Lawless

by Jai Williams

  John shook his whole body. “I HOPE YOU BURN!” he yelled in anger.

  Ted stood away from John. “Okay, we had our fun. We’ve laughed, we’ve cheered, we’ve even cried—well, you did, and at the end of the day, this relationship, just like all relationships between a torturer and his victim, has to end. So, I ask you this last question. Do you have any last words?” asked Ted with an open smile.

  “None for you; you don’t deserve them,” replied John as tears ran down his face and dripped to the floor.

  “Oh snap – well technically, those were your last words, so that backfired,” replied Ted. Ted raised Lucifer over his head with a joyful smile on his face and he was about to swing it with all of his strength when one of his men came barging through the door.

  “Sir, we have a problem,” said the guy, huffing and puffing.

  “The problem better not be that you just fucked up because if so, I’ll kill you next,” replied Ted as he was still looking at John with Lucifer above his head.

  “No sir, it’s not a major problem because we stopped it,” replied the guy.

  “Well, what do you want, a medal or something?” said Ted.

  “No sir, it’s just…what do you want us to do with the trespassers?” replied the guy as he caught his breath.

  Ted lowered Lucifer to the ground and turned around to the guy. “Trespassers? How many?” he asked.

  “Nine or so,” the guy replied.

  Ted left the room and the guy followed him,. but before Ted headed upstairs he put Lucifer back in its rightful place. “We saw one of the men just entering a back door. He seemed to not be wearing an army outfit like the others,” said the guy walking beside Ted.

  “Army, you say?” replied Ted. They got upstairs and turned the corner. Ted saw some of his men boxing in Captain Harris, Finn and the soldiers. Ted walked through his men and chatted to these trespassers. Ted told his men to take them downstairs so he could have a little chat with these trespassers, or that’s what they thought…

  Chapter Nine: Torture after Torture

  Captain Harris, Finn and the seven soldiers were pushed and shoved through the hallway until they reached a door that was open and they passed through it. They saw a stairway going down – going down to hell, that is. They all walked down single file, with Captain Harris first, followed by the soldiers and Finn. All they saw when they reached the bottom of the stairs was darkness, except the light shining in the room down the hall. John was still in great pain but he was relieved because just a minute ago he was about to die. John heard footsteps and when they got closer and closer he heard them more clearly and he could remember that a man came in before and told Ted that there were trespassers they caught, so John assumed that Ted decided to bring the trespassers down to torture them. One by one all the men entered the room and Ted, who was the last to enter the room, flicked a switch that turned on a light in the torture room but it only shined over a little area that had metal half circles sticking into the ground so the light didn’t reveal the spiky walls. Another one of Ted’s men entered after Ted did, and he was carrying chains. Ted’s men forced Captain Harris, Finn and the soldiers down so they could chain them up. They were handcuffed and their ankles were cuffed together too. A chain was wrapped around the cuffs and a metal half- circle in the floor and was locked tightly with a padlock so Captain Harris, Finn and the soldiers were sitting down with their back, hunched and their hands right near their feet.

  Ted rubbed his hands together. “Okay men leave us. I’m going to have quite a long chat with these trespassers,” he said to his men as he gave an evil look at all the men chained to the ground. All Ted’s men left the room, returning to their posts.

  “WHAT’S HAPPENING!” yelled John as the door closed.

  “John, is that you?” asked Finn with some relief as he was wiggling around.

  “Yeah, it’s me, Finn,” replied John.

  “All right, I think that’s enough chitchat from you guys. I think it’s my turn,” said Ted as he butted in to stop Finn and John from saying anything else. Ted walked up and down the line of men chained up. They looked like they were lined up ready for their execution. “Okay gentlemen, you know why you’re here,” said Ted as he continued walking up and down. Ted paused for a second and waited for a response but unfortunately no one responded, so all he could hear was the men struggling to move. “You’re here because you were caught trespassing on my property. Now back in the old days you would be told to exit the building but we don’t live in those shitty times anymore,” said Ted. Ted stopped directly in front of Finn and crouched down to him. “Those rules don’t apply here; in fact, those rules don’t apply anywhere. So you…” he said with a serious look, staring into Finn’s eyes. Ted stood up and pointed to all of the men chained up with both of his fingers. “…and all of you, will have to be punished. Now, I don’t normally get this many people in one night so this is like winning the jackpot for me except my men do all the work and I get the prize,” he said with a bit of a smile. Ted walked over to John, who was still strapped into the chair, and he got close to his face. “Would you like to tell them how much fun we had? You know, get them all psyched up and ready to go?” he said with his crazy eyes looking into John’s eyes. Ted pulled his head away from John’s face. “No? Ok, I’ll do it then,” he said.

