Lukes POV
We obviously followed her, I said I wouldn't leave her alone, so we followed her down the stairs into the main entryway and then down another set of stairs into their basement where we all gasped in horror at what she was walking into, willingly. It was a torture room, there were chains and shackles everywhere, a bunch of whips and beating bats as well as brutal toys. No one else was there yet just her, just Julie trembling and trying to shake out her nerves.
"Why not run from here? Scream, fight? You can't just accept this Julie!" I tried pleading with her.
"If I run, fight, scream or tell anyone about this, they promised to take it out on Carlos, I can't let that happen so I come in here and endure it all" Julie whispered as her hands trembled.
"How many times have they done this to you Julie" whispered Alex coming up close to her and resting his hand near her cheek.
"My mother died when I was eight, since I was thirteen they have been having their fun every few weeks" she said refusing to make eye contact.
I clenched my hands and un clenched them, wanting to punch something, the room was disgusting, it was dark, damp and covered in all smells of blood and bodily fluids, there wasn't even a blanket down here let alone a bed, comfort was not considered. There were no windows and the walls were covered with mounted torture devices, hanging from the ceiling were multiple shackles, some had spikes on the inside made to cause pain if she struggled. None of this helped calm my nerves, how were we supposed to just let this happen to her, there had to be something we could do.
Her father and his friends began to descend the stairs, Alex took a position in front of her while Reggie and I stood at her sides even though it meant nothing, they would just walk through us.
"Please you don't have to stay, run, be free for me" Julie whispered under her breath. I turned to her and whispered in her ear while holding my arms around her resting my hands just above her opposite shoulder "I will never leave you down here Julie with these disgusting men, ever!" I cried with tears streaming down my face. I had to be strong for her but all I wanted to do was retreat somewhere and cry.
Alex and Reggie each had looks of hatred on their faces and were trying to think of something they could do to help. Her father locked the door upstairs so there was no escape and commanded her to start undressing. I locked eyes with her but her fathers friends were impatient and began tearing her clothes off and shackling her hands to the ceiling so everything was on display. There were three of them and they all wore disgusting smiles on their faces as they started lowering the chains and forcing her into a kneeling position and shackling her feet to the ground so she couldn't move anywhere. Alex and Reggie tried screaming at them to stop but all I could do was kneel next to her and stare into her eyes, crying silently. We couldn't call the police and sing to them so they would hear the message, we couldn't start a fire, we couldn't do anything as it would just be blamed on her as she knew what tonight held so somehow it would be her fault.
One of them started picking out a toy to torment her with and chose a moving dildo that pumped into her but was connected to a vibrator piece that looked like bunny ears. None of us were very familiar with such things as we were never interested in girls and well Alex had never had the chance to be with a guy. They lubed it up and forced it into her and turned it into high speed, and Julie feeling ashamed began to stare at a spot on the floor and try her best to not cry. Alex and Reggie had found a corner of the room to cry in while I was left glaring at the assholes doing this to her, marking their faces in my mind to kill them if I ever got the chance to. Then I realized I could, I could set fires to their houses tonight while they are sleeping, break all their alarms so they don't wake up. I moved closer to her and placed my hand by her face to turn her to look at me.
"Just get through this Julie, tonight when they go we will follow them to their houses and they will die I promise you!" I said with such anger I was afraid I would scare her but instead she smiled.
"Oh look she's finally enjoying it Ray" said one of the fat assholes. They pulled out the toy and began filling her up with their cocks, one in each end and one in her mouth while Ray, her father came over with some dangly things connected to the wall which caused her to scream even though she had a mouth full of penis. This scared me and I ran over to pull the plug out of its socket.
"I thought it would be a fun new electrical toy to play with, here this goes around your neck so it dangles down your body. Mm why isn't this working, oh I didn't plug it in" said Ray in a dark voice.
He plugged back the device and immediately Julie started crying and screaming in pain while they all just laughed at her helpless to do anything. I tried to pull the plug out again but Ray just sat there with his back to it so it couldn't come out again. I was left to drop to my knees and cry with her.
Eventually hours later, they had finished, although they dressed her they then re-shackled her feet, drenched her in a bucket of ice water and left her down there with the air conditioning on full blast, they were going to kill her before she could even get to seventeen. We knew we had to follow them to kill them tonight but I couldn't leave her like this. I tried taking off my blue sweater, it probably smells gross from sweating in it the night of my death but it was warm and something. I tried wrapping it around her shoulders and helping her arms go in as she was shivering uncontrollably. She pulled it around her and I pulled the hood up over her head to help with her shivering. I then picked up my gray one and helped her put her hands through there also and Alex pulled off his pink hoodie to wrap around her legs as a blanket and Reggie offered his red flannel.
I knelt down in front of her and placed a hand close to her cheek "We gotta go Julie and follow those assholes, once we have their addresses we will poof back as soon as we can! Please don't die, please stay warm for me" I begged her before leaning up and kissing her forehead which went through her hair.
"I don't want to leave but if we kill them they can't come back to touch you again, will you be alright? I can stay if you want me to?" I asked.
"I'll live thanks to your clothes, just kill them please! And come back as soon as you can" she whispered between chattering teeth.
We all tried wrapping our arms around her in a group hug and I kissed her one more time on the cheek before we poofed upstairs. We had nearly missed our rides but we all managed to poof into the separate cars and began taking in the directions to their houses. The person I was following took forever, they went through a drive thru then sat and ate in their car before finally heading off again, it was infuriating knowing that I left Julie in a position that could potentially end her life while this asshole was stuffing his face. Finally I got the address and poofed back to her, she wasn't down in the basement any more though which scared me that something had happened so I poofed up to her room where I found her shivering away under her blanket covers.
