#possible slowburn

@drakesfiance

Warnings- miscarriage, blood

Chapter 1 Darkness

Alesana PoV

Pain wracked me as the cramps became worse. A small hand held mine and I could hear her sweet voice in my personal hell.

"It's okay Angel. You need to get it all out. Just squeeze my hand and push all the poison out."

The small, yet mature, girl spoke of poison which was none other than the child forcefully implanted in my womb.

I cried out again trying not to hurt the girl who held my hand. A soothing voice came from my left as the doctor Loki had hired in my stead spoke.

"Alesana, the fetus is almost out. Its tiny so it shouldn't be long. The cramps are from the placenta shedding. It may be just a little while longer. Then we can get you cleaned up and in bed." Her voice faded in and out as pain overtook me. I could feel liquid dripping down my thighs and felt my body trembling as another debilitating cramp hit me. I cried out squeezing Alice's hand hard.

A soft noise of something falling hit my ears and relief flooded me.

That demonized child was out of me.

"We need to masage you a few times within the next hour to make sure you pass all of the placenta."

I curled up against the table I was laying on and tried my hardest to hear everything around me.

I could hear panting, my ears perked up and I sat up.

"Ripley?" I called out only to hear soft clicking. A soft wet tongue licked my outstretched hand and I felt tears slide down my cheeks.

"Ripley up." I called and felt the table clatter as she stepped on me with her large heavy body. She licked my face as I sobbed into her neck. I was so relieved she was alive. I was so relieved he was alive. My mind wandered to my boss and I debated asking.

"Angel? Can daddy see you? He is dying to know you are okay." Alice spoke like a child, but I could see past the voice. She was growing so quickly and would make a wonderful medic. Loki should be proud of her. Hell, I was proud of her.

"I dont think he will want to see me sweetheart...I'm blind, gross and bloody and just finished pushing a tiny human out. I dont think Im very appealing." My voice started strong but died off as I heard the door click closed. The woosh of air pressure change told me he was already there.

"Alesana..." he spoke gingerly and I felt my skin prickle. He never said my name any more. It was always Medic. I closed my useless eyes and held my breath. Would he even still want me around now that I offered him nothing?

Warm hands pulled me to a warm bandaged chest and he stood pulling me up with him. He walked me out of that room and away from the medical bay. I couldnt tell exactly how far we went but he sat me down and I could hear water running.

"I know you cant see, and you dont trust anyone, which I understand, but may I please bathe you? Or can I leave you here and have you bathe yourself?" He spoke gently to me as I smelled lavender and honey bubble bath being poured in. I swallowed back the bile as I remembered Thors touch. I shivered disgusted at myself and whispered.

"Just-just stay with it's so dark." I found myself opening up to him. He sighed and gently pulled the clothes from me. He lifted my naked broken form and sat me in the tub.

(Hordak was found in a block of ice from the rest of the Horde and wakes up in Etheria with no idea what is going on.)

He needed a way to spin this, to make them only see the Horde forces on Etheria as their enemy, but not the larger Horde itself. That way they would not only accept him as an ally, but allow him to regain power.

“The forces on this planet are acting without direction. They were last deployed to a warzone before arriving suddenly on Etheria, as such they acted as if that was still the case. They are like an insect without a head. 

…Though,of course now there truly is a war.”

The young princess of Bright Moon was the one who seemed to most have trouble accepting that, while others merely appeared skeptical. The Queen was unreadable, her hands propping up her chin as she analyzed him

The short princess seethed.

“Are you saying the reason so many lives have been lost… is because your people are a bunch of bureaucrats who can’t think for themselves??!“

The second half of that sentence had been shouted. Hordak didn’t know it, but the fact the Queen did not scold her daughter’s outburst at that moment was a sign for concern for his goals.

Hordak had to defend the honor of the Horde, of Horde Prime!. against that, even if it was unwise.

"The Horde is a large civilization. It is more efficient to have specialization of knowledge. I will admit at the moment it is causing…unforeseen problems but arriving on another world by mysterious means with no known method of returning home is completely outside the experience of most. Normally, other departments besides the military would be coordinating with them.”.

Not that much would change if those other departments were here, of course. But the implication was what he needed.

The boy with the impractical armor interjected.

