I give, I give. Here. Have your action chapter. Covenant is not mine.
CHAPTER RATED M FOR TORTURE.
Saturday 28th October, 2006
The bolt racked through my body, I cried out and fell to my knees, I was vaguely aware of the door slamming shut and Reid yelling "What the fuck?" Then the second bolt hit, I cried out again, my head thrown back, it hurt, it hurt so much, arms grabbed my shoulders and hurled me up, holding me up. The next bolt hit both of us and I could just about gasp out "Caleb." Before I was overcome with pain. There was wind swirling around us now, wind and rain and lightning, I was vaguely aware of it as I shuddered through my ascension. I couldn't hold myself up, I couldn't think, couldn't move, it hurt, it hurt so much and then, blissfully, darkness.
It didn't last long, just long enough for Caleb and Reid to haul me to the bed and lay me on it, then I was awake again. There was so much power coursing through my veins, I could feel it, but I was so tired. "What-?" I gasped out.
"Shh. I don't know. It was early." Caleb explained, knowing automatically what I'd been about to ask. He glanced to the door, what if someone had heard? Or seen something, the door had been open when it started, I knew that was what was going through his head. I tried to lift my arm but my limbs were heavy. I don't know how Caleb had done it, gone through this and then had to move and think straight after-wards. I was so wiped."We have to know." Caleb muttered, his gaze still on the door. "Reid and I will go check, Tyler, stay here with Pogue, don't let anyone in." You'd think we were four with the way he said that.
My eyes strayed to Tyler and Reid, they both looked pale and a little frightened, it must have been horrible to watch. They looked reluctant to be apart. "Go together." I whispered to them, "I'll be fine." Caleb looked edgy. "I'm not going anywhere like this." I told him, he didn't look happy but nodded.
They left, I heard Caleb say "You guys check that way, I'll go this way." I closed my eyes and let myself drift. The door opened and I forced my eyes to open. Shit. McCoy was standing there, I became all too conscious of my current predicament, the window was smashed, I was going to have to play up this sick thing really well if I was going to get out of this.
"I heard the smashing." He said, I nodded.
The room was trashed, I needed a story. "Reid- got angry, the others took him out for some air."
"Oh." He looked me over, "You don't look so good."
"I don't feel so good." I gave a cough that I hope sounded real. "I was the last to get it. They've all recovered." I remembered our cover story for watching Tyler was that we were all sick.
"We should get you to the med lab."
"No, no, I'm- I'm fine, really." But what could I do?
He'd crossed to the bed, "You need medical attention." He stressed out the syllables and hooked my arm around his neck and lifted me.
"We should wait for- them, they'll wonder-" Someone had to show up soon right?
"I'll tell your friends once I know you're being seen to by a Doctor." He half-dragged me out of the room, I stumbled along beside him feeling a little sick. He put his hand on my shoulder. "I don't think you're gonna make it to the med lab." He confessed, I wondered what he was talking about but a light pressure was put on my shoulder and the world tilted, then went black.
I woke up on a gurney, in a sterile room and for a blissful second I thought that I really was in the med lab, that they'd pronounce nothing was wrong with me and I could go back to the dorm, or that he'd phone Caleb and they were on their way here to sort this whole thing out. Then I realised I couldn't move, Not really, my head lolled a little when I tried but my muscles simply wouldn't contract.
"I gave you a muscle relaxant." McCoy's voice came from behind me, "You were all seized up. I couldn't get you all the way to the across campus med lab so I brought you to the emergency one under the dorms." I hadn't even known that existed. "Most people don't know, but I am a qualified Doctor." There was no way that was true, he was so young. He couldn't have a history degree and a medical degree at this age, he just couldn't. "And It seems to me, Mr. Parry-" -I wanted to shudder at the way he said my name, I knew I'd hated it before, now it was loathsome at best- "-that you're in perfect health. If not a little tired."
"Great." Oh good, my mouth was working, that was a start, "So I can go?"
"Not quite." Well, yeah, 'cause he had to reverse whatever crap he'd stuck in my bloodstream, right? Wrong. "Because I have a confession, I was lying a little when I said I came running when I heard the window smashing. Actually, I saw the window smashing." Oh no. "And then I saw you, being hit by lightning, Mr. Parry. Yet here you are, in perfect health, can you explain that to me please?"
I feigned ignorance, "I don't know what you're talking about. I wasn't hit by lightning, no-one could survive that."
"I know what I saw. Don't play me for a fool. I don't like it. How did you survive?"
I didn't like where this was going. "I wasn't- you imagined it- it was a trick of the light, you did not see what you thought you saw." Why was my mind so fuzzy? It was making it hard to think. Did the muscle relaxant work on the brain too?
I froze as his hand wrapped in my hair and he jerked my head off the table. "Tell the truth or I am going to get very angry." He pushed my head down with force, smashing it into the table.
"Ah!" I couldn't help the pained noise that escaped my lips.
"No human could have survived that. What are you?"
"I don't know- what you're talking about." I said again.
He smashed my head against the table again. I bit my lip so hard, it drew blood to keep from making a sound. "What are you?"
I spat some of the blood from my lip at him, "I'm Batman."
He gave me an unamused look as he wiped the blood off his face and casually pushed my head into the table again, it was really hurting now. "Are you a witch Mr. Parry?"
"Witches don't exist." I shot back, too quickly.
"I would have said so too but then I was forced to reconsider after what I've seen today." He turned away and I struggled internally with my muscles. It did nothing. He turned back with a syringe in his hand, "Don't worry about this, it's just a mild sedative, it'll make you sleepy and confused but unable to [ass out, no matter how much you want to."
I shuffled as well as I could away from the syringe but it didn't have any effect and he pressed it into my neck. The effect was nearly instantaneous, my mind clouded, adding to the already fuzzy feeling that had been there. He smiled, I took this as a bad sign. "I'm only going to ask once more, Mr. Parry, before I get really nasty. Are you a witch?"
"Witches. Don't. Exist." I stressed each word as much as I could.
"Are you sure? Because it all fits, your friends, your family past..." Something cold and metal pressed to my arm, I glanced down to see a rather scary looking dagger pressing into the skin on my forearm.
"Very sure." The blade dug into my skin and yet another pained sound escaped. I growled. "When this is over, I'm going to kill you." I announce, not caring who hears me.
He tuts at me, like I'm a four year old who's said a swear word they don't understand. "That's highly unlikely."
I don't know what it is, his calm demeanor annoys me more than anything else. The blade digs into my skin again, scratching a line down my arm and I whimper. He smirks. "Tell me the truth."
I'm in serious danger of giving in to his wishes but then I remember the covenant, the secret that must always be kept, the secret that is more precious than life itself. "You'll have to kill me." I tell him, sounding braver than I feel, "Because I don't know anything."
"I think you're lying." He flips me over and I'm helpless to stop it, my face is pressed into the table, the knife is pressed against my back, cutting into the skin..
'I'm just a step away, I'm just a breath away, losing my faith today, falling off the edge again.'
Caleb's ringtone blares from the phone in my pocket.
Aren't I mean? Leaving it there like that? You know you love me. There's much more to come, I promise.
