They already talked about how they would "question" him while they waited for him to wake up, so they exactly wanted to start how they planned it.
First was the classic waterboarding and fingernail pulling, and if that doesn't work, then the tooth pulling. If that too does not seem to work, then they start off with the bleach, slowly pouring it into some of his wounds, and the indescribable pain will cause him to talk.
If those didn't work too, then Benjamin would start with the scalpel, slowly cutting some fine lines into Marco's skin or maybe popping out one of his eyes until he says everything they want to know at least that was the plan but there was somebody inside who didn't want to exactly do these things, at least at first.
As Benjamin and Thomas picked up the water and the towel, Linda too got up. "I'll do it first." She said, and the both of them seemed a little concerned and at the same time sad, they really wanted to do it.
So Linda did it and put her chair in front of Marco, sat down and stared at him.
She wanted to use it as a mind game. She too knew about some torture techniques that other agencies and secret services use, but she didn't really like the senseless butchering and cutting up, but more liked the mind games and psychological warfare, even though she knew there wasn't so much time to do it.
The first step in her plan was just staring, staring at him as long as possible and acting nonchalant, just to break his mind and eventually he will start talking.
Because Marco knows exactly why he is here, he knows that they want information, so sitting right in front of him and staring at him, being in his zone, will make him more uncomfortable, and the other thing was there too. Everyone knows about the good cop bad cop situations, where cops will use this strategy to make one cop a badass fucker, while the other will try to make the suspect feel himself in the most comfortable, giving him coffee and shit to earn his trust… in this situation it could work too.
Linda was the good cop, who just stared at him and did nothing else, while in the background Thomas and Benjamin were ready to fuck up Marco as much as they could. Marco saw the equipment there, the tools, the water, the towel, and the bleach too. He could see them and knew exactly what was going to happen if he didn't talk. But in contrast, there was Linda, who didn't hit him, didn't talk to him, just sat there, staring at him without any words.
Even if he knew what this was, what she was trying to do, there was no way he would choose the torturing over a small talk… but there was one thing that Linda didn't really calculate.
Marco knew that he is going to die… then why the fuck should he talk? If he talks, what is it going to do better for him? The answer was simply nothing.
It's not a plea deal, it's not something that he talks about everything he knows and will walk out freely. And even if he would, James would kill him anyway.
Yeah, there is nothing good in it. He would just go in the history as a snitch, as a loser who once stood proud on the side of James Bellini, then backstabbed him and snitched the fuck out of everybody, then died.
The worst ending of a boss, the worst ending of a man in the criminal world.
With that in mind, they sat, stared at each other, and said nothing. For minutes, for tens of minutes, there was silence, and Marco himself felt nothing uncomfortable about it.
Meanwhile, the others in the background were just getting frustrated about it. First, Linda without a word messed up their plans, and they would've been finished by now… but no, she just sat there in silence… and James started to feel it too.
He thought it would be a bloodbath, would be hell itself, with Marco screaming at the top of his lungs and begging for his life, but fuck they just sat there staring at each other like a fucking staring contest.
"I'm not going to talk." Marco said as he smiled into Linda's eyes. "You whore." He added with a chuckle.
"Whore?" Linda asked back as she tilted her head, but her facial expression remained, not a smile, not a bit of anger.
"Yeah… he fucked you, huh?" Marco said as he looked to the side to James, then back at Linda. "Deep. He fucked you deep while your husband is home. How do you feel getting fucked by a gangster? You love young dicks huh?"
Well, Marco had his own strategy, and because Linda was a woman, it came in handy to actually sexualize her and this strategy worked on women agents every single time, they lose their head, and the act is over.
But Linda? Nah. She didn't react to it, not even a single wrinkle on her face, not any anger or facial expression change. She looked like she didn't even care about it. But then he heard it… which surprised Marco and for Linda, it caused confusion and disbelief, because James was laughing on the side.
She turned back, looking at James with everybody in the room.
"Yeah, I fucked her. Is it a problem or what?" He asked as he looked at Marco, but for everyone else it just caused more confusion.
Marco's smile faded, and Linda's mouth just opened agape, looking in shock at him, while Benjamin, Thomas, Stephen, and Edward were just full blown frozen.
Because there was no actual way that they fucked, that James laid in the snake to Linda while they are literally in the biggest operation of their life... no, there was no way it happened.