Tainted Blood, Chapter Two
Written By: Lanen Kaeler
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Molly trembled helplessly as she brought her knees up to her chest and hid her face, sniveling quietly to herself. She felt so humiliated sitting nude in front of Kanyon. She could feel his hungry eyes roaming all over her body as he pulled on his pants and smoothed out his disheveled hair.
"Oh come on Molly, it wasn't that bad! I mean, I know I haven't been with a woman in a long time, but it'll get better, I promise," he comically reassured her, patting her back.
Molly flinched when he touched her, and he quickly drew his arm back. When he first came to the Alliance, he instantly fell in love with Molly the moment he laid eyes upon her. He was taken away by her smile and beautiful brown eyes that reflected such innocence. She was a pure soul, and he always dreamed of spending the rest of his life with a woman like her. He tried to drop hints that he liked her, but she was oblivious since she was so captivated by Spike. He needed her in his life, even if it meant threatening to hurt Spike to get what he wanted.
Kanyon stared at her for a few more minutes, and then crept to the door and left. Molly gradually stood up on quivering legs and staggered to the bathroom so she could take a shower. She turned the water to the hottest possible temperature and stood underneath the scorching stream falling upon her body. Shivering, she wrapped her arms around her body and let out a shrill sob. She snatched a washcloth and vigorously scrubbed at where he gushed semen inside her. She felt sticky and soar, like a knife sliced right through her. For the next two hours, she cleansed herself again and again, trying to sanitize herself of any indication that Kanyon had touched her. In her heart, she knew she could stand in the shower for eternity, but there would still be a tiny piece of him that would be a part of her as a painful reminder of what he had done. Nothing or no one could take back what happened.
Eventually, Molly turned off the shower and changed into a pair of flannel pajama pants and a sweatshirt. She snuggled under the covers and stuck her head under the pillow. She felt so cold and was desperately trying to warm herself up.
All she wanted to do was sleep and never wake up.
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Lita awoke amidst a terrible nightmare, an ear-piercing scream shattering the darkness.
"Lita, Lita! What's wrong?!" Edge immediately woke up, pulling Lita into a tight embrace.
She wrapped her arms his neck and held onto him for dear life. Hysterical weeping filled the air as he stroked her hair, trying to stop her shivering.
"It's… it's nothing Edge… I'll be okay, really."
"Well obviously it must be something if you woke up screaming Lita."
"It's just a terrible nightmare Edge, I mean with Christian dying and…" her voice trailed off.
"And what?" Edge questioned, arching his eyebrow.
"Nothing, I'm just not thinking right."
"Lita, did something happen that I need to know about? You haven't been acting like yourself lately."
"It's nothing, okay Edge!?" Lita hissed, turning away from him and laying on her side.
"Okay, okay you don't have to get so defensive," Edge mumbled, sounding hurt.
Lita sighed, and turned to look at him.
God, how much I love him… he doesn't deserve to get treated this way.
"Listen Edge, I'm sorry. I'm just really jumpy with Christian being murdered and with the Alliance forming. I guess I'm just really scared," Lita apologized, running her fingers through his golden blonde tresses.
He laced his fingers through her's and kissed her hand, his goatee tickling her. Passionate sensations ventured up and down her body.
"Make love to me Lita," he whispered, kissing her on the forehead and then on her full lips, "I need you. It's been so long!"
Lita returned his fresh kisses and enfolded his strong, protecting body up in her delicate arms. He was right; it had been a long time since the last time they made love to each other. Their schedules were so hectic, and then with everything that happened with Test…
TEST!
"Get off me!" Lita screeched, thrusting Edge off of her as memories of the rape returned.
"What did I do?" Edge inquired, upset.
"I'm sorry Edge, I just can't. Please don't ask me why, believe me. It's not you. Please… just hold me!" Lita cried.
Edge didn't ask why. He draped his arms around her shoulders and held her, just like she asked him to.
Oh God, what happened to her? What is it she won't tell me?
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Molly heard someone rapping on a door somewhere, but it sounded so distant. For some reason, she felt like she was slowly climbing out of a bottomless, shadowy pit as the knocking steadily became louder. Molly startled to consciousness when she realized the banging was coming from her very own hotel room.
Stretching her stiff limbs, she groggily looked at the clock. It was almost noon.
Why did I sleep in so late?
Suddenly, memories washed over her like a flood from the evening before. She remembered with disgust Kanyon threatening that if she didn't break up with Spike and do his bidding, he would harm him. Kanyon told her he wanted him not only to break up with Spike, but he wanted her to become his girlfriend and join the Alliance. When he dragged her back to her hotel room, and forced her to have sex with him, she rebelled at first.
"If you love Spike, you'll do it."
His manipulative words played themselves over and over again in her mind like a broken record. She felt haunted by those words, like they'll hang over her head for the rest of her life, no matter how long or how far she tried to run from them.
And then on top of all that, one of her closest friends was murdered. She could remember the crimson red blood staining the parking lot as the ambulance sped away.
Oh God the blood…
"MOLLY!" a husky voice hollered.
Molly stuck her head back under a pillow and whispered, "Whoever you are, just please go away. Just a few more hours of sleep and I'll be okay."
"Molly, please open the door! I need to talk to someone!"
"Lita?!?!" Molly yelled, pushing herself off the bed and unlocking the door.
Molly's heart sank when she saw her friend's haggard appearance. Her hair was lying limp around her shoulders and her eyes had dark blue bags underneath them. Her eyes and cheeks were puffy and tear stained.
"Honey, what happened?" Molly asked, her voice filled with concern as she wrapped her arm Lita and led her to the bed.
"Molly, if I tell you this, promise me you won't tell Edge. He can't know!" Lita pleaded, her eyes filled with despair.
"Sweetie, you know you can tell me anything. We're best friends, remember? Now, what happened?"
"Test, h-h-he…" Lita's voice shook.
Molly froze. "He what, Lita? What did he do to you?!?!"
"Molly, he raped me! The other night after Raw! He raped me!" Lita wailed, burying her face in her hands. Her shoulders shook violently.
"Oh my God, Lita! Well, why haven't you told Edge?"
"Because Molly, he won't believe me. He'll think that I wanted it. He came up to me the other day in the cafeteria and asked if he was better than Edge. A-a-and, he also said Christian deserved to die! Oh Molly, I'm dying inside right now! Everything is crashing down on me!"
"I know how you feel Lita… something happened to me the other night, too…"
Lita's face shot up from her hands and she gaped at Molly in shock. "What?"
"Well… after Christian was hauled away in the ambulance… Kanyon walked up to me, right? He told me he was in love with me and that he wanted me to break up with Spike to be with him. He said if I didn't, he would do something horrible to Spike. And last night… h-he made me do things with him I didn't want to do! I'm so scared right now! The other night, Kanyon's eyes… they were so wild. He's insane Lita!" Molly's voice quivered.
"That asshole!" Lita cried, springing up from the bed and punching the wall, "how can they do this to us?!?!"
"And you know what the worst part of all this is Lita?"
"What?"
"I was a virgin before this. I was waiting for Spike. He took the most important thing from me! I'm tainted!"