  Ted walked over to the men chained up. “Now you guys are going to feel, taste and enjoy every little bit of what I’m going to do to you,” he said contentedly. “Wow, saying it like that makes it seem like I’m going to rape you but no, no one’s getting raped tonight. Maybe one of my homosexual men will do that but not me. I’m pure straight. I got a foxy bitch waiting for me upstairs,” he said with a smile. Ted looked over at John. “You know what I’m talking about, John. You’ve seen that hot piece of ass. Don’t deny it; you’d fuck her – you’d fuck her like there’s no tomorrow, and in your case there will be no tomorrow,” he said with a sunny smile.

  Ted walked up and down the men chained up. “Now, I’m going to tell you a story and John will back me up when I say that my stories are amazing. Won’t ya, Johnny?” he asked, happily. Ted turned his head to John so he could hear a reply but John remained silent, so Ted turned his head back to the men. “He just probably wants me to get on with the story. Okay now, this is a love and sex story. It’s the story about how I met Selina, the sexy piece of ass I was just talking about. Okay, so I was settling into this place and I kept finding new men to join me and accept me as their leader. The ones that didn’t, well…bang – fuckin’ killed them because some people are gonna hate. Anyway, I sent some of my men out to scavenge nearby towns and they ran into some trouble; they were ambushed by some rogues. Grandpa over there now knows what rogues are, and I’m guessing you army men have come across them before and you,” Ted pointed his finger at Finn, “Now I don’t know anything about you, but to me you look like a little bitch that has no idea what rogues are, so allow me to summarize them for you. They are douche bags who kill anyone,” he said.

  “Didn’t you just describe what you are?” said Finn with a terrified look upon his face.

  Ted laughed as he tilted his head up in the air and lowered it again. Ted clenched both of his fists near his head. “No, no. I’m different; I only kill those who don’t follow a leader or who disobey me. I don’t kill everyone; I in fact, keep prisoners,” he said, trying to keep his cool and not get angry about what Finn just said. “Now where were we…oh, that’s right, my men were ambushed by rogues. They were outnumbered and they were about to be killed until help showed up and all the rogues were murdered just like they’re supposed to be. A woman, a sexy and smart woman, came out of nowhere holding a big motherfuckin’ gun and she said to my men, ‘You’re fuckin’ welcome.’ So, my men told her and the others that saved them about this place so they decided to come see it for themselves and as soon as I saw Selina, my heart just told me this is the woman, this is the one you’ve been waiting for. Well, I got hard when I
saw her so that was probably my dick talking. So, over time we got to know each other and just like that, we became fuck buddies and that’s it. That’s how I met Selina,” said Ted with a joyful expression. “Now do we have any questions?” asked Ted as he stretched his whole body.

  “Yeah. Why the fuck are you boring us to death?” said Captain Harris as he gave Ted an angry look. The other men looked over at the Captain and shook their heads with a worried look on their faces.

  “You are one disrespectful asshole and do you know what I do to assholes, unless its Selina’s, then I just ram my dick into it. So, you know what I do?” asked Ted as he hit his fist into his other hand. Captain Harris looked up at Ted, who was standing right in front of him.

  “You remove him from these chains and see if you could fight him,” said Captain Harris with anger.

  Ted faked a laugh. “Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha. Yeah, you will be removed from these chains but you won’t even have a chance to lay a finger on me because you’ll be strapped down on Satan’s throne, motherfucker,” he said with a mean look.

  “Satan’s throne?” replied Captain Harris. “Oh yeah, that’s what I call the chair I torture you on and I call this room Hell’s cage and wait until you meet Lucifer, then you’re going to be shitting yourself. All of you are going to be pissing yourselves; in fact, if one of you don’t piss yourself, then I will be quite surprised,” replied Ted. Ted got right in front of Captain Harris’s face. “You’re up. It’s time to accept your fate and see what I’ve got in store for you, and I’m feeling greedy so I’m going to take my time with you,” he said with a horrifying smile. Ted walked up to the door of the room, opened it and got two of his men from right outside the door.

