Chapter 10
Buffy held a blue metal tool box in her hand ready to give Angel although she wasn't sure if she wanted to give it to him. The poor man in the room in front of her was scared out of his wits and she wasn't surprised. She took in one last clean breath before entering the torture chamber.
The room really was like a dungeon. Colin sat on the chair behind the table while Angel sat on the other side beaming to himself. Buffy put the box down on the table as gentle as she could.
"Thank you Buffy, you can go now" Angel said not even bothering to look at her
"What do you mean I can go?"
Angel turned to face her, pulling his eyes away from Colin
"Look" He said "I promised your father I'd look after you if he wasn't around and making you watch me do what I'm about to do isn't looking after you"
"I'm a big girl now Angel. I don't need to be shielded" She told him angry at the fact that he thought she needed protecting
"Why do you always have to be so fucking stubborn?" Angel snapped opening his tool box and getting a hammer out at the same time. Colin's eyes grew in fear as he saw the metal hammer "I know you don't need to be shielded" He said more calmly "but this is something you might not want to see, I'm give you a chance to go before you see something that you wont easily forget" Angel warned.
Buffy looked to the door, back to the blue box, panicking. She knew what was about to happen and definitely didn't want to be apart of it but she also wanted to prove that she wasn't just a high school kid. Finally she made up her mind up
"I can look after myself"
Angel knew when to argue with women and when not to, and this was one of them situations where if you argued you would get a slap in the face for trying to protect them.
"It's you lucky day Colin" Angel sighed. Colin looked at him, his eyes full of hope "I can't use the chainsaw on you because I wouldn't want Buffy to see that would I? But I can still cause pain without shedding blood" Angel smirked and in one instant all of Colin's hope was gone.
Buffy watched from the corner of the room Colin struggling against the tape that was tying his hands to the table. There was rope tying him to the chair and his feet had also been tied. His shoes had been removed leaving his bare feet feel the cold floor.
"Scream if you want to but it won't make a difference but I do have a bit of a head ache" Angel picked up the hammer and held it with the hammer head in the palm of his hand and the metal handle facing down. In one swift movement he brought the metal handle down on the knuckle on top of Colin's little finger.
Colin tried not to give Angel the satisfaction of hearing him scream but it was too much. The knuckle cracked as soon as the hard metal hit it and Colin couldn't help but scream from the pain. Buffy winced and turned her head just before it hit but she could hear the bone crack.
"You can leave anytime you want Buffy" Angel told her after watching her turn away. Colin also noticed. He was a clever man, he had to be to screw Wolfram & Heart over and knew that Buffy was Angel's weak link "If you tell me what you did, all this stops Colin"
"I'll tell you if you leave me and Hank's daughter alone" Colin licked his lips at the thought
"Wrong answer" Again Angel hit Colin's other knuckle with the hammer handle and again he screamed "Just think what the hammer head's going to feel like"
There was no noise in the room as Colin thought out his options. There was only two. Tell Angel what he needed to know o continue to be tortured. It sounded so simple but it wasn't. If he told Angel who he was really working for then it would be much worse. Angel could never cause as much pain as Caleb could.
"Well?" Angel insisted
"Go fuck yourself" Colin gritted out
Buffy once again turned away as Angel brought the hammer down on Colin's hand only this time it was like he was hammering a nail into the wall, the hammer was the right side and the handle was in his palm.
It took only two minuets to break every knuckle after that. Each new hit brought more force and with the increase of force Buffy felt her need for a release increase.
"Your father never wanted you to work here" Colin said with his head bowed to the floor. His hands were all mangled and it looked like every single bone was broking. "He wanted something better for you. If that bitch hadn't given you away then..." Before he could finish Angel hit him across the face with the hammer knocking him straight out. Buffy only glared at him until she found her voice
"What the hell! What does he mean if that bitch hadn't given me away? He was about to tell me something! Why did you have to do that!"
"He's talking shit, he's desperate. Never listen to a desperate man Buffy" Angel wiped his hammer in Colin's shirt and put it back in the blue box. He then walked casually out of the room like he hadn't been in there torturing someone. Buffy ran after him convinced there was something more to what Colin said
"Why are you doing this to him?" She asked
"Why not"
"Why not!? Are you serious? Why not! Because it's barbaric. It's immoral. It's cruel"
"Wolfram and Heart is barbaric, immoral, cruel and a lot of other things. You knew that when you sighed up" Angel continued to walk to the elevator without even look at her "Take the rest of the day off and just don't think of what you just saw, trust me its easier"
"Do you even feel remorse for what you just did? Don't you have a soul?"
For the first time since they left the room Angel turned to look at Buffy, his brown orbs hard and cold
"I sold my soul a long time ago, you might want to do the same" The elevator door opened and Angel got in. Buffy stood just outside it trying to grasp what he was saying; she almost let the elevator close on her.
