Red Vs. Blue (New Version)

Spitting Blood (revised with Redhead415)

Alexis spit what tasted like blood out on the metal floor in front of her.  If she was being honest, bondage was nothing new to her.  But being beaten mercilessly for information WHILE tied up, was.  She felt another punch to her stomach and she tried to double over in pain, but her arms, shackled up and back to the wall made it impossible. so I'm in a starfish pose.  Her head hung down and she winced, coughing.  This sucked.

    "Where."  Shredder grabbed her hair in his metal hand.  "Are."  And then he pulled so her head was jerked up to look at him.  "They." 

    Just as slowly, she sneered, "Fuck. You."

    He stared at her, shocked that she said that to him.  He pulled her hair so her head hit the concrete behind it.  A white flash exploded in her head and then she heard a loud crack.  The room got quiet for a second.  Then she could hear his voice again, but it was muffled, as if she was under water.

    "Don't kill her.  Yet."  He said to one of the faceless ninjas dressed in all black.  He bowed his head to his master.  "She will tell us."  He stared at her and she stared back.  She wanted to hurt him, and she would have tried if her hands and legs were free.  "And if she doesn't, they will be here soon enough.  They can watch her die." 

    Fuck.  They would come.  The idea of being rescued was like warm cozy socks on a cold day, but he would kill them.  Leo warned her about this.  They all sort of did.  She was a weakness of theirs and they could use her to get to them.  Alexis always brushed it off thinking the Shredder was gone and she could take care of herself.  Yeah, I'm doing a really great job of that, she thought to herself as she dangled there. 

     She found herself alone, breathing hard.  For lack of something to do, And to distract herself from the pain, she decided to take stock of the damage.  Well, her head hurt, that wasn't easy to ignore.  Concussion was likely.  She ran my tongue over her teeth in her mouth to see if they were all there.  So far, so good.  Although her mouth tasted of blood.  Her lip was split.  She scrunched her nose and felt immediate pain radiate through her forehead and eyes.  Okay, broken nose for sure.  Her left eye was swollen shut.  Black eye, okay. Broken orbital bone perhaps.  She tried to take a deep breath and wheezed then coughed.  Not sure what that meant.  Broken ribs maybe.  Her stomach ached and she felt like she was going to throw up.  Hopefully there was no internal bleeding.  She scanned down her legs.  They felt like jelly and she would have collapsed but her wrists hurt in the chains so much, that she did everything she could to stay standing. 

    The room was bare.  Metal floor under her, concrete behind her.  It was a large room though.  It didn't look like it had any purpose, really, other than torturing someone.  Other shackles were on the wall next to her.   She winced; it hurt to turn her head, like grinding bone on bone. Maybe I'll die before they get here, she thought. I need to stay alive long enough to tell them it was a trap.  After everything they've done for me, it was my turn to be the hero.  They were so stubborn though and probably wouldn't listen to her anyway.  First things first.  Don't get overwhelmed, she spoke to herself calmly.  Just focus on staying awake.   All she wanted to do was sleep.  It was the only thing close to relief she could feel.

       
    No.  Something doesn't look right.  Leonardo easily hopped through her window into her apartment. The usual immaculate and sophisticated upscale penthouse had been trashed.   His breath caught.  Her furniture was torn up, papers everywhere.  No no no.  He ran room to room yelling her name.  All the while feeling sick to his stomach.   Then he saw it on her bedroom mirror, written with lipstick... her red lipstick he loved so much.  It was an address.  Leonardo felt his blood freeze in his veins; he was terrified.  They had her.  They were probably hurting her right now.  With shaking hands, he called Donnie.