This here will be my first one shot of where Ruby and Mac's daughter, Crimson, is first featured. In this one shot, Crimson is about twelve years old, and currently works as a babysitter, however, one of the kids she usually visits, is hiding a grim secret from her... This one shot is based on the Criminal Minds Episode: Seven Seconds (Warning: This part will involve mature themes, such as verbal and sexual abuse, kidnapping, a few cuss words and self loathing.)

Crimson's P.O.V:

My name is Crimson Gloom, I am about twelve years old right now, I live with my parents in a suburban apartment, and I currently work as a babysitter to help take care of the kids in my neighborhood.

My dad, Mac, works as a caretaker at a foster home called Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, and my mom, Ruby, works as a social worker for those who are currently going through stuff such as toxic relationships, domestic abuse, bullying and a few more, they are both awesome.

Sure being a babysitter has its pros and cons, and that it was one of the highest paying jobs that a teenager could choose, but I mostly come over to babysit other children because I enjoy spending time with them and sometimes teach them lessons on how they can care for themselves when they're older, it wasn't really because of much their families pay me to watch them.

One of the kids that I loved to babysit was a kid named Julie, who is currently seven years old, was the younger sister to my friend Nia, and the youngest daughter of Goo,who is a friend of Mac and Ruby when they were young. Whenever I would come to visit Nia, Julie would always invite me over to play games with her, such as playing dress up, hide and seek, or even a game of Go Fish, on top of that, she was really cheerful and sweet.

During one night, Nia's mom invited me, my mom and my dad over for dinner, and we got to meet some of Nia's other family members, such as her aunt, Jasmine and her uncle, Jordan, he was the brother of Nia's dad, Nolan.

While we were sitting at the table, and while my mom and dad were talking Jasmine and Goo, I noticed that Jordan, was just sitting there, not eating his food, but was instead staring at both me and Julie with a weird grin and a weird look on his face, I felt that it was a little creepy so tried to keep my eyes off of him, staring at us was about the only thing that Jordan did to me and Julie during the entire night we were there, so I shrugged it off, thinking that Jordan might've been feeling a bit awkward when it comes to family gatherings.

Me and my parents left to go back to our house, while Jasmine and Jordan stayed at Nia's house to spend the night. During the next few weeks that I went to visit Nia or babysit Julie, I've noticed that Julie's behavior changed a bit since that night where me and my parents met Jasmine and Jordan. Like Julie would normally become quiet and stay in her room most of the time, only coming out when she needs to eat or go to the bathroom, which made me feel a bit concerned for her, Nia noticed it too and also felt a little concerned.

One day, when I finished making myself breakfast, Nia called me on her phone and asked if I could babysit Julie, while she and her mom are off to a doctor's appointment, and her father is at work. Since I didn't have any plans, I agreed to watch over Julie and informed my parents that I was gonna babysit Julie for today.

As soon as I arrived to the house, I was greeted by Nia and her mother, as they were ready to get into the car for Nia's doctor's appointment, as soon as they left, I found Julie at the dining room table, drawing what looked to have been the picture of a girl.

I walked over to Julie and sat next to her. "Hey Julie." I said to Julie in a soft tone as she turned towards me. "Whatcha drawing?"

"A little picture of me." Julie said, her tone a bit blank and monotone.

I then noticed something around Julie's neck, it looked to have been a heart shaped necklace with a moonstone heart. "Oh, that's a pretty necklace there." I said as I smiled at Julie. "Did your parents buy you that?"

"No, my uncle bought it for me." Julie said as she didn't look at me, her voice still monotone and blank. "He thought I would look nice in it."

"Oh, that's sweet of him." I said as I smiled. "It really does look good on you."

"I know, my sister and parents thought it looked nice too." Julie said while she was still drawing.

During the majority of the day, me and Julie didn't talk very much, we sat and watch a few cartoons together, but Julie mostly spent time in her room, away from me, not wanting to come out, one time, when I left after going to the bathroom, I noticed that Julie was taking a little bit of a nap inside her room on her bed.

