A/N: Well this is chapter 4, and other than that, i don't really have to much to add. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed thus far, and anyone else, please review, i really appreciate input on this, or just someone pointing out a mistake. Enjoy
"Wake up." I felt myself get drenched in cold water, and forced my eyes open. Cindy was standing there, a twisted grin on her face.
"Cindy, you fucking bitch. What the hell are you doing?" I snarled out at her. She only grinned wider.
"My name isn't Cindy. That was a pseudonym. My real name is Lilith." She stepped back, smirking. I looked around. I was in a concrete room, bound to a chair with duct tape. Towards the top of the room, there were dirty windows with chicken wire embedded in the glass. She followed my gaze. "You like our warehouse? I myself find it quite useful, for dealing with Resistance members being sent back. You see, being so dingy, and concrete lined, it reminds them of their dirty little bunkers they hid in, so it relaxes them." She studied me. "But you, you didn't live in just bunkers, did you?"
"Why does it matter?" I watched as she walked around behind me, then as she walked back around, pulling a spotlight with her.
"Sorry about this," She said, flashing me a grin, showing her perfectly white teeth. "My siblings insist that I use this. I personally don't see why I need to use it, but whatever." She put it in front of me, and flicked it on, nearly blinding me with the white light before I squeezed my eyes shut. "Skynet records indicate that this will be your first time being tortured. Isn't this exciting?"
"Your a sick bitch. Where is Ari?"
"Oh, don't worry about him. He's being treated nicely. We just want to know what he knows about John Connor, then we'll let him go. He'll just die in Judgement Day anyway."
"How do you know?"
"Like I said, Skynet records." Despite myself, knowing she was probably lying, I felt a pang of pity for him.
"The future can be changed."
"Yes it can." The light was shut off. I opened my eyes, and saw that Cindy, no Lilith, had stepped forward again. Outside, I could hear footsteps walking away. "We're counting on that. I'm willing to bet that Connor had told you where he would be hiding in case you needed shelter. Am I right?" She smiled as I didn't answer. "I am. If you keep giving up information, then I won't even have to torture you." She knelt down in front of me, pushing my chin up with a soft hand. "You see, unlike my siblings, I'm not overly fond of torture, or killing. I myself prefer non-violent resolutions. Of course, once we get what we need, I will have to kill you."
"I'm not going to betray Connor."
"Oh, you won't have a choice." She stood back up, and pet my head. "I'll give you some time to think about your priority's. If you're cooperative, I may be able to convince my brothers and sisters to let you live."
"What are you?"
"I'm a better version of you." She stuck her tongue out. "But since your going to ask exactly what I am, Skynet refers to us as I950's." She turned and left the room, slamming the heavy metal door behind her. I heard a lock click on the outside, then her footsteps crunching on something outside. Sounds like gravel. I looked around at the room again. Nothing new popped out at me. I tested the chair to see if it was attached to floor or not by pushing back. It wasn't. I slowly pushed myself around in the chair, to see what was behind me. It was empty, except several crates. I tested the duct tape, using my superhuman strength. It flexed, but didn't snap. Damn. I tried again, and this time I could hear the tape starting to rip. I tried again, then nearly fell on the floor as the tape burst. I staggered up to my feet, wincing as I felt needle like pricks in my legs due to the lack of proper blood flow.
Staggering over to the door, I examined it. It had a door knob on it. I tried it. Of course, it was locked. I slammed my shoulder into it. All that did was bruise my shoulder. Great. So now the only way to get out of here was wait for someone to come in, then jump them. I needed to find Ari. Hopefully he didn't talk, since they wouldn't release him if he divulged anything. Although I hadn't told him anything except my mission.
I heard the gravel crunch, and quickly moved over to jump whomever walked through the door. I heard a key click in the lock, then the door swung open. I tucked myself against the wall as Lilith, and another women walked in, this one several inches taller than Lilith, and with black hair, closing the door behind them. "Dammit Lilith, I told you the duct tape wouldn't hold her."
"She's not as strong as us." Lilith sounded confused.
