Bonded For Life
Chapter Three: Resistance
Vincent Valentine:
I did not watch as Reno and Rude carried the girl off to Hojo's main lab. I returned to my quarters and sat down on my bed. I have done so many rough jobs as a Turk. Why am I letting this get to me? Why should I care? I do not even know that girl. I sighed deeply and placed my head in my hands. An hour later and I was lying down on the bed staring at the ceiling. Minutes seem to just be flying by. The flashing red lights next to me told me it was now past midnight.
I heard a loud noise come from the door way and glanced in that direction to see Reno entering the room. I rolled to the side so my back was to him. I scowled into the dark corner of the room I was now facing. I heard his footsteps grow closer. The sound of his bedsprings creaking loudly as he fell to his bed followed.
"Meet Hojo in the library at six. A second late and it's your ass yo." Not even a full minute after those words left his mouth he began his irritating snoring habit. I kicked off my shoes and took off my jacket in order to make myself a bit more comfortable. I grabbed the single pillow that lie on my bed and held it over my head managing to block out some of Reno's noise.
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"Inform Valentine he is to meet me in the library at six sharp tomorrow." The brown haired scientist said to the man I now knew as Reno, before turning to me. "The testing is finished. Tomorrow you will be relocated to a more commodious room." He smiled at me, though I could tell that nothing about this man was sincere. He exited the room he placed me in and shut the barred door with a loud clank. Once he was out of sight and earshot, I sighed loudly and threw my head back against the cement wall. I wanted to scream. Being in a place like this and not knowing what your fate may be was frightening. Do they plan to kill me? Will I be forced to join their organization? Millions of questions filled my mind and I had to shut my eyes as tight as I could to try and block them out. The final question that entered my mind was…Will I see my eighteenth birthday in two days?
I stared at the clock on the wall of the hallway through the bars of my cell. Seconds seemed like minutes, each individual minute seemed to take an hour. I sat on the bed with my back against the cold cement wall and my arms wrapped around my legs. I rested my chin on my knee and continued to stare at the clock. Suddenly I heard heels clicking against the tile floors. I looked up to see a gorgeous young female scientist. The smile she showed seemed a bit awkward, but more sincere than the one of the man she worked with.
"Are you hungry?" she asked in her kind voice. I shook my head no. I couldn't eat now even if I was hungry. My stomach was in knots.
"Are you sure? Miss…we do not want you to starve." She let a few soft laughs slip. I could tell it was fake laughter. Something was bothering this woman. She knows my fate.
"Are you going to kill me?" My question seemed to startle her. Her eyes widened and she flailed her hands wildly as she said.
"Oh no! No, we are not going to kill you. Hojo will inform you of your tasks here. If everything goes as planned we will return you home within about ten months or so." She unlocked my cell and walked inside my room. She sat on the bed next to me and pulled out a small sandwich and a tiny juice box from the large pockets of her white jacket. "Please eat, and try to rest. Someone will come and get you in the morning and take you some place where you will feel more comfortable." She smiled at me again. This time it was a much warmer smile that seemed to bring light to this dark cell. I twisted my lips into a tiny smile in response and took the items from her.
Vincent Valentine:
I sat in the library alone watching the seconds pass on my watch. It was 5:57 A.M. now and Hojo still hadn't shown. I began to worry if I had the meeting place right or if Reno had even relayed the messaged to me accurately. Just then I heard the loud creaking of the wooden door opening. The first to walk through was Hojo carrying his sickening smile. Lucrecia followed him. She walked in with her head bowed so I could not see her beautiful face. I then heard muffled screams I looked up at the doorway and saw Reno dragging the girl I had kidnapped yesterday. Tears seem to fly from her eyes as she struggled with all her might against him. He grunted as he tried to keep her under control by holding her arms down crossed over her chest. She had a white cloth wrapped over her mouth to muffle her screams. I winced as her eyes met mine.
Hojo tossed a set of keys at me. "You have a new room now. Upstairs, down the hall, the third room on the left. It is more of a suite I should say." Next he handed me a sheet of paper with a list of numbers.
"If you need cooking, cleaning or any other services, those numbers should be of help. Report to me exactly two weeks from today at this exact time here. I trust you won't fail me, boy. You know the consequences." He laughed his manic laughter and waved for Reno to follow him. Reno pushed the girl towards me.
"Have fun, Valentine." He snickered and quickly made an exit. The girl was left cowering on the floor. I stuck the keys in my pocket and repeated Hojo's directions to our room a few times in my head before trying to approach her. Her head shot up and she looked at me with wide eyes.
I sighed and knelt down to her level. For a while we both seemed to size up one another. Her long red hair hung in tangled clumps on her shoulders and down her back. She began to tremble slightly as I got closer to her. I reached out to free her mouth of the cloth Hojo had shoved there, but she quickly jerked back. I lunged forward at her, but she was quick to her feet and jumped up on the table. I was now officially frustrated. I growled as I jumped up the table with her and chased her to the end of it. She jumped off and I was not far behind her. We played this cat and mouse game in the library for nearly an hour before I lost my temper.