  “Hey Finn, please tell me that Alice is fine,” said John in a soft voice as Ted was at the door.

  “Yes, she’s fine. She’s safely hidden,” replied Finn.

  “Good,” replied John with relief. Ted walked back into the room with two of his men. “What, I walk away for a second and the mayors of bitch-ville and pussy town start talking to each other? Did I say you could have a little chat? No I didn’t; I said shut the fuck up, which I should have been clear about, so my bad.” One of Ted’s men unchained Captain Harris and the other man unstrapped John from the chair. John got chained down where Captain Harris was and Captain Harris got thrown on the chair and Ted and one of his men started strapping him down. After Ted strapped Captain Harris to the chair he walked over to John, who was still in pain and was spitting out blood from when he had to eat his own toe. “Now Johnny, me and you are not done, ok? I only put you there because I’ve got some new toys and I want to try them out. I’m putting you back on the shelf for now, but I’ll be back,” said Ted, smiling.

  Ted turned around and headed over to Captain Harris, who reacted just like John did at first when he was strapped to the chair; he started wiggling around to see if he could break free. “That won’t work, man. I mean, don’t you think if someone could break free from these straps I wouldn’t be sitting back and watching them do so? No, I would just add in more straps but luckily no one has ever done that,” said Ted. Ted told his men to leave so that he could enjoy what he loved best, so the men left the room. “Okay, first of all, before we start the torture I would like to know the name of who I’m about to torture” said Ted with curiosity.

  “I’m the guy who’s going to kill you,” replied Captain Harris.

  Ted laughed. “Ha-ha-ha. Like I’ve never heard that before, but seriously what’s your fuckin’ name?” he asked with an annoyed look on his face.

  “Captain Harris,” replied Captain Harris.

  “A Captain, huh? Well, that would be my first. What type of first name is Captain? Ha-ha,” replied Ted as he got rid of the annoyed look on his and replaced it with a surprised look.

  “What do you mean first?” asked Captain Harris.

  “Well, first Captain, of course. This is going to be fun–well, for me, of course; for you – let’s just say that you should have died on the battlefield,” replied Ted with a smile upon his face.

  Ted headed to his tray full of tools that he used earlier on John. “What should we start with first…oh I know,” he said with excitement. Ted picked up the pliers. “The fun I’ve had with this little bugger,” he said as he stared at the pliers. He turned back to Captain Harris and got up close to his face and showed Captain Harris the pliers. “Now what to do with this…” he said. Ted pulled himself away from Captains Harris’s face and picked up Captain Harris’s left hand. “Now this will hurt like a bitch but well you being a Captain, you should know what pain feels like,” he said. Ted used the pliers to pull one of Captain Harris’s fingernails off. Captain Harris clenched his right hand into a fist and started shaking his whole body as he tried to get through the pain Ted was inflicting on him. Ted showed Captain Harris his nail. “Nailed it. Do you get it?” he said with a chuckle, but Captain Harris was still shaking and he didn’t acknowledge the stupid joke Ted made.

  Ted put the pliers back on the tray and without hesitation, he picked up the two knuckle dusters and put one in each hand. “Imma beat ya motherfucker” said Ted smiling. “Boom, boom, boom and boom” he said with a massive smile across his face as he was beating Captain Harris’s face. Ted stopped beating Captain Harris’s face. “Well, that was my own version of the song,” said Ted. All the other men chained up couldn’t bear watching Captain Harris being beaten to death.

  “STOP IT. YOU’RE GOING TO KILL HIM,” yelled Jay.

  Ted looked back at Jay. “But that’s what I was planning to do,” he said as he was trying to see who yelled out.

  “Why are you doing this?” asked Jay.

  “Ah, you’re the one who spoke. Why am I doing this? Wow, that is a real tough question to answer. Can you ask me another question? I can’t answer that one. Sorry,” replied Ted.

