The door swung open and slammed into the wall.
"WERE BACKKK" They announce together laughing. Calleigh hid the pick and just stared at the two of them.
"Ca.. l…?" Horatio called out in a low raspy voice.
"So how is our lieutenant doing, Hmm?" Claudia asked smiling. "Where did you find that blanket?" She looked at Calleigh.
Calleigh did not answer her and Claudia ripped it off him, Calleigh jumped up and went to run over to Horatio but Jay pulled on the chains and stopped her short of him. Jay Yanked back hard on the chains and Calleigh cried out in pain. He pulled again so hard she fell and he was dragging her with the chains now.
He just stared down at her now and had his foot on the chains so Calleigh couldn't move. All she could do was look up at him.
"Answer her Calleigh" Jay said, in a cold voice now looking down at her.
"It was under the cot, I just…." Calleigh started but Jay cut her off by yanking hard on the chains again. She yelped in pain again and gasped, blood began to run down her arms now.
"Get up!" Jay demanded and let go of the chains. She slowly got off the floor and he grabbed her by her hair and shoved her into the chair again.
"N..oo… lea.. ve … C.al…" Horatio mumbled and groaned in pain, he began moving around.
Claudia leaned over Horatio now and smiled to him.
"Now, what would you do, for the woman you love,… lieutenant?"
"No, please, leave him alone….take me, please!" Calleigh yelled now looking up at Jay from her chair. He was laughing at her.
"That's right, beg… Bitch!" He yelled at Calleigh now.
Horatio started to lift his head and began mumbling words. He was aware Jay was yelling at Calleigh now. Claudia picked up the baton and showed it to Calleigh, moving it close to Horatio again.
"You could have used this to warm him up some." She said pulling the trigger, taunting Calleigh now.
Calleigh kicked her leg up as hard and fast as it would go and kicked jay right between the legs. He went down hard and yelled in pain, holding himself with both hands. He was lying on the floor curled up and coughing. She jumped up and kicked him again and Claudia stormed over and grabbed her by her hair. She put the baton to Calleigh's back and pulled the trigger. Calleigh cried out and fell to the floor dazed and in pain; she couldn't believe how much that hurt, she lay there in shock trying to recover. Her body felt weak and limp.
Horatio started to thrash around when he heard Calleigh cry out in pain and Claudia kept her eye on him. He was lifting his head, trying to see, but it kept flopping back down on the bed. He was too weak to even hold his head up now.
Claudia helped Jay off the floor and sat him down on the chair for a few minutes.
He whispered something to her. Calleigh knew they were up to no good again and began to get up. Claudia suddenly pulled on her chains and dragged her to the steel pipe. She now locked the chain there so Calleigh could not move from that spot.
"You shouldn't have done that to Jay!" She said to Calleigh.
"You bitch, I warned you, didn't I." Now you pay!" Jay yelled, walking over to Calleigh in a rage.
"Horatio was coming around, "Ge… a..w..ay..fr..om h..er… ..ay" He could hardly speak now.
Jay laughing now, "You can't be serious lieutenant?" He grabbed a hold of her hair and slapped her hard across the face. She tried to move to fight him but she was being held in place by the chains now. He slapped her again, this time more forceful and she slumped down flat to the floor. She was bleeding from the mouth now and feeling very dizzy.
She laid there trying to gather herself and slowly things were becoming clearer. Horatio, is that Horatio talking? She was thinking to herself, disoriented still, her face stinging.
"D..o...n't,…. To..u.ch he.r….. J.ay! Horatio growled, hoarsely, barely audible.
Jay laughed and walked away from Calleigh and went over to Horatio shaking his head.
"No, no, no lieutenant! Big mistake! Maybe…your last!" Jay said, leaning over him.
"So you're felling better, huh? But where, do you get the energy, lieutenant?
"Claudia, go ahead…go get it!" Jay said, with intent in his voice now.
She came back with another bucket of ice water and poured some on Calleigh this time. Calleigh jumped in shock and stared at Claudia now.
"Just wanted you to feel, what the good lieutenant has coming" She said.
Jay laughed and picked up the baton, he leaned over Horatio and asked him, "What was it you were trying to say? Don't what?... you need help? Here, let me HELP YOU!" And Jay shoved the baton into Horatio's ribs again.
"Arggggggggggggggggg... Co…warddd" Gasping for air, fighting the pain, the word came out...
Horatio's head drop back down now.
"Did that help?.. No?.. What about this, maybe this will help? Jay sneered.
Claudia slowly poured the ice water over Horatio's face now, while Jay held his head down. Horatio began violently choking on the water, spitting it out and trying to breathe all at once. Jay held his head down firmly with both hands, one hand holding him under the chin and the other pressing down on his forehead. Claudia poured the water over his nose and mouth to be exact.
Horatio began thrashing around but Jay held his head firmly, his hands were like a vice tightening. Horatio felt like he was drowning, he couldn't breathe; he started to panic and struggle, which only made matters worse. Water began to fill his lungs and his breathing became shallow, his body started to violently shake again. The bucket was finally empty and Jay let his head go.
Horatio leaned to one side choking and coughing up water. He had aspirated a lot of it and it was now in his lungs, his body was shutting down. He was in pain and freezing now, cold coursing through his battered body. He just wanted to sleep, close his eyes and give in to the pain now. His body could take no more. His eyes slowly began to close, his body finally giving in to exhaustion.
Calleigh was crying and yelling at them to stop but they just ignored her. She was pulling on the chains with all her might, the cuffs cutting into her wrists even more now.
"Nooooooo, Stop!…Please!…..Stop!" Both her wrists, bloody and burning in pain now.
Horatio's eyes finally closed and his body started to convulsed.
"No you don't!" Jay said menacingly.
Then he pressed the baton into his ribs and Horatio's eyes shot open in pain and he yelled in agony. "ARGGGGGGGGGGGG" Coughing and shaking, uncontrollably again.
Everytime his blue eyes would close, Jay would shock him awake again, over and over, telling him if he passed out, that Calleigh's would be next.
"What's the matter lieutenant, nothing to say? WELL, that's a first!" Jay smiled.
Horatio's was just trying to keep from passing out, His face was red and the veins in his neck and forehead were bulging. Jay knew he was struggling to hold on and happily tormented him more.
He leaned down low, right next to Horatio's ear and said, "Maybe I should go use this on her now, because you're not being much fun anymore, lieutenant Jay smiled at Horatio now.
Horatio took a breath in and his eyes squeezed shut tightly from the pain. His body shaking, his breathing slowing, his eyes closing…He heard Jay, but his voice was fading, he knew he was passing out now. He clenched his jaw and groaned loudly one last time, trying to hang on.
"Just think, she's all mine, you can't protect her and you can't help her anymore. I'm going to have a lot of fun with her now. But I don't think it's going to be, much fun for her!
"NIGHT, night, lieutenant!" Were the last words Horatio heard.
TBC...