Julie thought for a few moments in silence.  It had been more than just her restless spirit that drove her to Chicago for sure.  If one looked closely none of the family photos around her place included a father.  Not many of the pictures included men for that matter.<br/><br/>"I guess I should give you the whole story." She said softly.  It wasn't one she had shared often.  In fact the only person who knew the whole truth to her childhood<em>and</em>her move to Chicago had been her shrink.  The move had been the good doctor's idea.  A fresh start, in a new place.<br/><br/>"My biological father and my mother never married.  I was an oops.  He sent support and for a long time I saw him regularly.  Even lived with him for a while, that was after...I was fourteen. Just another of mom's stellar boyfriends came home extremely drunk one night.  I had fallen asleep on the couch watching some movie or another.  He was quick for a drunk.  Before I was even awake he was on top of me lifting my night gown.  He swore he thought I was mom.   She had been having trouble sleeping so she was taking pills.  My screams...didn't wake her up until it was too late.  The neighbor heard though and ripped the asshole off me, but the damage was done.  I went and lived with dad until I was seventeen."  She paused and took a deep breath.<br/><br/>She had told the whole story in an even, quiet tone.  She told it with the same cold, detachment of someone who had been coached through telling the details repeatedly.<br/><br/>The next bit rung a bit more emotion from her.  Her brown eyes teared up as she looked up at him for a moment.  "Moving to Chicago from a smaller city in the middle of North Carolina was about more than just being restless and looking for a change of pace.  I needed a whole new start.  Things were fine between me and the guy I was seeing and then we got comfortable.  He let me in on...some fetishes of his.  One night, he went to far.  I snapped.  When the police arrived he was still unconscious.  I was not charged and I didn't press charges.  But he wouldn't leave me alone.  I decided to leave."   She let out a shuddering breath.  "I have thrown myself into my work and have been working more than fourteen hours daily."