Eden's Gate: Kidnapped Chapter 7 - Confession & Atonement
word count: 2,257
warnings: lots of aggressive swearing, blood, torture, Paige messing with John. Death of parent.
NIGHTMARE/FLASHBACK
21 YEARS EARLIER
In the early hours of April 19 1999
Ā Mandy Winchester wakes up to the smell of smoking thinking her husband Joel is cooking something, she looks over at the clock it reads 2:30am, she gets out of bed, and looks downstairs no lights are on, no sign of Joel. She goes to check onĀ
her 4 year old daughter Paige who is sound asleep. She goes to check on her 6 month old daughter Kate who is awake. "Hey sweetie, why are you awake?"Ā
she goes to touch her head,and a drop of blood
Ā falls on her hand, then another drop falls on her armĀ
She looks up and sees her husband Joel being held up by an invisible supernatural force to the ceiling.Ā
She screams which causes Kate to cry. Then Joel and the whole ceiling goes up in flames, the powerful heat pushes her, making her fall to the floor.Ā
āNo, Joel, no!!!!!!ā she screams.Ā
She goes to grab her infant daughter, and the flames spread across the room.Ā The heat pushing her back again
Paige runs to the doorway of the room, and sees everything that's going on.
The look of horror on this 4 year old child's faceĀ when she sees her dad on the ceiling getting burnt to death.Ā
Mandy grabs Kate from her crib and hands her to Paige.Ā
Telling her franticallyĀ "Take your sister outside as fast as you can. Don't look back, go, Paige go".Ā
She runs downstairs, and goes outside to the front lawn.Ā
She looks up at the burning house, and says to her infant sister āIt's okay Katieā.
Mandy not far behind, she gets burned by a piece of falling debris.Ā Sustaining a slight 2nd degree burn on her upper back, shoulder, and bicep area.
She makes it outside, and grabs Paige running away from the burning house.Ā Firefighters arrive on the scene, rush to put out the fire. When the fire is out, EMTs bring Joel out in a stretcher and body bag.
Heās completely burnt to a crisp almost ashes. She tries to cover Paigeās eyes from seeing the burnt body of her father, but she sees it before she could cover them.Ā
Theyāre sitting in the back of an ambulance with her arm wrapped up, zones out with tears running down her face, she has one arm holding Kate who is crying,Ā and Paige sitting next to her.
END OF NIGHTMARE/FLASHBACKĀ
Paige wakes up in a cold sweat, in her cage, due to her occuring nightmare of witnessing her father's death several years earlier.Ā
It's been several hours since her "cleansing".Ā
She keeps thinking to herself "Iām never gonna mentally recover from this nightmare".Ā
She lays back down and after several minutes she is able to fall asleep again. A door closes in the distance but she doesn't think much of it, footsteps can be heard but again she doesn't think anything of it.Ā
They stop next to her cage, she turns to face the person while pretending to be asleep.Ā
She sees the silhouette of Jacob holding the music box, he turns the little handle, opens it.
āWhat the fuck are you-ā she gets cut off when her head starts to hurt and hears "Only You" play, her vision turning red and blurry. She passes out.Ā
She wakes up 45 minutes later, tied to a chair, she doesnāt recognize the room, or her surroundings in general. She sees a table with a bunch of sharp objects, knives of fucking course. āHello!!!!!!ā she yells, and it echoes throughout the room, she hears heavy footsteps moving towards her, and sees Jacob, and of fucking course John. āYou're finally awakeā Jacob says with a smirk, John goes to grab a knife off the table.Ā
āIāll let you do your thing,ā Jacob says to John, and he leaves the room.Ā
Of course Paige has to be a fucking smartass āWait!!!! youāre just gonna leave me here with teenage tantrum Seed?!?!ā she yells out to Jacob just to piss off John.