When I looked at Julie, I noticed that she held a stuffed teddy bear close to her, her cheeks looked to have been wet from what looked to have been crying, and she was shivering like a leaf.

It looked as though Julie was having a nightmare of some sort, so I quietly went over to Julie and the covers over her, making Julie shiver less and sleep peacefully.

Soon after I left Julie's room and closed the door, I went over to the table that Julie was sitting at while she was drawing, and started cleaning up the table of any crayons, pencils or paper that were left on the table.

I noticed a couple of drawings that were on the table that Julie made, one about Julie being with her sister, one where a dog was playing with a toy ball, and one with a butterfly flying around, I smiled a bit at the drawings, but then I turned my attention to one that was crumbled up and thrown into the trash can.

I took the crumbled up drawing from the trash, managed to uncrumble it and see what it was, when I saw what it was, my eyes were shrunken with horror and I immediately pushed away the drawing.

The drawing revealed to be a picture of Julie, as bruises were shown all around her arms and legs, she had scars and messed up makeup on her face, her clothes were also raggedy and were full of stains, and on top of that, the drawing was also scribbled over in red and black crayon and was crumbled.

I wasn't sure of what to think when I saw that drawing, but a part of me believed that something was definitely wrong, from how quiet and scared she has become, it made me believe that Julie is being abused by someone, I wasn't sure if she was being abused physically, verbally or even sexually, but whatever it was, I had to find out what it was and figure out a way to help her.

When Nia and her parents got back home, I at first wanted to tell them of how Julie's been acting and what she did to one of her drawings, but I felt unsure of telling them because I was worried that I would've been accused of hurting her, or that they didn't believe me, or that maybe people would start to make fun of them and talk down on them.

So for now, I kept it a secret from both Julie's family, and my own, because I wasn't really sure of Julie was going through, so until I found enough evidence, and find out what's really going on, the only thing I could do now is continue to watch her and see what happens in the near future.

Soon after the day Nia and her mom got home from the doctor and her dad returning from work, Nia invited me over to hang out with her and her family to the mall to do a bit of shopping, while my parents were at work. Jasmine and Jordan were there with us too, as they felt interested in going with them.

While Nia and Julie's parents were looking through a few antiques, Me, Nia and Julie were at the arcade playing a few games, me and Nia were playing a dance dance revolution game, the arcade was a little crowded, Nia asked Juliet if she could stay near us so she wouldn't get lost.

After I managed to beat Nia's high score, we stopped playing the game. "Geez, Crimson, how are you able to dance so fast?" Nia asked as she was trying to catch her breath.

"You could thank Wilt for that." I said while smirking, Wilt is an imaginary friend who happens to be close to my dad at Foster's, and Wilt's been able to teach me some really interesting moves.

Julie then walked over to us. "Um, is it okay if we leave?" Julie asked as she looked to be a little scared. "I want to get an ice cream and I don't like how loud the arcade is."

To be honest, I could agree a bit with Julie, loud sounds weren't my thing, never was large crowds in the arcade. "Uh, sure, we can go." I said.

"Good idea, my legs are killing me." Nia said as she still tried catching her breath.

So Nia, Julie and I left the arcade to go and get Julie an ice cream, but before we could go, Jasmine noticed that we were walking out of the arcade, so she walked over to us.

"Hey kids, how's everything going?" Jasmine asked as she smiled at us.

"We wanted to take a break from the arcade." I explained. "It was getting a bit loud in there and it made Julie uncomfortable, so we thought we could take a break and let her get an ice cream."

"Oh, that sounds nice." Jasmine said as she then held Julie's hand. "I could go and get her an ice cream, you guys can go back to playing a few more games in the arcade."

"You sure we could do that?" I asked while feeling a bit unsure. "We asked Julie that she could stay close to us, so she wouldn't get lost."

"Oh don't worry, Julie will be in great hands with me." Jasmine said with a smile and turned over to Julie. "Isn't that right, Julie?"