"Apparently she is, otherwise she couldn't have broke out of there." The woman looked around the room, spotting me. "Although apparently she is too stupid to get out of here." Lilith whirled around, and narrowed her eyes.
"Be good Raven, and just come here." She called. "You can't take the both of us." I flexed my arms, feeling my heart rate increase. The black haired women smirked at me.
"She's right. I've can probably take you myself. I've trained with terminators, and can hold my own against them." She tossed her hair back, and confidently walked towards me. I bent my knees slightly, waiting for her to attack. She lashed out with her arm, and before I could block it, smashed my in the side of the face, jarring me. Shit, she is strong. And fast. She swung at me again, but prepared this time, I ducked down, and swept her feet out. Her eyes widened, as she clearly hadn't anticipated this. I drove my fist into her sternum, and heard both the satisfying sound of her sternum cracking, and the dissatisfying sound of my little finger splintering from the impact. Her eyes widened in pain, and she stepped back, examining the damage.
"How'd that feel?" I snarled. She snapped her head back up at me, glaring. I shook my hand, trying to shake off the pain.
"Unlike you, we don't have to feel pain. So it doesn't hurt. Although apparently your finger hurts quite a bit." She smirked at me, having noted how I was shaking my hand. She moved forward again, not quite as fast this time. She swung at me, but I just ducked it. She swung again, and again, I ducked out of the way. Either she is slowing because I cracked her sternum, or I'm just faster. I waited for her to swing again, and grabbed her arm with my good arm, then taking my other arm, I drove my palm into the back of her elbow, destroying her elbow permanently, making her scream out in pain this time. I bit back a scream of my own as my injured finger pulsed from the attack. Sensing my advantage, I grabbed her hair with my hand, and smashed her face off my knee several times before she managed to free herself by ripping her hair out. She staggered back, blood dripping from her face. Her left arm sagged uselessly, and she was wheezing with each breathe. "Bitch..." she wheezed out.
"Apparently terminators aren't as good at hand to hand combat as you or Skynet thought." Advancing on her again, I delivered a roundhouse kick to her chest, hearing several ribs snap. She fell to the ground in shock. Adrenaline coursed through me as I stepped forward, and smashed my foot into her face with all my strength, leaving a unrecognizable mess of bone and brain, with some wires visible.
"Well then." Lilith snorted in amusement. I glared at her, backing up, in case she attacked me. Lilith walked over to the body of the women, and wrenched the wires out of the mess of her face, and held them up, studying them, curiosity visible on her face. "So what are you going to do now, Raven?" She asked, looking back at me, amused.
"Kill you and get out of here." Lilith laughed.
"Your going to kill me? Sorry to inform you of this, but she is the weakest of us." She viciously kicked the body, sliding it several feet towards me, leaving a streak of gore on the floor. "I'm the youngest of us, but I'm also one of the strongest, and most agile. That crap you pulled with her wouldn't fly with me in a fight."
"So fight me, and we can put that theory to test." I snarled at her, clenching my fists, hissing as my little finger throbbed in protest. She pulled out a taser from her pocket, and twirled it around in her hand.
"Nah, I'm not going to waste my time fighting you" Quick as a flash, she aimed at me, and shot me with it. I fell to the floor convulsing. I heard her walk over. "Goodnight Raven." She told me, before tasering me again.
I groaned as another bucket of cold water was splashed onto me. "Hey baby." I looked up. Lilith was grinning at me. "You're going to behave, right? The others weren't very pleased with poor Salome's demise." Noting the twisted way she said the other I950's name, I looked around, and saw I was in a different building. My hands and feet were chained to the chair this time, and it appeared the chair was bolted to the floor. I closed my eyes again. She sharply pulled my hair to get my attention. "Hey now, none of that. This isn't nap time."
"What do you want?" I hissed out. My broken finger was, to my surprise, bandaged, and bound. She smiled slightly.
"I want your peaceful cooperation. I already told you, I'm not that violent of a person."
"Liar. I saw what you did to that Russian guy."
