Hesh manages to save Logan, enduring multiple injuries in the process. Through the blood-soaked uniform, he hopes to witness his brother's recovery. This wouldnât be for nothing.
Leaving enemy territory, Hesh is suddenly hit in the chest by gunfire. With the limited time they have, the team decides to leave their dying comrade behind.
Despite being brainwashed, Logan frantically clings to fragmented memories of his brother, reaching out to his lifeless body as he is pulled onto the helicopter.
Summary: Being the only human on the task force is educational and entertaining- until you're compelled by the enemy to surrender information.
Task Force 141 x GN!Reader (implied??), Johnny "Soap" MacTavish x GN!Reader (implied), 1.3k words.
Era: MW2?
TW: Mind control, vampires (?), being tied up, compulsions, Price is a little... questionable when it comes to choices about his men lol. Don't mind control without consent if you're a vampire!
Trinket realizes he doesn't actually have to fully flesh out each and every prompt challenge, impossible.
Day 28 of my bastardized version of Russian Roulette Febuwhump/Kinktober for March that I'm affectionately calling Trinket's Cause of Death. It's basically 50/50 whump/kink where I generate a number corresponding to a prompt.
Day 28: Mind Control with Vamp!141 (whump)
For all intents and purposes, youâre the weak link in the 141. Not because of a lack of skills or experience or the like, nor because youâre younger than everybody else. Itâs because youâre human.
You were assigned to work with the 141 task force both by Captain John Price and by the higher-ups within the SAS. Itâs common knowledge that thereâs something off about the boys within the force- eyes that look a bit too inhuman, canines a touch sharper than they should be. Reflexes quick enough to blur and a way in war thatâs almost uncanny. Like a hunger buried just below the surface.
During your briefing to join the 141, you learned just what that was. Vampires. Not Twilight teen romance vampires, mind you, but the kind thatâs just as likely to save an ally as to rip their throat out if they have a bad day. They needed a reminder of their humanity and that came in the package of little old you. Warm and human and so fragile.
Price looks at you as a tool- a way to realign his men with the good in the world, to jog their memories of what it was like to be so breakable. You donât notice the way he looks at you at the end of a mission, the way he catalogues each and every injury on your body. Making sure youâre okay and not broken. Asset protection, he joked around his cigar when asked. âCanât have the human go back in pieces, we might be next, love.â
Gaz seems uncertain about having you on the task force. He treats you well and is the one with the steadiest hands and most sated appetite when it comes to patching you up, but he looks at you as if thinking of a ghost, eyes lingering on bandages as if to make sure you donât burn up and extinguish like a dying star.
Soap, to his credit, is utterly excited. Although his appetite is hard to keep in check sometimes, he adores having you around. He teaches you all the neat tips and tricks about vampires-compulsions, what it was like to be Ghostâs fledgling, things that can protect you and injure them. Heâs trying to make you comfortable and feel at home simultaneously, always eager to soother over tensions.
Ghost is the scary one. How wouldnât he be, huge and looming with those bloodred eyes and that skull mask staring you down without a word? You can feel the weight of his gaze on you every time you enter a room, thick and overbearing and begging for you to make a mistake that he can rectify by killing you. Even in your sleep, you can feel those eyes.
You donât notice that he slips into the shadows of your room each and every night, eyes focused on ensuring youâre breathing. Making sure you stay tucked safe and sound into your bed, alive and warm and all too human. Or that he and Gaz take turns playing nightguard, memories of a long-lost loved one still haunting their minds. They wonât lose this one.
Nobodyâs certain just how Graves and his Shadows got to you. You were never at Los Almas, spared from the situation entirely. There shouldâve been no way for you to interact with the rival coven and the patch on your vest combined with the necklace around your throat marked you as coven 141 property and off-limits.
All the same, the room stinks of the American coven of vampires, the stench of a heavy compulsion laid by Graves rolling over you as you thrash and scream against the ropes keeping you tied down.
The look in your eyes is near-feral, hazed with the faint orange of Gravesâs effect on you. The coven head himself somehow got around each and every protection laid on, in, and around you and mind-controlled you within an inch of your life. Your mission? Gather information, report back, and kill as many 141 men as possible.
You very nearly succeeded as well. Gaz is still patching up the hole in Soapâs chest from where you attempted to stake the Scot in his bed, still warm and sleepy from the night youâd spent together prior. He doesnât have the heart to be upset with you, even as he curses and bitches at Gaz. No, Johnny is furious with whatever and whoever slipped up enough to put you in this situation in the first place.
When unable to obey a compulsion, the compulsed party goes insane, for lack of better phrasing. From the second that haze settles over you, the assigned task becomes your primary mission in life. Itâs hard to complete a suicide mission when strapped to a chair.
