Disclaimer: Maybe in my dreams I own it, but in reality, yeah, still no.
xXx
Saviour
Chapter 3.
Amethyst woke up a second time but this time she didn't freak out, she opened her eyes and sat up, she did, however, move all the way to the corner of the bed and leaned her back on the wall her bed was against, pulling herself back in the position she used to when she was in her cell.
She looked and saw the lady she had thrown into the wall standing by her bed, looking at her very warily. "You aren't going to do that thing again, are you? Cause even though you somehow healed me, I don't feel like feeling it again," She said in all seriousness.
Amethyst shook her head but keep a blank look on her face, looking around a bit.
"Ace is talking to Pops, he'll be back soon though"
Amethyst's head turned back to the lady and nodded a bit before resting her chin back on her knees that she was holding against her chest and staring at the lady, waiting for her to talk again.
"Okay, Well, my name is April, I'm one of the Ship's doctors. I need to do an examination on you. I've checked out some of your bruises and scrapes that I was able to with your clothes on but I need to make a full examination to be able to know the exact condition of your body so that I can know where and how to start the healing process. Okay?"
Amethyst glared at the lady, not trusting her, she's had enough experience with 'doctors' who have said the same only to take advantage of her when her guard was down. Amethyst inwardly cringed at the memory, her heart racing faster and glared harder, a scowl marring her face and if looks could kill that would be a heart stopper.
April's eyes widened in confusion, not expecting such a look, 'what did I say?'
Thatch walked in the room, speaking loudly, making the two people look at him, both glaring for different reasons. "You know I think I deserve an apology when she wakes up," He said, not sensing the atmosphere in the room or the already awake girl until it was too late. "Whoa, I walked in at the wrong time... you aren't going to do that thing again are you?" He asked as the confidence he walked in with, disappeared instantly.
Amethyst rolled her eyes and was about to turn her glare back to the woman when she saw Ace push past Thatch and walk in the room, relief flooding into his tight expression as his eyes landed on her.
"Good, so you aren't covered in blood anymore and you didn't throw anyone around this time, I was worried," he said, the corner of his mouth quirking up in amusement.
'Shut up, moron' She said, annoyance dripping from her 'voice' only then realising that she was cleaned up while she was asleep.
He grinned at her and walked to the bed she was huddled on, sitting on the end of it, making sure not to be too close and looked at April. "So, what's up?"
"I need to do an examination to check the condition of her body and see what I can do to help her heal, but she won't let me"
Amethyst glared down at the mattress in front of her, feeling like she was being scolded. She felt the bed dip right next to her and looked up seeing Ace sitting right next to her, a look of determination on his face. He reached out and she scrunched her eyes tightly closed and gripped the sheet of the mattress in an iron hold, expecting a punishment for not listening to the lady, but instead she felt his hand gently touch hers and unfold it from its death grip, holding it in his and her eyes shot open, looking at their hands.
"I'm not going to hurt you, neither is April, she just wants to make sure you're okay"
Amethyst looked him in the eye then back at his hand, holding her smaller one, then she looked forward, staring at nothing, a look of emptiness flashed in her eyes as she leaned her chin on one of her knees against her chest. 'You know... I've heard many doctors say that before and you know what they did?'
Ace felt dread clawing in his chest, thinking they left her to heal on her own in pain or beat her till she was black and blue and barely conscious or brutally torturing her.
'They raped me'
Ace's eyes widened, sucking in a breath, his eyes then narrowing in anger, he let go of her hand just so that he didn't accidentally hurt her just from being so pissed off at the thought of someone so despicable doing that to her. Now it was his turn to grip the sheets, his knuckles turning white.
"Ace! you're burning the sheet!" April yelled, making everyone in the room look at him.
Ace ignored her but calmed down a bit, the anger never left, still spreading through him and he grabbed Amethyst by the shoulders, looking her dead in the eyes.
"I promise, I won't ever let that happen again. April is not that type of doctor she really wants to help you, if you can't trust her, trust that she isn't like those fuckers.
I swear to you on the pride of my crew that, that will NEVER happen again, I will make sure of it till the day I die and even then so help me I will roast them from the grave!"
Everyone in the room was in shock at his outburst but no one as shocked as the girl he was looking intensely in the eyes, she looked calm almost bored on the outside but on the inside was a whole different situation, she's never seen someone so determined and no less because he wanted to protect her, she saw how he had protected her before but for him to say it so directly and with such intensity shocked her to the core.
'Okay, whatever you say, just calm down and stop looking at me like that' She said, trying to make that look on his face disappear.
He visibly relaxed and let go of her.
"You know, I think Marco is right about you going crazy, you do talk to yourself," Thatch said, breaking the tense mood in the room.
Ace rolled his eyes and glared at Amethyst, seeing the amusement in her eyes, thinking it was funny how they thought he was talking to himself.
"You can start the examination," Ace said, now looking at April who snapped out of her shock and confusion from what just happened.
"What?" She looked at Amethyst who just gave her a nod, a small glare still on her face.
