Chapter 24:Panic

I was worried, when the sun started to fall and Vaas hadn't returned, to pass the time I did a few ab exercises to get the events before off my mind. I then laid back down and stared up at the ceiling, taking the time to examine those scars that Buck had given me. If I really believed no one deserved to die, then why did I feel merciless when Vaas nearly shot Buck last night, only to kill him afterwards.
It was yet another hour of boredom and silence before I heard the loud clash of the metal door to the warehouse. I heard the sound of boots and then thumping up the stairs as the routine went. It was Vaas, he entered carrying a large duffel bag on his shoulder, he dropped it carelessly beside the bed and sat down on the edge of the mattress. I was still naked, but he didn't seem to mind, kicking his boots off and pulling the bag between his bent knees.
He unzipped it, I scooted over, moving the covers from my sweaty body and sitting down beside him. He glared over at me, with an annoyed look, my nose burned at the stench of alcohol that flowing into my nostrils.
"Hello..." I said, he looked away with disgust, shaking his head. He started pulling things from the bag. He started with a large blue t-shirt, tossing it over to me, a package I new underwear, a sports bra. One by one he pulled the things from the bag, following with a pack of cigarettes, a pack of needles, and a box full of some type of vile. I recognized those few things and realized that it was heroine. He looked over at me again, didn't we have a deal about no drugs? No... I had alcohol last night and that broke the rules. We stared at each other for a long silent moment before throwing the now empty bag across the room, I flinched away.
"What the fuck are you looking at Bella? Do you have a fucking problem in your head? Is something fucking wrong?" He snapped at me, no words were able to escape my lips, I couldn't see why, not one word would pass through them. "Your sleeping somewhere else tonight if you are going to be a hassle! I can't take your sensitive shit anymore, you're making me soft." I felt offended, I was making him soft? Was I really making him soft? Or did he have a soft spot for me? "Lay the fuck down and leave me alone..." I did as Vaas said turning my back to him. "Fucking whore..." He muttered under his breath, I growled inwardly, I have had enough, just as much as he has had enough of whatever I have done. I didn't have to stay here and listen to this, I had other people that mattered more and if he was going to be like this, then fine! To you to Vaas.
I stood up from the bed and started searching the floor of the room for things to wear.
"What are you doing Hermana?"
"I'm sleeping somewhere else." I put on the black sports bra and a pair of blue underwear on from the small package. I put on the blue t-shirt, then I grabbed a pair of shorts off the floor and shuffled them on.
"Why?" Vaas continued, I shook my head and sighed.
"Because obviously in doing something wrong."
"It is obvious. You aren't fucking me."
"We don't have to have sex in order for you to respect me." Vaas grunted as he stood up, turning to me and holding his hands up in the air, a freshly lit cigarette between his lips.
"I'm sorry, I haven't had sex for almost four weeks now." He mumbled sarcastically, pulling the cigarette out to release the smoke in his lungs. "I've been waiting for you to be ready for me." I shook my head with annoyance, I gritted my teeth and clenched my fists.
"Sex is not important in a relationship!"
"It is my fucking type of relationship." I started my way towards the door, he grabbed my forearm tightly enough to bruise, I stared at him, but I wasn't afraid. He wouldn't hurt me, I went to move away again, but he held his grip. "You are staying where I fucking want you to stay." He took a puff of the cigarettes again, the exhale of smoke hitting me right in my lungs.
"I can go where I want to go, you don't own me." I growled back between clenched teeth.
"You are mine Bella, deal with it."
"No! I am sick of this! I am sick of you! You really don't know what pain you cause me!"
"If I cause you pain that's good, a bitch like you deserves it."
"Asshole!"
"Whore!" My eyebrows furrowed with rage, he was a monster in so many ways.
"CockSucker!" I countered with a firm tone keeping eye contact, only seconds later did I feel his grip loosen and a fist hit me straight across the face. I fell onto the ground, my head hitting the concrete floor, the world spinning. When I had Finally caught my bearings, I sat up, tears rushing down my cheeks, I held the pulsing back of my head, my vision blurred, my right eye starting to swell from the nearly fatal blow.
Vaas sat on the bed, staring down at the ground blankly, rubbing his hands together.
"Vaas..." I whimpered shakily, there was no reply, I slowly sat up, wobbling over to the side, I caught myself on the wall, my hand still holding the back of my head where my skull made contact with the concrete floor. I found myself stumbling down the stairs, where would I sleep? I had no plan as to where I was going before, still nothing now that I was here at the bottom of the stairs grasping for dear life onto the railing.
I stumbled slowly over to the red containers taking my time with each step as the world around me spun with a vengeance.
"Fuck..." I mumbled, weakly opening up the metal door as I fell onto it. I started through down the ramp and then suddenly a hated voice caught my attention.
"Guess Vaas is getting a bit to violent now, ay Sheila?" I looked over to my left at a blurry figure, my eyes squinted to find it was Buck.
"What the fuck? I thought you were-"
"Hmm... Yeah, I bet you Vaas told you that, didn't he?" Buck started swaying over to me, he chuckled. "He lied and you and I have unfinished business."
"Excuse me?" I was so confused, Vaas killed Buck in the challenge. "Fuck off! Your lying, Vaas wouldn't do that to me."
"Well look what's he's done now... How can you trust him in such a way? How can you love him? He being the man that murdered your family and killed your friend... Let's make that..." Buck put two fingers up. "Two friend's." He stood in front of me, smirking devilishly as I suddenly realized whose blood Vaas was wearing admirably before."You should be thankful... He did it for you."
"Lies!" I screamed angrily, pushing him away and stumbling back, falling onto my butt, I staring up at Buck.
"Hoyt said he would kill you if Vaas didn't kill that Pai girl, and Vaas promised he wouldn't kill me if I stayed away from him... And you... But since Vaas seems to have no care where you are right now, I think I can follow my own rules." I suddenly lost it, this wasn't the mental breakdown I was facing before, I felt like I couldn't breath and the tears suddenly stopped, nothing was comprehendible at this point. All I could hear was silence despite the fact words were leaving Buck's lips. I fell forward into his arms, no control over my body, he wrapped his arms around me until I saw Vaas from the corner of my eye and I was pushed away onto the ground, my eyelids slowly starting to close, my heart beating faster, my limbs tingling, my mind blank, I had lost myself.

