One month later
"And I think with this change the organization of the dances will go alot smoother." Lucy said, presenting her idea to her fellow council members of the school. Allison clapped, smiling. "Very nice Lucy. You certainly have a head for strategy." Lucy cleared her throat. "Guess it's just comes natural. We'l meet next week?" she said just as the bell rang.
Quinn was getting her things to go to next class when the principle walked in, going to her. "Quinn, I have urgent news for you. Your father called." She frowned, slinging her book bag over her shoulder. "What did he say? Whats wrong?" The principle frowned. "We should talk in private before they arrive." Once Quinn was sat down the principle told her the family emergency, that Gage was shot and was in critical condition in the hospital and that her dad was coming to get her. She had to wipe a few tears away, swallowing down the lump in her throat as she walked outside to wait, calling her dad but as soon as she was outside, before she could even press the call button. A rag was brought over her mouth. She gasped in automatically, trying to scream and fight the person off but the more she fought, the more chemical she breathed in before she finally slowed before falling unconsciousness in the mans arms. He carried her over his shoulder around the back of the school. There was no cameras back there. He threw her into the back of there van, driving off. Her phone left broken on the ground.
TJ, once out of class and started looking for Lucy and Quinn in the hall. It was lunch time and Quinn wasn't in class with him. He texted her and she never replied. He hoped she was just having an anxiety attack and didn't feel like talking and was ditching class to calm. He felt Lucy's hand on his shoulder, he looked at her. 'Hey, have you heard from Quinn at all? She wasn't in class." She frowned. "No. Should we call her?" He got his phone out, getting to a quiet part of the hall as the students thinned out. Her phone kept ringing and ringing. Eventually it went to voice mail, he hung up. "Voice mail. Thats strange. She always texts and picks up." Lucy frowned. "Maybe she wants to be left alone?" TJ frowned. "I hope so."
Quinn was barely awake but she could tell she was being dragged down a dirty hall. It seemed to be a hospital. It was old,not a normal hospital. An asylum maybe? She groaned. The lights were bright and large. She feebly tried to fight. "no...stop...where...where am..."She felt her stomach gurgle. And not in a good way. She swallowed. "I'm...I'm gonna be sick.." She felt them stop, sensing the annoyance from them she took this moment to get her wrists out but she was too weak from the chloroform, falling to her knees and dry heaving. She didn't eat yet today. Her stomach was still trying to heave when they grabbed her arms again, dragging her, a little vomit dripping from her chin. She coughed making more come up as they opened a metal door, creaking.
They picked her up, placing her on a surgical bed. Old and metal, strapping her wrists down. Everything was hard to focus on past the awful feeling of her stomach but she heard an older man speaking from the far end of the room. "Careful please. I do not want my subject injured before the experiment. It could throw off readings." They walked out, closing the door with a loud metal thud. The older man walked over. He was wearing white scrubs and a white face mask. A name on his coat, a plastic tag. Dr. Angelo."I'm sorry about those brutes. Oh and they couldn't even clean you up. I've warned them about using chloroform." He got a rag, wiping her mouth and chin and neck. She glared, her senses starting to come back. "What the fuck do you want with me? Where am I?" "Oh such language on such a young lady." She was trembling in fear, fearing she would urinate on herself.
She kept up her brave face as much as she could. "Fuck you. What do you want with me?" He leaned down, moving some hair out of her face. "I work for..certain people and there paying me lots of money to find out how your powers work." He chuckled, seeing her face pale and eyes widen. "Oh yes. I know. I know about your visions, your precious nightmares. I'm here to find out if there's more." She shook her head. "No...no there isn't. Please, your wasting your time. It's just visions. Thats all."
He sighed, walking over the medical table, wheeling it over. She couldn't see the instruments he was moving around but the sounded thin, surgical and it terrified her so much a little pee came out of her humiliatingly. He came back, putting a bit of gel on her temples. She swallowed a whimper down. "What are you doing?" He sighed, then, moving til he was above her, two rods in hand, rounded on the ends that would go to her head. He pressed a switch and she could hear the electronic hum from them. A few tears fell. He spoke. "Don't worry. Won't hurt a bit.." He brought the rods to her temples. They were an old instrument for electroshock therapy. The pain was agonizing and hot. Like she was burning inside out, making her spasm. She couldn't even scream as the current went thru her.
He took them away, sighing. She whimpered, crying and gasping. He put the rods away, seeing the stain in her pants. "tisk tisk. We'l have to get you out of those cloths." She shook her head as he got a scalpel, cutting off her cloths, leaving her nude on the bed. He smiled behind his mask. "ah. Much better. Now we can really get started."
Back at the mansion, Tony was busy tracking her. TJ called saying she wasn't replying or picking up which wasn't like her. Thats when Tony and Gage, Kim and Clint went on the guard, checking her tracking. Tony found it but it was weak, hard to pin point. "JARVIS, whats going on with her tracking?" "It seems something it interrupting it's signal. Once it stops I can get a clear read." Tony saw how Gage was. Pacing, hands fisted, ready to kill something. So was he. But first they had to find her. Gage started speaking. "We can't live a normal life can we? We...we can't go a month without some kidnapping or bad guy trying to kill us."
Gage wasn't sure wither to be growling or break down into tears. He was terrified. The little blip on the screen, whenever JARVIS gets a good read, is still. Unmoving but something is interrupting the signal so that must mean shes still alive. But whats being done to her is a question he dosnt want an answer to. Not yet anyway.
