Hey guys. Hope you enjoy it. It's the scene where Stella gets tortured. It is in Stella's P.O.V unless I say otherwise.
"Where is V95?" shouted the crime minister.
"I don't know. I haven't seen her for over a year." This wasn't a lie I hadn't seen her for over a year and I didn't know where she was.
"You're lying!" screamed the crime minister who slapped me around the face. "Ge the chair ready" she screamed at one of her guards. One of the guards grabbed me and tied me to a chair overlooking a water tank.
"Where is V95?"
"I don't know." Apparently this was the wrong answer and a guard turned a wheel and the chair I was on lowered until I was shoulder height in the water.
"When did you last see her?"
"Last year." I mumbled.
"Wrong!" she screamed and I was fully submerged under the water for what felt like hours but was probably a minute or two. A guard raised me back up and I coughed and spluttered and tried to get my breath back. Well now I know what they did to Keri and Tom I thought.
"Where is your 'secret' base?"
I can't tell her. If I do I am putting everyone in danger. The team. St. Hopes. M.I.9. The country. Whatever I do, I must keep everyone safe.
"Im not telling you!" I snarled at her.
"Oh you will!" The crime minister screamed and the chair I was on was lowered into the water again. This time for longer. I was tired and couldn't breathe. I remember hearing her evil laugh before I fell into darkness. The chair was lifted and I was chucked onto the floor.
"Pathetic!"
This went on for about another hour. She used different torcher techniques.
She put on great tap drips of the 20th century. I swear that lasted over two hours. Im surprised I didn't go mad!
She whipped me until my skin was raw and I bled.
She cut up and down my arms until they went dead.
She strangled me until I was unconscious. She did everything imaginable but I wouldn't give in. I couldn't. For Zoƫ's sake. For frank's sake. For the team's sake.
I tried to fight back but my aim was lousy. I was so tired and wanted to collapse. I was caught by a guard who held me in the air by my neck. I struggled around for a bit before being dropped onto the stone floor.
"Give up! There's no point." I heard her say. I stood up more determined and got into an attack position but was hit on my pressure point. My vision went blurry and all I could hear was a piercing scream and fell to the ground. I tried to get up but I couldn't. My body felt like concrete. My eye lids got heavier and heavier. Darkness fell upon me.
Tom's P.O.V
I woke up in a mess of blankets. I was leaning against the wall next to Keri. She was looking ahead. I sat up straighter and sorted out the blankets. I looked around but I couldn't see Stella anywhere.
"Where is Stella?" I asked Keri.
She didn't answer. I waved my hand in front of her. She didn't blink or do anything.
"Keri?"
"What!" she screamed and limped off.
"What's wrong? Why are you mad at me?" I asked softly.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? I just got tortured, Stella is in there being tortured and you're doing nothing!" she screamed.
"What! I was tortured too! I was flipping drowned for god sake! I was beaten by my mum! I was shot! I was whipped! I was starved! I've had stuff happen to me that you wouldn't understand!" I screamed in her face. God. I've been awake two minutes and we're already fighting.
"Sorry. I didn't realise."
"Oh well. Anyway, Stella and I have come up with a plan to escape." I told her the plan.
By the time I had finished the door was flung open and Stella was chucked in.
"Stella!" we both screamed.
I ran over to her and picked her up against her a wall. I got two of the blankets she had put around me and Keri and put them over her. I checked her pulse. Just about normal. Good.
I walked over to a sobbing Keri and hugged her.
"We will be alright." I said soothingly
"Promise?" she asked.
"Promise!"
