A/N: content warning
Chapter 21
I woke up to the smell of coffee and I couldn’t help the smile that got on my face.
‘Good morning sweetheart.’ Luke’s cheerful voice sounded. ‘I brought you some coffee and some toast.’
He placed the food in front of me and unchained my hands. I reached for the coffee and took a sip. I noticed the smell of the coffee was a little strange. There was a small bad smelling odour coming from it. And I placed the coffee back down, my eyebrows in a frown. After taking a quick sniff at the toast I took a small bite. My mouth felt dry and even thought the coffee had my suspicious I took another cautious small sip.
It was when the liquid had almost disappeared in the back of my throat that I noticed the awful sweet after taste. I dropped the cup and pushed myself from the table backwards, tumbling down with the chair.
‘What are you doing?’ Luke asked a smile on his face. It was when I saw the amusement in his eyes that I knew something was wrong. ‘Did the coffee taste bad?’ He questions.
‘What did you put into it?’ I licked my lips trying to wet them only to notice my tongue was almost dry.
‘Something that will make you calm…’ He said with a shrug. ‘Unless we make you feel emotions than they will be enhanced.’
‘Why?’ I felt scared.
‘I have to re-educate you on a short amount of time. This is the fastest way.’ He clicked off the lights and clicked on a remote. When he pulled me back up, by placing the chair back in position, there were pictures flashing on the wall. It were photographs taken from evolvers while using their abilities. Some were just males with their eyes glowing bright others were from men lifting up others in the same way Darth Vader did in Star Wars. But most of the pictures passed so quickly that I didn’t really know what they showed me. Only that all of them had blue, illuminating eyes.
‘How do you feel?’ Luke asked from besides me. When I didn’t answer he slapped me. ‘How do you feel?’
‘Scared.’ I answered him. I didn’t think it was the images that had me scared and that it had more to do with Luke standing behind me, but I couldn’t be sure. As soon as a thought entered my mind it disappeared again. I heard Luke disappear from the room and looked around. I was alone. Alone with the flashing pictures in front of me and I…
I didn’t know. I didn’t know what to do. I just felt afraid. When the door opened again, Luke came back inside accompanied by Tia and the fear I had felt nagging in the back of my mind became full blown fright. I started to trash in my seat, my hands were still free and I tried to think of something, but all my thoughts seemed to slip right through my fingers.
Luke had grabbed my hands and lifted my head to focus on the screen again. He chained my hands together again when I had calmed down and nodded towards Tia. Without warning the loud snap of a whip broke the silence seconds before the sharp pain made my scream.
Tia didn’t pause and the second hit landed crossed over the first.
‘It hurts!’ I screamed when I thought I heard Luke question how I felt. I had lost count of the times the whip had hit my back, but my hazy brain had made the link that I got whipped whenever my eyes waved away from the flashing pictures in front of my eyes.
So I did the most logic thing. I kept my eyes focussed on the pictures, not even trying to see the separate photographs. Only those blazing blue eyes.
I didn’t know how much time passed between the last time the whip had landed on my back and the time I started to shiver uncontrollably and felt as if I was getting sick. I only know that when I started to moan during my shivers Luke appeared.
‘How do you feel, sweetheart?’
‘I feel sick…’ I told him. My eyes were stinging and my mouth was dry. I had it to cold and wanted to hide from the world.
‘Do you feel good?’ He asked it on a tone you would use on children.
‘No I feel bad.’ I said in a whimper.
‘Yes you feel bad, this will make you feel better.’ He placed a small cup filled with lemonade against my lips. When he tilted my head back to drink, he pinched my nose closed and I swallowed quickly.
‘That’s a good girl.’ He stroked a few time over my short locks. Slowly my shivers started to lessen and the sick feeling disappeared.
‘You feel better?’ He asked after a while. Somewhere in the back of my mind I noticed the pictures had stopped for a moment.
I nodded and he smiled at me.
‘That’s good.’ He pushed another button and a video started to play.
It was filmed from some spy cam in a cap or glasses or something like that so I only saw the evolver with the blue eyes in front of the camera. He was levitating several objects and throwing them at the camera.
Luke sat behind me while the video was playing and carefully started to massage my sore neck.
‘How does that feel?’
‘Good…’ I mumbled, I tried to look back at him but his fingers kept my head to the front, making me watch how the cameraman was quickly dodging anything that flew towards his head. He ran quickly towards the evolver and lifted a long bootknive up and stabbed it into the man’s chest.
‘Calm sweetheart…’ Luke said when he felt me tense. ‘It is good’ he added something onto the blisters that made my skin cool and I closed my eyes in happiness.
‘Good…’ I murmured and when I opened my eyes I saw the body of the evolver lying death.
The lashings and treatments repeated their self. When they showed me the murders, Luke was always taking care of my wounds or feeding me. He stopped the shivers and sickness whenever he came close to me, stroked my hair when I was almost puking.
When he left the room Tia would come not much later and the video of killing the blue eyes changed into one of the blue eyes hurting others. They hurt me. By the end of the photo round or the video about them my back would be aching and I my voice would feel raw from screaming.
My morals were wavering.
The video in front of me was from an evolver who could control other people’s minds during a business meeting of some sorts. He ended with the best options.
I was shivering and I could feel sweat forming on my back, I needed whatever Luke fed me.
When the door opened and Luke came in with a bottle I turned around. I knew he had the stuff that made me feel like this in the first place but it made me feel better at the same time.
‘Please…’ I said moving my bound hands towards the bottle.
‘Not yet sweetheart. First…’
‘Bad.’ I interrupted him, ‘Please…’
‘What is bad?’ He asked me calmly.
‘I feel bad.’ He kept the bottle away from me. ‘Please…’
‘Why do you feel bad?’
‘I need it, Luke…’ I complained.
‘Why do you feel bad?’ He asked again. I shifted my eyes from his face and towards the video playing.
‘Because of them!’ I sneered. Whenever they appeared on the screen I felt bad. The sickness started, along with the shivers and the cravings.
‘You’re right.’ Luke said with a proud smile. ‘It’s all because of them. Here take another drink.’ He unbound my hands and gave me the bottle before changing the video into the killing of evolvers and placing a soft kiss on the top of my head. ‘You did well.’ He whispered, before getting out of the room again.
Enjoying another swallow of lemonade a sound made it to my ears.
It sounded like some sort of fire alarm.
The door was opened and a man looked quickly inside before leaving again.
I waited for the familiar sound of the door locking, but when it never came I turned around. The man hadn’t pulled the door into the lock.
‘Good…’ I mumbled and couldn’t help the giggle that escaped me.
A/N: so everybody still intrested?