TW: mention of violence (against children)
He watched her as she saw the tension slowely leaving every part of her body, till it fully collapsed unter his tight grip on her throat. He couldn't help but smile, having her under his mercy gave him some sort of morbit feeling of control.
The control he lacked to have over himself. It showed in so many moments, not only in his drug addiction in the past, but also him beating his kids as they got home late and punching his boss in the face were just three of them.
His last freak out costed him his job and with it all his financial stability- he got homeless and had to leave his children behind and even tho he would have thought this would be so bad it had to emotionally touch him in a way, it didn't .
He was like a shell without feelings, he was frustrated with himself and the unfairness of the world. It had gotten so far that the only thing that bought him joy was to see other people struggle- struggle to breathe, to talk, to move or to simply stay alive.It didn't matter as long as they had it worse than him. And he was about to turn these rare moments of joy over others pain into a consistentcy.
Oh his mind nearly swapped over, filled with all the disgusting ideas to make her time with him a living hell. He was already planning everything out in his head. A sheepish grin made ist way on to his notched face. He liked his plans.
After she would be barely recognizable, he would throw her into a cage and watch her, with no food or water, time to time, till every ounce of blood in her stand still, till her eyeballs were rolled far back, facing her backhead, till her limbs were motionless on the ground, till her heart stopped pumping.
After a few minutes he arrived at a tree near his hut, where he had left a wheelbarrow before he left. Till now, satisfyingly, everything went exactly how he planned it to go.
He pulled her onto the dirty wheelbarrow and pushed it with her inside till they reached his hut.
The hut was old, it was a small building with not more than 10 square meters inside. There were no separation walls, it was all one big room. Inside he had put an old matress and a cheap plastic chair next to it. The roof was leaky and therefore the matress was already full of water wich came out at the sides as soon as someone laid on it.
But he didn't bother, she would catch a cold anyway and he would spend the evenings at the lokal pub and sleep in their tiny guestroom behind the kitchen during the day. When night falls, he would come to visit and torture her till the sunrise.
He already prepared a bright light, pointing directly on to the matress.He were going to leave it on the whole time so that she were never going to be able to really rest. He also set up cameras to watch her everywhere he went.
In front of his little hut there were two ponds with dark, muddy water inside them and probably with a whole lot of mosquito larvaes too. There probably also been frogs if it wouldn't be so dark because of the trees surrounding them.
After he had left the wheelbarrow with the still unconscious Maria in it, he quickly opened the squeaking wodden door of the hut. From the corner of his eye he saw something mooving, he spun arround and saw her hastily leave the barrow.
That couldn't be real, wasn't she blacked out only seconds ago? Oh shit, she was probably faking it for him to leave her alone, he thought to himself. What a clever little brat she was...
She tumled, still shaky and wobbly from the past minutes of nearly dying. The reached for a tree to hold on to till her vision cleared a little but she didn't have much time, he was only a few meters away. She gasped for air and took a few fast steps forward, it was easier than she thought and she quickly made meters.
He followed up, closely behind her. He could hear her breathing fastening and getting more uncontrolled, but so was his. He got slower and the distance between them widened.
He had to risk it or she would escape and all his plans for her, with her, would never come true. He saw them pop like soap bubbles in his head as she gained speed again.
Then he went for it, now or never he thought as he took one last big step and did a huge jump, sending his whole body flyig towards her.
He managed to grab her ankle mid flight and caused her to fall down, head first. Her nose made an alarming cracking sound but the adrenaline in her veins made her not feel the pain intensely.
She saw tiny bits of blood getting hurled through the air as she appruptly pushed herself back up the ground with her hands.
She turned her head and looked behind her, he was still lying on the ground, this was her chance, her chance to escape. Once and for all.
She sprinted and jumped over the tiny stream of water separating two fields. She already had gained a few meters of distance. It was possible, she couldn't and wouldn't loose her breath this time!
She almost felt victorious as a shooting pain from her leg floated her body. She looked down on herself.
A knife, he really threw a knife at her.
It was deep enough for its tip to show through the layers of skin on the front side of her leg.
Fuck. That changed everything. She kept fighting against the urge to crumble to the ground and roll up into a ball.
She ran as if her life depended on it- it probably actually did, but she quickly pushed that thought aside before she could get too lost in it.
He eventually catched up on her and pinned her down to the ground, his face just centimeters above hers. She could see every scar up close and even noticed his slight smell of alcohol.
"poor little girl tried running away from me, like a terrified deer from a hunter", he said with ironic laughter in his voice and then in a serious tone he continued:
" too bad you're not good enough, aren't you?"
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I hope you liked it, next chapter is gonna contain a little torture action, so be prepared ;)
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