SERIES : the Twisted Fate Series
PAIRING : Kathryn/Angelus
RATING : NC17 (torture
bondage, kidnapping and rape)
SPOILERS : Just the end of Cruel
Intentions.
DISCLAIMER : I do not own
these characters.
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9
It had been five days since he’d carried her home and she was
getting stronger physically. She was still drinking and slurping most of her
food, but his massages every four hours were getting less painful, though she
still cried when he applied the cream. And sadly it was time again for this
torture. He opened the door to find her laying on the bed, staring at the
ceiling like every other time he opened the door.
“Where do you go when you close that door?”
“No where, just out in the apartment.”
“Why do you come back bloody and smelling of smoke?”
“Because I’m taking care of a problem. It will all be over
soon.”
“What problem?”
“I don’t wanna talk about it.” He picked up the ointment and she
held out her arms first as he rubbed it over the remaining cuts. “These look
better than yesterday. Do they still hurt?”
“Some, but not too much anymore.” He looked her body over, her
breasts were still extremely bruised, her nipples still raw. She winced as his
hands moved over them with gentle circles. “Ow.” She said softly.
“I’m sorry.” She let it go, even though she couldn’t bear
another apology from him.
“I wanna know about the problem. What problem?”
“I thought maybe we’d try and get you outside today.”
“Sun, remember?”
“I know, but I have a balcony and we could get you out there
when Rose comes.”
“No.”
“But the fresh air would do you some good.”
“I don’t want you to leave me.”
“I won’t.” He moved down to her stomach and the welts on her
torso. He took the butterfly bandages off and rubbed the ointment over the
wounds, then placed new ones on and the gauze over that. “Next time we’ll get
you in the tub.”
“I don’t wanna go. I just wanna lay here.”
“I know Kat, but you have to take a bath ever ten hours so you
don’t get infected and scar.”
“I’m going to scar, I’m hideous.”
“You haven’t even seen yourself in a mirror, how can you tell?”
“I know how I feel.”
“How do you feel?”
“Dirty.” She’d said that often.
“That’s why you need to bathe.” How could she possibly think
he’d understand what she felt like? He started again at the base of her feet
and worked the ointment over her legs and his hands felt so good on her legs
until she started thinking about where they would go next and she began
whimpering as he drew closer to her thighs. She’d squeeze them together hoping
he would not ask her to part them, hoping for once he’d let her go, but he never
did. He was there and she began crying. “Kathryn, please, I don’t wanna fight.
I’ll do it quick. I promise.” She whimpered and pressed her thighs together
tighter.
“Please don’t. It feels much better today. I think it’s healed.”
“Then get up and walk, let me see.”
“Please... please... don’t... please just this once...” he slid
his hands in between her thighs and began nudging them apart. “No... please
don’t... please... please...” she chanted as he spread her open. “Please, just
this once... let it go... please... if you love me you won’t...”
“It’s because I love you that I have to Kathryn and you know
that. Please don’t do this.” She tried to close them as he reached for the
cream, but couldn’t fight his vampiric strength and she once again felt helpless.
She felt him spread her as he always did, and his finger probed
inside, spreading the cream where he could reach. “No... please... no...” was
all she could do as she cried.
Tears streaked down her face and soaked the pillow beneath. If
only she knew how weak she made him, how human. Or how much it broke him inside
to have to torture her like this. He felt as if he were violating her every
time she begged him not to. She did look better, but not much. It was hard to
believe that this was the same woman who’d been such a bitch, with such
attitude. She was broken and he wondered if she would ever be the same, or if
he’d still want her if she wasn’t. He pulled his finger out and she closed her
legs quickly. “I’m sorry Kathryn.” He whispered as he left. She always cried
herself to sleep after her treatments.
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10
He ran the soapy cloth over her back. It looked much better,
which was good since it had been two weeks since her disappearance. She hadn’t
wanted to go out or see anyone, just him, Rose and the doctor. She hadn’t
talked much and usually got quiet during baths and treatments and to his
knowledge hadn’t tried to walk, claiming it hurt too much.
“I was thinking we could go out for a walk tonight.”
“No.” She answered sharply.
“We could order dinner in.”
“No. I’m not hungry.”
“You barely eat anything, you need your strength so you can be
well.”
“No.”
“Then what do you want?”
“What do I want? I want the pain to stop. I want the memories to
*not* wake me up every hour. I want to be healed so I don’t have to feel your
finger inside me. I want to be left alone.” She was crying, he hadn’t meant
that to happen.
“I’m sor-”
“I want you to stop pitying me and telling me you’re sorry. I
want things to be the way they were before Cecile. I wanna be back at home in
MY bed with my parents in the other room arguing and fucking. I want... I wanna
die. I want it to stop.”
“Let me rephrase that. What do you want that you can have?”
“To be left alone.”
“I can’t do that. You need to be cleaned so you don’t get
infections. You don’t wanna be covered in puss and goop do you? It’s not a
pretty sight, trust me.”
“Why not? The white would match the black and blues.”
“They are healing.”
“Not fast enough.”
