St.Luke's

The day past in a blur Anna skipped the rest of her classes. She knew if she had had to be around people then she would have put a hole in the wall, or someone’s face. She sat in the darkening library and scribbled away in her journal. Footsteps made her look up from her pages. She heaved a heavy exasperated sigh and slammed her journal shut. She shoved the notebook into her bag and stood to leave. She didn’t even look at him. She was just going to walk past him and walk out the door. She wasn’t going to give him the time of day if he asked her.

He grabbed her arm and in the quietest voice he could manage he said “Don’t you dare walk away from me.”

“Haven’t we been through this already?” her voice rose to the irritation that had been building inside of her.

“You shouldn’t be here alone when the night brings haunting shadows.” he replied. There was no laughter in his voice but the twinkle in his eye gave him away.

“You shouldn’t play games with people.” she shouted not caring if the damned prude bitch that ran the library heard her. “What is this? Am I just some prize that you can hold over him? My god this isn’t the eighteenth century. I am not an object nor a trophy and if you and Serrano can’t accept that then piss off.” Anna saw the librarian lurking in the shadows watching them. “Can we get a little privacy here or are you so dull that you have to watch students fight to get your kicks?” she shouted.

“Don’t you ever just have a conversation without getting all emotional?” Aaron said with a chuckle.

Anna seethed. “Now look here you son of a. . . .” her words were drowned when Aaron placed his lips on hers. She tried to get away from him but unfortunately for her, she wasn’t that strong compared to him. His lips were soft against hers but demanding too. She could feel him groping her and felling her up. She nearly gagged into his mouth. When he did pull away from her she shoved him as hard as she could. She stared at the satisfied smirk that was playing at his lips.

Those abusive tainted lips. Those demanding filthy fingertips that were guaranteed to force you. They had touched her. He had tasted her. He had just sexually harassed her. The thought hit her and nearly caused her to fall over. Whack. Anna blinked and realized that Aaron’s lip was bleeding and she was shaking. “You half assed arrogant louse.” she spat at him.

He stood and backed her into the chair she had only a few moments ago abandoned. He wasn’t joking now. He was, if anything, intimidating. Anna looked around. ‘Damn it’ she cursed mentally ‘Why the hell did I tell Ms. Freed to leave again?’ Her book bag dropped with a soft thud as she fell back onto the cushioned chair. His wicked smile grew more intense.

“Maybe you should be a little scared right about now, Miss Vaughn.” the look in his eye was really beginning to frighten her.

“Why can’t you just find someone else?” Anna begged. He was inches from her face and leaning closer. “Why me?” she whispered.

Aaron smiled at the tears that she was blinking back in her blue eyes. He could feel the fear radiating off her. “Because my dear,” he caressed her cheek “you are one of a kind. Have you noticed that here all of the students are alike? They are. All of them are whores and you are just too ripe for the taking. The girls are alike at least, and you” he whispered “stick out like a sympathy gift at a wedding.”

Anna thought about biting his hand. She had to literally use all of her strength not to bite him. She did however turn her head from him when he tried to kiss her. “What’s wrong? Am I not good enough for you to kiss?” there was anger in his voice but Anna didn’t really care at that point.

She scoffed at him. “You versus Alex?” there she went again with the first names. Not that she and Alex weren’t friends, or so she liked to have thought. “Please.”

Whack. It was Anna’s turn to feel the sting of hand on cheek, but she smiled and almost laughed as she tilted her chin up and faced him. “When your enemy slaps you, turn the other cheek so that he may slap the other one as well.” she smirked and stood. Aaron had backed away for fear of letting all of his anger out on her. She just smiled at him. “Well aren’t you going to hit me again?” she lifted her chin a little higher almost daring him.

“Come.” he grabbed her arm and sprinted out of the library.

“Release me this instant you arrogant prick.” Anna protested as Aaron pulled her along the darkening halls. “Let go.” this was getting ridiculous he was hurting her wrist and she was loosing circulation to her hand, which was good. It would hurt less when she slapped him clear across the face.

He pulled her along as she struggled and protested. He ignored the looks he got from the other student and a few teachers too. Anna refused to make this easy. He pulled her into an empty classroom and locked the door. He shoved her hard and she hit a wall.

“Do you enjoy torturing me you insolent little child?” he whispered in a deadly voice. “Do you know how immensely sexy you are when you are afraid? Most women know how irresistible they are when their emotions are heightened, but you” he pushed her against the wall grinding slightly against her “seem to be completely unaware of how lovely you are.”

Anna felt the wall digging into her shoulder blades. She knew there would be a bruise tomorrow. She wouldn’t look at him, if he was going to do what she was thinking then she refused to look at him or say a damned thing to him.

“You seem a little intimidated.” he said moving down so he could kiss her. She turned her cheek to him and he chuckled. “No wonder. Alex was too gentle, I however won’t be.”

Anna couldn’t feel her body. She knew she had to get him away from her but she also knew that her physical strength was less than enough. She felt his lips tickling her neck. Soft slow caresses that were almost identical to the headmasters. The tingling feeling in her throat threatened to erupt and give her away, but she held it back. As painful as it was for her to hold it in she did so.

“Let it out.” he breathed against her neck. “You’re holding back, my sweet.” his tongue traced along a vein in her neck and she shivered. She let out a breathy moan and he laughed against her. “Feel better?”

Anna nodded even though she knew he couldn’t see her. Please, she thought desperately, let this all go away. As if on cue the world around her went white. All she could feel was a gentle suckling on her neck. Oh God. She thought through the white light. As reality faded back into place she heard soft mocking laughter.