Price works on freeing you of the compulsion while Ghost tracks down whatever information you may have already leaked to Shadow Company. Itâs delicate work since without the ability to eliminate Graves, which would release you, John has to put you under a separate and stronger compulsion to undermine the first.
âShhhh,â He tries to soothe your screaming, both hands holding onto your sweaty cheeks to keep you still while he works. âI know. I know, love, I know. It hurts, but youâre doing so well. So well, just listen, yeah?â
The pitch hits a new level as he lays your mind thicker and thicker with his own will overtop the Shadowsâ. Your body is rebelling, trembling and arching against the chair they tied you to.
Everything is screaming to kill, to obey Phillipâs order even while Priceâs compulsion wraps around and tries to strangle it to nothingness. A gentle croon telling you to surrender your previous mission and sleep. Just sleep.
âSteaminâ Jesus,â Soap curses to Gaz, looking over with worry and a pale face. âThe lungs on that bird are going tae explode my head.â
Youâre slowly giving into Johnâs influence, the sweet smells of black tea and cigar smoke soothing and washing away the foreign influence over you. Itâs easier to give into John, to surrender yourself to the ancient vampire you trust with your life. âSorry. Iâm s⊠Iâm sorryâŠâ
âNobodyâs mad at you, love,â Price promises as he brushes sweaty hair from your face. âWeâre mad at ourselves for not protecting you. They should have never been able to compel you.â
John would never admit it- not to you, not in court, maybe not even to his own men, but heâd compelled you ages ago. Nothing sinister, of course, but heâd placed what was supposed to be a barrier of protection against non-141 vampires in your mind. The only ones who were supposed to get in were them.
However Graves got around it is worrying and disconcerting. It spells less than savoury things ahead, for you and for the covens as a whole.
Gravesâs influence finally snaps with a pained scream for you, entire body tensing and arching against your bonds before immediately passing out. John was successful in easing you into rest.
âFuckinâ hell,â Price has to steady himself on the arm of your chair for just a moment, nauseous and dizzy from the amount of effort this took. He wouldnât say heâs out of practice in the art of mind control, but it is certainly no longer one of his main skills. Compulsion does not hold up in court, as it stands.
âAre they going to be okay, Cap?â Gaz looks away from where Soap is bandaged and resting against the wall. The Sergeants are trying to hide their concern, but itâs a useless endeavour. He can see the shine of worry even from here- one their faces and on Ghostâs as the Lieutenant steps back in, nodding that he did indeed stop the flow of information.
âTheyâll be fine,â Price confirms as he straightens up, back popping from the awkward position. âThe headacheâll be one to write home about, but Gravesâs hold is broken. Letâs find out what the fuck he thought he was doing then, hm?â
Hey. Take my hand. I feel like if 4chan can afford to keep running since 2009 despite having an unmarketable shitty userbase then whatever may happen to tumblr will not be our fault.
Summary: Being the only human on the task force is educational and entertaining- until you're compelled by the enemy to surrender information.
Task Force 141 x GN!Reader (implied??), Johnny "Soap" MacTavish x GN!Reader (implied), 1.3k words.
Era: MW2?
TW: Mind control, vampires (?), being tied up, compulsions, Price is a little... questionable when it comes to choices about his men lol. Don't mind control without consent if you're a vampire!
Trinket realizes he doesn't actually have to fully flesh out each and every prompt challenge, impossible.
Day 28 of my bastardized version of Russian Roulette Febuwhump/Kinktober for March that I'm affectionately calling Trinket's Cause of Death. It's basically 50/50 whump/kink where I generate a number corresponding to a prompt.
Day 28: Mind Control with Vamp!141 (whump)
For all intents and purposes, youâre the weak link in the 141. Not because of a lack of skills or experience or the like, nor because youâre younger than everybody else. Itâs because youâre human.
You were assigned to work with the 141 task force both by Captain John Price and by the higher-ups within the SAS. Itâs common knowledge that thereâs something off about the boys within the force- eyes that look a bit too inhuman, canines a touch sharper than they should be. Reflexes quick enough to blur and a way in war thatâs almost uncanny. Like a hunger buried just below the surface.
During your briefing to join the 141, you learned just what that was. Vampires. Not Twilight teen romance vampires, mind you, but the kind thatâs just as likely to save an ally as to rip their throat out if they have a bad day. They needed a reminder of their humanity and that came in the package of little old you. Warm and human and so fragile.
Price looks at you as a tool- a way to realign his men with the good in the world, to jog their memories of what it was like to be so breakable. You donât notice the way he looks at you at the end of a mission, the way he catalogues each and every injury on your body. Making sure youâre okay and not broken. Asset protection, he joked around his cigar when asked. âCanât have the human go back in pieces, we might be next, love.â
Gaz seems uncertain about having you on the task force. He treats you well and is the one with the steadiest hands and most sated appetite when it comes to patching you up, but he looks at you as if thinking of a ghost, eyes lingering on bandages as if to make sure you donât burn up and extinguish like a dying star.