"And why won’t they just listen to you? You can’t get them to stop?”

That was easier to address. He just had to say the truth, but do so out of chronological order and omit his …demotion prior to coming to Etheria.

“After all that has happened, and my prolonged absence, my former station is irrelevant. An emergency power structure has been instigated, and despite my attempts to contact them they have been unreceptive. As Entrapta proposed in her medical report, they can argue I have neurological damage from my unplanned hibernative state, and thus my judgement is unsound. Unlike Brightmoon, the Horde has a system for removing unfit leaders, and now it is being used against me.”

He paused. 

“Of course there is also the issue of those enjoying their new power not wishing to give it up.”

That seemed to satisfy most of those present

Queen Angella decided to speak.

“If this is how your people act in war, I am skeptical of your protestations. Even war is beholden to ethics.”

Hordak was lost at that. Ethics in war? Ethics was for civilians to worry about, and ethics mainly revolved around not undermining the social structure.

He adopted an apologetic tone. “I believe we are suffering from a language barrier. While your language is similar to where I was stationed, there are still some differences. Could you rephrase your statement?”

Angella’s eyes narrowed.

“Do you believe the Horde forces on Etheria are acting properly in how they are treating Etherians?”

Hordak carefully considered his answer.

“There… does appear to have been some social decay. I had actually assumed some of the savagery was due to the installation of uncultured natives into leadership roles.”

That earned angry glares and mutters or just confused expressions, and an unreadable expression from the queen.

Frosta withheld the urge to facepalm.

After that they moved on to other matters.

There was an attempt by Glimmer to bring Frosta into the alliance, but she stated she had only attended as she considered Hordak somewhat her responsibility as he had been found in her lands.

Perhaps he could work on that alliance himself.

By the end there was a formal thank you for his offer to help, which he tried not to take offense to. It was normal for someone in the greater position of power to be cold in their gratitude, and he was, for now, the lesser as he reminded himself.

While the matter of where he would be staying permanently was still up in the air, the archer, Bow showed him his workshop.

It was… disappointing.

Perhaps he could convince the purpled haired one, Entrapta to improve it. She had stated interest in monitoring his recovery.

He never had done technological work without a team behind him. But he had a first rate education and the brain scans of Horde Prime himself uploaded into his mind through his creation.

Warnings-TRIGGERS- blood, gorey descriptions, miscarriage, adult situations

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Chapter 17 Darkness

Alesana PoV

I found that I awoke to a painful haze. I was in someone's arms, they smelled good, like really good. The scent bringing back memories. I groaned out as I tried to open my eyes.

"Aye, lass, donya move. Itll hurt less darl." Came a familiar voice. I visibly relaxed at Stults voice and could hear what sounded like fireworks. No...that wasnt right. Gunfire. A searing hot pain hit me and I whimpered out.

"Ally. Ya gotta stop movin. You'll start bleedin again. Oh shit. Boss!" I tried to open my eyes but it was like I was paralyzed. I whimpered out again as I heard a thud near by. Stult began barking orders and the gunfire multiplied. I could hear smaller calibur weapons and automatic weapons popping off and for the first time in a long time, in my darkness. I prayed. I prayed for Loki. I prayed for Stult. I had no clue where we were, but I prayed for every person on our compound. I seized up when I heard Stult counting to thirty. CPR? Loki! No no no no.

I tried to focus and start with my fingers.

28-29-30

I moved them barely. Alright. Wrists.

2-3-4

Good Alesana, now elbows.

8-9-10

Now. Open your goddamn eyes.

22-23-24

Nothing. The blackness still consumed me. I focused hard and then used my hands to force my eyelids up. Nothing. Blackness consumed me.

Was I blind? Dear god, had the bullet strayed and hit a nerve? I forced myself up onto my feet disoriented as I groped in the dark. Everything was a blackish haze. I moved towards the counting. His cologne filling my nose, mixed with the all too familiar scent of blood. I groped until I felt Stult grab my hand and place it onto his chest. I began to pump.

1-2-3-4.

I went through two full rounds not caring about the gunfire or shouts. I breathed into his mouth, the first time my teeth clicked against his.

"Come on! Come on!" I yelled as I continued to push.

"Wait Darl stop!" Stul cried out as I breathed into his mouth. I groped his neck and found his artery.

