Troubled pasts (a Horrorlust story)

The device

Daves POV
I watched my henchman apply the restraint on the cleaner "so how does this thing work?" He asked "basically whenever I press this button on my remote, or when they either attempt to engage in combat or teleport, the restraint will deliver a painful electric shock for a few seconds that damages their hp, the amount of damage depends on the monster it's hurting, with horror it will take a lot of shocks to damage only a fraction of his hp, but with the cleaner here, it can take only a couple for it to go down to zero, once their hp is near zero it won't do anymore damage, so it doesn't kill them" I explained.

"oh, don't you think this is a little extreme?" "Nah, it doesn't kill them, plus you've seen how tough it is to get horror to spill a secret, It might be the same for him. We've ran this loaning business for way too long and we can't let it go down because of these two" they were silent "alright aaaaaand done!" He stood up and took a bow "tch, don't be cocky" Dave held the door open, but the henchman didn't leave "ahem, raised paycheque?" He cooed, Dave groaned "Ugh fine, now get out" he walked out, leaving Dave alone with an unconscious lust.

Lusts POV
I woke up on my bed again, my head was pounding. "Ngh...ow...what happened?" I looked around I saw Dave standing in the room "good, you're up" I sat up off my bed "what happened, I feel...weird" I saw him hold a small device in his hand, almost like a remote, he pointed at my neck with it, I looked down and saw a small strap attached to my neck. "W-what's that?" I asked worriedly "it's a magic restraint"

"A-a magic restraint? But I-I don't even know how to use magic" he turned on the remote, my restraint beeped "I know, thank god. But it can also be used for 'interrogational' purposes. Now I'll ask nicely, who have you been seeing?" I didn't like the way he was talking, but I had to stick to my promise "I...I can't tell you" he sighed as he slowly walked around me "yeah, I was afraid you would say that, but now when you don't obey I can do this"

I saw him press a button on his remote and my restraint started beeping. Suddenly I felt my body shock uncontrollably, I screamed in pain but nothing came out, it hurt so much, it felt like my soul was being crushed. He stopped, my body flopped on the bed, so many tears escaped my eyes "ow! Ow! Ow! I-it hurts! It hurts so much. P-please make it stop!" He stood near me "this restraint will deliver a painful zap" he got even closer and grabbed my top and pulled me towards him "and with your frailty it only takes a couple hits from this to kill you, so I suggest you refrain from pissing me off! Understood?" I weakly nodded, he let go of me. "I'll ask you again. Who. Have. You. Been. Seeing?" I couldn't handle this pain, I wanted it to go away "it...it...was horror" I spoke in the quietest voice I could, but he still heard me "alright, that's all I needed. And unless you want another shock, don't mention the restraint" he left the room and I cried into my pillow.

Everything hurt

I betrayed him.

My only friend.

Horrors POV
As I sat on the roof observing the world around me I could hear a knocking sound coming from the main hatch, I assumed it was lust so I quickly freshened myself up as much as I could and opened the hatch with a smile on my face.

"Sup-..." I stopped mid-sentence, it wasn't lust. "Ain't you one of daves goons?" I felt something prick me in the head "ow! What the fuck?!" I yanked it out, it looked like some sort of dart, soon my vision became fuzzy and my head stung like crazy after, I held my head in pain "AHH! Fuck! What the fuck did you shoot me with?!" "Heh...night horror" before I could attack him I began to feel sleepy, I closed my eyes and my head went blank. "Wow. I didn't know it was gonna be this easy"

Third person POV
"Dave I got em'!" He said as he walked into the loading bay, occasionally grunting at horrors weight, and carelessly dropped horror on the floor "fuck he's heavy!". "Good, you're dismissed, the paycheques in the back room. And lock up the building when you're done" "thanks" he walked away while Dave approached the lifeless blob that was horror "not so tough now are ya" he set the restraint already around his ankle to "shock". "All we have to do is wait" Dave sat on a chair alone waiting for horror to wake up.

The sun was setting and horror still hadn't woke up "wow, those darts must've been very effective" Dave went back to check on lust, he walked up to the first floor and caught him in the corridor "what are you doing?" Lust flinched at the suddenness of Dave's presence "eek! Um d-Dave what are y-you doing here?" Dave could tell that lust was on his way to horrors room, he raised the remote in his hand, lust freaked out and ran back to his room. "How the fuck did he get out?" Dave muttered as he checked the door to lusts room, he looked through the window and saw lust cowering in a ball. Dave put his key in the door and was surprised when the lock mechanism failed, he let out a sigh of annoyance "Great, he picked the fucking lock" Dave stormed back to horrors room and stole his lock picks. "Good luck seeing your new friend now"

Dave walked back to horror and was pleased to see him getting up "ugh, fuck what happened...my head" dave stood in front of horror, the two glared at each other "try and teleport" "what?" "You heard me, teleport" horror thought to himself, and tried to teleport to another part of the room, he felt the restraint shock his soul, horror screamed in pain and hit the floor. "Yep, it's your old friend" horror looked at the remote Dave was holding, his face dropped, he tried to pull it off his leg, he rolled around trying to pull it off "...no...no p-please no!" "and don't even think about mentioning this to your friend, because if you do..." Dave shocked him again before walking out "AHHHH! Fuck this is worse than I remember! Make it stop!" Horror was left limp on the floor while Dave left the building.

Horrors POV
I laid on the cold floor, my body didn't want to move, I felt pain in every part of my body, I feared what he was going to do to me, I feared what he was going to do to lust. I began to crawl, putting all of my strength into my arms, it hurt so much, the pain got worse with every movement, soon I felt some of the pain go away in my legs, I leaned my back onto the stairs and pushed my feet off the floor, I shivered when I made contact with the cold metal stairs, after what felt like an eternity I made it to the top floor, at this point I started to black out, I ignored the pain and crawled faster as I watched the world around me get darker, I put my entire weight on the door, it slowly opened, I was nearly there, in a moment of desperation I quickly stood on my feet and leaped into bed.

As soon as I stopped moving and got comfy, all of the pain returned, this time it was much worse, I screamed in agony into my pillow, I just wanted to go to sleep and block out the pain.

I closed my tear-filled eyes and waited for the inevitable.