Hey everyone, here is the newest chapter. As promised, more Donna centered and longer. Once I started this chapter I could not stop. I was typing like crazy. Please let me know what you think.
Chapter 8
Donna felt like she couldn't breathe, every part of her body hurt. There was nothing that she could do to move, not thought that she could find, no memory that she could hold onto at the moment. She felt utterly broken. Marcus knew it, and she knew it too.
"Here throw this on," Marcus says as he throws her the dress he tired to give her before. It hits her and then sits in her lap. She did not want to give him the satisfaction of moving. She just kept staring at the floor. Marcus smirks and proceeds to walk out of the room leaving her there all by herself.
Donna begins to slowly move her arms, she looks down to see bruises beginning to form all down her arms, he cut was bright red and right next to it she could see the print of his thumb starting to form. She unzips the dress and slips herself into it slowly. Tears begin rolling down her face, she had her one chance of getting out and she couldn't even get out of the building.
"Hey Marcus, sorry I am late, I had to loose Mike on the way over here," Scottie says as she walks down the hallway.
"It is all good, I took care of her," Marcus says. Scottie stops in her tracks, what could he mean by that? She confusingly follows him into one of the rooms. In there she can see Donna through the mirror. She notices her sitting there with bruises beginning to form along her arms and marks all along her neck.
"What did you do?" Scottie asks.
"What I had to do," Marcus snaps back. Scottie's eyes start to get wide.
"You didn't, I thought we-" Scottie starts to say but she is cut off by Marcus.
"We didn't agree to anything, we needed to break her to get to him. She tried to make a run for it and now she for sure is not going anywhere now," Marcus yells.
"If we get caught, we will not only go to prision for kidnapping, we will all be going for-" Scottie begins to say. She can't bring herself to say it, she knows that she agreed to take Donna, but not do all of this.
"What does it matter? If there find her they will not be able to get to her intime anyway because if she gets in here I am killing everyone. I will kill her, Harvey, that other dude who followed you, Jessica, anyone. I do not care and neither will Huntly," Marcus says.
"Finch, can you go give him a full report of everything here today. I assume you know and have seen everything," Scottie says.
"Why me?" Finch says.
"Because not one at the firm has seen you so it is our best chance to keep him updated because none of us can make a call to him and you can play it as if you are his nephew, brother, cousin, or whatever you need to get through the door," Scottie says. Finch nods his head and heads for the door.
Scottie sets down her things and turns back to face Marcus. "You cannot do that again, do you understand?" Scottie says.
"I will do whatever I can. I am going to let all that sit with her and then we are going to put her in front of the camera again so Harvey can see how she holds up now. He will see that we broke her and it will break him. We will not stop with any of this until it is done," Marcus says.
Scottie can't believe that she actually feels bad for Donna, she never thought that through this whole thing that on day 6 of this that she would have regret. Even though she does not want to agree to it she nods. Both of them walk out of the room and into the control room.
"It looks like Harvey's computer is active, I am going to post a message through it," Marcus says.
"What are hoping to say?" Scottie asks.
"I am giving him a time to be back at his laptop, if we are sending him a video I want him to be in his office, I will also let him know that I have access to his laptop camera so I can see if he is not in his office watching it," Marcus says.
He types up his message and presses send. Scottie begins to collect her emotions about Donna and begins to remember the whole reason behind this in the first place. If she is going to be in that room with her she cannot show any bit of humanity towards Donna.
"When Finch get's back I want him to hack into Harvey's camera. I want to be able to have a conversation with him," Marcus says.
"Why?" Scottie asks.
"Because I want to watch him struggle and I want him to see Donna live in the background, if he knows it is live and he can see what is happening in real time after the video I send it will drive him nuts," Marcus says.
"Okay, let's do it." Scottie says.
"Go prep her," Marcus says as he begins writing down notes for Finch.
Scottie heads down the hallway and into Donna's room. Donna see's her walk in and decides she does not want to talk to Scottie at all.
"Alright, how are we feeling today?" Scottie asks. She knows that is a stupid question but she needs Donna to see that she does not care at all.
"Really? You start off with that? I can't believe you," Donna snaps.
"Hey no need to be snappy with me, I could just go grab Marcus and you can repeate what you just said to me," Scottie says.
Donna just continues to stare at her. "What do you want?" Donna asks.
"Well, I am here to get you ready for Harvey," Scottie says. Donna does not know what to say. What could she mean by that? Was he here? Did they grab him? She could not believe any of it.
"Wait, what do you-" Donna begins to say.
"Oh don't worry we do not have him, you're not actually going to see him, but like we have so many times before, he is going to see you. We want to show him what kind of women you are today," Scotties says.