Pulse. Pulse. He had a pulse! I fucking did it!

"Loki! Loki I need you to take deep breaths. Please. Just keep breathing" a cool hand came up and cupped my cheek.

"Alesana...I thought I'd never see you again." He spoke hoarsely. His voice deeper and dryer than normal. I closed my useless eyes and cuddled my face into his palm.

"We need to get you to the medical bay." I croaked out. I could feel the blood oozing from me and with the adrenaline wearing off I was fading fast.

"Stult. Can you lift him?" I asked casually looking in the direction of Stult.

"Aye. And you've lost a stone or two. I can definitely lift ya." I felt the hand move from my face and heard Loki hiss. Then hands take my waist and set me in a car.

I sat back and tried my hardest to blink away the darkness.

Loki PoV

Stult was trying to stop her bleeding when she groaned out. So relieved to hear anything come from her mouth, I made a mistake. I turned and smiled.

I felt it before a heard it. Two bullets went straight through my chest. I felt my body buckle and down I went.

"Shit Boss!" Was what I heard as the glass splintered concrete met my back.

I could feel cold darkness consuming me.

I was floating. And in the darkness was a single blue light, like an angler fish in the ocean. I moved towards it to see her, dressed in a thin white gown. She turned and smiled at me, my eyes bulged gently at the sight. She was incredibly swollen with a child.

"Is it--" I couldnt even bring myself to say it, but a calm washed over me when she smiled.

"Loki, it's our baby. It's our little one." She cooed and I moved to her. My hands on her belly as I felt good strong kicks. She rested her hands on my chest and gave me a satisfying kiss. Breathing air into my lungs. I felt her jolt my chest pushing me away. I moved back to her and she only smiled and whispered.

"Soon enough, but not now." She kissed me once again and I heard Stult yell

"Wait darl stop!"

I opened my eyes to see her above me. Blood dripped from her forehead and her shirt was splattered. She was grimey and dripping sweat and god knows what else, but she was there.

"Loki! Loki I need you to take deep breaths. Please. Just keep breathing"

I reached out and took her face in my hands.

"Alesana....I thought I'd never see you again." I spoke feeling the effects of everything.

She nuzzled into my hand and I felt my chest tighten. I was so cold. No doubt losing a lot of blood.

"We need to get you to the medical bay." She spoke softly then, I noticed she looked to the left at no one.

"Stult can you lift him?" She said to no one.

I brought my other hand up in front of her face and waved. No reaction. She was blind. My poor sweet angel had been raped, sodomized, impregnated, beaten and now lost her eyesight all because of me.

Stult picked me up and slumped me in the car rather ungracefully. He then gently picked her up as if she were made of glass and sat her next to me.

I watched in sadness as she tried to blink the darkness away, she didnt want to tell me, but I could see it. She was blind. My medic had become blind.

The SUV peeled out of the parking lot leaving my men to fight. I held my shoulder hissing. I was freezing fucking cold. Alesana held on to the seat until her knuckles were white.

"Alesana....can you see me?" I asked calmly waiting for the inevitable answer. She looked down then back up at where she thought I was, so much sadness registered in her eyes.

"No...I'm in darkness." She whispered. I slid my hand over and took hers, she welcomed my fingers between hers and held on tightly.

"Welcome to the darkness sweetheart, it isnt so bad." I spoke gently.

Stult PoV

We did it. Thor was fucking dead. I put the bullet in his head myself. And I did it with a smile for what he had done to my family. Ally and Boss should be back at the compound already. I called our cleaners to get this place cleaned up, but not before I took the family ring off of his finger. Boss would want that. I slid behind the wheel of the suv and drove in euphoria back to our compound.

The medical bay was full. Anthony had a broken wrist and was shot in the thigh. Boss sat with a bandaged chest and a blood transfusion hooked up. Everyone was accounted for except-

"Where is she boss?" I asked as I walked up to him, jesus he was pale.

"She had a miscarriage...Alice and the doctor I called have her in another room trying to help her pass the fetus." He looked grim

"Isnt it for the best? This baby was made in hatred and loathing. Forced on her body..." I spoke truthfully. Loki nodded then hissed as he repositioned.

