"I'm sorry! Please! I'm sorry! I won't do it again! Please please please--"
Adam's eyes snapped open. Cody was screaming at the top of his lungs and it filled him with all kinds of dread. He didn't know what the hell was going on, and he was way too scared to find out. He put his fingers in his ears, hoping he wouldn't hear Cody screaming anymore. That muffled the sound a little bit, but it didn't block it out completely. "Oh God," he muttered. "Make it stop. Please, no more. I want to go home. I want us to go home..."
When he realized that he had said that out loud, he expected Jeff to get angry at him. But Jeff didn't do anything. Confused, Adam looked around. Jeff wasn't in the room with him anymore. "Jeff?" he said quietly, shocked as hell about the fact that he was now alone. Jeff hadn't let him out of his sight once since this whole thing began. Maybe this is my chance, he thought to himself. Maybe I'm finally getting a break here.
Knowing he might not have another shot at it, he rolled off the bed and limped over to the door. Every step he took hurt like hell. His body was still feeling the effects from the rapes. Despite the pain he was in though, he managed to get over to the door. He tried to open it but discovered it was locked. And considering the fact that Jeff wasn't in the room with him, it was more than likely locked from the outside. "Fuck!" he cursed. He tried to force the knob to turn a few more times but quickly abandoned that plan in favor of trying to force it down with his shoulder. The damn thing still refused to budge though. "You've got to be kidding me," he muttered. He began trying to beat it down with his fists and feet. That lasted for about a couple of minutes. Then he realized that doing that wasn't getting him anywhere, and he just gave up. He wasn't getting out of this room through the door. If he wanted out, he needed to find another way.
He started to look around the room. The one window in the room had bars on it, so it was highly unlikely that he was going to get out through there. Maybe there's a vent or something I can crawl through.
Just as he was to start looking for one of those, the door was kicked open, scaring the ever loving shit out of him. "What the fuck are you doing up?" Mark asked. "Where's Jeff?"
"I--I--I don't know," Adam said nervously. He quickly backed the hell away from the larger man. Just because Jeff had taken a liking to him didn't mean that any of the other psychos had too. "He was gone when I woke up."
Mark sighed in exasperation. "That fucking little shit! He and his fucking brother ran off. I swear, I'm going to fucking thrash them..." His voice trailed off and then he shook his head. "Whatever. I'll deal with them when they get here." He stepped forward and grabbed Adam by the wrist. "Come on. You're coming with me."
Adam immediately began trying to yank himself free from Mark's grip. He didn't want to go anywhere with this asshole. He would much rather stay with Jeff. Sure Jeff was completely insane and Jeff would more than likely rape him again, but he would much rather deal with Jeff than with any of the other psychos. "No! Let me go! Jeff's going to get mad! I--"
Mark punched him upside the head, making him drop down to his knees. "Jeff will get the fuck over it," Mark growled. "Now get up and walk, or I'm going to make you wish that you were never born."
Even though following Mark was still the last thing Adam wanted to do, he did it anyway. It wasn't like he had much of a choice in the matter. He really didn't want Mark to try to make him wish he was never born. That just sounded really, really frightening. "Ow," he whimpered as he was dragged out of the room and down the hallway. Mark had a killer grip on his wrist. He tried to loosen it just a little bit, but all that did was get him smacked again. "You better knock that shit out boy," Mark warned him. "This is your last chance. The next time you do that, I'm gonna really hurt you."
Adam whimpered but just let himself get dragged by Mark. Mark ended up taking him to what had once been the cafeteria of the asylum. John, Randy, Jay and Ted were all tied to chairs and Cody was laying in the middle of the room, surrounded by James, Cooper and Connor. His legs looked like they had been shot, so he wouldn't be able to escape even if he somehow magically got a window of oppertunity.
"Sit," Mark grunted as he roughly shoved Adam down on a chair. He quickly tied the blonde man down to it.
"I suppose you all want to know what's going on," James said, looking at the captives before pointing at Cody. "This little shit right here tried to escape." He kicked Cody right in the ribs, making the helpless man cry out in pain. "He fucking thought that there was a way out of this."
"He was bad," Connor said. He was clinging to Cooper and staring down at his toy angrily. "Bad! Bad bad bad bad Cody!"
Adam felt like he couldn't breathe. Cody had tried to escape and had gotten caught. This was really bad. Now not only was it going to be harder for the rest of them to try to escape, but the escape attempt was going to cost Cody so much more than his legs. It didn't take a geinus to figure out why they had all been dragged in here. The psychos were going to make an example out of Cody. They were going to show the rest of them what would happen if they tried to escape too.
Ted was struggling to get out of the chair he was tied to. "Come on, you already shot him in the legs," he said, pleading for Cody's behalf. "He's not going to try to escape again. You don't have to do this."