Julie felt a little quiet, but not as much as she was when I came over to babysit her yesterday. "I guess you're right." Julie said as she then held Jasmine's hand.

"Great." Jasmine said as she smiled. "Well, then, we best be off, have a good time at the mall."

Soon after Jasmine left with Julie, I couldn't help but feel a bit suspicious of Jasmine, I know she looked to be happy, but the tone of her voice didn't really feel all that sweet, since Jasmine was Nia and Julie's aunt though, it felt best to not let paranoia get the best of me.

"So Crimson, since Julie went to get an ice cream, maybe we could go back into the arcade and win a few more prizes." Nia said while turning towards me. "My feet are feeling a bit better now."

"I guess a few more games couldn't hurt." I said as I still felt a little unsure, but didn't want to let paranoia take the best of me.

So I went back into the arcade with Nia to play a few games, after that, we left the arcade, but we then noticed that Nia's parents were around the mall looking for something.

When they noticed me and Nia, they walked over to me. "Have you guys seen, Julie?" Nia and Julie's mom asked as she seemed to be a bit worried.

"Last time we saw her, she was with Jasmine getting an ice cream." I mentioned.

"What's going on?" A voice asked as we turned to see Jasmine walking towards us, but Julie wasn't anywhere to be seen.

"Jasmine, have you seen Julie?" Nia and Julie mom asked. "Is she with you?"

"Well, we were going to get an ice cream, but Julie needed to go to the bathrooms first." Jasmine explained as she then looked just as worried. "I waited for about a few minutes and she didn't leave, when I went to check on her, she was gone, as if she was taken by someone, I found this in the trash can in the bathroom."

Jasmine showed the necklace that Julie got from her uncle, at this point, me, along Nia and her parents, were staring to become worried that something bad might've happened Julie.

"That's the same necklace that Julie wore." I mentioned. "The one that she got from her uncle Jordan."

"Oh my god! Julie!? Julie where are you!?!" Nia and Julie's mom asked as she and her husband started to go around the mall to search for Julie.

Me and Nia became worried too as we helped her parents try and find Julie, we checked almost every store, every bathroom that was in the mall, but we haven't gotten close to finding Julie, so Jasmine used her phone to call the authorities so that they could help us find Julie.

After that, the mall was sent into lockdown so that the police would have a better chance at finding Julie, Me, along with Nia, her parents and her aunt and uncle were the only ones on the mall, because we were about the only people who last saw Julie.

The police began to ask us a few questions involving Julie, and what and where she was doing before she disappeared, one of the officers went to me and Nia next to ask us a few questions.

"So, what were you and Julie doing, before she disappeared?" The officer asked me and Nia.

"We were at the arcade playing a few video games, Julie asked if we could leave because she didn't like how loud the arcade was, and that we could get her an ice cream." I explained.

"So, we're the arcade machines loud, or we're the people in the arcade loud?" The Officer asked.

"I think maybe it was a bit of both." Nia explained. "Then after that, our aunt Jasmine offered to go get Julie an ice cream, when she came back, she informed us that Julie went missing in the bathrooms."

"I see." The officer said as he jolted down a few notes. "So, does Julie have any people that she hates, any people she might've upset?"

"Well, not that we know of." I explained.

"Okay, so are there any other things that you could inform us of Julie?" The officer asked.

Me and Nia looked at each other as we knew that Julie has been acting more strange than usual, so Nia turned to the officer. "Well, Julie has been acting a bit strange lately." Nia explained. "She's normally very cheerful, but lately, she's been staying in her room most of the time, and hasn't talked to any of us that much."

"Mhm." I said as I gave a nod to show that I noticed it too.

"I see." The officer said. "Well, that's about all that I could ask you, I'll question your aunt and uncle and report back to you if we find anything."

After that, the officer left to go and question Jordan and Jasmine on what they knew about Julie, I then noticed that Nia hung her head low and had a worried look on her face. "I hope she's alright." Nia said as she frowned.

