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Post by Ceraphine Davis on Jun 1, 2010 17:49:01 GMT -5
The sun broke through the windows at the top of the curtains in her room, barely enough to shine across her face and make her groan slightly.
Ugh it was way too early for that....She always slept until Zeke woke her up....It was just how things went...Usually never having to worry about the sun until today....
Yawning softly she rolled over, her hair a mess about her slender form as she looked at the clock....It was already 9 am and no sound of Zeke to be heard.
Fuck! She bet he was getting sick.....ugggh not what she wanted to deal with right now. Not at all.....
Slowly crawling out of bed, dressed in her usual night clothes of boy shorts and a matching tank top.....As her hand came up to push her hair out of her face and to the side, her small bare feet padded against the carpet of her room, leading out into the hallway and down toward the door marked Ezekial....
It was only then that something heavy settled into her chest....the door was cracked ever so slightly and there was no dull sleepy hum of emotions echoing out into her......
She stopped, her breath catching in her throat and her chest siezing up as her heart seemed to try and stop right then and there.....
Instead of those always happy, soft emotions she felt every morning, there was something else there, something that was so strong it lingered in the air long after the presence was gone...
She recognized it instantly, that hate, that desire to do harm.....It was something she had felt a handful of times before...the last being at the park the night they had tried to kill her, the night Gabriel had saved her from them.........
Her family........If they could even be called that.....
No sooner had the word family crossed her mind than she finally was broken free of her current frozen position, running down the hall the rest of the distance to his room and throwing the door open....
But in her mind she already knew what she would find........
Nothing.......
Coming up to the bed, she gripped the edges of the crib, a scream already echoing in her throat as she spotted his binky and his dino....but not him......
Of course, her first reaction was to run out of his room, trying so hard to find him.....That lingering hope that he was just loose and running about somewhere in the house....
"ZEKE!!!?"
Her scream echoed through the empty house, no giggle, no hum of emotions either good or bad....
Tears flowing down her face as she felt her lungs refusing to work....her calls for him growing weaker with each passing moment......Then, she saw the letter, in the family stationary, pinned to the wall in the living room.......
Barely making it to the letter, she gripped it, ripping it from the wall and looking at what was written there....
Just like that, her legs gave out, body crumpling to the floor as she gripped the paper tight in her hand, her knuckles turning white as she slammed her fist into the floor, tears flowing freely and every inch of her shaking with rage and fear.....
Why the fuck had she not heard them!?
How the hell had they gotten in!?
How long had he been gone?!!
A sound interrupting her thoughts, something she could not place right away, until the realization hit her that it was indeed her....screaming.............
Apparently that was all it took......Carmine wasting no time to knock as he busted through the door...The alarm not going off...
Of course not, they must have disabled it.....
Running to her, he knelt down before her, his hands gripping her shoulders as he shook her lightly, trying to get her attention.
"Ms. Katashi!........Kevala!! What happened?"
She heard the words, but they did nothing but echo in her mind, nothing being given in return other than a whimpered cry and her hand thrusting the letter forward....
Those idiots thought Zeke was Aiden.....They would stop at nothing to figure out why she had come out so defective...They cared not that he was a helpless baby.......
Carmine read the note, already having been taught about her family as a precaution......Anger filling his features....Yet he remained calm as he tried to sooth her....
"Should I call Gab....."
"NO!!!"
With that she shoved him away and pushed herself to stand....
There would be no calling HIM.....Not when it came to Zeke, and not after the last time they had seen each other......No, she would handle it herself.......
"Get the SUV ready. I will meet you out front in 10 minutes."
Running upstairs she hurried to get dressed, grabbing up her items, and nothing more.........She had a feeling what she would have to do......She just hoped she was not too late........
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Post by Ceraphine Davis on Jun 1, 2010 19:08:59 GMT -5
Kevala was down and in the SUV before the ten minute time period was up, Carmine knowingly moving over to the passenger seat as she jumped in, slamming the door closed behind her and pulling out as the tires left black marks in the drive.
It would not be too hard to find them, they were a ruthless bunch, and above all else she was in a way linked to her son through his emotions. Not to mention he was her son.
But more than that, was the fact that they would not be trying too hard to hide. They would undoubtedly take up shop in one of the larger mansions outside of town...away from prying eyes and yet close enough to keep an eye on her.