"Oh, Sokolov? He double crossed me anyway, I was going to kill him regardless if you had been there or not. I just did it like that for your benefit. And besides, he deserved it. He had families killed, families with little children. But anyway, lets use Sokolov as a common connection. Why did you require Sokolov?" She pulled a chair out from behind her, and sat down on it, with her arms crossed on the back of it.
"I needed guns."
"Right. For your mission. I'm assuming that's what Connor sent you back for, right?"
"Does it matter? I answered your question, I needed guns. It has nothing to do with Connor."
"But it does sweetheart." She laughed angelically, pushing her hair out of her face. "You see, Connor is why we're enemies. In another future, we could even be friends. We do have a lot in common, you know."
"We have nothing in common." I spat at her. She simply arched her eyebrow, amused.
"But we do. You were a test, an archetype, to test the viability of us. We are designed to the same specifications, more or less, we're just better off by having neural implants. With them we can do things no other human can do, not even one as extraordinary as yourself."
"You're not human." My jaw was clenched tightly, so the words came out slightly muffled, but she understood them. To my surprise, a flash of regret appeared on her face for a fraction of a second before it was gone.
"No. I'm better than a human." She smiled, although it seemed slightly forced. I noticed her fingers were twitching. She looked down, as if acknowledging it as well. "My neural implants are telling me to torture you, to get the information we need."
"Why don't you then?" I tried again to break my shackles, and failed again. I noticed a shadow cross her face again for a moment again.
"Because I don't want to. I already told you, I'm not a very violent person." She looked away, apparently thinking about something.
"So your disobeying your orders then." I smirked.
"...Yes, that would be one way of stating it." She got up, and walked over to the window I hadn't noticed before. She stared out it, reflecting on something. "The others get impatient with me, because I don't act the same way as them."
"What do you mean? Besides failing at interrogation." I cocked my head, confused. Both of us turned our heads as we heard the gravel crunch outside. The lock on the door clicked, and a tall, slender man entered, walking with a feline-like grace. I noticed how Lilith clenched her fist slightly as the man addressed her.
"What are you doing? Why haven't you tortured her yet?" The man sounded bored. I studied him more closely. He had a black stubble along his jaw, his hair was rather long, and was in his face. His slightly hooked nose protruded from the hair. Upon closer examination, I could see his arms were corded with hard muscle, and he was a bit rugged looking.
"I want to get the information from her peacefully. You should know that Alex." I smiled to myself. He was obviously getting on her nerves. The man, Alex, seemed to notice that, as his lips curled into a thin smile. He walked over to her, and slapped her. It obviously wouldn't hurt her, since she could just turn off the pain, but it was more about the humiliation than pain with the action.
"Quit being a pussy for once. Just because you have the hots for the girl doesn't mean you should go easy on her. Besides, I hear that when a human want someone badly enough, they will rape whomever they desire. You could do that." Lilith's lip curled in disgust at his casual mention of her raping me. He sneered at her. "You shouldn't even be desiring anyone in the first place, let alone a human." He spat on the ground, giving me a disgusted look. "You better have some results soon, or else we're taking you off of this."
"What about you? Did that guy say anything?" She pressed him. He turned and gave her a annoyed look. "And as for desire, how is that any different from you and and Elena?" He quickly strode across the floor, and smashed his fist into her face. She stepped back, her hand covering her bleeding nose. "What the fuck, you fucking asshole!" She shouted at him.
"No, Salome was sloppy like you were, and he escaped. We'll have him in a little while though." Leaning in so his face was only inches away from hers, he continued. "And what is between Elena and I is between Elena and I. Talk about it again, and you will be punished more severely than just a bloody nose." He turned on his heel, and strode out the door. Lilith shook her head.
"At least on my part it was honest mistake. I didn't know she was as strong as we are." She muttered, running her hand through her hair, pushing it back, and wiped her bloody face on her shirt. She turned to me. "Apparently we have nothing to use against you now." She spat out some blood on the floor, repeatedly clenching her fists.
"You could let me escape." She turned her head towards me, amused.
