Thread: The Spider and the Fly (Lydia Only, 6/30)

Looking around the place as she sits down on the couch "Interesting."

"Ok, first lesson is to get someone calmed down in a situation or you can rile them up. Have you been around when JTM goes off and then all I have to do is look at him and he calms down? This part is easy really. To do this part we really need someone that is angered." Listening "Is there anyone in the building that would fit that description at the moment? It is easier to show than to just tell you. "

Jack smiles at the prospect of being able to calm JTM out of one of his tirades.

"Oh.. Everyone here's pretty angry all the time, being that they live in a crap hole.." He stops for a moment, and points to the room above, as the sound of something glass crashing against the wall resounds from somewhere inside. Jack thinks for a moment, before standing on the couch and pounding on the ceiling.

<Spanish> "Hey, bitch, come down here and I'll tell you how to deal with your woman like i deal with your mother!" he yells.

He sits, looking towards his door which is still unlocked. He glances to Lydia for a moment.

"I really hope you can calm this guy down." he says, as the sound of rapidly thumping footsteps echo down the cheap stairs.

The angry El Salvadoran thug should be coming through the door in any moment.

Lydia looks at Jack "No Fair, I don't speak that. But I am guessing it might be a good thing that I don't."

Lydia sighs as she realizes that he is bringing someone in the room with them. Standing up she faces the door and braces herself for whatever walks in.

"Great, I wish you would have warned me. But I guess this is a good time to show you."

As the angry guy bursts through the door Lydia jumps just a bit. "Fine thing you just did breaking his door. Don't you think you should apologize to the man? Here I am trying to help him and you want to act like an animal."

The man stops and looks at her for a moment like she is out of her mind. "Who the hell you think you are bitch? Talking down to me like that. Maybe you want me to show you what a real man is? Huh bitch? You like that idea?"

Lydia glances at Jack for a second and gives him a wink. Looking back to the man she smiles "Look at this we have a worthless piece of scum right here. You know all that fighting you have done? Your woman is getting payback. Here she comes now. Wow that is a big knife she has. Look at that Jack she is going to slice his ear off first. Nice start I think since he never listens to her."
Lydia watches as the man screams and reaches up to his ear "Feel the blood pouring out yet?" Grinning as he screams again in pain reaching to cover the ear he thinks is cut off.

Lydia steps back a second and listens for a moment. "Poor guy, you don't know when to quit yet do you?" Looking down at his hand she shakes her head. "Wow, what will you do now without fingers on that hand? Hope you are not right handed" As the man screams again and reaches for his hand Lydia laughs a bit. "Does it hurt yet? Do you feel the pain? Need me to speak up? With only one ear I don't know how well you hear."

As the man rolls around on the floor screaming in pain Lydia looks at Jack and grins "This is fun."

Jack grins as the man barges in.

His grin quickly fades when she begins twisting the man's mind. Jack's face is mask of shifting emotions. First, confusion, then excitement, then discomfort, as the man slumps to the floor.

He glances over and between Lydia and the man. "Is he gonna be alright? We gotta make sure he's not gonna struggle or anything." He says, slowly standing from the couch, as he moves closer to the man.

Lydia puts her hand up for Jack to stop. "He isn't going anywhere. I am not done with him yet. I'm just warming up." She laughs as she turns back to the sobbing man. "Doesn't feel good? Want the pain to stop? Would you like me to make your pain go away?"

Reaching down she touches his arm and looks him in the eye. "Would you like that? Would you like the pain to go away?" When he shakes his head yes, she looks over at Jack "Nah, I don't think so."

Turning back to him she looks him right in the eyes then starts to giggle and wiggle her hands like she is playing in the sand.

The man lets out a piercing scream then collapses and doesn't move or make a sound.

Lydia stands up and smiles.

He stares, eyes wide at the pile of a man on his floor.

"Did you kill him? Is he fucking dead?" He asks; voice hushed and mouth slightly agape. His expression is simultaneously one of horror and curiosity.

Lydia looks guilty for a moment "I'm sorry. It is just so much fun. There are other ways to do it. Like what you saw."

Looking to the man on the floor she sighs "Great. Now what? Now we need another subject to work on. Think we can get one?"

Lydia's eyes light up at the thought of practicing on another.

Jack slowly sits down, thinking.

"Nah, don't apologize." He says, eyes nervously glancing to her.

"Another subject?" He bites his lower lip. "If... It won't kill me... And it won't make me a gibbering wreck forever..." He shrugs, obviously nervous.

"I can be the guinea pig. At least that way I'll learn a little better. Just... Don't hold it against me if I say anything weird."

He chuckles, uneasily.