Love can be cruel pt I

Posted on Thu Aug 5th, 2021 @ 4:33pm by Petty Officer First Class Hannah Matsson (Hayes)

Mission: History Speaks
Location: Hannah Mattson’s home
Timeline: A long time ago
1855 words - 3.7 OF Standard Post Measure

{ON}

Hannah stood in the bathroom gazing into the mirror, it had been another night of broken promises from Thomas. A hard day for him left her with scars she hid during the daylight hours, and today was no different, Thomas always made sure the marks from his beatings were confined to areas that couldn’t be seen. Now she stood looking at her upper arms which were covered in bruises from where he’d had his fun. They’d argued and she’d said no to sex the previous night but Thomas had other ideas, he found it fun forcing himself on her his controlling nature coming out.

Hannah shook her head, before crumpling to the floor in tears. She quickly dried her eyes, applied her makeup and made herself look presentable for Lucas’ and her family. She knew how much Lucas hated Thomas, the two never saw eye to eye and little did Lucas know she paid for their arguments every time.

~ Several hours later ~

Tonight was the prom, Hannah had chosen a dress that complimented her figure yet covered the bruises Thomas had left from their last date. If Lucas saw she knew he’d hit the roof and do something nasty to Thomas. Putting on a brave face she stepped out of her room and went to show off her dress to Lucas. “So how do I look?” She did a twirl and waited for the verdict.

Lucas turned around and his mouth literally dropped open. He moved himself up to her and looked over her shoulder as if he was searching for something.

“What are you looking for?” Hannah looked at her brother curiously. “Am I missing something?”

"Either you are not my baby sister or you skipped ahead a few years and left me behind." He teased, she was truly becoming a young woman.

Hannah smiled. “Thank you Lucas” She gave him a hug. “You know I love you, in a sisterly way of course.”

"You are breaking my heart..." he teased as he hugged her back tightly.

Hannah winced as Lucas’ hug squeezed her bruised body but she tried not show it. She knew exactly what would happen if Lucas knew what Thomas had done to her. Right now Lucas was the only man besides he own father she trusted not to hurt her.

He caught her slight winch in her body language and knew it very well, he gently pushed her away from him. "Where?" he said with a no-nonsense tone.

“Where what?” Hannah played innocent, she couldn’t tell Lucas what had happened. She wanted to but how could she?

He narrowed his eyes, starting to poke her at random places.

“Lucas! Stop it!!” Hannah took a step back as Lucas poked in more than one place that hurt. “Please ... don’t.”

Each time he got a reaction his face grew darker. "When we get home, I am going to inspect your body. All of it and then I am going to make sure to nurse up every bruise and cut he has given you." What he didn't say was he was going to count each one and pay them back ten fold. "No but', no's or please's..."

Hannah hadn’t realised Lucas had noticed her hurting before now. She stood for a moment before rushing into a hug. “I ... I said no Lucas ... I said no and he still ...” she said nothing more and simply hugged him tightly.

His body became stiff for a moment as he took in what she had said. "Did he defile your maidenhood?" Few things passed him off as much as rape.

Hannah didn’t say the words, she simply nodded as she held onto Lucas for comfort. She wanted to cry, scream, and let it all out but she couldn’t. She was afraid how others would look at her, how Thomas would make out it was all her fault.

He was so angry he was shaking. "I wish I had evidence to put his sorry ass in jail." he didn't tell her he wished to beat her within an inch of his life.

Hannah nodded. Now she’d admitted it the reality of what had happened to her was starting to set in, but she wasn’t ready and an air of denial set in. “I ..” she drew back. “I have to be ready to go to the prom, Thomas will be here to pick me up soon.”

"I will be taking you there and no buts. Do I have your permission to put up hidden cameras in your room?"

“Cameras! Certainly not!” Hannah shook her head. “I will not be spied on!”

He looked her in the eyes. "It's not you I am spying on, it's him. We we record him doing his shit towards you, then we will have him."

Hannah shook her head. “No Lucas, I said no and I mean no!! Look ... if you want to take me to the prom we need to get going. I’ll be late meeting Thomas.”

He sighed, he would make an order for the equipment to have her room under surveillance, even get her some stuff she can have on her. It wasn't something he would set up without her permission, but he would continue to ask her and sooner or later she would agree. In fact he would do that on the phone, he had everything set up already so all he had to do was make the order and pay. "Come on." he gestured for her to leave with him.

