"W-what's going on?" she asked resisting the urge to scratch herself.

No one replied and she frantically tried to make it stop. She softly scratched her arm, then gasped as it began to bleed. She began to tremble and the itchiness wouldn't go away.

"Please, stop," she begged.

Suddenly it disappeared and she sighed with relief. She was still exhausted from all the other torture they were putting her through, so she curled up, and slept.

"Kayla!" a voice yelled.

She blinked sleepily, "Huh?"

Someone picked her up and her head began to spin. She hung there limply and felt herself moving faster and faster. Suddenly she was laying in her bed, and bandages were wrapped around all of her wounds. The room slowly zoomed into focus and she saw that Shadow was there.

"Shadow?" she asked weakly.

His gaze flicked over to her, "Yes?"

"Y-you saved me," she realized.

"Yes."

She blushed, "Thanks."

He stood up and left abruptly. She lowered her gaze and felt a little guilty. Tears filled her eyes, but she fought them back, and laid down on her pillow. I wish Shadow was more social, she thought.

For the rest of the day her room remained empty. She wanted to pull out her laptop, but her arms were to heavy, and the bandages wouldn't let her do that anyways. She had nothing to do and began to feel like she was going to go insane. Finally, she just closed her eyes, and "daydreamed".

She was running. She didn't know where, but something told her to keep running. Something was close behind her...something evil. She gasped for breath and ran faster.

Suddenly something wrapped around her legs and pulled her to the ground, "Help! Someone!"

Suddenly a bitter liquid was forced down her throat and she gagged. Her head felt light, the whole world was spinning, she was panting heavily, and all she wanted to do was get away. The thing rose over her and she flinched.

"Kayla!" she jerked awake.

"Huh?"

Amy was standing next to her, "Calm down! I'm just trying to give you medicine!"

She relaxed, "Sorry, I was having a bad dream," she muttered.

Amy filled a spoon with a brown liquid, "Take this."

She drank the liquid, gagged at the taste, but finnaly got it down. Amy closed the lid of the medicine and walked out. She was still breathing heavily from the nightmare, but soon managed to calm it down.

She looked outside and saw that it was raining. She didn't like the rain, it was sad, like someone was crying. Snow was another problem, it was cold, and unfeeling. She shuddered and tried to go back to sleep, but her door opened again, and Shadow walked in.

She blushed and wouldn't meet his eye, "Hi, Shadow."

"Do you know why they took you?" he asked.

"Well," she remembered the man's earlier words, "He said that they wanted to figure out how I worked."

"Who?"

"I don't know. He never told me his name."

He put a hand to his forehead, "What did they do to you?"

She shuddered, "I don't wanna talk about it."

"You have too."

She flinched, "I-i can't."

"Tell me."

His red eyes flared and she winced, "I-i...th-they...uh..."

"Tell me now!"

She started to cry, "I can't talk about it right now! They tortured me!" she gasped for air and buried her face in her pillow.

"What did they torture you with?" he demanded.

She didn't reply.

"Answer me!"

She buried her face deeper.

He grabbed her roughly, "What did they do?"

She gasped in pain, "You're hurting me!"

He let go, suddenly realizing what he was doing, but remained where he was, "What did they do?"

She was crying again, "I don't want to talk about it!"

"Tell me."

"They electrecuted me! They almost drownt me! Then they stuck needles in me and made my entire body itch like crazy, okay!" she snapped, then fell back onto the bed, and buried her face in the pillow sobbing.

She heard the door open and close again, but didn't look up. There were no footsteps going down the hall, so either he was standing outside the door, or he was still in the room. Her shoulders heaved and a whole new wave of tears flooded the pillow. She didn't want to remember what they'd done to her, wanted to forget, but Shadow wouldn't let her, and now she was completely distraught.

Slowly the tears made her exhausted, and she fell into a restless sleep.

MEAN SHADOW! Don't be mad though, read the next chapter, and review, then you'll know why ;). ~tfflv