"What happened Luke? Where have you been?" asked Reggie.
"The asshole wanted to stuff his face and take his time, did she get caught with our clothes?" I asked as I moved closer to Julie to assess why she was still shivering.
"Nah I managed to poof back just in time as they were coming down the stairs so I quickly took them from her and poofed them back to the garage and came back" said Alex.
Julie was shivering uncontrollably, her lips were blue, she was out of her wet clothes and into new ones and wearing a lot of layers but her body wasn't warming up.
"Why haven't you had a hot shower Julie?" I asked as I knelt at her head and reached out to stroke her hair back with no success.
"I, c, c, cant, heat turned o, o, off" she stammered out while shivering. I wanted to murder something but instead took a deep breath and hopped into the bed with her, she immediately moved closer.
"Can you feel my body heat? I'm not sure if this would even work?" I asked as I pulled the blankets up over her shoulder.
She shook her head so I immediately got up and started pacing back and forth.
"Alex can you poof stuff that isn't ours, such as a cup?" I asked Alex who immediately went off to try and came back with a mug which made me smile.
"Alex, go grab some soup from any take out place nearby, take the mug with you, Reggie, can you find an electric blanket from a store, poof it back and we can heat up her bed that way" I commanded.
They poofed off and I got Julie out of bed, stripped her sheets off ready for Reggie, he came back with an electric blanket and we set that up, turned on high and remade her bed for her and she got in immediately beginning to look better. Alex came back with a mug of hot stew and a spoon that I took from him. I sat across from Julie in bed and began carefully spoon feeding her since she was still shaking too much to hold a spoon herself. It also occurred to me that I hadn't seen her eat once today since meeting her and that was at ten in the morning.
"Julie, did you eat today? And if so what?" I asked, afraid of the answer.
"I was allowed breakfast that's all, most days I only eat at school" she answered while staring at her finger nails.
"Well that has to stop, name it and we will get it for you" Reggie said before I could even open my mouth. I began to actually look at her body and realize I had missed the signs of malnutrition as I was concentrating more on her scars and sores.
Alex poofed off immediately and came back with a full buffet table from some fancy restaurant that had a roast chicken and vegetables available as well as lobster next to biscuits. Then before I could stop him, Reggie poofed off and came back with a ginormous chocolate cake that was oozing chocolate sauce from the inside. I just rolled my eyes.
"Not to be a buzzkill but if Julie is hardly eating she probably can't eat too much food or she will be sick!" I said as I continued feeding her soup. Once Julie was finally back to normal temperature she began to take off a few of her sweaters while I piled some food onto a plate for her to try.
"Don't eat if you're not hungry, just take it easy, we'll make sure you get all the food you need from now on so you don't feel like you have to eat like it's your last meal any more okay?" I said as I passed her a plate with a chicken thigh, some roast vegetables and gravy with lobster on the side. I left the biscuits out as they were just a filler, she needed nutrients. I'd been in her position before when I was hiding out at Bobby's place, I missed a lot of meals then as his parents didn't know I was there so if I didn't have any cash to go buy food I missed a few meals but not enough to reach her level.
"How long have you been living off of one meal a day Julie?" I asked, dreading the answer.
"Since I was ten" she whispered looking down again at her fingers and trying to hold back the tears.
I needed to punch something, and soon but I swallowed my anger and smiled gently
"Well your going to be on three meals from now on with snacks in between and dessert every night"
Alex then poofed again and came back with a glass of milk from who knows where which was a good choice and passed it to her. She slowly consumed half of what was on the plate and then decided she couldn't eat any more which scared me. There was hardly anything on the plate to begin with and she couldn't finish it. Alex and Reggie poofed back the leftovers, it was nearly eight at night and Julie was exhausted. She needed to shower but it meant having a quick one sadly since the hot water was still off, on purpose. I went with her just so I could call out if her dad left his spot on the couch to leer at her and she quickly washed her hair and got out shivering again but not as bad. I helped wrap a towel around her and her hair then helped her get dressed while doing my best to not look at her and give her that dignity at least. Once she was dry and dressed we went back to her toasty warm bed thanks to Reggie. I tucked her in and turned to find a comfortable spot on the floor, Reggie had taken up residence at her door and Alex had taken the rocking chair in her corner.
"Do you guys even sleep? You could go back to the garage if you wanted to?" Julie whispered. We all just shrugged and I got up to turn her light off for her and went to turn back to the rug I had spotted on her floor when she grabbed my hand, or tried to as it went straight through. I had felt it though and turned to kneel at her bed again and whisper "Is there anything you need Julie?"
"Not really I, I just wanted to ask if, well, if, you, um, never mind! Goodnight Luke" she said.
I smiled at her awkwardness, "move over then" I whispered in her ear which made her shiver in surprise. "Yeah you guys have a good night me and Reggie are going back to the garage, goodnight Julie" announced Alex as they poofed out. I slid in next to her and laid as close as I could without her going through me and pulled up the blankets around both of us.
I began humming a lullaby my mother use to sing to me as she drifted off to sleep and then I concentrated very hard on trying to touch her hair, to just move it, after what felt like hours of trying I gave up and began to fall asleep only to be awoken by Julie tossing and crying in her sleep, she was having a nightmare.
