188. Captivity Meme!

[this_time_i_win]

THE CAPTIVITY MEMEYou've been captured - or maybe you've been held captive for a while now. Whatever the case, you've lost your freedom, and there's a specific person responsible for that. You might be a prisoner, a mental patient, a kidnap victim, or someone's pet. Maybe you're there willingly, or maybe the choice has been taken away from you

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7! Oh this is going to be too much fun :P

[adversarially]

[Shaitan is a gloater, this is a well-documented fact. So excuse him, Ben, if when you come back to consciousness he's just sitting there in a thronelike chair, smiiiiirking for all he's worth.]

[adversarially]

Well, if it's permanent, so much the better for me. I can do this. [And he makes a tiny gesture with one hand. Not much. Just enough to raise the temperature of Ben's blood a little.]

[werewolf_hacker]

[Okay, full-on panting between clenched teeth as sweat suddenly springs from every pore.] What...

Hey, I heard you got your ass kicked by a skinny little girl.

[adversarially]

Hey, I heard you got your ass kicked by me. In the scheme of things I think that still makes you my bitch. [Another gesture and the heat rises again.] Wonder how hot I can get you before your brain boils like an egg. You'll still be alive, of course. Marginally.

[werewolf_hacker]

But then I won't be any fun. Hard to make a vegetable mad. Don't you watch Veggie Tales? Ever seen Larry get angry? Nope, he's all about the silly songs. [Another yank on the cuffs. And... now he's bleeding. Awesome.]

[adversarially]

This is seriously the best you can do? Really? [Shaitan knows all about the judicious application of this particular torture. It should be getting pretty damn unbearable riiiiiight about now.] You haven't even reached the point where you start seeing shit.

[werewolf_hacker]

[Ben should not be shivering when his body temperature is this high.] I'd a hell of a lot rather see Bob the Tomato right now than you. This is the best you can do? Giving me a fever? I thought you'd be trying to piss me off, not roast me from the inside out.

Boring, Shai. You're boring.

[adversarially]

[Shai's teeth are too white and too shark and they elongate like serpent's fangs, even as the rest of his face darkens and starts to bubble and crack as if it's burning from the inside.] Bitch, I haven't even started.

[werewolf_hacker]

[Ben just closes his eyes and shakes his head.] Yep, you say that, and all I hear is "blah blah blah." Supposed to be all wrathful up in here, but no. Body heat? Feh. You'll have to do better'n that.

Also, the dog metaphors? Also boring. And repetitive. You guys need new material.

[adversarially]

[Shaitan gestures, more dramatically this time, and spikes Ben's body temperature all the way up past one hundred at the same time he dials up the strain on the sigil.] I haven't even started here, Benji. I'm just softening you up.

More to the point? I'm not here to entertain you. [That steel-capped boot lashes out for Ben's jaw again.] I'm here to entertain me.

[werewolf_hacker]

[Ben jerks his head aside, because he'd like to not have a broken jaw today, thanks, but the boot still grazes it, leaving a scraped bruise behind.] Well, Shai, if you're boring me, I'd hate to see how bored you are. I've been tortured by experts, man, and this is doing exactly jack and shit for softening me up.

[Which is not to say he's not clenching his jaw at the pain in the sigil, or shivering and sweating at the same time. But this? Smaaaaall potatoes compared to his usual.] Anyone else woulda broke out the whips and chains by now.

And that'd be just as useless as what you're doing. Just, you know. FYI.

[adversarially]

Would it.

[Shai lolls his head back against the back of his throne for a moment before he smirks.] Well, when you're right, you're right. Time to move on to something more interesting than you, I suppose.

[A snap of his fingers, and a door somewhere behind him opens. A pair of demons armed and bristling with horns enter, carrying a bloody and bedraggled angel between them.] Join me for breakfast, Benji?

[werewolf_hacker]

[Hey, there's Ben's rage, right on cue.] You let him go. Or I will blow you into component atoms.

[adversarially]

[Shaitan breathes deeply, savoring.] Oh, there we go. Nothing whets the appetite like that.

Now. [He rolls to his feet and stalks closer to the angel, who is too weak to do anything but struggle feebly in the grip of his captors.] What are we in the mood for today, Galiel?

[werewolf_hacker]

[Galiel bares his teeth at Shaitan. He's still got a little Grace left. "I'm in the mood to smite you and go Home. But I don't think that's in the cards." He eyes Ben. "Whatever happens. Do not fall to your Wrath, Benjamin."

Ben swallows and shakes his head.] I'll try.

[adversarially]

Oh, for fuck's sake. [Shaitan couldn't roll his eyes any harder without them rolling away.] You know what? I think I've had quite enough of the sass from you.

You. [He gestures curtly to the demon on Galiel's left.] Hold his head. I feel like tongue for breakfast.