Fallocaust (The Fallocaust Series) (46 page)

This made him mad, and I immediately regretted it. He picked me up again and kicked the door open. In front of me was a chair that looked like a dentist chair in the middle of a white room with a light hanging down from the center.

He put me down on it and I heard velcro.

He was tying me down onto the chair. I looked around in all directions as he fumbled with the straps. The scientists smile was gone, his mouth was a thin line. He looked at me and grabbed onto my mouth and squeezed it. When I didn’t open it, he grabbed a plastic box in a cabinet. It had two cords coming from it, that coiled into themselves. They had clips on the end.

Perish attacked the clips onto the inside of my cheeks. His cold blue eyes were distant and hard. Around me I could hear Reaver yelling something, but he was several doors away.

I laid there, tasting the cold metal in my mouth, looking around the room trying to figure out what was happening. I tried to move my arms, but everything was velcroed down and even without that I probably couldn’t move it much.

“We should show Reaver.” Perish mumbled to himself, he looked in the left hand corner. “Can you see us Reaver?”

He let out a laugh and turned on the machine. It whirred to life.

Suddenly an electric shock went through my mouth, like I had just licked an electric fence. My mouth snapped open and I screamed, my entire body convulsing. My whole brain felt like a fork had stirred it up, it was scrambled and confusing. I shouted out for Reaver as I screamed.

Then I felt something in my mouth, it was grainy and thick it tasted like a wood fire. I tried to spit it up but it just kept coming. Mouthful after mouthful, it dripped out of my chin. I had to swallow to be able to breath.

“This is charcoal and suboxone!” The scientist’s manic voice switched back to cheerful. My body twitched as the electric current subsided.

I didn’t feel too good. I just groaned. “It’s absorbing the toxins from the pills you took! You’ll be just fine! I like you, you’re adorable.” He beamed and pinched my cheeks. I tried to turn away from him.

Reaver was pounding on the doors, he was screaming. Could he really see me?

“Keep your mouth open, or I’ll have to make you again. It’s for your own good, okay?” Perish whispered, he leaned down and kissed my cheek. “You’re just so little and cute I want to put you in my pocket.”

He poured more charcoal mix into my mouth, and I just gave up and kept swallowing it. After he had filled me up with the grainy shit he gently wiped my mouth. Still staring at me like I was a deity or something. I didn’t understand it, this guy was insane.

But Reaver... Reaver was alive. I could deal with this crazy person as long as Reaver was alive. He would save us.

“Now we wont struggle, okay? I’m going to pick you up,” Perish said his voice was sickeningly sweet. “You’ll be good?”

I gave him a nod, though as he picked me up my head just dropped like a ragdolls. He walked with me out of the room with the dentist chair, and into the hallway. It was a narrow and claustrophobic with the same white walls and metal doors. It smelled so clean.

“Give him to me... you promised, give him to me. I did what you asked. Let me see him.” I had never heard Reaver sound so desperate.

“I did promise, didn’t I?” Perish let out a troubled sigh. “You may have some time with him. I will make him food. Soda pop? Killian, do you want soda pop?”

I looked at him, but I couldn’t even hold my neck up let alone answer him.

I heard Reaver say
shit
I think because I couldn’t answer him back. My stomach churned, with every step the scientist made my body felt like it was going to chuck everything up, charcoal and all.

Perish put me down and held me steady until I found my feet. “Get in the corner.” I jumped at the harshness of his voice when addressing Reaver. The scientists moods changed quickly, him being so unstable added a horrifying element to our predicament. I think Reaver sensed this too because he obeyed without question.

A moment later the there was a beep and I was pushed inside. I felt Reaver’s now familiar hands grab me as the door slammed, I heard him quickly draw the blinds, chains rattling all around me. Before he held me tighter than he ever had before.

I could only manage a whine as he drew me into him. I could feel cold metal against my skin, and more chains. He shushed me and held my body against his.

“I left you to go sentry last night right after you fell asleep. I had been hearing something electronic all day,” Reaver’s voice was a harsh whisper. “I’m sorry I had him bring you here. I thought you would go back to Aras but you started downing so many pills and fucking cutting yourself open, you crazy fuck. He’s had me here for days. He said he had you already. He fucking described you to me I believed him. If I knew it was just him I would have blown his fucking face off.”

