Puri considered himself to be a well educated man, certainly he was well read and an accruing concept he found in books both fiction and non-fiction alike was the idea that people somehow managed to lose themselves while they sleep.
This has always been a source of confusion for Puri.
How do you not know where you are when you wake up if you were there when you went to sleep?
Wither or not it is where you normally sleep is irrelevant. Do you not realize that you are in the same position as when you went to sleep? Do you not recognize the same sheets or what ever coving you had from before? Do other people truly lose themselves while they sleep and actually take time to find themselves again when they wake, being disorientated until they discovered they were exactly where they were supposed to be?
Perhaps they did, but Puri did not or at least never had, which was why when he woke up and didn't know where he was he didn't bother trying to remember what ever happened because he clearly could not have been alert and willing during it.
Instead he focused on more important things like how he was very uncomfortable tied to what he suspected was a chair, how he couldn't be certain it was a chair because he was odiously blind folded and could be tied to some odd contraption, lastly and most importantly his hands were tied very tightly making it impossible to reach one of his scalpels, which by the way may have been removed.
He couldn't shift enough to tell if they were there or not and that was probably the most disorienting thing about this situation.
"Hehehe."
Correction, the disturbing girlish giggle that he couldn't quite tell where it was coming from was infinitely more disorienting
"Oh Doctor I've been waiting to see you like this, hehe it suits you."
It doesn't take long for him to recognize the girlish voice and if he wasn't so angry he just might be impressed.
"You nasty bitch." She slaps him hard, but he pays it no mind. She either needs him for something which means he won't die or she plans to torture him to death regardless of what he does.
"You have no idea the pain I had in store for you, hopefully you'll still be my guinea pig, but if not you can watch what I had planed and maybe knowing of your almost fate will be enough to curb your arrogance…but I doubt it."
She ribs the blindfold away from is eyes and fastens it tightly around his mouth ensure that he can not longer speak.
He takes in his surroundings. First they are still on academy property, second his captor is none other then Amy Ramsey the gorgeous young girl with a sweet ass and eyes that just begged to be filled with tears. Apparently she hadn't liked their games as much as she had pretended to. Her protest had been half hearted at best and he had been certain that there was no threat in playing with the little science track cadet.
Perhaps breaking out the medical equipment was what had pushed her too far? Puri wondered idly before his eyes focused on another captive.
Puri didn't even know the medical man's name and he was insulted to be sharing a torture session/possible death with the man.
He was some rich little brat that barely knew a scalpel from a nail pier and seemed to think that his money made up his annoying personality. It might have if he was his god forbid boss, but the little shit wasn't therefore a kick in the ass had been in the works. Just as soon as Puri or someone else that hated the kid had gotten around to it.
Puri has refused to learn the asshole's name on purpose and certainly wasn't going to try to remember it now.
He was slightly pleased to see that the idiot was both blindfolded and gagged. Apparently Amy hadn't been terribly impressed with him either.
"Look…I…Just was…Jim…it" A somewhat muffled voice sounded from somewhere behind him and he tried his best not to react to it even as he slowly began to make out the words while it was coming closer.
"Relax Bones it's from a good source." A different voice that he could hear clearly, they were definitely coming closer.
"Ha! A good source my ass. Look after that crazy stunt you pulled everyone is going to be gunning for you. So of course you go off in the middle of the night to meet strange people! Why the hell not?"
"God your bitchy tonight Bones. You're not still freaked about lunch are you? That was like… a whole day ago."
"That was like a few damn hours ago! You-"
"It was a lot more then that like at least 12 hours or 10 maybe, but it wasn't a few and technically it is tomorrow because of the time of night."
By now Puri recognized one of the voices and was reasonable certain about the identity of the other one, but why were they involved with this?
"There you are. I have to admit this is a nice set up." Jim Kirk commented sounding calm and friendly in sharp contrast to his companion's unhappy grumble, "The fuck is this?"
"This is my show and tell. Jayden insisted that I let you pick between our volunteers." Amy replied sounding none too happy about it.
"That was considerate of her." Kirk seemed to approve.
McCoy gave Kirk an utterly bewildered look at that statement and for once Kirk actually deiced to explain.
"This girl I know asked me not to kill Ms. Ramsey here at lunch and I didn't, but I made no promises for after, I believe she's supposed to impress me." Amusement was clear in his voice.
"Impress you?" McCoy huffed. "Yes very impressive she's able to tie two men to chairs, I'm amazed!" Kirk did nothing, but grin in reply.
McCoy, Puri decided must be extremely useful to Kirk otherwise the man would never put up with that much scorn and sarcasm toward something he was involved it. In fact McCoy was most likely here for one of two purposes, he could be here to be intimated by what was going to happen to one of the medical track captives or he could be here to be rewarded by choosing which of them would be disposed. No matter the reason Puri knew he wouldn't make it though the night now.
If it was the first then it would make more of an impression for the higher ranked of the two to be disposed of in an extremely painful fashion and if it was the other while there was no personal bad blood between Puri and McCoy it only made sense that he would kill off the more competent Doctor. Anyone could get rid of the piece shit he was sharing his bondage with.
Said piece of shit had clearly woken up because he was struggling hard clearly panicked and making utterly pathetic whimpering noses. Puri shouldn't forget just how annoying the other man was it was far more likely that they would both die.
"Is the party starting already?" A new voice came from the left and Puri was just able to catch a glimpse of a new face.
The sound startled the blind folded man and he gave a great jerk in the chair he was tied to casing it to fall over, him with it.
Puri was tempted to roll his eyes. If he didn't get to see that idiot's head go rolling before his own did he would be very disappointed indeed.
"What took you so long?" Amy demanded of her roommate.
"The Vulcan Professor was stalking the halls, didn't think you'd take kindly to a pair of uninvited eyes." She leaned against the wall just inside the doorway seemingly not interested in coming any closer.
"Whatever, Are we doing this or not?" Amy for some reason slowly slid the headband off of her head. The girlish pink beads glinted in the overhead light.
"Pick one." She demanded of Kirk. Kirk did what Puri was expecting.
"You heard the lady Bones, pick one." He held his breath and waited for the words that would end his existents.
"Seriously Jim, this is what you got me out here for?" Of course considering this was McCoy he could be waiting for a while.
…
It was somewhat flattering that they all just assumed that she had been able to lose the Vulcan that she had wanted too. Jayden didn't move from her place in the doorway, carefully blocking the light from the room to reach into the hallway where the instructor stood watching the scene.
He was still undecided she knew, but there was no rules about what went on after school hours, that was why so few people went out this time of night. It was dangerous.
She glanced at Amy, at Jim, and at McCoy they were dangerous too, perhaps more so then the commander at her back who was perfectly placed to snap her neck if so inclined.
She herself may never be dangerous, but she could be useful and she could associate with those that were.
Right now James T Kirk was assembling a crew and her greatest gift was manipulation. Kirk knew that, he saw her kill a man by making him change his mind after all. She did it so well that he lost sight of the real threat if only for a moment and that made all the difference.
Amy was giving Kirk her secret and Jayden was giving Kirk Amy. It was enough to keep her alive and Kirk pleased with her, however-
The Vulcan shift behind her as McCoy made his decision and Amy flung her headband in a well practiced motion
However, giving Kirk Commander Spock would get her on the future Captain's ship for certain.
…
The glass beads broke, the liquid splattered and through the gag the man began to scream.
