Warehouse
"Ahhh!" Gabriella screamed as a hand came down and slapped her across the face. She'd been hit there repeatedly for the last hour or so, but there wasn't a clock in sight so she wasn't sure how long it had been. She licked the blood from the corner of her mouth because she couldn't wipe it due to her hands being tied behind her back. She looked up, "You can slap me all you want, still doesn't change the fact that I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know about any box."
Max didn't seem to care though because he slapped her again. There was something about the sound that his hand made connecting to her face that gave him pleasure. Seeing as how Gabriella had been out of Dauntless for the past 2 years part of him figured it was because she really didn't know what he was talking about, but he didn't care. She was divergent, she was different and it was because of her that the world he once knew and loved was changing into one unrecognizable to him and all of those that shared the same beliefs as he did.
"You may not know what I'm talking about, but you still have to pay for the stupid, reckless decision the council made because of your foolish parents." He unhooked her cuff from the chair she was sitting in and threw her into a wall. Gabriella winced as her face made contact with cement before sliding to the ground. Max stalked over to her and ripped her shirt off before taking off his belt and winding it around his hand. "You think you know what real pain and suffering feels like? I'm gonna show you." With that he whacked her right on the back.
"Ahhh!", Gabriella let out a piercing scream that echoed throughout the room. She cried in pain each time the belt touched her skin, but Max didn't let up. Instead he only hit her harder.
After 4 more hits with her belt Max put his belt back on walking out the room and locking her in the room. He turned and looked at the 2 guards outside her room. "She so much as moves from you are to beat her till she can no longer walk. Understood?" the guards eagerly nodded their heads acknowledging his order before turning and walking away.
Jeannine was talking amongst some of the other leaders that had gone rogue when Max walked into the room. She looked up as he made his way over to her, "She tell you anything?" she asked.
Max shook his head, "I'm starting to think she has no knowledge of the box. Her parents probably never got the chance to tell her or her sister before they were killed." Jeannine shook her head.
"That's a shame. But it doesn't matter because we'll still need her to open it once we've found it. I have teams assembling to search every leaders' home and work place to find it. Only a pure divergent can open that box."
"So, her or Isabella are the only ones that can open it." Max concluded. "Well, once we've found it maybe we can take the other sister and threaten one's life in exchange for the other to open it." Jeannine smiled at the thought. Both Hale sisters, the first and only true divergent at their mercy. It made her aroused just thinking about it.
"I like your thinking Max. We'll have to look into that."
Gabriella was sore. Her back was bleeding and half of her face was completely swollen. She couldn't move, the pain was too great. She could only hope that someone knew she was missing and would rescue her before it was too late.