April quickly picked up a pen and paper and held it in front of Amethyst who grabbed it, analyzing it.
"I need you to fill that out first before we start, it's just a basic information form"
Amethyst nodded and started reading and filling out what she could, eyes furrowing slightly now and then. Shortly after, she had finished and she gave it back.
April looked at it and was surprised to find that she had only filled out her first name and instead of a birth date she just put '17'
"Do you not know your last name?"
Amethyst shook her head, not exactly knowing that she was supposed to have another name.
"You don't know your birthday?"
She shook her head again.
"Parents?"
Another shake of her head.
The temperature in the room rose and Amethyst turned to see Ace getting visibly angrier the longer the 'conversation' went on.
"Ace if you're going to get mad every five seconds just leave, you keep burning my damn sheets," April said in an exasperated tone, he calmed down and looked at the ground guiltily.
'Idiot' Ace glared at her, hearing the insult.
"Can you step on this scale? I need to weigh you"
Amethyst stood up, stumbling a bit, surprised at how weak she felt, but she straightened up instantly and walked to the scale, standing on it, not quite understanding what the numbers meant. She saw it stop at 41 'that's a pretty big number if age has any correlation in this'
"Whoa, you are way too light, we should talk about a diet plan for her after this April" Thatch said, sounding serious for the first time. 'Okay, so not such a big number then'
April nodded and turned back to Amethyst "Okay, I'm going to need you to undress so that I can make a full examination, that would also include touching so if you want me to stop at any time just tell me or indicate for me to stop and I'll stop immediately"
Amethyst tensed but nodded, ignoring the pain that shot through her body as she stayed standing, 'now is not the time to be weak,' she told herself. Ace stood up to walk out and shot a glare at Thatch, making him run out as he was about to sit down on a bed and get comfortable. Amethyst began to internally panic.
'Wait!... You... you can stay... if you want'
Ace was startled by the voice and turned to look at Amethyst, she wasn't looking at him, feeling embarrassment at how obvious it was that she was requesting it.
Ace closed the door and sat back down on the bed.
"Why are you still here Ace?" April asked in confusion.
"She's okay with it," He replied confidently.
April looked at her and Amethyst nodded then looking to her side at Ace, seeing a smirk on his lips and she rolled her eyes, facing back to April. 'You know on second thoug-'
"Nope, no taking it back... unless you're serious then I'll leave"
She rolled her eyes again, not saying anything. Ace took the silence as a sign that she wasn't serious.
"Let me guess, you're talking to him without talking somehow?" April asked, figuring out the whole one-sided conversation that kept happening.
"Yes! thank you! she guessed it, you can't be mad at me!" Ace said, relieved that someone finally understood.
"Yeah, well unlike everyone else, I know you aren't crazy... well at least not talk-to-yourself crazy" Ace scowled at the last part, "Gee, thanks"
April looked back to Amethyst and indicated that she can undress.
Amethyst grabbed the top of her sleeveless dress and pulled it down, letting it drop to the ground, taking a quick glance to April and only saw a very calculating look, she glanced at Ace and she saw his eyes closed, she was confused with all these new actions she had never experienced with anyone before.
"Are you okay with me touching you?" April asked, looking at her face.
She gave a hesitant nod and April reached out her hand and started gently prodding and caressing certain areas of her body, never touching too long or inappropriately staring, she got lower and looked up to Amethyst. "Can I touch you down here?" She nodded.
She flinched at the first initial touch, it was cold, but then she soon relaxed as it went on, "I don't understand how you can even move, there are so many very severe bruises and vaginal lacerations, surprisingly there are very little scars and the ones that are there aren't very visible so they must've at least been treated properly, but I guess if the power you've shown today is any indication, it's not really a surprise that you're strong"
Amethyst wouldn't admit it but she was surprised herself, she felt pain everywhere but refused to look weak to anybody.
The temperature in the room rose again. "Ace... I swear..." April said through gritted teeth.
The temperature then dropped... again.
Amethyst was tempted to laugh, despite the obvious atmosphere that went against it and the fact that she's never laughed before, she wouldn't even know what it would sound like.
"I'm going to move behind you to check the back of you now, alright?"
Amethyst felt anxiety take over her but nodded, she hated her back, she despised it with everything within her, she was never branded but... she never really needed to be, they marked her in other visible ways, she watched as April disappeared behind her and heard a horrified gasp.
"Oh my god" she shut her eyes in disgust just thinking about what she could see.
She felt a hand touch her back and tensed up, eyes shooting open, she knew who's hand that was and it wasn't Aprils, she refused to look at his face not wanting to see his expression. She wasn't so sure anymore what his expression would be, he surprised her a lot but she knew it wouldn't be a good one. His hand left her skin but she still stayed tense, scared and anticipating something, anything, a sound, a word just something.
Amethyst then heard the door open and slam shut making her flinch at the loud sound that resonated through the room and splinters of wood going everywhere. "That idiot is going to pay for all this damn damage he's done to my office"
April then continued what she was doing, same questions of reassurance, the same touches but this time Amethyst drowned it all out, for the first time she felt worried about how someone thought of her, he was reckless and seemed short-tempered, she thought about what stupid things he might do and what things might be going through his head.
