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Broken Pieces

Chapter 10

She turned to leave the room when her blood turned to ice. Her skin became cold and her heart skipped a beat. Tears welled in her eyes. "No....it can't be........" She sank to the floor unable to breath. Her body started to shake in fear as the tears escaped and ran down her face.

Standing in the doorway was Hatori Matsumoto.

He gave a half-smile. "Did you miss me?"

"What are you doing here?!" This isn't fair, she thought. None of this was supposed to happen. How did it?

As if he could read minds he said, "Oh, come on. You really didn't think any prison could hold me. Any halfwit can break out if he does it right."

"How did you find me?" Her voice was shaking. She didn't even know how she had even mustered up the courage to ask him.

"Oh, it wasn't hard at all. Nowadays, you can find out just about anything when you talk to the right people." He took a step closer.

"Stay away from me!" She shakily stood up and backed up to the wall.

"I'm impressed. Last time I heard, I left you unable to walk." He lunged forward suddenly.

Zoe screamed as he grabbed her and spun her around. One hand held her neck tightly. His other held his knife. Hatori then began to lightly trace her spine with the tip of his blade. "But we can fix that now can we? Just one little jab and you'll be back to square one. Only this time I won't give you a chance to relearn it."

Zoe started to cry even harder, as he led her out to the living room.

"You know, I'm not upset that I got locked away or anything. I'm just upset that I didn't get to finish what I started." He dug his blade into her back a little harder.

Zoe cringed. She remembered how it felt the first time around. She did not want to relive it.

"Please leave me alone, I'll do whatever you want-"

"But this is what I what. How can I leave you alone when what I want is for you to be dead?" He smiled. "But don't worry. I won't kill you right away. I want this to last."

Zoe shuddered. She hoped that Takuya would blow her off. That would never happen in a million years but she had to hope. Or at least hope for him to be extremely late. She couldn't stand to lose anyone else in her life. If she couldn't save her parents or Akari she at least wanted to make sure Takuya was safe.

She sobbed as he dragged his knife across her shoulder. It cut the strap of her dress and the skin around it. A thin line of blood emerged.

This went on for five more minutes on her shoulders and arms. He was about to give her a cut on her neck when they heard the door open.

Hatori leaned so his mouth was near her ear. "Who's that?" He hissed quietly.

"Well jeez you didn't think all that food and cake was for me, did you?" She scoffed back.

"Zoe?" Takuya looked around in the kitchen. He saw the cake on the table and smiled.

Back in the living room Hatori whispered. "You have thirty seconds to get rid of him or he dies."

Zoe gulped and tried to sound as normal as possible.

"Zoe?" Takuya started to enter the dining room.

"Don't come any closer. I don't want to see you, just leave!" Zoe shouted.

Takuya frowned. "What do you mean?" He shouted back.

"I said go away. I don't want to see you. I only pretended to like you so that you would help me walk again, but what do I need you for now?"

"So you're telling me you went through all the trouble to make me a cake and everything only to decide you don't like me?" He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Something was up, he thought.

Zoe knew time was running out. "Just go away. I hate you and I never want to see you again. If you don't leave I'll call the cops and have them arrest you for trespassing!"

"Fine, whatever! Have a nice life, you ungrateful bitch!" With that the door opened and slammed shut.

Zoe waited a few seconds then couldn't take it anymore. She broke down into uncontrollable sobs. He hates me, she thought miserably. But it was for the best. She couldn't risk anything happening to him.

Hatori grabbed a handful of her hair and lifted her head up so that she was looking at him. "Good girl. See? I don't have to kill everyone in your life. He dug his blade into her shoulder, and she began to scream in pain.

Suddenly Takuya jumped out and tackled Hatori, getting him off of Zoe.

"Takuya! Look out!" Zoe cried out.

Hatori punched Takuya sending him into the wall. Zoe sprang up and slammed her hand into Hatori's nose. Enraged, he backhanded her across the face as hard as he could. She fell to the floor, barely conscious.

Takuya swung at him, slamming him into the wall. "You bastard!"

Hatori punched him in the stomach, momentarily stunning him. He made his way to Zoe and put his foot down onto her back. Zoe cried out, unable to move. He began to dig his heel into her backbone, causing tears of pain to well in Zoe's eyes. She could feel the bones in her back cracking. He then moved his foot onto her neck and started to step down, slightly restricting her air supply.

"Stop it!" Takuya took a step closer. Hatori stopped him.

"One more step and all I have to do is jerk my foot and her neck is broken." He applied a bit more pressure, making Zoe wince.

"Just leave her alone." Takuya felt defeated. "Take me instead."

"No!" Zoe tried to scream.

Hatori took his gun from his belt and pointed it at Takuya. "Alright. In the kitchen." He took his foot off of Zoe's neck, but then gave her a brisk kick on the side of her head. Zoe's head felt as if had been shot. She closed her eyes and laid still.

Takuya looked ready to kill, but had no choice to listen to him at this point. He slowly made his way into the kitchen with Hatori close behind him, ready to shoot if Takuya tried anything.

As they left the room, Zoe moved slightly. Neither one of them noticed.

"No. I won't let this happen again," Zoe whispered. Flashbacks of her family came to mind. She had felt so helpless when they were being threatened. And no matter how much she wanted to, she couldn't save any of them. In the back of her mind, Zoe felt as though she could have at least saved Akari. But she couldn't even do that. They had been failed by her. At least she had a shot to help Takuya.

She shakily stood up then quietly opened the drawer where she knew Takashi kept his collection of knives. She picked up the biggest one, then crept through the dining room, making her way to the kitchen.

Hatori threw Takuya onto the ground and started kicking him in the back and stomach. Takuya spit out some blood and tried to crawl away but each time he attempted it, he got kicked. Hatori picked up his gun off the table and clicked off the safety. He aimed at Takuya.

"When I'm done with you, you're girlfriend's not gonna be so lucky either."

Just as he was about to pull the trigger, Zoe jumped onto his back and rammed the knife down into his shoulder with all her might. Hatori screamed and dropped his gun, it landing a few feet away from Takuya. Takuya lunged at it and tried to aim at Hatori as quickly as he could. Hatori had thrown Zoe off, and unbeknownst to her, still held his knife in his other hand. Before Takuya had time to fire, Hatori had quickly rammed the blade deep into her stomach.

"Zoe!" Takuya fired twice.

only one chapter left. what's gonna happen? let me know how this chapter was. :D