Helen snorted at Eric in her sleepy tone mocking him for his comment of who was right and who was wrong. Her good eye peeked ooen to pin him with a amused stare.<br/><br/>"Man is right and woman is wrong. You only get one freebe with me."<br/><br/>She murmured a soft teasing joke as her eye closed again. She was drifting in that state between awake and dreaming. She wasn't sure if she heard him right when he said he was leaving soon. Frowning as she nuzzled down into the pillow, she incoherantly spoke in a murmur to him.<br/><br/>"I can't go back to him... he will do it again... beat me. I don't want to go back alone."<br/><br/>There was a deep pain in her words as she spoke in that in and out state of sleep. Her brows drew together as she rested but she wasn't completely out to dream world just yet.<br/><br/>"I know you haven't seen but... I have bruises everywhere under my clothes. I remember being in the hospital one time before cause of it... I think he goes to bars to be with other women. I ciuld smell it on him when we go home... just no proof."<br/><br/>After a while she fell silent her breathing became even and calm as sleep finally took her away. There was the occasinal crying in her sleep when she brushed her swollen eye over the pillow but then she would settle again. Helen wouldn't know what to do when she woke up the next morning but it was perfectly clear that she didn't feel safe and didn't want to go back to him. All these things would need careful cinsideration when morning came.