She was brought out of her thoughts with a tap to her forehead. "Here are some clothes, it's just some undergarments, a Jersey and some shorts, nothing fancy, the Jersey will probably be a bit big but the shorts should fit fine"
Amethyst nodded, taking the clothes and put them on, moving back to the bed, sitting on the edge of it, legs dangling.
"So the scars on your back, they're nothing like I've seen before, I can recognise some as cuts, scratches, burn and whip marks which I'm sure you're aware of, but there are specific ones that I'm a bit sceptical about whether or not you know of them, are you aware of the other ones that I may be talking about?"
Amethyst felt like throwing up at the thought of it and nodded, his voice still echoing in her head as he carved it into her.
A nine-year-old Amethyst was laying on a bed, completely naked, on her stomach, eyes tightly shut and tears soaking into the pillow her face was buried in. She had just witnessed her mother killed in front of her eyes, a couple hours before. She used her powers because some Celestial went to touch her in a way she wasn't familiar with and she panicked, she wasn't sure what he was doing but she knew she definitely did not like it. They killed her mom because of it, she never met the woman but it hit her harder than the other deaths she caused because of her disobedience.
Now here she was, just finished through succumbing to his rough torture and use of her body, she never felt such raw disgust and pain, it felt so wrong, so utterly wrong.
She was being pinned down as the Celestial sat stark naked on her lower back, holding a blade against her back, feeling it break the skin and prick her as he twirled it on her back.
"You going to disobey me again, pet?"
She shook her head, making sure not to make a noise.
"Now to make sure you know your place"
Her eyes widened in pain and she bit into the pillow to keep from screaming, he dug the knife into her back and started carving letters into her flesh.
'S, L, A, V, E'
"So you know who you belong to"
'M, I, N, E'
"And so you know what you are"
'P, E, T'
She had given up on the pillow and started biting her lip, to seal her lips shut, blood was dripping from the wound she was making in her lip with her teeth, tears pouring endlessly from her eyes. She knew she was going to get at least a beating for staining his pillow with her blood, but she wouldn't mind any of those scars if to just cover up those ones.
"And every time my turn with you comes, I will re-carve you and remind you exactly of where your place is, with me" and that's when she knew, she was always going to be his... his...
"Ready for another round, Pet?"
...his pet
Amethyst quickly got up and ran towards the bin across the room and vomited the scarce contents of her stomach, her eyes burned with tears that she forced back, her throat burned as bile rose up from the pit of her stomach. She felt disgusting, dirty. Memories of that man flashing through her mind like a bolt of lightning. She heard April start to rush towards her and she held up her hand to stop her.
April felt herself come into contact with an invisible wall and realized Amethyst had used her powers to block her from going towards her. "Hey, don't use your powers, I won't go to you"
Amethyst put her hand down, now kneeling in front of the bin, staring blankly at it.
"There are towels and a sink you can use, I'm going to go out but I don't want you coming out until you've had a rest, no matter how strong you are, you need rest. I need to inform some people of your condition and discuss some information on how you are and your situation, but don't worry I won't say anything unnecessary or go into too much detail unless I need to, you can go into further detail if you want to, yourself" April said, then walking out but not before cursing about Ace and the broken door, shutting it behind her as she left.
Amethyst stood up, not bothering to pretend her legs weren't aching, stumbling as her legs shook, small hisses of pain leaving her mouth. She walked to the sink, turning it on and rinsing her mouth out, she then grabbed a towel and dried herself. She walked back to the bed and lay down on it, facing the wall and curling into a ball, hugging the jersey around her, tears started coming out and silent sobs wracked her body, she was shaking violently. Finally being out of that cell, out of that hell and the multiple tortures she was faced with every day. She finally had a moment of peace and the toll of everything she had been through came ramming into her relentlessly, it was so overwhelming that she had to keep herself from screaming.
She was so caught up with her breakdown that she didn't realise someone slipping into the room. She felt someone sit on the end of the bed and put their hand on her arm. She jerked in surprise and looked to see who it was. Seeing who it was, she relaxed, her tears falling more rapidly.
"...A-ace"
Ace felt his chest constrict seeing the tears roll down her cheeks, body shaking and hearing her real voice for only the third time since he's met her, the first time was whispered and raspy, like she hadn't used it in a long time, the second time, cold and emotionless and now, the third time, broken and tortured.
He lay next to her and grabbed her so she was laying her head on his chest, her arms tucked into his side, his right arm wrapped securely around her back, holding her to his chest and the other drawing soothing circles on her shoulder. "Sleep," he said softly but demanding, she went rigid at first but then relaxed against him.
She closed her eyes, tears and sobs calming down. She focused on the movements of his finger on her shoulder, the rhythm of his heartbeat and the warmth of his body against her skin and then she felt herself drift into slumber.
She didn't trust him yet, not at all, but if she had to pick someone to put her trust in... it would be him...
