Babysitting. [Lena] [TW]

TW: abuse, ableist language, use of the r slur ((OOC: I don't know how to tag for that exactly, sorry)), sexual harassment, vague threats of sexual assault

She hadn't meant to. Hadn't meant to be so stupid. Hadn't meant to be so careless. Hadn't meant to get caught. Today had started out nice. She and Mouse Baby and Dolly had gone for a walk, and on the way home--not really home, but a homeless shelter that hadn't kicked her out yet for causing-trouble-with-the-other-res-i-dents--she'd stopped by the pawn shop. It wasn't in a nice part of town, and the owners didn't like her, and she didn't like them.  But they bought what she brought them, and sometimes she took from them, too. She wasn't going to. Not today. But then she'd seen the necklace. It was a diamond on a gold chain. Enigma would pay a lot for it. 

It was too easy--she should've seen that--to pick the lock on the display case and slip the necklace into her pocket. Too easy to duck into the bathroom and put the necklace in Dolly. Too easy to leave by the front door, with nobody the wiser. She'd gotten away with it, she thought. 

Till she heard the footsteps behind her and felt the hand on her arm. 

One of the men grabbed her, pinning her arms behind her back. Dolly fell and Lena screeched, squirming, but he just held on tighter, lifting her up and setting her back down, trapping her feet in between his crossed ankles when she tried to kick him. 

Clicking his tongue, Bruno, the man who owned the shop, came up to her. "Lena, Lena, Lena. Didn't expect I'd see you back after last time." He bent and picked up Dolly,  fishing out his pocket knife. Ignoring her pleading, he slit the doll's back and reached inside, pulling out the necklace. "Well, well, well." Bruno shook his head, holding it up. "Somebody's been a very bad little girl." Chuckling, he took a step toward her.  "You remember what happened last time you stole from us, don't you?"  The men with him snickered and Lena whimpered, nodding.

How could she forget? They'd dragged her back to the shop and pulled her into a back room, where one of Bruno's thugs had undressed her from the waist down.  Bruno had pulled her over his lap. spanking her hard enough to make her cry--and leaving bruises that didn't fade for several days, before making her apologize for-being-a-bad-girl-and-stealing. Then he'd made her stand in the corner and-think-about-what-she'd-done. 

All the while, the others stood around watching, laughing and making jokes. One of them had filmed the whole thing with his phone. For insurance, he'd said.

"Hey!" Bruno snapped his fingers in front of her face, startling her out of her thoughts. "I'm talking to you." When she looked at him, he smiled. "That's better. Now. Like I was saying. You've either got real guts, or you're even stupider than I thought you were. So, which is it?" He waved the necklace in front of her. "You take this?" 

Lena shook her head. "No. I found it."

"You found it. Right. Nice try." Bruno grabbed her jaw, squeezing her cheeks between his thumb and first finger. "Last time, I told you not to lie to me. You forget about that, retard?"

Turning her head, Lena sank her teeth into his thumb. He screamed and dropped his hand, stumbling away from her. "Don't call me this," she spat.

Growling, Bruno grabbed her by her shirt front, his curled feet an inch away from her mouth. "You want to lose all your teeth, freak?" Abruptly, he dropped his fist and pulled out his knife, resting the blade against the bottom of her shirt. "Change of plans, kiddo. I'm gonna let my buddies here have some fun with you. After I finish beating your sorry butt black and blue for stealing from me, of course." He leaned forward, leering at her. "What do you think of that, huh? Sound like fun? We'll have us a regular play date."

Lena shrank back, shaking her head and whimpering. No no no. Not again. No. She would be good. She would she would she would. Before she could assure them of that--and promise that age would never never do it again--there was a commotion. A woman suddenly was in the alley. She stabbed one of Bruno's men, and knocked out the other, kicking him in the back of his head. Lrna's mouth feell open. Who was she? The woman pointed her knife at Bruno, who just laughed. Till he noticed both his men on the ground. Then he scowled, glaring at the woman. "You some kinda Wonder Woman or somethin'? What do you want with her anyway?" He jerked his head at Lena, tugging her closer.