"Me too." I said as I put my hand on Nia's shoulder to help comfort her.

After the police finished giving Me, Nia, her parents, Jordan and Jasmine a few questions, the police began to search the mall to see if they could find Julie, I however, didn't feel like wanting to sit around and do nothing, even if me and Julie aren't related, it was my responsibility to make sure that Julie is safe, and I felt partially responsible for her disappearance because I left her.

So I sneaked deeper into the mall so that I wouldn't alert the police of my disappearance as well, I tried to looking into some of the other stores and also some of the storage rooms in order to find Julie.

I went into the last storage room that was on the top floor of the mall, I searched through every shelf and corner in order to find her. "Julie!? Julie, where are you!?!" I called out while looking through the storage room. "Julie!?!"

I then stumbled upon a wooden cupboard that was at the end of the storage room, when I opened the doors to it, I was completely horrified for what I saw inside.

Inside the cupboard was an unconscious and tied up Julie, who had tape covering her mouth, had all her limbs tied up, and had bruises on both her face and on her arms and legs, just like what I saw in the crumbled up drawing that Julie made.

I immediately got her out of the cupboard and gently placed her onto the ground, I took the tape off her mouth and tried to get Julie to wake up. "Julie!? Julie please wake up!!" I shouted as I tried to wake up Julie. "Julie!!"

Julie began to cough a bit as she then slowly began to close her eyes and turn her head to me. "Crimson?" Julie asked.

"Julie! Oh thank goodness!!" I said as I gave Julie a hug, I was so relieved that she was still alive. "We were so worried about you, now come on, let's get you back to Nina and the others."

But before I could do so, I felt a strong tug on my shirt and saw Julie grabbing it. "No! I don't want to go back!" Julie shouted as she held onto me. "I don't want them to see me!"

"Julie, it's alright." I said as I reassured Julie. "You're safe now, we can go back to Nia and your parents."

"No! I said I don't want to leave!!" Julie shouted as tears streamed from her cheeks. "He'll continue to hurt me!! And I'll be severely punished because of it!!"

At this point, I then became concerned and confused, who was Julie talking about? And why did she say she was gonna get punished? When I saw how scared Julie was, it reminded me of how she acted when I saw her taking nap, so I decided to stay with her.

"Who'll hurt you?" I asked Julie as she turned away from me, I then took a deep sigh as I then looked at Julie with a stern look, it was about time I tried to help Julie with what was wrong. "Listen, Julie, I know I come over to babysit you and hang out with your sister, but I'm here to assure you that you can talk to me about anything that's been bothering you, and do whatever I can to help."

Julie then let out a few tears as she sniffled. "I have kept so many secrets from you and the rest of my family..." Julie said as she sniffled. "That night, when you, your parents and my uncle Jordan and aunt Jasmine came over, my uncle Jordan...snuck into my room...forced me to take off my clothes...he started to doing things to me..things that made me feel dirty....he threatened me to be quiet or he will become very angry and hurt me....he kept doing it to me multiple times...and when my aunt Jasmine brought me here...she beat me up and blamed me for ruining her family....so she tried to get rid of me...I...I feel so dirty and disgusting!!!"

As Julie started crying, I became so horrified in disbelief of what happened to Julie, she endured so much pain from both her aunt and uncle and was too afraid to tell any of us because of the consequences, from the drawing that she made of herself, to her sudden change in behavior, it was plain to see that she was being both being abused sexually and physically, the worst part was that I felt I was responsible for the pain that Julie endured because I was so blind in seeing what was going on, and I was angry at that.

"Julie...I want you to stay here..." I said in a serious tone. "I'm going to have a talk with your aunt and set things right..."

So soon after I managed to untie Julie and keep her safe inside the storage room, I rushed down to the bottom floor of the mall and found one of the officers talking to Jasmine, I every inch of my body boiling with unbridled anger at Jasmine.

"Crimson, we were wondering where you were." Jasmine said as she smiled.

