After The End Of The End

Ace roared in rage, ripping her shirt open and pressing the sponge to her exposed flesh, causing ripples of intense pain to tear through her body, shaking her. She wanted to scream, but just clenched her teeth. She wasn't going to give Ace the satisfaction. When he pulled the sponge back, she fought to keep her head up. 

"How did you trick her? How did you manage to kill her?!" Willow just smirked, 

"Guess… She wasn't… as strong.. As you thought she was.." He shoved the sponge against her again for a couple seconds before pulling it back. She just took a couple deep breaths and continued, "And.. guess what..?" Ace surprisingly paused in his torture to wait for an answer, his body tense with anger. She laughed raspily before replying to her own question, "You.. Arent as.. Strong as you think.. You are.. Either.." Rage lit the mans eyes as he tore the rest of her shirt down along with part of her bra, targeting the sponge directly at her nipple. Her toes and back arched unconsciously as she shook violently again. He pulled it away to hiss, 

"If only.. If only I could keep this shocking you for longer without risking brain damage.." Then even when he repeated the action twice more, Willow managed to keep her head up, glaring directly at him. 

"If you think this will break me.. You have no idea what I've been through.'

***

Tara and the gang hurried down the street, Tara holding the directions the man had given them. 

"How do we know he's not lying?" Xander asked as the others struggled to keep up with Tara. 

"He feared for his life," Tara explained blankly, "I doubt he would risk lying." 

"Yeah.. Uh.. About the whole 'Fearing for life' thing.." Tara didn't look back at him, 

"Its done. It doesn't matter - what does matter, is getting to Willow." The rest of the walk was in silence, a heavy tension falling upon the group as they halted in front of a steep hill with an ominous, beaten up building. "We're here." 

***

Once Ace had tired of the electrocution, he went back to pacing. 

"You killed her?! You.. You.." Willow noted that his tone didn't sound like grief, more like if someone had broken a possession of his. {Is it possible he was the reason Kennedy was like that..? Did he abuse Kennedy before she met me..?} Willow looked down, growing horrified, {and I killed her - I just killed her without a second thought, didnt think to as /why/ she was like that..} She was snapped from her thoughts when Ace tore her from the chains, throwing her to the ground. Tearing the rest of the shirt from her, he growled,

"Lets see if /this/ is more your style."

((I'm so sorry about the Willow thing, but I just felt with an unstable personality like Aces that it was practically unavoidable. She will need lots of time to recover, of course, but she's grown stronger over time thankfully.))