I woke up to immense pain in my left hand, I open my eyes and look at my hand, some one is pressing the heel of their boot into my partially healed stab wound. I look up and see Dragon

"Oh good, you're awake, I was getting bored, now the fun can begin" he says taking his foot off my hand

"Go ahead Dragon, beat me all you like, let's see if you can hurt me enough to make the laughing stop." I am strong, I can do this, I can take the beating.

"Oh sweetheart, as much as I would enjoy just you and me and my knife, I invited a friend to the party, fancy a threesome?" I look over at the men in the room, every single one has pure evil in their eyes. So I'm going to get beaten by 2 men at once, I can still do this. Then a man steps out of the shadows and I know this is the end for me, even if they don't kill me, there isn't any coming back from this. The man walks up to me and looks down at me

"Remember me? I'm sure I left 6 beautiful reminders on that beautiful back of yours" he says smiling widely, I can see the excitement in his eyes. There he is, the man who raped me. Nathan Lawrence. I close my eyes, praying this is just another nightmare and I'll wake up in Adrian's arms any minute now, but no, this is real. This is it.

"Ok you two, enough googly eyes, let's play shall we?" Dragon says shaking me from my thoughts. At least I'm not tied up this time, I can fight him, I have to, I can't give in, I have Max and Adrian waiting for me, I have to fight for them. Nathan steps towards me and I step back

"This is why you tie them, less messing around, you can get straight into business" he says, that voice makes my skin crawl and brings back all the memories. Dragon grabs my arms and holds me still, gripping me hard enough I know he's leaving bruises. Nathan comes over and rips my tank top off, leaving me standing there in my bra, he turns me around and looks at my back

"You're trying to cover them, I'm disappointed" Dragon spins me around so I'm facing Nathan again and I feel him slip the handle of a knife into my hand before letting go

"Cordelia, you're going to fight Nathan for your life and then you'll fight me, seen as you enjoy a beating I thought this would be more fun" I look up at Nathan

"This wasn't part of the deal Dragon, you said she was mine to do what I want with" I can see a mixture of fear and anger on his face

"Nathan, you've been raping underage girls for 10 years, you are disgusting, I'm using you for what I need and then I'll be disposing of you" Dragon says spitting in Nathan's face.

The fight is on, I'm not his victim anymore, but can I really kill some one? My Mom made me take self defence classes when I was 19 hoping it would get me to leave the house, guess I should be thankful now.

He grabs my wrist to try to take my knife but I knee him in the groin and he lets go, I shove him away but he comes back, I slam my head into his nose and the blood begins to pour. He punches me in the face, the metallic taste floods my tongue and my lip begins to throb. I spin around, whilst crouching and kick his legs from under him, I kneel on his chest and drop the knife, I punch him over and over in the face as hard as I can, my knuckles are bleeding, but you can't tell whether blood is mine or his, Dragon lifts me off him

"Easy, girl, I'm enjoying the view, let's not let this end to quickly" Nathan stands up, his nose is broken, lips bleeding and one of his eyes is swelled shut. That still doesn't come close to the pain he's caused me. Nathan picks up the knife and walks up to me, still in Dragons grip, he runs the blade down my cheek deeply, drawing blood

"That scar will be harder to cover bitch" he says, his lips close to mine, I turn my head and he bites my neck hard enough to draw blood. I dig my fingernails into his hand and fight the knife from him and plunge it into his chest, I pull it straight back out and stab him 3 more times before he falls to the floor face down.

What have I done? I've killed some one. I'm a nurse, I heal, I don't kill. Dragon kneels down beside me and presses his lips against my ear before whispering

"How could you not enjoy that? I certainly did" he takes the knife from my hand and stands up laughing loudly. Suddenly he plunges the knife into my back just below my left shoulder causing me to scream out at the pain shooting through my body. I hear Adrian's voice but it's too late, I'm done, I can't look at myself anymore. He and Dragon exchange words but I'm not listening.

Suddenly gunshots rain down and I hear people running but I can't move I see Scythe fall to the ground in front of me and the gunshots end, everyone has gone. I stay on my knees in front of Nathan, I'm a monster.