Every minute that ticked by drove her more and more insane.....fighting back tears and trembles of worry and anger she forced herself onward....She had to...He would stand no chance against them, she barely did.....
It took them both, Carmine and herself, several hours of searching, calling contacts and driving around to finally gain an address on where a new family of "giants" had moved in. Luckily the majority of her family was freakishly big and stood out like a sore thumb.
Stopping in front of the gates leading up to the property, she drew in a deep breath....
They knew she would come, they had to....Surely they were not that stupid.....
"Leave your gun in the car...I wont risk anything being done to harm him."
Obediently Carmine removed his weapons, locking them away in the console as he straightened out the suit he wore, adjusting his tie and slipping his shades into place. A permanent scowl having been etched onto his broad features.
Ezekial and Kevala had become like family to the man, he would do anything for the pair, and as such, this came as a personal attack against him. He was ready to fight, but would not do so until she gave the order. He too knew that it was first and foremost that they get Ezekial out of there.
Just then a large set of guards, dressed in solid black approached the SUV, causing Kevala to roll down her window as she shot them a icy gaze....Her eyes unable to even shift colors as her fear raked her entire being......
"Tell my Uncle I am here to see him."
It was all she would say, her tone shakey and full of venom as they got onto their short wave radios and began to speak.
"Yes Sir. There is a girl here claiming to be your niece."
"Ah, little Kevala. Let her in."
The sounds of an child crying in the background catching her attention just as the radio shut off, the tightness in her chest only increasing as she felt a steady hand gripping her arm in a reassuring manner.
Eyes turned to Carmine, seeing that stern, confident look on his face....A simple nod given toward her, causing her to draw in a deep breath and straighten up, gathering herself.....Now was not the time to lose focus.......
As the gates parted, she drove up the long winding driveway to the house, met there by another set of security, undoubtedly family judging by the size of them.
As she nodded for Carmine to exit the car, she waited until he could not see her and then hurried to remove all her gear. She knew that they would have her do so anyway, and that was not something she could risk with Zeke in there.......
Only then did she exit the vehicle, catching the anger that flared up in Carmine as he spotted her without her gloves or bracelets....Simply casting him a look that spoke more than any words could......She knew what she had to, and now, with a defeated look, so did he.....
Of course the two said nothing, just simply patted both of them down and then led the way into the mansion, the echoes of her sons cries filling the air around her as she struggled to remain calm, never having such a hard time in doing such as she did now.
Hallway after hallway they followed, that reassuring touch of Carmine coming to her shoulder every now and then...as the now clear screams of pain escaped her son and filled the cold house she wandered through....
Tears burned at the back of her eyes.....Unwilling to fall....She had to believe he was okay, or else she would lose her mind.....
Then they came to the entrance to the basement, no doubt something that would simply register as another addition to the home instead of the stereotypical basement most thought of....
Down the stairs, slowly, the cries growing louder....
"MAMAMAMA!!!"
She felt her feet jerk her forward before she had time to realize what she was doing...Only to be met by an hand shooting out and wrenching her up by the arm...pain shooting through her as she winced and tried to pull away....
Yet there was no use, and as Carmine came to try and help her she shook her head.
"No! Stay back!"
He reluctantly did as he was told, just as they were led around a corner, her eyes falling on the scene and tears instantly falling at the sight of her son......
Her uncle standing there....Blood dripping from Zeke's arm where he had just been cut....a dish beneath the wound collecting the drops that fell in a steady stream.
His little face bruised, in some spots from somebody clearly gripping him so tightly they left finger marks on his delicate face....He was hoarse from crying so much, his face red and streaked with smudges of blood and tears and dirt......
She could feel fear, hunger, pain, confusion.....all of it mixing together and escaping him in steady waves.......
"Ah there you are. What do you want little one?"
He spoke to her like she was somebody he might care for, like she was really family...Though she knew it was a ploy, the amount of muscle in this room enough to stifle any attempt she might make, and he knew it......
"Give him back to me! Please Hideyoshi! Stop this! He is just a baby!! Of no use to you. You have wished to know why I became what I did....So..So take me! Let him leave with my guard here. I will stay...."
She was pleading at this point, begging for him to let her son go as her body tried to move forward, instinct demanding that she comfort her son. Anything to stop this....She would do anything...
Never having felt such an overwhelming need until this moment....
It only took a moment for him to respond, this having been his goal all along, but every second seemed like an eternity.....
