Believe me now!

29 Blaze meets Manuelo

Sera was trying to remember her vision. She felt very foggy. Manuelo sent his girls in to get Sera ready for another session. She had enough. She wouldn't take another sip. Manuelo instructed them to send in the doctor.

Sera was tied to her bed. A man in a long white coat came in. He wore thick glasses and didn't make eye contact with her. He pulled out an IV catheter from his bag. He wiped her neck off with alcohol. She looked at him as he took the needle and stuck the IV into her neck. He flushed it with saline. She couldn't fight. The women were holding her face into the pillow.

Sera swallowed, tasting the metallic saline flush in the back of her throat. She was breathing hard. He took out a bag of fluids and set up a drip into her IV catheter. He left the room.

Manuelo came in, he smiled.

" Let's see what mama has to say once the barbiturates hit you. He stroked her face. You are all mine now little bird, sing for me."

Sera felt her mouth with her tongue, it was thick. She was feeling sluggish. Her thoughts were really slow. Her brain wasn't able to think clearly.

She fought the darkness as she felt it slowly creep around her light. It was looking for a way in. It moved in a circle like a snake. It slithered until she let herself go. She couldn't hold onto the light anymore. She lost her protection. She lurched up as her arms stretched out, tied to the bed post. Her eyes swirled with blackness. She opened them now and started to talk. Slowly at first, then rapidly. Manuelo laughed and clapped in delight. The evil entity used her body as a vessel. It used her as it's host, feeding on her power. Sera shook her head and screamed.

" I won't do it, get out of me!"

She commanded it to leave.

The doctor came and increased the drip. The darkness came again. Sera retreated deep into her mind. She hid from the entity. She was starting to slow her breathing. She used her mind to shut down her breathing. If her body wasn't working the evil would leave her.

Sera stopped breathing. The medication was too much for her.

Manuelo called the doctor. He rushed in and put an ambu bag over her mouth and squeezed, pressing air into her lungs. He felt for a pulse. She had a pulse. He kept doing rescue breathing as he stopped the drip in her IV.

It took a full minute before she started breathing on her own.

He told Manuelo. "No more medicine for a few days. She will die."

He reluctantly agreed, he didn't learn anything new anyway.

Dorinda saw Sera in the bed, tied up. She untied her hands and washed the blood from her neck where the IV was inserted.

She made a decision. She would rescue this woman.

Blaze...

Blaze was preparing for his meeting with Manuelo. He wouldn't screw this up.

He dressed in green fatigues. He strapped a gun to his ankle.

Helen was leaving on a supply run. she wanted to get this meeting over with.

Blaze walked into the large white house. He noticed several women laying around. "It's like a concubine?"

She nodded. "Every new girl gets his initiation. He drugs them and rapes them several times until their will is broken.

He looked at her then. "Did you go through that too?"

She punched him. "Naw, he would be dead by now if he had."

Blaze was concerned. He hadn't spoken to Sera for weeks, he was thinking about her ever since he walked in. He stared at a room with a closed door. He pointed to that door. "What's back there?"

" The girls are kept back there. I never went in there, but the rumors fly." She told him.

"Shh. here he is." She warned.

Manuelo came out of the back room. When the door opened Blaze was hit by an intense desire to run into that room. He felt a pull, her pull.

He frowned. Manuelo saw a mean looking mercenary standing next to Helen. He put out his hand out to Blaze.

" Helen tells me good things about you. You two served together?"

Blaze nodded. "We are acquainted. I am usually alone on these things." He did as Helen instructed, he tried to stick close to the truth. He spoke with Manuelo for a half-an hour.

When they finally left Manulo seemed satisfied with the meeting.

His mind was on other matters.

He thought of the girl in the back room.

Helen told him some news.

" While you were chatting with your new boss I spoke with one of the house girls. " Aparently Manuelo has been very distracted with a new girl. She said he spends all of his time with her. She heard that she is very special indeed. She has some sort of psychic abilities. He is sending the doctor to see her. Poor girl. She's probably pregnant by now."

Blaze's stomach dropped. He knew then that his wife was there. It was her in that room. She was the girl that Helen had mentioned.

He tried to turn and go back into the house. Helen stopped him. "Not like this Blaze, we can't save these girls. I know you want to help them, but you are going to jeopardize our whole operation."

Blaze looked fierce. " I think that is my wife in that room. I know that is my wife." She frowned.

" How can you be sure?"

" My wife and I have a very strong connection. We feel eachother. I sensed her when I walked in. When Manuelo opened that door, I wanted to go inside that room. Helen, we have to get to her. Get her out now. He will kill her."

Helen grabbed his arm. " I will try to get in there tonight. It will be very dangerous. One if the girls, his niece Dorinda will help me. Let me talk to her about this."

Leo...

Leo had been watching the trucks coming and going. He was preparing to roll under one of them when it got dark and enter that compound by holding onto the underside if the vehicle and then roll out covertly. He needed to get word to Helen and Blaze about Sera. He was panicking.

Leo felt a hand resting on his shoulder. He prepared to fight. He saw Dorinda standing behind him. He exhaled the breath he had been holding.

She nodded. " I am going to help you. Let's get Sera out of there."

Sera was in a bad way. She wasn't coming out of the deep trance she had been in. She was locked inside her mind. Dorinda had left her to find Leo.

Sera found a place inside to hide. She would stay there to protect herself, away from the darkness. She couldn't answer anyone that tried to talk to her. The doctor was concerned, she should be fully alert by now.

He gave her some cocaine to try and stimulate her senses and bring her back out. Her heart started to beat rapidly. Her eyes moved side to side. She was panting now. She still wouldn't respond. He told Manuelo that her mind was gone.

Manuelo refused listen, he sent the doctor away. He told his men to bring in a new doctor.

One that specialized in neurological issues. He would have his witch back. He would drain every ounce of power from her young mind.