Seven | Book 1 (An EXO fiction)

36.

I've been here for months...or maybe it been weeks. Hell, it might have only been a few hours. I don't know anymore.

I don't know anything anymore.

Sitting in the metal chair in the room made of grey and metal registers no feelings within me. I'm tired of feeling. Tired of screaming. Tired of fighting. The 4 who've kept me hostage all this time stand in front of me, but I avoid their eyes. I don't want them to see me so defeated.

The originally paper thin cuts along my body hurt more than I care to admit. I can clearly see my muscle from some of the wounds. At least 3 centimeters deep each, the amount of effort it takes to keep my muscles from moving is exhausting. Any kind of movement hurts so much.

Living hurts so much.

I feel like I've suffered through every form of torture at this point, just in this one place. Mental, physical, emotional. My injuries go unattended and are only worsened as they stretch open and are coated in the dust, debris, and germs of the dirty room I've been given to sleep in.

I haven't eaten since I arrived, and at this point I'm not hungry. I'm not thirsty. I'm not anything. I don't even think that I'm living. My mouth is dry, and I have managed to not say a single word in quite a while. I haven't talked back to any of them like I was able to when I was first brought here.

My soul is depleted.

"You seem like you've had enough. You've last quite a while," Jinki, the leader, notices. "If you just agree to do what as we say, then this'll all be over. You want it be over don't you?" I open my mouth only slightly, and instead of words a long trail of blood slides out.

"She's listening." The mind reader, who's name I've managed not to learn, says.

"We want you to keep your current position in the castle, but when the time comes, which it will, I want you to kill the Queen." I'm unable to say anything. "After she grants you power, you have to kill her yourself."

I'm not a Gaia. She can't give me power.

"She says she can't, she isn't a Gaia." The mind reader repeats.

"Ah but you will be." I let more of the blood that had pooled in my mouth grossly stain my disgusting shirt. What is he even talking about? "We already know that you're working with Kris, and we basically want the same thing. He backed out of our initial agreement last minute, but you are going to finish what he started," Kris? What does Kris have to do with this? "When she gives you her throne, you hand it over to us. You can leave without being harmed, and even go back to living your life in the shadows. This is all way bigger than you. You are nothing but a small pawn in a game that extends beyond your realm of sight. A war is happening, and you're at the dead center of it. All you will have to do is hand over the crown so that it can carry on without you."

But what if I don't want to.

"What if she doesn't want to?"

Jinki clicks his tongue, "Well then I guess we'd just have to tell the Queen about how her favorite little human had been planning a coup d'état with Kris and company. We'll make sure that she knows just how involved you've been this whole time with rising up against her. Just like the millions she tries to keep you from finding out about.

"I'm sure she'd enjoy punishing them all for tricking her don't you think? All of your so called Charmer friends?" The metal band around my chest (that had been the only thing keeping me up) unbends and my body falls forward. I hiss dryly at the sudden amount of pain that shoots through my body. "We'll give you some time to think about it. Taemin, disorient her senses and have Jonghyun leave her in the woods away from the hideout. Her little friends will be able to find her. Don't stay any longer than you have to," he commands.