A few days later, as the gang get onto their airbeds
(This is the 4th day in the store, 8 days since the Radioactive Blast A/N I think so anyway... 'cause they spent 4 and a half days in the safe room and now 3 and a half in the store. )
(Also, this chapter is the reason why this story is M rated)
"Who's taking the first shift?" Beck asked, laying back onto the airbed he shared with his girlfriend.
"I'll do it." Cat spoke up. "I'm really awake still after that coffee." She practically bounced to her feet.
"Who gave her coffee?" Jade rolled her eyes. "Vega was it you?"
"Why would- Cat was it you who stole my coffee?" Tori exclaimed.
"You gave it to me." Cat pouted.
"I said you could have one sip."
"Shhhh." Andre moaned, placing his hands over his ears. "I want some quiet."
"Sorry." Tori replied.
"Here." Robbie handed Cat the flashlight for her night shift. "Hey, where's Dean?" He said after noting the lack of their army friend.
"In the toilets still." Beck said. "He said he wanted to try and wash his hair in one of the sinks."
"What hair?" Jade joked. "He basically has a buzz cut."
"Still want quiet!" Andre said, his head now buried into his pillow.
"Night guys." Beck said, wrapping his arm around Jade.
"Night." Cat replied, taking her seat in the camping chair in the front of the isle that they designated for the night watch.
"Wake me when you get tired Cat." Tori spoke up. "I'll take second watch."
"Kay kay." The younger girl replied, turning off her flashlight for the others to sleep.
Cat POV 'thoughts' "spoken"
'Everyone's been asleep for like an hour now. Well I think they're all asleep, Robbie definitely is 'cause I can hear him snoring, or 'heavy breathing' as he calls it. Hehe. I can't blame him, he doesn't have his inhaler with him. That hasn't really stopped Jadey from blaming him though. She's mean sometimes, but sometimes she's nice so I still like her still. Everyone is nice to me, even Dean who seems cold to everyone else. Tori is extra nice to me, I think she likes me, I mean like likes me. I hope she does cause I like like her too. Hehe. I think she's straight though. But then again, I thought I was too until like 2 years ago when I heard my brother talk about his pansexual friend. I googled what it was and I was like 'thats me'. I just love everyone I guess! I looovve love!
Speaking of Tori, I'm starting to get tired, maybe I'll wake her for her shift. But she looks so peaceful, at least I think she does, it's too dark to tell. I'll wait until Dean comes back and then I'll wake her. Wait, where is Dean? It can't take that long to wash his hair, it's all so short.'
"Dumm dee dumm doo dee. Hehe. Dooo deee daaa." 'Funny little noises. Oopsie, I'm meant to be quiet. I don't think I woke anyone though, it seems quiet still.'
'I think I'm crashing from the coffee. I should go wake Tori. But this camping chair is so comfy. "Awwhh." I yawned. I'll get up when Dean comes back. That won't be too long. I'll just shut my eyes f-.'
'What's happening?' I mentally asked as my body slowly woke up. 'Someone's carrying me. It's probably Dean taking me back to my airbed. He's nice to me, he keeps calling me 'Darlin' which sounds funny coming from him.
Wait, this seems too far to be my bed. I just heard a door open. IS HE DUMPING ME OUTSIDE WITH THE ZOMBIES?!' I wearily opened my eyes t to discover that I was in fact in Dean's arms and he wasn't carrying me to me bed. We were in this room that I've never seen before. 'We must be on the right side of the store, 'cause I searched the left side.' I felt Dean lower my body to the cold ground. "Dean?" I croaked out, confused and slightly scared.
"Oh shit." He muttered, his body towering over mine as I tried to sit up.
"W...what?" I asked. 'He used a bad word. Did I do something wrong?'. "Why are we in here?"
"Just go back to sleep." He growled, using his foot to push my body against the ground and hold it there.
"I'm scared Dean." I whimpered, the sole of his shoe digging into my chest. "I don't want to sleep here. I want to go back to my bed."
"Tough." He spat, holding me down still as he began to remove his belt and lower his trousers.
"Dean w...what're you-."
"Shut up." He cut me off, moving his foot from my chest and to my neck, cutting off my breathing and speech, but with not enough pressure to break it. I tried to claw at his shoe, but they were thick army boots and wouldn't budge. I felt the lack of oxygen start to effect me as my eyes started to shut. "No you don't." He lifted up his boot for me to gasp for air, before replacing it again. "Now that you're awake, you can stay that way." He snarled, his pants now by his ankles, as he began to pull down his boxers.
This is when it really hit me about what was going to happen. He was going to rape me. And there was nothing I could do, I was pinned to the ground. As soon as his boxers fell, he pulled me to my feet and rammed me against the wall and ripped apart my leggings, with one hand still against my neck to silence my screams and pleas. My underwear came next, his comment over the bright pink colour nearly made me vomit.