Soap, to his credit, is utterly excited. Although his appetite is hard to keep in check sometimes, he adores having you around. He teaches you all the neat tips and tricks about vampires-compulsions, what it was like to be Ghostâs fledgling, things that can protect you and injure them. Heâs trying to make you comfortable and feel at home simultaneously, always eager to soother over tensions.
Ghost is the scary one. How wouldnât he be, huge and looming with those bloodred eyes and that skull mask staring you down without a word? You can feel the weight of his gaze on you every time you enter a room, thick and overbearing and begging for you to make a mistake that he can rectify by killing you. Even in your sleep, you can feel those eyes.
You donât notice that he slips into the shadows of your room each and every night, eyes focused on ensuring youâre breathing. Making sure you stay tucked safe and sound into your bed, alive and warm and all too human. Or that he and Gaz take turns playing nightguard, memories of a long-lost loved one still haunting their minds. They wonât lose this one.
Nobodyâs certain just how Graves and his Shadows got to you. You were never at Los Almas, spared from the situation entirely. There shouldâve been no way for you to interact with the rival coven and the patch on your vest combined with the necklace around your throat marked you as coven 141 property and off-limits.
All the same, the room stinks of the American coven of vampires, the stench of a heavy compulsion laid by Graves rolling over you as you thrash and scream against the ropes keeping you tied down.
The look in your eyes is near-feral, hazed with the faint orange of Gravesâs effect on you. The coven head himself somehow got around each and every protection laid on, in, and around you and mind-controlled you within an inch of your life. Your mission? Gather information, report back, and kill as many 141 men as possible.
You very nearly succeeded as well. Gaz is still patching up the hole in Soapâs chest from where you attempted to stake the Scot in his bed, still warm and sleepy from the night youâd spent together prior. He doesnât have the heart to be upset with you, even as he curses and bitches at Gaz. No, Johnny is furious with whatever and whoever slipped up enough to put you in this situation in the first place.
When unable to obey a compulsion, the compulsed party goes insane, for lack of better phrasing. From the second that haze settles over you, the assigned task becomes your primary mission in life. Itâs hard to complete a suicide mission when strapped to a chair.
Price works on freeing you of the compulsion while Ghost tracks down whatever information you may have already leaked to Shadow Company. Itâs delicate work since without the ability to eliminate Graves, which would release you, John has to put you under a separate and stronger compulsion to undermine the first.
âShhhh,â He tries to soothe your screaming, both hands holding onto your sweaty cheeks to keep you still while he works. âI know. I know, love, I know. It hurts, but youâre doing so well. So well, just listen, yeah?â
The pitch hits a new level as he lays your mind thicker and thicker with his own will overtop the Shadowsâ. Your body is rebelling, trembling and arching against the chair they tied you to.
Everything is screaming to kill, to obey Phillipâs order even while Priceâs compulsion wraps around and tries to strangle it to nothingness. A gentle croon telling you to surrender your previous mission and sleep. Just sleep.
âSteaminâ Jesus,â Soap curses to Gaz, looking over with worry and a pale face. âThe lungs on that bird are going tae explode my head.â
Youâre slowly giving into Johnâs influence, the sweet smells of black tea and cigar smoke soothing and washing away the foreign influence over you. Itâs easier to give into John, to surrender yourself to the ancient vampire you trust with your life. âSorry. Iâm s⊠Iâm sorryâŠâ
âNobodyâs mad at you, love,â Price promises as he brushes sweaty hair from your face. âWeâre mad at ourselves for not protecting you. They should have never been able to compel you.â
John would never admit it- not to you, not in court, maybe not even to his own men, but heâd compelled you ages ago. Nothing sinister, of course, but heâd placed what was supposed to be a barrier of protection against non-141 vampires in your mind. The only ones who were supposed to get in were them.
However Graves got around it is worrying and disconcerting. It spells less than savoury things ahead, for you and for the covens as a whole.
Gravesâs influence finally snaps with a pained scream for you, entire body tensing and arching against your bonds before immediately passing out. John was successful in easing you into rest.
âFuckinâ hell,â Price has to steady himself on the arm of your chair for just a moment, nauseous and dizzy from the amount of effort this took. He wouldnât say heâs out of practice in the art of mind control, but it is certainly no longer one of his main skills. Compulsion does not hold up in court, as it stands.
âAre they going to be okay, Cap?â Gaz looks away from where Soap is bandaged and resting against the wall. The Sergeants are trying to hide their concern, but itâs a useless endeavour. He can see the shine of worry even from here- one their faces and on Ghostâs as the Lieutenant steps back in, nodding that he did indeed stop the flow of information.