I whipped out my gun from its holster under my jacket and aimed it at her. "Come here." I demanded. She cowered further into the corner she chose to back herself into. I put my gun away and quickly trapped her there. She tried to slip past me but I caught her by her long red hair. She screamed out and still tried to run, but I quickly snatched her up by her waist and threw her over my shoulder kicking and screaming. I frowned deeply as I kicked open the wooden door and marched down the hallway to the grand staircase. Her constant kicking almost sent me backwards down the stairs several times, but I managed to get us both upstairs safely. The next issue would be unlocking the door while keeping a hold of her. I put her down but kept a firm hold on her upper arms. She didn't seem to have much fight left in her so I let go of one of her arms while quickly unlocking the door with my free hand. As soon as I tried to pull her into the room her muscles tensed up again and she pulled back. I was shocked at the sudden strength this girl possessed. We were in the midst of a tug of war game with her arm and she was winning. I had to use both hands on one of her arms to pull her into the room. Once she was inside I quickly shut and locked the door. There were three locks on the door all with keys stuck in them. I locked the three locks and took out all the keys.
"I don't suppose Hojo mentioned our circumstance to you." I muttered at her defeated figure. She laid on the carpeted floor sobbing loudly. The room Hojo provided for us was quite nice actually. The carpets were a dark red color and all the walls were a dark glossy wood. The living room area, kitchen area, and dining area were all one room, but it was a decently sized room. There were only two other doors in the suit that I assumed went to the bedroom and the bathroom. I glanced down at the girl again. I slowly walked towards her and knelt down to her.
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"I don't suppose Hojo mentioned our circumstance to you." The Turk muttered in almost a sarcastic tone. Why else would I be this upset? I looked up at the man as he glanced around the room. His dark, crimson eyes then turned to me again. They were void of emotion, yet seemed to possess the ability to read all of mine. He knelt down beside me and reached out to me again. I turned my face away from him as I felt his fingers on my cheek. He tugged at the cloth Hojo had shoved in my mouth. I had honestly almost forgotten it was there. I slapped his hand away and untied the knot myself, throwing the cloth in a random direction.
"Don't touch me you Turk scum!" I spat out at him. The comment didn't seem to affect him as he obediently drew his hand back. "You Turks are nothing but a bunch of liars, cheaters , murders and…and…my father won't let you get away with this! He was one of you people he knows your secrets. He'll get…"
"Perhaps I should have killed your father while I had the chance then." His voice, much like his dark eyes was complete vacant of emotion. I guess it was true these Turks didn't feel emotion. They could perform the dirtiest of deeds and feel nothing. I shuddered at the thought. If this man expected me to carry his child for nine months he better hope he can find a way to do it with my dead body.
"I'll never let you touch me." I hissed. My fierce expression quickly turned to one of panic as the man snatched me up by my upper arm so that I was now standing in front of him. He shoved me against a wall and held me against in such a tight grip I could swear I felt his fingertips reach my bones.
"Let us just get one thing straight right now. I do not want to do this anymore than you do. In fact, I may want this even less than you do. My life is on the line here. If I fail to do what Hojo asks of me, it's my life. The same applies to you." He let go and stormed off towards the dark red couches. I slid down the wall until I was sitting again. Tears poured out of my eyes down my cheeks. My face was so numb I couldn't even feel them as they collected at the bottom of my chin and dripped off into my lap.
I must have fallen asleep in the position I was seated in against the wall because as I awoke I realized I was now lying on a bed. The bedspread was dark red velvet decorated with black velvet diamonds. In any other circumstance I would appreciate such a luxurious bed. I looked down and realized that I was still dressed and I was. I stood up and walked around the bedroom. I gasped when I saw myself in the mirror. My eyes were red and swollen, my hair looked like a rats nest, and there were dried tear stains down my cheeks. I looked a mess and felt the same. My stomach let out a rather loud growl indicating how hungry I let myself get. I was not able to each much of the food Hojo's wife brought me last night.
"Hungry?" I caught a glimpse of the Turk man standing behind me in the mirror. I whipped around to glare at him. "It's obvious you are, so I shall order us some food. Do you have any preferences?"
I rolled my eyes at his attempt to be nice to me. That wasn't going to change my feelings about this. I turned back to the mirror and tried to untangle my hair by running my fingers through it several times.
"Very well." He left the room again and was gone for nearly an hour before returning with a plate of food. He sat it on the bed along with a set of silverware wrapped in a napkin and was gone. There was quite a large quantity of food on that plate. A large chicken breast, mashed potatoes, green beans, a piece of bread, and half of a corn cob were placed on the plate. As soon as the lovely aroma filled my nostrils I could no longer fight away the urge so I ate.