I couldn’t answer him, though I tried but all that came out were chokes and sobs. I just closed my eyes and let him hold me. He wasn’t dead, Reaver was alive, everything else we would handle, Reaver was alive.

Reaver pulled himself away from me and I wanted to gasp. He had been beaten badly. He had a black eye, a large bruise that darkened half of his face, several nasty cuts on his hairline and a cut lip. He also had something strange around his neck, a metal collar. That was all he was wearing save his ratty boxer shorts and a stained undershirt. “Are you okay? Say something? You need to get him to stitch your arm, fuck you’re such an idiot.”

Am
I
okay? Reaver had been beaten to hell. I tried to talk to him, but my face just crumpled and I started to cry again. All I did was cry. I hated myself.

Reaver bit his cut lip and held me again, his body rocking back and forth as he spoke softly to me. “I’ll get out of here,” he said in a whisper so small I could barely here him. “I will, I promise.” He stroked my hair, the cold chains touched my back. “He made me watch you, I watched you the whole time. You were such a brave little Killi Cat.”
I cried, did drugs, cried and shot all the bullets out of my gun... how could he see that as brave?

I didn’t speak, I just liked hearing his voice in that moment. The charcoal growled angrily in my stomach, but my mind was starting to return as it absorbed the pills. After a few more moments, I found I was able to lift my hands. I put them around his body and tried to squeeze him too. He had chains wrapped around his waist.

“Hey, are you coming back?” Reaver said sweetly, he pulled me away again. He managed a smile on his sore lips. I knew it was just for show, but it still made me feel better.

I gave him a nod, I reached my hand up and stroked the bruise on his cheek.

“I thought you left me,” I murmured. Reaver wiped my tears away with his thumbs. His brow creased as I said that him.

“I was hoping you would know me enough to think I just died, rather leave you.” He frowned.

My eyes fell under his disappointed gaze. “You leaving is more likely than you dying.”

He seemed to consider that for a moment. “I could see why you might think that.” I watched as his eyes flickered for a moment to something behind me, I hadn’t even had time to check the rest of the room out. “I saw you when you found the quad...”

I didn’t know how to feel about that. On the one hand, he had been watching over me in a way, but in the hands of reality he had been forced to watch me in a constant state of turmoil that his disappearance had caused. What sort of sick person was this scientist?

“Can he see us?” I murmured, looking around.

Imbedded in the walls behind me were dozens and dozens of colour TVs with switches and dials underneath them. One half I observed were feeds of the city, and the other ones were what looked like the rest of the underground lab. Including where I had gotten electric shocked.

There was also a feed where I could see the scientist. He was cutting up vegetables in the kitchen.

Reaver shook his head. “This is the surveillance room. I can’t see any feeds in here, but I can see everything out there.”

Everything...

I looked at each feed, seeing empty road after empty road.

“Each TV has a switch to four more camera feeds, and a dial to zoom in... it’s insane.” I heard Reaver whisper behind me. “You can see everything from here.”

I swallowed the lump in my throat. He saw me wander around? He saw me at my worst, desperate and lost? Screaming for him until I spat up blood. Could he hear me too? I couldn’t hear any sound coming from the TVs, but what sound would come from them?
I crawled back into Reaver’s arms, he put them around me again. I could see now they were both chained together.“He wants me.” I shuddered, and I felt his grip tighten.

“I know, the only way I could get him to not kill us was to say you would like him. I had to tell him we weren’t together.”

“What?” I pulled away again, but he wouldn’t let me.

“He’s been alone for a long time, he saw us on camera when we were scavenging. You’re the reason he hasn’t killed us yet. He wants to date you, he’s extremely lonely.”

I burst into fresh tears. I knew what I had to do. “Just as long as you’re safe. Okay.”

He drew back and stared at me confused. “What are you talking about?”
“I’ll stay behind, as long as he lets you go.”

