Heads up, there's a lot of disgusting and sick things happening in this chapter. I was watching a horror movie when I was writing it, sorry!

~Axel.

"Paradox!" I heard Fox shout.

She knelt beside me and gently rolled me over, gasping when she saw my face. She carefully put pressure on my chest, trying not to get even more blood on the floor. Light stood next to Mello, who was tied to a chair, which was bolted on the floor. Mello was awake, even if just barely, and staring at me. I looked at him. The reflection of me in his eyes looked broken. I smiled at him, even though it hurt. He gave me a nervous smile back.

"Paradox, we have to get you out of here. He's going to kill you!" Fox kept her voice down, using the hole in my ear to whisper to me.

"Get… Mello… Out first." I whispered back.

Fox nodded, even though it was almost imperceptible. She stood up and wiped her hands on her pants. Her eyes looked sad and Light just gave her a sadistic grin. She dropped her eyes and left. Light snapped his fingers. Hearts and Diamonds chained me back onto the wall and pulled the chains so tight my arms were burning. Mello stared at me. Light pulled a dart gun and shot a heart with darts onto my chest. Blood welled up from each of the darts and I hissed. He snatched the darts, picked up the bullwhip, and flicked his wrist. It wrapped itself around my neck and I felt it squeeze. I choked and Light pulled the whip away. He smirked and made a figure-eight with his arm. The whip mimicked his motion in a painful, larger scale. Since when was he fucking Indiana Jones? Light pulled his arm back and brought it down. The whip came down on my shoulders hard, and blood came flying out of the wound. I clenched my jaw, unwilling to scream, no matter how much pain he put me through. Light frowned and drove his fist into my ribcage. I heard cracking noises and made an 'oof' noise. Mello had a cloth tied in his mouth, making him look like a hostage. Hearts was holding his head in place, making sure he couldn't take his eyes off of what was happening. Light drove two fingers into my chest and I felt him stroke my heart. I shrieked and screamed in pain, immobilized for fear of accidentally killing myself. Light smiled at my reaction and drove a third finger right next to my heart. Blood was flowing down his arm, but he didn't care. I could barely breathe, I was so terrified. Light stuck his fist in my chest and I felt his fingers close around my heart. This is it. I'm really going to die. He squeezed gently and I lost control. I cried and howled. He didn't care and kept one hand on my heart, the other was on my now-tearstained face. I felt my heart race in his hand. He let go and smirked. He slowly pulled his hand out. It was covered in blood. My knees buckled and I was sure that if the chains hadn't been holding me up I would have been on the floor.

I looked at Mello. He had tears on his face and I could see him struggling to get the chains around his wrists off. I shook my head slightly. Light didn't notice. Mello stopped moving. I felt my heart working double time to replace the blood I was losing. It didn't hurt anymore. Light's smirk disappeared and he picked my head up by my hair. I felt his hand reach into my left eye and pull it out. He smiled and threw my eye behind him. He shot my legs and ended up breaking one of them. Mello looked like he was going to be sick. I coughed and blood came out of my mouth. It ran down my face and Light just laughed. He ran his hands along my chest, skirting the hole he himself had made. After a few minutes of my chest aching, it finally stopped. Light stuck his hand through my chest and it came out the other side. I stared at Mello, watched him cry. I was in too much pain to move, even to make a sound. Blood flew out of my mouth and landed all down Light's back.

"Now you see what happens to fuckers who desert me. Not that you're of any use now." Light snapped his blood-covered hands.

I looked at him through my eye. He was covered in my blood. Even his face had specks and droplets of blood on it. Hearts unchained my arms and carried me into the main room. Light called for everyone who was not on a job to gather there. He had a giant square of fabric on the floor. Even it was red. My eye scanned the room. Sharpshooter was being held in place by Armageddon and Doom. That's actually kind of funny. Clubs and Fox were frozen in place. Light walked in, in a fresh suit. His suit was blood red and he had cleaned up his face. He looked like nothing happened. He stood in the center of the cloth and Hearts put me at his feet. My arm sprawled out to the side. My other arm draped itself around my stomach. My leg was at an odd angle, and the other leg was straight. I could feel blood coming out of my chest.

"Look at Paradox. Don't avert your eyes."

I coughed, blood coming up. I drew in a painful, gurgling breath.

"You still lose." I rasped.

"What was that, Paradox? I still lose? It appears you are the one who loses."

"I got out. You lose."

Light's eyes filled with rage. I was making a public fool of him and he knew it. We both did.

"Why don't I show everyone what happens to people who leave?"

Without a moment's hesitation, he reached into my chest and pulled my heart to the surface. He ran his fingers over the surface of it and I screamed. Fox looked like she was going to be sick. Sharp was being held up by Doom and Armageddon. His face was pale. Clubs looked like he was going to throw up. Even Doom, who usually got off on this kind of sick shit, looked sick. Flip ran forward and fought through the front row onto the red cloth.

"Leave him alone! Stop it! You're obsessed with keeping what's yours! Can't you see you're killing him?" Hearts kicked Flip and she crumpled to the ground with a crack.

Light put my heart back and dug around in my chest, making me scream. I tried to move, but Hearts came over and pinned my arms above my head. He chained my feet to the floor and Light smiled. He knew I was the only one who could see it. His knuckles brushed my lungs a couple times. My face was covered with blood from my chest and I could barely keep my eye open. I saw Mello being hauled out by Diamonds and he was thrown to Clubs, who caught him and held him up. I focused on him. Light didn't matter. I had to live through this for Mello. He looked like he was going to be sick and I couldn't blame him. My eye made contact with his and he locked on to my face. Light's fingers dug farther into my chest and my eyes squeezed shut with pain. Light grabbed onto my heart and whispered in my ear.

"You will never see him again."

Light's fingers around my heart didn't move. They didn't clench or tighten. He pulled something out and I felt him dig out my other eye. I heard Mello gasp and I clenched my jaw. There were still tears coming from my eye sockets. Light laughed and I felt his fingers massage my heart