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Bedrock.
It’s familiarly isolating.
Cold and hard with jagged edges. It certainly doesn’t do anything to lessen the pain her when she’s slammed up against the wall, instead it leaves her back bloody and torn.
It felt like her back had been dragged up and down a concrete road until she was left raw.
The bright neon pink hue of her blood stains most every wall around her, it’s even smeared on the glass effectively obscuring certain small sections of the outside from her view.
Not that there was much to look at besides more walls.
She must still be in the nether, because it’s unbearable hot in her cell. She’d taken off her jacket hours ago, but it did very little to curb the heat.
What she wouldn’t give for a shower right now. She feels so fucking sticky.
Katie sits down on the floor and pushes herself up against the wall, forcing herself not to wince as her back made contact with denticulate wall.
They could’ve at the very least given her a fucking bed or something. It’s something she notes to complain about later.
For now she tries desperately to focus on anything else but the pain she’s in. Her, frankly well deserved, few moments of peace don’t last very long.
Her breathing halts as she hears footsteps echo from down the hall.
Who is it now? She wonders. Dark Cucurucho who will sit there and mock her with his wide uncanny smile, maybe one of the guards coming to deliver her rations, a worker arriving to draw more blood, or they’re here to inject her with more of their obscure chemicals.
She’d rather be left alone entirely.
She misses Multi and Nacho.
The closer the footsteps become the more Katie pulls into herself. Her legs end up tucked tightly against her chest and her head is ducked.
The way her eyes are squeezed shut in fear feels almost child-like. Everything about being here makes her feel so small.
“Bestie?” A voice rings out.
She’d have preferred one the workers. Her body tenses even further than it had been before.
It takes everything in Katie to force her head up.
Hesitantly she meets Ewron’s eyes.
Distantly she wonders what he sees. Whatever it is must not be good though because the smug little grin on his face dims fast.
She makes no move to scream at him, shout, or yell. She doesn’t make any noise at all. Her expression remains blank.
Had she not been looking him straight in the eye, Ewron would wonder if she’d even heard of seen him at all.
“Kaśka?” Ewron hesitantly calls out. He’s starting to panic.
The only noticeable change in her demeanor at the call is her breathing, which increasingly becomes more labored as time passes.
A nervous chuckle escapes him and a smile works its way onto his face“I know you can hear me bestie.”
“Fuck you.” Katie spits.
The smile on Ewron’s face shifts. It looks more genuine now. “Theres my bestie.” He giggles almost manically. “Isn’t this better? You’re safe in here, no?”
“UhHHMMM… emph- yeah… emphasis on that no actually...” Katie deadpans.
For a moment Ewron is quiet, but a click of his tongue ends the silence as he speaks once more. “Katie, Katie, Katie. Can you not see? In here there is no federation watching over you. Even if something does happen to the Dark Federation you will be considered their prisoner no? The blame cannot possibly fall onto you hmm?” He’s using that tone again, it’s sickeningly sweet, it wraps around her… constricting her just like always.
Keeping her complacent, keeping her right where he wants her to be.
When Katie doesn’t say anything in response he continues. “In here you don’t have to pick sides. You don’t have to worry about anything ever again.”
Katie seethes as the rambling continues. He’s trying so hard to masquerade himself as her protector, to play around with her, to fucking manipulate her. “Shut the fuck up. Just shut the fuck up would you? See Ewron, you just… you… do-not… understand… a thing about me.”
He scoffs at her words. “Don’t understand? Katie I understand everything! I know you as well as I know myself!”
“Oh shuttt theee fuckkkk upppp!” She groans, both her hands trailing down her face in her exasperation. “You are not my fucking bestie Ewron. We haven’t been friends in like- like a hot ass minute.”
Ewron’s face scrunches up as she talks, like he couldn’t possibly comprehend where her disdain for him could be coming from. “I still think of you as my bestie. Even if you hate me Katie, I care about you. This is me protecting you and the rest of my family.”
Hurt flashes across Katie’s face and it makes Ewron pause. “YOU FUCKING SOLD ME-“ She winces and lowers her voice. “You fucking sold me out Ewron. You don’t actually fucking care, you’re just fucking selfish just like- just like Multi said you were.”
