A/N: So I'll try to finish the story soon but I haven't really figured out the conclusion yet so I don't know how long that will take. I'll try my best! Thank you guys for being so supportive. Reviews are what keep me going! 3
Chapter Eighteen
Hancock slipped off her bed and stared at the wall, her free hand flexing around the slate of wood. Her other hand rubbing her sore ankle from the chain. Every day she was pulling at it, but it was going nowhere.
Could she even fight a grown man?
As if on cue, Ruyi slipped into her room. Raising her head, Hancock stared him down with her now normal lifeless look. She looked a mixture of bored and having a lack of will.
Ruyi frowned. He had finally broken her. Something he always wanted, but he missed her fighting him. It was clearly one of his kinks. She was still so attractive though…
He didn't say anything again. There was nothing to say anymore. He would have to end her eventually. Hopefully after the birth of his future son, then the two of them could flee.
What he would really have loved is to escape with Hancock in tow. Eventually she would learn to love him. She stopped fighting him, which meant one step closer to loving him.
Ruyi knelt down in front of Hancock and brushed her unruly hair away from her dead eyes. He kissed her tenderly, or at least his version of tender but got no response. She didn't even close her eyes.
With a heavy sigh, he pushed her down onto the ground and had his usual way with her. Hancock has stopped redressing eventually and he had no problem forcing himself between her legs.
However, unlike usual, Ruyi didn't want to leave right away and chose to stay with her. Hancock said nothing to him but it didn't deter him to this warped image of happiness. He got the beautiful goddess, even if against his will.
"You can't even tell" He murmured, running his fingertips over her not even rounding belly.
"Do you like any other states?" He then asked looking her straight in the eyes.
She still said nothing but he peaked her curiosity. The silence was so long that eventually she decided to reply with the question that kept running through her mind.
"Are you going to kill me?" She forced out. Her voice was rough and broken since she hadn't used it for so long.
Ruyi said nothing for a while and stared at his hands. He then leant in and kissed her again. She didn't push him away. She had gotten way too tired.
"I don't want to… I'll try not to" He forced out and stared at her. He kept on staring.
Hancock felt uncomfortable under his stare. It was so personal for once and it was as if he was seeing through her. She crossed her arms in a hopes to feel a little less exposed.
"Let me go" She said staring at the floor
"I can't" Ruyi replied. Hancock didn't know what his expression was because she refused to look at him however he did sound remorseful.
"Yes you can, I won't tell them where you went" She said this time looking at him, trying to force sympathy out of him.
He looked away for a moment and then looked straight back at her again.
"We both know that I can't and frankly, won't let you go"
Hancock felt the tears prick at the edges of her vision. She didn't have the strength to stop them. Soon she was sobbing silently as Ruyi held her. Thinking it was some sort of comfort when it literally did the opposite to how she felt about the situation.
"I'm leaving" She said with as much determination as she could muster.
"What?" Ruyi said whilst Hancock slowly grabbing the wooden slate behind her under the bed. Without warning, she pulled the slate over her head and tried to hit Ruyi over the head with it.
Clearly Ruyi wasn't stupid. He saw it coming and moved out of the way.
"Don't be stupid!" He yelled at her.
"This literally seals your fate! I can't trust you enough to let you live! Think about our future, and our child!" He screamed
He looked genuinely afraid for a second but Hancock knew that it wasn't because he thought she could beat him because even she didn't think that. He looked like she had broken his heart because it was clear she didn't assume to live through this fight and he was finally completely made aware of how much she actually hated him.
He knew this of course but it was easy to fool himself about her love for him when he fucked her. He used to hurt her for this very sake. Her lack of love, he was punishing her for it.
He laughed at loud, his resentful side returning. She didn't love him… She needed to be punished. No one would love her as much as he loved her. He knew this. She was also having his child! What could he do? He didn't want to kill her…
He finally decided something. Time for him to stop being so friendly and giving. It was time to go. He would try to make it work of course, she would give birth to his child and if possible, live to care for his future son and for his… needs.
Ruyi felt his personality revert to what he was like before. To be able to put up with what a person he had become. In the last couple of weeks, he really noticed what he was doing to Hancock, and felt remorse, but he just loved her too much to share her with the world. She belonged to him right now, how could he give that up?
Just let her think she may die… once she realizes she wants to live, she will stop fighting. She was his destiny to have. His object.
Hancock lifted the wood menacing above her head in defiance. Ruyi took a step toward her.
"Do not come any closer!" She screamed swiping the slate towards him but not hitting anything.
Ruyi, ignoring Hancock's threats walked over to her and wrapped his hand around the slate of wood. He tightened his hand around the slate and stared Hancock in the eyes. She looked like she regretted her decision for a second but then stared back with defiance.
"Let go of the plank" Ruyi hissed at her, towering over her more than he usually did. His mood thundering through the room
She tightened her grip on the plank as a reply and Ruyi chortled in response.