The rest... I can't fully remember. I'm not sure if that's because of fear or because I was floating in a limbo between consciousness and unconsciousness as he pressed his hand into my throat, releasing every few seconds for me to breathe. As he came to a climax however, I do remember him not placing his hand back onto my neck, rather he placed it against the wall to steady himself. Though the tears and sobs I choked out a scream for help. Dean realised his mistake and re-clamped his hands to my neck as he finished. This time he didn't let go for me to breath.
As my eyes fully closed I heard the commotion of Beck and Andre bursting though the door.
No POV (a few moments earlier than Cat's POV ended)
"HELP!" Cat's scream echoed away from the room in which she was trapped in and to where the gang were sleeping.
"What was that?" Andre said, bolting upright.
"Sounded like Cat." Tori gasped, using her flashlight to point to the seat where Cat should have been sat in. "She's not there." She gasped.
"Andre." Beck said, grabbing the bat from beside his bed. "Come on man."
"I'm coming too." Tori said, jumping to our feet.
"But-" Beck started.
"There's no time to argue Beck." Andre replied, rushing out of the isle.
"Stay behind us." Beck told Toi, leaving Robbie and Jade still in their slumbers, unaware of the events occurring.
"Where'd you think it came from?"
"Sounded like this way." Andre replied, running down the right side of the store.
"What the hell was Cat doing?"
"Dean!" Tori yelled in realisation. "She might have been looking for him or something."
"She wouldn't do that." Beck replied. "Unless he took her. He'll be in that room he set up for himself!"
"What room?" Tori said back.
"It's where he goes during the day. I don't know what's in there, I've just seen him go in. Tori wait out here" Beck rammed his body into the door that led to said room, and he and Andre stormed in.
They didn't even have time to comprehend what they saw before Beck swung his bat and knocked Dean out cold, making him drop an unconscious and broken Cat to the floor. "Cat." Andre gasped, rushing to the red-head's side.
"I...is she okay?" Beck stuttered, knowing what happened as soon as he saw that Dean's trousers were lowered.
Andre used his thumb to lightly open one of Cat's eyes for a reaction, but they were lifeless. The spark that existed before had vanished. Her lips were slightly perched open, but nothing but a small noise came out periodically. The sound they made was a relief, but nothing more than a relief. It would be foolish to call it comfort. She spoke nothing, and looked off into nothing. She was becoming nothing. Her mind was either soullessly blank, or completely ravaged by thoughts that tore at the very synapses of their brain, leaving her completely unresponsive.
"T...Tori." Andre screamed, making the half-Latina walk into the room. "P...please d...do something."
"CAT!" Tori screamed, dropping to the red-head's side and immediately knowing what'd happened because of the large rip down the centre of Cat's leggings and the blood stuck to her inner thigh. "Oh Cat." Tori sobbed.
"She...she's barely breathing!" Beck said, noting the lack of rise and fall of her chest. He then grabbed Cat's wrist. "Her pulse is too weak."
"What do we do?" Andre said in panic.
"CPR." Tori announced though the tears. She positioned her face above Cat's and lowered her mouth onto the red-head's, pinching the her nose closed, placing two fingers under her chin, and started breathing into her mouth. "Someone." Tori said between breaths. "Do chest compression." As commanded, Beck leapt forward towards Cat's fragile body and placed two hands in the centre of her rib rage. At a steady tempo he pushed the palms of his hands down and then back up again, then again and again, each compression wearing him out more and more until... eventually... Cat's eyes started to flutter open.
There was a sigh of relief when Cat blinked a few times and even moved her arm to push herself up. "T...tori." She croaked out, slowly sitting upright and using her arms for support.
"I'm so sorry Cat." Tori replied, tears still fresh on her face.
"T..." The half-latina's name was lost on Cat's tongue as the recollection flooded her mind. Her body gave up on her as she collapsed into Tori's arms, sobbing.
"W..what do we do with him?" Andre stuttered, motioning to the unconscious Dean who was now bleeding from the head, while the two girls cried in each other's embrace.
"Chuck him outside." Beck said coldly. "He'll either bleed out or the zombies will get him. I don't care as long as he's dead."
A few minutes later, Tori and Cat were still in sat in a tight embrace, holding each other for dear life. Tori had removed her hoodie to cover Cat's legs and held the smaller girl close to her body as her sobs echoed around the room. Beck and Andre had removed the blockages from the fire-door and carried Dean's unconscious body out of the store and threw him outside in the the zombie infected night.
"GUYS!" They heard Jade yell from main part of the store. "WHERE ARE YOU? ROBBIE'S SCARED?!"
"I'm scared?" They heard Robbie say back. "You woke up and cried out for Beck which woke me up."
"Shut up!" Jade snapped. "GUYS!"
"In here!" Beck yelled back in a shaking voice as he and Andre re-blocked off the door which lead to the outside world.
"This way." Robbie said, pulling Jade along a corridor and into the room.
"Why the hell are you in here?" Jade snapped, suddenly hearing Cat's shaking cries. "Cat?"
