#Chapter5

Laying on the floor, I didn’t bother moving or getting up to get on the bed, all of my energy had been sucked out of me and though the drug he injected me with was wearing off, I still didn’t want to move. I knew none of this was my fault, Rue’s capture was not my doing but I somehow felt guilty on behalf of the human race.

The door unlocked and swung open as Sevens large form walked in through the door frame, his eyes fixated on me as I continued to lay still on the floor, I wasn’t even going to try and reason with the guy, he still had that same anger laced behind his black sclera’s as he had hours ago.

Walking towards me with heavy steps, I didn’t fight him when he grabbed my wrist and pull me up to my feet, dragging me out of the room and down the hallway, he guided me into what seemed to be the bathroom. A very large luxurious one at that.

Black laminate floor with the same black walls that decorated the outside of the bathroom were now inside the bathroom too. A toilet on the far end with a sink beside it, to the far right was the shower and in the middle of the large bathroom was little steps that went up to a bathtub, though it looked more like a mini pool.

Without speaking a word to me, Seven began to yank of my clothes, trying to tear them off of my body and instantly, I panicked, pressing my hands to his chest, I tried to push his solid body away from me but instead of moving him, I just paused him briefly as he looked at me as though I was the one trying to strip him.

“What are you doing?”

He asked robotically, clearly confused as to why I wasn’t allowing him to take off my clothes. Was it normal for Elites to just randomly start stripping each other? Why did he not see anything wrong with this?

“You can’t just take off my clothes… if you want me to shower, I can do it on my own.”

I sighed as I watched him ignore me and continue pulling up my top, knowing talking to him was useless, I decided to put my words into action as I pushed him away from me this, this time, full force. Not wanting him to see me naked, I stood there with my arms out, informing him not to come any closer to me as he held my gaze captive. The guy seemed truly confused as to why I was acting this way.

“Please, let me take my own clothes off. You can go and do whatever Elites do while I shower.”

I said as I took a step back while he took a step forward, tilting his head to the side, he watched me curiously before his brows furrowed into a disappointed look.

“Your body is weak.”

He said simply, without any further explanation as I eyed him carefully, ready to launch if he came any closer to try and strip me out of my clothes again.

“I can take care of myself.”

I pushed. I needed him to get out of the bathroom, really, I was embarrassed, no one had saw me naked before and this definitely wouldn’t be the time I decided to change that.

Happy to see him comply, he simply turned on his heels and walked out of the bathroom and so, I began to strip out of my clothes as I eyed the luxurious looking shower before turning the faucet on and watching the water pour out, steam invaded my senses as the hot water began to burn down my skin. After being drugged, this felt amazing, it’s as though it was repairing all of my aching muscles and sluggish movements. Sinking further into the droplets of heaven that rained down on me, I couldn’t get the thoughts of Rue out of my head.

Though I was Seven’s prisoner right now, he was still allowing me the luxury of showering while the humans wouldn’t even let Rue sleep on an actual bed. Were we the bad ones after all? I had heard so many stories about the Elites and how violent and cruel they were but I had never saw them do anything as cruel as what Mike had done to Rue. Maybe it was us that were the deranged ones, maybe the Elites were just trying to protect their own after we tried to push them out of our world instead of allowing them to live among us.

Lost in my head, I almost didn’t realise the presence of Seven near me but as I turned around, my eyes fell onto his stiff form standing by the doorway, leaning against it with his arms crossed, he was watching me shower…

Shrieking, I instinctively wrapped my arms around me, trying to cover up my body from his naked eyes as he continued to gaze at me.

“What are you doing?”

I questioned him, wishing that he would stop acting weird and get out of here and let me shower in peace but instead, he walked further into the bathroom, slipping on the faucet in the tub, he let the water fill up, completely ignoring my presence.

Was he going to take a bath? I never knew that Elites could be so confusing, though he looked more or less like a human, he really didn’t act like one, he acted more like a robot, like he was completely wired to do things as weirdly as he could.

Once the bathtub was fully filled to the brim, he turned and looked at me with threatening eyes that made me shiver on the spot as I backed up in the shower until my back was pressed against the wall, trying to get as further away from him as I could while he strode over to me, I couldn’t tell what was going through his mind and something told me that I didn’t want to know but before I could even think, he was stood inside the shower with me, looking down at my fragile petite form that looked almost like a child standing next to his large self. Only now could I see that he was stood around 7ft while I was like two feet smaller than him, it didn’t help that intimidation oozed out of his pores like velvet.

“You will tell me Rue’s location.”

He said bluntly as he grabbed a fistful of my hair and dragged me to the bathtub while I kicked and screamed for him to let go of me but all of my pleas fell on death ears and before I knew it, he had me bent over the tub, sinking my head beneath the water.

He was… drowning me.

Knowing that fighting him and panicking would not do me any favours but only make the matters worse, I tried to hold my breath as much as I could. So he hadn’t brought me in here just to let me shower, he wanted to drown me into telling him where his sister was being held and as much as I wanted to, as much as I wanted to help her and get her away from Mike’s grasp, I couldn’t do that to the humans, I couldn’t risk Seven murdering each and every single one of them and so, I held my breath, I held my breath until I could no longer hold it and before the water suffocated my lungs, he pulled my head out of the tub full of water as he brought my face up to his as he yelled;

“Where is she?!”

But I couldn’t say a thing as I tried to catch my breath, my silence only further angering him as he dipped my head back in the water, this time, my panic rose to the surface quicker than I had wanted it to as I began to flail my arms around, trying to pull my head out from the water that was drowning me to my core, I couldn’t even give a damn that I was there completely naked before his eyes, there was only one thing on my mind and it was not to die.

Gurgling water in my mouth, I tried to stop it from reaching my lungs as he pulled me out of the water and slipped my head back in, giving me a moments second to catch my breath before he shoved me back in there and at this point… everything started to slow down, as though it was all happening in slow motion, I could barely hear his voice blaring into my ear drums as he demanded for me to tell him where his sister was, all I could do was think about not dying as he drowned me over and over again, until I felt nothing but suffocation.

Closing my eyes, I breathed in the water surrounding me as I gasped for air but all I could take in was water, all I could breathe in was suffocation and all I could think of was…

Was this… my end?