What if when Gerard took Stiles, he didn't just beat him up? What if it was much more than that? Water-boarding is not just a form of interrogation, it's a form of torture.
Gerard swung open the door, his hand clamped tightly on the back of my neck.
"Ow." I said with as much attitude as I could muster given the current situation. He took a step forward, forcing me forward as well.
"Ow." I said again. Before I could brace myself, Gerard threw me headfirst down the basement steps. I hit the ground hard, the cold concrete cutting into my skin like ice. I pushed myself up and turned to face Gerard.
"You and I are going to have a bit of fun now, Stiles." Right on cue, two men came up behind me, as if out of the shadows. They each held one of my arms behind my back, kicked the back of my legs so that I had no choice but to kneel, and one of them forced my head into a position where I was face to face with Allison's insane grandfather.
"Yeah, well, your definition of fun is very different than mine, old man. What are you, like 90? I could probably kick your ass up and down this ro—" Before I could finish, one of the men threw a cloth over my mouth and nose. They picked me up and hauled me across the room. A metal table lay in the center, illuminated by a single bulb hanging by its wire from the ceiling.
"Hey, hey, wait. What are you… no wait just… hey!" I stammered. I kicked and flailed, trying desperately to escape the grasp of my captors. Underneath the table there was a metal bucket. The men forced me onto the table. One of them held me down while the other began taking off my clothes. First my shirt, then my pants, leaving me in nothing but my underwear. Gerard reached under the table and pulled out the bucket. He began walking across the room to the sink, bucket in hand.
"Like I said Stiles. We're going to have some fun." He turned the faucet on and place the bucket under the water. "Unless…" he turned to face me. "You tell me what I want to know." He turned and shut the water off. Gerard picked up the bucket and walked towards me. While he was talking, the men had tied my hands and feet to the table with industrial-grade duct tape. I couldn't move. I was completely helpless. Gerard leaned over the table, his face mere inches away from mine.
"Where is Derek Hale?" He spat at me, his voice full of hate and cruelty. I looked at him, expressionless. I remained silent. "I'll give you one more chance Mr. Stilinski. Where. Is. Derek. Hale?" I said nothing.
The water came like a brick wall. I barely had enough time to inhale so that I could hold my breath before the cold liquid flooded over my mouth and nose. I held out for as long as possible, but then my reflexes took over and my mouth opened. Water rushed in, filling up every possibility of open space. I began choking and gagging. I was blind because of the cloth the men held over my face. Suddenly it stopped and the cloth was ripped away. The single light bulb hanging from the ceiling suddenly seemed like a million suns. I coughed and threw up as much of the water as possible. Gerard grabbed me by the back of my neck and forced me to look at him.
"Where is he?!" He yelled, his voice like thunder. I spat the remaining water into his face and he slammed my head back down on the table.
"Again!" He commanded. The process began again. And again. And again. Until finally it stopped. The men disappeared. Gerard vanished. And I was alone.
I rolled off the table and onto the cold, wet ground. I was shaking and shivering and coughing and sputtering water but all I could think about was why? Why me? I'm not a werewolf, I can't help Gerard get what he wants. Then it came to me. It wasn't me. It was everyone else. His target audience isn't me, it's everyone around me. Scott, Lydia, my dad. This was for them. This was to hurt them. Gerard doesn't care about me, I'm just a stepping-stone to get to someplace better.
I crawled over to the nearest wall and laid down, by back pressed against the hard cement. I tucked my elbow underneath my head and closed my eyes. All I could do now was…wait.
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