Chapter one

nightmare

She shivered but refused to let anything get through the strong prayer she had been repeating for the last

hour. She could not show fear, it would only please him.

"…forgive those who trespass against us as we forgive those who trust pass against us and….lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil."

She heard a high laughter coming from behind her and knew he had just returned from whatever disaster he had just laid out for whomever he had chosen.

"You-you really think God's going to help you, sweetheart." he laughed walking up behind her, she shivered at the warmth of his body and her body, as frozen as it was reacted to the warmth of his. Arching her back her body sought out his. He moaned as her body laid against his.

"You really should be careful who you do that to around here, cause there are some….freaks in here. Like me." and he burst out laughing at his own sick and demented joke.

"Please, my family will give you whatever you want, just please, let me go." she breathed out, barely audible due to the fact that she was exhausted and sore from hanging on her arms. Whoever this man was he had tied her up by her arms and had striped her of her clothes before placing her in a small room with air conditioning, making the room colder then fifty degrees. She was cold, she was tired and she just wanted to go home, just like all the others he had held here as a captive, right before he disposed of their worthless existence. Well, worthless to him, anyway.

"Ya know why you're here?" he purred in her ear, pushing up against her and wrapping his coat gently around her, giving her all the warmth she could ever ask for. She shook her head no, her mouth to dry to speak much anymore.

"You're here because you are a symbol of Gotham's worst case. You sit around like a normal citizen letting people fight for you, and you don't really care, you don't stand out more then most. You never commit any crimes, you sit on your ass all day at home and then the next day you get up and go to work and sit on your ass all day there. That's old school….that's boring. You need a wake up call. And I'm gonna give it to ya."

She shivered against him, and then shivered again as his coat and body were removed from her bodies reach. She felt something sharp and cold touch her neck. Pressure was added and a sharp pain. She whimpered and held as still as possible, praying in her head to God that he would somehow make this freak have a second thought about killing her, even just for the night until she had a better plan for escaping.

The blade was suddenly removed and so was the pain, until she felt it run between her breasts and down to her belly button.

"But I don't think you're ready for your wake up call, because you haven't had your nightmare yet. This is just the beginning of your nightmare, doll face. Ha ha ha ha ha ha." he laughed, before stepping forward and punching her hard in the face.

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