Cutie Heroes and Villains

Chapter 18

                Lying on her cot in her open cell, Cutie absent-mindedly read the entertainment section of the newspaper the guard had given her. Her mind was elsewhere, occupied by other things. Like this was the fourth day she’d been here and so far all Dr. Hall assistants had been able to do was take blood and give her a physical. It wasn’t from lack of trying though. The generator kept shorting out every time they turned on their fancy computer.

                With the computer down Dr. Hall hadn’t spent that much time here and with no Dr. Hall, there was no Yao and Shi. She’d hoped to have taken them out by now but with them not around an opportunity hadn’t presented itself. 

So she just wasting her time idly lounging around down here. Some good had come from the down time though. The rest was a blessing. Lady Shiva had pushed her extremely hard. Although her body healed quickly and showed no signs of wear, her head needed the time to recharge and workout how she truly felt about Jayden.

Cutie had also been successful in lulling her guards into thinking she was cowed. She’d not put up a fight and done everything they’d asked without question. In turn they allowed her free reign of the small lab which was still under construction.

There wasn’t much to see or do though. Only thing going on was the half dozen Spanish workers constructing the lab for the last four days. They managed to ignore her, not even acknowledging when she harassed them while they worked. To their credit they worked hard, hastily trying to finishes the job, for fear of evoking Dr. Hall’s wrath.

A worker bitching in Spanish, annoyingly pulled Cutie from her thoughts. He was having trouble running a thick wire through a metal casing in the ceiling. Putting his weigh into it, he pulled the wire down through the small hole. Wiping the sweat from his brow, he began trying to feed the wire through another hole out into the lab. This was going to solve their power problems until they got the generator down here working properly.

                Cutie sat up as the Spanish worker let out another round of curses. Tossing the paper on the floor she glared at the smelly little man. “Who the fuck’s in charge here? I’m trying to relax and this dip shit won’t shut the fuck up.” Cutie growled, turning her glare on the guard sitting in a chair against the wall.

                Startled she’d spoken, the worker dropped the wire in his hand. “Perdon senorita.” He said picking the wire back up and shoving it through the hole in the wall.

                “Settle down, the lazy Mexican can only work so fast.” Her guard told her from behind the paper he was reading.

                “Seriously who the fuck’s in charge?” Cutie asked again. “These accommodations suck. There’s no TV or windows, not even a bathroom. There’s no fucking way I’m using that fucking gardening hose to shower again.”

                “Yah, yah I heard you the first twelve times.” Her guard sighed, setting the paper down. “Dr. Hall doesn’t give a shit and Garnet says the boards grumbling they’d dropped too much money into this venture already to build you a fucking shower.”

                Finally a name. She’d been trying to get one ever since she’d been taken here. After she took out Yao and Shi, she planned on dealing with whoever was paying the bills. “What’s with these workers anyway, don’t any of them speak English?” She asked, eyeing the greasy Spanish man walking out the door.

                “Nope. Can’t have anyone with a loose tongue blabbing where we are.” The guard answered her.

                “They think you’re going to bring them back home after they’re done don’t they.” Cutie glared. The guard failing to answer was all the confirmation she needed. She understood they wanted to keep the fact she was here a secret but the workers most likely didn’t even know who she was.