Chapter 19
The rest of the week passed in a blur. The day after I had found out I told Quatre about the conversation I had with Heero and that he should also be ready on Saturday. Today was Saturday. Heero had said that they would come around nine o'clock. It was seven right now. I had noticed on Wednesday that the payment was due the same night but I had not cared enough to get enough money. All my hopes rested on Heero. I could handle an hour of pain for the rest of my life free from David. I just prayed that Heero would pull through.
It was 6:55 pm and I was just returning to my room. There was a note on my door. It was from David. I read the note with foreboding. David wanted me in his office. I had no choice. My mind, although ready to escape, would not yet let me disobey one of David's orders. I went down the hall to his room and knocked on the door. He answered it immediately. He ushered me inside.
"Sit." He said. I sat. "I know you are wondering why I called you in here. I have made an important discovery on my new drug. I will tell you about it later. First you must prove your loyalty to me, by obeying orders." I shuddered after he left through the door.
Whenever David wanted proof that I still obeyed him, I always ended up in pain. He brought in a window and frame separate from the wall and sat in on the floor leaning against a wall.
"Stand in front of the window." I did as he told me already guessing what he was going to have me do. I shivered as I thought about the pain I would soon be in. Too my surprise I had a headache. I never had headaches. Then the answer hit me. Today was payment day. The drug was wearing off. "Punch the window and break the glass." I hesitated for only a second before smashing my fist as hard as I could through the window, my eyes shut tight against the inevitable pain. I still remembered how he had taught me to obey orders without thinking. The glass from the window fell on the floor. I stared at it. Some of the glass was now red colored from my blood. I felt my hand stinging. I glanced down at my blood covered knuckles, there was glass in the cuts. I winced at the migraine I must have. The drug was wearing off much faster than the other and why shouldn't it. It was stronger. He moved the frame away. He gave me an evil grin.
"Kneel!" He barked out. Without even thinking about it I knelt in front of the glass. The pain was only in my head right now, it felt like my head was going to rip apart. "Put your hands on the glass!" I stared at him. Just do what he says Duo! You need the fix. Fix? I'm not getting a fix. I'm escaping. Come to think of it. He hadn't asked for the money I didn't have. Fire ripped through my body as it felt like a nail was driven through my skull. He's going to hurt me even more though.
My chest was burning causing me to freeze in my thoughts for a second. I whimpered as my lungs burned as if from a lack of air even though I was already breathing. Just DO IT! I placed my hands lightly on the glass. David stepped forward with a grin placing one foot on my hand. He stood on it grinding it into the glass below. I cried out loudly. I looked at my hand and watched as the blood poured out. Then his other foot was on my other hand and it was ground into the glass too. I screamed unable to withstand the pain from the drug and the glass, I felt a tear slide slowly down my cheek while voices inside my head tormented me. Wimp! Boys don't cry! Suck it up, baby. This is the thanks you give to Solo's memory? He stepped off my hands. I did not move them from the glass. David had not said I could yet.
"I've been checking out some data on this new drug and it turns out that the human body is not suitable to be able to withstand the use of it. I could put you out of work for a while to get you well again, but I have so many others like you... I don't really need you anymore." David said coldly, his voice cutting through my thoughts as he pulled out a gun.