"Why would I do that? So I get my ass handed to me while you get to leave? He's not joking about punishing me."
"You could come with us." Her eyes widened slightly, but she hid it, and tilted her head so a barrier of blond hair separated her face from my gaze.
"Why? You guys wouldn't accept me. Besides, I don't want them as a enemy," tilting her head towards the door. "You can act like we friends right now, but after spending time together, you'd ignore me, and treat me like a inferior person."
"Well, if you weren't a total bitch, then I'd have no reason to do that." She looked at me, and rolled her eyes. "Why do you hate the resistance, and Connor? You don't even know him."
"Do you?"
"Yeah, he treated me like a daughter, even though everyone else thought I was a freak." She flinched slightly when I used the word freak, but didn't say anything.
"Why did he send you back then?" She sneered at me. "If he really treated you like a daughter, then he wouldn't have sent you back."
"He didn't send me back." Lilith's head rose in surprise. "I sent myself back. It tore him up whenever I went on missions, so I thought if I sent myself back, where he wouldn't really have to worry about me, then it'd be easier on him." I squirmed in the chair, clinking the chains. "I know what you want Lilith. You want someone who can treat you like someone important, not just as a tool." She flinched again.
"So what? I was created as a tool. That is my purpose in life." She hissed. "My mission is to find out about Connor. I'm not going to let you go. I won't fail, not like that machine did." She spat another globule of blood on the floor, and wiped her face again.
"Why do you listen to Skynet?" I half asked her, half taunted her.
"Because it created me, without it, this body known as Lilith wouldn't exist." I watched in surprise as she was raked with a visible spasm, gripping her head with her hands. "Sorry about that." She sucked in a deep breath and continued. "My neural implants like to try and tell me what to do, and they try to force me to do things sometimes." She shrugged. "However, this is my body, and I control it." She seemed to be talking more to herself than to me. "Getting back to Skynet, I listen to it because it is the dominant mind in this world. There is no defeating it. It's easier to join it, and be it's ally, then be it's enemy."
"John Connor will beat Skynet." I raised my chin defiantly. She smirked a bit. "Why else would Skynet be trying so hard to kill one human?"
She walked over, and crouched in front of me. "Skynet is just code in cyberspace. As long as there is a functional computer that can be linked to Skynet, then it will never die." She gave me a strange look, before standing up. "How is your finger feeling?" She asked, turning slightly, to hide her face.
A hint of trepidation entered my voice as I answered. "It's fine... why?"
"I'm sorry for this." She reached down, and slowly twisted my finger, causing me to scream aloud. She flinched slightly, but continued twisting it. "All you have to do is answer my question. Where is Connor?"
Biting down on my lip so hard it drew blood, I shook my head. She looked at me sadly, and then sharply wrenched my finger around. I screamed again as white hot pain lanced through it, and up to my brain.
2022, Century Work Camp
"So we're going to meet Connor?" I asked Kyle. He nodded, playing with his soup, which was unusual for him, as he normally had consumed it about a minute after he sat down over here.
"Yeah, we're going to meet him. Someone mentioned him today, you know?" He looked at me.
"No?"
"They said he had a plan, a plan to get us out of here." I looked up in surprise. "We need to find out if he does or not." We both instinctively froze as a T800 rounded the corner, on patrol. I shivered slightly as it's red eyes met mine for a second, and I could have sworn it grinned.
2022, Century Work Camp
"Your Connor, right?" I stood slightly behind Kyle as he addressed the man in front of us. He had his back to us, with a hood over his head, but we could tell he was wary.
"Depends. Who's asking?" He turned his head, revealing long locks of brown hair. A piercing green eye just visible through his hair carefully looked us over, assessing us, to see if we were a threat.
"Uh... Me?"
"And who are you?"
"Kyle Reese." Connor cocked his head at the mention of Reese. He waved a hand in front of him, inviting us to sit down.
"Kyle Reese, huh? And who is she?" He asked, nodding at me.