James glared at him. "We don't have to do this? Who the fuck are you to tell us what we don't have to do? Huh? Who the fuck do you think you are?" He grabbed Ted by the hair and yanked on it roughly. "Huh? Tell me who the fuck do you think you are?"
Ted winced in pain, but he didn't back down. "Just leave him alone," he begged. "Please..."
Cooper glared at Ted. "You know...if I didn't know better, I would think that you're in love with Cody here."
Connor gasped in horror. "No! Bad Teddy! Cody is mine and you can't take him from me!"
Mark frowned. "Wait, I thought we were killing the twerp. What does it matter if Ted loves him?"
"It matters bunches!" Connor exclaimed. He looked like he was about to throw a gigantic hissy fit. "You stupid if you say it doesn't!"
"What?" Mark growled. He took a menacing step towards Connor.
"Marky calm down," James ordered. "Getting pissed at Connor isn't going to do a damn bit a good."
"Yeah!" Connor agreed. He hid behind James and stuck his tongue out. "Learn to be nicer you meanie!"
Cooper rolled his eyes. "Once you three are done with that little conversation, can we go talk over there for a moment?"
"What for?" James asked.
"Well come with me and you'll find out."
"I don't like the sound of that," Jay muttered as James, Connor and Mark followed Cooper over to the other side of the room.
"Me either," Adam confessed. He tried to yank himself free from the ropes, but he wasn't getting anywhere. "Do you have any idea where Matt and Jeff are? Mark said they took off."
Jay shook his head. "No, and I don't care. The only time I ever want to see either of them again is when I'm shooting them right between the eyes."
"Cody," Ted said, doing his best to lean forward towards the injured man. "Cody?"
"It hurts," Cody whimpered. "Teddy please, help me."
"I'm going to try," Ted swore. He was desperately trying to somehow slip free from the ropes that were tying him down. "Shit...fucking things! Randy?"
Randy was trying to get free too. "These fucking ropes are too tight," he muttered. "Fuck, Cody, you might have to help us out here a little bit. I don't think we're getting out by ourselves."
John looked over at the psychos and gulped. "Oh God, they're coming back," he whispered.
Adam looked and sure enough, Connor, Cooper and Mark were on their way back over. James was leaving the room, and Adam had a bad feeling that he was doing it for something bad. "Come here Cody," Connor said as he picked up Cody and hugged him tightly. "I knows why you tried to run away," he cooed insanely. "I do I do. And I is not mad at you anymore."
"You're not?" Cody said, looking really nervous about Connor's change in attitude.
"Nope," Connor confirmed. "I knows why you did it." He glared at Ted. "It was him! You wanted to get help for the infidel."
Adam and Jay exchanged looks. This wasn't any better than when it looked like Cody was going to be made an example of. Now it seemed that Ted was going to pay for what Cody had tried to do.
Mark grabbed a hold of Ted's chair and dragged it so it was away from the others, but still where they could all see him perfectly still. "You sure about this?" Mark asked Cooper.
Cooper nodded. "Yup. If you and Dad are willing to let me play with John from now on, then I've got no problem with this."
"A problem with what?" Ted asked nervously. He was trying even harder to get out of the chair he was tied up on.
"No," Randy said, sounding completely horrified. He started shaking his head as fast as he could. "No no no!"
"No no no no!" James repeated, mocking Randy mercilessly. He was holding a thing of gasoline in his hands. "God, do you even listen to yourself? You sound like a big baby." He unscrewed the cap on the container and began pouring the gasoline all over Ted.
"Wait!" Ted said, sounding absolutely scared to death. "Wait please! You can't do this! Please, I'm fucking begging you--"
"Of course you're begging," Mark said with a roll of his eyes. "You would have to be on crack if you didn't."
Cody began trying to fight his way out of Connor's grip. "No! Don't! Punish me, not him! Please!"
Connor put his hand over Cody's mouth. "But if we don't get rid of him, we won't be getting rid of the temptation you have of running away, then I won't be able to trust you again," he said. "And I wants to trust ya Cody Bear."
Adam shut his eyes tightly and tried to block everything out. Everybody was yelling at once, begging and pleading for Ted's life. Even he was yelling too, but he knew that it wasn't going to do any good. They weren't going to spare Ted, no matter what they said. No matter how hard they begged (and Ted and Cody were begging harder than all the others), there was not going to be any mercy.
Suddenly Ted began to scream in agony and Cody and the others screamed in horror. The stench of burning human flesh invaded Adam's nostrils, making him gag wildly. It was absolutely, positively disgusting. He tried to stop breathing through his nose and he tried to shut his eyes even more tightly than before, but there was nothing he could do to block out the screaming. "Stop it!" he finally screamed. "Stop it stop it stop it stop it! Put him out! Put him out put him out put him--"
"Addy!"
"Holy shit! You guys had a barbeque without us? I feel so unloved."
Adam turned his head and then opened his eyes. Jeff and Matt were back...and they had Chris and Lance with them.
Oh holy shit.