"Very well then" He said and snapped the plank to the side. Hancock's tightened grip did not allow her to let go of the slate quick enough before feeling her wrist snap too.
The slate fell to the ground as Hancock stared at her throbbing wrist in horror. It was pushed a way that was impossible and suddenly she felt sick to her stomach.
Ruyi moving towards her grabbed her wrist gingerly. She didn't respond. She was horrified with what had just happened. He had never broken any of her bones before.
Gently he encased her wrist with his fingers and pushed it back to place. Forcing Hancock to scream and snatch her hand back to hold it close to her body, at least however it was now back in place.
"If you are a good girl, I'll wrap your hand for you and make you a splint" he said coldly grabbing the wood from the floor and throwing it towards the door to extract later.
He walked towards her again, this time she was more afraid than ever. She had pain but he had never been this cruel. Ruyi placed his hand gingerly on her cheek and stroked a tear away that had gotten caught on one of her lashes. He learned forward and kissed her, so gently it was sickening. Forcing her lips apart he forces his tongue into her mouth and explored to his heart's content.
He pushed her towards the cold wall and wrapped his free hand around her broken wrist as a constant reminder that she was in no position to fight.
Ruyi pushed onto Hancock and she felt his arousal clear as day. It was so constrained and Hancock choked on the idea that this was super arousing to him. He felt a pleasure from her pain and from his absolute control over her like he currently had.
Hancock sobbed silently to herself as her wrist ached uncontrollably.
Hiking his arm under Hancock's leg, he pulled her legs apart and forced her up the wall where she was level with him. He held her there and kissed her neck tenderly, his hand still resting lightly on her broken and seriously bruising wrist.
Pushing down his trousers, he released his constrained penis and pushed it towards Hancock. Lubricating himself up, he pushed towards her entrance and forced his way inside.
Hancock sobbed uncontrollably now as the pain became unbearable. She regretted so much that her body was trying to seek pleasure from his invasive actions to mask the pain in her broken bones. She wasn't able to turn off like she learned to do which forced the sobbing to grow. She felt everything. She couldn't push herself out of her body. She was too involved. The pain in her wrist was too real to let herself have an out of body experience.
A little moan escaped her lips, it was more a whine. She was sobbing too much and the pain was unbearable mixed with the pleasure that her body was forcing her to endure. It was even more painful. Her body wasn't letting her endure the pain of forced insertion as well as a broken wrist so Ruyi's lubrication coupled with her own made not feeling him so much harder.
Ruyi heard what could have been a moan and only got more excited. His system worked, she was back under his control.
Hancock couldn't endure the pain anymore and closed her eyes for a second, feeling like she was suddenly falling asleep.
When she awoke, Ruyi was gone, her wrist screamed but was unwrapped. She felt sticky and disgusting and sobbed at her failed escape attempt. It wasn't even an attempt at the end of the day and now her left wrist was useless to her.
Ruyi's quick cremation had just passed and Zoro was not surprised to find out not many attended. Hancock's mother had, more out of respect than any feelings. She assured everybody about this but Zoro knew it would be hard for her to completely hate the man she loved so dearly for so many years.
To make matters worse, she never really 'saw' Ruyi committing this atrocities. Therefore it would be so easy to pretend they are different people. Either way, this was going to rough from here on out and Zoro was worried about how it would go. No one ever means to blame the victim but that is exactly what he was afraid might happen.
Hancock's family would never do it properly, but some feelings are hard to prevent and resentment might be one of them. What if they resent that she never told them? Resented her lack of trust in herself to ask for help? Resent that Ruyi clearly went insane?
This just wasn't something he wanted Hancock to wake up to at all. Besides all his fears, he also knew Hancock's mother was very unstable right now. She would constantly burst into tears when she visited Hancock. Her breathe hitching and forcing her to leave because she couldn't even see her daughter through her tears. She blamed herself clearly, and although Zoro knew it wasn't her fault and Hancock never ever blamed her for it, there just wasn't anything he could say to convince her of that.
Things were definitely tense and kept getting tenser the longer Hancock was in her coma.
Zoro said his goodbyes and left for the night. Back to his old apartment that he hadn't been to in so long. Staying with the Boa family was fine, but he needed to be alone for a while and frankly it felt like everyone was getting tense. Hancock just wasn't waking up and everyone else was beginning to lose hope. People had a hard time coping.
Her sisters were the most stable about the whole situation besides Zoro, who wasn't stable at all however he hid his emotion well. If he started getting upset then her mother would probably be having nervous breakdowns by now.
It was problematic that he always had to act alright, and optimistic about Hancock. Truth was, he was scared. Scared out of his mind. Hancock had forced her way into his life with her claws and left destruction in her wake. He couldn't pretend she never happened and he wasn't ready to lose the love of his life. He lost someone before and that nearly tipped him over the edge along with the death of his parents. The fear of losing Hancock was much worse.
