Safer With A Ghost | Simon "Ghost" Riley

Chapter 8

One week after being kidnapped

Ivy had been with Graves for a week, enduring torture and beatings if she didn't give in to him. The first time he tried, she fought him off. For that she was beaten with a metal pipe and wasn't given food. The second time, she fought again. For a consequence, Graves spent an hour hitting her with the metal end of his belt, only stopping because he got tired. The third time she resisted, she was choked unconscious after one of the Shadows hung her by her arms and whipped her repeatedly. Each time she said "no" she suffered. And each torture was different, one time being tied to a chair and burned with the tip of a rod. Another time she had two Shadows beat her and kick her until she coughed up blood. Ivy was weak and beaten badly. After each beating, Graves got what he wanted. Simon will find me...

Two weeks after being kidnapped

Ivy continued to suffer beatings and torture that got progressively worse as the days went on. One day, she had no energy to fight as she wasn't given food or water often. When Phillip came in she didn't look at him. He walked over to her and spoke, "are you gonna cooperate today Ivy?" She didn't move or speak. He looked at her waiting for a response, but he didn't get one. He shrugged his shoulders and walked towards her. She was once again restrained to the same bed she was in the first time she was here. When he was standing next to her, he put his hand towards her, but Ivy didn't back away like usual. Ivy felt the bed shift and Graves climbed on top of her. He started kissing her neck, she was repulsed by but was far too weak to resist. She learned to block it all out. Simon will find me...

Day 17

After an extra tortuous beating, Graves threw Ivy outside the hidden house they were at. Graves and his Shadows never kept her in one place for long. She put up a hell of a fight. There wass anger inside her, and she was close to snapping. Ivy wasn't angry at Ghost, Price, or anyone from the Ghost Team. She knew they had to be looking for her. She grew such close relationships with them.

Soap and Ivy were two peas in a pod, always joking around and doing things to drive Ghost insane. Gaz and Ivy were always watching scary movies together and racing the ATVs, Gaz letting her win every time. Alejandro and Rudy always included her in their card games. Ivy and Rudy gave Alejandro shit for not making something happen between him and Valeria. Valeria and her being roommates helped them develop a strong bond. Ivy taught Valeria how to be sweeter towards Alejandro, and Valeria taught her how to be tough. Guess I didn't pay attention enough. Every time Price visited, which was more than once a week like he planned, Ivy would jokingly call him "dad" knowing though he told her to stop, he loved it as he had no kids of his own and he called her "kid" in return. And Simon... though they both fought it off for a while, they were inseparable. She bugged him while he was on watch. He made sure to bring her rocks while out checking the perimeters, she loved every one he brought her, almost all of them resembled hearts. He tried not to show it in front of the team often, but he couldn't resist her. But no matter how she begged, he wouldn't sleep in the same bed as her or see his face. The most she'd seen at this point was his lips and chin. The kissing started off as small pecks over his bacalava, but eventually lead to him lifting it out of the way to kiss her for real.

As she laid on her back on the ground, freshly beaten and bloody, she closed her eyes trying to remember what his lips felt like, and what his voice sounded like. His voice is starting to fade... for the first time in days, she started crying. Ivy put her arms over her face to muffle her sobs. Her aching ribs got worse as her lungs expanded and shrunk. I just want my team... I just want Simon. She was losing control of her breathing, tightness growing in her chest. As she lay there crying, between sobs, she heard someone whisper. Ivy took her arms off her face and looked around. She spotted a face in the heavy bush to the far back right of the house. Soap?...

She lifted her head slightly off the ground, but as she did, Soap shook his head. She kept her eyes on Soap. He put his finger over his mouth, telling her to be quiet. She shook her head quickly. I can't give him away. Ivy looked away from Soap and looked up at clouds.