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No. 2499
Here it is.
Something is wrong with the Engineer.
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He was still there when I checked the next day. Alive, but only in the loosest sense of the word. At least our Medic was nice enough to put him on a machine, something to keep him breathing. The German had a habit of playing with his captives, and recording them for later… unsavory actions. He couldn’t just kill them off, even if they were stubborn. The man knew better. I gathered his tapes, settling down to watch them. Everything I had seen the man do didn’t make me cringe anymore, but this was different.
Medic started with the chest, because it is the first thing he saw. Slapping him around clearly wasn’t working. He never said a word. Medic had started cutting into his chest, into his skin. Pale as he was, his blood was still red. But still, he never responded to the man’s questions. The incisions were nothing. He must have been tortured before. I don’t know. The Spies may go through this regularly. Something else was injected in his veins, and that at the very least got him to moan softly. I had to check it again, it was hard to hear. Medic can get horrid when he wants to, and this time, he wanted to.
I don’t understand why he continues to devise horrible tortures for other human beings.
But this Spy took it all. Pinpricks, cuts, lashings, everything without a sound. I had to turn off the tape. I couldn’t watch most of it. The Spy was different. Confusing. And infuriating. I went to go see him, the Medic and his pet nowhere to be found. Good.
Those empty eyes looked up at me when I approached. He knew. Somehow, he knew I was coming. I’m not the sneakiest person here, but I’m quieter than Scout, or Medic. But he knew it was me. Something about it, and he knew exactly who it was. I couldn’t see his expression over an oxygen mask. Those eyes. Those eyes, empty as they were, shot through me. It was not something I could accept right away. Those eyes should have been filled with pain, hate, suffering, any sort of emotion. But there was nothing.
I felt pity for him yesterday. But those eyes made me feel something worse. He was mocking us with those eyes. He knew what we wanted, but he would not give it up. His arrogance was in those eyes. I knew it. I could feel it.
Before I could stop myself, I brought my fist down on his head like a hammer. His body jolted, the machines screeched angrily at me, and I may have broken something, because there was blood on my hand. But those eyes looked at me still. Those eyes stared, mocking, laughing at me. I hit him again. And again.
But those eyes still looked at me.
Frustrated, and angered, I stormed out of the room, passing Medic as I went down to my workshop. There was blood on my glove.
That night, I couldn’t get that Spy out of my head. He never said a word to me, but those eyes haunted me. Those eyes mocked and laughed at me. Those eyes said everything. I hated Spies on principle, but this was different. I wanted to see him squirm and flail and suffer. I wanted to hear him scream for mercy, wanted to see him on his knees begging for it. I wanted him to crawl, wanted him to feel pain. I wanted to reinvent the word to him.
I wanted to break him.
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