John narrows his eyes at her, he knows heās gonna have a fun time with her. He points the knife at her, pressing it against her chest, leaving a little cut, it bleeds a little.Ā
āSo!!!!. Paige, I just have one question. Are you ready to confess?ā.Ā
She groans loudly as an exaggeration.Ā
āDo I have to??ā she asks sarcastically.Ā
He approaches her, kneeling in front of her, his face even with hers.Ā
āYes, you do. Just like the others before you. I will break youā he says with no peppy tone he usually has. She rolls her eyes, and says āI said this to Jacob, and I have no problem saying it to you. You. Will. Not. Break. Me!!ā. He lets out a soft chuckle, āTrust me, I will. I will get every little sin you have ever made out of you. You will swim across an ocean of pain, and emerge freeā. Yep once again she has to be a smartass āGreat speech Johnny boy. If I could clap right now I would. Great speech. It was amazingā. He slams the knife on the table, and approaches her again with a lot more aggression, his hands placed over hers crushing them.
āYou are on really thin ice with me. You think you're really funny?ā he says. And without any hesitation, or even a thought of her own well being she says āI think Iām adorableā with a cutesy little smile. She can see the aggression building up in Johnās eyes, they went from blue to black. He goes back to the table, and grabs the sharpest knife there is. He turns around to face her, knife in hand.Ā
āSo are you going to say yes?ā he asks. She sits there, not saying a thing, testing how far she can push John.Ā
āHm? Are you going to say yes?ā. Again sheās not saying a word.Ā
āIt's just one word,ā he says, starting to get angry.Ā
āIt's clear as fucking day Iām having fun just to mess with youā she says
āSay yes!!!ā he says once again with a lot more aggression.
Already getting annoyed just by hearing the sound of his voice.
āFor fucks sakeā she yells, annoyed, āYou want me to say it. Fine I will say itā.
āYes, Yes,Yesā she yells out like Daniel Bryan.Ā
His mood changes from annoyed to excited.
āYes!!. Yes!!ā he approaches her with the knife in his hand.
āYouāre not gonna regret this. I promiseā. He says with the knife to her chest, and looking a little too excitedly at it.
She sighs, and says āIām already regretting thisā.Ā
She sees he's looking at her chest a little longer than he should, and she snaps him back into reality.Ā
āHey!!!ā she whistles āMy eyes are up here buddyā.Ā
āSo, what sins do you have to confess?ā. She groans in annoyance, and shrugs.
āI donāt know man. But if I had to guess, I would sayā she zones out for a moment.
āWrath because I kill evil sons of bitches, and I take Pride in what I do, and I donāt care who gets hurt in the process but of course if it's my family, or friends yeah. But if its anyone else I donāt give a flying fuck. So I guess my own Greed gets in the way of itā
He looks at her with a cocky little smile, and he says
āYou have a tainted soulā
She narrows her eyes at him āI could've told you that yesterdayā.
He rips her shirt open, luckily sheās wearing a clip on button flannel.Ā
He drags the knife across her chest. āI think Pride would look nice hereā he says as he presses it to her skin.
āWell what are you waiting for??ā she asks sarcastically.
He wipes the area clean with a wet towel.
āI thought you used a tattoo needle?ā she asks with a snarky attitudeĀ
āSometimes, my dear. But Joseph says you're special. So you get the knifeā
He carves the letter P to her chest.
āHow sweet of youā she says teeth clenchedĀ
He carves R, then I, D and E.Ā
He stares at his work of perfection, and says āYou still have 2 more sins my dearā
āGreatā she says in a monotone voice.Ā
He rolls up the sleeve to her arm, wipes the area.
āWrath would look nice, and pretty hereā he says, caressing her arm
He once again presses the knife to her skin
Sheās already over the fucking pain. She doesnāt care, once it heals, sheāll get some tattoos to cover these nasty, nasty sins on her flesh.Ā
He carves W, then R, A, T, and finally H on her forearm.Ā
āOne more sin darling, and youāll be one of usā he says.
She lets out a loud laugh, that catches him off guard.