Quinn whimpered as the doctor paced in front of the table. She had three broken fingers, a broken wrist, face was cut and bruised. Lacerations were all over her body. She could sense he was getting inpatient, not getting the results he wants. She cried. "Please... Please my powers...they don't work like that." He growled, throwing things around before picking up a mallet. She could sense his anger was more of a toddler. Not getting his way so he throws a tantrum. "I'l get to see your true powers if it's the last thing I do!"
Kim was pacing in the living room, wiping tears away. Clint was cleaning his gun until they needed him. They heard footsteps, Gage was first in the living room. Ready to take down whoever took Quinn. "Clint, take Kim and get TJ and Lucy from school. We'l let you know what hospital were going to." Kim gasped. "God, do you think she'l need one?" Gage gave her a look. "Something kept interrupting the racking signal. Going by that, yes, she'l need one. God knows what this sicko is doing to her." Kim whimpered, looking to Clint. "They have my baby. Oh God.." Clint moved to her, wrapping his arm around her. "We'l get her back. You know we will.'
Tony flew over head while Gage sped down the road. She was about 30 minutes away in an abandoned asylum that hasn't been used in 50 years. It made Gage sick to event think about what was being done to her. He parked and Tony landed outside of it. He got out, getting his pistol. He didn't care for a sword right now. He just wanted these fuckers dead. Tony spoke to him in his com. "Dosnt seem to be anybody here. Just one. Well two if you count Quinn." Gage raised an eyebrow, following Tony inside. "Strange. They normally have guards." "Keep your own guard up, they may have some kind of stealth tech." "Rodger that."
They moved inside, following her tracker. Tony stopped at a door. It was large and metal. He nodded to Gage. He saw Gage tense before nearly growling. Tony grabbed the large Handel, like the steering wheel of a ship and turning it, or struggling to. Gage had his gun at the ready when the door suddenly unlocked and Tony opening it quickly. Both wanted to be sick at the sight before them. Quinn was strapped to a surgical table, bleeding and nude and nearly unconscious with her chest caved in, bloody and mutilated. Then Tony saw the doctor and a bloody mallet on the floor. He nearly growled. "Gage, go to Quinn. I'l handle him." Gage nodded, rushing to her, checking her pulse and breathing. Her pulse was uneven but steady and she was wheezing. He nearly cried in relief, kissing her head. She nearly whimpered out as he turned her face to face him. "Gage?..." He held her face. "shhh it's ok. It's gonna be ok." His eyes watered in worry. She looked bad. He wasn't sure how she was alive with her chest caved in.
Tony was cornering the doctor who was trembling in fear. "Please, my work here isn't done." Tony growled, grabbing the man by his head, seeing the blood on him. Quinns blood. His daughters blood. "Your work is done." He made sure his repulsers were on either side of his head, charging his repulsers high. The mans screams filled the room for a brief moment before his brain and insides were burned. Blood dripping from his eyes, mouth, nose before he was thrown to the ground. He rushed over to Gage and Quinn. Gage was unbuckling her wrists when he looked at Tony, looking terrified. "We can't move her. He wailed on her chest with the mallet. Her ribs are pretty badly damaged, her heart ..I don't even know.." Tony kneeled to Quins level. She looked going in to shock. It was damn hard for Tony to keep it together. Thank God for the suit. He spoke. "JARVIS, call an air left. We can't move her like this-" "Dad?" He suddenly looked, his face plate going up, he frowned, eyes watering. "Princess? Thank god, your alive. What did that sicko want with you?" She swallowed, having a hard time breathing. "He said he needed to know my powers. But...I told him. I told him they don't work like that." Her lip trembled, tears falling. "It hurts." She whimpered. Gage kissed her head, petting her hair. "shh it'l be ok. Just stay calm."
They finally got her in the air left. Gage was able to go with her, Tony following to meet the rest of the family, wherever they were at the moment in this mess. Once landed they rushed her and he gave them his name, since the rest of the family wernt there yet. (down side of living on your own island. Everything is far away) he sat in the waiting room, in shock and disgust and fear. His hands shaking. It wasn't sure how long it was when a doctor came out, blood on his scrubs. " ?" He shot up, going to him. The doctor sighed, signaling him to follow him to where it was just the two of them. Once in another hall, more private, the doctor spoke to him, sounding grim. "Unless something is done soon. We will lose her. When her chest was beaten in, it created bone fragments to inbed into her heart. With each beat it causes more damage, causing the fragments to move and shift. She needs an arc reactor but we need her parents permission. Is there any way you can contact ?" Gage felt his eyes water over, a few falling down his face, wiping them away as he nodded. "Yeah." He backed away, getting his cell out, calling Tony.
Tony picked up, they were about 10 minutes out from the hospital. He found them, driving with the rest of the family to comfort Kim. He was in the back seat with her. Lucy and TJ in the very back as he picked up his phone. "Updates?" Gage let out a shaky breath. "She needs an arc reactor... And I need your permission." Tony tensed. He never once thought that when he made the reactor public for medical purposes that it would have be put into his own daughter. "Please, sir. Shes gonna die without it." Tony could hear the breaking in Gage's voice. The fear. It shook him out of his own thoughts. "Yes." Tony clear his throat, feeling a lump grow. "Yes. They have my permission." Gage let out a breath, hanging up. He nodded to the doctor. "Yeah. Do it." The doctor nodded before walking away, leaving Gage alone in the hall.
An arc reactor? He could barely believe it. Before he could help it he punched the wall, leaving a dent int he wall as tears fell. What would this do to her? How would it change her life? Before he knew it whimpers were escaping before he kneeled down to the floor, arms going around his knees as he cried, hands fisting his hair. He vowed to marry her after this. If she got thru it that is.
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