Face to Face: Day 2
by MattK
"Wakey-wakey!"

A bucket of ice water splashed down on Kate, jolting her back to consciousness. She gasped and spluttered and tried to wipe it off her face, but found that her hands were tied down. As she shook her head and blinked the water out of her eyes, the world came into focus for her: she was naked, spread-eagled and tied to a bed. Standing at the foot of that bed was Angel, grinning and holding an empty bucket.

"How’re you feeling?" He asked.

"Angel?" She asked groggily.

He scowled. "I told you to call me Angelus," he said. "And I asked you a question."

How did she feel? She was cold, naked, she couldn’t move, and there was a raw, gnawing ache in her knee and her shoulder. On the other hand…

"My shoulder and my knee—they don’t feel as bad as they should. What did you do?"

He nodded in satisfaction. "I didn’t want you dying of shock before I had a chance to really go to work on you, so I had an Asclepian demon come in and take a look at them." He caught her look of confusion. "They’re a race of healers," He explained. "Now, generally, they’re ‘Not-evil Evil Things’, so most of them won’t have anything to do with me. But there’s always a few who are just in it for the money."

He sat down on the edge of the bed and set the bucket on the floor. She gritted her teeth against the pain and tried to move away, but he ignored it and began to stroke her hair. "I can tell what you’re thinking," he said in a bemused, thoughtful tone. "I’m naked, I’m tied to a bed, he looks and acts like an ordinary human in a lot of ways—when is he going to rape me?" He smiled down at her playfully. "Hm? Am I right? Is that what you’re thinking?" He threaded his fingers into her hair again, but this time, instead of stroking, he closed his fist. Her scalp caught fire with pain. He didn’t even have to tug. "Yes or no?"

"Yes!" she blurted.

He released her hair. "Good," he said, his voice suddenly hard. "Very good. You’re learning." Then he sat back, his grin sliding back into place. "I may get around to that," he said. "I *am* still human enough to appreciate a body like yours. But that’ll come later. I have other things I want to try first. Things that’ll be so much more fun. Things that’ll hurt so much worse."


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