Chapter 6 Stay alive

Rey slowly opened his eyes, the pain was slowly fading and he wondered of he had finally been given the sweet release of death. He managed to look down at his body, almost every inch of his tattooed torso was black and blue. She had really gone to town on him.

"I was hoping you were still alive Rey. I kinda lost control" Iziah's sweet voice ripped through him. "I hope now you have learnt your lesson."

"Iziah" Rey breathed, to his shock she cut him off without hurting him.

"You have a point about the drugs so I'm gonna try and be more patient"

"Your insane Iziah, you need help"

Izzy laughed as she pulled up a swivel chair and sat on it backwards. "Oh I'm not insane I am in perfect control of what I'm doing and I think it's perfectly justifyed thank you"

Angry frustration loomed at him from no where, his dead friends swirled in his brain. "How can you sit there and say this is all fucking justifyed? You have killed and tortured for no fucking reason and you say it's justifyed?"

"Don't speak to me like that Rey. I don't like it" Iziah warned trying to stay calm. She didn't want to hit him again but he was trying her patience. "And who said there wasn't a reason?"

"Feel like sharing it with the class?" Rey snapped, he was tired of fighting and it was he could do to stop himself from saying those magic words and end it all.

Iziah sighed angrily "No I don't want to share it expecially with you of all people"

"You said your getting revenge on me for something someone did to you" Rey tried to figure it out in his head. He had no idea how he was apart of this and he wasn't sure if he wanted to know but the longer he talked the longer he stayed alive and away from punishment.

Iziah didn't say anything as the bad memories swirled in her head, all the pain and torture still pulled at her.

"Tell me what is it that I've done to you that is so fucking horrible?" Rey shouted at her.

"Alright you really wanna know? Ok let me tell you a little story" Iziah picked up her hunting knife and twirled it in her fingers as she talked. "When I was thirteen I met a guy, I fell in love with him instantly. Everyone seemed to adore him Rey and he seemed to be exactly what I needed to get me out of the depression of my sister being locked away in a nut house. When I turned fourteen I moved in with him and everything seemed to be perfect" Iziah paused for a moment as she put the knife down and rolled herself another smoke. Rey hated it when she smoked, he could put up with the smell, it was the fact that he was used as the ashtray. "Then it started, the abuse. A little slap here and there and the odd insult, I truely believed that he would stop because he loved me but it just esculated until it was at the point where he would leave me lying in a pool of my own blood. He cut all my contacts and I was alone with no hope of survival. Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse they did. He came home one day angry about nothing. He grabbed my hair and forced me into the bedroom. He forced my legs apart and unzipped himself. He forced his way inside me Rey because I wasn't in enough pain. I tried to fight him off but he was stronger than me. After he was done do you know what he did? He kissed my neck gently and said I love you Iziah" She punched the table angrily "You don't rape someone you love Rey, as twisted and fucked up as I've become even I know that."

"Iziah I'm sorry" He truely was, it gave her no right to do what she did but he could understand what drove her to this. She had been to hell and back with no one there to save her.

"Oh it gets worse" Iziah grimaced "He raped me everyday, eventually I just stopped fighting. Instead I just shut my eyes and pretneded that I was somewhere else. I prayed to God that I would die so I was free of the pain. I found out later that I was pregnant, now I had a reason to live. I needed to protect my innocent child from the monster that it's father was. The beatings went down when I told him even though the rape went up. About five months into my pregnancy he finally pushed it way too far. He came home ranbling about me being a slut and the baby not being his. Next thing I know he punches me in the face. This time I fought back Rey, I needed my baby to stay alive because it wasn't just about my life anymore. Well that was the worst thing to do because he got angrier. You know what he did?"

Rey shook his head, he was totally enthralled in her story.

Iziah rested her smoke on the edge of table before picking up her knife "He took this exact knife and stabbed me in the stomach. He stabbed me nineteen times before he finally left me to die. According to the doctor it took one stab to my baby's head for it too die. The other eighteen were for me. He took my child Rey and I needed revenge. After I was discharged from the hospital and I was well enough to pursue him, I started to plan my revenge. After about five months of planning and scheming I finally found the fucker. You know what the kicker is? That bastard had already killed himself." She stabbed the table angrily "He puts me through hell he ends it by killing himself. No that shit ain't right so I took it on myself to get my own revenge. I did some digging and found something very interesting Rey, something that would make it all worth it"

"Iziah I'm sorry that he put you through all of that, I really am but what has this got to do with me. I have done nothing to you, I've only been your friend"

She didn't say anything as she slowly went back to the disturbing images of that night.

Rey began to yell angrily at her "What he did to you wasn't my fault! This has nothing to do with me at all!"

"Why don't you ask the burning question Rey, ask the question that everyone is dying to ask. What was the name of the abusive boyfriend?"

"Iziah.."

"Ask it!" Iziah shouted angrily her silver eyes flaring up. "Ask the fucking question!"

"Who was he?"

"His name was Dean Guterriz"

Rey's eyes widened in disbelief and he suddenly realised why he was the target. "No" He couldn't believe it, it couldn't be true.

"That's right Rey, I was raped and abused by your brother. When I saw your name on the family tree I knew I could get the revenge I desperately craved. That's why your name was crossed off the list because when I told Dad you were his brother he wanted me to get revenge for what your brother did to me"

"Iziah" Rey pleaded, "Please don't do this"

"No Rey, he took my child so I'll take his brother. An eye for an eye"

She got off her seat and started back up the stairs, she just couldn't look at him anymore. He looked too much like Dean.