"Wake up sleepy head", Alan's voice rings in my ears. I'm so tired, I barely pay attention to his voice. I turn the other way and begin to relax when I suddenly felt the brightness of the light. I open my eyes and I'm partially blinded by the light.

"Close the curtain!", I murmur

"The hospital called and said Dad asked for you!"

"I'm up!", I say getting up from the bed with immediate alacrity and vigor.

"Eh..just kidding babe"

Babe? Not baby bear? Are we like a thing now? Is that how it works? I thought he's going to ask me out to be his girlfriend or something? Pfft! Fine by me!

"I made you break fast babe", Alan says, pointing at the tray on the table. I murmur a thank you and suddenly become shy. I recall the events of last night and it brings a smile on my face. I start feeling apprehensive. What if Alan takes me as one of his flings? I've seen Alan bring a lot of girls to the house and I know he's a girls' guy. What if he still sees me as his little sister? And he had sex with her last night?

Oh fuck! To me last night was the best night of my life and even if Alan thinks of it as something normal, I'll cherish it for as long as I live.

"Jem, there's something I need to talk to you about", Alan calls, bringing me out of my reverie. Oh oh! This is it! He's going to say that last night was a mistake.

"Hold that thought, I want to go see the Valerians", I say scraping the last crumbs of food in my mouth.

"In my shirt and your ruffled hair?", he asks.
I'm not that bad looking, am I? I go into the bathroom and take a look. On a second thought, I might just take a bath and dress to kill. From there I'll go see dad. That way, I'll avoid seeing Marcus.

After a hurried bath, I put on a black short and a crop top, with a blue sneakers. I let my hair loose and apply zero make up. I come out of the room and I'm greeted by Rex. I pick him up and stroke his back, speaking in funny languages to him.
"Let's go see our enemies boy".

At the mention of enemies, he begins to bark furiously. I pat him and tell him it's okay.

"Alan are you coming?", I yell his name.

"Just a minute", he yells back.

I put Rex down and begin to play 'fetch' with him with my dagger. I throw the dagger to a far corner and he goes to fetch it. I throw it for the fourth time and it lands at the feet of Marcus. Marcus picks it up and stares at it. Rex barks for Marcus to give him the dagger so he can come give me.

"Rex! He's also our enemy". Rex soon starts barking furiously at him and I out stretch my hand for Marcus to give me back my dagger but instead he shakes my hand.

"Finally Jemima, it's a start!", he smugly says. I become so furious and demand for my dagger again.

"How did you come about this dagger?", Marcus asks studying to baroque designs on it. He hands it to me and pockets his hands at the back of his trouser.

"When I turned ten Alan gave me this dagger. His dad gave it to him he was ten. It has been passed down throughout the Ross's generation. Alan has no intention of becoming a killer Mafia or and all rounder Mafia, he just wants to track anything that needs tracking or coding or decoding, anything that just involves computer. So he kept this dagger and when I turned ten, he handed it over to me"

"That's pretty inter..."

"Moral of this story...", I interrupt Marcus...
"One man's trash is another man's food", I say bending down to pick up barking Rex. I shush him up and say soothing things to him.

"Oh Jemima, I never rejected you, I never left you, I..."

"You were never there for me. After you left, I got raped by your father Marcus. I got sold out by your mother, your sister, Ava I'm sure is the mastermind behind all these. When I needed you the most you weren't there Marcus. You didn't leave a note, you never wrote once! You broke your promise Marcus, now live with the consequences", I say with tears in my eyes. I hate feeling this way. Vulnerable and weak.

"If you'd just listen to me Jem I..."

"Aaalllaaaaannnnn!!!!", I yell out Alan's name, not wanting to hear anything Marcus has to say. Alan comes rushing out and looks at Marcus. Marcus sighs defeatedly and turns to leave.

"I made it without you or any of the Valerians Marcus, I proved you all wrong", I say before turning away to finally leave with Rex in my hands and Alan hot on my tail.

Once out of the sight of Marcus, I broke down. I wept bitterly. Why does it hurt so much? Alan hugs me, allowing me to cry on his shoulder. I wept for close to good ten minutes and by the time I had calmed down, I had puffy, red eyes.

"Why exactly don't you want to hear him out?"

"He betrayed me!"

"Technically it's not called betrayal"

"He lied to me! He said he was always going to be there for me! He promised he was never going to leave me!"

"Jem? I need you to answer these few questions, okay?"
"Okay"

"If Marcus hadn't left, would Mr Valerian have raped you?"
"Probably Not"
"If he hadn't left, would Mrs Valerian have sold you?"
"No"
"So if he hadn't left, Mrs Valerian wouldn't have sold you to my dad?
"Yes"
"And you wouldn't have met me?"
"Yes"
"Now you hate Marcus because he broke his promise of not leaving?"
"Yes"
"If you hate Marcus for leaving, that means you hate me...
"No, I..."
"Because after Marcus left, they sold you and you met me and my dad. Geez! Jem you're a hypocrite. All these while you said you loved me and my dad was all a lie?"
Alan says feigning anger and the realization of what I'm doing to him dawns on me. He gets up and makes his move to walk away but I stop him.

"I guess Marcus's leaving was a blessing in disguise because if he hadn't left, Mrs Valerian wouldn't have sold me and if she hadn't sold me I wouldn't have met you guys and if I hadn't met you guys, I wouldn't have known what love is", I rap out.

"Exactly. Now all I'm saying is give him a chance to talk to you. Let him narrate his side of the story and after, if you see reasons to still be mad at him, fine"

I nod my head in understanding and give Alan a small smile. He smiles back and leans in to give me a small kiss. I kiss back and immediately my hormones begins to go haywire. I grin sheepishly and transfer my attention to Rex who is now sleeping on my arms.