âTheyâll be fine,â Price confirms as he straightens up, back popping from the awkward position. âThe headacheâll be one to write home about, but Gravesâs hold is broken. Letâs find out what the fuck he thought he was doing then, hm?â
Summary: John Price has been around for a very, very long time, but he's never seen a star burn so bright and quick as you.
Captain John Price x GN!Reader, 1.5k words
Era: Post-formation of 141, pre-MW3
TW: descriptions of blood and gore, vampires (the 141), violent death, starcrossed lovers and fleeting human life.
I had to take 6 breaks to sob while writing this. Heavy ass angst, in my opinion.
Day 10 of my bastardized version of Russian Roulette Febuwhump/Kinktober for March that I'm affectionately calling Trinket's Cause of Death. It's basically 50/50 whump/kink where I generate a number corresponding to a prompt.
Day 10: Body rejecting the turn with Vamp!Price (whump)
Price is used to spending his time surrounded by humans- so full of life, so warm and vibrant and loud. Heâs seen countless generations come and go, wars fought and lost. Empires topple and revolutions flare bright only to be snuffed out by time or politics. Birth, life, death. Over and over and over while he remains a stationary figure through it all. Watching. Experiencing. Feeling, as much as he fought not to.
John long gave up the art of switching names and identities, of bouncing continents every few decades. Thereâs no hiding from technology in this day and age and he knows heâs not the only vampire aligned within the military. He has friends that assure him he gets to keep his job for however long he wants it, friends in high places. Very high places.
He turns Ghost first.
There was no intention behind the decision, just pure instinct and desperation. An ambush went wrong, and Ghost was fatally injured, blood pouring for every possible orifice. The smell of Simon bleeding out in front of him made John nearly feral, holding himself back from finishing Ghost off with restraint built up over hundreds of years of war. Johnâs wrist was pressed to Simonâs mouth and feeding him his blood before he even thought over his actions.
He is no stranger to the loss of war, but something prevented him from losing these men. Theyâre the closest thing Johnâs had to family in millennia and he canât watch them die, not so early.
Gaz and Soap follow the superior officers into the immortal life shortly later of their own volition and the âunkillableâ nature of the soldiers earns them the prestigious title of military urban legend. Whispered about by rookies and criminals alike, around bottles of cheap whiskey and warm bonfires.
The coven operates well for several decades before you show up. Assigned by the brass partially to remind the vampires of human mortality and partially to keep an eye on the not-quite-men. To ensure they arenât mass-slaughtering people or committing war crimes. The usual.
What Price wasnât expecting was just how staunchly human you are. Your blood smells sweeter, thunders through your veins with the strength of a hundred stallions. Blushes beautifully in your cheeks as your eyes twinkle with each joke you crack to Soap.
Youâre so human, it kills him. And eventually, it kills you, too.
Itâs an oversight on his part, a simple mistake on a mission that leaves you in a pool of gore and fighting for your life. Nobody saw the incoming grenade and by the time Price screamed your name, it was already too late. You were hit and severely.
âCap, I donât think theyâre gonna make it,â Gaz mutters to Price as he fights to stop the bleeding, a fight in vain against gravity and biology. Youâre bleeding out at a dizzying pace. Ghost had to drag a hysterical, bloodthirsty Soap out of sight and let him loose on the enemies so he wouldnât worsen your situation.
Youâve become the beacon of light for all the 141 men and seeing it slowly being snuffed out while simultaneously being driven by the urge to feed would destroy Soap if he hurt even a hair on your head.
âNo, theyâll make it,â Price disagrees with a gruff shake of his head, trying to soothe you with quiet coos and brushing hair from your blood-stained face as you slowly get worse. âTheyâll make it, they have to.â
âC-Cap,â You gasp and continue to hemorrhage, trembling hands grasping for his vest. âT-Turn me. Turn me. Iâm not-â You let out a rattling cough that stains your lips a deep red. âIâm not goinâ tâmake it other- otherwise. Please. I donât- I donât want to die.â
Tears shine in your eyes, reminding Price of this eerily similar situation when he turned Simon. His soldiers bleeding out and dying under his touch, under his command. But where Ghost begged for death, was content to sink into its cold clutches forevermore⊠youâre scrambling to hold on to every scrap of life you can get. âOh sweetheart.â
âPlease,â You beg again, eyes so wide. Terrified and desperate, relying entirely on your Captain to drag you back to the world. âPle-please. I donât- I donât want to die.â
âShhh,â Price soothes, ignoring the burning in his throat that mimics the soft cries coming from Gaz as he works on injuries he knows he canât patch up. âShh, love. Shh. Focus on breathing, itâs okay. Youâll be okay, pet.â
And John caves. He slides his sleeve up and drops his glove to bare the flesh of his wrist. Wills his fangs to drop and tears the delicate skin open to press to your mouth. Him and Gaz watch as you cling to his wrist and gulp greedily, listening to Soapâs rampage in the distance.
