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Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
Who: Clarice, Emma, Faiza, Khamul, Kitty, Nate, and Neena,
Where: Ozai's former en suite torture room, Urdnot Ranch
What: Toture and rescue
When: Monday afternoon
Warnings/Rating: Torture
Status complete

Neena groaned softly as she opened her eyes. She was in a small room that was dominated by a steel embalmer’s table. She was cuffed to the wall, stretched so that she had to stand on her toes to relieve the burning in her arms, her hands were entirely numb.

In the opposite corner was a sort of circle drawn on the floor with what looked like ink. Inside the circle, and slumped against one invisible wall, was Kitty. The room smelled like antiseptic, and there were a variety of implements hanging on one of the long walls. They were all brightly polished, and shone in the flickering fluorescent light.

Neena’s head hurt like hell. She was still having a hard time focusing. “Kitty.” She whispered. Her voice sounded loud in the room, bouncing off the white tiles. The cold of the place was already sinking into her body, even through her long sleeves and pants.

Kitty winced at the sound of Neena's voice. Her body hurt, and there was a buzzing sensation. She opened her eyes, and looked around. Confusion gave way to alarm as she tried to move, and found herself unable to do much of anything. The circle was magic...and Kitty knew it was a weakness of hers.

It was freezing, too, and the smell made her eyes water. She started to turn the color of Neena's skin as the tools of the room registered.

"I'm awake."

“Good. I think we’re kind of fucked for a little bit, but it’s going to be okay.” Neena’s voice was as calm as she could make it. “Just keep your cool, and don’t rise to any bait they might give you. What happened to you? Did Alex catch you too?” She didn’t want to be tortured, but it was looking pretty inevitable. She had to psych herself up, she needed a distraction before whoever owned the room came back to take them apart piece by piece.

Kitty worked her jaw, and forced her emotions into that pit where the bitterness usually dwelled. “Alicia...something possessed her. We were going to … well you know, and then she was attacking me. I didn’t want to hit her so I ran.” It was really something more terrible to Kitty than any physical torture. You could work through pain, it was the mental stuff that got to her. Though the physical could as well. She didn’t think she’d ever been through something quite as bad as this looked.

“Fuck, so Alicia and Alex are running around doing God knows what and God knows why. Do you recognize this room at all?” Neena doubted it, but why not ask? She hoped Alex and Alicia couldn’t see what their bodies were doing. She didn’t want either of them to have the memories that were about to be made.

“Never seen it before in my life,” Kitty said. She tried to ignore the cold chill that ran through her spine when she heard foot steps approach. A door opened.

Khamul stepped inside, and rested Alicia’s sword against the wall. Where to start.....

“Ozai hates you both, but he has other things to deal with, so I get to play with you both. Hopefully it’s just a warm up for the bitch that killed me.” He wasn’t stupid enough to try to get close to Gin.

Oh, well that explained a lot. Neena just looked at the insanely hot woman. She looked much prettier when she wasn’t fresh from being molested by human traffickers. She didn’t really have anything to say to Khamul, so she kept her conversation with Kitty going, as though Khamul wasn’t even there. “Your girlfriend is super hot. How do you even get anything done?” Her tone was conversational, and she did her best to keep her cool. Freaking out wouldn’t help either of them.

"We don't," Kitty replied, trying to keep a chipper tone. "If we manage to get out of the house without ripping our clothing off, I don't think we've managed to sit through a movie where I remember what was going on in the movie. And dinner is always a distraction. It's like we're both 16."

Khamul gave a derisive snort, and picked up a long pair of pliers.

Neena kept talking, trying to ignore what he was doing. “Thomas and I are the same way. I thought we’d have less sex when I wasn’t able to touch his skin, but we’ve been going at it like rabbits since then.” She tried to laugh, but she wasn’t that calm. It came out a little strangled. “By the end of this we’re both going to have an incurable fetish for leather and liquid latex.”

"Alicia" walked over to Neena, and ripped off one of her thumbnails. "Still funny?"

"Come on," Kitty said, eyes widening. "There's no point to this."

"Who said there needs to be a point?"

Neena inhaled sharply, but didn’t make a noise otherwise. Well, at first. “Fuck, I just painted those yesterday, asshole.” Okay, so she was the first target. Perfect. Maybe Kitty was protected in that circle thing. It wasn’t likely, but hey, she could hope. She was glad her hands were mostly numb.

"It's an ugly color on you." Khamul ripped out another one, then dug the pliers into the tender skin and started to tear at it.

