Days or maybe even weeks pass and Pauline stops by every few days to feed and hydrate me, although what she gives me I wouldn't classify as completely edible. These deliveries of substance aren't given without a price, without her torment. I've noticed the more pleasure she gets from watching me suffer and squirm, the more food and water I get. It is like a fucked up reward system. So I swallow my pride and play the game, the more I play along and make it seem like she is getting to me, the more I get. 'This is for you, my angel.' I think each time. The jokes on Pauline anyway, she thinks it's real, she thinks it is working. I have to fight the urge to laugh and giggle at her sometimes, or I'd give it all away. I have to laugh, if I don't, I think I might just cry.One of the days after she'd thrown the smallest disposable water bottle I'd ever seen at me, and dished out some verbal abuse disguised as a mind game. Taking a drink, I think at myself, 'Drink up little one,' to which th
Pauline would come back and see me every few days, normally not long after the beatings have been dished out by the men who are obviously working for her. She'll act all sweet and nice by tending to my wounds, giving me food and water, then apologising for the lack of it or the mistreatment I've endured. I have no idea what the crazy bitch is up to, but I don't like it or trust her. Okay, yes, I let her treat my wounds and I eat the food, but that's only so I don't get an infection or starve. With the small amount of food and water I am consuming, I am not able to heal myself properly and if I have any hope of getting out of this place, any hope of finding Chilli, of retaking my pack, I need my strength back as much as possible. So I reluctantly play along, whiles submerging my mind and heart in the thoughts, memories and feelings I have for and of my Chilli. The sound of her sweet voice, the feel of her lips against mine, the sensual aroma of her skin, just keeping her in
Now I know, now I know he is here! Elias is alive and here somewhere. I heard him, I heard him howl, I heard his pain. There is hope again, I have hope again. I just wish there was a way I could communicate with him to let him know I am here, that I am okay, well, alive. Shit, I didn't know what had happened to him or where he was. I hoped and wished he would be out there, safe, and searching for me, not locked away from me, like me, with her. What is she doing with and to him? Mind games? Definitely. But doubtful they are anything like mine. Okay, focus, how am I going to let him know I'm here too? I can't talk to him, but maybe I can send him some sort of message, but how? I need something, someone who has contact with both of us .... shit, Pauline! But how? It's not like I can give her a note to pass on to him or hide it on her, plus I don't have anything to write on or with. Think Chilli, think. As I run my fingers through my hair, I feel something wet. Pulling my hand away
Elias POV Lying in a heap on the floor and everything hurts, my ribs are probably broken again, my top lip and one of my eyes feel swollen. "Fuck," I whisper, using the cold ground to soothe the pain and reduce the swelling of my bruises. Five ... four ... three ... two ... one."Oh my dear, what have they done to you this time." She swoons, entering my room like clockwork. I groan at her presence, I think I'd rather starve or endure another beating than have to deal with her craziness. I've just been beaten an inch from my life, I could do without the flirty, googly eyes of Pauline, trying to play good cop and nurse with me after. "Fuck off," I whisper,"What was that?" She asks, clearly not hearing me,"Nothing," I sigh, not having the strength to talk or argue with her today. I hold back my growl as she kneels down beside me to lift my head up, helping me drink, I don't like it when she touches me, it makes my skin crawl. But as I accept the w
Struggling to suppress the panic and worry in me as I can smell his blood wafting through the cracks in the door frame. He's been shot! He's hurt, injured! As I force myself to breathe and calm down, I eventually notice my hands are throbbing, stinging where the skin is broken, black and blue from the repeated impacts with the door. But I don't care, not even that I'm bleeding, I am just happy to be feeling something, happy in the knowledge that Elias is alive and we know each other are here. As the adrenaline starts to wear off, I can feel how much damage I have done to my hands. Inspecting them now as they drip with blood, the red aroma filtering up to my nose, filling my nostrils with the smell of my blood. Hu? It smells weird, different. Is that the crap Pauline pumped me full of still lingering in my system? No, the smell doesn't burn, it's more ... natural, like a ... hormone? Alarm bells sound off in my head as something clicks. 'You idiot!' I snap at myself, 'crap!
I hear a voice, an angelic, sweet, soothing voice, whisper my name, "Elias... Elias," I open my eyes to see Chilli leaning over me. Her eyes are watery as though she was about to cry, but the rest of her face looks happy as she bores a huge smile."Chilli?" I croke, shock and delight fills me, "oh my goddess, Chilli!" I sit up and pull her into an embrace, squeezing her so tight she might pop, but she holds onto me unwanting to let go until she whispers, "ooo, watch the baby," with a giggle. I let go and hold her shoulders at arms length and look down to behold a baby bump, she's ... pregnant?! "Baby? Your pregnant!" I exclaim with pure joy and happiness, by the size of her, she is pretty far along and out of the danger zone. "Chilli, this is fantastic... arrah!" I cry as I try to move my leg, in all the excitement I forgot about the gun shot wound. Her eyes move to my leg along with her hands."Oh huni, let me fix that," she says softly, but I see no med
Chilli POV Opening my eyes and I feel groggy like I'm a little drained of energy, 'strange,' I think to myself as I run my hand through my messy and knotted hair. "Ouch," I wince, untangling my fingers when suddenly my mind wakes up fully and I remember my dream. "Elias?" I whisper, looking down at my hands, the image of what they achieved replays in my mind's eye as a sense of relief washes over me as I know, somehow even though the dream was a dream, that I did indeed heal him, I can't explain how I know, but I do. This feeling of hope and joy warms me, giving me some comfort. As other parts of the dream playback in my mind, I remember something weird, "why was I so big and far along in the dream?" I ask myself whilst stroking my still relatively flat stomach, "I'm not even starting to show, why was I so big in the dream, I wonder?" But I don't get to wonder for long as the door to my room slowly creeps open and a shady-looking man, slivers in and the look he g
As I'm forced into a new, different, larger room, with very little light, I struggle to see my surroundings as my eyes take a few moments to adjust. As I am pushed down onto the ground, I hear a growl from the other side of the vast space, a growl I recognise, it's followed by a bark as the men still have a hold of my wrists, "Get your fucking hands off my mate!" He snaps as the man's hands are replaced with shackles, my hands hit the floor from the surprising weight of them. The cold of the metal sends cold shivers up my spine as goosebumps form on my arms, making my hairs stand on ends."Elias!" I call out, now just able to make out his shape in the shadowy darkness."Chilli!" His voice rings out, followed by a metallic sound, clanging together, he must be chained up like me. Soon that sound is lost as a cackling laughter fills the air. Pauline. Pauline struts forward, appearing from nowhere laughing, be both growl and snarl at her from our opposite sid