Running, Trust, and Hope

Chapter 10

Volt's POV

Robin led me down a bunch of corridors, it had lasted so long that I couldn't tell where to turn and go in case I needed to escape. Finally, we got to a door and Robin opened the door and I walked in. Just as I took a step in, the door slammed closed behind me and the sound of a lock clicked in. The wind from the slam blew my hair forward and knocked the air out of me. There was a metal table, and a metal chair. On the table was a lamp that was turned on. I sat down on the chair. It was freezing. Then Robin came from a different door and closed it behind him. I gulped.

"Well, 'Volts' we haven't had a lot of time to talk now haven't we?" Robin said slyly.

"No, we didn't," I agreed, turning my head to the left a little so my right eye, my strong eye, would know his next move – if he dared make one that is. "Is that all? To just.. talk?" He was now pacing back and forth, and I feel his masked right eye on me. He suddenly turned and slammed his fist on the metal table. I was shocked. I hadn't realized I wasn't breathing until I felt a little light-headed. I took a deep breath.

"No. Talk is talk. I need answers." He said sternly.

"Well, what would you like to know?" I asked, trying to act naïve and innocent at the same time. But he already knew me all too well to know I was anything but that.

"Well, let's start off easy. What's your name?"

"Tina."

"Your full name, Volts," he said. He was ticked, but what about?

"Tina," I said through clenched teeth glaring at him. He decided to move on.

"Okay, Tina. How old are you?" He asked getting up and started pacing after awhile.

"Thirteen," I replied.

"Where are you from?"

"Nowhere." He stopped at this reply and turned his head to look at me.

"Nowhere? Where exactly is nowhere ?" I shrugged.

"Nowhere. I don't have a home, I just jump around. I'm sure you did a bit of that in your own time," I replied. He gave me a look and went back to pacing. He stopped and faced the wall, opposite of me.

"Why are you here?" he asked.

"Huh?" I questioned, confused. Was this a trick question? "What do you mean?" He turned around, too fast for me to respond, and had me pinned to the wall. I struggled for him to loosen his grip or get off, but nothing worked. He was simply too strong for me.

"Why are you here!" He started to yell. If I wasn't scared before, I am now. I opened my mouth but nothing came out. "WHY ARE YOU HERE!" He yelled at me. I started to cry. "WHY ARE YOU HERE!" he yelled again. He was only scaring me more, and I only cried more. As he kept yelling at me and tightening his grip on me, I only got more and more hysterical. It wasn't too long until I couldn't feel my arms anymore. "WHY-" he started to yell again.

"STOP IT!" I cried. "Stop! Please! I'm begging you!"

"Why should I?" his voice louder than a statement but not as loud as a yell.

"You're..hurting.. me," I cried between the words from the pain and fear. He loosened just a tiny bit but it still hurt just as much.

"Why..are..you..here?" He asked again more quietly but still all the more threatening and intimidating.

"Stop it!" I heard a voice yell. It was a woman's. I felt the pressure of his hands take off and I collapsed on the floor as the feeling of my arms and the circulation of my blood fell back full force hurting for a moment. But just a moment. I looked up to see Robin the floor, being forced down by dark energy. I saw it came from Raven. I gasped seeing her defending me. Most would think of it as obvious but I couldn't imagine having nearly anyone here actually defending me in a fight.

"Do you give up?" Raven asked.

"Never," Robin grunted. Raven pressed down her energy shield even harder.

"Now?"

"..No-", a snap of a bone cracked was heard and echoed throughout the room and me in Raven for a split-second glanced at each other in fear and shock but that didn't last longer than that.

"F-f-fine," he stuttered and grunted out then Raven let out. He lay on the ground motionless, just breathing inside and out. Raven took me out the door I came in with her arm around me. I clung onto her like a child is to her mother. A few tears spilled but there was no sound but there was the sight of a small girl shaking. We entered the Main Operations room, where nearly all the rest of the 'titans' hung out. Whatever they were doing were hushed and stopped once they saw Raven and the fearful, clinging child. A black, young lady with wings in a yellow and black suit and black boots walked up to Raven and I.

"Raven.. what happened? What's wrong?" she whispered thinking she could talk to Raven privately even though I was right there.

"Robin's what happened," Raven whispered back coldly with an equal-looking stare to match it. Then all of a sudden Robin came staggering in and leaned on where the sliding door slid and breathed there like as if just taking a step was an effort-taking struggle.

"You.." was all he could get out, and all you could hear from him as well. "You..you..you!" he kept saying repeatedly as he came walking awkwardly toward me. Raven turned so she was behind me but protecting me nonetheless. He pointed his smug little finger at me as he yelled, "You!" I stared at me, clenching my teeth, getting ready to fight if it came to the point. But I doubt he could take more than a few hits before collapsing completely.

"What do you want Robin? What did she ever do to you?" Raven nearly yelled.

"You..get out! Get out! GET OUT!" He yelled. I stood there shocked for a moment but didn't stand there like an idiot. I felt Hope was around so I ran for the door – a door. The nearest door I could find to get me out of here. I ran and ran down a whole bunch of corridors. Only getting more and more lost within the building. Before long, I found myself in a dark corridor that I could barely see my hand in front of my own face. All of a sudden I heard breathing behind me, breathing down hard on my neck. I took a step forward and turned around just in time to see a figure lashing out their arms as if to catch me but were too slow. I took a few steps backward as they took a few steps forward.

"You.." I heard him say. Robin. I gasped and fumbled over onto the cold, hard floor. He could have walked on top of me at the moment if he wanted to. I shrieked out like the little girl I was as he lashed out. I felt the sting as my flesh and clothing was ripped off and I screamed from the pain. He lashed out again and again. I was about to scream again, when he fell down and covered my mouth with his hand. The pressure of his body, bone-breaking and threatening to crush my ribs and my lungs with it.

"Now..now you'll get what you deserve.." he declared quietly into my ear. I could just imagine him smiling a crooked, evil smile. I felt a stab of pain as a knife – something sharp as it pierced through the fabric of my shirt and through my skin, as if carving a masterpiece on my left shoulder blade.

"Don't worry.. I'll make everything better," he whispered. He stabbed the blade down even farther making me cry out in pain. But you couldn't have heard me. He muffled the sound of my own voice making it impossible for me to cry out for help.

He moved to my neck. He started kissing it, then after awhile he started sucking on my skin. Occasionally biting, knowing it would leave hickeys tomorrow – if I were even alive tomorrow. He licked my neck up and down clean, then slit my throat and leaving his own carving in the right side of my neck. Oh stop! Please stop this! Somebody! Help! I cried mentally, out to Hope or Raven. Please..please.. He moved to my face and kissed my cheek and I could feel the sharpness of the blade as he moved this way and that. Not enough to cut, but he could have accidentally if he weren't so careful. He was just about to start into my jaw bone when I felt the pressure of his body on mine lifted off immediately. I took an immediate breath, breathing in and out. A tight pressure and a thrill of pain went throughout my whole body, but I couldn't scream. It would take too much air. I felt someone picking me up from the floor when I blacked out.