  “I’ll tell you why. Because you have nothing else to do, so instead of fighting back to stop what this world has become, you decided to join it and you’re just like the rest of them – you are one messed up, insane, psychopathic, inhuman, fucked up person and you should be all killed,” replied Jay in anger.

  Ted started sarcastically clapping. “Wow, that was one great answer. I mean truly it was; in fact, I couldn’t have worded it better,” he replied sarcastically.

  “Shut up, Jay. Don’t say another word to this guy. I don’t want you to be tortured next,” said Captain Harris as he was pushing through the pain.

  “Oh no, no, no. Don’t tell Jay to shut up. Jay can say whatever because you know what, Jay? You’re next,” replied Ted. Jay’s face filled with fear, he swallowed the air in his mouth and his hands started to shake. Ted put the knuckle dusters back on the tray and walked over to Jay. “Oh, that’s right, Jay, you’re next. You’re the big mouth; you’re all talk, but when I put you up there, you’re going to wish that there was a voice in your head saying to you to shut the fuck up,” he said with his hands behind his back, looking down at Jay. Ted looked at the other men. “That goes for anyone else who talks,” he said in a threatening tone.

  Ted returned to Captain Harris and picked up the drill on the tray and walked over to Captain Harris’s right side and without saying anything he started drilling through Captain Harris’s right hand. The pain was just too much to bear. Captain Harris closed his eyes, turned his head as far as he could to the left and screamed the pain out and all that the men that were chained up could do, was sit there and watch as their Captain was getting tortured. They felt helpless. Ted kept drilling hole after hole through Captain Harris’s hand until there were three holes, then Ted stopped and put the drill back on the tray. “Okay, three holes, that’s enough,” said Ted, smiling down at Captain Harris. Captain Harris didn’t reply because he was in too much pain. Blood dripped on the floor from Captain Harris’s hand. “Okay, now I’m going to do one more thing to you and then it’s Jay’s turn,” said Ted, so Ted looked back at the tray with all the tools on it and tried to figu
re out which tool he wanted to use on Captain Harris. He looked up and down on the tray and finally decided to pick up the axe. “Okay, now I’m going to cut something off you. You will bleed and you will cry but you will live,” said Ted in a peaceful tone. Ted grabbed Captain Harris’s left ear, pulled the axe up just a bit, swung down and cut about half of Captain Harris’s ear. Captain Harris screamed and banged his hands to express how painful it was. Ted swung the axe again and cut Captain Harris’s ear fully off. He threw the ear at Jay’s head and Jay responded with a horrified look on his face and started shaking his head even faster which showed how scared he was. Ted placed the axe back on the tray.

  “MEN, GET BACK IN HERE!” he yelled and the two men from before, opened the door and walked in.

  “Yes sir, what do you want?” asked one of the men.

  “I need help chaining this guy back up,” replied Ted as he wiped the blood from his glasses on his sleeve. “And I need that guy over there to be strapped into this chair,” said Ted as he was pointing to Jay. One of the men headed over to unchain Jay and the other man unstrapped Captain Harris. The guy dragged Captain Harris to where Jay was chained up and he chained up Captain Harris.

  Jay got strapped down onto the chair and the two men left the room. Jay didn’t try to move around when he was strapped into the chair because he knew there was no point. “Oh, so you’re not going to try and escape. Ok,” said Ted. Jay seemed more focused on preparing himself for what was to come, which was why he didn’t say anything. Ted got directly in Jay’s face. “Oh, so you’re not going to talk either. Well, we’ll change that,” he said while giving Jay a deadly stare. Ted turned to his tray of mostly bloody tools and picked up a knife. He started cutting Jay’s clothes so that he could see Jay’s chest and stomach. Ted placed the knife down and picked up a whip. “Okay now, this is going to leave a mark–well, many marks but who gives a fuck,” he said carelessly. Ted started whipping Jay’s stomach and chest over and over again as hard as he could until he saw that the whip was eventually making Jay bleed. Ted ended up whipping Jay twenty times before he decided to stop. Jay just kept fighting through all the pain and trying to think about something else that would also help him forget about the pain. “Well, we got ourselves a fighter. I like it. You’re a tough son of a bitch but I’m just getting warmed up, so prepare yourself for hell. After all, that’s where we are,” said Ted with a grin.