He smirked, I wanted to punch him in the face for that stupid smirk. “No you beautiful idiot. I’m not leaving you behind. I have you in here now. He’s not bringing you out and away from me. I don’t know what we’ll do yet, but I’ll think of something.”

“I’ll bash his brains in and take his card key?”
His brow knitted together. “It’s not that easy.” He brought a hand up and showed me the collar. I tried not to notice that the skin underneath his metal handcuff was bloody and raw. “He has a switch he keeps on him. If I piss him off... I explode. I almost got him too, but... well, he’s a manipulative fuck.”

I looked at the metal necklace and this time I recognised it. It was a slave collar, I had seen them in Skyfall before. They were put on sengils (a fancy word for house slave) and cicaros (a fancy word for sex slave) when they were in danger of running away. With one push of the button, it would detonate around Reaver’s neck.

This... this was bad.

I looked behind me to see the metal windowless door and the closed blinds where the plastic wire mesh windows had been. “I’ll make him let you go, a trade for me... you can get Greyson and Leo and come get me.”

Reaver gave out a dry chuckle. “I’m not leaving with out you.”

“He wants me, Reaver, he wont hurt me... but he’s shown he will hurt you.”
“He’s shown he will hurt you too,” Reaver whispered, he touched the sides of my lips and I winced. It felt like the clamps had left  burn marks on the sides of my mouth.

“Because I didn’t listen to him... I will now. Reaver... he’s crazy,” I whispered, not trusting that the scientist didn’t have some way of  hearing us. “Please? What other choice do we have? Best case scenario, if we kill him... we’ll starve in here. Reaver I can get him to trust me with the password and the collar switch. It wont take long.”

“No.” His eyes went hard. “I’ll think of something.”

I was too tired and emotionally exhausted to argue. I crawled into his arms again and I let him hold me. Reaver put his chin on the top of my head, I could tell he was watching the TVs.

I stared at the wall and listened to him breathe. I tried to sort out what was happening in my head, and what our predicament was.

Perish the scientist was holding us against our will, he was the only person who could let us out, and Perish wanted me to date him. He had already touched me once, he was already making his intentions known. I had something Perish wanted, and Reaver didn’t.

The cold realization swept through my burnt out mind. I nuzzled into Reaver and he squeezed me tighter. This was going to be up to me. Reaver couldn’t shoot or bomb his way out of this not without killing both of us, or him losing his head. Like it or not, Perish had Reaver under his control.

But not me...

Perish was crazy, probably easily manipulated...

I might not be able to shoot right, or kill people like Reaver, but I was smart and I knew I was smarter than Perish.

I had to be brave, yes, I would be brave. Reaver had come to save me, and now I could save him.

“He’s coming back,” Reaver whispered. I raised my head and saw him walking out of the kitchen.

I sat up quickly and looked at him, he looked back... and his face was flat and emotionless. I leaned in and kissed him on the lips, he pressed back and together we kissed deeply.

“Do you trust me?” I whispered.

Reaver pulled away, I watched his pupils retract. “Don’t be a hero.”

“I wont be a hero, I’ll just do what I have to do to save us.” I gave him one last kiss and stood up. “I’m going to do this with or without your help, but without will be a lot harder.” I held his hand, and felt my heart break as he watched me get up. I realized then that his legs were also chained and bloodied.

“I love you.”
I couldn’t read his face, but I didn’t break eye contact with him. Bruised eyes, emotionless eyes. Before he could answer the door opened.

Chapter 21

Killian

I dropped Reaver’s hand and turned towards the door, putting my blood stained hands behind my back. I sat up straight, trying to make myself look as strong as I possibly could. Though inside I was a wreck.

Perish held the door open with his foot, I could see the tip of Reaver’s gun poking through. Gosh that must be killing Reaver to see someone man handling his favourite gun.

“Get back, Reaver,” he warned.

Reaver was murdering him with his eyes. I turned and saw just how chained Perish had him. He had the thick links wrapped around his waist, his ankles, legs, and wrists as well. Every place where the chains were were chaffed and rubbed bloody. He hadn’t gone down without a fight, that was for sure.

“Perish, I want to make a deal with you, okay?” I said. Seeing Reaver chained like a wild animal had only intensified my faith that I could do this.