Torturing Tanya (Part Six)
by Paul Mellette
Tanya writhed in the bed and jerked against her bonds. She felt her heart racing
as the electricity flowed through her body. She was vaguely aware that it must
be a low voltage because though it seemed to be lasting forever, she was not
dead. Still, she thought she would die any second. Vonnie's brother had total
power of life and death for her in the form of that little black box and his
finger was on the switch...
"Sweet Jesus," Dave said as he watched the scene, "I never thought I'd feel
sorry for her."
"Don't get soft on me," Mel said as he nudged the dial slightly higher.
Tanya squealed into her gag. She wanted to... needed to scream... but she didn't
know if she could, even if she was not gagged. Her body was not under her
control. Her mind was reeling and filled with pain and fear and for the first
time she knew that death could well be welcome by the time her tormentor had
finished with her.
"I'm not soft," Dave protested, "but I've never seen anything or anybody so
cruel. I'm amazed you can do this."
"Hell, Dave," Mel said, "This ain't nothin'."
Dave swallowed hard and shook his head in disbelief.
"Nothing? Cold and cruel and calculated murder and torture is nothing?"
"Hey, I know what I'm doing," Mel said, "I've done it all before. You know what
amazes ME?"
"I'm scared to ask," Dave said.
"I'm amazed that a man can deliver his wife and his sweet little girl into the
hands of a man like me."
*****
Vonnie stood and stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. Her eyes were
red and swollen from the tears she had cried. She knew she wasn't the prettiest
thing around, but her willingness to cater to Mel's sick sexual tendencies...
and her participation with him in these murderous escapades... had kept them
together for some time now. This was the first time he had ever discussed
anything remotely close to displeasure with her.
Sure, she knew Tanya was an incredibly attractive woman. Even at forty she had a
body most women half her age would die to get. And she tasted so sweet and felt
so good... Vonnie knew that if she had been a man... and had been mated to such
an incredible creature... she'd have never been able to stray.
Yes, she knew that was another sign of how much a loser Dave really was. He had
held perfection in his hand... he had shared a bed with it's embodiment for over
twenty years... and he had betrayed her in the worst ways possible; by the
adulterous affair with Vonnie herself and then by setting her up to be tortured
and killed like this...
Vonnie shuddered involuntarily. Big Mel was a monster, true. But with such a man
you knew what to expect. Dave was supposed to be a nice guy. When the nice ones
turn bad... that was the true horror of what was transpiring this night. Not
Mel's torture... not Vonnie's desire to see Tanya killed... the horror was
Dave's betrayal of the woman who had loved him for over half of her life... and
who had gone three times into the proverbial Valley of the Shadow of Death to
bear his children for him...
Vonnie found herself almost feeling sorry for "the bitch" that Mel was torturing
at that very moment. It startled her, how she could be so cold and calculatingly
evil and find so much enjoyment in Tanya's predicament... and still find a shred
of mercy and compassion in her heart...
But Vonnie wet a washcloth and wiped her eyes and put on the kind of "face" that
she knew Mel would like... and unlocked the bathroom door... and squashing the
ember of light that had invaded her dark heart, stepped back into the bedroom to
rejoin the torturing of their innocent prisoner.
*****
Tanya was vaguely aware of shouting. Mel had nudged the voltage even higher and
Tanya was sure that she would stand before God shortly... or wake burning in
hell, whichever was to be. Then she was aware of a swift jolt and then blackness
engulfed her...
*****
"You bastard!" Dave shouted, "How dare you bring my little girl into this!"
"Jesus Christ, you are such a fuckin' clown," Mel scolded Dave, "YOU are the one
who brought her in... YOU are the one who drugged her and who has her here, in
the very next room, as we kill her mother!"
"Leave her out of this!"
Mel looked at Tanya writhing on the bed and flipped the switch higher for a
split second and then down to off again. Tanya jerked even more violently as the
sudden jolt of current hit her... and then the sudden voltage change wreaked
havoc on her central nervous system and her terror-stricken brain shut down.
With a quiet moan, she fell back unconscious to the bed again...
"OK asshole," Mel said, "she's out again... I do NOT wanna miss anything with
her... and you know what? If you FUCK UP what my plans are for Tanya, I'm gonna
do sweet little Wendy to make up for it... I really like doin' the young ones,
y'know?"
"God damn you," Dave shouted as he dove at the big man, "that's my little girl
you're talking about!"
Mel caught Dave by the throat and held him for a second suspended in mid air
before him.
"You stupid, pathetic fool, " he said softly, "They're all SOMEBODY'S little
girl..."
And with that, he quickly moved his hands... and as easily as snapping a twig,
broke Dave's neck.
*****
Vonnie stepped from the bathroom in time to see Mel drop Dave's still twitching
body to the floor. Tanya was mercifully unaware that the stakes had just risen
even higher. Her death was to no longer be about property or the kinky desires
of a twisted killer. She had just become a bit of foreplay for Big Mel as he got
himself stoked for her daughter.
"Oh my fucking God," Vonnie shrieked at him, "what have you done?"
"Just put that fuckin' loser out of his misery," Mel said nonchalantly.
"That loser was going to be our profit for this little deal."
"Baby, you gotta know it's not about money with me," Mel replied.
"I know, but..."
"No 'but's', Mel said, "I wanna finish what I've started with this sexy babe...
and then we'll get out of here. And we'll take the little girl with us... for
later..."
*****
At the top of the mountain, the headlamps from Wade's truck flashed on his
mothers white Camaro parked by the side of the road. He immediately steered a
u-turn, and pulled up behind the vehicle.
Climbing from the warmth of his truck into the chilly night air, he walked up to
the car and peered inside. Seeing nobody there, he ran his hand across his face
and returned to his vehicle. He dialed his mothers cell phone number and letting
it ring until her voice mail picked up, clicked the off button in frustration.
"What the hell is going on Mom?" he muttered as he steered his vehicle back onto
the blacktop and continued his trip in the direction of his mother's house.
*****
"Mel," Vonnie said softly, "You know I'll do whatever you want. I was only
trying to look out for us."
"I know," he said, "but I just couldn't bear to listen to that asshole anymore.
What did he think, I was just some tool he could use and then turn off?"
"I don't know what he thought," Vonnie said, "I never asked him that. We had to
play it sort of cool, you know?"
"Yeah, I know," Mel smiled his sick little smile, "and now we don't any more."
"No, I guess you can do whatever you want to Tanya and then we can get out of
here and find some place else to start over..."
*****
Wade dialed the number of a State Police officer he knew named Paco Ruiz. The
officer was a long-time friend of the family, and Tanya's oldest child hoped he
could cut through some of the red tape with him.
"Paco," Wade said, "I'm worried about my Mom and little sister."
"What's the problem?"
Wade told him about the recent difficulties with Dave, about the sudden sickness
that caused Wendy to need picked up; how Dave wouldn't bring her home... and
most disturbingly, about finding the car abandoned at the top of the mountain...
"And what do you think is happening?" Ruiz asked.
"I don't know, but I'm on my way to my Dad's now... and God help him if he's
done anything else to hurt my mother..."
"Hold on Wade," the officer said, "tell me where you are and I'll meet you .
We'll go see your Dad together."
*****
End Part Six
(c) 2002 Paul Mellette
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