Creeping Up On You

Creeping Up On You Chapter 4- Duck and Run

While last chapter held some memories returned this one is going to hold attempted rape. If this bothers you, please don’t read. All other warnings, disclaimers and thoughts still apply

Creeping Up On You chapter 4- Duck and Run


To this world I\'m unimportant just because I have nothing to give
So you call this your free country
Tell me why it cost so much to live
Tell me why

This world can turn me down
But I won\'t turn away, oh no
I won\'t turn around

All my work and endless measures never seem to get me very far
Walk a mile just to move an inch
Now even though I\'m trying so damn hard
I\'m trying so hard

This world can turn me down but I won\'t turn away
And I won\'t duck and run, cause I\'m not built that way
When everything is gone there is nothing there to fear
This world cannot bring me down

Duck and Run By 3 Doors Down

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Last chapter we left Kay with memories set off by a flower that shouldn’t be in her bedroom.
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“Well if it isn’t the little princess. Where are your bastard knights now? Or your bitches in waiting?” I didn’t need to turn around to identify the voice. Shishio. I did anyway and found him lounging against my doorframe. Now I really was trapped.

“Stay away,” be proud, my voice was strong and I didn’t feel that confident. He laughed, moving languidly from the frame into my room.

He moved in and grabbed my upper arms before I could even thing to scream. But that is exactly what I did. I screamed so loud that if my neighbors hadn’t been at work, they would have heard me at the opposite end of their apartments. Shishio had grabbed my wrists to free up his other hand, jerking them over my head. NO! Oh God, no.

/I’m tied to the bed again. There is no where to go, there id no give in the ropes. I have already screamed myself hoarse. No one is coming, except him. He stays in the shadows always, I don’t know how I know that, but I do. I never see his face but I feel his hands all over me. /

I am jerked to the present where Shishio is doing the same. “Bitch, you have been asking for this for so long. I’m going to make you scream, scream for me Kay, scream as you did for him.” I was confused but I hurt, he was pinching slapping me painfully. I couldn’t hold back the whimpers of pain, the tears he drank from my slap reddened cheeks.

He has torn my work clothes from my body, everything lies in shreds around us. I can feel his hand, trying to force my legs apart. I give just a little, to position my knee. I don’t have enough leverage, but I try to knee him in his exposed balls. Shishio curses as he slaps me, over and over again. I feel like I\'m about to loss consciousness, I can’t hold on much longer. I feel him, not his hand but his dick. I give the last of my fight to a scream. One so loud, so scared, that no one in the building couldn’t hear it. “SOME ONE HELP ME PLEASE! AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!”

He slaps me again, harder then the others and they were just brutal. I lose the connection I needed to keep, the one with the world around me. With me out he could do anything to me, and I wouldn’t know exactly what he had done. My right wrist crunches and shatters as he applies pressure to both of them. That’s it I can’t take any more. I float, I don’t know where I am, but I can see something ahead.

/”She will never have full use of her right arm. She will be lucky to even have half use of it.” I can’t tell who is talking. I can’t see anything, I scream out to some one any one. “Please, some one help me!”

The terror that I know I have been feeling for a long time has taken over again. Megumi and Kenshin are in the room now, on either side of me. Holding me down. I struggle against a nameless fear as I fight physically harder to not be bound. I have no control. There is nothing I can do…/

I am brought back to the real world of pain and misery by a yank on my right wrist. I didn’t realize it, but I was free of Shishio’s hold. What I see are two shadows fighting, in my dark living room, I now know I am free and struggle to sit up. I cradle my wrist to my breast. I feel, in no way, safe but I am not held down, my head is clear, I can think again.

I grab my long black leather trench coat and dash for my apartment door, hoping to stay out of reach. I didn’t quite make it before a hand snaked out and sent me sprawling by snatching at my ankle. I kick at the dark shape that is seemingly connected to the hand. My eyes adjust to the dark for me to see it is Shishio. And Sano.

The pain in my bare foot as I connected with Shishio’s nose and the howl of pain let me know that I hit him pretty hard. His hand didn’t let go though. I used my heel to smash down on the offending appendage, he finally let go.

I scrabble for the door, yanking it open while on my knees. I push my self up, squeaking in pain as I push off with my injured wrist. My momentum sent me away from the fighters, into the wall. I use it as a guild down the hall as my tears continue to distort my vision and blind me.

I make it to the stairs when I can hear some one walking with strength of purpose behind me. I run, trying to scrabble down the flight of stairs before me. I stumble, missing the last few stairs, landing on my wrist.

/Its behind me, I just can\'t seem to escape it. I was nearly blinded by the harsh sun light, something I hadn’t seen for God knows how long, I sure didn’t. I am naked, that was how he had left me for as long as I can remember being there with him. I run, stopping only when I trip, which is often. The light is so bright. I didn’t see the young tree until it was too late, I slammed into it, making me spin and crash into a larger one. I hear a snap, thinking I just broke yet another stick, twig, what ever. Pain, fear and freedom keep me moving. I am always falling, landing on my right arm, crunch, snap. I get up, agony tearing its way through me, driving back the fear, bring forth thought…/

“Kay! Kay are you alright?” I can hear some one talking to me, I knew who it was too, I just couldn’t tell you. I am too disorientated. I remembered Shishio attacking me, my eyes open and widen nearly hysterically. I calm as I hear the sirens, I can hear them as they approach. I look up, into a face, at first I thought it was Shishio, my mind playing tricks on me.