"Is he dead?" I handed the ring over and he gave a weak smile before it dissapeared.

"Bastard deserved to be tortured. He deserved every bit of hell for what he did to her....She is blind...I hope its temporary." He spoke again looking straight into my eyes.

"I noticed but it isnt my place." I said shrugging.

"She cant be our medic blind though." I added and he nodded.

"I want her to train Alice...and I'd like to keep her around..." he said as he glanced around.

"You want her as your lover." I said as I stared at his glancing eyes.

It was silent for a few moments.

"Yes...I want her as my lover...when I died...I saw her, like an angel...she was happy and...mine." he chose his words carefully.

A scream filled the air.

Warnings- TRIGGERS blood, bodily harm, abuse, mentions of abortion, disassociating, adult situations

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Chapter 15 Facade

Alesana PoV

I laid in my bed aching. My eye was bruised and there was no doubt in my mind that my collarbone was broken, my hips and legs hurt from him continuing to rut into me like a whore. I just lay there as if I'm dead and turn away once he is done defiling me.

Thor happened to be a very controlling man and didnt enjoy being told no.

We found out about a week ago that I was pregnant. And I hadnt had sex for a long time prior to being kidnapped, that left the child in my womb to be none other than my kidnappers.

I had hope...the first week...that Loki would bust through the window or come in guns blazing, but now, now that I am pregnant and utterly broken, I realize I was never anything more than just a Medic to him, and that I didnt deserve to jeopardize his life.

I wished so badly to abort this disgusting child within me. Thor caught me trying to find Methotrexate, but they had removed it from my small, under furnished lab. He beat me that day too. And stationed two men to watch me at all times.

I had lost hope of ever being saved from this hell hole, but knew I had to get out. I was slowly devising a plan. The guards shifts changed once every six hours. I would fake a serious illness and demand a real hospital and doctor. He would have to take me off this God forsaken compound. I could get help then....its what I did with Jonathan and it worked. I just pray it works this time.

Right on time I heard voices outside the door. I quickly pulled the small bag of blood I had stolen from my lab out and began dumping it out in my panties. I stood up from the bed and let it slide down my legs and pool at my feet, staining his expensive looking rug. I then shoved the empty bag under the mattress to hide it and took a breath before screaming.

The door burst open and color drained from my face.

Anthony. Of all people Anthony stood there staring horrified at me. I thought I had seen him around the compound but every time I did a double take he was gone. Now as sure as my heart fell into my stomach I knew it had been no shadow.

"Oh god." I whispered looking down at the blood. I clutched my stomach and felt genuinely sick from the metallic smell.

"Jesus Fuck Alesana!" Anthony said and he moved to me and picked me up.

He ran down a few hallways as I faked going in and out of consciousness.

"Boss! BOSS!" he roared as he stood outside a large door. Angry yelling came from within until a dishevelled Thor stood staring at him holding me.

"What the actual fuck?" He questioned seeing the blood down my legs.

"She may be having a miscarriage boss. We have to get her to the hospital." Anthony spoke as I let my head loll back.

Thor sneered angrily at us in contemplation then nodded.

"Dont let her out of your sight. I'll be there as soon as I am done in my meeting."

Anthony nodded then took me towards the vehicle bay. He turned me in his arms and held me against his chest like a sleeping child, my hair fanning over my face to hide my open eyes.

Anthony PoV

My heartrate quickened as I felt her loll in and out on my lap. I had her straddling me, my chest to hers and knew I could hardly contain my emotions.

"Ally. Hold on baby, We are gonna get you taken care of, just hold on." I cooed gently as I rubbed her back. With my other hand I lifted up the pistol and silencer and pressed it to the driver's head.

"Drive." I commanded and he barrelled out of the compound.

"Turn left" I ordered.

"Sir the hospital is r-"

"Turn. Left." I ordered again. I heard her whimper and realized I had stopped rubbing her back.

Warnings- adult situations, possible triggers, gorey situations.

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Chapter 12 Taken

Alesana PoV

I awoke to banging on my bedroom door. I checked the clock. It was two in the morning. Groaning I rolled out of bed and stumbled to the door. Loki stood out of breath, his eye fixated on mine.

"You. Were screaming." He spoke breathing between words. I glanced down realizing he was only in a set of boxer briefs, his tattooed and scared body on display.

