1 I knew that I was in trouble the moment I heard the dogs start to bark behind me Russia would be behind the dogs and I was in a lot of trouble. Why had I even tried to run, I knew it wouldn't work and that I would be punished for my "crime" against my master. Crime, I guess running away from my master would be considered a crime to him.
"Liet-chan where are you?" I heard Russia's voice call to me, "You've been a very bad boy Liet, really making me run after you, you've been spending to much time with Poland, that's going to stop now isn't it."
I tried to run faster but was stopped by one of my masters dogs jumping onto my back. It sat on me not going to hurt the one who had trained it and the rest of it's pack. Russia was soon standing over me with his arms crossed.
"Your not going to run again are you Liet -chan?" He asked in a scarily cheerful voice.
"No master." I replied, standing when he pulled the dog off of me and grabbed my hair. He pushed me in front of him and started me back to the house. Russia pulled out something from his pocket and secured it around my neck it seamed to be a collar bit I dared not look down to check. My suspicions were confirmed when he pulled a leash out of his other pocket and attached it to the collar.
"This will keep you from running away now Liet-chan." he stated before taking the lead as the house came into view. Surprisingly we ended up not going in to the house but around to the back and in to the currently unused stables. Russia pushed me up against a wall and pulled my arms up and chained them to the wall with my back facing him. It was quiet for a moment as he rummaged through a container in one of the stalls.
"You only have yourself to blame for this Liet-chan." He said when he came back to the walk-way. I gaped as I felt a knife on the back of my shirt cutting through the material into the flesh of my back. The sudden pain and cold made me gasp as he drew the knife away and my shirt was ripped the rest of the way off. He placed the knife on the ground and I heard a swishing sound before crying out in pain, He was whipping me!
I counted 30 lashed and could feel the blood rushing down my back in streams before he turned me around and started to whip the front side of me. The whipping continued and I was now emitting silent screams as my vocal chords where worn out. The tears cascaded down my face as the cruelty continued. There were 30 more lashes to my front side before he stopped and went over to the corner and started a fire in a barrel before sticking a piece of metal into the burning coals he pulled the piece of metal out before pressing it into my hip and branding the image of a hammer and sickle in to my hip. His hands went around my throat with bruising force as he said,
"You wont be running away any more will you Liet-chan. But even if you do the whole world will now know that your Mine!" That was the last thing that I heard before I blacked out.
