"So, Bob. Do you have a family?" Danielle inquire from her leaned back position on a plastic chair with a big crack in one of the abused legs. She pitied the maniac that would cause it to break and fall on their behind. Pretty humiliating if you ask her.
Bob cleared his throat. "I-I'm, I don't think that it's appropriate to talk about that" He pulled at his collar as if it were causing him discomfort but they both knew that he was growing uncomfortable by the questions she asked. "I see you've made some friends, that's good."
"Yes, friends" Danielle responds with a barely contained eye roll. "I've made acquaintances with fellow inmates" She grinned a sinister grin.
"I really wish you wouldn't call them that, or yourself for that matter. You're patients here, not inmates or prisoners"
"But we're not allowed to leave this place, are we?" Danielle knew that she had him there. Bob was a very nervous person, ironic considering where he was working but she supposed that maybe he was only assigned to the newbies. The ones they weren't sure of yet, the ones that were 'normal'.
"Tell me more of your new friends" Bob demand after a short period of tense silence. "Do you like them?"
"Depends" She reply curtly with a small nod. "I have trouble with people, I don't understand them."
That made him lean forward on the metal table cluttered with a multitude of papers in interest. "What do you mean? With you not understanding people I mean? Do you feel disconnected from the rest of society?"
"I don't understand them" Danielle repeat with a raised eyebrow. "I never have and probably never will."
"Is it because of your father?" Bob question with an underlying hint of disappointment in his voice.
"My father?!" Danielle burst out into a string of cold laughter, sending a chill in Bob's bones. "What do you know about my father?"
Bob cleared his throat once more and with reddening cheeks, clearly disturbed by her outburst, he tries to collect himself again. "I said, what do you know of my father!" The girl bark out when she didn't receive an answer from the man sitting opposite of her.
The man shakes his head, regretting every decision that had led him there. "I know that he left your mother after she found out she was pregnant. I know that he told you he not to contact him"
Danielle falls back in her chair, stunned to the core. She didn't know that they had so much information on her private life, she hadn't told them anything. Meaning that her mom snitched on her. "My father" She spat out with a twisted look on her face. "Has nothing to do with anything"
"On the contrary, I think your father has everything to do with everything" A flash of a cruel smirk appear on his face, confusing the woman sitting in the chair. "Let's start from the beginning"
"I don't want to talk about him, there's nothing to talk about" Danielle insist with the beginning of a furious glare in her eyes. "Drop it"
"Have you ever been in contact with your father?" Bob continue, dismissing her petty threats.
"I said drop it!" She growl out, hands clenched into fists and nails making bloody crescents in her palm. Danielle hates talking about her past, her troubles and anything like that. Especially to a shrink, no one other than her have any business being inside her head.
"I didn't want to do this but you aren't cooperating" Bob shakes his head with a thoughtful look. He had to keep his cover after all. Bob wave his hand in the air with short fast movements and Danielle tense up at the movement, awaiting whatever punishment they were waiting to dish out for her disobedience.
In comes two goons bursting through the door, the first one muscular but short and the other lean and tall. They hold a very noticeably resemblance to each other, siblings then, Danielle deduce.
"Your solution is to rough me up with your goons? Pathetic" Danielle spit out with a small smirk on her face. She's always had this problem of never knowing when to be quiet and when to let her mouth run, this was one of the be quiet occasions.
Bob doesn't reply with anything other than a small shake of his head, feigning regret. He leans over to the short goon and whisper in his ear, cupping his hands around his mouth to keep the words from being heard by the patient in the room.
The goon straighten up and nods his head with a blank look on his face. He signals for his brother with a barely noticeable hand movement and the two saunter up to the tied down Danielle, menacing smirks growing on their faces. "I'll enjoy this" One of them said. "Been awhile since he's let us loose" The other responded.
The tall one place his left hand on the table and leans on it with his hip. The short one, the one Danielle realises is the brawns in the duo and also the one who was going to really deliver the punishment. A small push brings her out of her thoughts and when she turns her head to look at the short one she's met with the fast approaching fist he's thrown at her. It hits her right in the nose and she falls back down onto the table with a pained yelp. The tall one drags her up to a sitting position and with a combination of pulling her towards his fist and him actually delivering said punch she's met with another punch to the face. This time on her cheek, making her head fall to the side and a barely audible groan slip out of her mouth.
She grins suddenly and sits up straighter, if one wasn't used to working with people like Danielle you wouldn't notice the pain in her movement or in her eyes and actually believe that she didn't feel a thing. Now Bob hadn't worked with someone like Danielle before (partly cuz he's incompetent and partly because there's no one else like Danielle) and therefore didn't know that she felt like a car had just rammed straight into her face.
Bob signal again for the boys to begin a new but more brutal part of the punishment. He was going to get her talking, if it so was the last thing he did...
AN: Good news everyone, I will start updating more regularly now because I have more freetime now and won't be as mentally tired! I'll make small changes in the past chapters, mostly adding more things to make it in my opinion better but I'll let you all know when I'm done with that. Please vote/leave a comment/ review. Love y'all.