"Door down." I finished lamely.
This girl really packed a punch!
"Ladies first." I said and surprisingly she went through and I stumbled after her kind of glad for my guardian, even as much as I was puzzled by the occurrence of her.
Asia stumbled ahead of Lori, as she was prodded along by the gun barrel in her back.
"So tell me Asia is he still like he used to be in all his beastly glory? I have to admit I really miss those special times with him. He really is a hunk isn't he?"
Lori leaned in close to Asia's ear, "You know what I always loved most was when he took his…." Asia shoved back against her viciously and Lori moved back laughing wickedly, "Oh come on dear don't be so bashful. I know what it's all about with him. Sex and lots of it! Oh how I miss those days! Oh well, plans change and a girl's got to adapt along with them."
Asia looked back at Lori with real hate in her eyes for the woman, "John's a better man than the likes of you could ever deserve!"
Lori smacked Asia across the face with the pistol, "You got it all wrong girl! John didn't deserve me! I changed to fit in with the times. I stayed strong, while he refused to veer off the path of weakness. He's nothing more than a boy toy that's become obsolete in a technological age, which I rule in, while he's getting cut to pieces even as we speak. He's a loser Asia, just like your father! You know in a way you and your father are responsible for all this. It was your research that helped bring this all about don't you know?"
"You're lying!" Asia screamed in response.
Lori smiled coldly, "You didn't seriously think that we would leave a brilliant intellect well versed with technology like yours free to roam do you? We could have ripped you from your ivory tower whenever we had wanted to, but there was no need to, as dear daddy passed along everything to us to keep his precious daughter safe."
"It's a lie! He would never have done that!" Asia responded back passionately, but inside she was starting to question what she knew about her father.
Lori's face fell apart into merriment, "Oh I really had you going didn't I!" Lori said laughing hard.
Asia felt her hatred for this woman intensify to a fever pitch, "What did you do to John?" She asked.
Lori's face took a conniving look of self pride, "Why honey, I made him into the beast he is today. He wouldn't turn believe it or not. Despite everything I offered and promised him he refused me, now that was a mistake let me tell you. No one refuses me and gets away with it! Torture had no better results on him. I even held a knife to what you and I love most about him and he still wouldn't budge. It turned out that he was as self righteously sanctimonious as both our older brothers were. I could've just killed him then, but I wanted to make him suffer so I turned him on himself. I implanted memories of things he would never have done directly into his mind. What do you think it feels like to remember doing something awful, when you know you didn't and yet somehow you must have, because you're remembering it. It drove him crazy. He became violent and useless to everyone, a danger even to himself, cast off even by his friends at his precious Agency. In a way it was the most perfect torture I could have ever come up with. A living torment, until you messed it up somehow!"