Chapter 7

Tyler groaned coming too. He opened his eyes and the pain coursed through him. He couldn't hold back the tears that came to his eyes. He didn't notice his new surroundings at first, and started when he did. He'd been moved from the cold confines of the dungeon, but why? He looked at his hands and feet that were tied to the bed. He tried to move his right hand and gasped at the pain that ran through it. He felt the warm liquid that flowed from it again. Where the hell was he any way? He heard the door opened and was shocked to see Shane Archer standing in the doorway. Another boy entered behind Shane. One he didn't recognize.

"Hello Tyler." Shane said with a sneer.

Shane loved seeing the younger boy covered in his own blood. Tyler was the reason that Raven had broken up with him. He hated him. Funny thing was Tyler was oblivious to Raven's feelings. He remembered seeing Raven the first time with the Simms boy. They had been sitting in the library going over their project for History. How he wanted to hit the boy then.

"What's going on Shane?" Tyler was embarrassed to be found almost sobbing by the other two.

Shane walked over to Tyler and backhanded him across the face. Tyler cried out in pain. Shane looked to the other boy with him and smiled menacingly.

"Have fun with him!" Shane said and left the room using his power to lock it and block out any noise coming from it.

Tyler was scared. He watched the other boy lean over him and suddenly caress his battered cheek. Tyler flinched from the pain. He was shocked when the other boy licked the blood off of his hand. The boy climbed on the bed beside him and stroked Tyler's hair bringing his mouth down on Tyler's. Tyler gagged as the boy kissed him flinching from the pain. The boy's hands roamed over Tyler. Tyler struggled against the boy bawling. The boy pulled away and grinned evilly at Tyler. He then un buttoned Tyler's shirt and undone his pants. He stroked Tyler's chest.

"Please stop!" Tyler sobbed.

The boy paid him no heed, and pulled Tyler's pants down. Tyler groaned in pain. The boy lay on top of him kissing him hard.

"NO!" Tyler gagged against the boy's mouth.

Tyler was petrified feeling the boy rubbing up against him. Tyler willed the blackness to come again, but it wouldn't despite the horrible pain in his body. Tyler retreated into the recesses of his brain desperately trying to shield himself from what the boy was doing to him. It seemed like hours went by before the door was busted open, and the boy was dragged off of him, though only a few minutes had passed.

Ridge was pissed. He glared at Sloan who had promised to keep his brother away from the boy tied up in the Gray room. Sloan didn't know how his brother had gotten by him, but he had.

"If that boy wasn't traumatized by now by what we've done to him, he certainly is now!" Ridge seethed.

Rade walked into the office not knowing he was interrupting something.

"Where the hell have you been?" Ridge asked pacing his office.

"I met with Caleb Danvers." He said.

"You did what?" Ridge shouted.

"I said I met with Caleb Danvers."

"Don't play games with me Rade Allen Downing!" Ridge roared.

"Caleb thinks Chase will show up when Pogue ascends. He's greedy for more power. He tried with Caleb, but Caleb won cause his father willed his power to him. Can't you let Tyler go and we can work together with the Sons of Ipswich on this?" He begged his brother.

Ridge told Rade what had just happened to Tyler thanks to Shane. Rade was pissed. Ridge wondered if Danver's was up to some kind of trick.

"I will think on it." Ridge answered as there was a knock at the door. "Come in."

Trey poked his head in the door. "She's awake again."

They all rushed to Raven's room. She was groggy and in pain, but she was awake again much to their relief. Her battered face hardly marred her beauty. The bruises should have been gone by now, but Chase's power hadn't let up on her. She had been marked by him with a spider carved in her leg, which wasn't even beginning to heal

"Leave us." Ridge told the rest of them. Everyone left but Rade and himself. Ridge set by Raven and held her head up to drink some water. "I have to know Raven, did he rape you?"

Raven shut her eyes against the horrible events of that night. "No," she breathed.

Ridge and Rade let out the breaths they had been holding. If Chase had raped her he'd of gotten her power. If he'd of taken her power she'd of never awoke from the coma she had been in.

"He tried to, but I fought him." She said.

"What about Tyler Sim's Raven?"

Raven looked at her twin, and was hurt.

"I'm sorry Rav. It was the only way to keep them from killing him."

Her eyes widened. "What have you done to Tyler?"

"He was tortured in the dungeons after being kidnapped from the dorms." Rade answered. "No I didn't help them." Answering her unasked question.

"Let him go please Ridge. He hates Chase as much as we do! Chase is bent on killing all of the son's of Ipswich for what happened to his ancestor." Raven was tiring and she was fighting to keep her eyes open. "Please Ridge, I love him!"

Ridge sighed as his sister fell into an uneasy slumber. He knew he had to let the boy go. He loved his little sister too much to deny her wish.

"Call the sons of Ipswich Rade, tell them to come here." He reluctantly told his brother.