Scraps
Sirius
07-20-2021, 10:31 PM
The surprise on his face when she questioned him just confused her more and then he corrected her, telling her that he wasn't interested in sex at all but in teaching her self defense. So not only had he fed her, helped to tend to her wounds, given her a place to sleep with a comfortable bed, and somehow trusted her to be left alone unrestrained, but... he was going to teach her how to defend herself. She stared at him in disbelief and she kept waiting for the pin to drop, for him to tell her how that had all been a lie, to tear into her just as hope started to cross her face.
But it never came. He looked back at her with an absolute seriousness that told her this wasn't a joke and this wasn't a trick. She hadn't been picked up by some ruthless brute, she had been picked up by someone who seemed intent on saving her. A little laugh bubbled up in her chest as a rare smile pulled at her lips giggling softly at the absurdity that she realized their conversation had been, her thinking that he was talking about raping her when in reality he had been trying to teach her and improve her life - something she had never once been offered. "I'm... I'm sorry, I just..." she giggled some more, the sound strange in her own ears. Had she ever laughed like this? Had she ever smiled? She really didn't know. She couldn't remember a time if she had.
"Yes... To answer your question, yes, that's pretty much all I've been used for," she told him honestly. "Since I was... very, very young. But I'm very grateful for the chance to learn something else," she assured him, far more relaxed as she looked at him now. "And no, I don't want to be chained up if that's okay with you. I won't go anywhere. I promise." She wondered to herself if she really had died back there in that cave and this was actually some sort of strange heaven that she had been placed into. She most certainly wasn't going to leave somewhere like this.