Shamefully I looked down at my feet.

"I- I dont have my meds...stult probably forgot to get them from my apartment." I spoke quietly. Loki reached forward and grabbed me pulling me against him and rubbing my back.

" Write me a list of what you take and I will get it for you tomorrow. I didnt realize you have nightmares." He spoke so casually about it as if he knew. I guessed that he probably did know. With his connections and the amount of support behind him, he probably knew every detail of my past.

"Alesana?" He asked letting go of me. I snapped back to reality and stared at him. He was drinking in the sight of me in a tank top and panties.

"Sorry. I shouldn't stare...you are so untouched though.." he spoke softly and my mind took the phrase and ran.

"What does that mean? " I demanded to know. He touched my arm and traced down to my wrist.

"You have no scars or tattoos. No battle wounds to show." He spoke softly still holding my wrist out.

I pulled down the side of my tank top to show him the bullet wound scar between my breasts.

"I have plenty of scars. You just cant see them...I'm sorry I woke you. Please go back to bed." I spoke rather curtly but what he said struck a nerve. I had plenty of scars and had earned my place in this world. He dropped my wrist then made a high pitched whistle. Ripley came running in and sat giving a soft 'boof' noise as if to whisper bark. Loki pointed to me and spoke loudly.

"Protect." Ripley stood and trotted to me sitting next to my feet.

"She wont leave you now. She can be trained to help you with your...episodes... if you so wish it. I can have her trained to be your service animal. In the mean time write down your medicines and I will get them for you." He smiled softly at me then turned to leave, a large nasty looking scar was down his spine. A dark lightening bolt tattoo ebbed over the flesh around it. He closed the door and after that night he didnt check on me when I screamed. I would wake up kicking and crying and the only one I would ever hear was Ripley whining and pawing at me. She would kiss my face until it was raw to try to help. He would always check on me the morning after, but he never showed up at my doorstep in the middle of the night. In a way, that hurt me more than the dreams themselves.

Ripley never left my side after that night. She would sleep with me, eat with me, rub against me as I sewed up gunshot wounds and compressed stab wounds. She drooled on my feet constantly and barked whenever I laughed. She even growled at Stult and Loki a few times, she became a companion to help push me through the bad times.

Six months later

I was working diligently on a nasty looking stabbing in the lab when the alarms blared over head. Loki was no where to be found. He kept me out of his business for the most part. It was better if I didnt know... I wasnt blind. I knew he was a king pin and I knew what he did was illegal, but he kept me safe and in his own weird way he loved me. In turn, I kept his men healthy and even watched over Alice. She was blossoming into a wonderful and talented little girl. She loved to sing and dance and was quick to learn in the lab.

When the sirens started Alice came into the lab. As she had practiced many times before. She hid in the safe room in the back of the lab which was concealed by a large heavy bookcase full of equipment. Ripley began growling angrily as I finished the young man's bandaging. I turned around at her growling to see three men in black kevlar armor coming at me. Two raised their weapons and the third began shouting at me to get on the ground. I froze on the spot.

"Dont shoot. I'm a medic." I called out holding up my bloody still gloved hands. One of the men fired a warning shot and Ripley stanced between them and me. Her hackles fully raised and teeth fully barred. The middle man approached me with a knife and Ripley barked in warning. He lunged at me and I flinched waiting for the blade to bite my flesh. Instead my heart shattered when I heard her Yelp. He had stabbed her and she was down. I immediately dropped and began compressing her stab wound. She whimpered in my hands.

"Its okay baby girl. It's okay sweetheart. I'm here." I cooed through tears. I felt a barrel pressed to my head and orders barked at me, but I ignored them. This dog had saved me many nights in my darkest moments. I wasnt about to let her die. I heard the gun cock behind me and more orders barked.

I looked up into cold blue eyes with my own tearful ones.

"Please. Just let me save her first. You can do whatever you want with me. Just let me save Ripley." I didnt care what happened to me, but this girl. This beautiful goofy ass dog didnt deserve this. The butt of the pistol landed against my temple hard and I fell unconscious. The men dragged me out and fled the compound.

Once it was quiet the door behind the bookshelf opened and Alice quickly began working on Ripley.

