your ass now and get it done or you will be punished!" His father yelled at him.

"Dad I am doing my homework for school."

"I do not care your chores are more important boy, get them done NOW! And do not ever talk back to me."

Carson angrily gets up and pushes his chair into the wall behind him goes to the sink and washes the dishes by hand. Heaven for bid he gets to put them into the dishwasher that he is not allowed to use. Once he is finished with that he moves onto the other chores on his list and does them fairly quickly so that he can get back to his homework.

He hears a dreadful scream coming from outside and runs to the back door where he hears the sound. He sees his mom on the ground clinching her stomach and then there's a bone crunching sound coming from her face as he watches his father punch her in the face. He just stands there and watches with a smirk on his face knowing that is what she gets for doing the same thing to him.

"You Son of a Bitch keep your hands to your self." She yells at her husband.

She looks back at Carson who is smirking at her and runs towards to her son opens the screen door and body slams into him punching on him.

"If you would have done the house work like you were supposed to I would not have gotten these beatings, you bastard." She tells him with every punch, hit, and kick she makes on him.

He takes the beatings per usual and when his mother was finished beating him his father started in on him. He could not catch a break from either of his parents. He did not understand why his dad was angry all the time from the time he woke up to the time he went to bed and sometimes he would get abused during g the night for no reason.

Carson swore up and down to GOD that he would never do this to his wife and family. He would walk away until they both calmed down and come back together and talk the problem out. He hated being at home around his family and could not careless if either one were to parish and never to be found.

After he graduated high school he left his home in North Carolina and moved to California. He went to UCLA and partied with the best of them had many girlfriends. He drank all the time and did drugs of all kinds but graduated at the top of his class. He does not know how he did it but he did.

A few months after he graduated he had a job with a promising future then he met his future. His wife, but he had to get to know her before making her his wife. He remembers the promise that he made not so long ago and wanted to hold onto that promise.

He ditched his habits of drinking and drugs and got cleaned. He did not reveal his not so long ago past history to her and probably never would as he was moving forward to something better. He got rid of his old friends and started making new ones that were more positive and lived the lives as christians.

"Hey I have never seen you here before what's your name?" He asks a pretty dark haired girl.

"I have been here for two months you must not pay attention to what or who is around you." She replied sarcastically.

"Huh, little sarcastic are we not darling?"

"Got a problem with that because I sure don't, and that so called pick up line does not work with me."

"Wow, I have never been turned on by a pretty little thing like you before. How about we go out on a date?"

"Hah, I don't think so and before you ask why, you're not my type bud."

"Okay, I'll bite, what has made you so hard and mean the way you are?"

"I really do not think it is any of your concern for one and two I said no. So you need to move a long and find someone else."

Rebekka walked off and went about her day. She just started working at the coffee shoppe four months ago when she graduated college. She was in the process of looking for a full time job. She likes her job but hates the jerks that come in and try to hit on her.

Rebekka was off the next day and Carson walks in whistling a seductive tune while scanning the coffee shoppe looking for the girl he saw yesterday. To his dismay he did not see her but ordered a black coffee to go and left. He thought he would come everyday to see if she would even budge going out with him. He never had any problems getting women to fall for him and into his bed.

He could not figure out why she was not into him and blowing him off like she was. She proving to be a challenge and a challenge is what he up for and Rebekka was providing a good chase for him.

The next day she is working and sees Carson walking into the shoppe. She looks at her co-worker who looked to see who it was and looked back at Rebekka.


Star walked by her, "He came in yesterday and was not happy that you were not here. Make him happy when he comes to talk to you it's good for business," then walks away.

Rebekka was shooting daggers into Star's back and killing her with threatening looks. She did not want to look at this stupid idiot walking towards her.

"What can I get you, sir?"

"A cup of you," he says with a quirky smile.

Rebekka just rolled her eyes and poured a cup of black coffee with cream and handed it to him. She did not care if he did not drink it or not she just wanted to get him out of her sight.

He took a sip of his coffee and spat it out onto her. She jumped back in time so she did not have to have disgusting spit on her from an irritating customer who kept harassing her.

"Bekka time for breakfast. Hurry you don't want to be late for your first day of school," her mother yelled.

"Coming mother, just getting dressed," she yelled back.

It was her senior year at high school and she could not wait to leave and go to college. She loved her family and friends but longed to have an adventurous life outside of high school. She only had a couple of really good friends that were going away to school along with her.

They were all going to major in different subjects but it did not matter as they were all three going to be room-mates. But right now it was more important for her to get through high school then to worry about college later.

"Mom I have volleyball practice tonight so I won't be home right after school and me and the girls are going out afterwards so I will be a little late coming home."

