Trapped

Manny looked at Elizabeth Webber they were in a rough spot together. It turned out they were locked in this room in the hospital for hours tell the next morning. He had always thought she was beautiful and in a soft voice complimented her on her beauty calling her a beautiful princess. Elizabeth looked at him like he was a sick freak. She had caught him getting drugs out of the supply room. He had put his gloved hand around her mouth before she could scream and moved her to another room. The problem was the room he choose was a holding room for patients with mental problems and those going through detoxification. The room was on a timer and would not open for another six hours.
There was a bathroom attached to the room and there was a bed. The room was also used as a supply room most of the time. There was snacks in the cabinets for the staff along with coffee and tea and even a fridge. They were going to be trapped in this room for six hours together and Manny did not know what to do as his plans did not include getting trapped in here even if it was with the pretty nurse Elizabeth Webber. She had thought he was taking the drugs to sell them. What Manny was really doing is taking the antibiotics to those who most needed them.
Suddenly the heat kicked on and it was boiling hot in the room. Manny gave a laugh as he quickly took off his shirt exposing his muscular and gleaming torso and all his tattoos. Elizabeth turned away unsure of what to do. The space felt very small as she got hotter and hotter. Soon her uniform was sticking all over her. She was starting to feel the effects of dehydration and heat stroke as the temperature was now one hundred and ten degrees and climbing higher. Manny went over to the sink and got a huge glass of cold water and turned towards her he handed it to her without a word. She took it and drank gratefully as she was very hot by now. He left the sink on so that the cold water would cool the air a bit.
Finally Manny turned to her and said Princess in that small quiet voice of his. The sounds rolled off his tongue as he used the name he had usually called her. She shivered despite herself. She looked at him and saw that he had also taken off his pants. He stood before her now clad only in a pair of skimpy black under were his tattoos showing all over his body. Elizabeth found herself unable to look away even as the heat made her a bit dizzy. She also noticed that on his left leg right above his knee was a small bandage. There was a bit of dried blood and instinctively as a nurse she reacted by wanting to help him. He scared her though so she stayed where she was unsure of what to do or say to him.
She did not say a word for she was scared out of her mind this man had hurt her many times before. He had given her flashbacks to her rape and sent her mind back to what happened when Tom raped her. She remembered Manny dragging her away and putting her in a body bag which had reminded her of when she was raped. He had also touched her a lot smoothing her hair and calling her Princess. When he had begin to drag her away she had gone to a place in her mind that she had only gone back to two different times in her life.
When she had been raped she had found a place in her mind to go of peace. She had also felt the same when she was trapped in the crypt. Manny had picked her up and started dragging her in the hospital and her mind instantly had started taking her to that safe place as well. Elizabeth did not know what to do to about being trapped with Manny. She feared he would rape her and then kill her. But she also remembered his eyes when he had told her before that he had not wanted to hurt her and was sorry she was mixed up in it all. She remembered him thanking her for taking care of him when he was in the hospital. She also remembered one very odd visitor.
A woman had shown up dressed in a black long skirt and a black shirt. She had a small purse and carefully asked for Manny Ruiz’s room. She had avoided everyone’s eyes and had only stayed for a short few minutes. Elizabeth had wondered why this woman would want anything to do with Manny. She now remembered the woman’s words to her as she had left his room right as Elizabeth was going in to help him. The woman had lifted up her head and made full eye contact with Elizabeth and spoke “He will never actually hurt you”. The woman had quickly left and until now Elizabeth had forgotten about her.
He looked at her all sweaty her clothes sticking to her. He was delighted he could see every inch of her body contoured from the heat. Her face was flushed and she was obviously extremely hot and uncomfortable. He knew that unless she took at least some of her clothes off she would get sick. The temperature was well over one hundred degrees and climbing. What Elizabeth did not understand is that Manny had no intentions of hurting the petite nurse. She had taken very good care of him when he was in the hospital recovering. He knew she was terrified and was in danger of going in to shock with the heat and being around him. He did not understand why he cared but he did.
Manny smiled that feral smile of his and his eyes crinkled up as he looked at her. He begin to talk to her about his tattoos just letting his voice draw her in. He could tell she was listening to his every word inspire of herself. He was using his voice to keep her anchored and listening. He told her about his mother and how she always smelled like the most wonderful smells of the kitchen. How she would pick him up and hug him. He told her he had been a sickly child and his mother had spoiled him rotten singing to him telling him stories in Castilian Spanish.
He finally told her she needed to take off her clothes at least her uniform. He could see the fear in her eyes. She moved away from him a cold rag on her forehead as the temperature in the room got even hotter. He could tell at some time in her life the small nurse had gone through something that made her very weary of strange men. He also knew why she feared him. He had kidnapped her before. He had held her at gunpoint and picked her up underneath her breasts and moved her somewhere he needed her to go. He himself had scared and terriozed her. Manny knew this was something different though. She was acting like a woman who had been brutally raped and never wanted that to happen again. He had even put zipped her up in a body bag scaring her in a way she never wanted to be scared again.
It was going to shock her to find out Manny himself had never crossed that line and even though he was a brutal psychopath and a killer as well he had never raped a woman. He sighed and thought hard about what to do. He finally looked at her and said “Elizabeth” she looked at him and he looked her in the eyes.
He found himself telling her about being twelve years old and how he came home one day and found both his mother and his sister raped and ashamed. It seemed a rival mobster had ordered there rapes to send a message to Manny’s Father. Hector Ruiz had been beside himself he loved his wife and held her. Manny shared with Elizabeth the pain he had felt and the helplessness he had felt as a small boy seeing his mother and his sister treated like that. It twisted something inside of him and changed him. He made no excuses for his actions. He calmly told Elizabeth that before this happened he had been a sensitive child rather sickly an odd duck in a family of mobsters.
He had spent the next three years plotting the death of those men who had brutally raped his mother and his sister. His mother, unable to take the strain of this committed suicide six months after the attack. His sister did not kill herself but changed she begin to sleep around; she had been 15 years old at the time of the brutal rape. He described how his Sister Maria and his mother Mary had been forced to lay side by side as they were raped watching each other. That is how he found them as he had been the one to come home and find them like that.