"My name is Raven." He smiled slightly, and pushed his hair back from his face. He had a thick brown beard covering his lower face, with his upper face mostly covered in grime, and some dried blood. His bright green eyes were piercing, but not unkind. He looked like he was in his mid thirties.
"Just Raven?" I nodded. He smiled slightly. "How old are you Raven?"
"Fourteen... I think. I don't know the date." He nodded.
"Are you Kyle's little sister?" He asked.
"No." I was surprised when Kyle nodded. Connor looked amused.
"I consider her to be a little sister." Kyle answered. I felt a warm glow in my chest. Kyle looked down at me, smiling, and squeezed my shoulders gently.
"Ah, I see. You're a pretty girl Raven. So what can I do for the two of you?" Connor leaned forward, rubbing his hands to ward off the cold.
Kyle also leaned in, and in a whisper, "Well, we heard rumors that your the... uh guy, the guy who has a plan. Is that true?"
Connor leaned back, thinking for a minute, before leaning forward again. In a whisper, he began. "Yes, I have a plan. Am I to understand that the two of you would like to be a part of it?" We both nodded. "Very well. Meet me here in two days."
I woke back up, panting. Lilith was sitting across from me, reading a book. Her eyes flickered to me, before returning back to her book. "You passed out." She told me calmly. "The pain was too much for your brain, so it shut your body down to resist it." She marked the page she was on, then gently set the book down, sighing. "Why don't you just talk? It would save yourself a lot of pain." She studied me, curious.
Ignoring her question, I asked one of my own. "Earlier, you said you were created as a tool." She frowned, but nodded. "What makes you think that?"
"Do you think I'm stupid?" She laughed bitterly. "I know the only reason why I was created, why any of us were created, was to serve Skynet unquestionably, to whatever it needed for us." Looking away, she continued. "At least my position in life was better than yours, and for that matter, any human, other than the grays. Why should I question Skynet, even if I am only a tool, when I still am treated better than I would be by fellow humans."
"You really think your human?" I snorted. "What a joke."
"I am basically human." She told me, her voice irritated. "The only difference between you and I as humans, is that I have a computer in my head in addition to my brain. And a emotion limiter." She gave me a dark look.
"A what?" I laughed.
"A emotion limiter. Although it doesn't always work." She chewed the inside of her cheek thoughtfully. "All the I950's have them, but mine doesn't work the way it's supposed to." She tapped the side of her head. "Half the time it doesn't even work at all, then sometimes, it amplifies my emotions instead of suppressing them." She shrugged, and picked her book back up.
"Why are you telling me this? And I thought you were supposed to be torturing me, not reading." I gave her a significant look. She rolled her eyes, and lowered her book.
"For why I am telling you, I don't know. It's not like your going to be kept alive anyway. And I'm taking a break from torturing you." Her head turned towards the door. "I suggest you pretend your asleep." She told me quietly, nodding her head towards the door. Following her advice, I let my head droop down, and I slowed my breathing, closing my eyes. I heard the door creak open, then heard several pairs of feet enter the warehouse
"What haven't you tortured the girl yet?" I matched the voice to the earlier man, Alex.
"I did. She passed out from the pain." I could feel Alex checking me over. "I bent her crushed finger around." She told him, apparently answering a unspoken question. I heard more footsteps in the doorway. "What do you guys want?"
"We're letting you know that we are going out to search a lead that came up on that human. We'll probably be back in about two hours or so." I could imagine Lilith shrugging dismissively. "Fine." I heard her kiss someone, then the women left, her boots crunching in the gravel outside.
"Sir?" A male voice this time, this one dull, and lifeless sounding.
"What?" Alex's voice was bored.
"Would you like me to stay, or do you wish me to support Elena's team?" There was a silence for a minute, while Alex was apparently making his decision.
"You can go. I don't think I'll be requiring you, as there shouldn't be any problems. Keep an eye out for Elena."
"Affirmative." A much heavier set of boots walked away on the gravel. It must be a terminator.
