CAGED

Chapter 14: The Torture

A/N 1: This chapter has quite a bit of gore in it. PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO GORE! This chapter MAY be skipped.

A/N 2: Unless it is stated beforehand, each chapter will be in the main characters P.O.V. We now return to Marissa's P.O.V.

A/N 3: The picture to go with this chapter is Eli Ellwood, he is supposed to represent Master, or Daddy as Rachel calls him. You can imagine him however you want, as is with all of the cast members, but this is how I imagine him to be.

I can't keep my eyes open anymore as the thick darkness surrounding me seems to envelope me entirely. The dark void has drained all sound from the room and I can't even hear my own breathing anymore. I never knew before how absolute the dark could be, but now fear clutches at my core with a ferocity that I've never felt before. Time does not exist in the shadows of the room so I have no way of knowing how long has passed. Long enough that I am certain that I have gone insane.

My mind kept drifting in and out of consciousness and my sense of reality was beginning to shift. I couldn't keep track of anything and my thoughts began to stray dangerously to the inevitability of my demise. I thought about Kitty, going to college by now, and how her life must have unfolded. She may be engaged to someone by now. A year and a half is a long time to go without seeing someone, so for all I know she could even be dead. The thought of Kitty being dead plagued my brain until I couldn't take it anymore. I stopped thinking about Kitty.

Some time later when I raise my head off of my chest I see a dim light directly in front of me. I attempt to focus on it and when my eyes finally adjust I can only wish that they didn't. Kitty is in front of me! Something is wrong with her though because she isn't saying anything, she's only staring at me with her green eyes devoid of life, her expression completely blank. My first thought is that Master took her.

"Kitty!" I try to yell to her. My voice is broken and raspy as though I have been sucking in sand. "Kitty, how did Master get to you?!" Kitty does not respond to my words, she only cocks her head to the side. With the dim light I see a thick rope attached to her neck. Kitty begins to gasp for breath but because of the rope no air can get to her. Her face starts turning red, then nearly purple, as her breathing and blood flow are cut off. Her eyes seem to bulge from their sockets before the flood in them burst, slowly cascading down her puffed cheeks. Suddenly she stops moving, and only her bloody corpse is left hanging directly in front of me. I scream until I pass out.

When I wake up again I see Kitty is still there, but she seems fine once again. I stare at her in utter confusion until I see Master behind her with a sickening grin on his face. I try to yell out to Kitty but it feels as though my tongue has swollen to fill my entire mouth and I can't make a sound. I watch helplessly as Master raises a knife, one he has used on me in the distant past, and places it against Kitty's chest. Kitty's eyes are wide and she is staring at me with pleading eyes, begging for my help. I try to scream again but it only comes out as a strangled cry as Master plunges the knife into Kitty's chest, right where her heart is. Kitty's eyes fill with terror and tears as blood blossoms from the wound and seeps down her chest. Slowly the light vanishes from her green eyes, and her body crumples to the ground in a lifeless heap. Master slowly approaches me, knife still in hand, and gives me a wicked smile before he swings the weapon across my neck and watches as I sputter and choke on the blood that fills my throat and mouth.

My eyes open to the dark basement once again. I finally recognize that I have been hallucinating terribly and that nothing has happened to Kitty or myself. Well, not to Kitty anyways. I know that I can only hope for that to be true, but it is the thought that I have to keep in my mind as the horrific scenes begin to play in front of me again, and again, and again.

A/N 4: This will be my final note. This chapter is fairly grotesque. However I tried to keep it as realistic as possible. The effects of sensory deprivation are based off of a study done in England back in 2008. The effects of Kitty's hanging are based off of historical accounts of executions.

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