"Eddie, bring them here." he snapped at the guy with the roofies. "First you're going to swallow these, then I have something else to ram down your throat." he promised, Eddie trying to pry her teeth open. She snapped her teeth around his finger and bit down as hard as she could. Hot copper filled her mouth as he shouted in pain, other hand tearing at her hair to try and pull her off. Her head got bounced against the floor, and her body went slack, ears ringing. The pills were stuffed into her mouth and someone held her nose shut, clamping her jaw again until they felt her relfexively swallow, trying to get some air. Her head was bounced down again, Eddie was obviously still unhappy about his finger.
                              
Having her head dribbled like a basketball was not helping it feel any better, and she was terrified of what was about to happen to her. But he had his hand clamped over her mouth again so she couldn't scream more, his nasty smelling breath wafting over her face. She tried to insult him, "You make the Predator look pretty." But it came garbled out because of his hand.
                              
"I'm sorry what was that? You want me and my two friends here to take you? Why I think we will!" the leader mocked, laughing and his friends joined in. Ace started to fight, knowing that if she'd never been able to keep Stuart from doing this, there was no way she could stop three guys. But even without that hope, she still fought. One hand raked nails down the leader's face, making him jerk away with a curse.
                              
"MALCOLM!" Alice bellowed as loudly as possible before a dress shoe connected with her forehead. It hadn't been a full soccer kick but it still rang her ears and sent a shockwave of pain through her head. But no other abuse followed. Ace lay curled on her side in the fetal position, trying not to black out and with a building wave of nausea crawling up her stomach. She held her face because it felt like that kick had shattered her skull, tears leaking out of her eyes. When she could concentrate passed the overwhelming pain, she heard sounds of fighting just next to her.
                              
Alice peeled her eyes open, the light stabbing into them but she gritted her teeth and endured, needing to see. There was one of her attackers on the floor, limp and eyes rolled into the back of his head. His chest still rose and fell, so she knew he wasn't dead, but the grayish tint to his skin announced that it might not be long before he stopped entirely. She looked passed the critcal student to see Eddie with the bloody finger go flying into a lovker head first and drop to the floor.
                              
The leader of her attackers was standing between her and her rescuer, and the leader had a sick looking switch knife in his hand. "I'm going to f*** you up." he threatened the other guy.
                              
"You are going to try. But you will fail." a familiar voice replied.
                              
Alice's stomach burned and she threw up, doing her best to remain forgotten in the background. Dizziness swam through her and she was starting to feel tingly and numb all over. Which was probably a really bad sign. It would probably been less damaging to stay still, but Alice started to slowly crawl towards the hallway, unable to remain still and hope her rescuer was victorious. She hadn't made it halfway to hte door when she heard a pain filled yell and the thud of someone hitting hte floor. Footsteps walked quickly over to her and she reacted out of fear, trying to scuttle away.
                              
"Hey it's alright, I'm not going to hurt you." West said softly, kneeling down to try and look at the damage down. Alice looked at him, panting as the heat in her stomach built up again. "We need to get you to a hospital." He stated and her head split into agony as he lifted her up, cradling her in his arms. Alice closed her eyes against the bright lights of the hallway, shakes starting to attack her body.
                              
She heard a distant commotion of people worrying over her as they noticed West carry her out of the change room. The last thing she saw was a blurry visage calling her Ace, voice filled with worry.