NightTide: The Girl With Red Eyes

I didn’t know what to do. She was carrying me across the base, I couldn’t understand why no one was stopping her or at least asking why she was carrying someone… I don’t know how long it was, but it felt like hours. I was terrified and then I heard a click and a door opened.

She shut the door behind her and smiled at me. “So, what are you going to do now? We’re in my room and no one is here to protect you.”

I couldn’t understand, I’ve been hurt multiple times I thought she was happy by now. “Why are you doing this? Haven’t I been hurt enough?!”

She smiled. “How much pain is really enough?”

I didn’t understand what she meant by that. “I don’t know what that's supposed to mean!”

Then there was a knock at the door. She panicked for a second before shoving a sock in my mouth and putting me under the blankets on her bed. It was disgusting.

She ran over and opened in. “Who’s there?!”

I heard panting. It sounded like Jessica. “H-have you seen Red? She’s vanished. I know she didn’t run off this time so someone had to of grabbed her!”

Elizabeth sounded irritated. “Why’d you come to me about it?!” I couldn’t get the sock out, not without being able to move my arms. It also tasted disgusting.

Jessica started talking again. “You know dam well why! I wouldn’t put it past you to snatch her from there and try to kill her some dark corner of the base!”

Elizabeth stuttered with her next sentence. “W-well I haven’t seen her!” She slammed the door. I had finally managed to get the sock out and when I went to scream I felt pressure on my stomach. She was lightly pushing down but it still hurt. “You scream, and I’ll push harder.” I almost had a chance to get out but I couldn’t scream…

I started begging her to let me go. “Please just let me go, I won’t say you did anything!”

She didn’t move for a minute, then I felt something soft push on my head. I couldn’t breathe, she was smothering me with a pillow. I tried fighting her off but that just made me pass out sooner...

I woke up, I didn’t know what time it was. The window was pitch black. The room was dark as well. I laid there for a few seconds and then I heard soft breathing. I felt something soft on my back, that’s also when I noticed there was an arm around my neck and stomach. It had to of been Elizabeth, why was she sleeping? Did she think I was dead, or did she know and that’s why she had this grip on me? When I tried to move her grip tightened, but she was definitely asleep. I wasn’t in a position to do anything… If Elizabeth doesn’t kill me Jessica probably will…

I tried moving one last time when she woke up. “Go, to, sleep.” She tightened her grip on my neck until I passed out.

I woke up again and my face felt warm, it was sunlight; it was shining through the window. I tried getting up but I didn’t have anything I could use to hoists myself up, I tried rolling off the bed and attempting to stand on up. I got up halfway when my legs gave out and I fell back down. It hurt, a lot.

I heard footsteps come from somewhere. “What the hell are you doing?!” It was Elizabeth, I looked over at her and she had a toothbrush in her mouth. She ran somewhere and came back out without the toothbrush. She picked me up off the ground and sat me on the bed, then she smacked me. “Are you trying to kill yourself?”

Why did she bother asking that? “What’s the difference between you doing it and me?”

She grew a smirk. “So, you’re going to be a smart mouth now?!” I didn’t look at her. “I don’t intend to kill you, I don’t know where you got that idea. I intend to make you my pet, two very different things. I figured it would be a waste to kill you when you’re practically Jessica’s clone.”

So, she didn’t plan on killing me. “I don’t plan on becoming your pet. Isn’t this already established as a problem?!”

She was smiling. “The way I traditionally get a pet is to find them in the woods and train them up when they’re young… You’re young but I can’t train you like I would an animal… Well no, I could but I might get in trouble if I tried that.”

She’s worried about the way she trains her pets! “I could just scream and you’d get in trouble anyway. Let me go!”

She glared at me, I felt myself shrinking when she did that. “Keep talking like that and I’ll make sure you never scream again!”

I stayed quiet, after staring at me for a few minutes she walked of somewhere. She came back later holding a brush. “W-what are you doing with that?!” I could feel my eyes tearing up, was I going to cry?

She walked over and put her hands behind my back, she pushed me and sat behind me. Why was she doing that? Then she leaned me back against her chest.

