Your memories will be the death of you

Chapter 5

Despite the dull ache in her head, Davina strained her neck forward and inhaled a view of her surroundings. She had her hands clasped in anti-witch chains (chains that prevent magic) which were connected to the floor. The room was dark and small with no one else in sight. Unexpectedly, a chorus of vivid lights ejected from the ceiling making her eyes squint shut. When she opened her stinging eyes, there was a glass wall visible separating her room from another which held five men bustling around a bed. Her heart dropped when she saw Bucky strapped onto the bed with wires attached to his head. Faintly, she could hear him shouting as his fits clenched angrily.

"I know her!" Bucky yelled as two men got ready to pull down a leaver. "No, stop! I know her," he repeated but no one was listening to him.

A voice coming from within her room reached out to her,"Look what you've done." Davina quickly turned around to see an old man perched on a chair at the end of the room.

"It's not me doing this, it's them. Stop them please," she begged.

"Alas, I cannot stop them from doing something I told them to do, can I miss Davina?"

"How do you know my name?"

Proudly with a mocking smile, the man replied back,"Isn't it obvious, I'm the one who improved you by getting rid of all those nasty memories of yours." All the confusion and pain that had been tormenting her for the past months had been because of this man standing before her. The anger and hatred for this man made her blood boil.

"You son of bitch!"

"Your not the one to talk when you're the reason why your former lover is strapped to a bed," he taunted.

"You're gonna do it to him again? Why?" she pressed. 

"Because thanks to you, he is starting to remember and we can't have that now, can we? Now before you name me the villain, look at who put him back into this suffering."

"You bastard! Let him go. Take me instead, please." The mounting exasperation tightened her throat.

"I cannot as I have another use for you and in order to be more ,lets say, persuasive, then I need you to have all your memories of the avengers." 

"What have they got to do with this?" Davina was struck with panic at the thought of this sadistic monster hurting one of her friends. 

"God you are one for questions. All in good time, don't you worry."

The villainous man nodded to a man on the other side of the glass and then turned his head to Davina,"I want you to watch his pain knowing that it is your fault."

With that, the man past the glass wall pulled down the lever and caused electrical particles to greedily feed on Bucky's mind. Davina saw his muscles tighten and mouth form a groan. She couldn't bear to see his suffering so she begged through her tears for the man to stop. To her displeasure, the man ignored her and continued to laugh at Bucky's yells for help. Davina shielded her eyes and looked away feeling weak and helpless. More fractures of her heart peeled away with the more distressing yells which leaped from Bucky's mouth.

At last, his cries died down and the man refrained from heartlessly laughing. She looked up when Bucky was unstrapped from the bed and came to his feet. Motionlessly, he made his way towards the glass where he stopped and stared at her with icy eyes of hate. When he saw her saddened face, he felt no empathy and he remembered no memories of her; to him she was just another target. She could see from the hatred in his eyes, that she had been obliterated from his life.

Slapping his arms excitedly on his lap, the man mischievously whispered to Bucky," Don't you think it's time to send a message to the avengers." 

Bucky glared more intensely at her and then turned his head and walked out the room. Seconds later, two callous men charged towards her and wrestled her in their arms. She screamed and kicked her legs frantically about but she was weak compared to the giant monsters. They dragged her out of the room and down an eerie hallway. From there, she was forced down a clump of stairs where Bucky, wearing an expressionless face, was waiting for her. He pulled her to her feet with his nails piercing through her skin and then he hauled her into a wall. With no effort left to fight, she numbly allowed him to place her hands in anti-magic chains and tether her to a wall. The coldness of the wall percolated through the thickness of her suit and caused her veins to freeze. Her heart copied her veins and froze when Bucky coldly spoke to her:

"Let's get started, shall we?" he mocked while holding a blade in his hands and then pointed it at her with a cynical smile formed on his face. "Say hi to your friends," he said, indicating to the camera set up in the corner of the room facing them. 

Davina looked desperately into the camera lens with pools in her eyes. "Peter, save me."