Among The Stars

Knives.

Chapter 2

I woke up tied to a bed. I tried to calm my hectic breathing.

I've seen this in movies before and I didn't like it.

Suddenly loud voices made me wince.

"Is this another way to fucking tease me?!"

"Calm the fuck down Elijah, no one's trying to do anything."

I held my breath and waited. Silence.

I gasped when the door opened and a man walked in closing the door behind him.

He turned to face me and I gasped again through my gag when my eyes met his soulless unfeeling black eyes.

He ran a hand through his hair with a low sigh.

I flinched as his hand tore off my gag roughly. He stepped back and studied me.

"Name." I looked at him blankly.

"Give me your fucking name,"

These guys really like that word.

I shook my head at him and took a deep breath.

He smiled. An evil dark smile full of pleasure and promise if pain.

"If you don't answer my questions I will make you suffer like no one ever has," he wasn't lying.

He wanted to hurt me, I could see it in his eyes.

"My name is Lily," I lied softly.

His eyes narrowed but he nodded.

"Tell me, Lily, what made you think you could spy on us and get away with it?"

My jaw dropped. "What? Me a spy? You have got to be kidding me!"

I froze when a knife was suddenly in his hands.

He laid it on my leg and dragged it up.

"I will make you bleed, tell me who sent you!" He started out soft and ended yelling.

"No one sent me, your crazy! Let me go!" I panicked as his face hardened.

He's going to torture and kill me!

The door opened and the green-eyed man known as Jace walked in.

"Damian calm down, she's scared."

Damian glared down at me and pressed the knife in my skin harder making the smallest cut, a single drop of blood rolled down my leg.

"She should be," I whimpered and tried to pull my arms free.

"Please stop," I whispered feeling the knife press into me again.

"Their all the fucking same! Waiting and prowling for weakness! This is why we're here Jace!"

I screamed when he cut me, I could hear Jace calling the others, feel my life slipping from me.

I could feel myself telling him to stop, saying please, over and over again as if it would help.

Nothing would. I was going to die.

My stepfather was right. I would die worthless.

Die begging the person who did it too stop.

The word please, would never pass through my lips again.

Darkness.

***

"Quite, I think she's waking up, Elijah move your fat ass over I don't want her passing out when she sees your ugly face."

"Shut the hell up Jace."

I moaned softly and opened my eyes letting out a scream.

"My god shut her up, you should have let her die, we're going to have hearing damage is she stays any longer," Damian said scowling.

I jerked back and whimpered, I was once again tied up, this time to a chair in a dining room. I looked over and saw a large kitchen, to my left a living room.

Creeps live in style these days,

"Calm down, Lily right?" Confused for a moment I looked up and saw Jace kneeling beside my chair.

I nodded and swallowed. "She's clearly clueless to what's going on, could everyone take a breath please?"

Damien rolled his eyes and Elijah clenched his jaw.

"I-if you think I didn't do it, c-can I go home?"

Jace's face softened but he shook his head.

My body shook with fear and I tried to wiggle away from him.

"Let's just kill her, I don't understand why we haven't yet,"

"Alright let's take a moment here guys," Logan walked in.

Now I'm dead. Only one of them wants me alive for whatever sick reason.

"Logan, what do you think?"

As I watched them I realized Logan was the leader.

"We don't know the culture, I say we keep her alive and see what we can learn... after that, she's yours, Damien. We have no need for a weak human spy."

I swallowed. Damien smiled at me, I shuddered.

"Jace take her back to that room please, oh, and gag her."

I stared up at Jace and then quickly looked at the ground.

"Logan, thanks to Damian her room has been completely soaked in blood, I'm going to tie her up in my room."

Logan looked at me almost in curiosity. I stared back into his red eyes, dark brown hair was tugged backward as he thought.

"Very well, give her a bath, and don't let her out of your sight." Next I looked at Elijah who glared at me when he felt my gaze.

His yellow-green eyes dared me to keep staring. He stood, I felt Jace pick me up.

I didn't struggle, it would do no good. Besides, they would probably hurt me worse than before.

He walked up some stairs and into a bedroom, I was placed on a bed gently and he began going through a dresser.

"You don't have any clothes yet, so you can borrow one of my shirts."

I looked down at my bloody fingers feeling nausea take its course.

"Come on, let's get you cleaned up Lily."

He grabbed my hand making me jerk back, he paused.

"I don't bite, Damien does, " he joked but seeing my fear-filled face stopped.

"Just come on," he started some water and put in some bubble bath.

He looked up at me, I eased away from him.

"I'll leave you alone, but if you try anything I won't be able to stop my brothers from hurting you." He walked out and closed the door.

Beyond relieved I locked it and took off my clothes slipping into the hot water.

I was sickened by how the water turned pink as the blood from Damian's cuts came off.

The soapy bubbles stung my skin as it ran along with my cuts. I grabbed a razor and shaved the places that needed to be.

Stepping out I wrapped myself in a fluffy towel.

I dried off before pulling on Jace's shirt, I inhaled without thinking and was surprised.

It smelled like the sun.

"Lily? Are you okay in there?"

I fiddled with my hands nervously and tried to think of what I could do to get out of here.

"I got you some food,"

I slowly unlocked and opened the door.

You've got this Echo, you can survive psychos again.

No problem...