Except it doesnât work.
Minutes later, thereâs no change in your condition. No darkening of your irises to a blood red, no healing of wounds and screaming as the fire of transition licks through your destroyed body. Just him, Kyle, and your life steadily flowing out into the dirt.
Blood spurts from your mouth and sprays your face, a distinctly childlike whimper that has tears pouring from Johnâs cheeks as he tries to keep you calm. His thumbs, shaking minutely, wipe the blood from your eyes. Youâre too close to death to notice, too busy slowly bleeding out. âHush, love, hush. I know. I know.â
âIt di- didnât work, did it?â You ask, bloodstained chin quivering as your body squirms and twitches. Your eyes beg for equal parts truth and lie. âIâm d- Iâm dying.â
âHush,â He shifts his spot on the ground and pulls your body into his lap, cradling you like youâre the most precious thing heâs seen in centuries as he fights his own sobs and Kyle cries openly. âSh, itâs working. Itâs working, just give it time. Give it⊠give it time.â
You both know itâs a lie but neither of you are willing to admit that your death is a fingerbreadth away. âI c- I canât fe-feel the pain anymo-ore,â you admit with a ragged sob, your grip on his vest loosening against your will. Youâre turning hysterical and he canât stand to see you spend the last few moments youâll ever experience breaking down. âI canât- I canât-â
The words trying to slip out with the little blood left in your body is silenced by Johnâs trembling lips slotting over yours, quieting your cries and fighting to give you some little good to go out on. There were feelings slowly developing over the course of your time with the 141, but nothing ever acted on. Price long learned the lesson of falling in love with humans.
Your whimpers quiet, both pairs of trembling lips moving soft and slow, lingering in the one and only kiss theyâll ever share. He should be half on his way to bloodlust by now, but the only thing he can taste is your tears. Your warmth abandoning you in your time of need.
When the kiss breaks, youâre visibly stiller, skin paling and reactions delayed. It wonât be long now if the dazed glaze in your eyes is anything to go on. âTh- that was-â
Price gives a little nod, brushing tears and any speck of dust away from your face, trying to soak up the last wisps of your energy. âGod pet, how are we supposed to do this without you?â His voice wavers, the grief threatening to crush him in a way no army or bullet or plague could ever manage. âHow am I?â
You seem out of it, hands barely holding onto him anymore. Youâre turning cool under his touch, and he hates it. God, he hates it so much he can barely live. He wants to rampage the entire world, raze it down to a fiery hell for hurting something so sweet and pure as you. âYou didnât deserve any of this, my love. You didnât deserve it.â
âDid I do g-good?â You choke out, dying lungs beginning to rattle. âWas I good?â
âNo baby,â He shakes his head. âNo, sweetheart, you were the best. You were the best of all of us.â
The last words you ever utter are âI love youâ before he hears your heart take its final beat and never continue, frozen in blissful silence forever and always. John lets out a near inhuman wail, drawing Gaz to start sobbing in ernest as he cradles your limp body to his chest.
âI didnât to say it back,â Price sobs, burying his face in your hair to press kiss after kiss to the soft, bloody texture. âI love you. I love you, I love you, I love you.â
Hopefully you can feel it wherever you are, the love that he and Kyle and Johnny and Simon feel for you, felt for you, will forever feel. Their precious ball of sunshine, the little star all their own. He wishes to a God he doesnât believe that youâre somewhere safe and warm, peaceful and protected. Nestled in the night sky and watching over them.
Burning bright enough that your light reaches their eyes even once long burned out.
Iâm actually going to reblog a thing just because this is really important.
As someone who has epilepsy and used to have several grand mal seizures a day, Iâd also like to add that âoffer helpâ can range anywhere from keeping the person calm to explaining to them where they are and what they were doing to even just telling them they should sit and rest for a while longer (lack or coordination is common, and it can be hard to walk straight or see clearly).
Itâs okay for them to take up to a half hour to fully regain their bearings and sort out what they were doing prior to the seizure. Just answer any questions calmly and be there for support.
If they come around and you start to panic or shake them or ask them what the heck is wrong with them they are going to freak out and panic too.
I cannot stress it enough that this is bad.
If someone has a seizure and they come out of it, please. please stay calm.
They are likely disoriented and confused, even if itâs only for a minute or two, and you donât want them panicking on top of that because they can have another seizure as a result.
