Last time in Boy Window...DBD showed
up. He hit Amber so hard she miscarried. Liam beat him like an egg
and got arrested for it, even though it was the only action thus far
that has made any sense.
Chapter 23
“~Amber~”
Can we be done with the
alternating POV's now? Its not annoying anymore, it's just tiring.
Amber is wigging out because
Liam is getting arrested. She gets up to protest but Liam tells her
not to.
“Jeez, the silly boy is
being arrested, yet he's still worried about me?”
Is it just me or is the
phrase “Jeez, the silly boy” a bit too casual for what is going
on. I would get it if she was feel addled by pain meds, but she
hasn't mentioned feeling foggy and her narration is fairly
clear-minded.
Amber says it wasn't his
fault.
“'There's been a serious
complaint, Ma'am. We need to investigate'”
And when they ask Liam why
he was pummeling DBD he will say “he hit his daughter, my
girlfriend and a minor, she started to bleed and I wanted to defend
her.” Hell, wanna add a cherry on top of that “DBD is fucked
sunday”? Tell them why he was there and what he has done to both
families.
“'Can I kiss my girlfriend
goodbye? She's just had a miscarriage'”
And instead of the cop going
“Wait. You're girlfriend, Amber Walker, miscarried yesterday and
the guy who is accusing you of GBH is named Stephen Walker and was
assaulted yesterday?” he just lets Liam smooch Amber. And you can't
say the cop doesn't know Amber's name because they are in her
hospital room and the incident that they are investigating took place
at Amber's house were an ambulance was sent.
Instead, Amber cries and
clings to Liam saying that it's all her fault but does not say
anything that would actually help like “my dad beat me and Liam was
protecting me”. Hell, if they “investigate” like they say they
have to, they will need witness testimony and three of the four
people present will attest that DBD hit Amber first. Hell, it is the
only sequence of events that make any sense because Amber probably
has a bruise proving that someone hit her, and if Liam was wailing on
DBD, then her injury had to be either done by Jake or by the dad
before Liam started his attack.
“My mind was whirling,
trying to come up with a solution or plan.”
Besides hiring a
lawyer/solicitor, gathering the testimony of half a dozen people to
do what I have been saying this whole goddamn time?
“I could press charges as
well, then they would see that my father hit me first, and then Liam
would get let off because he was defending me. But they wouldn't let
him off for that, would they? Defending me was one thing, but he went
crazy, they'd never believe that what he did was self-defence.”
Temporary insanity plea?
Extreme emotional distress? You are telling me that the only logical
answer is the wrong one because there is a chance they wont believe
him. What would the alternative be? DBD's new family came over for a
slumber party, DBD got wasted and Liam started punching him for no
reason?
“Even if I pressed charges
against my father, Liam's charges would still stand. Self-defense or
not, he was still going to be charged with GBH because he did
do it, even though it was provoked.”
…is self-defense not a
viable defense in the UK? Or does this not take place in the UK does
this take place in some alternate dimension where the legal system
runs on a infinite improbability drive?
“What if he got sent to
jail for this, and I lost him?”
This is a reasonable
concern, my understanding is that the maximum sentence for grievous
bodily harm is 25 years, but if self-defense is not a legal defense
in this world, then what can you do? Now that I think about it, why
isn't it a defense? If someone commits justifiable homicide then do
they still go to jail? This is confusing. More confusing is that I'm
only 1 page into this chapter.
Amber decides the only way
to free Liam is to get DBD to drop the charges. She calls Jake,
explains the situation, and he heads over to the hospital. She then
calls DBD. Their conversation can be summed up like this
Amber: Drop the charges
DBD: Come to my house,
alone, and we can talk about it *twirls mustache*
Repeat a few times
Amber: Okay.
Jake comes over. Amber tells
him to go to the police station to see what can be done, then becomes
that asshole customer that makes your day shit by discharging herself
early and giving attitude to the nurse. Moseley then takes the time
to have a semi real conversation were Amber signs a waiver saying she
is leaving against the advice of her doctor. Considering how much
sense isn't made throughout this novel, I can't imagine why this
attempt at reason is here, other than to confuse and confound me.
The chapter ends with Amber going to DBD and sending
a text to Jake saying
“'I'm at Dad's. Please
come and get me, right now. DON'T CALL ME BACK. Amber x'”
And when Jake walks in on
DBD attacking you he will kill him and go to jail for life because,
as we have established this chapter, if someone commits a crime it
doesn't matter why they did it, only that they did.
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