"What cell are they in?", I ask Alan after laying Rex on his cot to sleep.

"The one at the farthest corner of the cell rooms".

"Perfect", Alan leads the way and I follow suit. That's where the dangerous weapons are kept. There's no comfort there.

"Did you make sure they ate something good last night?", I ask on our way there.

Flying down a few steps into a black abyss, Alan nods his head in response and I hum in approval. I have to make sure they eat so they won't pass out while I'm inflicting pain on them.

"Jem!", they all chorus at my arrival. Pathetic fools.

"Give them water!", I say to Alan and he gives each of them a glass cup of water.

"Dispose of every shard of that glass Al. I don't want it to infiltrate our property"
Alan nods and throws it into the burning pit. I see the look of fear in their eyes.

"Oh don't worry, I'm not killing you...yet, you guys are going to beg for death as I inflict pain on you. Who should I start with? Eenie meeine mynie dad", I say pointing at Mr Valerian.
Alan brings him out in his shackles.

"Remove the shackles from his hands and legs Al.", Alan, silently obeys.

"You fool Jemmy!", Mr Valerian cackles. I could see him pouncing on me and in a swift moment, my mind drifts back to when he raped me, a mini feeling of deja vu begins to fill my head but in a swift moment, I slice his face with my dagger and his blood splatters everywhere.

"You bastard!", I mutter.

"Don't you know who I am? I am Silent Killer. I've killed noble and vile men. Slaughtered the guilty and innocent. Men and women alike bow to me, they worship at my feet. When I speak, even the sands listens and obey. How much less you unfortunate bastard! Even the most wicked does not deserve a father like you. Remember how I begged for you to not have your way with me? Now you'll pay me back with every blood, every sweat of your miserable body till you scream for death", I say dropping my dagger and kicking him in the face. I look at Ava and Mrs Valerian, they are frightened to the core. I smirk and give Mr Valerian a punch in the nose.
I tie him to a rod and undress him.

"Even your dick is shrewd and miserable. Alan give me the hot rod and my gloves", I say, shooting lasers at Mr Valerian with my eyes.

"Jemmy darling..."
I cut him short with a slap across the face. I put on my gloves and take the hot rod from Alan. I place I against Mr Valerian's dick and he screams out in pain. Ava and mother call out to me to stop but I turn a deaf ear towards them.

"Jem stop please. I'm sorry for doing that to you... Aarrggghhhh"
I press the hot rod against his dick harder this time.

"I begged you to stop then, did you? No!", I say yelling. At this point we were all sweating. I pick up my dagger and take out his dick in my hand. He used this thing to make me a victim of rape seven years ago, now I'm going to use my dagger to castrate him. With that thought, I slice his dick with a speedy force and throw it in the fire.

His screams and pleads fell on deaf ears. In fact, they soothed my soul. I was done with him for today. Alan shackled him back and threw him in the cell naked.

"Who's next?", I ask pointing my dagger at both of them.
"Eeni meenie mynie mum!", I say pointing at her. She struggles to stay in the cage. She holds onto the iron bars with her left hand while I hold onto her right hand and when I couldn't stand it anymore, I signal for Alan to pass me the cutlass and he does. I swiftly cut her left wrist away from the iron bar. Ava screams out of shock and covers her face in fright. I stare at the wrist and watch it become numb before falling to the ground. I pick it up and slap mother with it before throwing it into the burning pit.

"Next time you listen", I say gritting my teeth and plunging my dagger in her left eyes, plucking it out of it's socket. Blood splatters all over my face and I see Mr Valerian look at me in shock, too afraid to cry while Ava won't just stop wailing.

"Make it stop! Make it stop!", Mrs Valerian screams.

"Why mother? Did you stop when you were selling me? No! Thankfully, Jon didn't kill me. He taught me everything I know today", I yell and finally bring out the eyeball. I hold it in my hand and throw it into the burning pit. I shackle her myself because Alan was at the verge of throwing up.

"Ava come out!", I yell at the top of my voice and she hurriedly rushes out but falls at my feet. I picked her up with my foot.

"J... J... Jem, I...I..I'm s..s..sorry...",
"When I begged you to open up for me seven years ago, did you? No!"

She begins to apologize again but I don't want to hear any of it as I slice out her ears with the cutlass. She cries out in pain and falls to the ground. Writhing in pain. I breathe out a sigh of relief. Music to my ears.

I take hot coals from the pit and shove it in her mouth. I close her mouth and her face goes red, smoke and blood begins to gush out of her nose. I open her mouth and she immediately spits out the coal. She begins to cough out blood, her nose starts to bleed. For a moment there, I nearly throw up. I throw her in the cell with the others.

"Tomorrow, three of you will bath in the pit", I say before leaving. Once outside, I break down again. Alan throws up and washes his mouth with the water from the fountain. He sits me by the fountain and washes away the blood from hands and face. He removes the blood soaked apron I had worn and dumps it in the incinerator. He walks me to the car and hands me a bottled water.

"You did great Jem!", was all Alan said as I fall into a slumber.

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"Jem! We're at the hospital", Alan says, waking me up from my sleep! I slowly sit up and let Alan help me up. We make our way to Jon's ward and he seems pretty happy to see us..

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Three hours later we're on our way back home. I'm excited and nervous. Excited because I finally get to really talk to Marcus. Nervous because I don't know what his excuse will be.

I guess I'll have to wait to find out. But for now, I'm just gonna go with the flow of time.

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This chapter was brutal right? I know!
How I came up with sickening methods of punishment, I do not know!
I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless.

Jem has finally agreed to talk to Marcus. What does he have to say? Find out in the next chapter. But before then, don't forget to vote and comment.