Armin
"Let me see her" I demand to the guard.
I just got out of a room where they locked me after I saw Annie almost die when she came out of the crystal. I felt like a huge rock had been inside my stomach until I saw her out of it and the rock just disappeared. Then I saw her fall out of it and called her to see if she was alive. She stopped breathing and I followed my instincts and run to help but the guards held me back until I made it to her. Then Zoe just injected something to her and she fell asleep almost immediately, but I thought she was dead so I yelled at her and that´s how I ended in the room.
"No" he says coldly at me and then smiles a little, but from pure anger "she´s testing he resistance, she´s been in there for about an hour now"
"They´re torturing Annie?" I ask surprised but worried
"The female titan" he corrects me "she´s not Annie anymore. Or T-239 if you wish"
I hear a violent scream and a laugh after it, from different persons. The door opens and Zoe comes out with a malicious smile on her face and a box full of needles with dark red liquid, each with different tags on them, a lot of them. I look at her angrily, but she just smiles.
"Let´s see if she can resist the next one" she looks at me with amusement "I don´t understand how you can still like her and help her, after all she has done, and you can still forgive her?" she looks at me disappointedly.
"I will not help if you torture her like that" I say angrily "I don't care what she has done, it is done now, we can´t change that. But we can find a way to defeat the titans, and torturing one… one girl that probably knows the answer, will not help us defeat them. You have no right to torture her"
"What a waste of knowledge, then, if you can´t help us" she turns and goes away
"Now let me in" I say to the guard and he opens the door.
I rush inside. It is a small dark room only lit by the light in the corridor, which is not much given that we are still underground. I find a small switch in the wall, which apparently Zoe never used, and turn it on. I ball my fists when I see her. But I'm not angry at her, I'm angry at Zoe for whatever she has done to her.
She kicks and moves like a snake when I turn on the lights, struggling to get free. She is clamped against the floor by two pieces of metal that are over her wrists. She´s breathing hard enough for me to hear and her eyes are full of fear and wilderness. She has a stripe of cloth through her mouth and seems desperate to get it out. She has her eyes shut, so she doesn´t see me. It´s hard to see her like this, defenseless, scared.
She is stammering "s-stop, stop, stop, i-it hurts, it h-hurts" I don´t know what is hurting her so I get closer to her. Her forehead is soaked with sweat and her short blonde hair is a mess in her head. I kneel to her side and pull out a bottle of water.
"Annie" I say and she opens her wild blue eyes searching for me, and when she does, I see the fear in her eyes, threatening her to give up. She shakes her head. I see panic over her eyes. I sit the bottle by my side and lift her head slowly taking out the stripe of cloth off her mouth.
She coughs and shakes. I look at the metal straps holding her to the ground. She has bruises around it and it is bright red all around. She has been struggling. Her legs are no longer kicking and she is barefoot. She is using all white, her hoodie and white pants. I raise the bottle to her lips but she turns her head. I try again but wherever I put the bottle she moves her head to the opposite side avoiding it.
"You have to drink" I say but she shakes her head "It wasn´t your fault" I scowl at her "You can´t die here, I won´t let that happen. I don´t care what you´ve done. Now drink" I push the bottle to her lips and she finally opens them, still staring me, and she starts drinking. She doesn´t rest for air until the bottle is empty and she coughs, bouncing off the ground, but I can´t help her.
I take out slowly a needle while she is still coughing and a little bottle with a purple liquid. I put the needle and suck up the liquid from the little bottle until it´s full. She opens her eyes and turns her head and, as soon as she sees the needle, starts kicking again and struggling until her wrists are bleeding and I have to put my hand over her mouth so she doesn´t scream. She kicks and struggles but I hold her steady until she gets tired and stops.
"I´m not gonna hurt you" I say struggling to keep her down, but she doesn´t stop.
"Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmmm!" she says under the palm of my hand. I separate my fingers a little to hear her "I don´t trust anyone!" she keeps saying.
"I won´t hurt you" I try to convince her "It will take out the pain. It will help you. Just stop struggling! You´re hurting yourself!"
I raise the needle with one hand and she widens her eyes and struggles harder. Now I understand why she is struggling so much, she thinks I'm Zoe. She was in the same position I am now, trying to inject her something, torturing her. I roll to her side so I am in the same position as her, with the needle in one hand.
"I don´t care if you don´t trust me" I say kneeling. I hold the needle in one hand high and clasp the other above her mouth to keep her from screaming "I will shut your pain out"