Eden's Gate: Kidnapped Chapter 7 - Confession & Atonement
word count: 2,257
warnings: lots of aggressive swearing, blood, torture, Paige messing with John. Death of parent.
NIGHTMARE/FLASHBACK
21 YEARS EARLIER
In the early hours of April 19 1999
Mandy Winchester wakes up to the smell of smoking thinking her husband Joel is cooking something, she looks over at the clock it reads 2:30am, she gets out of bed, and looks downstairs no lights are on, no sign of Joel. She goes to check on
her 4 year old daughter Paige who is sound asleep. She goes to check on her 6 month old daughter Kate who is awake. "Hey sweetie, why are you awake?"
she goes to touch her head,and a drop of blood
falls on her hand, then another drop falls on her arm
She looks up and sees her husband Joel being held up by an invisible supernatural force to the ceiling.
She screams which causes Kate to cry. Then Joel and the whole ceiling goes up in flames, the powerful heat pushes her, making her fall to the floor.
“No, Joel, no!!!!!!” she screams.
She goes to grab her infant daughter, and the flames spread across the room. The heat pushing her back again
Paige runs to the doorway of the room, and sees everything that's going on.
The look of horror on this 4 year old child's face when she sees her dad on the ceiling getting burnt to death.
Mandy grabs Kate from her crib and hands her to Paige.
Telling her frantically "Take your sister outside as fast as you can. Don't look back, go, Paige go".
She runs downstairs, and goes outside to the front lawn.
She looks up at the burning house, and says to her infant sister “It's okay Katie”.
Mandy not far behind, she gets burned by a piece of falling debris. Sustaining a slight 2nd degree burn on her upper back, shoulder, and bicep area.
She makes it outside, and grabs Paige running away from the burning house. Firefighters arrive on the scene, rush to put out the fire. When the fire is out, EMTs bring Joel out in a stretcher and body bag.
He’s completely burnt to a crisp almost ashes. She tries to cover Paige’s eyes from seeing the burnt body of her father, but she sees it before she could cover them.
They’re sitting in the back of an ambulance with her arm wrapped up, zones out with tears running down her face, she has one arm holding Kate who is crying, and Paige sitting next to her.
END OF NIGHTMARE/FLASHBACK
Paige wakes up in a cold sweat, in her cage, due to her occuring nightmare of witnessing her father's death several years earlier.
It's been several hours since her "cleansing".
She keeps thinking to herself "I’m never gonna mentally recover from this nightmare".
She lays back down and after several minutes she is able to fall asleep again. A door closes in the distance but she doesn't think much of it, footsteps can be heard but again she doesn't think anything of it.
They stop next to her cage, she turns to face the person while pretending to be asleep.
She sees the silhouette of Jacob holding the music box, he turns the little handle, opens it.
“What the fuck are you-” she gets cut off when her head starts to hurt and hears "Only You" play, her vision turning red and blurry. She passes out.
She wakes up 45 minutes later, tied to a chair, she doesn’t recognize the room, or her surroundings in general. She sees a table with a bunch of sharp objects, knives of fucking course. “Hello!!!!!!” she yells, and it echoes throughout the room, she hears heavy footsteps moving towards her, and sees Jacob, and of fucking course John. “You're finally awake” Jacob says with a smirk, John goes to grab a knife off the table.
“I’ll let you do your thing,” Jacob says to John, and he leaves the room.
Of course Paige has to be a fucking smartass “Wait!!!! you’re just gonna leave me here with teenage tantrum Seed?!?!” she yells out to Jacob just to piss off John.
John narrows his eyes at her, he knows he’s gonna have a fun time with her. He points the knife at her, pressing it against her chest, leaving a little cut, it bleeds a little.
“So!!!!. Paige, I just have one question. Are you ready to confess?”.
She groans loudly as an exaggeration.
“Do I have to??” she asks sarcastically.
He approaches her, kneeling in front of her, his face even with hers.
“Yes, you do. Just like the others before you. I will break you” he says with no peppy tone he usually has. She rolls her eyes, and says “I said this to Jacob, and I have no problem saying it to you. You. Will. Not. Break. Me!!”. He lets out a soft chuckle, “Trust me, I will. I will get every little sin you have ever made out of you. You will swim across an ocean of pain, and emerge free”. Yep once again she has to be a smartass “Great speech Johnny boy. If I could clap right now I would. Great speech. It was amazing”. He slams the knife on the table, and approaches her again with a lot more aggression, his hands placed over hers crushing them.
“You are on really thin ice with me. You think you're really funny?” he says. And without any hesitation, or even a thought of her own well being she says “I think I’m adorable” with a cutesy little smile. She can see the aggression building up in John’s eyes, they went from blue to black. He goes back to the table, and grabs the sharpest knife there is. He turns around to face her, knife in hand.
“So are you going to say yes?’ he asks. She sits there, not saying a thing, testing how far she can push John.
“Hm? Are you going to say yes?’. Again she’s not saying a word.
“It's just one word,” he says, starting to get angry.
“It's clear as fucking day I’m having fun just to mess with you” she says
“Say yes!!!” he says once again with a lot more aggression.
Already getting annoyed just by hearing the sound of his voice.
“For fucks sake” she yells, annoyed, “You want me to say it. Fine I will say it”.
“Yes, Yes,Yes” she yells out like Daniel Bryan.
His mood changes from annoyed to excited.
“Yes!!. Yes!!” he approaches her with the knife in his hand.
“You’re not gonna regret this. I promise”. He says with the knife to her chest, and looking a little too excitedly at it.
