OLDER
CONTACT ME
DIARYLAND
2004-11-25 - 12:17 p.m.
I didn't realize it right away, but after Cyrus made his little speech I noticed Nikki was gone. Her chains were still on the floor where she was when I left, but she was gone. Lily had left before I was brought back here; maybe she just took her to take a shower or something.
After a few minutes of sitting on the floor staring at the ceiling Oslo, Lily and Serge came back into the room, without Nikki. With the gang being all here and no sign of Nikki I decided to try something. I figured if I could get Lily to take me to the bathroom I might be able to get some kind of information out of her. "Hey Lily, I've got to go the bathroom." I yelled to the group of them lounging around the throne in the middle of the room. Serge turned to look at me and said, "Oslo, take him to the bathroom." "But I want Lily to take me." I frowned. "You will be taken by who I tell to take you. You do not make demands of us, you are the prisoner. It would do you well to remember that." "Maybe I'm the only one who got the memo on this but Cyrus told me I was his guest. He said I could go anywhere as long as one of you goes with me. And I want Lily to go with me; she's the only one who hasn't tried to injure me in some way." "How quickly you forget, Cyrus said that you are not to be chained up and that one of us has to accompany you out of this room, but he did not say that you could choose your escort." "Fine, Oslo, let's go to the bathroom." I stood up as he walked over to me, blindfold in his hand, he stepped behind me and secured it rather roughly. He grabbed my arm and more or less dragged me to the bathroom. I tried to memorize the number of lefts and rights, but he took me a different way than last time I went. They were using simple strategies to try and keep us confused so we wouldn't escape I guess. He followed me into the bathroom and stood about three feet away from me while I did my business. At least he was kind enough to remove my blindfold; otherwise I think I would have pissed on his shoes. While I was washing my hands my stomach started to knot up; I thought nothing of it and prepared myself to be re-blindfolded and led back. He led me on yet another long and winding path back to the main room. This time when I returned Nikki was sitting on the floor without chains. I ran across the room to her and wrapped my arms around her. She began crying into my chest after a few moments. I took her face in my hands and leaned in to kiss her; I didn't see it before because I was just happy to see her, but her lower lip was split and bleeding, her left cheek was bruised like someone punched her, and she had a small cut on her forehead. I didn't kiss her but pulled her head to my chest and just held her there. "I didn't know what happened to you Seven. After Vlad choked you and you were gone for so long I thought I had lost you. I tried to fight Ashe, but he was better than me. I'm so sorry... I'm sorry." She spoke quickly in between sobs. I just held her to my chest and let her cry. "It'll be okay Nikki. Don't worry; I'll get us out of here."
