Kong Li Christmas : A Sue Story 19
By Crystalquirt
Tobue. Kong Li messes up Christmas by trying to take Sue out of the celebration for good. Scary situations, violence, mild language, action, romance, angst, oh yeah.
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Sue wondered if she had been abandoned in the darkness for days, but it had really only been a couple of hours when the door slammed open and the lights came on. She blinked trying to focus in the sudden light and looked over to the source of the noise. Kong Li came in with Tobey draped over his shoulder.
Sue tried to scream through the gag, "No! Tobey! What did you do to him?" but no one could have understood her.
"Now you will have some company." Kong Li dropped Tobey in front of the cage. He still tried to pretend he was unconscious, but was so happy to have heard Sue's voice he could barely contain himself. Kong Li didn't notice him smile briefly. Tobey forced himself to hold still to be tied up.
Kong Li wrapped the cord around his wrists, splint and all. Tied his ankles together, and gagged him with more of the stinky burlap. Then the evil, heartless creature he was, grabbed a handful of Tobey's hair and turned his head to speak into his face. "When and IF you wake up, I want no yelling."
Sue heard his statement clearly, 'if he wakes up' and softly called to Tobey again, begging him to wake up, it sounded like a whimper through the gag.
Kong Li opened the door on the cage, bent down and went in far enough to roughly push Sue back to the far corner and threaten her with his staff. He pulled Tobey in by his hair most of the way and then rolled him away from the gate, his legs over his head. He landed in an uncomfortable heap on his splinted arm with his knees bent up against the cage bars on the back.
Tobey forced himself to remain still through it all, except for gritting his teeth when Kong Li dragged him by his hair. If Kong Li thought he was passed out, and no threat, maybe he would do something careless and they could get away. Sue whined through her gag with worry, but tied up with the staff pressed against her chest, couldn't try anything to help Tobey.
Kong Li started to back out but hesitated. He was bent over in the low cage; nearly on his knees, but he reached back anyway and backhanded Sue across her face for no reason! She cried out through the gag and fell against the bars. Tobey couldn't pretend to be passed out any more after seeing that.
Tobey brought both bound legs up and kicked Kong Li. He delivered a powerful kick even though he was barefooted. His heels connected against Kong Li's shoulder and neck and knocked him against the cage bars. Unfortunately Kong Li came up again right away and jabbed Tobey so hard in the abdomen with the blunt end of the staff, that it broke the skin. He groaned loudly and tried to roll into a tiny ball.
Even tied up, Sue lunged at Kong Li trying to protect Tobey. Her shoulder hit him in the knee and he fell out out of the cage in an extremely undignified position. After she knocked Kong Li down, she couldn't get up with her hands and feet tied.
Enraged, Kong Li reached in and pulled her out. Tobey forgot his own pain and watched in horror, kicking the cage side and trying to turn around as Kong Li held Sue up to punch her twice in the stomach. He dropped her and kicked her in the side to roll her back into the cage before he slammed the gate and left again, limping.
Sue lie on her side gasping for air. She pulled her knees up to her chest and groaned while Tobey rolled and scooted up behind her. She was curled into a fetal position her teeth clenched from the pain.
Tobey tried to speak through his gag to her. She couldn't understand the words, but she understood him. He felt terrible that he couldn't give her a hug, couldn't make her pain go away and hadn't been able to protect her. Tobey lie down behind her, copying her position, with his body close up behind hers, his legs touching hers all the way down to his feet. She closed her bound hands, holding his belt tightly with both hands to be sure he stayed close while they rested.
Sue rolled over on her stomach and Tobey moved and sat up so she could sit up too. Sitting, facing each other they leaned close together. Tobey wanted to hug Sue so badly he hurt inside. They wound up leaning on each other at least. Sue put her head on Tobey's shoulder. He tried to say something very softly. It sounded like. "I love you." and Sue smiled under the gag.
Kong Li left the lights on when he left the room. They couldn't hear anything, but both suspected that he had not left the building. Tobey backed up a little so he could look at Sue. She sat up straighter as she got closer to him. Her hair had fallen down around her shoulders and down her back. He couldn't remember ever seeing her hair down before. He looked at her with his big brown puppy-dog eyes and smiled, happy to be with her. Happy she was alive.
She looked at him, looked into his eyes and saw how hurt he was. She motioned for him to lie down on his side and when he did she turned her back to him. He watched as she got her hands close enough to his face to pull at the gag he wore. He saw her hands were red from her binds being too tight.
After a minute of working together, she got the gag off of his face! "Sue! I was so scared for you! What did he do to you?"
"Sue raised an eyebrow and whined at him."
"Oh, right – can't talk - got it."
She motioned for him to get her gag off and she lie down behind him. He tried, but the fingers on his splinted hand wouldn't work at all. His other hand was bound tightly under the splint and turned the wrong way. He cried out in pain when he tried to get his hands where he could reach her.