Coming from Alicia's voice, and Alicia's face, Kitty couldn't believe what she was seeing. She wasn't unfamiliar with possession - she'd been possessed in the past and if you had even a passing friendship with Logan you knew the man got possessed every other week.

But this was hard, and she was suddenly less sure about her own ability to withstand it.

They always went for the dominant hand. Neena grunted as he tore away the skin, all of her witty remarks forgotten. The cold only made it worse, it bit into the newly exposed flesh, making the pain worse. She took a deep breath and met Alicia’s eyes. “Fucking pussy. It’s easy enough to hurt someone who can’t fight back. I could kick your ass up one side and down the other if I wasn’t chained up.” It was a long shot, normally people like this didn’t rise to weak bait like name calling, but she was low on other options.

When Khamul ripped into another of Neena's fingers, it was Kitty who screamed. She grabbed her hand and shook it, as if that would somehow make the pain stop. Through bleary eyes she gasped, "What the fuck what the fuck?!"

"Friends should share." Khamul ripped off another nail.

Neena gasped in pain, but when she heard Kitty scream, that made her mad. She lunged forward as far and fast as she could trying to headbutt Khamul, even though it would probably knock her out again.

Khamul bounced back out of range. He flashed his cheshire grin, which looked creepy on Alicia’s face. He stepped around to Kitty, and bent over in front of her. “Did you ever see Resevoir Dogs?”

He dug the pliers into Kitty’s ear, and yanked.

Neena wasn’t as prepared to feel Kitty’s pain as she’d been to feel her own, and the ear was sensitive as hell. She yelled in pain, pressing the ‘affected’ ear against her arm. She started to curse at Khamul, trying to turn her fear to anger.

Even bracing herself for the pain wasn’t enough, and Kitty’s throat ached from her shriek. It was nice enough to focus on that instead of her ear, or the warm wetness that flowed down her neck, cheek and shoulder. She whimpered Alicia’s name.

Khamul returned to Neena, picking up a pair of tongs, and a sharp knife. “You think you’re clever?”

"I think I'm stronger than you." Domino replied. Neena couldn't handle this, but luckily she didn't have to. "I also think I'm going to rip your tits off and smother you with them." The odds of being found were low, but she didn't even need her powers to alter them. Not as long as Nate was listening, and she hoped he was.

Khamul grasped Neena's tongue with the tongs and roughly yanked. He brought the knife to her tongue and grinned at her. "I don't feel like listening to you bitch. Make jokes without your tongue."

Somewhere far away, Nate heard her. That single flash of pain and anger shot deep into him and left him breathless and he turned from where he was and ran outside falling to his knees. And then with a shudder, he screamed, and around him, filling the sky for a moment, a shape very like a blue bird shimmered and then vanished.

Someone was hurting Neena, and rage boiled through Nate as he shot Emma and John Jones her exact location. And he shot into the sky, moving faster with every second. By the time he hit one hundred feet he was moving almost Mach One. By the time he hit three hundred, he was at Mach Three. Windows shattered as he hit the apogee of his arc and shot back toward the Earth, the air nearly burning with his speed., his clothing tattered and falling away as rage and passion roiled over him.

The building they were in seemed to shimmer as he shot toward it, then the ceiling was simple gone, dissolved as an afterthought by some part of his brain that knew blasting through it could hurt hostages. And Nathan landed with a sound like thunder, the very air around him glowing blue, as he snarled.

“NO!” Power lashed out at the speed of thought, gripping Khamul and Alicia(their dual mind the only thing that prevented their instant death) and making them toss away the knife and the device used to grasp Neena’s tongue.

“SLEEP.” Rage and a finality filled the word as he hurled the woman across the room, gently. And the wall holding Kitty and Neena came apart, every little component washing away into blue light, and gentle hands catching and lowering them to the ground.

Kitty was still stuck, surrounded by a shield of magic keeping her powers in check. She had her ear clutched in her hand, and her tongue stung from the shared connection between her and Neena. It didn't feel as though the blade had cut it off, but it still hurt. She rasped out, "Don't hurt...don't hurt her!"

Neena eyed the magic binding Kitty, then Khamul/Alicia. She decided she didn’t care who Kitty was fucking. She was so angry she could barely see straight. With her left hand she grabbed the nearest sharp pointy thing (and there were many), and lunged at Alicia, intent on killing the bitch.

Nate set a field of air and energy between Neena and Alicia, even as he lifted Alicia into the air, binding her with his mind. “Goddammit, Neena. Stop it. She’s possessed.” He could feel the two spirits in her, and his voice thrurmmed with power. “Stop it.” And he reached out and then Eyed the field around Kitty. “This is going to hurt.” He couldn’t actually affect the field, per se. but he could destroy it.

