Ch. 15, Reminders
Grievous dragged Charlie into his chambers. Charlie held in her yells of pain as she felt her side ripping between her fingers. She allowed Grievous to throw her into his chair.
"Oww," she groaned.
"You've tried my patients Charlie!" said Grievous.
"And so have you fellow General." gasped Charlie.
"Congratulations on your promotion, but that still won't protect you from me." said Grievous.
"I can imagine what you are going to do." She mumbled.
"You don't know what I'm planning to do to you." He said coolly.
"Drug me, beat me," she looked down at his belt of light sabers, "burn me, past memories not so easy to forget." She then looked back in to his eyes.
"Yet so easily relived," replied Grievous.
"Relived! You live in my nightmares!" snapped Charlie.
"So easily you give people position in your dreams." He laughed.
"You stole the position!" hissed Charlie as she felt warm liquid running between her fingers.
"You're bleeding again." Sighed Grievous.
"So what if I am, its your fault. And you can't change that!" she yelled at him.
Grievous pushed the button down on the intercom, "Medical droid get in here!"
"Fix it, then mess it up, fix it, and repeat the process." Mumbled Charlie.
"Shut up!" he said coldly.
"Why? Are you going to hit me if I don't?" yelled Charlie.
"I just might to stop from getting a head ache." Mumbled Grievous.
"It wouldn't be the first time!" she hissed.
The medical droid entered, "Oh you got her back, well lets look at the damage then." It said as he wondered over to the table as Grievous picked Charlie up and laid her down on it.
The medical droid looked Charlie over until he found her stabbing wound, "Oh my..."
"What is it?" asked Grievous as he pinned Charlie down.
"She is infected, did you go swimming while this was opened?" the droid asked Charlie.
"She did." Said Grievous as Charlie shook her head.
"Hopefully I can cure this, but…" the medical droid paused.
"But what?" asked Charlie.
"I don't think we have the right stuff with us." Said the medical droid.
"Looks like I'm going to die from an infection," stated Charlie.
"If we could shut her body down and freeze it the infection will stay put," said the medical droid.
"Oh no!" Charlie groaned remembering Grievous very first experiments on her.
"That can be arranged," said Grievous. He reached into his belt pocket and pulled outtwo needles.
"No not those!" cried Charlie.
Grievous covered her mouth, "You may leave medical droid."
The medical droid left his chambers. Charlie had managed to pull one hand free and tried to fight him off.
Grievous stuck her with the burning drug, three times the normal amount. He then waited for the effects to go away then stuck her with the freezing one.
Charlie whined as she began to lose feeling.
"Good night Charlie," said Grievous coldly as he picked her up and made his way to the medical lab.
Charlie jumped from her nightmare screaming. She looked around as she did she found that she was restrained to the bed. She pulled on them and found they wouldn't give.
As she fought with the restraints she could feel that her side was heavily patched. "ummm…." She thought for a moment then tried again.
She finally gave up and closed her eyes to relax she didn't move until she felt a cold metal hand on her forehead.
"Relax Charlie you're going to be okay." said Grievous.
"I don't want to be okay!" Charlie hissed at him.
She threw her head back against the pillow and pulled on he restraints once more.
"You're not going to get out of those," sighed Grievous.
"That's what you said before I escaped!" Charlie spat at him and she got a good smack for it across the side of her face.
Charlie bit her lip and said nothing.
The medical droid finally came in and looked between them, "What did you do?" he asked Grievous.
"I didn't do anything!" hissed Grievous as he stormed out of the room.
The medical droid turned Charlie's head and looked at her face that was starting to swell up.
The droid sighed, "One little girl shouldn't go through so much torment. General or not." It grabbed a cloth and dabbed it against her sore face, "Listen carefully child and I am going to help you as best as I can."
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