“I know. I wish I could do something for you. I feel helpless. I
don’t like this feeling. For the first time in two and half centuries I wish
things were different.”
“Different how?” He rung out the cloth and rubbed it down her
arms.
“Like that I was a normal guy so you never would have been
taken.”
“Well, you can’t change that either.”
“Kathryn... if you’d rather Rose do the cream, then-”
“NO. I just... just no.”
“Rose is going to the store. Are you sure you don’t want
anything? Expensive caviar?”
“A stiff drink?”
“You drink alcohol and you’ll die of poisoning. The painkillers
and alcohol combo would kill you. Which isn’t something I should tell you, is
it?”
“I’m not suicidal. It’s just sometimes I... never mind.”
“Tell me.” He started washing her legs and she tried to
concentrate on something else other than the proximity of his hands to her sex.
It was so difficult.
“Sometimes I wake up and it’s like I’m there all over again.
Like I’m waking up and the nightmare doesn’t stop. I wake up and my whole body
aches and I can feel the blood dripping from me and I can’t stop it and I can’t
tell the difference between the memory and reality.” He stopped moving and
looked at her. She had her head back and her eyes closed. This was the first
time she’d talked about it willingly. “I couldn’t do anything about it. I
couldn’t fight, it did nothing, it’s like he *wanted* me to fight. What kind of
sick monster *wants* that?”
“A vampire.”
“Do you?” She opened her eyes and looked at him.
“Not from you. Not really. I used to, a long time ago. It was
fun, but it’s much more fun if you have sex with the girl before killing her.
The taste of sex in the blood is much sweeter than fear.”
“Is that true?”
“Everyone says fear is the greatest high, but sex is the
greatest taste. But what he did was low even for a vampire and he’s paying for
it.”
“What do you mean?” He pulled the drain.
“Done.”
“Aren’t you going to... wash my...”
“It’s done, you talked through it.”
“Oh. That’s the best news all week. What did you mean?”
“I mean he’s in a great deal of pain right now.”
“Cut the cryptic.”
“He’s being tortured to death slowly and painfully. That’s all
there is to tell.”
“Where?”
“In the spare room at the end of the Hallway.”
“He’s been in the house?”
“He’s been chained up and heavily guarded. He’s also seen the
demise of several of his minions and childer, and the betrayal of many as
well.”
“What are you talking about?” He picked her up, wrapped a towel
around her and carried her to the bedroom.
“I decided to take over LA after all. I wasn’t going to, but he
got nervous for some reason. So when he called me, I found his favorite childe
and tortured him to find out where you were. We went there and captured
Lucifer. I put out the word that I challenged him and won, I’m in charge.”
“So aren’t more vampires and demons gonna have a grudge against
you?”
“I don’t think so. I’m fairly respected and his leadership was
bad, plus he played favorites, I don’t.”
“Can I see him?”
“I don’t think that’s a good idea Kat.”
“I think I need to see him.” He’d read about rape victims
needing closure, perhaps this was similar to that?
“I’m going to be there with you.”
“I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
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11
He slipped her robe under her and put each arm through. He
always dressed her after a bath. He wasn’t sure why. Perhaps because for the
first time in two hundred years, he felt guilty, he felt responsible. He tied
the string around her waist. “Are you sure you want to go?”
“Yes.” He picked her up and carried her to the back room. Jacob
opened the door and she looked at the person sitting chained to a chair in the
middle of the room. The carpet was soaked in blood, his blood, blood and water.
“Well isn’t it the little whore herself? I was wondering when
she’d put her legs together and come in to beg for more.” Angelus nodded at
Jacob and she watched Jake took holy water and dropped some in his eye. He
screamed in pain and she had never heard a better sound.
“There will be no more remarks like that Lucifer or you’ll
regret it. Now, are you ready to submit to your Master Angelus?” Jake asked.
“I will NEVER submit. He is NOT my Master and never will be.”
“He already is, you already have. Your mind may be saying one
thing, but your body is screaming another. Just admit it.”
“Fuck you. Or rather, fuck her. Why bring her in here in a
bathrobe if she doesn’t wanna fuck? She’s a cock tease that’s what she is. I
just took what she was flaunting. Mortal whores really are the best cocksuckers
aren’t they? Course Angelus knows that, don’t you?”
Angelus nodded and Jake and two other minions took a glass and
forced the man to drink some. He screamed as he was forced and she watched
smoke exiting his mouth. “What you’re tasting now is slow death, so I’ve heard.
I’ve never tried it, but we’ll soon see.” Angelus said.
“WHAT?” He choked out between smoke after the glass had been
replaced on the table.
“So I’ve heard garlic, will eat away at your insides, mixed with
the holy water will make an interesting show tonight when you submit and I
win.”
“I will... never submit... NEVER... not to you or your whore!”
Angelus passed her to Jake and she watched as Angelus growled loudly and
grabbed a knife off the table.
“You’ll never say that again.” He grabbed the vampires tongue
and sliced off the tip. She closed her eyes and listened to the scream. “You
ever disrespect her again and it’ll be your dick next.” She felt her body
passed to Angelus again and he placed her back on the bed in his room. “Are you
okay?” She nodded. “I don’t know what you wanted from him, but he’s been in
constant pain for the past two weeks.”
