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The Handmaid's Game: A Narrative Fiction

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When they fall upon his home, they catch him off guard. He’s an alpha but he doesn’t stand a chance against their arsenal of wolfsbane filled bullets, tasers and arrows. Someone brought a bat. They demand to tell them where the rest of his pack is, but he stays silent. So they beat him half dead and carry him off. His head feels cloudy but he understands enough to know they’re in the woods now, and reason tells him they’ve made sure they’re too far away from any civilization that screaming for help was delusive. They undress him up to his shorts and throw him into a vault beneath the ground. He knows someone is guarding him because he hears steps from above. They don’t ask him ever again where his pack is, but they torture him anyways. He …show more content…

The door opens with a screeching noise. “It’s time“ he says and slides a tray up to Scott. “You have 15 minutes“. Scott looks at the plate, then up to Stiles who is already about to close the door behind him again. After what must have been 15 minutes he comes back and finds the plate still full, water untouched. Stiles raises his eyebrows but takes it away wordlessly. The next day they play the same game. Stiles slides up a tray with paltry food and water and Scott locks onto his gaze. Stiles ignores it and leaves. After 15 minutes he takes away the whole thing unfazed. On the third day Stiles enters the room when he brings Scott his meal. He stops right in front of the mountain ash circle and doesn’t break eye contact when he places the tray right at Scott’s dirty feet. “Eat.“ It’s an order. Scott doesn’t eat nor drink. Not even when after 15 minutes Stiles isn’t back. It’s the fourth day and Scott knows the hunters will be back again, hopefully unsuccessful. They are. Stiles is early that day, or at least that’s what Scott’s sense of time tells him. He kneels down carefully in front of the supernatural barrier and slides the tray suggestively towards Scott. “Eat.“ he says “You’ll need it“. He sounds sincere. Scott looks away. He feels Stiles gaze linger on him a second longer before he walks …show more content…

The first time it happens, Scott wonders if Stiles plays with him or if he’s dreaming, but it’s real and he looks up at Stiles with big eyes. Stiles looks away and shifts uncomfortably under Scott’s gaze. *** Scott has lost count how long he has been captured. His days are long and his nights filled with torture. His only gleam of hope are the times when Stiles brings him food and keeps him company. Sometimes he thinks it’s the only thing keeping him sane. Maybe even alive. *** Every time Scott catches Stiles looking at him, Stiles averts his gaze quickly. One time Scott feels Stiles wants to say something, but in the last second he decides against it. Scott lets it go. *** One day he hears Stiles voice through the ceiling. The sound of which he’s ever heard so rarely, but recognizes immediately. He cant really catch what he’s saying, but it’s loud and he sounds upset. There is another voice silencing him. Scott shudders because he knows what that voice is capable of. He doesn’t hear Stiles anymore. He is relieved when he spots a familiar silhouette at the entrance to his cell. Something is wrong with the way he shoves himself forward, but Scott can’t exactly tell what it

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