"That is fine, dad and I have a dinner party to go to tonight anyway so be careful please."


"You too, mom love you."

She leaves for school and meets up with her girlfriends and enter the school through the main doors. They all head to their lockers and put their stuff up and get ready for their first couple hours of classes.

Rebekka entered her first hour class which is biology and there was a boy in her class she could not stand. He thought he was all that and then some but she would notice that he would come in with bruises on his arms or cheek sometimes even a black eye.

She felt sorry for him but did not bother to talk to him because he was such a jerk with everyone and bullied most of the boys until that day in class. One kid he bullied had enough of his crap and gave it right back to him and when he was getting it he cowered away.

"Not such a tough guy now are ya cry baby?" The kid yelled at him.

He did not say anything and went to sit back down at his desk and sat down with his head down so that he did not have to see all his peers staring at him. Rebekka felt sorry for him but from the other kids point of view he did deserve what he got today.

"Girl did you hear what happened to that guy in first hour?" Leslie asked Rebekka.

"Duh, I was there saw it with my own two eyes. And if you ask me he deserved it for all the bullying he has done to everyone else."

"Yeah but..."


"Really? Really? You have a 'but' for that? Why? He probably gets it at home and that's the only way he knows how to cope with people."

"And you are sticking up for him?"


"Ummm... no I am not why?"

"It sounds like it you are sticking up for him Rebekka," Leslie tells her with a raised eyebrow.

"Have you seen the bruises he has on his face and arms even black eyes?"

"Nope, didn't care to look at the creep."


"He's being abused or he's in a fight club."

"I would say the latter is more likely."

"Whatever schools over and we have practice. Let's go and kick some butt."

The girls crushed their practice and went got showered and changed to go out as a group to a concert for the night. At the concert there were many other students from the school and other surrounding schools.

Leslie saw a tall good looking boy from another school who had dark brown hair with brown almond shaped eyes. She thought he was the cats meow and approached him.

"Hi, I am Leslie who are you if you don't mind me asking?" She asks the tall handsome boy in front of her.

He looks at her with a winning smile; "name is Carson love."

"How do you like the concert so far?"

"They are pretty good for the most part. What about you, how do you like them?"

"EH they are pretty cool, I only like a few songs they have out but not into the punk rock thing too much."

They talked for a while and he had asked her out for a date and got her number before they left the concert. They did not even did not get out of the parking lot when Leslie got a text from Carson telling her how much he can't wait to be with her the following weekend for their date.

The following weekend they met up but she felt like there was something that was just off about him but could not put her finger on it. She was having a good time the entire night he did kiss her but it did not feel right with her. He wanted to go out again with her and she agreed to go on another date but the following weekend as she had practice and homework to do.

The next date she went out with Carson but this time it was not as fun. He was trying his hand at her. He wanted something more than she was willing to deal out. He would not take no for an answer and raped her, took her innocence away from her, she hated him for life.

For the next couple days she skipped school and volleyball practice, she did not even converse with her friends let alone Rebekka. Rebekka went to her house but her mother said she did not want to see anyone and she could not even get her to talk. Bekka left thinking the only way she would have to talk to her is give her homework assignments which she new her friend was missing so it was her mission to get the information and take it to her.

The next day Rebekka called Leslie told her she was coming over with her homework assignments and notes for her to copy down and she was not going to take not for answer. She had to let her come in no ifs, ands or buts about it.

"What's going on Leslie? Talk to me," Rebekka asked hastily.

"It was that guy I had gone out with those two times. It was nothing but bad news, I do not think he should go out with any girl at all."


"Why do you say that? Did he do anything to you against your will?"

"I don't want to talk about it, just drop it. Please."

"You need to talk about it. You will feel so much better about it and who knows maybe save another girls life from that jerk of a kid."

"Well, that kid is not going anywhere anytime soon."

"Leslie tell me, please, what exactly did he do to you?"

"I... um....he wanted more than I wanted to give. He was all hands and would not take 'NO' for an answer. I tried to push him away, even run away from him but he caught me and raped me. I didn't know what to do. He dropped me off at the street corner like I was some kind of rag doll and drove off. I just stood there and stared into the abyss and some cops drove up and talked to me and I told them what had happened.

They took me to the hospital and they did a rape kit on me, took information about the jerk. They arrested him and we are pressing charges against him so this will go on his permanent record."

"Shit, girl why did you not call me? I would have been there for you but I am here now and that is all that matters."


"Thank you, now let me have my assignments and notes to copy. You can copy them while I do the homework."

"You got it bestie, and no more skipping school. Does that jerk face go to our school?"

"Thank GOD no!"

The rest of the afternoon and weekend was spent doing homework between the two girls.

