Eight: Season 3

Episode 65: Broken

Toya-
Three more months had passed and I hadn't let up on the torture. I felt bad for the girl, but I continued to be impressed with her courage and will. I was smoking on the balcony late that night while Tomura and Jeanette tortured her, and I could hear her screams echoing across the place.
Silver walked out to the balcony and I puffed out smoke. "Cigarette?" I asked, offering him a cigarette.
"Thanks." Silver said, and he took the cigarette.
I snapped and lit my finger up with my blue fire. I lit his cigarette and he took a huge puff, holding it in for a while, before he blew out. He leaned on the balcony and looked at the ground. "Silver...do you think...we're being too brutal?" I asked.
I considered Silver my best friend, and he and Xia were siblings, but he really cared about Xia...a lot.
He closed his eyes and took a puff, blowing out. "We've used just about every method, type, and device of torture in and out of the book. Hell! We even tried Kai's brainwashing technology and the girl still didn't spill a single damn thing to us. It's been 11 months, we're coming up on a year, if you ask me...I don't see the point in torturing someone who isn't going to give us any information no matter what we do to her. This plan was bad from the start. Xia needs to come home, be with us. It's torture for her being with the goody-goods, and because it's been 11 months and we have no info? I think it's time we pull the plug. That girl has been through enough." Silver said.
I sighed, gripping my neck. "I hate that you're right." I said.
Silver smiled, puffing out smoke. "I usually am. I told Barbra the same thing this morning during debrief...but she won't listen. She wants to know why Jade's mind is so advanced, and she wants to find out how to use it for us. But considering brainwashing and mind manipulation don't work...well, Barbra is starting to see this as a fruitless endeavor." Silver said.
"I'll gonna try one more thing, and if that doesn't work out...I guess we should just put her out of her misery and kill her." I said.
Silver nodded and walked away, patting my shoulder. I sighed and walked to the kitchen to get a fancy dinner plate. I turned off the audio, leaving the visual on, and walked into the torture chamber.
I held her chin. "Nnnggg!" She grunted, looking away, and then I cut her from the ceiling. "Oof!" She cried, hitting the floor with a thud and rebreaking some of her ribs. "AAAAAGH! AAH!" She cried, tears in her eyes.
"You should eat something, can't have you dying now." I said.
"I'm not hungry." She said, looking away, and then her stomach growled.
"Uh-huh." I said, nodding, and then I shoved her head into the plate, the food getting on her face. "I'm trying to help you here, now open wide!" I shouted.
I forced open her mouth and shoved the food down it. She coughed but swallowed. "See, it's not poison or anything." I said, and I grabbed the spoon.
She reluctantly opened her mouth and I gave her a bite of the mashed potatoes. I fed her the plate, and then pushed it to the side. "You've been hurt before like this." I said.
"I'm not stupid, I know what you're trying to do." Jade said, weakly.
"Uh...be genuinely nice." I said.
"No, no, no. After all the shit you've done to me, you trying to build a rapport with me and make yourself seem more human. That...won't work." Jade sneered.
I sighed. "You're a clever little bitch, I'll give you that. Sexy and hot too." I said, gently lifting her chin, and she spat in my face.
I wiped my face and sighed. "How'd you end up with a bum knee?" I asked.
"Someone shot me in the spine, paralyzing me, and then kicked my knee sending me tumbling down a hill, permanently damaging my right ACL and the bullet severed the nerve connecting it to my spine. I didn't even feel it when it happened." Jade said, weakly as she laid down, her wrists and ankles cuffed.
"Paralyzed? So then...how can you walk!?" I asked, genuinely shocked.
"A doctor did surgery on my spine to remove the bullet and stabilize my right knee." Jade said.
I gaped in shock...this chick was nuts! "With no anesthesia or sterility! You're insane!!" I shouted.
"Look where we are Dabi...you've been torturing the shit out of me for 11 and a half months with every method, type, and device in the book and I still haven't told you a damn thing. There is nothing you can do to me that will make me talk." Jade sneered.
I gripped her hair and lifted her head. "AAH!" She cried out, inhaling sharply.
I leaned close to her ear. "Oh, I can think of a few ways. You don't know what real torture is, despite what you may think. To watch someone you care about be ruthlessly and painfully tortured in front of your eyes and being forced to watch. Listening to them beg for mercy on you! I had to endure that when Xia and I got tortured by Dr. Mort!" I snarled, throwing her down.
"You're wrong. 14 years...14 years I endured that. I had to watch and listen to my mom torture my older sister and brother right in front of my eyes begging for my mom to leave me alone while dad was away fighting your piece of shit dad for 14 YEARS!! Dr. Mort experimented me and tortured me and everyone else on The Ark for 100 years until we found Kueria while we were in cryostasis! I had to listen and watch Kirishima get tortured on The Ark for 6 months. I endured bullet removal surgery in my spine with no anesthetics or sterility! I had to watch my friends have their bone marrow drilled out of their bodies for no reason after you electrocuted them like dogs! YOU KILLED TEN OF MY FRIENDS!!! I had my bone marrow drained until I was almost bled dry! Dr. Mort used a virus that turned Arcadia into a hemorrhagic mess while a mercenary guild was coming to kill us. Which, by the way, your girlfriend caught that virus too! I completely broke down after the virus, bone marrow extractions, a gunshot wound, a torn and permanently damaged ACL, and The Ark torture! I saw Shoto snap and beat the hell out of Kirishima, my best friend!! I was forced to watch and listen to Hanta get tortured by Kai in front of a live audience, unable to do anything. Hanta! Someone I care so deeply about. He and I's bond? It's not just friends or best friends, it's more than that! I got ruthlessly beaten into a lifeless pulp by Akuma and had to watch Shoto tear a hole in Hanta's chest because he was so angry! I used to hate my mom for my childhood, loathe her even. But she ended up turning me into a survivor and I can take whatever you dish out because of her. I'm grateful to her for everything, otherwise...I wouldn't be here. And now all of this? You don't know what kind of torture I've been through, and I hope to the Gods, for you and your girlfriend's sake? That you never ever have to...even if I hate your guts." Jade sneered.
I just gaped at her in shock, she'd been through hell and back again. She was right...there is nothing I could do to her that would break her. I gripped her cheeks violently. "AAAH!" She cried out.
I wrapped my hands in my blue flames. "Answer me this honestly...do you love Shoto and care for him?" I asked.
"More than anything in the world." Jade said, staring me down, her voice cracking as I let her cheeks go and threw her into the ground.
"I'll turn off the video feed and audio feed tonight, but just for tonight. Do with that what you will." I said, standing up and walking out of the chamber, cutting the video feed since the audio feed was already cut.

Jade-
Once the door slammed, and the cameras turned off. My lips quivered, as I curled into a ball with my cuffed hands above my head, and my cuffed ankles laid out straight.
I cried...I was broke, he broke me a long time ago, but I couldn't bring myself to tell him what he wanted. I gripped my hair and just cried and cried and eventually...
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