She sighs, and says “I’m already regretting this”.
She sees he's looking at her chest a little longer than he should, and she snaps him back into reality.
“Hey!!!” she whistles “My eyes are up here buddy”.
“So, what sins do you have to confess?’. She groans in annoyance, and shrugs.
“I don’t know man. But if I had to guess, I would say” she zones out for a moment.
“Wrath because I kill evil sons of bitches, and I take Pride in what I do, and I don’t care who gets hurt in the process but of course if it's my family, or friends yeah. But if its anyone else I don’t give a flying fuck. So I guess my own Greed gets in the way of it”
He looks at her with a cocky little smile, and he says
“You have a tainted soul”
She narrows her eyes at him “I could've told you that yesterday”.
He rips her shirt open, luckily she’s wearing a clip on button flannel.
He drags the knife across her chest. “I think Pride would look nice here” he says as he presses it to her skin.
“Well what are you waiting for??” she asks sarcastically.
He wipes the area clean with a wet towel.
“I thought you used a tattoo needle?” she asks with a snarky attitude
“Sometimes, my dear. But Joseph says you're special. So you get the knife”
He carves the letter P to her chest.
“How sweet of you” she says teeth clenched
He carves R, then I, D and E.
He stares at his work of perfection, and says “You still have 2 more sins my dear”
“Great” she says in a monotone voice.
He rolls up the sleeve to her arm, wipes the area.
“Wrath would look nice, and pretty here” he says, caressing her arm
He once again presses the knife to her skin
She’s already over the fucking pain. She doesn’t care, once it heals, she’ll get some tattoos to cover these nasty, nasty sins on her flesh.
He carves W, then R, A, T, and finally H on her forearm.
“One more sin darling, and you”ll be one of us” he says.
She lets out a loud laugh, that catches him off guard.
“Really??. I’ll be one of you??. Ohhh John, not so bold and brave. Are you?. I’m not gonna be one of you. I will never be one of you”
At the same time she says this Jacob walks into the room. But she doesn’t see him because John is blocking her view of him.
“I. Am. A. Winchester!!” she shouts with pride, and anger in her voice.
She sees Jacob walking behind John, and he says to her with a hint of confusion in his voice.
“I thought your last name was Smith?”. John looks at her with slight confusion as well.
She rolls her eyes “Smith is my marriage last name. My maiden last name is Winchester”.
John turns to her, and says “I dated some girl a few years back, and her last name was Winchester”.
Paige goes pale, hoping John’s not referring to anyone she knows with the same last name that happens to be her family.
She hesitantly asks “Who?”. She mentally prepares herself for whatever his answer is, hoping it's not her sister, or even her mom if she’s still alive.
“Kate Winchester” he says.
Paige’s body goes numb, she starts to hyperventilate, she has the urge to vomit, she starts tugging at her wrists trying to free herself.
She starts screaming at the top of her lungs.
“What??? no!!!!!!!” she screams. Jacob looks at John with amusement.
“I think you broke her,” he says.
A smirk grows on John’s face. Just to rattle the cage he says to her.
“Yeah, and I fucked her as well”
Paige yells at him “You son of bitch. I’ll fucking kill you. You fucking liar!!!!!!”
He has Jacob hold her still, while he carves her last sin onto the side of her shoulder.
She keeps yelling at John, she doesn’t even know what she’s yelling, she was just filled with anger, at John and at Kate, she doesn’t understand why she was even with him.
John kneels in front of her and says with a lustful tone.
“Don’t worry, I took care of precious Katie” she cuts him off
“Don’t you fucking dare. Don’t you fucking call her that!!!!”. He smiles at her, he was gonna break her, and he did just by telling her, he had a thing with her then 19-20 year old little sister.
“There’s that wrath of yours” he says. He sees the rage in her eyes, she wants to rip his head off, and play kickball with it. Use his internal intestines as a jump rope, use his kidneys as a hacky sack.
John steps aside, “You can have her back now” he tells Jacob.
He pulls out the music box, turns the handle.
“Fuck you, fuck both of you fucking shits!!!!!!” she yells. Ignoring the stinging pain from her chest, forearm and shoulder.
He opens it, and she goes through the usual trance, and she blacks out.
She wakes up several hours later in her cage, her arm, shoulder, and chest stinging like Hell. She hopes what John said was just a nightmare, and Kate never had a relationship with that sadist little fucker. She looks down at her arm, and sees Wrath carved into her skin, still bleeding and red “This shit is gonna get infected” she says to herself.
Jacob’s voice brings her back, “Don’t worry, I’ll have someone clean them”.
She looks up at him, and he says “I think there was another Winchester here several years ago, like 7-8 years ago. She was really nice, didn’t really know or talk to her. Didn’t really care though, but she did look familiar”. Paige shakes her head “I don’t wanna hear it” she says. He shrugs “That's fine with me”.
“I’m surprised John was able to break you before I did,” he continues. She starts pacing back and forth in her cage. Filled with so much rage, she feels herself grow violent and violent by the second, she just wants to scream. Everything is just pissing her off making her want to commit acts of violence.
Jacob just watches her, he sees her inner animal instincts are kicking in sooner than he thought they would. He finds it rather amusing, and he’s not gonna lie kinda arousing. She mumbles to herself, while pacing, her fists balled up, and shaking.
She wants to punch someone, hit someone. Anything that’ll help her release this anger that’s filling, eating her up. Jacob continues to watch her, it's almost like looking at an animal at the zoo in its closure.
She doesn’t sleep at all that night, too angry, too pissed off. Too violent to even sleep at all.
