Warning: This chapter is going to be a little dark and traumatic for some people. Please read with caution or skip.

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That was my last class, but I would gladly skip any others as I start to walk briskly home. My heart is thudding in my chest as I almost run, and despite the cold, I'm sweating even more as I rush to get to my car.

I only have the faintest warning, before pain explodes in the back of my head, and blackness swallows the snow-white world around me…..

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Pain, as always, is the first thing I become aware of. My head hurts almost as badly as it had when I first gained my ability.

A soft sobbing is the second thing to penetrate the haze that seems to fill my mind.

Lifting my head to find the source of the crying, I realize that I'm tied up , as I attempt to move my arms. The room I'm in is dim and there's no furniture. I can faintly make out holes in the wall, and know that this must be an abandoned house. The only light is coming through the holes in the walls, and a flashlight shining on Tina.

Tina lays hunched on the floor about ten feet in front of me, her hands tied to another post, there was mark on her face, and bruises and cuts cover her arms and leg, all of them fresh, some with dried blood. Thank God nothing else happen except from that..

"So, you finally wake up,"

a cold voice says from the shadow. I look in the direction of the voice, groaning at the pain the movement causes in my skull. The voice laughs, and only then do I recognize it.

"Dan," I say, the name hissing through my teeth. Damn, even talking hurts. I fight feebly against my bonds, but they're rope, and I know my ability can't affect them. The pain of even this small movement is excruciating.

Tina moans piteously in her corner, and I feel my rage increase, some of it directed inward. I had assumed that Dan's attack would come at me. I didn't think he would attack someone else to hurt me.

"What do you want from us?" I'm proud of how steady and calm my voice sounds.

"Us? I don't want anything from her, it's you I want to make pay. She is just an innocent girl, caught in your freakish evil ways."

There is laughter behind every word, and it makes me think of the Joker.

For a second I debate on flipping his 'sleep' switch, but that will still leave us both tied up. Somehow I have to convince him to untie us. And in order to do that, I have to keep him talking. I don't think a 'guilt' switch will work on him, like it had in Tina the last time I'd been tied up.

"MY evil ways? What are you talking about?" I asked.

How could HE consider ME evil, after how he'd obviously tortured an innocent woman?

Dan steps out of the shadows, and into the dim light, wearing nothing but a wicked smile. His dick is hard between his legs, and it wobbles as he walks to where Tina's cowering. My blood boils as I see the fear in her eyes.

"Why, it's a good thing I arrived when I did", Dan says solicitously.

"Unfortunately I was too late to stop you from r*ping and killing poor Tina, but at least I got here in time to do you in, freak." He said with an evil smile.

Tina cringes as Dan approaches her, and I spit in his direction, and then groan in pain. I notice he has a condom on, as he bends over, grabs Tina, and lifts her up. She struggles against him, until he smacks her hard, she sobs some more, but stops fighting.

I can't stand it. Even if it means staying tied up, I can't let him continue hurting her. I flip his 'sleep' switch, and cry out in throbbing agony, as nothing happens.

Dan mistakes my cry of agony for one of anguish, and laughs as he ripped the bound woman shirt off, leaving her in a sport bra. Tina cries out, her terror and pain evident, which only serves to make Dan's smile wider.

I try again to put him to sleep, but the ache in my head was too intense, and I can't work through it. I slump in my bonds, trying to drive the hurt away.

"No!"

Dan screams.

"No, you will watch this."

Hearing him approach me, I look up in time to see him grab a broom handle and crack it against my ribs. There was a loud CRACK, and I felt my ribs break; breathing becomes an excruciating chore. Spider webs of pure torture blossom from the point where he'd struck me.

My scream echoes around the small room well after I run out of breath.

"Watch it and weep, or I'll hit you again. You have to watch how I'm going to r*pe and torture her, and as soon as I'm done, I'll put you both out of your misery."

"You won't get away with this," I wheeze, having a hard time getting enough air.

"Won't I? What is there to get away with? I heard some odd noises from outside as I was walking by, and came in to find you strangling Tina as you r*ped her. I beat you with this stick, and apparently go too far, and kill you. I'll even call the cops, and sob at the evil I saw in here."

Dan cackles, and I know I need to stop him somehow. Joker, indeed.

If only I can get my switches to work. If my head didn't throb so badly, I'm sure I could do what needs to be done, but there is no chance of that right now.

Dan walks back over to Tina, and flips her to her back, before trying to get her short jeans off.

Then, he gives me a big smile as his hands wrap around her neck, and I can see her eyes bulge as he starts to strangle her…..

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