Life just got better.. (Norman Reedus fanfiction)

Chapter Eight

I woke up to a banging noise and shouting. Panic set in as I realised my hands were tied behind my back! I was being pulled out of bed my head hurts. Was hit over the head while sleeping? I opened my eyes trying to ignore the pounding pain in my head to see who had a hold of me.

Matt! oh no! He dragged me through into the seating area where I saw two other guys. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I registered the scene I was witnessing, where Norman was on the sofa all bloody.

I pleaded and begged him to stop but he just punched me in the face i yelped and kept begging for them to leave Norman alone.

"this is between you and me you jackass! Leave Norman alone and let him go!" i screamed at Matt he turned to me and walked over to me and laughed in my face.

"Im not really caring, but hes involved now after my little beating and now you're going to watch him being tortured then murdered." he said laughing and walking away to Norman!

"Norman i am so sorry! I didnt mean for this to happen! Im so sorry Norman. Please forgive me" i begged tears streaming down my face.

He looked at me, his face all bloody "no, i wont forgive you, this is all your fault Sage, your not worth anyones time and im going to die because of you and its all your fault" he looked away.

I started sobbing "please Matt, if you love me let him go"

Matt walked back over to me "no, i dont love you anymore. your nothing but a waste of space and once hes dead its your turn. Ill promise ill make it as painful as i can" he smirked

"Matt please!" i screamed at him and he covered my mouth with his hand and i bit his hand as hard as I could!

He pulled his hand away fast "you little b***h youll pay for that!" I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my stomach, looking down I realised I had just been stabbed.

I woke up struggling to breathe! "oh my god" i whispered as i tried sitting up only to see there was a hand draped over my waist.

I looked to the side of me and started quietly sobbing "you okay Sage? whats wrong?" a worried sleepy Norman sat up putting his arm around me.

"yeah im fine just a nightmare about yesterday. Im sorry if i woke you." i said looking at my crossed legs on the bed.

Norman moved so he was facing me and pulled me around so i was doing the same "Sage, tell me about it?" i looked at him confused.

"what?" I stuttered still crying.

"tell me about your nightmare." He spoke quietly. I told him everything about what had happened "its not your fault it's that dickheads fault and i promise that wont happen. I would never blame you for anything that happens with him. Look at me" he grabbed my chin pulling it up so i would look at him. "I promise i will not let anything happen to you" i nodded as tears started to roll down my now flushed cheeks, he reached his thumb up and wiped them away pulling me into his chest "sh its okay im here and im not leaving you anytime soon" he said soothingly.

"thank you Norman" i said kissing his cheek causing him to blush slightly.

"go get ready, we need to head to the station" he said letting go of me.

i sighed "im just gonna stick my hair up ill got for a shower tonight." he nodded and i went over to my dresser and pulled out a pari of cotton bottoms and a top and pulled my Sons of Anarchy jumper over my head and trew my shoes on.

"ready" a voice asked as i pulled my hair into a bun. I nodded and we got onto his bike and drove down to the station.

*30 minutes later*

We arrived at the station and we were about to walk in when my phone started ringing and it read Damon. I showed Norman and he told me not to answer it so I didn't.

We walked into the station where we were greeted by an officer behind a desk "hello. How can I help you?" He smiled trying not to look shocked when he saw Norman

"we need to speak to someone about..well a lot. Abuse and vandalism mostly" he replied and looked down to me and pulled me closer to him.

"Oh.. Okay, right this way" the officer said getting up he looked at my eye and lip and could tell it wa serious I think he saw the fear in my eyes. It was time to come clean about my old life even if Norman was in the same room as me.

I hope he isn't though.

We were taken into a room and he told Norman he would have to wait outside "you okay?" He asked before leaving I just nodded not looking at him and he sighed and walked off 5 minutes later an officer walked in.

He was tall and slim with short brown hair and a smile pealed over his face "Can you tell me your full name and why you are here please?" He smiled.

"my name is Sage Preston and I am here because I'm being harassed by my abusive ex boyfriend. Who by the way should be in jail right now in Scotland"

The man looked taken aback "what's your ex boyfriends full name Sage?"

"Matt Stevenson" he asked me why he should be in jail right now and I told him that he had gotten 20 years for abuse and rape against me, I told him about Damon also, he wanted to know Damon's second name but I didn't know.

He then went on about my car and he wanted to see it after we were done talking and he was going to get it fixed today for me but it would take a week or two. Great I thought to myself.

"Hold on Sage, I'll be right back" I nodded and he got up and walked out of the room. I waited what seemed like forever and Norman kept looking through the glass at me but I kept ignoring is stare.

