"WAKE UP!" Lilly demanded, screaming in Marks face. We both jolted upwards severely from the noise, eyes wide and strained. Jack stirred slightly, he was truly exhausted beyond comprehension and struggled to keep his eyes open. We hooked our arms under his and helped him up, seeking not to invoke her wrath.

She is a complete psycho after all.

"Good morning!" She giggled.

"Satan" I hiss at quietly. She pokes her tongue out mockingly like a child and grabs Jack's arm firmly, pulling us away from him.

"What the f#ck are you doing?" He demanded, attempting to pull his arm away. Without proper nutrition and sleep, he was not as strong as he could be. One of the boys came down and grabbed him tighter, causing his eyes to widen slightly as he looked at us.

"What are you doing with Jack?!" I demanded loudly as Mark held me back, restricting me from launching at her. Repercussions could be worse on Jack if I attack her.

"You'll see...actually, bring Cassie dearest too" Lilly instructed one of the boys with a sly, creepy grin. One of the boys grabbed me, and the other held Jack. I struggled and fought to get back towards Mark but the boy was too strong and I tired too fast.

"NO! What are you doing with then!" Mark yelped, voice breaking as he desperately tries to get back to us, being held back by a third man, who we hadn't met or seen until now.

"Mark, it's okay" Jack whispered, trying to calm him down. Mark was almost hysterical. Bonnie started barking and growling like a rabid dog to help, adding to Marks fierce distress.

"Bonnie, Mark, it's alright" I told them, fake confidence unwavering. On the way of us being dragged up the stairs painfully, I turned my head and looked at Mark, who just stared back with a worrying look, unable to do anything to help. I turned and mouthed 'we will be ok, I promise.' It did nothing to ease his distress, nor ours. Jack gazed at me softly, forcing a smile on his face.

"Everything will be alright" He whispered. As reassuring as it normally was, I didn't believe him.

They separated us and the boy restraining me hurled me into a pitch dark room. The person who was holding Jack pushed him to the opposite room.

"JACK!" I screeched, suddenly overtaken with fear. The darkness was petrifying, being alone even worse, Jack being hurt, my nightmare.

"CAS!" I heard him yell faintly through both doors. Lilly opened the door and walked in with a chilling smirk. The two boys walked in and forcefully tied me to a chair.

"So, are you always her b!tches?" I questioned, deadpan, hiding my fear. Neither responded. "Must be."

"They're my brothers, they do what they're told like good boys" she laughed. I couldn't hide my physical cringe, which was glazed when I saw bruises lining both boys arms. She abused them. One of them meets my eye, not an ounce of aggression but fear. "Hurry up! Get out!" She barked. They scrambled out, frantically. "Well well well" She sighed loudly, like this was painful for her, walking around the chair slowly, something in her hand I didn't see and please don't let it be a knife please-

I remained deathly silent and glued my gaze to the floor. "What are you going to do with Jack" I mutter finally, full or rage, looking up into her cold eyes.

"Never you mind hunny! you should worry more about what I'm going to do to YOU" She hissed.

Unnerving.

She turned on her heel to a smaller cupboard then the one in the basement, pulled out a cricket bat and swung at me, causing myself and the chair fall to the ground as it collided with my left side. Agony consumed that side of my body, winding me as I gasped for air.

'She is going to hurt Jack. She is going to hurt Mark. She is going to kill me. And there's nothing I can do'

Lilly put her foot on my throat and held me down when she sensed my struggle.

"Uh uh uh, I'm not done with you. No easy way out here" She whispered. Numbly I remember a crowbar and a knife...I stopped being able to feel.

'Shock'

"Wondering why I haven't tried to knock you out, doll?"

"Y-You're s-s-sadistic-"

"Correct! Good girl! I want you to feel the pain, just like I have-" She hissed. My trench coat and jumper lay on the floor, I lay quietly in a Nike crop-top and jeans, completely powerless, covered in bruises varying in colour and drying blood. She then threw a bucket of freezing water numerous times, dislocated my kneecap and left me lying on the floor. Agony seared through me as I tried to sit up.

'I've dislocated my knee twice before, I can handle this'

I couldn't restrain the scream as I straightened my knee, kneecap sliding into place, thank the lord it was seamless this time. Lilly remained to watch, a smile on her lips. "W-W-Why?" I stammered as she began to walk away.

"I haven't done something like this in a while. You were an easy target....the others were, harder to acquire in a sense. It took a lot of planning" She told me.

"J-Just d-d-don't h-hurt t-them...p-please. I d-don't c-care a-about me...j-just d-don't hurt t-them" I finally managed. She simply rolled her cold dead eyes and walked out.

The two boys walked in and picked me up, less heavy handed than usual, walking me down the staircase and dropping me down on the mattress, causing me to groan and hold my newly relocated knee.

"CAS!" Mark cried, jumping up and hurrying over to me. He held me in his arms gently and I broke down into his shoulder, I could hold back any longer.

'I fought so hard'

"Oh God" He whispers, distressed as he rushes around the room, finding things to help stop bleeding and help the agony. I continue to try to move my body, but he places a hand on my shoulder. "Rest sweetie, you're alright, you're going to be okay" He whispered, slowly laying me down. "Where's the most of the pain?" Wordlessly, I point to my right knee and left ribs, turning my head, eyes full of tears as I gazed at him. He hurries to wrap my knee with a ripped part of a sheet and wraps another sheet around my trembling form.

"M-M-Mark-"

"It's alright hun, rest, save your energy."

Darkness began to swim in the corners of my eyes and I succumb to the darkness of my exhaustion.

'The fight has only just begun.'