Sue squealed through the gag, meaning she wanted him to stop as she moved away from him. Then she wiggled like an inchworm until her head was by Tobey's feet. She made sounds again meaning she wanted him to try to use his feet. Sue winced and made a face when she smelled his feet – not the usual feet smell, his feet smelled of blood, gasoline, oil and other smelly things that he ran through barefooted in the alleys.
Smearing Sue's cheek with something black, he got his big toe under her gag. She worked her head back and forth until she was able to spit it out and it hung loosely around her neck.
"Tobey, your feet!" She looked more closely at all the cuts and marks.
"Sorry Sue, I know my feet must be awful, too awful to be anywhere near your pretty face."
"It's not that, silly, you hurt your feet – that really looks like it hurts! What happened to your shoes? And you must be freezing, you could have grabbed a shirt before you came for me." She smiled, knowing that Kong Li had brought him to her.
"Nana took me and Sid to the hospital after she got the fire out, they took my shoes! Your tank top isn't going to do much to keep you warm either."
"I know, I'm already cold. Well, are you okay? What did they say about your hand? How is Sid? I saw him hit his head hard."
Tobey waited for her to finish rambling; she was talking so fast it didn't take long. "Sid has a minor concussion and is supposed to rest. He's fine, but they wanted to do surgery on my wrist! And I couldn't wait that long to find you!"
"Tobey you should have let them do the surgery!"
"No way, not while you were still in Kong Loser's possession. They had me, getting ready to put me under anesthesia and I ran. At first I thought it was a good thing Kong Li found me. I thought he would bring me to you and I could save you, but now look – I got captured too. Some help I am."
"Come on Tobey turn back to back with me. I will try to untie your wrists, perhaps with the splint on, he wasn't able to get you tied as tightly."
Tobey turned his back to her, pulled his legs up to his chest and rested his forehead on his knees. He bit his lip so he wouldn't cry out when she had to move his hands around and pull on them. After a while he felt his hands coming apart and soon they fell to his sides.
"Nnnnnn." he moaned. But turned and smiled at Sue. "Thanks."
He turned around and started working on her knots with his one hand that was still working. The instant Sue's hands were free she turned and hugged Tobey. He put his arms around her, his splint across her back and held on as tight as he could.
"Now I just have to find a way to get us out of this cage, out of this building and get you out of here! No problem." Tobey smiled, but looked worried in the next instant.
"WE - have to get out of here. You aren't alone in this Tobey." Sue added as she reached to untie his feet, then she untied her own.
Holding hands they looked around. The same problem existed; there was nothing within reach of the cage, or nothing even within sight that would help them get out of the heavy iron-barred cage. Tobey gave Sue's hand a gentle squeeze and she leaned on him with her head on his shoulder. With no warning, the lights went out and they were in darkness.
"What's going on . . . Sue? Do you think that was Kong Li or did the power go out?" Tobey put his arm around her shoulders and pulled her closer.
"I don't know, maybe he turned the lights out and left."
"What did you two do?" Kong Li roared from the darkness. He chanted "Gei Kow No" and a flame ignited above his hand. It burned brightly floating over his hand as he walked to the cage.
"So you got yourselves untied. No matter - you cannot escape this cage, but it will make it harder on you when I have to tie you up again."
Kong Li turned to leave. "Wait – can you at least give Tobey a blanket? He's injured and its freezing in here."
Kong Li just laughed at her request, the flame in his palm went out and he left, slamming the door behind him.
They sat in silence for a while, but soon Sue lifted Tobey's arm off her shoulders. "I have to lie down. I feel dizzy."
"Sue? Whats wrong?
"I'm just tired, and don't feel good. What time do you think it is?" Sue scooted to the middle and stretched out and then rolled onto her side facing away from Tobey.
"I don't know, nine or ten?" Tobey guessed on his way to lie next to her. He was already shivering. He scooted up close behind her and put his arm over her. His injured arm up behind her head. "Lift your head a sec."
"Why" she asked as she lifted it. He put his splinted arm with his elbow bent under her head. She put her head down on his arm. "Won't this hurt you?"
"I'll let you know."
The metal floor in the cage was cold. The building gave them some shelter from the wind, but most of the windows were broken out and the wind was howling. Soon there was a thunderous crack and lightening all around them and then the pounding rain started. Tobey hugged Sue tighter wishing he could do more to keep her warm. He was shivering too.
She moved her arm, and he put his arm back over her down around her waist. "Do you still feel dizzy?"
Sue didn't answer him.
"Sue?"
"I'm okay."
Tobey thought she was shivering from the cold, but when she spoke he could tell she was crying besides being cold. Tobey pressed his face into her hair and nuzzled the back of her neck. The cold air that was blowing in from above them also blew in rain drops that mostly hit the top of the cage, but even with the cage covered, a fine, cold mist blew over them every few minutes.
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Tobey continued . . .