The officer finally came back in with another officer who was a lot chubbier than the first. "Miss Preston, I need to talk you about you ex" he said sitting down as I nodded "I have just checked him on the records to see that he escaped from prison in Scotland, we are not sure how he found you but he is dangerous. He killed 5 officers while escaping—" he was cut off as my phone started buzzing it was Damon again.

"That's his friend Damon" I said looking at them. Anxiety creeped up from my stomach and I looked at Norman who could see something was happening.

"answer and put it on speaker act normal like we aren't there" I nodded and held my hand up to stop Norman coming in.

"hello?" I put the phone on speaker on the table, trying to make sure my voice didn't crack.

"hello babe. Care to tell me where the hell you are right now?" It wasn't Damon's voice.

"Matt?" I said looking at the officers as anxiety turned to fear.

"where are you Sage. I won't ask you again, if you don't tell me you'll find me waiting in your apartment" he said happily..

"stay out of my apartment Matt!" I was getting annoyed.

"too late" he hung up. I looked at the officers with tears threatening to tip out of my eyes.

"what's your address?" The police men said at the same time and I told them and they ran out of the room.

Norman busted in "what's going on?" He asked while running over to me.

"Matt called off Damon's phone. He's in my apartment" I said started shaking little.

A officer came back in "there is a swat team on there way to your apartment. Is there anywhere you can stay until he is caught that he doesn't know about?" He looked at me then towards Norman.

"I live next door so it wouldn't be safe. Too close." The officer nodded in agreement. "Andrews. We can stay at a friends" Norman then said after thinking for a second.

"we? And who's Andrew?" The officer asked "yes we, I'm not leaving her alone. And Andrew is my co-worker and bestfriend he has a place in Atlanta that we could stay at as he stays in the complex so we would have the place to ourselves if it's okay with him." Norman said walking out to call Andrew, not giving the officer a chance to reply.

NORMANS PROV.

I walked out of the room pulling out my phone to call Andy. "Hello?" He said.

"hey Andy, I need a favour." I said looking through the window to Sage. I just wanted to protect her, she wasn't like anyone I had ever met..

"that depends on what it is. Last time you asked for a favour I ended up in Mexico bailing you out of jail." He said chuckling..

I rolled my eyes "that's was like 15 years ago. I need you to let me and Sage stay at your place in Atlanta. But I need you to bring the keys down to the station and don't tell anyone where we are please!" I begged.

"okay be there in 30" he hung up the phone.

I walked in "good news, Andy is on his way down with the keys to his place in Atlanta. We can buy new cloths when we arrive as we ain't going back to the complex." Sage nodded and I gave her a small smile.

"You might want to take a different vehicle though, incase anyone recognises the bike you guys came on. We need you's to lay low and you can't go into work either. So both of you call your boss and tell them"

Sage nodded and pulled out her phone and got Franks number up and handed it to me " I don't feel like arguing with him today" she said sighing.

I took the phone and chuckled "hey Sage what's up?" Frank asked.

"it's Norman. Listen can you talk right now? It's important " I said leaving the room..

"Yeah why do you have sage's phone is she okay?" I could hear the worry building in his voice.

I sighed "she's fine but we are at the police station right now because sage's ex boyfriend is trying to get to her. He's a convict and she got pretty beaten up yesterday as you seen her face... Yes Frank that's what happened to me too.. We need time off work. The complex isn't safe for her and we are heading out of town for a while.. No Frank I'm not joking! We need to keep Sage safe. You can't tell anyone. You and Andy are the only people who know." He eventually agreed and we hung up..

Sage walked out of the room with a police officer. They wanted us to stay abit longer so they can go through the protocol.

SAGE'S PROV.

Andy arrived rushing into the precinct "Oh my god Sage. are you okay?" He said hugging me.

"I'm fine." I smiled hugging him back as he looked over to Norman.

"I would have been here sooner but a swat team was all over the place. Oh here's the key to the house. Norman knows where it is" as he handed the keys to Norman.

I nodded "thank you and can I have a favour?" I smirked at him.

"I dislike favours I'm already doing one for you." He looked over to me. "But I can't say no to you" he winked..

"we need a different vehicle so we don't get recognised" I spoke hinting at what I was getting at.

"there's my keys and I'll take Normans bike." He followed me into the room that Norman disappeared into with an officer.

"Norm I need your bike keys. Andy is taking your bike and we are taking his car" he nodded and fished his keys out of his jeans and handed tbem to Andy thanking him.

Unfortunately Matt wasn't at my apartment when swat arrived but he had been there. I was shown pictures of my place trashed and word written over the place like 'b***h' and 'I'll kill you' the officer gave me both his work number and his home number to call if anything happens I thanked him and we left and got into Andy's car and started to head to Atlanta.