Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
A large, painful hand was on each upper arm dragging me forward.
The black cloth didn’t let any light in and I didn’t think to try and keep track of which turns we were making as we went.
Something I made note of later, beat myself up for, and prompted me to really start working on individual senses and tracking.
I have never been, nor will ever be, captured like that again.
When we got to our destination, I was thrown to the ground.
I heard whispering, which means these kids didn’t have their wolves yet to mindlink The Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta had the power to push a mindlink through to anyone, wolf or not. It made giving directions in a crisis easier. But, until you had your wolf you could not link back or talk to anyone else.
That’s all I had to workwith though. Male and around my age.
They were talking too low to recognize a voice and without a scent I couldn’t identify them. I had just gotten myself to a sitting position when my arms were yanked over my head and hooked to something, holding me off the ground so my toes barely touched.
My shirt was ripped open in the back and I let out a strangled squeal through the gag.
The first sharp sting registered as I heard the loud crack echo in the air. I screamed again, I wasn’t sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t the white hot pain of a whip.
The first time they whipped me I was draped over a bench in the girls locker room and the 5 lashes carne quickly before my attackers were caught.
This time, there was more bite in the whip and there was several seconds between the first and the second. The second one didn’t disappoint, I screamed again and this time heard an amused huff behind me, sick f* cls.
As they went on I started to go to my happy place, counting the lashes, but hiding in my mind trylng to turn the pain off, go numb, don ‘t feel, control my breathing, stay awake. By number seven I stopped making noise, which pissed my attackers off.
The last three came in quick succession from either side of my body, telling me two people wielded whips this time, then my legs were lifted behind me, but not to take weight off my arms, just to put me in more of a horizontal position. I thought this was one of the worst feelings ever, like both shoulders were trying to dislocate.
I was so wrong, the most blinding, searing pain hit me like a rocket blasting its engine across my back I instantly lost vision and couldn’t even breathe to scream. I could feel my skin bubbling and burning away.
Then the sensation hit me again and my body convulsed and bucked up in my captors grip and my stomach tried to empty its contents into the gag and I started choking.
“Take that f*cking thing out of her mouth, I want her to suffer, not die. She needs to suffer over and over again for all the sh*t she keeps causing me.”
That voice I do know. I’m still choking as one of my legs are dropped and I’m hanging awkwardly sideways. The tie is undone behind my head, roughly, taking some hair with it and thrown to the ground as I cough out everything from my stomach, lungs, wherever the vomit is.
My dangling leg is lifted back up and the blinding white hot pain resumes. This time the pain is accompanied by the smell of burnt flesh, my burnt flesh. My body convulses and tries to wretch again. I am struggling to take air in, my lungs don ‘t want to function and I am pretty sure my bladder relieved itself too.
Tears were streaming from my eyes and I started mumbling incoherently in between the burning sensation and retching.
The grips on my ankles are getting tighter, either getting hard to hold or they are having trouble with the different putrid smells now in the room. I hear a high nasally giggle, she is enjoying herself.
How does someone enjoy watching another person go through pain like this? I still don’t know what I did to her this time to earn a punishment, let alone one that is in the form of torture.
“Remember this, you little b*tch. Stay away from my men, stop trying to keep me from issuing discipline to the low lifes in this school, stop making me look bad in front of the teachers, by handing in perfect work and sucking up all the time.
I am your future Luna and you will all bow to me, fall in line and follow orders or next time you will beg me to Idll you. Kaley says from across the room.
“Now clean this sh*t up and dump her in the woods, let’s see if she ‘s worthy of surviving.”
She says right before the door closes. *END FLASHBACK*
That last part hit me the hardest. That stupid f*cking motto my brother and his friends lived by. They let people think that only the strongest should survive. It was actually the way that they played when they did drills together. Last man standing and all that.
They taunted and teased each other for being the ‘weakest’ that day. The problem was they never explained that they were teasing and motivating each other to anyone.
They just said the stupid line and went about their lives not realizing who’s listening and following their lead. They are oblivious to the influence they have without even trying. I throw my covers off, I can’t sleep. The memory just brings on more nightmares. I rub my eyes forcefully and look at the clock, it’s 3am. The only thing is to run off the nervous energy now. You want out tonight? I thought you would never ask It’s been a while. Hanging out with those boys hasn’t given you as much free time since we are still hiding that you are special. You Imowwhy we do, and it was your idea in the first place.
Let’s get a couple miles out and then I will turn it over to you. Maybe I can get a bit of rest that way. Whatever you need, I’m here for you. We got this, kiddo. My wolf feels like an old soul. Almost like a cool aunt that gives me advice when I ask, but also lets me totally figure things out the hard way after instigating a less than intelligent idea. That used to come in the form of broken bones or other self inflicted injuries when I was trying some new defensive move. I can at least say I haven’t injured myself in a long time. I get my running gear on and tiptoe to the back door, hoping to not make a sound going out. I don’t know if the guys went home or are still out partying. Maybe they each found a girl to entertain now that they didn’t have to babysit me.
I spared one look at the twins’ backyard as I ran towards the forest. I didn’t hear any noises, but the garden lights were still on, who knows. I couldn’t dwell on it though,
I have already decided to let them go. I’m not allowed to wonder what they are doing or who they’re with. I can’t want to be with them and keep my secret, that’s not fair to them. The pack members are more important, they need to stay safe. That’s the mission.
I made it to the edge of the forest and sat to put on my shoes. I couldn’t risk tearing up my own feet and I can’t shift here, someone could see or hear me. The transformation was not pleasant to go through or to watch, especially for a new shifter. Once you get the hang of it, you and your wolf can interchange pretty easily and quickly, but it takes a lot of practice.
We are pretty good, but the noise could still attract someone and I can ‘t take that risk I tie my shoes tightly, check my ponytail to make sure it’s secure and wrap the straps of the little backpack I brought to store everything around my waist so it doesn’t bounce around while it’s empty. I start to jog, thinking, again, about everything that happened today.
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