All in Time

6 - "I Want you to Suffer"

**Holly's POV**

Jacob looked down at me and reaches for my arm. "Where are you taking me?"

"You need to get cleaned up, it's been a week since your last shower and it doesn't smell pretty," he grumbles. He turns me around to make me face the wall as he binds my hands with the bloodied rope. My wrists were still raw from it, making me wince as he tightened the wrap.

"Jacob, that hurts," I whimper.

"I'm sorry darling, I can't trust that you won't try to run. And if you run, I'll have to find you again, it's just simpler this way." He turns me around and pulls me up, off of the bed. "Although I don't think I need to blind you anymore."

We walk down the narrow hall again and I see several windows, all of them with the shutters tightly shut, although slight, slim fragments of light could be seen shining through the edges. I could break that window. I thought to myself. I could escape. Luke might be dead, but I could still make it. I could have a real life outside of this place.

"No you can't," Jacob growls. Oh my God, did I really say all that out loud? "You are going to stay here with me. I need a wife to care about me." I nod solemnly.

"I'm sorry, Jake," I break with a fake sob. "I just want to go outside again. I used to go out and play in the grass. I miss it. Don't think I don't love you."

"My dear Holly, I love you," he sighs. "But you can't leave, you need to stay inside." I felt a weight drop into my stomach as we reached the bathroom. "Clean yourself up, I'll be waiting outside for you."

**Lucas's POV**

I crouched next to the door and looked out the small hole I had created in the wood. I could hear muffled voices walking down the hall and had to fight the urge to spring away from the door. 

"You'll be quite pleased with her, I'm sure," a familiar voice speaks. It was Jacob. "I'll go and get her if you'd just like to sit down right over here." They come into view as Jacob and a strange woman enter the room with the red sofa. "I'll be right back." 

The woman flashes a smile as he turns away, but it instantly turns into a scowl once he's gone. I watch her as she looks around the white room, although her curiosity is cut short when I see Jacob come around the corner again, this time with a familiar figure.

Holly.

"So this is the infamous girl?" The woman asks. I see her pull a  thin, small blade from a back pocket in her dress.

"Jacob, who is this?" Holly's voice was shaking with fear as Jacob ignored her, sitting her on the couch across from the woman. 

"Names are unimportant, my darling," the woman smirks. "Now lie down." Holly is completely still until Jacob's voice thunders.

"Listen to her." She lays her head down on the arm of the couch and watches the woman. The woman lifts the blade and reaches out for Holly's leg.

"W-what's going on, J-Jacob," Holly croaks. Her voice was ragged as she stared at the woman. He was silent as he turned away. "Jacob, help me!" The woman dug the blade into Holly's shin, Holly cries out and I can see her arms tightening up as she digs her nails into the couch.

"Nobody can help you now," the woman laughs. She climbs over Holly, their faces inches apart, and lifts the blade up to her face. "Nobody can save your pretty face." She brings the tip of the blade down to Holly's forehead, pulling a long line down the side of her face, past her temple, and scratching across her cheekbone.

She pulls the blade from Holly's face and presses it against her shoulder. She lets it dig in fairly deep until I hear Holly cry out loudly. "Stop it, please, stop it, I'll do anything, make it stop!" As she yelled her voice croaked and I could see tears, visibly pouring down her cheeks.

"I just want you to suffer."