Falling Skies

What is torture?

Anne POV:

I come into the shelter, but instead of greeted by hello people are screaming and running toward the lab. A tiny man runs into my back.

"ANNE!" Matt yells and gives me a hug. I know I've only been gone for a month but he has grown so much in that time.

"Matt what is going on." He looks confused and his eyes open like he remembered something, and the he is off and running again.

"The lab exploded while Ben was inside!" He called over his shoulder. I end up finding myself running as well. I get there in time to see Ben being dragged into an aircraft and Hal jumping in after him. Then it's gone.

Then I see Tom. He looks like he's about to shatter. After all he just lost both of his sons in a matter of minutes. I walk up and hug him but his eyes are closed. So I kiss him, and now his eyes are open.

He looks completely shocked for a moment and then kisses and hugs me again. Any other day I would be laughing but neither of us could find the strength too.

"We will find them." I say determined. He nods and we both look through the hole at where his sons used to be.

Hal POV:

When I wake up I am strapped to a chair. I lift my head up and not even 3 feet away is Ben. He is strapped to a table with his shirt off exposing his spikes.  I had a gut feeling Ben has been at this table before.

A man in a military uniform walks in and Pope is close behind him. The army mans name tag says Polver. Polver injects Ben with something and it is taking all my strength to stay calm.  I realize Ben is waking up. His eyes lock on mine before he looks at his hand. His eyes widen and he begins to struggle.

"Ben I heard of this technique from your friends over at 14th Virginia. I heard your spike killed a man by eating his eye. Well good thing I don't hold onto them for too long. I also heard they grow back so that means we can take them as long as we want." Pope explains to both of us. I now understand, they were going to rip out his spikes again.

Ben is still struggling when Polver comes over with tong looking things.

"Now we were originally only supposed to pick up Ben but Hal, your torture is watching him." He laughs and leaves the room. Polver grins like he just won the lottery and places the tongs on Bens spike. He yanks up.

Bens screams fill the air and so do mine. We are both screaming for him to stop but he finally yanks one out. Before I know it he has it encased in a jar before it can kill him like the last man who tried to do this. He spent a minute looking at the jar before the spike died.

Looking satisfied Polver left the room. I looked back to Ben but he passed out the minute the spike left his back. Pope was right, this was torture.

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