Donna shakes her head, she can't believe that after all of that she is going to use this against him. Scottie walks over and grabs Donna by the arm and pulls her to her feet, Donna stood up so fast she felt lightheaded. She has no fight in her right now and so she just let's Scottie pull her into another room. In it sits the chair, camera, and a laptop.
Scottie sits Donna down and using the tap she has in her back pocket on Donna's wrists keeping her to the chair. "Is this really necessary?" Donna asks.
"Well you got away once already today so we aren't taking any chances," Marcus saus from across the room. Donna pushes herself back into the chair as far as she could go. Just the sound of his voice made her feel sick. She felt frozen.
Marcus walks up to her and brushes her hair way from her face, while he is doing that Socttie hits record on the camera.
"Alright Miss Paulsen, why don't you start with how you are doing today," Marcus says. Donna could not get a word out. She did not want to talk to him, she did not want to say anything. All she could do was pick a corner in the room and look at it. It was the only thing she could do to stop her from crying, if then she struggled with it.
"Donna," Marcus says as he puts his hand on her shoulder. She jumps at his touch and closes her eyes as tight as she can fighting the urge to look at him and break down. "Come on, anything you want to say to Harvey, or anything you want to say about Harvey?" Marcus continues.
"He will make you pay," Donna forces out, she can't open her eyes and can't move. She knows that when Harvey see's this he is going to think the worst. At this moment it was up to her to not say a word because she knows that he would find her and that this nightmare would be over.
"Oh come on, it has been a couple hours, you should be fine by now," Marcus says. Donna begins to breath heavily, she could feel herself having a panic attack. Each word out his mouth felt like a punch in the gut and she could barley handle it.
She hears the door creep open, she opens her eyes to look at the door, it was Finch. Marcus gives a slight smile. With Finch being back from seeing Stephen he knew that as soon as he captures what he wants he can send the video to Harvey and then actually chat with him.
He wastes no time, in his next move. "Alright well why don't we wrap this up," Marcus says. He twists a big chunk of Donna's hair and puts it back. This causes her to whimper, as she does that she locks eyes with Marcus and begins to cry.
Scottie presses the button on the camera to turn it off. "Alright I think we have enough, go send it to him," Scottie says as she disconnects the camera.
Marcus leaves with Finch through the doors to work on the video. Meanwhile Scottie stays in the room with Donna.
"Just so you are aware what he did to you today was not part of the plan," Scottie says.
"Oh really? You know I always supported you two, I never once told him that he shouldn't be with you. But this, this is something that I never thought you would ever consider doing," Donna says.
"Oh come on, you work for the man. You mean something to him, and he means something to you. Did you really think that would ever keep you safe?" Scottie says.
"Yes he means something to me in a professional way, I would do anything for him because we have been through a lot together," Donna says.
"I know, you have been by his side through everything. You both love each other whether you choose to be honest with me or not. No matter what you are first tier to him while everyone else is low on the ladder," Scottie says back.
Donna begins to realize something about Scottie. "Wait, are you doing this because you think that Harvey would choose me? He was with you, and he was happy. You were the one that had doubts. And look at where that has led, you are here putting yourself in a position that Harvey will never forgive," Donna snaps.
"No this started when you decided to help throw Stephen under the bus, while I was away you and Harvey together put him away. He walked you home after that party, and you let him. There is nothing trustworthy about you because you love him and he knows it. I never had a shot with him," Scottie says.
"You were taking your shot with him, you were dating him. I was helping him with his legal work just like I always had. He tried to walk me home because he wanted to ask me something, and now look where we are now," Donna says.
"Exactly, your relationship with him puts you in the crosshairs yet again. It always has, and it always will. Even if you get out of this, no one is ever done with him. He makes enemies, he does not make friends. Everyone will always look at you because he would take a bullet for you if he could," Scottie says.
Donna does not know what to say to that. Here she is trying to justify herself to someone who is not going to hear a single word she says. "You know what you are right, he would. I would too, I will always protect him, and if you think beating me down, filming me, or sending your attack dog on me to break me is going to stop me from protecting him your wrong. I do not care what happens to me, but I will not be the one that gives anyone anything on him," Donna snaps. She is proud of herself for finding the strength to fight back. That argument felt good to her. Not matter what she knew that meant every word. No matter what happens after this moment she would never give up anything on Harvey.
Donna knows she is strong and she can handle all of them for as long as she needs to, she just hopes that she does not have to do it for very much longer.
Alright, there it is. We are getting into more of the action I promise. More is about to go down. I have several ideas that I want to work through. I am currently watching the show for the first time all the way through so I know that as I go on not all of it is accurate, but bare with me. Let me know how you are liking the story so far. Thank you for all the support, I really appreicate it.