Finally he jerked Zeke up, roughly handing him past Kevala to Carmine, who quickly took the boy and ripped his shirt to wrap about the wound that ran the length of his arm..Trying to stop the bleeding....
There was not time to really catch what happened then....For as soon as she spotted this, her body was jerked forward and away from them, the last sight she saw was her son reaching for her before a heavy metal door shut between them........
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Post by Ceraphine Davis on Jun 2, 2010 10:10:40 GMT -5
Three Days Later......
Had it been hours....or perhaps days since she had first come here? She honestly did not know anymore.....At first it had been easy to keep track of the time, every blow to her small frame marked to memory, timing the attacks until she thought she had some grip on how long she was able to rest before another round would start..
But those had been basic attacks, fists, knives, things of that nature. Testing her tolerance for pain and making notes of it in a journal they kept with them at all times....
Every now and then she spotted her Uncle, his presence there simply to observe as those beneath him carried out his twisted plans......his "tests"........
But then, once they had gathered all the data they could on that matter, they began to test their Qi's on her, and one of them was a mind Qi which affected her perception of things....Made her disoriented and confused......
Sure the effects wore off soon enough, but by then all sense of time had been lost...No longer could she keep track of how often they would come into the room they kept her in.....No longer could she estimate how long she had been going through this......
The only thing keeping her sane was the knowledge that she had saved her son. At least he would stand a chance now, far better off without her......Unable to be harmed where he was undoubtedly at now.......
Small hands, dirty and covered with dried remnants of her own blood would come up, pushing her hair away from her face as she sat in the corner of the room, waiting.........
It was all she could do.....wait for the next round....wait to die.....just.........wait.........
Then, the sound of the door opening brought those dull, almost white eyes up in the direction of the only exit into this room....
Her Uncle entering, flanked by two rather large ( of course ) members of the clan....
She didn't bother to get up, instead she just sighed, lowering her head and closing her eyes.....Here we go again.....Her only question was how bad it would be this time. Surely his appearance meant it could not be good.....Not at all............
The scary thing was, to her at least, he was devoid of emotions....completely.....It was far beyond him locking them away...She could always tell with Nathaniel and Gabriel when they did that.....But this...This was just simply the act of not caring.....
Sure enough, it did not take long for one of the other men to grab her up, pinning her to his chest with her feet clearly off the ground as he grabbed her arm and held it out......
Eyes watching as the other produced a syringe from the case he carried, one she had not spotted upon their entry into the room. Of course instinct dictated that she jerk away, or at least try to....But the grip about her wrist only tightened, holding her in place.....
The bite of the needle in her vein was not really an issue. The pain of it was nothing compared to what they had done thus far nor what she had suffered in her life.....
The blue liquid that they injected into her on the other hand....was a completely different story......It shot pain through every never ending in her body....From her toes to her finger tips she felt as though her body were on fire......Pain spreading through her like a wildfire.........
She bit the inside of her mouth, struggling not to show any affects of the pain....Having only felt something this bad one other time in her life.........and just as she did then, she could not hold it back, a scream erupting from her as she slammed her eyes closed and tried to jerk away once more.....
Then, just like that she was thrown to the side, her body hitting the cold cement floor and feeling her wrist which was already damage break once more......Though honestly the pain was nothing.....muscles starting to tense as she used her feet and her one good arm to push herself forward and into the corner of the room, as far from them as possible......
Yet another wave hit her and she had to stop half way to try and breath, coughing as she gasped for air, her body collapsing onto the floor where she curled up, unsure where to try and wrap her arms, due to the fact the pain spread through her entire form.....
It was then, as she laid there, that her mind started to break away bit by bit.........She wanted to die, but knew they would never give that pleasure to her so easily........
Another scream escaping as tears started to fall down her cheeks....Her hair falling over her face, concealing her from view partially.
There were no words offered to her, instead they spoke hushed amongst themselves...Things she could not hear due to the fact everything sounded so far off and fuzzy.....Her vision clouding.....Stomach turning in both agony and nausea.....
Then the blurred figures that were her captors made way in the direction they had come....leaving her there to suffer........the door shutting behind them.....
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4 Hours Later......
The hours had drug by.....The pain never fading, only continuing to hit her in steady waves as she laid there, trying to regain herself somehow......
Now, as she laid there, she looked toward the door....Through the pain something caught her attention......There was nobody on the other side......
It was odd, but then she thought about the pain and how she figured they must have assumed she would be too hurt to move let alone try and escape....
