𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐏𝐒𝐘𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐇 ━━ 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐘

nine

j a c k

☁︎

i open my eyes and see a bright light. my eyes adjust to the light and i see that i'm in a white room on a really soft bed.

it's not the hospital, it's just a white room. my arms hurt so much, i can barley feel them. what if jonah punishes me for what i did? why couldn't i just have died? this could have all been over with.

"ruby?" i hear someone call. i will forever hate that name. my head whips around to the door where i heard the voice.

a man about 30 years old with brown hair stands there in a white coat. he looks like a doctor to me. he walks in and to the left side of the bed. i scoot away from him, fearful of what he could do.

"it's okay, i'm not going to hurt you. i just need to check on you" he grabs my wrist gently. i take it out of his grip because i don't know who he is or what he's going to do to me.

i can barely move my arm so it moved just above his finger tips.

"let me look at it ruby, i need to see it. i promise i won't hurt you" he says sympathetically. i used up all my energy in my arms so i let him look at it.

"i'm going to have to stitch the cuts and bandage them again" he says pulling back the bandage. i wince in pain.

"it will hurt for a second then it will be done" he rips of the bandage with one pull. i yell in pain. the bandage is full of blood.

more blood comes out of the wound but not that much. he cleans it up and starts stitching. it doesn't hurt that bad, only a little. it takes 10 minutes to fully stitch up one arm.

i look at my wrist. hundreds of small cuts scatter all over my forearm. the one big and long cut that's now stitched up is really red and puffy. he wraps it up with a thin bandage.

he walks over to the other side. "i'm going to rip it off now" he says informing me. i nod, looking away and closing my eyes. he quickly rips it off. this side is the right side which hurt the most.

i scream in pain. one tear runs down my face. that hurt so much. i look back and see that he's cleaning it off. the stinging sensation goes away at the cold touch of the wipe.

he starts stitching it up. halfway through i break the silence.

"w-who are you?" i stutter a little.

"i'm dr. kelly, and i work for the venom" he doesn't look up from my arm.

"venom?" i ask confused.

"it's a group of the most evil people in america. your master, jonah is one of them" i freeze. that makes it so much worse.

"how many people are in it?" i ask, clearly distraught. "hundreds, i work for jonah though" my heart sinks when those word come out of his mouth.

this one took 15 minutes because the cut was longer and deeper. he wrapped it up in a thin bandage again. this is the part i dreaded. when he finished.

"i'm done now, i'll call jonah in" he says walking out.

i'm dead. jonah walks in a few minutes later. i'm scared for my life right now. he pulls up a chair next to the right side of the bed. i'm frozen still.

"why?" he spits out.

"i-i-i'm sorry" a tears runs down my face. "i just want to go home" my lip quivers.

"well ruby, i'm very disappointed in you" he looks me straight in the eyes.

"please don't hurt me, i'm sorry" i beg him.

"i'm not going to hurt you, unless you piss me off. i'm just happy your alive" he says calmly. i'm surprised at his reaction.

"don't do it again" he says getting a little serious.

"i wouldn't have to do it if you never kidnapped me! why did you?" i say getting quiet realizing what i just said.

"excuse me" he stands up. his hand makes his way up towards my face. i flinch, looking away and closing my eyes thinking i'm going to be hit.

a hand pulls my shirt, my body moves toward him. open my eyes and see jonah staring at me.

"don't. raise. your. voice. at. me. you understand that?!" he yells in my face. i'm in utter shock and stay silent.

"i said, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!" me screams in my face again.

"y-yes, yes i do master" i say scared more than i've ever been. the most scared i've been was when i was getting kidnapped. this was 10x worse.

he throws be back into the bed. "good" he gets up and paces the room. this is my chance. i don't know what went over me but i didn't have control over it.

my brain and body went into fight or flight mode. i look to my left and see a knife that dr. kelly used on my bandages. i quickly pick it up. my arms are at full energy again.

i hop out of bed and run to jonah. i tackle him to the ground. he fights to get away from me but i refuse to let him go.

he rolls me over so he was on top. he's much stronger than me and has more experience fighting. it all goes in slow motion.

i remember movies that i have watched that have people in the same position as me. i try to use that as my advantage.

i stab the knife into his neck. he screams in pain and weakens. i roll over so i'm on top. he looks mad. i get lifted up into the air by my shirt. jonah looks enraged. i kick him in the stomach, twice.

he falls over in pain. i take this time to run. i sprint. out of the room. there's a long hallway.  i speed down it. a long staircase is at the end.

i know that it's the front of the house because i distinctly remember it. my feet fly down the stairs at full speed. i skip steps to get there faster.

i get close to the bottom of the stairs when i'm tackled to the ground. we tumble down the rest of the steps.

blood from jonah remains on the previous stairs. we make it to the bottom. i hit my head in the marble floor. the person tackles me again.

my body aching from the stairs. they are wooden and they hurt a lot. i can see the door to my freedom. i look at jonah and back at the door.

the same green one that we entered the house with. i don't know what happens but a burst of energy went through me. i push jonah off of me and run the the door. i put my hand on the doorknob.

suddenly the back of my shirt gets pulled back. i fly backwards away from the door, about 5 feet. my body lands and i groan from the pain. i look up to see the furious jonah marais above me. the knife is now gone and he's bleeding a lot.

he gets on me and holds me down. his fist flys back and comes straight for my face. it hits the right side of my cheek, hard. he does it so many times my vision gets blurry. i start to loose conscious and soon i black out.

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wednesday
july 25th, 2018
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wednesday
september 4th, 2019
1313 words

-alayna ✰