Asher fiddled with the wooden stake in his hands as he waited for Henry to awake from his nap, 'I wonder if he knows who I was with during that time. But the problem remains, would he help me? Well I still have other ways to persuade him.'
Asher thought with gleeness.
After a few minutes Henry's eyes snapped open as he let out a scream, "Wha—what was that?" He asked with dizziness as he sluggishly turned his head around.
"And thus, sleeping beauty awakened!" Asher jeeringly screamed in a childish voice as his lips contorted into a grin.
"I won't lie Henry, you are going to die either way. But I will grant you a more, let's say merciful death if you answer my questions or else…" Asher trailed off but the underlying meaning of his words were understood by the 450 year old vampire.
His eyes turned bloodshot as he tried to rip apart the chains that held him, only for his skin to sizzle and burn as he cried out in pain. "Ver…Vervain!" He hissed with agony.
Asher sighed before he pushed the stake into Henry's thighs causing him to grunt, "You know, human beings are so fragile. The slightest words, the slightest wounds are enough to severely wound them.
"But you lot are wholly different. No matter what I do or say, you will feel nothing because you're a monster just like me." Asher whispered to him as he brought his face closer to Henry's.
"No matter what I do, you'll come back, so I think I can have a lot more fun than I previously had with you." Asher said in a low tone as he stared at Henry's face which was fearless. "Unless of course you tell me what I want to know."
He added with a pause.
"Screw you!" Henry wrestled against the chains as he spat on Asher's face.
"Oh I hope you hadn't said that." Asher slowly wiped the saliva off his face before bringing his hand toward a foldable black bag placed beside him.
Asher picked up a small needle and glanced at the slightly trembling Henry who seemed to be reliving his past trauma and smiled, "These needles are all laced with vervain, you'll definitely experience the maximum pain possible."
He said before pausing for a few moments, "I think that you were smart enough to consume vervain from the day you decided to hunt me, so as to reduce your weaknesses.
"But you were only building a tolerance to the vervain's effect of weakening you, not the pain that it causes." Asher said with a grin.
"Bring it on you fucker!" Henry valiantly yelled.
But his body seemed to have missed out on the rush of courage as he instinctively tried to push himself against the seat and tried to escape the long needle present in Asher's hand.
The long needle penetrated Henry's cornea as it continued on towards the back of his eye, Henry's eyes began to smoke as he screamed out in pain.
An unimaginable pain surged from his eye as it spread throughout his body.
A person's eye is the most sensitive part of a person's body, this weakness was carried over when one became a vampire and had their emotions heightened.
No matter how strong one was, against such immense pain, they would always falter. Even the most stalwart and loyal person would break when facing such pain.
Henry's body shook violently as the intense pain overwhelmed his body. For a few seconds, the room was filled with silence.
For a moment Asher thought that his methods hadn't worked, as he hadn't gotten the response he wanted. But in an instant a smile washed over his face as Henry released a gut wrenching scream.
The shriek emanated throughout the house as it startled the slumbering Damon and made Stefan stand up in fear.
Stefan slightly trembled as he sped towards the dungeon to try and investigate.
Inside the room, Asher didn't stop his movement as he slowly and forcefully inserted the needle deeper into his eye.
At this time, Henry's body shook even more violently than before as he bounced up and down. He twisted his body frantically and groaned in agony.
"People always underestimate the effects of vervain, most vampires hate it, but I have a preference for it." Asher said smoothly as he continued the torture.
Bound tightly to the chair, Henry was like a fish gasping for air on land. He tried to break the chains which sealed his body but there was no sign of it weakening.
Just before Asher could continue his hobby, a loud thump resounded at the door causing him to let out a deep sigh.
He stopped what he was doing and opened the door to see a brooding Stefan leaning against the side of the wall.
"What are you doing in there, Asher?" Stefan turned his head to face Asher as he asked with narrowing eyes.
His body leaned forward as he took a look at the sight of a blonde haired man with a needle inserted into eye.
Asher quickly blocked his sight with his body as he rubbed his forehead with his thumb, "What I do is none of your concern Stefan. Don't you have school?"
Stefan stared at him intently and spoke softly, "Well it is my house Asher, and when a person's screams so loud that it echoes throughout the house, it does become my business."
His eyes narrowed as he faced Asher.
Asher gave a disregarding smile and leaned forward, matching him, "Well then, why don't we go outside?"
He asked with a pause, as both of them stared at each other. "I'll make sure it's quiet." Asher said faintly as he shut the door behind him.
His body turned to face Henry as he gave a menacing smile, "Now, where were we?"
"..."
Hours had passed since Asher experimented on the little vampire, thousands of small knife wounds littered his body as it periodically smoked.
Henry now was tied up from his wrists, his ankles were shackled to ground with vervain laced ropes as a circular chain which was filled with small wooden stakes were fitted on his neck. His body was slightly suspended in the air as he tried to wiggle away from his restraints.
Henry's eyes had completely been dug out as his abdomen had been ripped out with his intestine creeping up to his mouth as he chewed on it.
"Oh my god, I'm going to piss myself." Asher laughed hysterically as he clapped his hands together.
"I have never seen someone eat their own guts, you're killing me!" Asher said with a loud chuckle as he almost fell out of his chair.
Tens of hundreds of small tiny metal pins were placed around his forehead and face, completely restricting his movement as his skin flayed itself.
Blood dripped down from his wounds as Henry grew weaker and weaker, his eyes slowly regenerated before Asher held up his head and poured some vervain in it, but this time Henry didn't scream.
It seemed his body in an act of self preservation shut down most of his functions and entered into a vegetative state.
Asher sighed at the sight of this as he twirled a vial filled with an unknown yellow substance in his hands.
"And here I was, actually enjoying myself. Whatever, I'll let you rest for a bit before I start enjoying myself again. I have quite the surprises planned for you." Asher said in a soft and pleasant tone.
He waved Henry goodbye as he waved his fingers slightly, before exiting the room.