Time becomes irrelevant. I no longer cared how long I have been held here in this little dark hole if a cell being used as these monster's tester monkey. Knowing the day count would only tell me how long I have been forced to go on living when I should have died that night fighting beside my Commander. My lover. My Ally.
My head whipped around when I hear the heavy thud of footfalls coming down the line toward my door. Immediately I shove the only reminder other than my memories that my Danvers had really lived back into the little inside pocket I'd stitched into the lining of the dirty stripped shirt I'd been given. My fingers brushed against the engraved letters of her name as I safeguarded her ID tag. I'd had enough trouble keeping the reminder with me as it was so no way was I letting these demons take her from me again.
"Against the wall." The guard snarled twisting my arm painfully behind my back nearly pulling it out of the socket as he shoved me face first into the concrete wall when I didn't move fast enough for his liking making my breathing even harder as I force myself to keep the cry of pain from slipping out. I did have a reputation to uphold after all. "What's the matter, Maxie? Someone not putting out for you, so you take out your anger at his cock block on innocent people?" I wheeze.
Just because I'm not counting the days didn't mean that I stopped gathering intel on my surroundings. Max Lord was the overseer of my cell block and he seemed to enjoy the time when I came up in the lab rat slot more than anyone else in our little wing if his gleeful smirk was anything every time I'd let pain slip past my carefully controlled emotions when he hauled me back to my little cell after my session in the chair was over.
"Watch your tough or I cut it out" Lord snarled pulling my arm higher up my back "Besides I'm going to enjoy hearing you finally scream until your lungs burst." He smiled making my blood run cold.
Oh no. That can't be today. Please Ally not let it be today.
"Oh yes, you insulting bitch." Max grinned seeing the fear in my eyes. "Today is that blessed day." He purred. God was he enjoying this way too much as he continued dragging me down the hall to the torcher chamber. "And if you don't die from rejection or just from the pain of having your very being be ripped apart and put back together in what we want it to be one thing is for sure." My tormenter taunted his eyes burning into mine as he leered over me.
The rest of his threat is broken by the heavy door of the horror room opened. "Why the delay?" the doctor thundered at the sight of us. "Prisoner tried to escape again sir." Max covered so my bloody noise and possible bruising along my ribs would be easily explained as I was strapped down too tight to the blood splattered metal table.
"Dismissed." Doctor…. Henshaw? I think that was his name… "I said dismissed Mr. Lord." the doctor repeated when Max hadn't moved from the space beside the door.
"Now." The dark-skinned man hummed rolling a tray of unpleasant looking concoction filled needles beside my head. "Let's get started, shall we?" he questioned picking up the first of the shots tapping the side of it like he was caressing something beautiful as he stalked closer to me.
I take a deep breath letting my eyes close as I feel the needle stabbing into me. The pain was immediate the second the plunger was pushed down but it wasn't until I feel the sting of bent metal scraping against my skin that I realized the thing being stabbed into me had somehow clipped the hidden treasure in the lining of the sleeve.
"One down." The man over me counted as my body involuntarily thrashed against my bonds as the pain worsened.
Oh God! Ally please make it stop. I remember thinking as the pain became too much. Please, Danvers, please baby make it stop I quietly beg the phantom woman trying to comfort me behind my tightly shut eyes before I heard myself screaming out for the first time since I was brought here as the third shot was pushed into my veins.