Vaas's POV

I killed that fucker, right when I saw him touching my Bella! I shot him six times for myself and six more for Bella, the gun ran out of bullets after twelve, I looked over my shoulder at Bella. She rested lifeless on the dirt, that fucking whore! I told her to stay, not to be stupid and leave, then again out of anger I hit her. She was asking for it, she had no right to fucking call me a cocksucker like she had. I will have to show her who the true cocksucker was sometimes. I strode my way over to her, holstering my weapon, I placed my hands on my hips and stared down at her.
"Get the fuck up Bella!" There was nothing, she was still alive, I could see her chest rising, her eyes staring up at the sky, her body mingled, one hand on her mid drift, the other behind her back. I crouched down beside her and poked at her cheek with an index finger. "Bella?" I cooed a bit softer, a fragile tear slipping from the corner of her eye. "Baby? Hermosa? Amor?" No answer, I leaned in grabbing her by the shoulder and picking her up in my arms, I allowed my body to sit back. This was a test again, to see if I cared and honestly I wasn't sure, enough is enough, you know?
I brushed a strand of loose hair behind her ear, she shivered in my grasp, but her eyes did not look at me, the right was now barely swollen shut and a bright red. "Bella... Are you okay?" I continued, yet again not answer, I brought a hand up to her neck for a pulse, it was slow, but her breath was ragged.
"Stop fucking playing!" She still didn't move, something was wrong, really wrong. I stood myself up, with her in my grasp and I quickly ran in the direction of the cages outside of the compound. I knew one captive fucker who could tell me what was wrong with her, one captive and one captive alone... Earnhardt.