“What’s tonight?”
“I’m claiming LA tonight. Rose is going to stay with you while
I’m gone. It shouldn’t take more than a couple hours.”
“Fine.”
“Anyway, he’s gonna crawl in behind me showing his submission.
I’ll say a few words, some demons and vampires will talk and I’ll meet with a
few mortals and nest leaders. Then I’ll be home.”
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It had been three weeks since he’d gotten her back and one week
since he’d claimed LA. He opened the door to find her laying on the bed, like
always. She never sat up or walked. He carried her to the bathroom when she
needed to go, he dressed her, and he bathed her. “Kathryn?” She opened her eyes
but never looked at him when he spoke. “I was thinking we could go outside
tonight. Sun just set and it’s a nice night out. We could sit on the balcony
and look at the stars. Do you want to?”
“Whatever.”
“Well, tell me yes or no.”
“I don’t care.”
“Fine.” He walked over and slid his arm under her back to pick
her up.
“OW!” She said and he removed his arm and sat on the bed.
“Sorry, do you want to go out?”
“Whatever.”
“Just answer me, yes or no.”
“I don’t care.”
“Fine. I’ll see you later.” He watched as she closed her eyes
and he left.
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12
He placed the tube of cream back on the nightstand beside the
bed and stood up. She hadn’t cried as much that time. Perhaps it was progress.
He wondered if she cried because of the pain or the memories or both. “I’m
done. Do you wanna get dressed?”
“Whatever.” She said.
“You tell me yes or no, I’m not guessing whatever’s Kat.”
“I don’t care.”
He growled at her loudly. “LOOK, it’s been three weeks Kat,
three weeks and I’ve been patient. I’ve let you get away with not making any
decisions, but no more. You either wanna be dressed or you can lay there naked
all day. It’s your choice.” He looked down at her and she said nothing, so he
left.
He just left here there! Bastard! He always dressed her after a
bath, at least in a nightgown. He just left here there. There was a knock on
the door. “WHAT?” She half-screamed.
“May I come in Mistress?” It was Jacob.
“No. He left me here naked.”
“He asked me to come and dress you.”
“No. I want him. Tell him to come in here.” There was silence
and then another knock on the door. “Who is it?”
“Angelus. Can I come in?”
“Yes.” He walked in smiling. “What?”
“Nice to finally have a straight answer from you.”
“Fuck you.” He watched her face when she realized what she’d
just said. “I mean... I...”
“Don’t worry about it. What did you want?”
“I wanted clothes on.”
“Then stand up, get some and put them on.”
“Please Angelus...”
“Please what?”
“Dress me.”
“You can do it yourself. You’ve healed a lot and I’m not your
nurse. I’m a vampire and I’m not going to cater to you. I suggest you decide
what you want.”
“What’s that suppose to mean?” She asked. She looked at him with
anger in her eyes.
“What do you think it means?”
“Just tell me.”
“Why?”
“Arg! Why can’t you just give me an answer?”
“Now you know what it feels like.” She caught on and closed her
eyes.
“Please tell me what you mean? Do you want me to leave?”
“No. I just don’t want this to be your life. If it is, you might
as well leave, cause I’m not going to bathe you all the time. I told you how I
was and so far I’ve been more patient than I would be with any other human. I
haven’t complained when you’ve denied me and I haven’t forced you to do
anything you didn’t wanna do. I haven’t said anything when you wouldn’t eat or
move. But it’s going to stop whether you like it or not. As of right now you’re
on your own.” He walked to the door.
“NO. Please come back.” He turned around and sat on the edge of
the bed. For the first time in three weeks she really looked at him. “I’m sorry
for everything.”
“You’ve got nothing to apologize for Kat. You didn’t ask for
what happened.”
“Not for that, but for taking advantage of you. I never claimed
to be anything but a spoiled princess. I guess it just got easier not having to
do anything.”
“It always is, but you have to heal, not just your body, but
your mind as well.”
“I know. I’ve tried, I’m trying. It’s just hard.”
“What can I do to help?”
“Help me up? Let me lean on your while I get my clothes?”
“That I can do.” She swung her legs over the side of the bed and
they hurt. She hadn’t used them in three weeks and they were weak. She
gradually sat up and he sat next to her. “Okay?” He asked.
“Give me a minute to reacquaint myself with gravity. It’s a
strong force.”
“I hear it can be a problem occasionally.” She laughed quietly
and it sounded so good. “You don’t have to stand up yet if you don’t want
to, but this is the first time you’ve
sat up. Take baby steps, sit in the bathtub and move your legs, stretch them
out.”
“You know what I really want?”
“What? Tell me.”
“To lay out on the sand.”
“Then let’s go. I’ll get Jake to get the car.”
“What time is it?” She asked looking at the clock. “It’s almost
noon, we can’t go.”
“Sure we can.”
“You’ll die.”
“I’m already dead.” She looked at him strangely. “Don’t worry
about it. I’m going to send Rose in and she’ll help you pack a bag of things
you’ll need.”
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