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Buffy stepped into the closed club carefully trying not to trigger any cause for alarm. The several poles on the podium were occupied by women in they're twenty's
"Can I help you?" She heard a voice say from behind the bar. Buffy smiled at her
"I... Um I was looking for Mr Finn. Is he around?" Buffy asked trying to sound as confident as she could but she was really out of her comfort zone
"Depends who's asking"
"Buffy Summers"
The woman behind the bar looked Buffy up and down trying to determine why she was here
"He's in his office"
Buffy took that as her cue to go see him. Walking towards the door that had PRIVATE written on it she went over what she was going to say. She was about to knock on the door when it opened and Riley Finn nearly walked straight into her
"Oh my... I'm so sorry" Buffy said her cheeks burning up.
Riley was about to roar, call her all sorts but he managed to stop himself when he realised that it was the girl that was in his club the other day and up close she really looked like the girl Angel brought with him to they're meeting
"Ms Summers? Am I right?" Riley asked
"Yeah" Buffy smiled
"Please, come in, take a seat" Riley moved from the door to the side of it to leave Buffy enter. "What can I do for you Ms Summers"
"I was... well the thing is..." Buffy paused slightly embarrassed. Riley watched her interestingly "IwaswonderingifIcouldbuysomecocainefromyou" Buffy said so quickly that Riley wasn't sure if he heard right but judging by the look on Buffy's face he did.
Riley silently got up from his chair and walked towards the safe. Turning and pushing the nozzle the big steel box finally opened pulling out a small clear bag with white powder inside
Buffy opened her leather bag ready to get money out but Riley stopped her
"No please, it's a gift" He told her smiling.
"You don't have to do that, I have the money here" Buffy smiled. Who wouldn't? She just had 50 worth of coke for free but she should have known by now that nothing in this world comes free, nothing, there's always a price
"I know but I want to"
"Thanks" Buffy took the bag and put in into her leather bag smiling, knowing in less then an hour she would feel the euphoric effect that she craved so much
"How long have you been working for Angel O'Neil then?" Riley asked trying to keep Buffy there longer
"Not long, about a week" Buffy replied
"How do you like it there?"
"It's alright, I mean it's work, what else can I say" Buffy choose her words
"If things don't work out for you there, there's always a job here" Riley told her
"Thank you but I'm confident they will work out"
"I'm sure they will" Riley smiled politely
Buffy looked down at her watch wanting to leave but Riley continued to smile at her like he wanted to talk more
"I saw you here the other night" Riley announced. Buffy nodded not knowing what else to do. So what if he saw her here the other night? What was his point? "Did you have a good night?"
"Yeah it was good thanks"
"I'm glad"
Buffy looked down at her watch again listening to the ticking sound get louder and louder as the silence increase until she broke it
"Well I should be going. Thank you for everything" Buffy stood up to leave, so did Riley
"The pleasure was all mine" One again Riley's eyes looked menacing, like the first time Buffy met him. Buffy smiled at him for the last time and left. She couldn't wait anymore, the feeling of excitement was taking over her whole body so she ran to the nearest ally she could see.
Looking around she found three steps to a door. The door was closed tight, probably abandoned so she put her purse on the floor of the top step and sat on the first step.
Buffy poured the cocaine out on her purse and scraped it into two lined with her credit card. She then rolled up a note and snorted the powder through it.
Buffy could feel her heart beat increase rapidly and welcomed the feeling. The effect was kicking in faster then usual but she didn't mind.
Buffy had been sitting on the step for about ten minuets. Her heart beat was racing by now and she was feeling on top of the world, so good she didn't even hear the foot step's behind her
"Hey baby" A rough voice said. Buffy got up from the step and looked the man up and down. He looked about forty. Quite large with no hair what so ever. She couldn't help but laugh at the man's appearance "What you laughing at?" He roared
"You" Buffy grinned still feeling like she could do anything
"You here that, she's laughing at me" The bald man said. Buffy looked around wondering who he was talking to, that's when she saw another man. He was skinny, his arms covered in black and green tattoos
"Give us your bag" The skinny man demanded
"Fuck you!" Buffy turned to walk away but one of the men grabbed her from behind, covering her mouth with his large hand. He slammed her against the wall still covering her mouth
"It wasn't a question!" He hissed ripping her bag from her hand but Buffy wasn't going to hand her bag over without a fight. In the struggle she managed to scram the man in the face but he punched her hard knocking her to the floor.
As she fell back the two men took it as an opportunity to get out of there so they ran off with Buffy's bag and all her belongings, including her phone
"Shit" Buffy muttered upon realising that she had no way to contact anyone
A/N: This chapter was a bit rushed because I realised I hadn't updated in like forever so sorry about that but I've been so busy with college and when I haven't been doing work I've been going out. Thank you all for your reviews, you know I love reading the. I have got a planned a twist in this story and I've dropped a hint in this chapter so if you've spotted it then good on you. I did try to blend it in and not make it obvious but I think I did make it a bit obvious, oh well.