Mimicking what she had seen me do a hundred times before. She pressed on the bleeding wound and began to find supplies within arms reach. She pulled out her small cellphone with a dangling charm and dialed "daddy".

"Yes my Dandelion?" Came his deep voice.

Alice couldnt contain her tears and began sobbing.

Warnings- TRIGGER WARNINGS- adult situations, graphic situations of a sexual kind. Mentions of rape. Descriptive insinuations.

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Chapter 13 History Repeats

Loki PoV

I was off the compound when the call came in. I was busy signing papers and tracking shipments through borders when I felt my phone vibrate. I pulled it out and saw it was my beautiful Dandelion.

"Yes sweetheart h-"

"Daddy they took the angel and hurt ripley!" Her sobs broke through the ringing in my ears and I immediately hung up. As if to read my face Stult jumped up and ushered out all of the diplomats and criminals I was talking to. I immediately began to pace the floor.

"What's happened?" He asked concerned.

"The compound was ambushed. Alice is okay, but it seems they have taken our medic." I didnt want to say her name. As close as I felt we were getting I couldnt bring myself to say her name in the chance I would lose her- or worse make the call of her life for all of ours.

I looked at Stult and nodded.

"We have to go. I need to secure the compound and protect what I have left." I made my way to the door, seething and plotting what I was going to do to anyone responsible for this.

Stult PoV

I have only seen him this angry once before. He is the quiet kind of angry, the disappointed in you, but will make you learn your lesson kind of angry. And right now, his eyes burned with fury. I quickly moved towards the door and called for the SUVs to pick us up.

We sat together as we both checked the ammunition in our supply.

"What if it's a trap? An ambush?" I asked calmly and he nodded.

"Then so be it. I have to secure what is rightfully mine. Alice and the rest of our family." Was his only answer. The rest of the ride was in bitter silence. We pulled up to billows of fire and smoke. Loki quickly got out and ran inside. He began dragging out unconcious and I followed suit. A few guys that had bloody heads, a few maids. Finally we made our way to the lab and that's where we found Alice stitching up Ripley. The fire and smoke hadn't gotten to her yet. She was so small yet held the needle with grace and the stitching was beautiful. Beneath her hands trembled poor whimpering Ripley. I dropped next to them and rubbed her muzzle.

"Aye, sweet lass. You did whatcha had to." I spoke soft sweet phrases to her but could see the terror in her eyes. She had been broken by being attacked.

Alesana PoV

I sat in the darkness groaning out. My head ached terribly and I knew I had been taken. A terror deep in my chest causing me to tremble. Silence filled the air except for an occasional dripping noise of water on stone. I felt like I was in a basement somewhere remote. I could feel rope biting into the skin of my wrists and ankles.

I knew it would only be a matter of time before I met my own demise. After all I was just a Medic.

My breath hitched as I felt a barrel once again held to my head. The hammer cocked on the pistol and I bit my lip. My eyes quickly scanned the darkness trying in ernest to see whom had me. I found myself beginning to speak to the foreboding darkness.

"You know...I was the type of woman who loved my job. I was the type of woman who put my career first. I always had my work and work always had me. I always had a safe routine...my safety net; through death, chaos, and swallowing depression I always turned to my work and buried myself in it....until I met..Him...and now I no longer know where I stand..." My palms were a bit sweaty but I was no longer shaking. I felt some one's breath on the nape of my neck as the pistols barrel dug into my temple. I could tell from his breathing that I was running out of time.

"Where is he Medic? Where is your fucking Boss?! Where is Loki?" I heard the voice shake with anger as goosebumps erupted down my skin at the mention of his name. I knew he wasn't coming to save me. I was just a medic to him. I was Replaceable.

"I don't know...I'm just a Medic. I treat the wounded no questions asked." I could feel a tremble in my hands returning as the barrel began to dig deeper into my temple.

"I'm going to make you talk." He breathed in my ear and I felt a blade to my scrub top slicing through the material. Flashes of Jonathan entered my mind and I bit back the tears. Not now. I needed to be strong. I needed to fight this. I couldnt have a PTSD attack now.

Again tearing sound ripped through the air as he cut my tank top open exposing my breasts and belly. I felt my mind slipping back I to a memory and I closed my eyes tightly whimpering. What I wouldnt give to have Ripley, or even Stult. Someone to help bring me back from the edge.