"What happened?" Robbie asked, his eyes wide at the sight of Cat's head buried into Tori's chest. He rushed forward to comfort the girl, but she let out an ear piercing scream as soon as his hand touched her back.
"Don't Robbie." Tori said, her voice rough from the sobs from earlier.
"Someone tell me what happened!" Jade commanded.
"Dean." Andre stuttered, unable to look anyone in the eye. "He just... he raped her."
"HE WHAT?!" Jade screamed suddenly. "I'LL KILL HIM... I'LL I'll..." Jade's cold exterior broke around her as she fell against the wall in shock. Her legs gave in on her, sending her sliding down the wall and into a tight ball.
"Jay...Jadey?" Cat mumbled, her sobs stopping slightly.
"Yeah Cat?"
"You're gonna have... to wait your turn." She replied. Jade returned with a weak smile, tears starting to form in her eyes at the sight of the broken girl that she'd known since Kindergarden. "T...tori." Cat stuttered. "I need to... clean myself up."
"Okay Cat." Tori whispered to the girl in her arms, helping her to her feet.
"I'll carry you to the-" Andre started.
"NO!" Cat near-screamed. "S...sorry that's h...h..how h...he b..b..b.."
"Brought you here?" Robbie finished for her.
"Uhuh." Cat nodded.
"We'll help you okay?" Jade said, getting to her feet and slowly walking towards the girl. Once she knew it was safe to touch her, she draped Cat's right arm over her shoulders, while Tori did the same with Cat's left arm.
"I'll get her some new clothes." Robbie spoke up.
"N...not pink." Cat mumbled, confusing the group slightly. "Please."
"Okay." Robbie stuttered weakly, leaving the room to go find some clothes that would fit Cat.
Jade and Tori helped Cat to slowly make her way to the toilets in the main store. They pushed open the woman door labelled 'Women's' and helped Cat in. Jade pulled out her flashlight and placed it onto the sink counter top so that the room was lit up.
"I...I..." Cat sobbed as she saw her refection in the mirror. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying and there was a large blue/purple bruise forming along her neck.
"Did he strangle you?" Jade spoke-whispered.
"To... stop me from screaming... for help." Cat replied bluntly, finally now able to understand why it hurt so much to talk and breathe.
"I'm so sorry it took us so long to find you." Tori stumbled over her words as she tried to apologise.
"It's not your fault." Cat replied, wiping away the remaining tears.
A knock on the door startled the girls, making Cat stumble backwards and into Jade's arms. "Who is it?" Tori spoke up.
"Robbie." Robbie replied from he other side of the door. "I brought clothes for Cat, and a towel."
"Thank you." Tori said, opening the door slightly and taking the pile of fabrics from the boy.
"Tell Cat I'm sorry for scaring her earlier." He replied, weakly smiling and turning away.
"He said-"
"I heard." Cat replied, taking the clothes from Tori as the half-Latina began to wet a corner of the towel.
"Do you need help or anything?" Jade offered.
"I...I think I'm okay." Cat took the towel and walked into one of the toilet cubicles. "Can you two wait there though please... I might need you."
"Of course Cat." Tori replied.
Cat POV
I... I can't believe what happened. And I can't believe it happened to me. We trusted Dean, I trusted Dean, and this is how he repays us. Rape. I just can't believe him I- No Cat don't cry again. Stop. "You okay in there Kitty?" Jade asked.
"You haven't called me that in years." I replied, smiling slightly at the use of the old nickname Jade gave me. "And... yeah I'm okay." That's not true. I'm not okay, but I guess I've got to be strong. Slowly, I unwrapped Tori's jumper from my waste and saw the rip down my leggings and the crimson blood soaked into them. I lowered them, and my ripped underwear and started to wipe away the blood with the towel Tori gave me. I feel so dirty. I need to wash him away from me. I need soap- I've never wanted a shower so much in my life- but they don't have showers here. All I have is this wet towel so I kept scrubbing until my legs were raw.
Shaking the thoughts from my head, I pulled the new leggings from the pile of clothes Robbie gave me, along with a pair of underwear and pulled them on, discarding my ruined pink pair on the ground. I never want to see pink again, his comment over her 'cute' they looked keeps running though my mind. I think this time I might actually vomit. 'Oh go-' I spun on my heel and retched into the toilet.
"Cat?" I heard Tori screech. As I threw up, I reached back my arm to unlock the cubicle door. Tori rushed in and held my hair back as I emptied my stomach.
"I'm sorry." I sobbed as she pulled me close to her.
"You have nothing to apologise for." She stroked my hair as I laid my head on her chest.
We stayed like that for a while, whilst Jade flushed the vomit down the toilet and removed my discarded clothes from the floor. "Do you want go back to the beds?" She asked.
"I guess so." I mumbled back. Jade and Tori helped me to my feet and guided me to my bed. As soon as I laid down I started to panic. "Please don't leave." I grabbed Tori's arm before she got into her own bed.
"I won't." Tori replied, curving her body around my back and holding me close.
"Promise?"
"I promise."