When You are in Pain

Trigger Warning: Extreme, graphic violence, blood and many phobias.

"This is your son?" A woman asked, pointing to a boy standing in the corner of the room, talking with the other kids.

"Yes." Another woman said proudly. "He is a darling boy isn't he?"

"Certainly." The first woman said, looking at the boy coldly. "But I heard that something was wrong with him? My aunt told me."

"Oh yes, something was wrong with him. But he is all cured now." The woman said brightly. "He is NORMAL now."

As soon as he heard those words the boy felt chills run up his body. He did not need to look up to know that two women were looking at him, trying to see if he will make any mistake.

Not just those two. It was everyone in the room, even the children. Even if he was talking with them all in a light-hearted tone, he knew … he knew that they are just waiting for the second he will slip up and it will be all over.

He knew it. So every second, every minute he was awake, he was constantly looking over his shoulders. One mistake is all it takes.

But … that was what destroyed him in the end. With no way out, no, with no courage to try and find a way out … he rotted away in his own living corpse.

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"Don't you remember just how much I cherished you?" The man asked, grabbing Doris's face in his hands and gripping it tight. "I was the one that treated you like a gem and you are the one that threw me away. YOU trying to throw ME away?"

He burst into a shrill laugh. "You are too bold, I should really put you in your place."

"You talk too much," Doris said, kicking the man in the nuts. As his mouth opened to a scream, she kicked him, knocking him to the ground. "Done talking?"

"Y-you bitch." The man hissed, grunting continuously in pain. "What are you all looking around for? Attack!"

"We didn't really think you meant we would attack a woman." One of the men said, stepping back.

"Yeah man, not cool."

"Don't you understand, you idiots?" The man asked, getting to his feet. "That in front of you is a man."

Did he just- Doris thought, gritting her teeth at the man. I wanna kill him so bad.

"A dude?" One of the men asked approaching her. "Well, if he is right. I wanna see."

She managed to dodge the bat swung at her but was caught off guard when someone kicked her from below making her fall.

"That was dirty!" Doris shouted, glaring at the people staring down at her, fear filling her entire bring as she tried to rearrange her dress.

"Hey." Another man said, shoving the bat right in front of her face. "Do you really have a dick? But you look so pretty though."

"Fuck you." She shouted, kicking him in the face and turning to run but they all blocked her way.

"Why not check to see if WHAT that thing really is." The first man said, laughing.

"William! You bastard!" She shouted, trembling from anger. "I'll kill you, if it is the last thing I do."

"You will have to get to me first dear." The man said, smiling smugly. "I could call them off. But only if you agree to come back to me. I am the only one that can accept you after all, no matter how disgusting you are."

"You sound like such a saint, William." A woman laughed, glaring at Doris. "People like you disgust me. Is pretending to be a woman that thrilling? You only get that advantage because you turned out pretty.

"What about the rest of us then? You aren't even a real woman in the first place. Why pretend?"

Doris tried to turn and run from the woman but the others held her in place as she brought her hammer down on her leg. Everyone listened as they heard the bones break.

Unwilling to even give them a chance to hear her scream, Doris bit her teeth down, accidentally biting her lip and drawing blood. But even then, she did not let a single sound out.

"Oh? What's this? Are you trying to make yourself seem proud?" The woman laughed, bringing the hammer above her head. "If I crush your skull in, and destroy your pretty face, maybe you will cry."

Raising the hammer above her head, the woman brought it down just as Doris pulled at one of the men in the way, using him as a shield as the hammer dug into his skull, splattering his blood, bones and pieces of brain everywhere.

"W-what?" The woman dropped her hammer, panicking as soon as she saw the man's body drop to the ground, blood pooling everywhere. "N-no. I-I didn't kill him."

Grunting in pain, Doris attempted to get to her feet and run away but the bones were shattered enough that she could hardly put any pressure on it.

Fortunately, it was only one leg she broke so Doris has a chance of escape, as long as she could enter the club. She just needs to get in the club.

Why did I come out here alone? She thought, limping away while the others were too startled with the man's brutal death. Well, I never expected that psycho to bring other people with weapons like that.

I need to get-

"Ack!"

Someone grabbed her hair and pulled her back to the ground.

"You dirty bitch!" The man shouted, bringing the bat down on her as Doris could do nothing but curl into a ball just to keep from getting too hurt.

"I really don't feel bad anymore now that I know you are a man." They laughed.

"Man, I always wanted to hit a woman. This is good enough." Someone else said, when they heard another crack. "Huh? Oh sorry. I think I broke a rib."

Clutching her side, Doris wheezed trying to catch her breath as the stabbing pain in her side took over completely.

It is not that she is trying to keep a brave face anymore. It is that she is in too much pain that a scream or a cry of pain couldn't even come out.

"Hmm? It's not even saying anymore." One of the men said, poking at Doris with his bat. "Is it dead?"

"Check," William said, rushing to them and turning Doris over.

Blood trailed down her bruised face as she struggled to gasp for air, feeling the broken rip poking at her lung. If she moved too much, it could pierce it right through.

"What the hell, you worried me for a minute." The man chuckled. "But it seems you are just tired. Well, I know what could help you. Come on, admit you need me and I will save you. Like your knight in shining armour. Didn't you say that you always wanted that?"

Every breath that she took hurt but Doris just couldn't let him have the last say in this one-sided conversation.

"Knight in Shining armour?" She scoffed. "Don't make me laugh. What kind of a knight is the reason the princess is injured in the first place?"

"Well, I had to. Otherwise, you wouldn't want to come back to me. I need to get rid of the dragons around you too." William said, pushing her hair behind her ear. "So, tell me."

"Fuck off." She said, spitting at the man's face. "I would rather die."

Fuming with anger, the man slapped Doris on the cheek and got to his feet, wiping her spit from his face.

"Just hit her a little more. I will take her home late on." He said, walking away as the others got ready to raise their bats at Doris again.

"Wait!" The woman shouted, making everyone pause.

"What? Changed your mind?" William asked, tilting his head to her smugly.

"I just want to make a request." She looked at everyone in front of her, staring suspiciously. "You all have a mother right?"

"What about her?" They asked, some growing offensive.

A gentle smile came on Doris's face as she looked at them. Tearing her dress at the waist, she pointed to the small bump.

"Please don't hit here." She said, tears rolling down her face. "You can hit anywhere. But … just here. Please."

"What the hell?" They began backing off as soon as they saw her exposed breasts, eyes trailing down her torn dress.

"You said that this was a man!" One of them shouted at William.

"She's pregnant??"

"Fuck that!"

"We've been attacking a pregnant woman the entire time??" Some of them threw their bats down and ran away from the place.

"Come back here you cowards!" William shouted, turning to the woman who broke Doris leg. She stared at the woman on the ground, covering her mouth with her hands and threw up.

"I'm sorry. I'm so so so sorry." Someone else shouted but Doris could not make out who was talking anymore.

Looking up at the sky, she sighed until she felt something hard hit her stomach. This time, she did scream. So loud that she felt her eardrums would break, blood flowing from her body.