Athena’s head flew to the side from the force of Matt’s hand. The blow was so hard she lost balance and fell into the wall. She touched the spot on the side of her face where he had hit her and glared up at him.

“At, I’m so-” Matt tried to help her up but she pulled her fist back and used all of her strength to punch him as hard as she could.

He barley budged and her hand felt like it had just been put into a meat grinder.

“At.” Matt tried again, this time he grabbed her shoulders to make her look at him.

She lifted up her knee and hit him where it would hurt the most. Matt went down like a sack of potatoes. Athena kicked him then spat on him before walking off down the hall to Jimmy’s room. She opened the door and walked in. Jimmy was on his bed watching TV, his eyes widened to the size of dinner plates when he saw Athena. The left side of her face was turning a horrible purplish blue color, and her hand was bleeding.

“Who?” Jimmy quickly nursed her hand.

Athena narrowed her eyes at him. He nodded and finished her hand off before going to find Matt. Athena flopped back on the bed then remembered her pets. Quickly she got up, ignoring the pain in her hand and walked into Matt’s room.

“Limp, Peach. We’re gonna stay in Jimmy’s room tonight.” She whispered and went to open the cage but was distracted by the door slamming shut and the sound of it locking.

She spun around and backed up against the wall. Matt had her corned with a knife to her throat.

“Don’t scream, babe.” He whispered.

Athena felt fear course through her veins as he traced the knife down her neck. She shuttered from the cool metal against her skin.

“Don’t. Please.” She pleaded.

“To late At, you had your chance to play nice. Now we’re doing this my way.” Matt hissed and shoved the knife in his back pocket before delivering a swift punch to her stomach.

Matt caught Athena before she could sink to the ground. Tears spilled out of her eyes.

“Matt, please!” She cried.

“No. It’s Shadows to you, bitch.” He snapped and lifted her up by her hair.

“Help! Jimmy!” She screamed.

Matt slapped her across the face and tossed her on the bed. Athena was too scared to move in fear of what he would do.

“Athena! Are you in there?” Jimmy yelled and began to bang on the door.

Matt pulled out a needle and jammed it into her arm before pushing down on the trigger.

Athena clutched her side in pain and watched as he went to the door and growled, “No she’s not. Go check with Ruby.”

Athena wanted to scream out that she was there but she couldn’t. Her mouth wasn’t connected to her brain at the moment. She was barley keeping awake since the blow to her head was pretty hard.

“You’ll never leave me again.” Matt whispered picking up the defenseless Athena.

She whimpered realizing that she couldn’t move. The drug that was in the injection she had just received had temporally paralyzed her.

“I love you At.” He whispered and pressed another needle into her.

Her eyelids began to feel heavy and soon they were forced shut.

“Sleep tight, babe.” Matt whispered and kissed her lips softly.