There's rape of a 12-year-old but it's not super detailed. And for anyone who doesn't remember, Tom's the one with green hair.
We spent a few more days in the cave before setting out again, none of the injuries were terrible and the healing salve actually worked (yay!) Adam and I told everyone else about what we saw in the smoke and they agreed that it meant that Gérald was dead. We headed further into the maze and walked for a few days, resting as necessary, before reaching what seemed to be a small woods, really small. We could walk the perimeter in only 20 minutes. We walked to the center, where there was a small clearing. We set up camp for the night (or day, time was hard to tell here since it was always bright.) We went to sleep.
There must have been someone or something nearby because sometime later I awoke to a growl and a voice speaking, “Wonder what humans are doing here, they don’t normally wander into this part of the maze.” I’ll call this being #1 for now.
“Maybe they were desperate to escape something?” #2.
“They do smell faintly of vampire,” a third voice added.
“Yes… but the enemy isn’t anywhere nearby… what do you think, Alpha?” fourth voice.
“The grass haired one seems to be awaking,” #1, who I must assume is the “Alpha” spoke. I opened my eyes and was greeted by the sight of 4 men standing around me, I looked around and saw the others, still asleep, a few meters away, there were some more men, and a few women, standing around them, while some of the others were looking through our stuff.
“-man, HUMAN!” a voice caught my attention. I blinked up at #1. “Finally, you are so annoying,” he grumbled. “Now, what are you doing on my land?” he commanded.
“U-um… sleeping?” I stuttered. I curled up into a ball, surprised that I was not tied up. #3 snorted.
“Alpha, he’d be fun, wouldn’t he be?” #3 said.
“Yes… once I’m done with him maybe I’ll let you keep him…” #1 mused. Yeah, he was definitely the “Alpha.” But why were they calling him this? “Human, what were you actually doing?”
“W-well we- we were looking for- for a-a st-star?” I explained. I hoped that he wouldn’t kill me.
“Star?”
“The p-p-paper said there w-would be o-one in the center of the m-maze.”
“Why did you enter the maze? Also, stop stuttering. As much as I love to know that my prey is afraid, it can get annoying, and if you want to stay alive I would try not to annoy me.”
“The h-hunters told us to,” I was scared, but I wanted to stay alive, so I did my best not to stutter.
“How many humans are with you?
“11 counting me.”
#1 hummed. “Why did the hunters tell you to come here? What were they hunting?”
“To g-get away from the vampire, and they were hunting v-vampires.”
He hummed again. “Take them to the rest of the pack,” he said to the other men and moments later I was forced to stand and dragged along behind one of them. The others were woken up and dragged along as well.
We arrived at a small hole in the rock surrounding the woods and were forced to crawl through, at the other end there were more trees. This time we walked approximately 45 minutes before a wolf appeared before us. It landed right in front of me and I stumbled back.
“Jameson, we found humans in the territory, run back and have the cells prepared,” #1 told the wolf and the wolf bowed before running off. I stood there a moment before a deep voice growled at me to move (did they all have deep voices?)
10 minutes later I heard Dani take a deep breath before turning around and hitting the nearest #2 in the jaw. The man rubbed the spot for a moment before hitting her back. He looked at #1 and received a nod. We continued on. Or at least we were supposed to. We, the humans, as they called us, were frozen. Someone tried to struggle but to no avail and we were dragged onward. We heard the scream of Danita a few moments later. That made all of us freeze again. Sharla tried to break free and run to Dani but failed and we were forced onward. Eventually we all just went along with it.
Another 10 minutes later we arrived at a cave entrance, we were pushed inside and after a few paces turned left, there was a fire and meat was cooking over it. The smell was heavenly. Around the fire there sat a few men. In one corner there was a man with slumped shoulders talking quietly to another man who was relaxing. The one with hunched shoulders seemed to have teeth marks on his neck but I quickly pushed the idea away. Impossible right? But the wolf from earlier… I shook my head.
The next room had another fire and there were a few wolves lounging around it. I looked around wide eyed and tried to keep as far away from them as possible, this made #1 chuckle. There was a wolf curled up in the corner.
We were then led down a series of winding hallways before reading a dungen area. We were put 6 cells away from each other, sufficiently far apart. We couldn’t see anyone else and the men left us there. That was when Eva started cursing, she had been quite the whole time but not now. I just curled up in the corner. It went on like this for a long time. Eventually one of the men, #1, returned with Danita’s body and left her in a cell 6 away from James’ who was at the other end of our line.
When Eva looked at Dani she started yelling, "What did you do to her, you demon?!" It was fruitless because she got no answer. #1 stopped in front of my cell. He smiled, I could still hear Eva's insults in the background. I swallowed. He unlocked the door and slipped in. Then he took out some... scissors?
"Stay still," he commanded. He then cut the green part of my hair off and left the short bit that was a dark brown, the part that had grown out since the last time I had dyed it. He smiled as I looked up at him, petrified. He grabbed my wrist and pressed his mouth to mine. I tried to resist. I squirmed, and even tried to kick him. He just chuckled and spread my legs, keeping them down. I could feel his hot breath on my neck as he nibbled at it. Tears welled up in my eyes as he rubbed his hands up and down my sides. He took off my pants and underwear and I started crying. He looked at my face before softly kissing my tears.
"P-please s-stop," I whispered brokenly.
"Shhhh, don't speak yet. Everything'sokay sweetheart," was all he said before sticking a finger inside of me. That made me lose it. I just broke. I slumped against the wall and could only remember 2 things from what happened next, pain and sweet words.
Sweetheart, you're so beautiful.
You're doing so well, darling.
You're perfect, my sweet.
So perfect, darling. Just perfect.
Yes, just like that, darling.
You don't have to worry about a thing, sweetheart, I'll take care of you.
You're so good. Amazing even, sweetheart.
Then darkness.
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I woke up in a very soft bed with a hot body pressed up against my back. They had their head nuzzled into my neck, it made me afraid, I tried to turn away from them. Wiggle free. Anything. It didn't work. I started to feel the tears well up in my eyes as what happend flashed before my eyes. My body ached. I just wanted to sleep. No, to die. The body started to stir.
"Hey, sweetheart, how are you feeling?" he asked. #1. The "Alpha." I just sniffed and closed my eyes, tried to curl up so that he couldn't see me. "Oh, baby, are you okay?" I just stayed silent. "Sweetheart, I need you to talk to me. I can't help you if I don't know what's wrong." I still stayed silent. "Sweetheart, did I hurt you? Are you hungry? Thirsty? Cold? Please, I need to know what's wrong," he was pleading now.
"Everything!" I choked out. "Can't you just kill me now?" that's what I wanted. Death. He didn't say anything but gently rubbed my sides instead. That made me flinch and tears fall from my eyes. Just like earlier he kissed my tears, but this time he also took one hand and gently rubbed my eyes. It didn't help. In fact, it made things worse. He just let me cry. Finally I was done. He kissed me again. That made the tears well up in my eyes again.
"Wait here, I'll be back soon," he told me. True to his word, minutes after leaving he was back, this time with food. He kissed my forehead and sat down next to me.
"It's going to be okay, sweetheart. I'm here. I won't let anyone hurt you," he whispered into my ear. Once I was done with the food I started to feel sleepy and soon it was too much to keep my eyes open. He rubbed my arms as I fell back asleep.
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