Tess had just been enjoying her time away from her home, clearing her mind and keeping calm. She hadn’t been paying much attention to her surroundings as she stared up at the sky as she walked, humming a soft tune as she walked. At first she hadn’t noticed the crunching of a chip bag or the set of foot steps approaching her from behind. It was hard with her head feeling so cluttered, it was hard to pay attention.
She was startled when she felt strong arms wrap around her, one large hand going to her mouth while the other arm moved around her waist and picked her up. Feeling her boots leave the ground she began kicking and squirming the best she could in her current situation. Let your guard down for once and see what happens?
The men were chuckling and the one holding her whispered something in Tess’ ear that made her skin crawl. Disgusting. With the strong arms around her from behind, pinning her arms down at her sides Tess couldn’t to much more than squirm. Unable to reach a weapon she did the next best thing and bit down on the man’s hand that was covering her mouth. Tess didn’t care if she caused harm to the other or if the metallic taste of blood filled her mouth, as long as she was able to be freed.
Instead the man growled out in pain and yelled obscenities before Tess had a chance to react her body was forced painfully against one of the brick walls. The collision with the wall forced the air out of her lungs. “Fucking bitch!” The male yelled out as he gripped a hand full of her dark hair and slammed the side of her head against the brick wall. The impact of her skull hitting the hard surface made a sickening sound mixed with her pain filled gasp. Instantly pain flared and Tess’ vision went blurry.
At first the situation didn’t register into Tess’ mind as the man that had been pinning her to wall let out a deafening scream. She didn’t even catch herself as she crumpled to the ground when she was released from her attackers grip. She looked much like a rag doll slumped up against the wall. The brick wall that was stained crimson where her head collided with it, blood was trickling down the side of her face slowly. At first she didn’t react to anything, feeling disoriented– not even the terrifyingly familiar voice clicked in her mind.
The one that had been munching on Cheetos didn’t react at first unable to process how fast the situation had changed. One moment his buddy was snatching up a random woman on the street to have ‘fun’ with and the next… he had a knife sticking out of his back and was screaming out in pain. The wounded male stumbled back away from Tess and hearing the voice at the mouth of the alley way. Both men were horrified to see just what had caused such damage– to stop their 'fun’. It was no other than the 'fag’ looking guy from the store they had been shoving around and taunting.
Hazel eyes lazily looked up at the scene, having a hard time focusing on the events happening. Tess saw the one that had been holding her go red in the face and go to charge at whoever had caused him harm. There was muffled screaming but she couldn’t make it out at first, her ears ringing– tinnitus. She wasn’t sure what the male with the cheeto dust fingers was doing nor did she particularly care at this point. Her head was killing her and as the daze wore off she stumbled to get up to her feet. Wobbling in place she let off a silent pained noise.
Pale fingers moved up to touch her head, only causing her to wince in pain. She felt the wetness and looked blankly down at her fingers as she pulled her hand away. Crimson covered her finger tips. Everything seemed to be going in slow motion for Tess as she glanced up seeing the man still charging the unknown savoir– his massive body blocking the other. Looked like the man was going to take a swing at whomever had come to her 'rescue’.
The cheeto fiend looked on in horror, it was unclear to Tess if it were the fact that these two were in trouble or the possibility that more blood had been shed. Again she didn’t care and as the male began to quickly go to run past her; to try and get to the exit on the other side of the alley way, she brought her foot out. The male let out a gasp as he was tripped landing on his stomach and Cheetos flying everywhere out of the bag. Face landing in a puddle that had formed out of rain water that had filled up a hole in the alley way. He sputtered out coughing and quickly went to scramble to get up only to feel weight applied to his back.
He looked slowly over his shoulder, fear clearly written across his features as his eyes fell upon the darkness held behind hazel eyes. Tess was keeping her self composed enough to step up between his shoulder blades roughly to keep the other from running away easily. “Disgusting.” Her voice was dark, and had her head not been spinning perhaps she would have spouted off something more clever. Suddenly she slammed her foot down on the back of his head as he went to scurry away. Tess had a scowl across her face as she stepped harder. There was quite the jerking and struggling but she stood her ground, she wouldn’t lift her foot up until well after the bubbles had stopped. Surely she could hold off passing out until then.