Chapter 6. Torture

For so long I sat in that room. Torture. I was constantly semi sedated aware yet somehow now aware. Memories of people flooded through my mind. Faces with no names... Names I had forgotten due to the many medications running through my blood stream.
Max had been taken away, that I remembered. Shortly after they had come back for me I hadn't put up much of a fight tired and dehydrated I had no more energy to use.
It could have been days, weeks, months or maybe just hours I had no way of knowing but it seemed eternal like I had been sitting in this room since the beginning of time.
Was everyone okay. I wasn't even alien and they were doing this to me, what were they doing to the other?

The tall man, the one who always hurt me, entered into my cell, my prison.
"Hello there Ms Deluca, how are we feeling today"
All I could do was glare, glare at the man who was torturing me... And for what?
"Are you ready to talk or do I have to make you even more uncomfortable"
I blinked, uncomfortable? Uncomfortable didn't cover how he made me feel. It felt like I thousand knives were stabbing me all over my body, like a sledgehammer had been smashed against my head over and over and over. Like my eyes had been burned... The pain, it was unbearable.
"Maria what did Max Evans do to you in that hospital?" He asked politely.
I shut my eyes turning away from him. It was always the same question nothing else. I had continuously told him the same answer, nothing Max Evans hadn't lain a finger on me. But he knew I was lying. What was I supposed to say to an FBI agent after an alien, oh yeah hold on a second that's it he cured me!
"Maria I know he did something, you can't just miraculously be cured of cancer after being given 3 days to live"
"Max Evans didn't do anything to me!" I screamed.
I couldn't deal with this anymore if he didn't kill me I would go insane!
His face changed and I knew I was in trouble his once smooth fluid featured turned hard... Almost demonic.
"TELL ME"
Suddenly he grabbed me shaking me violently I felt my neck bend backwards it felt like it would snap. He throw me hard against the wall and as I slid curling myself into a ball at the bottom he kicked me square in the stomach over and over moving onto my face. The pain exploded throughout my entire anatomy slowly closing my eyes I wished for the end.

ELSEWHERE

Max knew the danger he was in, he was so close to using his powers and if he did that would be the end, not just for him but everybody Maria had looked so scared... What was going on?
The main FBI agent he had gotten to know as Holtz came in rubbing his knuckles a smile on his face.
"Mr Evans I've just been having fun with your friend Ms Deluca. Unfortunately she still won't speak not that she can anymore... Its a pity she had such a lovely face." He grinned.
"YOU!" Max screamed pulling on his restraints.
"You bastard! What have you done to he? I'll kill you, you mother fucker I'll kill you"
By now tears were falling down his face. He was causing so much pain. Maria, she was just a girl, only just getting over leukaemia maybe she would have been better off dead.
"What do you want from me?" Max had finally given in he closed his eyes in retreat.
I lay crying in the same cell I had been in for so long. My face bruised and bleeding, My whole body aching. Anything would be better than this. Death. Anything.
I tried to breath my body so sore I caused on more pain coughing up more and more blood.
My own tears stung my beaten face.
I closed my eyes wishing for everything to take me away. Slipping into a peaceful sleep.

I stood again in the now familiar desert. The same symbols lined the ground.
Michael stood carefully in the middle smiling.
"You're gonna be okay just hold on a lil longer." He soothed.
Isabel walked slowly towards us.
"Maria is Max with you?" She asked.
I was confused I couldn't see Max but then I remembered the reality not the dream Isabel was using her powers... She must be okay.
Slowly I shook my head amazed that there was not pain that came with it.
"They took him away before me"
"Are you okay"
I smiled a weak yet reassuring smile. I was so very close but I hadn't given up not yet.
"Isabel is Liz with you"
"Yes. Me and Michael woke up before you... We tried but could'nt move you." She paused looking sorrowful. Did she blame herself because I was still here?
"We had to leave quickly, they could come back at any minute the guy Michael took up could wake up! We found Liz she was conscious, but they had Max. When we got out we told Valenti... Everything he already knew most of it anyway. We're coming for you okay just hold on."

Waking again to the FBI agents familiar face. Now he was smiling. Max had told him I knew it I could feel it. "Max told me everything Maria. Now All I want is a statement, saying exactly what you know and then I'll let you go"
I shook my head yet again. Something didn't add up. I had a strange feeling about this.
I heard the alarms... I felt the agent grab my throat and tighten his grip. I saw Valenti, Michael, Max and Isabel burst in, Max in pretty bad shape.
But that's all yet again a sheet of darkness was lifted over my weary eyes.

(I'm sorry I always seem to end things with Maria passing out!)