āReally??. Iāll be one of you??. Ohhh John, not so bold and brave. Are you?. Iām not gonna be one of you. I will never be one of youā
At the same time she says this Jacob walks into the room. But she doesnāt see him because John is blocking her view of him.Ā
āI. Am. A. Winchester!!ā she shouts with pride, and anger in her voice.Ā
She sees Jacob walking behind John, and he says to her with a hint of confusion in his voice.
āI thought your last name was Smith?ā. John looks at her with slight confusion as well.
She rolls her eyes āSmith is my marriage last name. My maiden last name is Winchesterā.Ā
John turns to her, and says āI dated some girl a few years back, and her last name was Winchesterā.
Paige goes pale, hoping Johnās not referring to anyone she knows with the same last name that happens to be her family.Ā
She hesitantly asks āWho?ā. She mentally prepares herself for whatever his answer is, hoping it's not her sister, or even her mom if sheās still alive.
āKate Winchesterā he says.
Paigeās body goes numb, she starts to hyperventilate, she has the urge to vomit, she starts tugging at her wrists trying to free herself.Ā
She starts screaming at the top of her lungs.Ā
āWhat??? no!!!!!!!ā she screams. Jacob looks at John with amusement.Ā
āI think you broke her,ā he says.Ā
A smirk grows on Johnās face. Just to rattle the cage he says to her.Ā
āYeah, and I fucked her as wellā
Paige yells at him āYou son of bitch. Iāll fucking kill you. You fucking liar!!!!!!ā
He has Jacob hold her still, while he carves her last sin onto the side of her shoulder.
She keeps yelling at John, she doesnāt even know what sheās yelling, she was just filled with anger, at John and at Kate, she doesnāt understand why she was even with him.Ā
John kneels in front of her and says with a lustful tone.
Ā āDonāt worry, I took care of precious Katieā she cuts him offĀ
āDonāt you fucking dare. Donāt you fucking call her that!!!!ā. He smiles at her, he was gonna break her, and he did just by telling her, he had a thing with her then 19-20 year old little sister.
āThereās that wrath of yoursā he says. He sees the rage in her eyes, she wants to rip his head off, and play kickball with it. Use his internal intestines as a jump rope, use his kidneys as a hacky sack.Ā
John steps aside, āYou can have her back nowā he tells Jacob.
He pulls out the music box, turns the handle.
āFuck you, fuck both of you fucking shits!!!!!!ā she yells. Ignoring the stinging pain from her chest, forearm and shoulder.Ā Ā
He opens it, and she goes through the usual trance, and she blacks out.
She wakes up several hours later in her cage, her arm, shoulder, and chest stinging like Hell. She hopes what John said was just a nightmare, and Kate never had a relationship with that sadist little fucker. She looks down at her arm, and sees Wrath carved into her skin, still bleeding and red āThis shit is gonna get infectedā she says to herself.
Jacobās voice brings her back, āDonāt worry, Iāll have someone clean themā.Ā
She looks up at him, and he says āI think there was another Winchester here several years ago, like 7-8 years ago. She was really nice, didnāt really know or talk to her. Didnāt really care though, but she did look familiarā. Paige shakes her head āI donāt wanna hear itā she says. He shrugs āThat's fine with meā.Ā
āIām surprised John was able to break you before I did,ā he continues. She starts pacing back and forth in her cage. Filled with so much rage, she feels herself grow violent and violent by the second, she just wants to scream. Everything is just pissing her off making her want to commit acts of violence.Ā
Jacob just watches her, he sees her inner animal instincts are kicking in sooner than he thought they would. He finds it rather amusing, and heās not gonna lie kinda arousing. She mumbles to herself, while pacing, her fists balled up, and shaking.Ā
She wants to punch someone, hit someone. Anything thatāll help her release this anger thatās filling, eating her up. Jacob continues to watch her, it's almost like looking at an animal at the zoo in its closure.Ā
She doesnāt sleep at all that night, too angry, too pissed off. Too violent to even sleep at all.Ā