"Don't you Crimson me, you demented self absorbed witch!!" I shouted at her while feeling angry.

"Crimson? What on earth is making say these things!?" Jasmine asked as she was appalled.

"Was it true!? Were you really the one that beat up Julie and hid her in a cupboard in one of the storage rooms!?" I asked in complete anger. "The one that refused to help her when she was vulnerable!?! The one who allowed your husband to repeatedly molest her!?"

"Wait, you found Julie!?" The officer asked in shock. "Where is she?"

"She's one of the storage rooms at the top floor of the mall." I explained as the officer informed Nia and her parents of where she was and went to her.

"This was not supposed to happen to my family, Crimson." Jasmine said as she tried to be sweet, but I saw right through her lies. "You know me, I would never hurt Julie."

"It didn't just happen, Jasmine." I said in anger. "You took her, a seven year old vulnerable child who trusted you and your husband, you need to tell me what happened!!"

"I-I don't know what you're talking about..." Jasmine said as she looked away.

I then turned to notice the crumbled up drawing on one of the tables, one of the officers must've found it when investigating Nia's house, seeing no other way of trying to get her to confess, I took the drawing and showed it to Jasmine.

"This is how Julie sees herself! Self loathing, dirty, disgusting!!" I said in anger as I shoved the drawing into Jasmine's face and slammed it back on the table. "That is what your husband made her feel!! Those nights that you and your husband would come to her house or visit her, and he sneaks into her room, and tell her not to make a sound!! Do you have any idea how terrified she must've been!?! How confused!?! While you lay awake, protecting an animal that will always have those urges!! And always has!!!"

"No! Please don't!!" Jasmine begged as she continued to deny it.

"There's nothing left for you to protect, Jasmine!!" I shouted at her. "Instead of shielding her from more pain, you blamed her for your own!!!"

"No! No I didn't!!" Jasmine shouted as she covered her ears.

"Yes you did!! You and your husband have robbed Julie of her childhood!!! We're you planning on stealing the rest of her life as well!!!" I shouted as I then grabbed her shirt collar and pulled her closer to me. "Tell me what you did to her!!!"

"Okay! Okay!! I did it!! I abducted Julie and beat her up and hid her in that cupboard!!!" Jasmine shouted as she finally broke. "But it was all so that my husband will love me again!!! So that everyone won't know the truth about our marriage failing!!! It was all that bitch's fault!!! She ruined my life by plaguing my husband!!! And you're lucky that my husband didn't do those things to you, even though he looked at you, as if you were some sell out slut!!! Otherwise I would've put you in your place like I did with Julie!!! You're just as guilty as me and my husband by letting her go and being a goddamn coward!!!"

"YOU ARROGANT BITCH!!!" I shouted as I launched all my anger and hatred towards Jasmine and started beating her up, but two officers held me back and dragged me away from her.

"Easy, miss." One of the officer said. "We need you to get a hold of yourself!"

"No! Let go of me!! I'm not finished with her!!!" I shouted in anger. "She needs to pay for what she did!!!"

"Crimson, we need you to calm down!" One of the officer shouted. "We will handle Jasmine and her husband, anger is not going resolve anything."

I wanted to continue beating up that woman for what she and her husband did to Julie, but I calmed down as I began to become mad at myself, of course Jasmine was right, as much as I wanted to continue punching her, I was the one that caused this to happen, because I was so stupid into seeing that Julie needed help, and that I allowed Jasmine to inflict her hatred on Julie.

Soon after Jasmine and Jordan were arrested, Nia, her parents and I took Julie to the hospital to treat the wounds that were inflicted on her, as I watched Nia and her parents near Julie's hospital bed, and watched the doctor inform them that her injuries are able to heal, it made Nia and her parents feel relieved.

I was relieved too, but I couldn't help but remember how scared Julie looked when I found her, from how she explained what both her aunt and u clue did to her, and to how she viewed herself, it made me break into tears and sob, Julie didn't do anything to deserve this, she was just an innocent young girl that was targeted by monsters such as her aunt and uncle, Nia and her parents still weren't informed of what Jasmine and Jordan did to her, they have to know the truth, but I was still too scared of telling it to them.