IMPORTANT because last year a kid in my class had a seizure, none of us even knew he was at risk for them either so just cause you donât think you know anyone doesnât mean you donâtÂ
I have to stress how important it is to time a seizure. If it lasts more than a few minutes, call an ambulance.
DO NOT CALL THE POLICE. Iâm dead fucking serious. I had a grand mal in public once and the POLICE were called and imagine coming out of the seizure, feeling like you got smacked in the head with a sack full of bricks, confused, dazed, in desperate need of some sugar to boost low blood pressure and some DIPSHIT has called the police and I was being threatened with being âdrunk and disorderlyâ. It took a phone call to my doctors office to get them to back off. The police cannot properly deal with sick people.Â
Offer help can be:
assuring person where they are/what time it is
getting them something to drink if they can; seizure burns so much energy and does cause a blood pressure drop
getting them safely to transport or a carer
getting them some dignity like a blanket/towel [loosing control of your bladder and bowels is fucking horrifying]
ensuring they have a way to get home. Someone who has just had a seizure should NEVER DRIVE straight after
calling emergency services if you notice any of these symptoms because they may have stroked out.
Why you shouldnât put anything in someoneâs mouth: they will choke. Yes, they may bite their tongue but I can assure you itâs less traumatic than cracking your jaw on someoneâs greasy wallet or choking on a spoon.
DO NOT HOLD ANYONE DOWN. Example: someone pinned my right shoulder mid-seizure a few years back and how I have a permanently displaced and clicking shoulder. Let the person flail around, those muscles are out of control and restraining them does cause more damage to the patient and you.
SIMON 'GHOST' RILEY x Fem!Reader
Task Force 141 x Fem!Reader (Platonic)
PART 2
Part Three: The Guilty Plea
Part Four: The Verdict Due
Summary: You're a rat, a traitor. At least that's what Task Force 141 believes due to the evidence and claims scattered against you. It doesn't matter what you say, everyone's against you, ready to end you for it...until the truth comes out.
Warning(s): Torture, Heavy Angst, etc.
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Drip.
Drip..
Drip...
Your shoulders seize up involuntarily as freezing droplets continue to hit your skin, eyes squeezed shut to try to ignore the sound that had been going on for who knows how long.
Another drop of water hits your spine from the faucet placed above you, it's cold as it runs down your bare skin. It feels like ice. Hitting the same spot over and over and over...
Drip...
Not even able to take a deep breath, you release a strained cry, it can hardly leave you, not that you hadn't cried enough already. You could feel the dried blood, tears and snot still on your face and a testament to your torment. You haven't been able to get the metallic taste of your blood of of your mouth since you got in here.
You breathe slowly, trying to relieve the pain in your chest. Body positioned downwards, chest pressed down to your knees, a leather buckle holds you down and over a metal stool. Wrists torn open by old shackles and stretched upwards to connect to the steel pipe in the middle of the room.
The stress position had been Johnny's idea, putting you in it to begin with. The bastard...
Kyle had been in and out to collaborate with Price on the interrogation, he didn't have the heart to do you any harm like his Captain. But, that didn't stop him from stomaching your screams as he turned the handle up, piercing cold crashing down atop you, it beats down on your back, by the time it's done your shaking, and your skin a bruising purple hue. It goes on like that for hours, even as you beg. He reads you the files again.
Price would then take the baton from the corner of the room, the side of your face already swollen from the last strike, you were seeing red out of your left eye and soon you wouldn't be able to see out of it if the swelling continued.
"Please..." you shivered, miserably.
"Over in a jiff, love, but i need somethin' from you, you know that." Was his reply, he tapped the baton against the metal below you, the reverb makes you jump each time, leaving you to stare at it as you watched his boots walk around you.
"Cap'n, It's not...It's not--me..." you tried, breathless. "I'd never.."
The steel baton came down on your shoulder, first. There was an immediate response from your constricted muscles, limbs that had all tensed up at once despite their numbness. Pulling at the shackles that kept you in place, the hit shocks you, nearly silencing you completely, it hurts, then it burns. Mouth open in a silent scream, you squeeze your eyes shut in an effort to block out the pain that crawled through your shoulder. "It's not me!"
You've been suffering from hypothermia for a few days since then. Your shoulder crushed right out of place or just plain broken, you weren't sure. It's not like you could feel much of your arms in this position.
It hurt. Not just the painful strain that this position was currently putting on your muscles, but everything else...
Of course, you've handled torture alike this before. Captured and tortured by enemies, ransomed for pay and fought tooth and nail to live, then found your way from that hell...only for the men who you'd kill for, to do the same thing to you with no remorse.
In the quiet of the empty room, you sobbed in agony. Squeezing your fists, but you couldn't even feel them, as far as you knew your fingers could only twitch in response to your demand.
You weren't sure what you were doing here.
