Fostering Foster

What Pain?

So, this is going to be in 3rd person. 'Cause I'm lazy. This might be triggering for people sensitive to torture and blood!!!

The Neverseen hauled Sophie into a black van. They drove it for a while and then parked it in a alleyway. They then light leaped her to a hidden base an trew her in a dark cell.

Slowly, Sophie woke up. She found that her hands and legs were tied to a chair.
"Hello, Sophie," Lady Gisela's voice seeped in. Sophie went to scream, or even just throw insults, but her voice wouldn't work, and there was a cloth covering her nose and mouth. Not sedated, thankfully.

Lady Gisela walked circles around Sophie, occasionally throwing insults and punches around.
"You did this to me, Sophie!" She screamed, rolling up her sleeves to reveal angry red scars, " You will pay."

She wasn't fed and occasionally given water, though it was murky and gross. But, she drank it. She had to. She couldn't just give up and die because she didn't want to drink gross water.

But...it got worse.

It was now day 4. The threats and mistreatings got worse. Eventually,  Sophie didn't even know what pain was. Each time the beatings came she would think, 'This, this is pain.' But the next day something worse would happen. So she stopped thinking she knew what pain was.

At today's beating, though, somebody else came through the cell door. It was Fintan. He walked closer. She wished she could scoot further back in her chair. When he got by her, he reached out and grabbed her neck. He held her firm, but not in a choking sort of way. Slowly his hands grew warmer. They kept growing hotter and hotter. Soon, she could see the smoke, thick with the smell of burning flesh. Still, the pain intensified, until it was too much. She blacked out.

Believe it or not, that wasn't the worst of her punishments. Each day, something else would happen.

Ruy would come in and zap her with his force fields...

A flasher would blind and hurt her with light...

A shade would make the shadows crawl towards her, causing nightmares...

They would starve her...
Sometimes poison her...

And each time she confirmed that it was pain, but then changed her mind the next day.

Sometimes, it was just Gisela. But those were terrible, too.
She would bring in hammers and crush Sophie's bones. Torment her. Weaken her.

Then, Sophie stopped feeling pain...because there was none. Pain didn't exist. There was always something else she had to got through.

The bone sticking out of her leg wasn't pain.
The knife cuts on her arms weren't pain.
The burn marks on her neck weren't pain.

On day 6, Gisela walked in, "Come with me," she ordered as she untied me. Sophie slowly stood up. Not being able to walk for days, and the fact that she had a bone sticking out of her leg, made it hard for Sophie to stand, and her knees buckled. She saw stars, and then her vision faded into black.

The last thing Sophie heard was Gisela's exasperated sigh.

The last thing that she felt was a kick in the side.