"Julie...I'm so sorry..." I said as I continued to sob. "I didn't protect you when you needed help...and I failed you...."

"Crimson?" I heard a familiar voice as I quickly stopped crying and gasped at who came over to me.

It was the familiar looking faces of a red haired woman and a brown haired man, AKA, my parents. "Mom? Dad? What are you doing here?" I asked as I wiped away my tears.

"Goo informed us that Julie was kidnapped at the mall and was sent here to the hospital." My dad, Mac, explained to me.

"Crimson, have you been crying?" My mom, Ruby, asked as she noticed my now blood shot eyes and some of my makeup running.

I was bad at lying, so I had to tell my parents the truth. "Yes, I was, I know the doctor said that Julie will be able to heal from her injuries, but I don't think she'll be able to trust me anymore..." I said as I let a few more tears stream down my face.

"What do you mean?" My mom asked.

I took a deep breath and began to tell my parents everything. "The night of when Nia and Julie's parents invited me, and their aunt and uncle over for dinner, her uncle Jordan starting giving me and Julie this creepy stare, and after we left their house, her uncle sneaked into Julie's room...and he started molesting her, forcing her to keep quiet or there would be consequences...me and Nia knew that Julie was starting to act differently than how she usually was...but I didn't think Julie would start hating herself for all the times that her uncle forced her to do such disgusting things..." I said as I started crying.  "And when we went to the mall, her aunt Jasmine took Julie, bested her up and locked her into the cupboard....blaming her for ruining her relationship with her husband..."

I saw that my parents were just as shocked and horrified as I was when I first found Julie in the cupboard. "I know that her aunt and uncle are now arrested because I exposed them, but now I don't know what to do....when I saw a crumbled up drawing of herself and how scared she was, I was afraid that if I told you, you wouldn't believe me and accuse me of hurting her, because of me, Julie was almost dead...." I said as I continued crying. "Her parents and Nia still don't know of what her uncle and aunt did....how am I gonna explain this to them?...All of this is my fault...."

I then felt both my parents hugging me as my mom turned my head over to hers, as she started tearing up too. "Crimson, please don't say it was your fault..." My mom said as she put her hands on my cheeks. "You did everything you could to help Julie, she is alive and well because you saved her."

"But I...but I still feel guilty for what I did..." I said as I continued crying.

"None of us knew what was happening to Julie...it was not your fault that this happened to Julie." My father explained.

"And I can assure you, that I'll do everything I can give Julie the help that she needs, and that to make sure her aunt and uncle never speak to her again." My mom reassured me with a sweet smile.

I then wiped some of my tears. "You would do that?" I asked.

"Of course, if it feels comfortable, me and your father could come with you to explain what happened to Julie." My mom said as she smiled.

I then smiled as I then gave both of my parents a hug. "Thank you..." I said as I still felt tears streaming through my eyes.

After me and my parents shared on last hug, we then visited Julie's hospital room, where Nia and her parents were, it took a lot of courage, but I was able to tell Nia and her parents of what happened to Julie, they were obviously heartbroken and distraught for what happened to their daughter, but my mom reassured her that she'll do her best to help Julie and make sure that she wouldn't have to see Jasmine and Jordan again.

After my mom talked to Julie and assured her that she was going to be safe now, Julie began to feel more cheerful and starting likening herself again. That moment taught me a very important lesson, don't be afraid to tell someone when you're being abused or if someone else is being abused by someone at their home, then you'll be able to get the help you need to heal....

(Phew, making this shot was not easy, I didn't really want to go into topics such as this one, but I felt that the episode from criminal minds kind of matched Crimson's personality and how she would react in a situation like this, so please don't be mad at me...)

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Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends belongs to Cartoon Network

Crimson, Nia, Julie, Nolan, Jasmine and Jordan belong to me