The police were making their rounds and saw a car drop a young teenager off at a corner of the street in downtown Corona area. It is less than a good place for anybody let alone a high school teenager. 
They turn around and stop at her side seeing she is just standing there crying and clothes torn to bits. The police at first think she is a hooker and planning on taking her into the station to have her processed as they do so many to try and get them off the streets.

When they got out of their vehicle they walked up to her talking to her but she did not answer them back. One of the officers called for back up and an ambulance to come to the scene. The other officer walks in front of the young girl and approaches her looking at her in her eyes trying to get a feeling for what is happening.

"Miss, I am Sergeant LaCross and I am here to help you, could you please tell me your name at least?"

"Umm..I..umm...Leslie Shelby," is all she could say between sobs.

"Ok, Ms. Shelby we are going to take you to the hospital but in the meantime is there anyone who we can call for you?"

"Mom, you can call my mom."



"I'll have one of my guys do that. Are you related to Jakub Shelby, the fire commissioner?"

"Yes, he's my father and my brother is officer Jacobie Shelby."

"They both are on their way and we have an officer in pursuit of the person who dumped here."

"Thank you sergeant."

Leslie goes to the hospital her brother rides with her and her father, mother and baby sister meets them at the local hospital. She is traumatized by the days events that has happened this evening. She hopes she never has to see that Carson buy again.

"I was hoping he'd be a better person than that but we will prosecute him to the fullest to where he cannot do this to any girl every again baby, I promise you this." Her father tells her with tears welling up behind those baby blue eyes of his.

He gets on the phone and calls a friend who is a really smart attorney that can prosecute any case anywhere in the world.

"Hello, this is Fire Commissioner Jakub Shelby, I need your help prosecuting a person of interest who raped my daughter tonight."

"I'm on my way will be there in a few hours."

"Thanks a lot, I know you can get the job done."

"Hey it's no problem really."

His personal attorney comes to Jakubs work and he gets the full details of what had happened from the night before. He gets all the information that is needed from the Hospital and the attending nurses and doctors. Then heads over to the police station and gets the police reports that were taken and looks at the boy. He is only seventeen but he is going to do everything he can to charge him as an adult and put it on his permanent record.

The court date comes and the attorney is there with Leslie and her family. Leslie feels very uncomfortable and wishes she did not have to be there. Her brother is sitting by her side to her right and their attorney is to their left. He makes her feel safe and leaves everything in his hands.

The day in court was very long and their attorney got justice for the Shelby family and hopefully saves other girls and women's lives now and in the future. Carson got dinged for rape in the first degree, dumping a teenager on the curbside in the middle of the night in a not so nice neighborhood and for auto theft.

Carson was put on the stand and questions after questions were asked if he did any of the horrid things he was being accused of. He would lie under oath each time but both attorneys new that he had been lying because he was forced to take lie detector test and Leslie's attorney is going to use that against him and trap him.

Carson did end up entrapping himself since he could not remember what he had said the night of the rape. He was pissed because his attorney did not help him get out of his situation like he was supposed to but instead helped him to incriminate himself on the witness stand which he was really good at. 
Since the trial only took one day it did not take long for the judge or jury to convict Carson of the acts that he had done. Carson was hacked off to say the least and no longer trusted people around him that were attorneys.

Carson was tried as an adult and had to do community work, detail work at an automotive store, then work for free at a repair shop. On top of all that he had to go through counseling for being an abusive person for two years while going to college.

After high school Leslie decides to move far away from where she was to go to school, and so did her brother. They moved to Scotland where their attorney resides most of the time and went to college there. She and her brother lived in a small house on the outskirts of the town but soon realized that the people were all shifters. It did not bother them as they both found their mates and moved in with them.

Jacobie was mated to a warrior and became a shifter warrior as well and was in charge of border patrols and training. Leslie was mated to a warrior too and became one herself so that she could fight off any unwanted males, rogues or other nasty shifters.

She did not keep in touch with her best friend but did miss her dearly. She knew one day that they would see each other again when time allowed. But for now she was just as happy to be alive and free from the creep for good.

"Hi Mrs. Shelby how's Leslie doing? I haven't seen or talked to her in a long while." Rebekka asks.

"She's moved away honey and asked not to be contacted by anybody but family."

"I see, please tell her not to shut me out and would like to keep in touch with her. Know what she is doing for college since we're supposed to go to away together. And tell her I said, 'hi' would you please?"

"I sure will dear I am sure she misses you too."

They part ways and Rebekka continues on with her life along with her other friends from school that stuck around. She went to college and decided to become an agent to help the government put away criminals that did drugs and raped and abused innocent girls and women. She not only did this for herself but for her best friend whom she misses very much.