Alex paused to catch his breath outside of the apartments in the Mist. Almost back to safety. Shit… He shouldn’t have lingered so long. Yet Miu had delayed him with the insistence that he wanted to help hunt Jacques down for the harm his mentor had done to Lancefer. The potion the miqo’te had given him had helped a little yet he needed to get back to his supplies. His vision was blurring from whatever his mentor had coated that dagger with.
Aeri was so going to kick his ass if he collapsed before he could reach those vials in his room. He damn well wasn’t about to call her for help with this. Mustering his strength he headed towards the lobby to head inside.
Yet he never quite reached it. The world spun and tilted on him. He collapsed to his hands and knees on the walk outside. Closing his crimson eyes to try and resist the urge to be sick from the way everything wouldn’t hold still. Barely heard the footsteps approaching him. It was late for most. Not too many people wandered out here at this time.
“I was wondering when you would come crawling home. How long that concoction would take to immobilize you. I was beginning to think I didn’t use enough. Or maybe too much and you fell into a gutter somewhere.”
Alex cursed the gods under his breath before he forced himself to look towards the speaker with a snarl. The smug look on his mentor’s face. It was the last thing he saw before he finally blacked out.
Alex felt like his head was in a vice as he slowly began to awaken. Gods he hadn’t felt this bad in years. None of the drinking or drugs had made him feel this bad since before he had betrayed Lance. He made one mistake. Taken a bit too much one night. Felt like death for over a day after. Yet Lance had been the good friend and helped him.
There was no help for him now. The world was still blurry as he blinked and tried to focus. Only to have a bucket of cold water thrown in his face. He coughed and sputtered as he tried to shake it off. Finally crimson eyes coming to settle on the cruel gold eyes of his mentor.
“Good. You’ve woken up. Now… Let the fun begin.”
Alex snarled and tried to launch himself at Jacques only to find himself strapped to a chair. The chair bolted to the floor to keep him from even moving it. The leather straps were tight and didn’t give any when Alex growled and tried again. Fear stabbed at him but he refused to let it show. Not in front of this bastard. Yet he was at the mercy of the duskwight before him. He had seen the things this man was capable of.
Alex bit back the howl of pain and rage as Jacques drove a metal spike through his left hand. Seven hells it hurt. Aeri was so going to beat him for letting himself get captured and tortured. Yeah he just had to focus on something other then the pain. Why not how pissed Aeri was going to be. A dark laugh escaped Alex as he thought about Aeri and her anger. Jacques was going to be one sorry son of a bitch when Aeri sunk her claws into him.
Jacques backhanded Alex across the face hard at that laughter. Alex could taste blood from the blow. Licking his busted lip, he looked up at his mentor with a twisted grin. “Bring it on old man… You don’t know who you’re pissing off.”
“What your pretty flower shadow walker? She’ll never find you. Not alive anyways.” Jacques snarled before he picked up a blade from the table. Alex hissed in pain as Jacques stabbed the blade into his right shoulder.
Jacques continued his slow and painful torture. Making more cuts. Both shallow and deep. Healing some and leaving others to bleed and sting. Breaking a couple fingers and healing them. Finally pausing to frown.
Alex had refused to give the bastard the satisfaction of screaming. Couldn’t help groaning or hissing or even growling. Anything was better then screaming for the bastard’s amusement. Must have bit his tongue in the process of resisting cause all he could taste was blood in his mouth.
“Well… You certainly don’t disappoint in your resistance.” Jacques carefully placed his blades back down on the table. “Yet I know how to make you scream.” The man sneered at Alex as he picked up Alex’s linkpearl from the table. “This is how you call your precious flower isn’t it? How about we call her now then?”
“She will gut you.” Alex hissed as he tried to keep his expression forced into a cocky grin which was hard with the amount of pain he was in. “I wouldn’t poke the dragon’s ire. Unless you want to die like a beast.”
“Hmm…” Not quite the reaction Jacques had expected from Alex. “Well then maybe I shall just have to finish what I started with that knight of yours. You definitely seem to give a shit what happens to him.”
Alex snarled at that. Jacques fought too dirty for Lance to handle. In a fair fight Lance might stand a chance against his mentor but the man never played fair. Alex howled in rage as Jacques left the room. Left him to bleed and worry. Lance was still hurt. There was no way Miu could protect Lance from Jacques. He had no way to get a hold of Aeri. Seven hells….
Two notes. He would lure both the shadow walker and the knight into his hands. Make Alex suffer to watch as he butchered them. Alex might not have showed concern for the woman but he knew Alex too well. There had to be something there for her to have a reason to fight beside him. He could still hear Alex howling in rage in the other room. He would write and send the notes. Then return to torture the boy some more.
One of Alex’s own daggers pinned the note down to the table in the apartment. Jacques made sure he was seen. Even stabbing someone on his way past. He wanted to be noticed. Wanted that shadow walker to have a reason to come looking. Even if she would come looking when she didn’t hear from Alex.
Precious Shadow Flower,
I have something of yours. If you hope to want it back still breathing… Come play with me.
~The Carver
Alex’s other dagger found itself pinning a note to a door to an apartment in the Goblet. Lance’s apartment door to be exact. Though he didn’t make the scene he had in the Mist. The knight was surely recovering in his residence after the beating and poison. So another note was left before Jacques returned to continue his torture of Alex.
Rose Knight,
Let’s see if you care at all or not about a life. I will find it highly amusing to see if you indeed come to play with me for the sake of Alexois’ life. Can you care enough about the man that betrayed you yet saved your life when I tried to kill you? Are you willing to let him die? If not then come play with me some more.
~The Carver
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