Thorns (Sequel to A Dozen Roses)

Chapter 3 Sorrow

Chapter 3
Seto POV

Everyday things get worse. It pains me physically and mentally to stay here but I have too. It's the only chance I have its the only chance they get.

My body burns and is littered with bruises and cuts. I never thought I'd see the day when my own pain was used against me. But I won't scream or cry out in pain; I wouldn't give anyone the satisfaction of seeing me in pain.

I faked my own death for a deal. That fucking monster would keep his hands off my family if I made them think I was dead. I'd endure anything the world threw at me for my children. Hell id have taken my own life to ensure they're safety.

The door to my cell clinks open and I scoot away tucking my head between my knees and chest wrapping my arms around my legs. If I don't look at him or provoke him he won't lay a hand on me.

But he isn't feeling very generous today.

"Hey there friend. I brought you dinner." He tosses a brown lunch sack into the opposite corner of the room putting himself between me and the food, "Aren't you hungry? Answer me!"

I choose to stay quiet. I haven't spoken a word to him since he put me in here the day after faking my own death. He didn't deserve to hear me speak; he didn't deserve any form of response.

His heavy footsteps close in on me; I try to stiffen up my body so when he grabs me I'll move all at once.

He seizes me by the hair yanking me up. My scalp burns and I crane my head in an attempt to relieve the pain but I know it won't stop. It never does.

"When will you learn to do as your told?" He yanked my hair back to I'm forced to look up at him, "I said when will you learn to do what your told!" He stares me down expecting an answer.

So I spit in his face as a response.

I close my eyes as he shoves me to the ground. The first punch comes and it leaves numb feeling in my chest. Then a second and third; they're coming so quickly now I can't count them.

Blood drips down from my split lip slowly dropping onto the floor joining the blood from my bloody nose. The crimson color stands out against its pure white background staining the almost perfect floor.

My body is numb and some days I want to give up and just let him beat me to death but I just close my eyes and think of why I'm doing this.

"Daddy did you know I wanna be an artist?" Eve exclaimed one morning sitting down at the table with a drawling of hers.

"Oh really?" I questioned looking over my cup of coffee. "And whys that?"

"Because Izzy and I decided to be like each of you. She's gonna take out bad guys like you and I'm gonna paint people like dad does." I could only smile and feel my heart melt at the thought of that.

"You know you can be whatever you want. A doctor, lawyer, space woman, anything." She shrugged going back to drawing on her picture.

"But then we wouldn't be like you and dad."

"Had enough yet you disobedient little rat." I'm ripped from my happy memory to stare at the mask of the man I hated more than anything. "You will obey me and you will be my perfect solider understand me? I've waited too long trying to reason with you on this."

I'm shoved into the floor and I retreat to my corner. If this was him 'reasoning' with me I was a tad bit frightened to know what else he had in store.

Ghost reached into his pocket and extracted something. My right eye was swelling up slightly I could hardly see what he held. That was until he jammed it into my side. Just my luck it was a taser.

My entire body stiffened up and shook violently against the floor trying to catch my breathe. I had been shot with a taser before so I just had to wait to out. It hurts but it's more of a constant ringing flowing threw you.

"Your so weak and pathetic." Ghost spat jamming his foot into my stomach. "You listen to me. You will be my perfect little solider. Do you understand me Seto?"

I scowled at him. He chucked his taser aside and knelt down lifting my head up to look at him. He's removed his mask.

Staring him in the eyes his scarred face staring back at me. He stared back at me fury in his eyes and at that instant I felt like I was fourteen again.

"You will be my perfect solider understand me?" He hissed in my face. I gulped and felt the words I'd been programmed to say slip past my lips before I could stop them.

"Yes sir."
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Posted early as a thank you for the long wait on last chapter. Also to show you all that Seto's alive and I guess he's okay? Could be worse

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~Shadow