where life is beautiful all the time
Tired and hungry and seeing Kit dead on the floor had almost made John give in. As it was he'd started struggling too late, he'd laid limp in their grip caught between confusion and despair until he saw where they were taking him.
The Casanova club.
Then he'd thrashed and kicked and bit and did everything he possibly could to loosen the grip of the two demons dragging him into that doorway to meet the Norfulthing that waited for him there.
But they were pitiless, clamped in their iron grips he was dressed in the restraints he wore in Ravenscar and tortured with needles until the world dimmed grey and dim behind his eyes. Buer freed Astra, her presence isn't here but the Norfulthing and the Newcastle crew are. Benjamin is attacked over and over, then speaks to John in that horrid stutter that outwardly marked his internal scars. Swimming in the drug haze he listens to Benjamin over and over trying to tell him what an asshole he is but he can't force it past that flaw in his speech. But his eyes behind the cracked lens of his glasses says it just fine.
"Oh for bloody Christ shut up! Just shut the fuck up you stuttering bastard!"
He'd swing at him if he wasn't tied down. He's angry now. Somehow he knows Ellie did this all to him and he's holding on to a corner of sanity somewhere by imagining what he's going to do to pay the bitch back this time.
The Casanova club.
Then he'd thrashed and kicked and bit and did everything he possibly could to loosen the grip of the two demons dragging him into that doorway to meet the Norfulthing that waited for him there.
But they were pitiless, clamped in their iron grips he was dressed in the restraints he wore in Ravenscar and tortured with needles until the world dimmed grey and dim behind his eyes. Buer freed Astra, her presence isn't here but the Norfulthing and the Newcastle crew are. Benjamin is attacked over and over, then speaks to John in that horrid stutter that outwardly marked his internal scars. Swimming in the drug haze he listens to Benjamin over and over trying to tell him what an asshole he is but he can't force it past that flaw in his speech. But his eyes behind the cracked lens of his glasses says it just fine.
"Oh for bloody Christ shut up! Just shut the fuck up you stuttering bastard!"
He'd swing at him if he wasn't tied down. He's angry now. Somehow he knows Ellie did this all to him and he's holding on to a corner of sanity somewhere by imagining what he's going to do to pay the bitch back this time.