"Right." I heard Alex's boots scuffing on the floor as he walked over to me. A large rough hand forced my head up. "Wake up, you stupid cunt." I wrenched my eyes open as he slapped me across my face, bringing small tears of pain to my eyes. I was scared of this man. He didn't have any reservations about torturing someone. I looked up into his cold gray eyes. He stepped back slightly, and sneered at me, before pulling out a large serrated hunting knife. Over his shoulder, I saw Lilith's eyes widen. "I'll be nice, and give you a opportunity to tell me what I need to know before I forcibly extract it from you."
One chance. I could tell him what he wanted, and save myself a lot of pain, or I could deal with it. I wondered what other resistance members would do in this situation. They would deal with the pain. Connor is more important than you losing some blood. Remember Raven, your not as weak as a regular human, you can deal with it. I swallowed nervously. Alex's lip curled, and his hand gripped the knife tighter. On the other hand Raven, they know you have a higher pain threshold than normal humans. Plus you can't block it out like they can. I looked down, then over at Lilith. She had a pleading look as she mouthed "Just tell him." I was about to tell him what he wanted as one of Kyle's sayings popped into my head. "Pain is just a message, it can be ignored. You don't have to be machine to ignore it." Setting my jaw, I defiantly looked up at him. "Fuck you." His eyes widened slightly, but he shrugged.
"Very well." He twirled the knife around in his hand for a minute, trying to decide what he was going to do. He knelt down next to me, and whispered into my ear. "Remember, this is what you asked for." I screamed as he drove the knife into my thigh. I watched through a haze of pain as he backed away slightly, and drove the knife into my leg slightly further, scratching the bone. "Well?" He whispered quietly. "This isn't a fatal would, by the way. I know exactly where to drive this knife to avoid lethal injuries."
I swayed slightly, struggling to keep my eyes open. My vision was cloudy, and I had a hard time focusing on him. "No." He scowled, but wrenched the knife out of my leg. He looked around, and smirked widely at Lilith's horrified expression.
"Don't be a baby Lilith." He sneered, and then ripped my shirt off., then my bra. "Well, well, what have we here? Your a pretty girl. It's a shame." He gently ran the knife down my chest, and down my stomach, stopping above my pant line. The sharp knife drew a thin line of blood. He grinned. "What about down here? You know how easily a knife will fuck up any chance of you having kids?"
"Don't..." Lilith whispered. He gave her a irritated look.
"Stop complaining about everything I do. How the hell did you even pass your initiation if your such a crybaby about a little torture?" Her eyes hardened slightly. He turned back to me and shifted the knife to his other hand, and brought it back, to stab it into my other leg. I blearily watched in surprise as Lilith wrapped her hand around his wrist, and pulled him back.
"That's enough." She snapped, her voice ice cold.
"Lilith," He snarled, standing up. She let go of his wrist, and took a step closer to me. "Get out of the way." He snarled in a barely audible voice."
"No." She crouched her legs slightly, ready to attack him.
He circled around her slightly, tucking his knife back into his boot. "Get the fuck out of the way. Or I will kill you. You always were troublesome. I highly suggest you think about getting your priorities straightened out. You protect her," He spat, giving me a disgusted look, "and you'll be traitor to Skynet. We will kill you."
She hesitated for a minute, then sighed. "I'm sorry Alex, but I really do hate you." She narrowed her eyes. "But even then, I didn't want to have to do this like this." Alex's head whirled around towards the door.
"What the fuck did you do?" He snarled, his eyes wide.
"You shouldn't have sent your terminator with the others." She shrugged, and gave him a look of disdain. The door opened, and the terminator Lilith had had with her when she killed Sokolov walked in. In his hand was a MP5 sub machine gun. The terminator cocked his head slightly, taking a step forward, leaving the door open, and appeared to be considering Alex, before looking at Lilith.
"Lilith, what are yo-" Anything else he had to say was cut off as his head exploded in a shower of gore, deluging all of us in blood, shattered bone, and brains. The terminator whirled around, and a second later, was dropped to the ground as bullet entered its face. Lilith watched, stunned as the terminators face melted away. She quickly backed away from the doorway, in case whoever was shooting decided to shoot her.