Yet she had been working on one thing, learning to manage the pain enough to move...and now was her time to try it......
Pushing herself up, slowly, she looked at her swollen, black and blue wrist, knowing it would be of no use to her.....
A whimper escaping........pain again consuming her, though this time she pushed through it....Barely managing to get to her feet before stumbling back into the wall....her head hitting harder than she would have liked...............
This was gonna be fun............
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Post by Ceraphine Davis on Jun 2, 2010 11:53:49 GMT -5
It had been hard enough to even stand, her body throbbing with every breath she took, let alone every movement....Yet she had manged, stumbling to the door and praying inside that they had left it unlocked...
It was quite possibly the sweetest sound she had ever heard, that click as the door popped open into her weakened little hand.....Resting her head against it, a breath of relief given as she laughed very softly.....
Almost losing it then and stumbling back.
Yeah...she needed to remember NOT to do that....
Either way, she then cracked the door open, looking to make sure she was right about there not being anyone there, and sure enough there wasn't....
Her family was big, scary and full of trained killers....That did not mean they were the brightest people in the world....At least not when it came to Kevala......
They, like everyone else, underestimated her.......Thinking she was too small and weak to handle the pain they were giving her....
Pft!
Staggering out into the open corridor she looked around....There was no way she could make it out through the way she came in, but they had to have an alternate escape route, seeing as how they had their own set of enemies.....
Slowly she began to feel along the wall, spotting a table off to the side lined with different toxins, syringes and a cell phone.....
Honestly, the gods must have figured she had some kind of purpose...Because they sure as hell were helping her out. Seems like the family was getting sloppy....Thankfully...
Grabbing up the cell she continued on her way around the room, searching for the smallest crack in the wall....any change in density....Anything......
Just when she was about to give up, she felt the wall give just slightly under her prying hand......
The sound of voices in the hallway above her were what got her ass moving a bit faster.......Shoving with every bit of strength she could manage finally managing to push open the passageway far enough to slip into.......
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20 minutes Later............
Kevala had been trying to get out of that passage way for over 20 minutes....But it had been dark, her vision still blurry and her body still being forced to remain upright........
Yet she managed just the same...Stumbling out into the darkness of the night.
Okay so it was night time.....but the date was still a mystery....Not like she cared at the moment.....
No, she was more intent upon getting the hell out of here.....
Which was not going to be the easiest thing in the world since there was a wall standing between her and her escape......
Shoving herself back up to her feet she moved to the wall, pressing herself against it and looking about..Making sure that nobody was there....That was the last thing she needed...To get caught now......They would make her suffer all the more for it.......
Suddenly a pain shot through her entire body, everything inside her feeling like it was shutting down....FUCK! She had known that shit was bad but this was fucking ridiculous.
Turning to face the wall, she looked up....Gauging that she would be able to reach it, IF she could bring herself to jump that high....
Stepping back, she drew in a deep breath, stuffing the phone she had stolen into her pocket and then forcing the pain down....She would not be able to do this for long and as such she took off toward the wall, jumping at the last moment and feeling her fingers brush against the ledge.....Her grip tightening as she struggled to maintain that hold......
The sounds of shouts echoing from the house....Yup...they had figured it out....Fuuuuu........
She hurried, using her feet to walk up the wall enough to get to the top, throwing one arm over and then the other before pulling the rest of her atop the cement wall...........
Then as she got to the top, that is when the pain came flooding back.....She could not do anymore, and figuring it couldnt hurt more than the broken wrist she had just used and the pain she already felt, she just rolled off.....
Better to die that way than with them capturing her again.........
Her body hitting the ground...hard....a few ribs breaking, if they had not already been that way......
The darkness concealing her from view.....
It took her a moment to regain her breath, her body not wanting to move anymore.......Barely able to get the phone out of her pocket and dial Carmine's number.......
"Yes?"
Well didnt he sound just happy as a little ray of sunshine...
"Don't sound so happy to hear from me..."
A broken, pained laugh as she laid there, tasting a bit of blood in her mouth....
"......Kevala?"
"Nah, the tooth fairy...Of course....Now get your ass to where you dropped me off, about a quarter of a mile down the road....along the fence line...."
She then snapped the phone closed and threw it across the road, not needing any sort of trace on her ass......
Now all she could do was wait........again.......But at least this time, it was for something better than what awaited her inside that house...........
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