“Kaoru, come on, I know you are there, come on, look at me, really look at me, not through me.” Sano’s face came into focus, bleeding over and finally replacing Shishio’s. He was close, close enough to kick, but far enough I couldn’t touch him otherwise.

“Why are you here?” now don’t think I’m not grateful, but for some one who wasn’t supposed to follow me home, he got there awfully fast. I think.

“I finished your shift at the café. I was on my way home when I heard you scream-“

Before he could say more we heard, “Police! Freeze! Get away from the woman.” I saw Aoshi and Hiko behind the cop. He was tall, I was beginning to think all men on campus had to fulfill a height requirement to work or go to school there. His raven black hung in strands in front of his golden eyes, but otherwise his hair was short, which I couldn’t say for the rest of him. Like most of the men I know, his legs were long and powerful, I could see that. His shoulders weren’t as broad as Hiko’s and Sano’s but like Aoshi, his shoulders were broad and muscled. He held his gun, trained on Sano like he knew how to use it and would if Sano didn’t move.

Sano slowly put his hands up and moved away. She didn’t even try to explain what was going on. A calm swept over me as I looked at the three men I knew. “Sir, thank you, but he isn’t the one you need to point your gun at. Sano, is Shishio still in my apartment?” I was wrong, it wasn’t calm, it was like nothingness. I felt dead inside.

“Yeah,” was his only response, but the concern, damn it, in his eyes said more, asked more then he would actually say and ask.

I was taken by surprise when the guys I knew turned on their heels, backs to me and the officer, Saito the name on his tag said, pushed past Sano and me. “Which one is yours miss?” He didn’t look at me at all. Last one on the left.” I responded. I looked down to see what the men where seeing. I squeaked. They were getting quite a show. Shishio hadn’t left any article of clothing on my frame. They had seen nearly every mark, slap; bruise everything, on my body, even my old scars. My trench coat was barely on me. The dead feeling residing in me was slowly giving way to something else, but at that moment I wasn’t panicking as I normally would, maybe that was a sign.

I wrapped the coat around me as much as it would go, much like a robe, and belted it in place. I was twitching, getting nervous. “Excuse me but, um, Sano can I go to your place and change?” I could feel the flush as it worked its way up my neck to my hairline.

Sano handed me his keys, with out turning to face me. Grabbed them while I was still sitting sprawled out in the stair well, my legs bare but the rest of me covered. I used my left hand to grasp the railing and pull myself up. I nearly kissed the stairs again as my let ankle protested the weight. I stumbled up the stairs, getting a rhythm that allowed me to put minimal weight on the ankle and still make it up stairs.

“Kay, are you going to be alright?” Aoshi asked. I didn’t turn around, but kept going up, only a few more steps to go. “Yeah, it doesn’t hurt much, ill be fine.” I was playing obtuse. I knew what he really meant.

I pushed open the door to the hallway and left them all behind.

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I made it to Sano’s apartment, the one right across from mine. I unlocked the door and entered. I turned my back to the door I had just closed and collapsed against it. Tears had begun to course down my cheeks yet again. I dashed them away, taking deep breaths. I needed to change, and call Kenshin to let him know I was going to be late.

I raided Sano’s chest. There was one like it in Mia’s, Megs and Kenshin’s places. It was there incase I needed to crash for the night. I grabbed a black bra, a black small Men’s dress shirt and my black pants. I grabbed one of Sano’s ties, a black one with large silver moons and silver stars, and my toiletries. I snagged Sano’s phone to call Kenshin.

“Interstellar, how may I help you?”

“Kenshin?”

“Yeah?”

“It’s Kay, I’m going to be late tonight. I ran into some trouble at my apartment.”

“What kind of trouble?” This is where it was going to get sticky, I didn’t want to lie to him, but I didn’t want him to come rushing over either.

“Some one broke in… the police are here, and as soon as I am finished I’ll come in, no big deal, besides Sano was here to help me. More or less the truth with out the really nasty parts, I hated myself for it.

“Are you sure? Do just want the night off-.” I cut him off. “No, I will be in, just let me talk to the police, I’ll be fine and in before you know it.”

“Ok, give me a call when you are on your way in. Oh and Kay, are you sure there is nothing else wrong? Have you told me everything? You know that tonight is notoriously slow, I can give you the time off, I know this can’t be easy for you.”

“No worries, everything is just fine. I’ll call when I’m on my way, boss,” I gave him a bit of my somewhat cocky attitude. “I gotta go, the sooner I talk with the police the sooner I get into work. Later.” I hung up the phone before he could say anything more.

I took a shower, dried off and got dressed. I didn’t want to face the group of people outside the apartment. Before I exited the safest place in the world at the moment, I made sure I was all bundled up in my trench coat. Even with all my clothes on, I was still feeling rather naked and raw.

I took deep soothing breaths, I had to face them at some point, I knew that, I didn’t have to like it though. I opened the door to my second sanctuary and stepped into the hallway…

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