"I'm going to fuck you until you bleed. Then, I'm going to feed you to my men and let then fuck you until you are begging to squeal.

Warnings- none

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Chapter 11 Compound

Loki PoV

I watched as she slid into the SUV, but waited for her to notice me before I gave away myself. She stuck her head out the window and questioned Stult. A smile graced my face as I gently took hold of her ark. She retreated back into the SUV and stared at me.

"If you have any more questions, you can always ask me." I gave her a mischievous smile and sat back waving the driver on.

"Alright, why two vehicles?" She asked folding her arms over her chest.

"There are actually three. One in front of us, and one behind us. The ones not containing us are decoys. That way if anyone follows us they dont know which we are in." I smiled again and waited for more questions, but none came. We sat in silence staring everywhere but at eachother until a little over an hour later we were pulling through a familiar gate. I watched her face light up as she realized the sheer size of the compound.

"I'll give you a full tour myself." I spoke softly.

I got out first and helped her out like a gentleman that I was, taking her arm I walked her around the perimeter and introduced her to the rolling guards I had take post outside.

Walking her inside I rambled on.

"There are four pools, tennis, basketball and racquet courts, a full service barbershop, and of course a full state of the art medical lab. Your room is just through here." I motioned as we walked down a hallway towards the smell of bleach and sterilized instruments.

I smiled as she gasped again at the sheer size of the medical bay and how much she was getting to work with.

"I- I'm just a nurse though, I cant use all of this!" I heard her mumble quickly. I stopped and turned to her gripping her chin firmly. I watched as a small spark of fear ran through her then it was replaced by rage. A grin stretching my face.

"Alesana. You are our medic now. If you do not know how to do something. Tell me and I shall procure you anything you need to research and study. You are Not a nurse here. You are a goddamn medic." I used the same phrase she had used so long ago. I let go of her face and continued on. We got to her bedroom which was adjoined to the medical bay and she took a deep breath. I had Stult take everything from her small apartment and bring it here for her. Everything was set up like her home except for her bedroom. I had gifted her a king size bedroom suite and walk in closet full of clothes and accessories beyond what she could fathom. In the back were several pairs of scrubs in every color she could want or need.

"Alesana, I have a few more things to show you. I-" a loud deep guttural bark stopped her in her tracks as we turned to see Ripley standing in the mouth of the closet. Her hackles raised and her teeth barred.

"Ripley no." I spoke softly and she half relaxed. I looked down to see Alesana half drooling over the dog, but she knew better than to touch.

"Go. Sit." I commanded and Ripley quickly moved from the entrance of the closet to by her bed. She sat her large boney ass down and began to pant.

Alesana approached her and held her hand out for Ripley to sniff. Ripley growled and half snapped at her. Alesana did not flinch, only held her hand out till Ripley stopped growling. Only then, did she rub the top of her head.

"Such a sweet girl." She mumbled as Ripley opened her mouth to pant. Drool dripping down onto the rug she sat on.

"Is she a mastiff?" Alesana asked as she scrunched down to get closer to the dog.

"Yes. She weighs 120 pounds and is a guard dog. One of five, but the most adventurous of them all. She is also assigned to you personally." I found myself saying. The truth was, Ripley wasnt assigned to anyone, but Alesana may have been feeling out of sorts due to everything that had happened recently due to me. I wanted to calm her fears.

The door burst open and a calamitous scream rang out. I watched as Alesana visibly cringed and Ripley whimpered. All of us turned to stare at my niece, who was standing in an over sized shirt half off her tiny frame and her blond hair mussed up into a rats nest atop her head.

I smiled and looked at Alesana,

"This is Alice, my Dandelion, Alice this is"

"THE ANGEL!" She cried out and ran directly at Alesana, I dont know why but fear struck my heart at that moment. Alesana opened her arms and groaned for only a moment as Alice made full force contact with her. She cuddled against her and giggled.

"You're the angel who saved me. You told me we could meet the white rabbit!" She went on endlessly but Alesana only smiled and nodded, entertaining her. I looked to Ripley who was about to fall asleep standing up.

Warnings- adult situations

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Chapter 4 Caught

 Alesana PoV