Guilt took the place of other emotions for the time being. Guilt that Hancock's family was falling apart and he couldn't stop or help, guilt that he couldn't save Hancock. Guilt that she was forced to live through those horrors. Guilt that he was more afraid of what losing Hancock would do to him then losing his parents had done.
He felt it all and needed to be alone to grieve.
He knew that it isn't that he felt more afraid about Hancock then sad when his parents died. It was a long time ago. Pain dulls. However reminding himself of that didn't do much to help him feel any better about the situation.
Zoro sat down in his empty apartment and looked around. It was dustier than before but nothing else had changed. He had however.
His apartment, was more of a reminder of Hancock then he had expected. She had only spent one night with him but it was all he could see right now.
Trying to empty his mind, Zoro took to focusing on his breathing exercises. He had not practiced his swordplay in so long. It had never failed to calm him and right now he needed it more than anything.
His breathing exercises were much harder than usual but eventually he managed to push the worst of his emotions out. He couldn't stop his worrying about Hancock but was able to live with it for now. He needed to try being optimistic. He made her dues with emotional destruction so it would be pretty cruel to take Hancock from him too.
A few hours of meditating passed, and frankly, Zoro felt better. More calm and he feared the worst less. He told himself that if the worst came to it, then at least Hancock would be at peace.
Grabbing his sword, he set to continue his normal routine, sweating his ills out. He decided to try something new. Something he had seen Hancock do during one of her dance classes. He felt like he was flying and actually knew this move would work. Another thing to thank Hancock for.
Although he would need to make the move a little less dance like…
He sighed and stared around.
Time for a shower really… he thought to himself, getting up from his position in the middle of his super empty apartment and spotted the newspapers by his door.
That's right... I haven't been here at all to chuck them out.
He walked towards them and was instantly met with a smiling Hancock. The newspaper was about her kidnapping. This one was to state she had been missing for over a week. That was when the newspapers got interested in the case at least.
Zoro cringed. This was not a reminder he needed, or Hancock for that matter. Time to throw them out, but she would see them. She would hear about it. People would be too stupid, and won't leave her alone. Her life at school would become more of a mess than it already was.
People are such fucking vultures!
Angry suddenly, Zoro stomped towards the shower to cleanse himself, his calm that he fought for completely gone a moment after finishing his exercises.
Now drying off, Zoro glared at the stupid pile of newspapers by the door, then without warning a knock alerted him of a visitor. In his towel he made his way to the door and opened it, not really knowing who to expect.
Two people stood before him. He was quite happy to see Ace, his best friend but the other visitor concerned him. The pink haired girl Perona, whom he may or may not have slept with at that party so long ago. He couldn't remember.
Smiling at his friend he ushered the pair in before questioning their presence.
"Hi Zoro, it's been a while" Perona said in what she probably thought was her most sexy husky voice.
He nodded in acknowledgement and ushered for them to sit on the floor as he took a seat across from them. He had nothing in the house to offer food or drink wise so instead chose not to mention it.
"Why are you guys here?" He finally asked. You could cut the tension in the room with a knife.
"I am here because I wanted to see you, it's been a long time. I have work for you from school but I doubt you'll do it" Ace said with a chuckle.
It had indeed been a long time since Zoro saw his bestfriend, and he felt a little bad about it. He had neglected him whilst he wallowed in his own worries and self pity.
"Why she tagged along though, I'm not so sure…" Ace added looking uncomfortable.
Zoro looked at her and immediately knew that she was just here to start trouble. Probably annoyed with him snubbing her in one way or the other. I mean he did end up with Hancock, the most beautiful women he had ever met and the rival to any woman. Not that Hancock wanted that. He narrowed his eyes at Perona. He was not in the mood for this at all.
"I just wanted to see your apartment, that's all" She said with a pout as if Zoro was cruel for ever doubting her intentions.
"You never take girls back here! And I wanted to feel special"
She added making Zoro physically burst out loud in laughter. It was true but Hancock had wiggled her way into staying at his place before. He didn't realize how much that woman had had an effect on him until it was too late to turn back and hate her again.
"Ugh… I think Hancock has stayed her" Ace said quietly "I mean she did turn up to school in your clothing"
Perona's face went red hot and she looked away in shame. Her plan was failing.
It was a bit weird that she assumed just because Hancock wasn't around, that Zoro was the type to just move on. It is true he never really dated properly, because he didn't want to and that he had numerous flings in the past, but that changed the second he decided to be committed. He was a good guy, why did no one ever believe he was?
Suddenly remembering, he never actually did sleep with this woman!
Then without warning his cellphone started to ring. Zoro looked down at it and noticed the number.
"It's the hospital" He whispered looking panicked at Ace.