While Gokudera is trying to figure out his feelings for Phoenix, the girl herself is pacing the hallway, throwing knives at the wall.
"Come on, girl, just push them down. You've done it before. Don't let this get to you. Yeah you love him but you can't let that happen. You can't be with him. It will only end badly."
She throws another knife as Reaper exits the elevator.
"Well it looks as if your favorite past time has made a comeback. Would you like some actual throwing knives?" Phoenix scowls and throws a knife that barely misses Reaper's head. "Careful now, that one almost hit me. Now about our deal, are you ready to hold up your end?"
"Yes. I already pushed him away...I'm the only one who will get hurt in this."
Reaper doesn't respond right away. "Good, then shall we get started?
Phoenix takes a deep breath and nods.
Gokudera heard none of Phoenix and Reaper's conversation as he was so wrapped up in his thoughts.
'Maybe...maybe I overreacted. I mean, she's still the same old Aydan I know...right? She couldn't have possibly lied about how she felt. Could she?...Tch. Fuck it. I need some fresh air.' Gokudera walks out of his apartment and into Phoenix's to use her balcony when he notices no one is there. "Phoenix?" There's no reply so he yells her name once more and when there is still no reply his intuition kicks in. "Fuck."
A sudden cold chuckle sounds in the room and Gokudera whips around to see Reaper standing in the door way.
"So young Hayato. I heard you and our little birdy had a fight."
Gokudera grinds his teeth at the sight of the older man. "What the fuck are you doing here Reaper?"
Reaper laughs at the teen's anger.
"I told you I would give you a day before I started the torture didn't I?" Reaper walks closer to Gokudera. "It is time for your first session, young Hayato."
Reaper gives Gokudera a chilling grin.
"Bring it on."
"Are you sure?" Reaper snaps his fingers and two armed guards enter. "Wouldn't you rather look for our little birdy?"
Gokudera's heart drops into his stomach at Reaper's words.
"What did you do to her, Reaper?" The guards handcuff Gokudera to them and lead him out of the room. "What did you do!"
Reaper smiles evilly at the silver-haired boy.
"You will see soon enough."
The silver-haired teen glares at Reaper and spits at him during the elevator ride but his worry was amounting to more and more as the seconds ticked by.
'What if what I said was the last thing I ever say to her? No! No, don't think that. She'll be fine and you'll see her again and you'll apologize. Ya got that Hayato? You're going to see Aydan again.'
Reaper laughs at Gokudera's glare and leads him into a room with a darkened window and has the guards chain Hayato to a chair.
"Now we'll see if you are as strong as you think you are." Reaper presses a button and the window lights up to show Phoenix standing atop a water tank as two guard's chain concrete block to both her legs. Reaper takes in Gokudera worried, yet relieved, expression before pressing the intercom. "Dear little birdy, your torture for today is simple. Get out of your chains before your air runs out. You'll only have half an hour."
Gokudera sits up straighter as Phoenix's voice fills the room.
"First off, don't call me little birdy! And second, you call this torture? This is pathetic, you're slipping, Reaper."
Reaper grins at Gokudera and presses the intercom again.
"Well boys, what are you waiting for? Drop her in."
Gokudera's eyes widen as Phoenix is dropped into the water.
"AYDAN!" He yells out and struggles against his chains, he was not just about to watch Phoenix drown.
"Oh stop fighting, Hayato. Look, she's fine." Reaper points to the tank where Phoenix is floating in the water looking bored. Her hair was floating around her giving her a fiery halo, and despite the situation Gokudera couldn't help but think how beautiful she looked. Phoenix pulls at the chains experimentally and a thoughtful look comes over her face while Reaper speaks to her. "Phoenix, give me a thumbs up if you can hear me." Phoenix gives him the finger. "Okay good that air take only has thirty minutes of air. So have fun." Reaper turns back to Gokudera and smiles. "This room is sound proof and that is a one way mirror, so struggle all you want but Phoenix cannot see you or hear you."
A growl forms in the back of Gokudera's throat.
"I will kill you, Reaper. I'll make sure I do. Even if it costs me my life."
"Oh will you now? How? In case you can't tell, you're chained to a chair and the only person capable of rescuing you is stuck at the bottom of a water tank. Oh speaking of which." Reaper presses the intercom. "Twenty-five more minutes, little birdy." Phoenix gives Reaper the finger again and locates the lock on one of the chains. After finding it she takes the other side of her ankle and bashes her leg against the concrete. Red blossoms around Phoenix's ankle and she throws her head back in obvious pain, but once more she bashes her ankle into the block. She does this repeatedly until the lock finally falls away and Phoenix pulls the chains off her bloody foot. "Fifteen minutes, little birdy. And how are you going to stop the bleeding?"
The green-eyed Italian watches in horror at the red water spreads around Phoenix's leg.
"YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF I'M IN A FUCKING CHAIR, I'LL FUCKING MURDER YOU!"
Reaper ignores the yelling teen and continues to talk to Phoenix. "Ten minutes."
Phoenix glares in Reaper's direction and clamps one hand over her injured ankle and uses her other hand to search desperately for the second lock. When she does find it, she realizes that she can't use the same method to free herself as before and panic covers her face for a second before she releases her injured ankle. Phoenix tries to swim with the block to the surface, her fingers breaking the surface and grabbing onto the edge, she tries to pull herself up with the block but has a sudden spasm of pain. She lets go of the edge and cries out, releasing a cloud of bubble and dropping the mouth piece. "Oh that looks like a dislocated ankle. Five more minutes."
"DON'T JUST IGNORE ME, YOU DOUCHEBAG! HEY LOOK AT ME DAMN IT!" Gokudera worriedly looks at Phoenix who is desperately trying to locate her mouth piece through the clouded red water. 'Shit!'
Reaper continues to ignore Gokudera screaming and presses the intercom once more.
"Two more minutes." Phoenix looks up, worry clear in her eyes. "Tell me Phoenix, how are you coping with the blood loss?" Phoenix shakes her head to clear it and unbuckles the air tank from her waist. She then once again tries to swim out but as before the block stops her from getting anymore than her fingers out of the water. Phoenix reaches down and pulls at the chain with all her might but the block does not budge. "Five. Four. Three. Two. One. And you, my dear little birdy, are out of air." Phoenix makes one last attempt to get out and Gokudera watches in horror as the chains cut into her skin. Perhaps two minutes pass before a cloud of bubbles flows from Phoenix's mouth and envelops her head, but before it clears Reaper blacks out the window again. "I think we've all seen enough."