DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN VICTORIOUS. This chapter is from Jade's POV.
Chapter 28
Pain
I am laying on the ground horrified, staring at Beck's broken and motionless body. He can't be dead, he just can't be. Tori turns around and walks towards me. The pain in my right hand is unbearable. She stabbed me clean through the palm and the knife is embedded in the carpet underneath which is stained with my blood.
"He's not dead, but he'll wish he were when I'm through with you." She states. Her tone is one I've never heard before, but it's unnerving and scary. For once in my whole life, I am afraid. This is a side of Tori I've never seen before. But what also scares me is that she is walking. Walking without help. How is that possible?
"How are you walking right now?" I choke out.
"You never paralyzed me; I blackmailed the doctor to make it look like I was paralyzed."
"It was all an act?" I asked in disbelief.
"Of course." She replies with a sneer.
"Did you ever love me at all or was that an act too?"
"I'm about to torture you to death and yet you care if I loved you?"
"Yes."
"I did Jade, I really did love you." Her reply is sweet but I think she's lying. "Now, I want to see you scream."
Tori walked towards me slowly, hunger in her dark eyes and a murderous look on her face. She put her foot on my right wrist which caused a shooting pain in my arm and my hand exploded in agony. I bite down on my other hand to muffle my scream. The police were probably on their way anyways. Tori moved around to the unconscious forms of Cat and Andre and searched them.
"C'mon, where is it? Where is it? Ah, found it." She muttered before standing straight up, holding something in her hand. A familiar sound filled the air and I get a better look at the object, a pair of scissors. She's gonna torture me with a pair of scissors. Talk about irony.
Tori opened the scissors completely so that it could be used as a makeshift knife. She bent over me and I tried to kick her, but she grabbed my leg and stabbed my calf. I scream in pain from the dull blade piercing my skin. She pulled it out and let my leg fall to the ground. I attempt to grab at my leg with my free hand to stop the bleeding but I couldn't reach it. She stepped on it and put some weight on it, causing me excruciating pain. I thrashed about, trying to get my leg out from underneath her foot. She put more weight on it, making the pain unbearable.
"I'm gonna fucken kill you." I snarl up at her. She smirked at this and let out a little chuckle.
"Good luck with that babe, without a hand and a leg." She sneered. I brought my other leg up to my chest and thrust it at her, hitting her in the abdomen and knocking her over. I used this opportunity to grab at the knife in my hand and started to pull. The pain was so intense, it felt like I was getting burned by a white-hot flame. The knife gave away and I pulled it out of my hand. I took a glance at it and saw blood flowing out in torrents. I had to fight my morbid fascination with blood by reminding myself that it was my own.
Tori stood up again and kicked me in the torso. "You'll have to do better than that." She taunted. I attempted to stand up, but it was difficult since my leg was screaming in pain and I couldn't use my hand that was still bleeding profusely.
"Challenge accepted." I rumble and manage to stand and put my weight on my left foot. Tori looked at me and laughed at how frail I was. She then started forward and threw a punch at me. I attempted to block it with my bad hand and batted it away, sending shooting pain in my arm. I threw a punch with my other hand and get her in the chest. It doesn't do much and she drops the scissors and pounces on me. My leg gives in from the extra weight and we land next to the bed and roll around. I get on top of her and start to strangle her with my good hand. She brings her hands up and slaps them against my ears, discombobulating them. I bring my hands up instinctively to protect them and she pushes me off her. I hit the bed frame hard and my head starts to throb where it was hit. I was aching all over.
She stomped on my stomach, causing me to curl up in pain from the force. She then grabs me by the hair and picks me up and throws me back down on the floor. I start to crawl towards the scissors that were a few feet from me.
Tori stomps on my back, flattening me against the carpet. She grabs my hair and brings my head up before slamming it down so my nose breaks and I'm getting a face full of carpet and blood.
She lets go and I raise my head gingerly to see the scissors mere inches from me. I started to reach with my good hand but Tori puts her foot down on my arm and stomps her other foot on my fingers. The air is filled with bones breaking as I feel my fingers breaking under her foot. She put more pressure on my fingers and twisted her foot to add more to it.
She steps off and picks up the scissors and opens and closes them multiple times. She was planning to use them on me again, but where?
"I will cut you with your favorite object and you'll bleed slowly to death from them." She whispered eerily to me as she kicked me so that I was on my back again. I eyed her as she traced the bloody blades with two fingers, contemplating what to do with them. I looked over at Beck who was stirring a bit and a moan escaped his lips. C'mon babe, wake up.
"Tori stop this at once!" came a voice from behind her. She whirled around to see Cat and Andre starting to stand up again.
"Stay out of this!" Tori threatened brandishing the scissors.
"You will not hurt anyone else anymore." Cat said confidently. As she said this, there was the sound of sirens in the distance.
"What did you do?" Tori demanded.
"I called the cops; they heard you torturing Jade and are coming for you!" Andre yelled as he and Cat grabbed the baseball bats and brandished them to prevent Tori from leaving. I can't wait for the damn cops to get her, I've lost a lot of blood and so has Beck, who was starting to stand up.
"It's over, Tori; give it up!" Andre exclaimed as police cars started to roll into the parking lot. There were sounds of doors being slammed and orders being shouted and people running upstairs to reach the room.
"Police! Freeze!" an officer shouted from the entrance pointing his sidearm at Tori, who was still holding the scissors. Andre and Cat raised their hands and went against the wall as more officers charged in.
"I said freeze!" the officer with the gun pointing at Tori repeated. Tori reached down and lifted me up and held the scissors to my throat.
"You won't stop me." Tori said defiantly.
"No, but I will." Came a voice behind her. She turned around in time to get punched in the face by Beck, knocking her to the ground, with me on top of her. I started to wrestle with her for the scissors. I am pulled off and Tori stops moving as officers pointed their guns at her face. She raised her hands I defeat and was hauled to her feet and handcuffed and lead outside.
I look up at Beck who helps me to my feet and puts my weight on him. I look down at his abdomen, where there was a large red stain and a wound from the knife.
"Oh, Beck-"I start before he puts a finger to my mouth.
"I'll be okay baby, it's you we need to worry about." He replied. He and I clambered out of the room and are led by officers to paramedics down stairs. The paramedics helped Beck and I onto gurneys and put us into separate ambulances and started to tend to our injuries as they rushed us to the nearby hospital.
Andre rode with Beck and Cat rode with me. She was crying and held my hand as tight as she could and was saying soothing things to me, telling me everything was gonna be alright.
"I hope you're right, Cat." I replied weakly. I lose consciousness shortly afterwards from blood loss.
Chapter 28. If this chapter scared anyone, sorry. I wanted it to be dark, gritty, and disturbing. I'm warped like that. Sorry. One chapter left.
