Dani Parthenopaeus

Chapter 8

45 mins late. Dani was 45 mins late.

Acheron started getting a bad gut feeling. She told him that she was on her way and it shouldn't of taken that long to much long to get here. He reached to get his phone to call Nick to see if she was still at Triple B. Maybe she got distracted and it was just his nerves getting to him.

"Hey Ash. What you need," Nick asked.

"Is Dani still there, she said she was leaving and I haven't seen her yet," Acheron said sounding panicky and worried.

"No, she left almost an hour ago. Maybe she got lost. Me and Caleb will go looking for her. I'll call you if I find her," he said then hung up.

Acheron tried to place her location, getting only a glimpse before it went away.

Where are you kid?

He tried again still only getting a slight glimpse. Without thinking about it he flashed himself to the first location he saw from the sanctuary to an alley.

Panic went through him as he found her in a corner by trash laying still. His breath turned ragged as he saw the bruises, blood and ripped clothes. He reached down to touch her but she didn't move.

"Dani...Danielle," he said lightly trying to wake her.

Nick came running down the alley when Acheron shielded her from his vision. He didn't want to Nick to see her like this... so vulnerable.

"Nick go call the ambulance," Acheron ordered. Nick ran back down the alley to call 911 and waited for the ambulance.

Acheron tried one more time to wake Dani, when he did she opened her eyes and crawled over to the wall pulling her legs to her. He tried to reach out to comfort her, but that only made her cringe more.

"It's okay, Dani, I'm here now. I won't let anybody hurt you. I've got you now," he said in a calm reassuring tone.

She only sobbed more. "Where were you? I screamed for you, for someone to help me. No one came."

She looked down at her clothes and cried harder replaying the whole thing in here head. They filmed her and laughed at her while she struggled. Who was that cruel? But she knew when she see them again she would make them bleed each and everyone of them.

"They raped me and they laughed about it," she said with her voice shaky. "They even filmed it and left me here. I tried to fight them, I did, but they held me down."

Acheron wanted to kill the ones who done that to her. He was so angry, he didn't know how he kept control.

"And I promise you Dani whoever did this to you-"

"Miranda Hemmingway, Alan and Tyree McKinney, Brenda Shields, Tom Goode, John Harris and Anthony Miller," she said quietly, slowly pulling herself together.

Acheron arched a brow at her, she knew their full name and no one would be dumb enough to say that.

"Well I'll talk to the police about them. I know you don't want to talk about it, but I need to know why they did this so I can tell police while the doctors check on you."

She told him everything that happened up to the point where she passed out, when the ambulance arrived.

He put his jacket around her and carried her over to them, telling the police what happened. Nick went over to talk to her even though she was giving everyone the silent treatment.
When the put the IV in her for a quick second her eyes turned silver.

The hell.

"Nick," Acheron called gesturing him to come to him.

Nick whispered something into Dani ear, low enough that only she could hear him.