Far from home... (Disordia/Josh)

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The dungeon wasn't something that was alien to Discordia, she had seen so many of those along the years, before the greeks, with them, with romans, after the Romans, in modern times, always the same thing... people tie to walls, to the floor, to the ceiling... not tie but left there to rotten and die, people being tortured, all of it... always the same thing... and for some wicked reason the goddess, Eris or Discordia, hadn't gotten tired of it, maybe by all the power she got from it. From all of those poor souls in disgrace. She had heard about the young centurion, young husband, young father... young body, but he had already lived through beat ups as a child and then two wars, a quest, several injuries... well the kid for sure should go to Elysium... then he broke an oath and he is damned... or was he pardon by Jupiter?... well who really cared?! Maybe his family, but for Discordia,... she must see if he was still strong in heart and mind or if he would be a weak link. Either way she would have to tell the other gods... or not... what would be better? discord or not? strife? or maybe not... well Maybe Janus could help her there later, but for sure she would have to tell Jupiter and Juno after talking to the kid. She walked into the cell... well more a dungeon, She looked at the kid... well the man, someone eho lived what he lived wasn't a kid anymore... Josh was still with his hands well tied up, his hands were kind of useless, The woman, or better call her demon, called Skylar had done an amazing job on his body. several broken fingers, no nails in some of them too, his knucles severly damaged. also she had cut a lot of shallow cuts with a really sharp knife, but also had cut some deeper ones. And Josh couldn't say that she had neglected him during her job... NO!! she had been a real artist... a responsible torturer! Cut him, poured some poison in the wound, just to slow down his heart enough to make him not bleed much. Also she had given other stuff to make pain went higher in his brain. Definetely it had been a VTP! but he hadn't spoken a word about Camp, not a word about his wife or his unborn baby, not a single word about the praetors or the centurions... nothing!  He had been completely faithful to Rome... as always. But after another non-productive day with his new friend Skylar, he was unconsious no more energy in his body. He was starving and feeling not that good at all. She slapped him to make him wake up, the moment he did it, she smirked and started talking. "well... well... well, here we have the amazing Joshua Rogers! the pride of Mercury!... what would your father say looking at you like that?... in prison!" she laughed at him right on his face. Josh opened his eyes not knowing if what he was looking at was real or maybe product of anything that Skylar had already put into his body. He heard to her high pitched voice and then frowned still trying to look at her, he knew that woman, he knew it!! "am I?! wow! thought I was... in a resort..." he said and smirked but his head nodded and couldn't lift it for a while. you couldn't really know if his skin was white, pale, translucid or maybe purple and green from the tons of bruises that covered his body. Discordia frowned at him, but then relaxed a moment, maybe this kid was still holding up, still fighting which could be good. Therefore he would do that with the one who is torturing him, Strife... YES! that was what she felt in his heart, it wasn't discord... not yet at least, he had some... but deep in his heart, and he was still strong enough to try to play with the one in front of him. "still joking around... well maybe you still can hold up for a while... that is good because no one wil come to pick you up... not soon dear, my condolences." what could he do without hope? He looked at her and tilted his head, now everything was falling into places, yes! he had seen her! she was Discordia, that girl in first cohort had told him about her mother. Well Seneca was right on one thing... her mother was crazy and she should work on her personal interactions! "Well, you can tell your boss that I can stay here as long as he wants me to... I'm have a smoking time!" he joked again, why? well what if she wasn't Discordia but that crazy torturer?! Gods! he was losing the capacity to determine true from fake! Stupid boy! She thought and then smirked at him. and put her hand on his chest. "well, you're not well kid... weak... but strife has been your strength lately... keep going like this... or I might take it on... Rhiannon, or baby Art, or maybe Remus! No!!... wait... better on Rick, Ethan, Lance and Edmund... the whole quest team?..." she smirked when Josh looked at her and frowned. "yes... the whole team... I can reach to each of them... of course on this side of the River." she winked at him. "but I would only hurt them or let hurt others or themselves if you speak a wrong word in this place..." That was beyond his mind, because Skylar had brought pictures, in fact they were still on the wall, he looked at the pictures or a slight moment, then back at the goddess, could she really speak the truth? He wasn't worried about the threat, he hadn't spoken a thing, and he wouldn't start soon. But what troubled his mind was about Felicity being alive... He knew that was what Discordia meant... Alive!! Skylar also told him so... alive... but how could it be?! were they right? or... they both were fooling him? why would they?! "my sharing group hadn't been good at all... my partner is so boring... so emotion at all!!... how could anyone...-cough cough- open up... with someone like that?!" he coughed several times, he was really weak in body, never in mind. But he wanted the goddess to know that he didn't want her to hurt his family... including Felicity... if she was really alive. Discordia looked at him and knew he was being earnest, he hadn't talked about anything... well then she could maybe give him some peae? but would it help him keep his game up? or would it relax him enough to make him talk? Sometimes people like Joshua worked better under pressure. "It's so sad to know that she isn't as communicatie as you'd like... but you know I am... and well maybe you should know that... things aren't quite well... family isn't fine. you should find the way to get out of this place, or maybe you'll come back home to find it empty... with only the memory of a wife and an unborn child... that process in a woman is very difficult and dangerous... with such stress?... well I only came to check on you." Winks at him and then kisses his forehead. Then she just vanished. "NO... WAIT!!!... What do you -cough, cough- mean by that?!" he yelled and looked at the place where she had been, then looked at the wall, to Rhia's pic and he tried to move again, which along with the yell only made him cough again. But he just kept trying to open the locks only damaging even more his broken fingers and his nailless ones... Tag: @discordia & @josh Word: 1301 Notes: ok... I had to get those two out of my head, and finally I could do it... I know some of their words have no logic, sorry!!! I just typed them as they came up in my mind. XD <3