Fate's Encounter

Chapter 18: Tears of Agony

***AUTHORS NOTE***

TRIGGER WARNING

THIS CHAPTER WILL CONTAIN GOREY DETAILS!! IF YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH BLOODY SCENES PLEASE SKIP AHEAD.

***END AUTHORS NOTE***

I had passed out after the second needle, which was a major blessing. However, when I woke up, my whole fucking body hurt. Any movement made me feel like my bones were going to crack in half. 

I was on the cold tile floor of another white furnitureless room and I was still naked. Fuckers didn't even give me the decency of leaving the sheet. My skin prickled from the exposure to the overpowered AC and I cried out in pain as I forced myself up into a fetal position. My arms felt like they weighed a billion pounds as I wrapped them around my knees.

There was only a door as an entry since there were no windows. A cell. I was in a cell. An empty cell without so much as a chair to sit on.

I hated that the first thing I did when I woke up back in this nightmare was cry again. You'd think that I'd run out of tears by now, but nope, the traitorous little fuckers seemingly had an endless supply. In my defense though, I was pissed off and when I'm pissed off I cry. Stupid fucking reaction if you ask me. 

Oh? You're angry? Yeah? What are you going to do about it? Are you going to do something to better your situation? Naw. We'll just cry. That'll fix the problem!

Stupid. Fucking. Reaction. 

It felt like forever as I sat there in the small room, if you could even call it a room. Probably more of a closet really. Albeit the cleanest fucking closet I've ever seen. I knew I'd loathe artificially bright places like this if I ever got out of here. I hated them before, but now that I was shivering so bad my body ached on top of aches in a tiny room after I just experienced the worst pain in my life...well, you get the idea.

The door suddenly opened and it took everything I had not to shrink back at the man who brought me here. He was still wearing his fancy uniform from the last time. His smug face and stature was to intimidate anyone around him that he had all the power. Though he wasn't a physically imposing person, the air of surety he carried was suffocating. 

"Well, well, well, Miss Reyes. It seems you have some explaining to do." He took one step into the room, eating up what little space I had between us. Another man came in behind him but simply seemed content to stare at the wall like a mindless zombie. 

"Yeah?" I asked as my teeth chattered. It's hard to sound cocky when you're naked and in a ball shivering to death, but I tried.

"That isn't some medicine your boyfriend gave you. Oh, can we still use the term 'boyfriend' for an alien species?" He turned to look back at the man behind him who didn't so much as blink, much less have a soul. "Whatever." He turned back to me.

I think he was waiting for me to just spill my guts after what I had just been through. Beg him to let me go and I'd tell him anything he wanted to know. I didn't think so. If they were willing to do this kind of stuff to me when I was a fellow human being, I would not help them get their hands on Xai'an. I would spare anyone that fate because I'd never be able to live with myself otherwise.

"Nothing you want to add?" He smirked down at me with an arched brow. 

I nodded slowly. "Yeah...how about you go fuck yourself?"

He threw back his head and laughed loud enough to echo off the walls. I was so not expecting that response. Had I not been so caught off guard I would have had time to prepare for the massive boot that crushed into my shoulder. Pain exploded and I screamed out in pain. He had aimed for where the needle went in and he did it on purpose.