Well, you knew. There was a mole, all evidence pointing to you, whatever it was had completely stunted their mission earlier in the week, left them hiding in a safe house for days until they were picked up by evac. Apparently, you'd leaked mission details to some hostiles over seas, you weren't sure which ones, they were hoping you could tell them. You had absolutely nothing, lost.
Of course, they didn't believe you. Although you expected to have at least a sliver of trust, someone to speak up against these claims and believe you...
That first night you thought you were gonna die. The second night you thought you had. The third night you were just convinced this was your hell.
You were soaked to the bone, and unable to stop shivering. The only sound you could hear was your own chattering teeth in this never-ending void of darkness.
It was so fucking dark in here, your eyes darting around to every corner, hoping for even a measly crack of light that your eyes could adjust to. Every sound, scratch, scrape or click made you jump, you couldn't see shit in here, so just about everything made you hyper aware. You couldn't help your anxiety as the sound of the faucet, the constant drops against your spine, the jingle of your shackles and the whimpers that echoed against the walls as you struggled to comfortably breathe. Maybe it was the thought of a mouse crawling up the stool and along your skin, or someone in here just staring at you in the corner, or the door finally opening for Price to start slicing into you demanding answers you didn't have.
You were on the cusp of losing your mind. If you hadn't already.
But it's been a few hours since then...
Maybe even a few days...
It could even have been a week.
You weren't too sure.
Simon had been the last one in here. He'd pulled the strap loose around your neck, hauling you up to an upright position by your jaw, eliciting a whimper from your lips. Able to breathe a bit easier, your lungs finally decompressing and you gulp down air greedily, "Simon..." this had been the first time you'd seen him since. He wears his balaclava, he is Ghost, not your Simon Riley.
As your bloodshot, swollen eyes raise to look into his cold ones, so unfeeling. You hadn't even realized you were so hopeful for his trust in you until then, looking at you like you were absolutely nothing to him, the same look he always had before pulling the trigger. "Simon, please, stop this..." your words slurred by your shivering, exhausted. "You know me...please."
Your tears slide over the leather of his gloved hands, while he holds tight to your face and cuts your pleads short with a painful squeeze. "Shut up," he says. His eyes are blank, but his voice is low and seething. "Shut the fuck up!" Simon harshly grits out to you, jostling you harshly. You squeeze your eyes shut, weeping miserably, throat closing up to your agony.
He had to know that you would've never done this to him. He should've known that. Given you the benefit of the doubt at least. You'd have never done this to him...
"I'm sorr-" you try, he squeezes harder to silence you swiftly, and snatches a tiny bowl off the tray he'd brought in. Raising your jaw a bit higher, he pours down a chunky broth into your mouth, letting it all just fall down to your throat. It's disgusting. He doesn't ease up for even a second as you toss and turn your head to breathe.
"Don't say a fucking word," he seethes, his hand enveloping your neck and keeping your head raised upward. "As if I should believe you..."
He then takes the next cup to do the same, your eyes bloodshot wide and you jerk away from him as you choke, unable to stomach anything, but he doesn't let you. This time you inhale accidentally, blocking your airway, eyes watering as you writhe for oxygen, your shackles clang violently as you attempt to retaliate, the first fight you've put up in days. His grip doesn't let up, even as you struggle and start to vomit up whatever he decided to shove down your throat.
When he finally lets go, you curve over and heave up whatever's left in your mouth, hyperventilating as you empty your guts on the floor. Hacking up whatever you can, it hurts, your throat burning from the sobs that leave you in between coughs. "If you love me, if you--ever had--" you spat at him. You'd given him everything, every part of yourself, nearly given him your life in the battlefield, and yet...it wasn't enough. "You would fucking believe me!" your voice cracks with the effort it takes to scream at him, to curse him to hell.
"My trust? That's what you want," Hollow eyes stare back at you, his attention flickering around to the uncomfortable shift of your shoulders in those cuffs. Your swollen left eye that had been hit so hard, the white of it had filled with blood. The black and blue littering your sides and your spine, the loss of color in your skin from the stress position and the cold that had you uncontrollably shivering. "You've had it before. You must've sold that to them too."
Your head drops to the stool again, releasing a heavy breath. "It wasn't worth much, if it was so easy to lose..."
Usually it's not very easy to set Simon off, you've known him always to be quite mellow, besides the barely concealed rage he had settled in his chest since you've known him. But, today, you were an exception.
Fisting a hand in your hair, Simon yanks at it, pulling you upwards for your to face him. His other hand coming up to wrap around your throat before your tortured scream can even manifest. In that moment, it feels as if he'd snapped your spine in half, having not used the muscles to stretch that area in over a week. Your shackled wrists shifting in the cruel position.