“You like that huh?” he asked looking her full in the eye an licking his lips. His smirk widened. “You haven’t felt anything yet.”

Anna gasped. Aaron’s fingers traced circles around her hips. His kisses still lingered on her neck. He stopped the circles and came up to cup her face. Don’t say my name, she thought as if he could read her eyes. She stared into his chocolate eyes and felt her heart cave. She knew she didn’t want to but her body was having other thoughts.

“You know,” he said thoughtfully in a husky voice “I’ll stop if you want me to. Just say so.”

She knew he wouldn’t stop. She knew he was being facetious and mocking her. She also knew that he knew she couldn’t refuse. He had been teasing her and getting her body too wound up. It was like a spring pushed into too small a space. Anna shook her head.

“Do you want me to stop?” he asked.

Anna felt tears sting her eyes again. The smirk on his face was wicked and despicable. She wanted to wipe the filth of the earth with his face, but then, at that moment in time, she wanted to kill him but she knew it wasn’t going to happen. She shook her head for the second time. Aaron smiled at her and ran a finger up her stomach to her chin. Her back arched involuntarily and goose bumps prickled across her skin.

Aaron laughed “Thought so.” he tugged at her t-shirt and Anna snaked her arms around her stomach, trying desperately to get him to leave her alone. “Tut tut,” he pulled her arms away and grabbed her chin rather forcefully “You do want to enjoy this right?” a single tear fell down her cheek. Aaron brushed it away “Don’t be difficult then.”

He gently tugged her shirt over her head and kissed her and wrapped his arms around her little waist. Anna’s circled her waist in between him and her stomach. She shivered lightly as he kissed her collar bone and moved lower to her stomach. He untangled her arms and she sighed and wrapped them around his neck. “Now now” he whispered coming to the top hem of her skirt. He slid his hands around the back and unzipped it. Anna let it fall to the cold floor. She shivered again, more violently this time.

“Thank Heaven the lights aren’t on.” she thought. Aaron slid down her underwear and stood so that he could look down at her. “Used goods.” the phrase barely registered before she felt him plunge two calloused fingers into her. Pain seeped into her lower abdomen. She gasped. She would have screamed but she could barely hear and register what Aaron was saying. Through the pain she focused. He pushed in and out scratching her inner walls trying to make her come.

“Oh that’s right. You’re Wises bitch.” the mockery in his voice made her cry harder. He pulled out his fingers and she saw faintly specks of blood. “Like that too huh?“ he asked. Anna whimpered and he kissed her. His tongue invaded her mouth. A split second before she thought if he was just satisfied now then maybe he would go away. She could hear him mumbling insane phrases. “So sweet for being Wises little bitch. Usually he tears little ones like you up.” that was the last comprehensible thing she heard him say.

She felt him enter her. The pain was worse than her first time. The pain cut through his words so that they didn’t even make sense, “Mine… sweet…so…” though the pain was searing through her veins and she couldn’t focus very hard. One phrase filtered in and out of the pain ‘used goods’. At one point she thought she heard thunder but that could have been her heart pounding inside her head. She felt him coming closer to his release.

His lips pressed against her neck biting and scaring the soft flesh. ‘One shove. One chance.’ her mind registered. ‘Screw getting away. I’m going to piss this ass hole off. If it’s the last thing I ever do.’ her mind focused harder than ever on her revenge. Aaron was moaning and scratching at her entire body as he came closer to his release.

“Oh Alex” she moaned, knowing it would fully come back to haunt her. She didn’t know how but she managed to shove him hard enough to where he pulled out of her completely before he came. He fell back moaning in surprise and release.

Anna found her ravaged senses and pulled up her underwear and skirt. She grabbed her t-shirt and bolted, ignoring the seething pain that shot through her every limb and muscle. She sprinted through the almost empty halls ignoring the odd looks that were being thrown her way. Her feet were leading the way and she threw her t shirt on over her head and tear stained face.

‘Tears?’ her mind processed. ‘When did I start crying?’ Anna didn’t even know where she was going until she got there. She didn’t even bother knocking she knew he was there. She threw open the door and let it bang against the wall. She barged in and didn’t even give a second look to some of the half dressed occupants.

“Hey what do you think you’re doing?” angry voices followed her. A hand grabbed her arm and spun her to face her assailant. “What the hell are you thinking?”

“You will unhand me now and tell me where Alex is.” she ordered through her tears in a voice that was too unlike her own.

“What?” the person asked, a little stunned by her order.

“She said to let her go Sasser and I must agree. Let her go.”

Anna looked beyond the boy and saw Alex standing in the doorway. Her head reeled and her heart soared. James Sasser stepped away from her but she made no move to go to Alex. Alex also stayed rooted to his spot. His glare looked her over and spotted a colored spot on her neck. He looked her in the eyes and she stared back but only for a moment. Her blue eyes gave way to tears that still lingered. Her gaze hit the floor and she took four quick steps and was safe inside his embrace again. This time he didn’t even try to move her. He just let her stand there and cry into his shirt.

“Shh. Its okay.” Alex said though his own words did little to cure his churning insides. He knew what had happened. He didn’t even have to listen to her silent apologies, Wilson had gotten to her and Alex, more than anybody was going to make him pay. Silently the other occupants slipped out and shut the door with a snap. A single phrase echoed inside his head and gave him chills.

“I’m so sorry Alex.” the voice said “I’m just used goods now.” there was no humor in Anna’s voice, though she tried to pull away and laugh it off. Nothing was funny and he certainly wasn’t about to let her go.