Taken

Torture

Alessio

I began my walk to the basement, it smelled foul but it made do with what was kept down here. Cells and interrogation rooms. Inside the cells were traitors, rats and people who deserved to rot in hell. I strolled past the cells when I came to the room that held the man that barged into Tatiana's room. Just remembering the scene made me angrier.

I looked to the guard that was in front of the door, a glance and he moved to open the door for me. I walked into the room, it was empty, the walls a concrete color and a single light flickering above.

The man was slumped against the chair he was chained against, sweat, tears and blood falling to the floor as he panted and coughed. Brandon and Daniel setting up my instruments after asking him a few questions.

And by instruments, I mean instruments of torture.

"Thank you Brandon, Daniel. Wait outside until I tell you to come back to fetch him." They both nodded and left without a word.

As soon as the door slammed shut, the man shot up panting, wide eyed. His eyes darted across the room until he found my eyes, surely filled with anger and rage.

He stuttered trying to form words but he was choked up. Obviously fearing for his life. Before I became Don, my father made it a big rule to never harm any of the women that lived under his roof. Harming, raping or any harsh or abusive words directed at any women would result in a punishment nobody wanted. His fear was my mom came from an abusive relationship and he never wanted her to feel endangered in our own home.

And of course, I vowed to never lay a hand on a women, a promise I made to my mom. I kept the rule and from then on, nobody would break it, unless they wanted a death wish.

I focused my attention back to the idiot himself.

"D-don, please. Have mercy, it was a s-simple mistake! I was under the influence please, it won't happen a-again!" He begged as tears slipped down his rugged face. I walked to the table of my instruments and scoffed.

"Mercy?" He nodded again. I looked straight into his eyes. "I don't think you gave mercy to Tatiana, the girl you forced yourself on."

"But Don! S-she liked it, she was in a flimsy piece of cloth and practically jumped at the opportunity of doing such things! I promise you!" I clenched my teeth at the lies he uttered. He claimed Tatiana to be a whore, a no good slut.

"And the other men claimed to have seen her pale legs and how she would saunter everywhere! She was begging for what she had coming, shes just a dirty bitch!" And thats what made me go over the edge, I swiftly went to him and punched him so hard, he spit out his disgusting tooth.

He started coughing up blood as I continued a few more times, I huffed out as he groaned and continued his pleading. I rolled my eyes, already bored of this poor excuse of a man. I clicked my ear piece on.

"Daniel, bring in the laptop with the video tape." And with that I clicked it off.

"I can't wait till you see what I have." My voice dangerously low. I look to see him visibly gulp.

As I finished wiping my hand down with a wipe, I looked to see Daniel with a laptop. I grabbed it from him and nodded at him, and he left.

I swiftly clicked on the tape and unpaused it, showing it to the man.

In the video was a door shut, it was Tatiana's door. Vince was stood in front of it until he got a call and walked away. Soon after a minute, the man stumbled in front of her door.

I looked at him to see his lip trembling. I smirked. As we continued to watch, we heard his bangs from the video. What made me lose my smirk was him using me to threaten poor Tatiana, as if she wasn't afraid enough.

We continued to watch as he pushed his way inside and the rest was history. I slammed the laptop shut, visibly angry as my knuckled turned white from holding the laptop tight shut. I closed my eyes and breathed out. I swiftly threw the laptop at his face, he yelped out in pain, slightly satisfying me. Slightly.

I walked over to the table and grabbed a knife. He began shaking and kicking.

"Trust me, this will be more enjoyable to me than to you, so it's better if you hold still."

Tatiana

"Are you sure you're okay? I can have you moved upstairs to a normal room." Vince's words tempted me but it wouldn't be fair to everyone else, and besides I shouldn't have let the man in.

Vince's arms were soon wrapped around me. I was confused as to why he was so close and touchy with me, but something about it was calming.  I was stiff at first, hugs weren't my thing anymore. But I wrapped my small arms around him to not get him angry.

"Tatiana I hope you know none of this was your fault." "Bu-" as soon as the words uttered through my mouth Vince shushed me.

"You should head back to bed, the doctor said that its better if someone trusting should be in the room as you sleep for comfort, so Rose offered to stay up for you." He grabbed my hand and we headed back to my room.

In the small amount of time we were gone, my door was fixed, and a brand new one was in it's place. The door was now made of firm dark wood. I also noticed a bed frame and a new mattress on top of the pale pink bed frame, accompanied with fluffy pink and white blankets and pillows. We continued in to see Rose on a comfy chair pulling out what seemed to be a knitting kit.

I looked at her as she gave me a small wave and smile, she was in some cute pajamas.

"I-im sorry for being a burden Rose." My voice only a whisper.

"Oh sweetheart, don't apologize. I offered to do this and I would be more than happy to watch over you." I sighed out and nodded.

"Ill be here at 9 in the morning to bring you down both for breakfast, goodnight Rose, Tatiana." And Vince left and softly shut the door.

I walked towards my new mattress and cuddled against my blanket and pillows and shut my eyes.

"Goodnight Tatiana." Roses voice soft and gentle. But what lulled me to sleep was the quiet humming of Rose's voice. It was so.. beautiful and peaceful. My thoughts slowly fading away to oblivion.

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5/13/22

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