She seemed calmer but it still worried me. “I’m going to brush your hair, it’s a mess…” She did what she said she was going to, she started brushing my hair… I was still scared but I didn’t feel like my life was threatened now, I don’t know if there’s much of difference with how I felt though. “Are you hungry?”

Why did she care. “Why? Does it really matter to you?!”

She sounded sarcastic. “Jeez if you’re going to be that then I won’t get you anything.” I didn’t care, I just wanted to go.

She stopped brushing my hair, then she got up and walked off again. I had to fight it but I was able to stay sitting up straight, it’s just getting up from lying flat, that was the problem. She came back with a glass of water…

She put it up to my lips and I turned my head away. “What are you doing now Elizabeth?!”

She frowned, then she grabbed my face and forced me to drink it. It spilt everywhere and I was coughing right after. “I offer you food and something to drink and you reject them both. Tch, annoying.” She left again and came back with a towel. “Take your clothes off, your soaked.”

I’d rather deal with wet clothes. “No! Even if I wanted to I couldn’t!”

She gave me an evil grin then pushed me down, it was another ordeal just like putting them on. By the end of it she had me wrapped in a towel.

She was laughing at me. “that’s so cute you’re quivering.” Now she’s making fun of me…

My eyes were watering now, I guess I was crying. “J-just leave me alone. I don’t want to be around you. You’ve already hurt me once isn’t that payback enough for your dog thing?!”

She crossed her arms, she was maybe four inches away from me on the bed. “Tch, it’s not about the dog anymore. Also, he was more of a werewolf type deal, heavily mutated but he was very friendly. I gave him a longer life then he would have had in the wild… That’s not the point, you’ve pissed me off multiple times, once when you killed him. The other time was when you saved me, I didn’t want to owe you anything and it made me angry. Then you just blatantly over powered me in that room, it made even angrier.”

I didn’t understand. “W-why does that make you angry, were in the same situation now just reversed…”

She smiled at me. “That’s why I’m taking advantage of it! I don’t want to kill you. You look to much like Jessica and now that she knows about you I simply won’t be to get away with it. As long as you’re like this, I can get out my frustration by overpowering you… Which is starting to run dry, I’ve been enjoying this a lot.”

So, she’s not angry. “Then will you let me go!?”

She frowned. “No.” It crushed me a little bit. “I’m not done yet… I, want to see your stiches”

Why would she want to see that? “Why?”

She looked down. “Curiosity mostly.”

I didn’t want her looking. “No.”

She looked me in the eyes. “It’s not like you can stop me… I’m not going to take your underwear off but I’m going to see that stitches.”

She stole the towel and forced my arms open, I couldn’t do anything. She was staring at them, they ran from the middle of my chest down to my belly button, they branched off just above my hits to the side.

She ran her finger along them and it hurt. “Stop! That hurts.”

She pulled her finger away nervously. “Right, I don’t want that to tear open do I… Then again?”

I didn’t like where this was going. “NO! I don’t care what you’re thinking! You can’t do anything with them!”

She grinned at me. “Or what?” She started leaning closer to me. “Are you going to try and stop me?”

There was a knock at the door but she didn’t seem to notice. It sounded like Jessica. “Hey who’s in there with you!? Elizabeth open the dam door!” She was here. Does this mean I was going to get away?

Elizabeth smiled at me and moved in closer. “I guess my times up then,” She kissed me…

I don’t know how long it was but it was enough time for Jessica to kick the door in and scream. “WHAT THE HELL ARE DOING!?...” Jessica paused for a bit. I didn’t know what to do, I was just looking into her eyes. She seemed, happy. “That’s enough Elizabeth!” Jessica was next to the bed now and tossed her off.

I think Elizabeth hit her head because she sounded like she was going to pass out. “Worth it!” then she just blacked out.

Jessica was looking down at me. I realized I was in my underwear and covered myself. “Are you ok Red!?”

I was confused about what just went down. “I-I think…”

Jessica had a frown. “come-on we need to get you back o the infirmary, the doctor has been freaking out.” She wrapped me up in the blanket that was on Elizabeth’s bed and carried me back. “After I take you back I’ll be gone for a bit. I need to kick someone’s ass.”

I couldn’t think of anything else to say. “Don’t kill her.”

Jessica looked to the side when she said this. “I’ll try not to.”