Can anyone help me? MacBook pro, blue screen

Hi can anyone help me please? I have a MacBook pro (13") I had an unexpected error (error code -10813), I now have a blue screen and all my apps at the bottom dock have disappeared. The time & date is in a different font (what looks to be like the safe mode font I remember from my old desktop!) I can't click on the apple sign at the top, when I do the few items on my desktop that are there disappear as the multicoloured wheel spins as it freezes for a few seconds. And anything I click on has this error code. It all happened when I was deleting music from my iTunes then I was forced to turn off with a message saying switch off from power button. since then dreaded blue screen! Thanks if you know how to help

Kind of hard to determine, try Safe mode and Repair disk etc
Perhaps you can get away with just reinstalling OS X and that will fix it
Instructions on this link, including Blue Screen and what your options are etc.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3046

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