His eyes are wild and rageful, the balaclava that covers him twists just the same, his grip very telling to his violence as he squeezes down any chance at air or even a sentence. "Easy to lose..." he repeats, spitting in your face as he strangles you. "Easy t'lose your life! If you don't tell me the fucking truth," he pulls out the knife you'd seen him slit so many throats with before, you hear the familiar sound of it first then its cold steel pressing into the side of your ribs. "I'm gonna carve out your heart, and I'll take it real slow, let you feel every little thing I do to you in here," he shakes you harshly as a startled cry escapes you, your tears are burning hot against your cheeks. "You don't get to cry. Or whine. Or beg!"
"Stop--" you try to squirm away from him, to get as far away as possible, from this place, from this moment.
"Just tell me the truth," Simon's face twisted in agony, for just a second, his thumb drags along your jaw, meaningfully. "You'd be doing us both a favor..."
As his vast hand finally loosed around your neck just enough to hold you up, awaiting the bitter truth. Simon's knife catches on the protrusion of your ribs, nicking the skin, drawing blood on purpose. You stare up at the ceiling, the flickering old lights, the dripping faucet that's tormented your already fragile state for weeks now. "The truth..." you spoke, hoarsely. "You've all shown me...it doesn't matter to you. If it ever... Believe what you want--" you close your eyes, you're exhausted. Sleep had evaded you for days. "You and your truth and this team, you can all go to hell."
And finally he lets you go, letting your fall forwards, unable to find the relief of a cold floor but back to the strenuous position you'd been placed in. "AH!" nearly popping your shoulders out of place, or maybe they had, you bite down on your tongue, shaking in silence.
If you could see Simon's face, you could've relished in the uncertainty flickering in his eyes, the sudden doubt that led his knife back in its holder and his nails to bite into the flesh of his palms. He opens his mouth to say something, but nothing leaves him, instead he stands there.
You can't say a thing to him now, everything that's happened was just a little reminder that whatever you said, whatever you did, it didn't matter. Their minds had already been made. You really would die here.
Simon stands there a little longer, he doesn't say anything, you're not sure if he stays there to watch your suffering a little longer or to wait to say another heart-wrenching thing. Maybe he's just there to wait for you to die. But, he just watches as you wretch and cry in a ball atop that stool.
He leaves not long after, he didn't bother to strap you down this time. He left the old light on, but it must've been older than you thought.
The single bulb fizzled out completely hours ago. Not unless one of them decided to cut the silence and turn on the light to start another 'questioning', so suddenly being able to see more than darkness wasn't anything to be excited about.
They'd leave you in the dark until then, to await the next moment any of them would grace you with their presence.
To be honest, you'd imagined you'd be stronger than this. But, there was nothing to hold onto, so what did strength matter?
It was too late anyway.
They'd broken you days ago.
---
The truth had come out, two days later.
"Oh god..."
"Oh my fucking God," Simon rushed down the corridor, Price tailing right behind him. "Oh my God!" his normal monotone voice now a mess of fear and panic, breathing harsher, on the cusp of hyperventilating with every stride as he ran faster than he ever had in his life.
Finally getting to the interrogation wing of the department, he bangs his fist on the plexiglass of those silently monitoring the rooms, "Open the fucking door!" he's buzzed in before he can pull on the handle another time.
Rushing down the hall to the now green lit room, lights flickering to life with every step closer down the hall of empty rooms. He nearly rips the door off its hinges as he bursts inside, the lights of the your tiny prison don't come to life as they should. Light spilling into the cell, to hit your limp figure first.
He doesn't deserve to say your name. "(Y/n)," Simon rushes over, to his knees instantly. A puddle of vomit, water and spoiled broth soaks through his uniform.
"They're on the way!" Your captain assures, he sees the medical team rushing down the hallway, a stretcher, a box of medical supplies. Christ.
You're freezing to the touch, your skin a hue of blue, not to mention the bruises, the cuts and the swollen areas throughout your face and spine. You suddenly inhale, sharply, coughing terribly. You're sick, breathing shakily, "Simon...?" you breathe, confused. You can't see. Your eyes swollen shut from your torture at their hands.
"It's me, it's me," Simon assured, although he knew it probably brought you no comfort. He snatches the blanket offered up by Price, your captain a mess of himself, holding himself together at the doorway, nails biting into the steel.
As Simon wraps you in the first glimpse of warmth you've had in days, you ease up a bit, fingers twitching upwards to pull the threads closer around yourself. "It wasn't..." you shiver, Simon listens intently as he rises with you in his arms, running off to meet the medical team halfway. "It wasn't me..." you gasp out. "It wasn't..."
Simon can't say a thing as he hears your tormented voice stutter in fear of him, lips pressed tight together, heart sinking and as the nurses take your body, he collapses to his knees.
Part 2
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