~ The Prom, A little while later ~

Stepping out of the car Hannah was greeted by Thomas. He smiled at Lucas as he wrapped his arms around her. “Good to see you Lucas! Thanks for bringing my girl to the prom. Why don’t you let me get you a drink?”

"From you? No thank you, besides, I am her designated driver and I will stay here and wait for her." he folded his arms over his chest as he leaned against the car. Being under 18, he was not allowed to drive a real car, but if you put a triangle on the back you were allowed to drive it slowly and his car was a nice Volvo.

“Please yourself” Thomas stepped away pulling Hannah with him. “Your loss Lucas!”

Hannah turned to look at her brother as she was pulled away by Thomas, at least she knew Thomas wouldn’t hurt her whilst amongst a crowd. She was safe for now.

He sighed and sat down into his car.

A couple of hours later and a lot of showing off and bragging by Thomas, sending out a drink to Lucas, one with his own little added ingredient designed to keep Lucas out of the way, he took Hannah’s hand and left the dance floor. Heading outside he gave her a look that said ‘Don’t cause trouble’ before dragging her off behind the building.

The drink had been water and he thought it was one of the faculty sending out a student to get him something to drink, Lucas never saw the harm in it. It took a few minutes and he started to get stomach cramps and when it became very bad he knew something was wrong. He got out of the car and tried to empty his stomach to throw up the substance that he had injected, at least he hoped it would ease the pain a little. It was then he saw Thomas dragging his sister out of the party and even with the terrible stomach pain he hurried to make sure she wasn't alone with the man.

Hannah was pinned between Thomas and the hall wall trying to fend off Thomas’s advances when Lucas stumbled around the corner looking for her. “Lucas!” Her eyes rested on her brother seeing something was very wrong.

“What’s up, tough guy?” Thomas threw Hannah to the ground leaving her to watch his ultimate revenge. “Thought you’d be out of the way by now.” He laughed. “Come to save little sis huh?”

Lucas groaned and stood up to his full height, adrenaline, and rage kept him going. But his eyes were showing the pain. "Not only that, I have also come to make you pay for what you have done to her over the years. I have a backlog of injuries I have noticed." he walked towards the monster that was tormenting his sister.

Thomas laughed as he dragged Hannah forward and pulled a knife out of his pocket. “Maybe I should make you watch as I have some fun with Hannah huh?” He quickly pushed her back before turning and thrusting the knife into Lucas’ side.

Lucas grunted, he was so full of adrenaline that he hardly felt it over the other pain. He staggered a little as he looked down, his shirt was quickly going bloody and with a smile, he gripped thomas arm by the wrist, twisted the knife out of his hand and sliced the thumb of his right hand clean off, he was getting dizzy and even adrenaline was having a hard time keeping him up.

Hannah watched as Thomas grimaced and reached for the knife, thrusting it into Lucas a second time. “LUCAS!!” She scrambled to her feet and looked at Thomas before she started screaming for help. She was going to make sure everyone heard and saw what he’d done.

Thomas was taken by surprise, dropping the knife he quickly turned tail giving Hannah an angry look before running for his life.

“Lucas!” Hannah crawled across to him tearing pieces off her dress to pad his wounds as best as she could. “Don’t you go die on me! You hear me?! I need you!!”

He smiled at her. "So you finally became as strong as I knew you were, look at how fast he goes..." he sighed, his stomach cramp came back hard, causing him to curl up, that of course worsened his stab wound.

As a crowd started to gather the sound of sirens in the distance brought little relief.

~ Hospital, Sometime later ~

Hannah sat in her torn dress at Lucas’ bedside, their parents had been called but being overseas meant they wouldn’t be back for at least another 24 hours. Hannah nodded her thanks as a nurse brought her a change of clothes as dropped off from home by friends. Looking to see if Lucas was asleep she slowly slid out of her dress to change.

Lucas woke up at that moment and with blurry eyes he looked around, when the world came into focus he saw the injuries on her back and his anger rose with his heart beat, something that started soft alarms go off from the medical equipment.

Throwing on her clothes Hannah turned to Lucas, she gently took his hand and kissed his cheek as medical staff came rushing in to check. “I’ll be back ... I promise!” Stepping away she headed out of the room. It was time to have her own revenge on Thomas.

TBC ...