Rose POV
I woke up with the feeling of wood at my back. I curled my fingers and realised my wrists were shackled. There was a bag over my head so I could see nothing. Some one came in at some point and gently took the bag off my head.
"Hello Rose. I am Bajan and I will be caring for you during your stay here. " He said. He unshackled my wrists and put a plate in front of me. I shoved it away. I didn't want food. I wanted Kaz. I played with the ring on my finger. If I could just see him. "Enough with the kindness. You want information and I'm not giving you any ." I told him. He left shortly after.
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This went on for three days. Bajan came in, offered me food and tried to get me to talk. When I refused to do either he would leave. On the forth night however, Once Bajan left for the night. I attempted in vain to use my powers to take my chains off. For the last three nights I had failed which lead me to attempt to pull the shackles off the wall. Tonight however the chains gave way and fell with a clang on the floor. I went to the shaft and opened it, beginning to crawl through it. Once I got to the other end the lights turned on and I saw Van Erk waiting with guards. I didn't bother fighting them as they lead me to a table and shackled me to it.
"Your crew of worthless criminals has stolen my wife so you are going to tell me where they are right now." Van Erk said.
"They are worth more than you are." I said. Van Erk just rolled his eyes.
"Tell me where Brekker's safe houses are."
"No." I said.
"Vary well than. Tell me, will Brekker still want you if your hurt?" Van Erk asked, signaling to a guard. The guard grabbed a mallet and walked back over to us.
"So that's your plan than is it? You want to torture me into giving you information?" I asked, unflinching as the guard tested the weight of the mallet in his hands.
"More or less." Van Erk responded.
"Do it. Break me."
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He almost did. An hour later I was tossed back into my cell, coughing blood. Where was Kaz. I wanted to see him once more before I died, and I had no doubts Van Erk would kill me. His guards came to get me the next day and I had feared that I was going to have to endure another round of torture, But the Guards just handed me a shawl and my weapons and said that Kaz and Van Erk were trading me for his wife.
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I attempted to hide my limp as best as a could as we approached the bridge but my leg screamed with every step I took. I walked over to Kaz as Alys walked to Van Erk. Kaz put his hand on my arm and I flinched out of his grip. He looked at me with confused eyes.
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We were running. Everything had gone to hell after and we were running to one of our safe houses. "Kaz stop, please." I said, leaning on a wall and putting my gloved hands on my leg.
"We can't. Here." Kaz said as he handed over his crow headed cane. I still remember making it for him when he first broke his leg. We got to the safehouse and climbed two flights of stairs before we stopped to rest.
"What happened to your leg?" He asked me. I turned away from him and faced the window.
"He broke it with a mallet." I told him, looking out at the canal below.
"You can't heal it?" He asked. His voice shaking with rage.
"Not right away, no." I told him. I took off my gloves and shawl and turned to face him.
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Kaz POV
I stared at her in shock, taking in her features. Her hands had two deep slashes on them and her face was littered in cutes, all of them deep and bleeding. I was going to kill Van Erk. I opened my mouth to speak but she beat me to it.
"He wanted information Kaz. He broke my leg when I refused. Than he moved on to my face, and he cut my hands so I can't use my power to heal them." She said tears in her eyes. "But I didn't care about any of it. My worst fear was that you wouldn't come for me." She was crying now, tears falling from her beautiful brown eyes. I wrapped in a hug and she stiffened before sinking into my grasp.
"I would've come for you, and I'm so sorry it took me so long." I whispered into her hair. I lifted her onto the windowsill and kissed her with all the passion and love I had for her. She kissed me with desperation, almost like if she stopped I wouldn't be here. "I'm not going anywhere." I whispered against her lips. After I got her to rest and eat a bit we started to head to the Black Veil. Once we walked into the tomb Rose was immediately surrounded by Inej and Nina.
"Your back." The squealed, wrapping their arms tightly around her. Rose laughed, and hugged them back. Jesper spun her around saying "The phantom returns!" Rose and Wylan shared a brief hug and Matthias gave her a small bow to which she returned.
"Is there a seat here?" She asked using my cane to limp over to the nearest chair.
"Did they feed you at all?" Nina asked bringing out a tray of cookies and handing them to her. Nina turned over Rose's palms and healed them, though it seemed to be taking a toll on her. Rose than continued to heal her face, than leg, returning the cane to me.
"We can get some rest, than we get revenge." I said
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Fanfiction"No! Rose Come back." You are Inej's long lost sister. A Grisha, yet a witch even to the Ravkans. You were kidnapped by slavers when you were ten and sent to Ketterdam. Rose made the mistake of using her power and her first customer at the Margire...
