InsaneJournal

Aderyn's lips were sewn shut, and they hurt so much her entire face throbbed. She was fully aware she was going to die, as starved as her body was and as thirsty as she was, it wasn't going to be long either. And the worst part of that wasn't the dying itself. It wasn't the hunger or the thirst clawing and raging inside her. No, there was something far worse that would come about when she succumbed.

She would be leaving Iestyn alone with Lucifer.

It wasn't like she could do anything to stop him now, but at least he knew she was here. She was with him. Once she was gone, he would have no support. No hope. Nothing.

Aderyn's eyes snapped to the stairway as a shadow preceded the arrival of Lucifer. She tried to shout to Iestyn, to warn his sleeping form that Lucifer was there. He was coming- And then Lucifer was on poor Iestyn, pinning him down. Her brother was definitely awake then, screaming and crying out for him to stop. For Addy to look away. For someone to save them.

Addy couldn't scream, and she couldn't look away. She stared in mute horror as Lucifer held her brother down and assaulted him. She could hear every whimper, every scream, every cry, and she couldn't do a thing, chained as she was, to the opposite wall, her lips sewn shut-

Addy jerked awake with a scream, which at least went far enough to prove her lips weren't sewn shut any more. But the room was dark and she didn't know where she was. There was the shadow of someone beside her in the bed and she didn't know who it was, so she just kept screaming.