Two Broken People

PTRS

Tori's P.O.V.

"You clean up nice.", Tyrell utters. "Thank you.", I said mechanically. I look over at Elliot, and shared a knowing look. He nodded and spoke only with his eyes. They told me to be careful. I swallowed down my frustration and anger and forced myself to smile. "I will be at work all day. So, I have a few rules. No sex on my bed. No sex on the counters, and no sex on the dining room table. Just...no sex.", Tyrell sounded jealous of me. Which made me inwardly laugh, because Elliot is not gay. "Also don't touch anything.", he said with an evil glint in his eyes,"If you do, I'll know." I rolled my eyes. 'Like I'd want to touch anything in here.', I thought, 'Wait a sec- Does that include the toilet?' I wanted to ask him this out loud sarcastically, but I could tell with Tyrell that that was always a huge risk. "If you steal anything,", he said directly to me,"I'll know. I see everything in this house." "I won't.", I managed to admit out loud with out a hint of sarcasm or any emotion. He turned and look at me slanting his eyes a bit. An intense minute passed until his eyes 'relaxed',"For your sake, I hope you don't." With that, he left making me let out a sigh of relief as soon as he closed the door behind him. Then I looked at Elliot like he was insane,"You really thought I'd be safe here?" I shook my head and sighed. Elliot looked up at me apologetically,"I know he's intense, but we had no choice." "You want to look at our other options, Elliot? There could've been other options!", I countered him. "Like what? Name them.", he said out of anger. "We could've gone to that 'Fun Society' place.", I tried to make sense of his decision to bring me here but also tried to make sense of my idea of him bringing me to the 'Fun Society' place. The inward struggle was real and I felt cornered."And there's...", I stopped myself short. There really wasn't any other options, but my rage just made me believe that there were. He could've brought me any place. Anywhere but here.

Tyrell made me uncomfortable. And even though he gave me clothes and shoes to wear, I felt like I would owe him for accepting them. The thought of owing Tyrell ANYTHING made me cringe. "Look, I don't want to fight. I just don't want to stay here. Tyrell.....", I hesitated,"He scares me." "Tori, I know you're uncomfortable but we aren't going to be here long. Trust me. I promise that you will be fine. I will protect you should anything happen.", Elliot tried to reassure me but it looked like he was deep in thought. After a long pause he finally said,"Come here." I was in his arms clutching to him like we were in a huge tank of water and I couldn't swim. 'What was going to happen while we were here?', I thought but I didn't want to know the answer to that. I just wanted to skip ahead to where we would be safe. Where my family would be safe, and my dad would be safe. "How are we going to get out of this mess?", I asked him with fear in my voice, "Tyrell said he's watching this place." Elliot looked at me and then looked around the room. He looked for all the possible places that there could be any small hidden video cameras. 'Always such the techie.', I thought as I smiled.

Elliot came back into the room with a nervous expression on his face. "What's wrong?", I asked. When he didn't answer I knew something was up. "Elliot, what's wrong?", I asked intently. He then looked at me and smirked,"Relax dollface. There's no point in getting upset. You want a way out, you'll have to sleep with Tyrell." I knew who I was speaking to now, Mr. Robot. But what he said didn't make any sense. "You told me last night that you didn't like me being here with him. That he might want something from me. I just assumed....I don't know. What does he want from me?", I nervously asked as I plopped down on the couch. "Haven't I made that quite clear, dollface? I'll say it again as plain as day.", he got down to my level of the couch,"He wants to fuck your brains out, and then screw your brain sideways. And Tori, hes not gentle. That's what he wants." His voice was as low as he could get it. I could tell he was trying to seduce me but I wasn't having any of it. Pick another day. Today's not the day to worm your way out of an important conversation, Mr. Robot. "You told me last night that you didn't want me to be here because of that. Or was I mistaken?", I asked him trying to have the upper-hand. He got closer,"You were dreaming, Tori. Last night I didn't come to the room you were sleeping in. Last night I didn't warn you about Tyrell." "You're not making any sense.", I said simply because I knew he walked in on me sleeping, "Don't speak in riddles. I can't handle that. Not right now." He got up and paced around the room, "You're starting to sound like him. Don't be like him. He's weak." "Elliot is not weak.", I was standing now. "I know you love him, but he can't protect you like I can. He might be super smart but when it comes to normal like stuff in life.....the relationship stuff......he's clueless. I can give you MORE than he can.", he intensely stared into my eyes right into my very soul.