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she had been so feisty and strong, but now, just like this building, she would be a shell. She had blood all over her face, her nose looked almost broken and her eyes were both bruised and swollen. We needed to sell her and his decision to beat her senseless really didn’t seem logical to me. I looked at her thighs and saw the cruel bruises I had made and saw how they paled in comparison to the many bruises and bites now marring her body. I turned the silver bath taps off and held her again to lower her into the tub. I watched as a single tear escaped her closed eyes.
    I washed her body of blood, trying to be gentle and only dab her fragile skin. Her eyes fluttered open as I washed arou nd her bloody and bitten nipple; she looked at me completely distant, like she wasn't in there anymore. She didn't speak for a few minutes and I began washing her hair but couldn't get the right angle, I stroked her cheek lightly and felt a few tears wet my hand.
    "I can’t wash your hair like this, I know this is the last thing you want but can I come in? I’ll stay dressed and just get wet and I’ll only wash your hair" she just looked at me not saying a word and then she scooted forward a bit and I pulled off my trainers off and white socks, I rolled up my jeans to my knees and slowly entered the bath just behind her, she immediately fell back, exhaustion making her rely on my body. I rubbed the shampoo into her hair and felt as my fingertips pressed into the dried blood on her scalp.
    "Why me… w hy us?" she mumbled, still dazed, but I was content she had even managed to speak.
    "You were there, the why isn't important ," I continued to stroke her hair with shampoo.
    "What's going to happen to me, Draco?" I heard her voice break as s he said my name. I hated that I couldn't tell her everything, but at least while Rahul was gone I could show her a little kindness.
    "I don't know. R ight now you're having a bath and right now... I just want you to know that what he did, I swear to you I wouldn't have left if I had known he would do that."
    She moaned a little as I pushed a little harder into her scalp.
    "Draco, please just be honest with me" I stayed silent for a few minutes washing her beautiful brunette locks, savoring this moment, because I knew that once I answered, she would only hurt worse.
    "We... y ou are going to be sold, Aimee," I said, slowly but flippantly.
    "Sold? To who, Why? I ... why did you kill her? M y Erin, my beautiful Erin…" she sobbed hard and I pulled my arms around her stomach and weary of her bruises I held her as close as I could to comfort her. I knew she wanted to tell me to leave her alone, to leave her because I was just a murderer to her, just a man who beat her for not eating and left her here to be crushed and hurt so badly by Rahul. It was cruel to confuse her, I should be the Draco she knows and despises, but no, instead I'm in a bath holding her while she sobs because I saved her sister from a life worse than death. 
    "Sold to the highest bidder, you're a slave for whatever they want, sex, beatings, rape, captivity... You will be sold in a few weeks... A little longer now Rahul has beaten you so fucking severely. As for your sister, because I... I want to lie to you, to tell you it was because I'm a soul-less pig but..." I pulled her closer so I could whisper in her ear "... I tried to save her from becoming worse than you right now. Tell me, if you watched this happen to your sister, would you rather spare her that or have her die with dignity and purity?" I tried to be honest and hoped that she understood that, understood why I did it.
    "You know what I would have liked? I would have liked if you left us alone, you never saw us, and that right now I was with my sister on a plane home, and that I wasn't in this fucking bath, cut and bruised and having my scalp massaged by her god damn murderer ."
    I laughed, I didn't mean to, it came out completely irrational and inconsiderate but she was back,