Kalysta's POV:
Behind the house I waited anxiously for Jakob to come. The lighting back here isn't that great. Our lamps are stationed to the front and sides of this tiny home, not in the back where I now stood. To keep myself busy I began to hang up some laundry to dry. It wasn't very much. Just some washcloths and a towel.
The task didn't take very long. I couldn't help but to look down at the hose. The dark didn't obscure my view at all and memories of that night flashed through my brain. I smiled a little bit. I know I haven't reacted well to Jake after the fact, but that night was the best ever.
Spending time with him is so easy and I feel like he actually listens when I speak. I really enjoy his curiosity when he asks Grandma Adelaide questions during our classes. There are just so many things about the man that draw me into him.
His hazel eyes and dark hair suit his handsome face. His hair has grown longer and so has his facial hair. It makes him appear older but I don't care. No one has ever been as attractive as Jake.
I'm nervous about this talk but I can't wait to get it over with. I want to ask him how he feels about me so that I can figure out if he likes me as much as I like him. I feel myself wanting to be around him all the time. It's a new feeling for me to have so it scared me when the feeling intensified after we did the deed.
Lost in thought and with my ear buds in I couldn't hear much more than the music. Jakob gave the buds to me. Listening to the music has been helping calm my nerves.
Facing away from the woods I didn't see Jake approaching me. Warm arms slide around me and I got that warm and fuzzy feeling deep down in my soul, but then something wasn't right. These arms weren't embracing me the way I thought he would and his scent was off.
Before I could react a hand was now wrapping long thick fingers around my neck. I tried to shift but I was hit hard in the head. Flailing my limbs I try to get away from this attacker. My arm catches the clothes line and knocks down the laundry I just hanged. My head feels foggy as blood runs down my forehead and blurs my vision.
Another blow lands on me under my rib. The hand constricts even tighter on my neck now cutting off my ability to get air. I kick out and hear a bit of ceramic breaking.
My attacker then shoves me forward with such violent force that my face smashed into the stepping stone right next to where my favorite flowers had fallen. I can no longer see. My ears are ringing. Everything is black.
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It sounds like the sizzle of meat cooking in a hot pan. I am confused. What is that feel? It's hot. Much too hot.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
My eyes flew open as my brain finally registered the burning pain I was being forced to endure. Once focused my sight lands in none other than David putting out a cigarette on my bared chest.
Looking down I see my shirt has been torn open exposing my bra which has been stained by blood and dirt. Several small circular burn marks are littered on my chest. How many times did he burn me?
"David! You asshole what the fuck have you done? Have you finally lost your mind?" Anger burned me up to much for me to plead for mercy. I wanted to get loose so I could kill him. I looked up as soon as I realized I couldn't reach out and grab him. My arms were chained together as I hung from the ceiling of an old barn that has truly seen better days.
"This is where you let Jakob touch you.". His gaze met mine as he pulled a long drag from his cigarette. "You shouldn't have let him touch you." He shoved the fiery ember into the skin covering my breast.
"How do you know Jakob touched me," I asked him? He laughed and then his response was enough to shake me to my core.
"I watched you with him! I watched you take off your clothes! I watched you go to him and undo his pants. I watched him put his filthy hands all over you. Then as if that wasn't bad enough I watched him pick you up, slam you against a wall, and enter your body! That act will not go unpunished. I have not beaten up every guy you've ever dated just to let some other animal get to break that hymen before me!!!!" Once done screaming in my face a hand came up and slapped me across the face so hard my head turned to the side from the force of it. My ears rang from the force of it.
A punch landed on my stomach hard. It caused me to swing slightly from the chain I hang from. As my wrists began to bleed from the pressure of my weight pulling the skin too tight into the metal that bound me as I heard a voice in my mind "Kalysta! Where are you? What has happened?"
"Fenix.....help me. David took me. He is torturing me." I sent the message through our link. I was desperate for her to get help for me. I was too weak from my injuries I could not shift. Every time I tried it failed. "Help Fenix"
Her response was solemn, "I feel your pain sister. It is my own. It hurts to move. Adelaide has gone to get help. I will do my best to guide them to you. It hurts so much sister. I fear for you."
As the beating continued all I could do was focus on the fact that help was coming. Fenix would not fail me. I just have to will myself to endure this until I could be saved.
Sharp pain erupted as a knife sliced into my skin. Three precise cuts. This asshole just carved his initial into my forearm. Blood began to run down my arm from the wound. He had cut me deeply. Perhaps too deep. The blood was overwhelming.
"Focus Kalysta!!!! If you pass out I won't be able to find you. We are coming. I sense where you are. Stay awake."
Hoping the punishment would subside so I could hold on to my consciousness I pretended to pass out. He hit me several more times. Despite how difficult it was I did not make a sound and allowed my head to hang down.
Satisfied with his work and thinking I was unaware he crassly unfastened whatever the chain was attached to. Idrooped down suddenly and allowed my body to fall limply to the ground. The chains landed on me further damaging my already bruised and bloodied body.
"Hurry Fenix! I can't bear this much longer!" I could feel her heart as it rapidly beat. I could feel the wind under her wings as she swiftly led someone to my rescue as fast as she could.
Ignoring the feeling of my jeans being cut off of me I tapped into her sight. Relief flooded me as I saw the barn that I must be in come into her view. She was just minutes away. She looked down at the giant feline running beneath her.
Jakob!
My skin was assaulted by the cold air. My clothing tattered and torn. He was pulling my legs apart.
Oh fuck no!
As he tried to crawl on me I kicked him in his chest. This enraged him. Reeling back from my kick he jumped on me. His weight pinning me down as he began to strangle me with both hands. His putrid voice stating, "If I can't have you no one will. I'm gonna choke the life from you!"
All too soon my vision blackened again. He used his grasp on my neck to slam my head on the ground yet again. His hold tightening. My last thought before I blacked out was that I was going to die.
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Jakob's POV:
Fenix must be communicating with Kalysta. The bird moved purposely and with such effort to lead us here, but as we approached the old barn Fenix began to falter. Her flight became crooked and then she fell from the air unconscious. I stopped to check the bird. Adelaide flew up next to me and shifted from her owl form to tell me, "If Fenix is like this then Kalysta is close to death! Go! Hurry!"
That was all it took for me to continue running. Kyrhen was several feet behind us but was determined to push his human legs to go the distance in the efforts to help Kalysta. As he caught up to Adelaide and Fenix I heard the old woman urge him onward.
As I got to the door of the barn I noticed immediately it was chained shut. A voice came from inside. "If I can't have you now one will. I'm going to choke the life from you!"
Fuck!
I shifted to my human form so that I could push the chained doors open enough to slide my thin form through. Once inside I ran at David hard. He was so focused on killing Kalysta he didn't hear me running at him. I tackled him hard and then the fight began.