Heisenberg brought Elizabeth back to his factory, placing her back in that room with the operating table, he turned around and went to grab a tool of some kind, not paying any mind to Elizabeth.
she wasn't exactly sure what she was supposed to do, or if she should say anything.
"What are you doing.." she asked him, her voice struggling to speak at a tone above a whisper.
Heisenberg ignored her and moved back to face her direction, moving the the tool toward the metal patch on her shoulder, out of reflex Elizabeth snatched his wrist, she was stronger than she looked.
Annoyed, Heisenberg stood up and grabbed her by the throat, slamming her down onto the table
"you really like making things difficult dont you runt?!" He snapped
"you could at least tell me what the hell you're doing" she answered still clutching his wrist, her voice slightly trembling
"your stupid weak ass body isn't healed yet and unless you want to die of an infection they need to be checked got it? Now shut the fuck up and hold still or I'll knock you out again"
Elizabeth let go and laid still, she watched as he removed the patch, her face paled when she noticed the sizable divot in her arm, a chunk of her bitten away, so much that a small part of her bone was exposed, it was already healing but it looked bad.
Heisenberg noticed her panic, she looked scared, how could she not be? He thought for a moment.
She probably came from somewhere much less...exciting than here and he hasn't made the last few days easy, the scars on her body might tell otherwise, but from what he noticed she was brought to the woods to be killed, perhaps where she came from was less exciting, but no safer.
The truth was he didn't want for her to suffer as she was, but he has a plan and shes an experiment, for now, her suffering must continue.
"Its not as bad as it looks, you'll be fine" he said in a poor attempt to reassure her.
She looked away from her arm and stared up at the ceiling taking a deep breath to calm herself as Heisenberg checked the rest of her injuries, he also checked the joints in her prosthetic thumb to make sure she could move it properly
"Ok, you're done, come with me" he said and walked off, expecting her to follow.
She followed him, but could hardly keep up with how fast he was walking and all the turns he made.
eventually they came to a living quarters, they walked in, Elizabeth remarked how dirty it was but thought it might be best not to mention it.
"You're going to stay here until i find what else to do with you, dont go anywhere unless you have a death wish, make yourself useful in here or something just occupy yourself till im back" he said and left before Elizabeth could say anything.
She looked around the messy room, in truth the room would look really nice if it where clean
"make myself useful huh?..." Elizabeth decided to get cleaning, it was nothing she wasn't used to doing and she might as well make it more comfortable if shes forced to stay here anyway, and perhaps if she cleans she will gain some leniency from Heisenberg.
She began with a messy bookshelf that was to the left of the room, many of the books where piled on a desk just next to it, Elizabeth looked at the books but, most of them where in a language she couldn't understand.
She placed them back onto the shelf, but made sure to mark the cluster of books that where on the desk, in case he needed them still, she placed a bookmaker under the first and last books in the bunch.
After that was finished she continued with the desk. Dusting the ashes— presumably from his cigar— off the desk and onto the floor, she would sweep last.
She emptied the small metal ashtray and sorted the papers that had been flung around.
She didn't want to move things to far from where they where in case thats where they needed to be.
The desk was sorted, next she picked up the rug off the floor, she hung it out of the window and hit it with her hand, she didn't have a vacuum and doubted they had such things so she had to do things the ol fashioned way.
Dust and dirt and god knows what else fell from the rug, she shook it a bit and left it to hang in the window while she made the bed that had been placed on the right side of the room near the window.
On the same wall as the door, facing the bed but somewhat more in the middle of the room was a sofa and a coffee table, they both looked pretty old but she couldn't imagine Heisenberg updates his furniture often.
She dusted off the couch, then went into a side room that was located just next to the bookshelf on the left, hoping it was a bathroom and that there was a sink.
Luckily it was, and thankfully Heisenberg seemed to have running water, she grabbed herself a bucket and a rag and filled it with warm water.
She set the bucket aside and quickly swept the floor, she realized that the room was more dusty than dirty, Heisenberg only seems to use it for the books that where in here, when she was finished with that she began to scrub the floor, starting from the back of the room working her way forward.
When she was finished with that and the floor was dry she placed the rug back where it was, she emptied the now filthy water and filled the bucket up again but not all the way, with the rag she cleaned all the dust and whatever else clung to the wood furniture.
Overall it had taken her nearly two hours to finish.
Elizabeth noticed a blueprint, it was for a machine she had never seen before, Elizabeth was pretty good at machines, her father was a mechanic and her brother and engineer, she learned a lot from them and even planned on joining the family business when the time came.
Reminiscing about her family made her sad, she use to have everything shed ever need and now? Shes here in this factory, abducted by a strangely aggressive man in the middle of Romania how did it all lead up to this ? She wondered.
Looking at the blueprints again she noticed it looked like some kind of headgear, she then realized all the necessary parts where on the desk or in a box next to the desk.
Elizabeth spent an hour and a half building what was on the blueprint, there wasn't much information on what it was for only "soldat neuro-headgear"
"Soldat?" She thought.
Translated that means soldier in German.
Just what was all this for? Whatever it was, she was apart of it now, in one way or another, she knew Heisenberg had plans for her, he made that very clear during the meeting with the other lords, Elizabeth hoped it was much more than replacing damaged bits of her with metal.
That she could somehow find a way to live with.
When she was finished building the headgear she made small improvements and marked them with pencil in the blueprints, she wasn't sure why she did it, maybe it war boredom, or curiosity, but whatever compelled her to put it together, she'd done it, and it was in working condition.
soon Elizabeth realized that she was pretty exhausted, not even from the cleaning, these past few days have been more than overwhelming and Elizabeth cant remember the last time she slept properly, not counting the times she was unconscious, come to think of it, when was the last time she ate?
The thought of food made her stomach rumble, but she cant leave this room, and who knows when Heisenberg will be back.
"Ill just take a nap..."she sighed
she laid on the bed, pulling the covers over herself, her clothes where in tatters and it was freezing after having the window open so long, the blanket and pillow smelled old, but clean like they had been just sitting here forever, she closed her eyes drowning out the sounds of the factory, until everything faded away and she was asleep.
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Ash and steel
FanfictionElizabeth Valentina starts her vacation off by being led into the woods to be killed, she escapes death by the hands of her adoptive father only to be sought out by another set to kill her. Once again escaping death she finds herself at the mercy of...
