III
For X there were now only two things. The darkness and the pain. Well, this is not entirely true, there were also ghastly nightmares and whispering voices that went along with the blackness and the pain, but this life was focused around the two, blackness and pain. The pain continued until at last it became something of a numbness but still, most obviously there. He had grown accustomed to the pain, trained to it, and now, it seemed that it was becoming an acceptable part of life.
For reasons unknown to him, perhaps because of the time needed for his recovered he had seen or heard very little of his captors. He had been tied to a bed his leg and arms spread and pulled back behind him, his body like an X like his name, marking the bed, marking his position and from it he could not move. On the first day he was not sure anyone had been at all, but as he started to come around on the second day he realized that someone had to be attending him.
The bed did not smell and his bladder did not pound with pain, nor did he feel cramped or otherwise uncomfortable in his bowels, so he could only assume that the necessities where being taken care of somehow. He could not be sure, as for the first three days each waking moment consisted of nothing more than blinding throbbing pain that seemed to emanate from every inch of his body, but most especially from his penis. When he was awake all he truly desired was to once again succumb to darkness. It seemed for the time being at least that this was the plan.
However, when he awoke on the fourth day he was acutely aware of how little pain he felt. He was able to regain consciousness in a way he had not done before. And now with sensory perception that was no longer focused on his manhood he realized the situation he was in.
He was tied to what in some ways looked like a hospital bed, but in others looked like the beginning of a crib. The bed was high off the floor, and was on level with the windows. There were windows on three sides of the room, allowing sunlight to come streaming in. Looking out of each window X could see only woods, as far as his eyes could see there were woods.
There was a small sound, like a sucking, and as X looked around he realized why the bed was so clean, and began to feel for the first time sensations that were occurring in other parts of his body. He felt at first the thing that was clamped to his penis, it was cold and heavy and pressed against his belly. It was from there that the pain spread from outwards. But there were other pressures that were exerting themselves on him.
He noticed that there was a pulling coming form the tip of his penis and realized that he must be hooked up to some kind of machine, or in some way had been cauterized through the metal clamp. He could not imagine how this would be possible, with the pins and needles that had been pressed into him with the placement of the clamp. The clamp, was the focus of his thought the pain and the clamp.
He moved away his mind away from the focus on his pain and realized that there was yet another definite pressure in his bowels and we filled with a complete disgust as he realized that he was in fact strapped to a colostomy bag of sorts. His body was being drained both front and rear and he had not only no control, but no say over the time and order of when he could and could not go. He was there, stuck in the bed, at least kept from laying in a puddle of his own waste, but removed to a far more disturbingly untenable position. He could not imagine what mad thoughts were traveling through Tech’s mind that she would keep him like this, strapped across a bed with the fluids being removed from his body. It was the last focus that lead him to realize that in his arm was an IV, which was the final humiliation. He was not even allowed to feel hunger, or the need to eat, that too was being controlled. Obviously Tech had thought meticulously and planned for his entrapment here.
He wanted blackness again, he wanted to relieve himself from the disgusting horrors that were being inflicted upon his body. But try as he might he could not find blackness, even the pain seemed to be disappearing, and with nothing to focus on he could not help but notice when it seemed that the plastic brown bag seemed to suddenly inflate, or the drip from the IV fell tick, click, tick, dripping down and passing into his arm. He was maddened and disgusted, he began to struggle but to no avail.
Perhaps it was the sound of the struggling, perhaps there was a timed moment, a waiting sense, but suddenly he heard a chink, and the turning of a handle and he knew that someone was coming for him, at least something was about to happen.