“Multi? You fucking…” And Ewron actually has the gall to burst out laughing in her face at that. “You bring up that murderer here? He is with the federation Katie, no matter how much you care about them a fed is a fed!” He rubs at his temples, trying to soothe his oncoming head ache.
“Welp. You’re not much fucking better then are you? Because selling me out and all that shit… did you not just pretty much sentence me to death?” Katie giggles quietly to herself.
“I knew they wouldn’t kill you Kaśka.” Ewron retorts.
“That’s not the fucking point. I think I just- I just might as well already fucking be dead. This might actually just be worse! So why don’t you fix it Ewron? Fucking kill me.” Her face remains as unbothered as ever, even as she subtly pleads for an out.
Any remaining satisfaction Ewron felt died in that moment. “What? Fucking what?” His shoulders shake with his choked up, disbelieving laughter.
“I know you heard me bestie. You said you’d do anything for me right? Granted that was a while ago, but if you still consider us friends… I mean. Well you’ll do me a little solid then won’t-cha?” She smirks.
“You’re kidding me. You want me to kill fucking you?” His words are shaky and Katie can’t be sure if it’s from his amusement or nervousness at her request.
Ewron’s eyebrows knit together as she takes her time to respond, pretending to be mulling it over. His smile remains, but it’s frayed.
“Yeppers.” She smiles innocently, arms crossed over her chest. Her legs extend in a way that comes off as being relaxed.
She’s anything but relaxed in the moment, her nerves firing on all ends, but Ewron doesn’t need to know that.
“Katie I love you. It’s not pretty love. Maybe Multi- maybe Multi is right! I am greedy. I do what serves me, and keeping you here Katie? Well… kurwa.” He chuckles. “It’s serving me really fucking well Katie.”
Suddenly he steps closer and lays a hand on the glass. He stares at her almost longingly and it makes Katie’s stomach roll.
In the end she switches the subject. “Soooo… how long do you think till they’re done with all the needles and stuff Ewron. Because let me tell ya! I’m getting realllllyyy, reallllyyy, REALLYYY bored of being poked all day.”
Ewron’s face falls. “They are… poke- they are poking you with needles?”
“Yep! They’ve been draining my blood quite a bit actually! On the bright side though it does actually cool me down a little!” She beams.
He squints at her trying to decipher whether or not this is another one of her tricks or not. “For why? For what? Do you know?”
Katie just gives him a look. “Are you serious. WHY ELSE WOULD THEY KEEP ME HERE!” She sighs for probably the hundredth time today. “Y’know people on the server might ‘care’ somewhat about me, but not enough for your ‘Big Boss’ to use it against them.”
Multi would care. Would he not? Does she even deserve his care in the first place after everything she put him and Nacho through?
“You, Multi and Nacho are…” Before Ewron Can say anything more Katie cuts in.
“Do you even fucking remember. Do you even re-fucking-member what got me here. I literally just gave them Nacho, so it’s- things with me and Multi aren’t exactly like- y’know… sunshine and rainbows right now.”
It hurts to deny that they love her. Because it’s already something that’s been keeping her awake at night.
It hurts because she isn’t entirely sure she’s lying.
And her reasoning is sound, so much so that it makes even Ewron pause.
“They’re literally going to kill me when I’m not useful to whatever the fuck anymore Ewron. Why not speed it up for me a little?” She smiles.
“Kurwa. No. You are so fucking. Katie you are sooooo… fucking difficult.” He groans. “Did I not just fucking tell you I want to keep you alive? Did I just not? I’m not going to kill you, like what the fuck!”
“Fuck you. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!” She stomps her foot on the ground below. “They’re going to fucking kill me Ewron! Wouldn’t you want to be the only one to do that or- or something fucking deranged like that?”
“They won’t kill you. I’m your bestie Katie.”
“What the fuck is that even supposed to mean.”
Ewron doesn’t respond. Instead he turns away from her, his hand lingers on the glass for just a moment before it falls as he walks away from her.
“Ewron? EWRON! GET THE FUCK BACK HERE.” Katie screams.
He doesn’t stop, the only indication he even heard her at all being the way his pace quickened as he all but fled from her sight.
“Fuck.” She grinned.
“I’m so fucked.”