What Happened To Serena's Rape?

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Eight months had gone by and a lot had changed at Holby City Hospital, for Ric and for Serena. Life had moved forward, times had moved forward and not necessarily for the better in some circles. There lay devastating news in that Edward did not survive his transplant operation, his body went into rejection and shut down completely. This news did not upset Serena as such, it gave her a realisation to the value of life, and the news had devastated Eleanor more than anything that her Mother’s ordeal.

Eleanor managed to hold things together a lot more differently to Serena did other her mother’s death. Furthermore, Edward's death, which happened only three weeks after Serena's rehabs stint managed to fix the broken holes in the relationship between …show more content…

Serena and Ric also spent a lot of time in marriage counselling, a gruelling process in which they spoke of Adrienne's death, Serena's need to constantly block her emotions, her infidelity, her rape. It took a lot of out her mentally, to explain to Ric, why and how she could betray him in such way. To explain how she needed to run away to save her sanity and how in running it did her more damage than good, to explore that day in detail the hurt and pain she felt from her rape; her disgust in herself. The knowing that she let the man she loved down – it was all ever so tough. Ric had to sit through her emotions, and he had to explain how it was hard on him too, watching the woman he loved pushing him away, and shut down. To explore how knowing his wife slept with another man, when all he was trying to do was protect her, it made him feel just as worthless, it had felt bad enough knowing he couldn’t bring her back from the darkness of her mother’s death, her rape. Therefore, to discover the affair, it did break him and he had to let her know how much it hurt him

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