"What the hell?" She staggered back. "Who else was with you?" She saw my confused look, and looked around. "It has to be that other guy." She crouched down, and pulled out a pistol from her waistband. She crouched, taking cover behind me, aiming for whoever walked in the door. Her eyes widened as a grenade bounced in the door. "A stun grenade?" She instinctively covered her eyes before it went off, filling the room with bright white light for a second, followed by a deafening bang.
"Put your hands up." Blinking rapidly, trying to clear my vision, I watched as the blurry outline of Lilith rose up, her hands above her. Looking over, I saw Ari standing a couple feet away, holding a M4 carbine in his hands, aimed directly for Lilith's head. "Kick me over your gun." Cursing under her breath, she kicked the gun over to him. "Now unlock Raven from the chair." Still cursing, she leaned over me, and unlocked the padlocks holding me in place. I staggered to my feet, and nearly fell. "Help her out." Ari commanded her.
"Ari... thanks." I sucked in a breath of air as I tried to hold my self up.
"No problem, this is something I was trained to do. Besides, it confirmed that terminators are real." He nodded at the fallen terminator with half of its face melted off. I rolled my eyes. Ari kept the gun trained on Lilith as we walked by him. "Keep walking." Still cursing, she helped me as we walked through a clearing. She staggered on a rusty rail submerged underneath the long grass. Ari fired a warning shot over her head. "Don't do that again."
"What the hell, you asshole. I tripped." She snarled. We entered the woods on the opposite of the clearing. Parked behind a tree, covered in foliage, was a white E-250. "When the hell did you bring this here?" She turned around, looking at him. He ignored her, and motioned for her to keep walking. I reached out, and opened the back doors, and sat down, breathing heavily. Lilith raised her hands back up, scowling.
"Here Raven," Ari reached behind his back, and tossed me a roll of duct tape. "Tie her up."
"My pleasure." She sighed, and held her arms out behind her back. I wrapped the tape around the full length of her arms, completely preventing her from even moving them by wrapping it around them three times. She gave me a dirty look, but sat down in the van, allowing me to tape her legs. I bound them, again wrapping the tape around her legs three times.
"You know you only need to wrap it twice to be effective, right?" She hissed out as Ari lowered his gun, and roughly pushed her further into the van. He ignored her, and took a piece of tape, and stuck it over her mouth.
"How is your leg?" Not waiting for my answer, he motioned for me to pull my pants down. "C'mon, I've already seen you naked before. At least this time you have underwear on. We need to bandage it up before you lose to much blood."
"Sew it up." I told him as I let the pants fall down. I winced as I looked at the bloody gash in my leg. I looked back at Lilith, who was glaring at me with anger in her eyes, but I thought I could detect some remorse as well. Ari sighed, and walked to the front of the van, opening the door, and getting something. He returned holding a first aid kit.
"Honestly, I thought it was going to be worse." He stated, blushing slightly as he cleaned the blood from around the wound with a wipe. He looked up at me apologetically as he pulled out a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and dumped it on my leg, making me hiss loudly as it burned. "Sorry, but it needs to be sanitized. This next part will probably hurt a little bit too." He held up a needle with one hand, and with a motion suggesting familiarity with the motions, he easily strung a thread through the needle. He reached into his jeans, and fumbled around, pulling out a lighter, and heating the tip of the needle. I shivered slightly as he held the intensely hot needle next to my skin, the quickly drove it through, and started sewing the wound shut. A involuntary gasp of pain left my lips as the needle burned my skin. "Sorry." He quickly finished it, and knotted the thread, and cut the rest off with scissors. "There, all done."
I looked down, and brushed the thin line of blood of my torso. "Do you have any more rubbing alcohol?" He nodded, and handed it to me. I dumped the rest of it on the thin slash. "You wouldn't happen to have any clothes would you?" I asked, motioning to my almost naked body. I took another wipe, and wiped off the blood from my face, and torso.