He reached out to the component energy of it, each thread of power, and simply pulled it apart. There was a feeling for a moment like nails across a blackboard, but in their bones, and then the field was gone.

“Ow.”

Kitty cried out, slamming against the field when Neena lunged for Alicia. She'd deal with her own anger later, she just wanted to have Alicia there to deal with it with her.

She was relieved when Nate acted, even if the sound nearly deafened her.

She fell forward, and caught herself with the hand not holding her ear.

Neena glared at Nate and opened her mouth to yell at him. It was both more and less effective than she'd hoped. The only thing that came out was a large quantity of blood and an unarticulated noise. She did stop trying to murder Alicia, so at least there was that. She was too busy projecting every curse word she knew at Nathan.

Nate sighed as he reached out across the mindfield and was boosted by John, who was currently scouting the area for any other trouble, and touched Clarice’s mind. I hate to ask, but I need help again. Kitty and Neena have been tortured.

He projected calm and warmth toward Kitty and Neena as he sent the message.

Even as he did so, his mind reached out again. Doctor Faiza? I need to ask a favour. This is Nathan Summers. I have two hurt individuals who have been subject to torture.

More? Came Faiza's voice. It was alarmed, and she sounded almost heartbroken. Get them here as soon as possible, I just need to make sure there's room.

Clarice appeared in the room. "Oh my god."

Kitty closed her eyes and whimpered, lowering her head. She couldn't stand to look at Alicia right now.

Neena waved at Clarice, trying to wipe the blood off of her chin. it was a futile effort, since she had to put her head down periodically to get more blood out of her mouth.

Yes, ma’am. I’ll relay to Clarice. We are inbound.

Nate reached out and telekinetically lifted the two, along with Alicia, who he bound with mental ties as strong as steel Then he drew them all close. “Yeah, apparently they decided to party without us again. “

He fired off a salute to Clarice. “Teleportation to Urdnot Ranch, please. Faiza is waiting for us.” And he sent Clarice a quiet thank you and a mental hug. I owe you another.

Alex is possessed too Clarice thought at him. We have him contained. Then she ported them to Deus ex Faiza.

The doctor had moved Ty Lee and Azula to another set of beds, and directed Nate to put the women down. She paled, slightly, but to her credit her face remained calm. "Neena is bleeding pretty severely, I'll need to take care of that first, then the rest of their injuries."

Kitty kept ahold of her ear. She was pretty sure she needed that for Faiza to heal it.

Neena wasn’t really paying attention. Thomas was in the room, and she decided that she would rather say hello to him, figuratively speaking, than fuss over who got healed first.

Nate facepalmed and sighed. He moved to Faiza’s side, presenting Neena’s tongue to her. Here, you might need this. His mental touch was far more powerful than it had been before today and he gently smoothed away fatigue and tiredness from those he could reach in the room.

Faiza looked at Neena like she was bonkers, then she shook her head and turned to Kitty. Except for the ear, the girl looked to be in good physical shape. “Okay, duck, hold still.”

Neena was too busy having a mental breakdown all over Thomas. She wasn’t going to die in the two minutes it took to get her shit together enough to deal with all this.

Nate sat down and was tired then. And sighed. “Where to the secured possessed people go?“ He gestured back at Alicia who was still floating along.

Emma piped up, uncrossing her legs and heading toward Nate. “I’ll take you to the brig. Alex is already there.” She squeezed his shoulder, smiling softly. “You did well. Thank you for not destroying our windows.”

Carefully, Faiza stitched Kitty back together, working slowly to ensure that she did this right. Neena could take a moment to collect herself - it was better for her health if she wasn’t in the middle of panicking while it happened.

Clarice folded her arms. Today officially sucked.

Nate paused and then hugged everyone in the room. “Thank you, Clarice, Faiza. Once again, you two are lifesavers, literally.” And then he carted off Alicia with Emma to stow her in the brig. As he walked off with her, he looked at her. “We have a brig?”

“Yes.” Emma said with a shrug. “When you consider the things your uncle can do, it only makes sense that we’d need to build a facility to contain him if things went. . . well, how they do.” She shrugged, talking to him as she led him off.

Neena eventually let go of Thomas and went to be healed, though she was clearly reluctant to let go of him.

Faiza shook her head at stubborn women, though she thought it was really sweet. Then she got to work healing Neena.

Today had turned out to be a very long day.