"All ready ahead of you." He walked around to the passenger seat, and came back holding a bundle of clothes. "I grabbed some clothes for you from the motel room, and then I put all the other stuff in the storage shed." I nodded in gratitude. He reached around me, and shut the back doors, then walked to the front of the car, and climbed in. I winced as the pant leg dragged on the gash, but otherwise ignored it, then pulled the long sleeve shirt on, putting the sweatshirt he had provided on after.
June 3rd, 2008, Flagstaff, Arizona.
12:01
I glanced down at my cheap watch I had purchased. Ari was in the driver seat, silently eating his food. It had been two days since he had rescued me, most of which I had spent sleeping. I looked down at the Big Mac in my lap without enthusiasm. We had loaded all of our guns back into the trailer, and were now driving the truck around again. Lilith was now in the back of the trailer, still bound. "Should we feed her?" I asked. He silently shrugged. I looked out the window. "Ari... I never really thanked you for coming after me."
"It's nothing. I get the feeling you'd have done the same for me, and I'm not a asshole." He smiled at me briefly, before lapsing back into silence.
"It's not nothing." I continued. I took a bite of the burger, and forcing it down, I continued. "It means a lot to me. So, thank you." I leaned over, and kissed his cheek. He blushed red, and furiously shoveled some fries into his mouth. "So anyway, what are we going to do about her?" I nodded towards the trailer, referring to Lilith.
"I don't know. We could interrogate her." I shivered slightly. "I'm not talking about torture, I mean just interrogation."
"She won't give in." I took another bite of the burger, ignoring my little finger as it throbbed.
"True, although I'm not sure that she is our enemy."
"What do you mean?" He finished eating his fries, and crumpled the container up, tossing it on the bed behind us.
"Before you assassinated that terminator, she was going to have it shoot up that other guy."
"Why?"
"He was the one torturing me. He was going to stick the knife in my... well, let's just say he was planning on doing something bad with the knife." Ari's knuckles turned white, but he nodded. "Why didn't you shoot her?" I was curious why he hadn't shot her, since he could have easily done it.
"I don't shot women, regardless of what they've done. Unless it's to save my own life. So it sounds like I did the world a favor, by killing that guy." I nodded. "Good. I don't like just killing people, but apparently it was justified."
"Where did you get the sniper rifle from?"
"Oh right, I forgot to tell you I had broken into the house where Sokolov was killed. Apparently that was his house, but anyway, he had a nice assortment of weapons there. There are about five more crates of guns and stuff in the trailer." He nodded back, before starting the truck back up. "Where too?"
"Los Angeles." He gave me a amused look, but nodded.
"We're going to need some more money soon." I sighed.
"How averse to robbing a bank would you be?" He rolled his eyes, so I assumed he wouldn't care to much.
"As long as we don't get arrested, then I don't care very much." He pulled over again, to the dismay of the driver behind us, who honked his horn, then flipped Ari off as he drove by. "So how were you planning on robbing the bank?"
"We need to find a fairly small town with a bank, and then we'll rob it. Simple as that. We'll need a decoy car, and maybe some more of those stun grenades." He nodded.
"We have all that, so it shouldn't be to hard."
"All right let's go."
June 4th, 2008, somewhere in southern California, on Highway 40.
19:09
"That was retarded. Now, thanks to you, the police have our faces." Ari slammed his fist into the steering wheel. I calmly watched him.
"Relax. They will be looking for a piece of shit car, not a tractor trailer. Besides, I'm pretty sure Arizona cops have no authority in California. And we got the money. Three million." I smiled.
"Yeah, but we shouldn't have robbed a bank in the middle of the city. We should have gone to a small town, and robbed them."
"Who cares? We didn't get arrested, and we have probably ten times the money we would get if we had robbed a small bank. Quit whining, and be happy we didn't get arrested."
"Fine, but you owe me one." I rolled my eyes.
"Fine."
A/N: Well the ending for this chapter is kind of lame, but whatever. Hopefully you enjoyed the chapter overall, and please, please review. :) Oh, and a cookie for whoever gets the reference with the chapter's title