BROKEN BEYOND REPAIR

🌹FINAL ACT | FINDING CULPRIT 🌹

A tense silence engulfed the whole room suffocating the life out of the two people occupying it.. It was as if being thrown into a brazen bull (you know what it is?) and setting a fire under it.. Everything bothered them, the faint ticking of clock, the sound of breathing, the impatient tapping of feet, the sound of spring wind blowing outside. Literally everything..

"So you are saying both of them went missing?" Lance asked Ash who gripped the armrest tightly.. They searched the whole castle, everywhere but they were nowhere to be found, the guards went to the main city to interrogate the locals.. Moreover the Mitsubishi Lancer was missing from the place it was parked too.. And there were sightings of a black Lancer going out of the city in west.. And only Clair had the keys to that damn car..

All indicated to one end..

"HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU BE SO CALM LANCE, THEY KIDNAPPED CLAIR.." He stood up from his seat with his resolve coming to end pushing Lance against the wall as tears prickled his eyes..

"Stand down Ash.." His firm voice ordered.. It wasn't a requesting or a supporting tone.. It was a mere order that he had to follow.. Ash crashed down pulling his hair as Lance looked at him..

"First of all. We don't know whether it is a kidnapping or not.. We need to find the clue.." Lance said as he walked toward the door.. Lance wasn't an idiot. It was an kidnapping for sure except for Jane part. She acted independently and someone used it to their own.. His fist clenched as he walked out..

"You don't want to include anyone right.." He asked Ash whose face was covered in shadows.. Yet another one of his failure.. He failed again to protect her.. Whether Lance showed it or not both of them knew she was in grave danger.. It was just Lance had a little self control while Ash didn't had even a little of it.. His silence gave Lance the answer he needed as he walked toward him..

"Are you this pathetic Ash? Laying down like this and doing nothing to protect Clair.." His voice whispered in his ears with a strange face Ash had never seen on Lance..

"Hurry up.. We have to save her.. We don't have time for this drama.. You have exactly 10 minuites to meet me at the stairs.. Don't bring anyone.." Lance walked away as his robe fluttered in front of Ash's face stating some harsh facts over his crumbling mind.. What was he doing?

Hopelessness is a weird feeling. You can have all the energy in your body and infinite potential but your body refuses to listen to you. Your mind forcing your body to not move. He was currently the strongest guy on the battlefield yet the weakest. He was the best and the worst asset at the same time. And slowly he begun to lose himself again.. A strange darkness engulfed him.. Just like the night in saffron city..

'Failure.' A voice whispered in his head.

"Clair.." His voice croaked. He didn't wanted to belive it. They took her right under his nose.. Just few minuites after they were talking happily...

'Worthless.' His unconscious mind whispered in his head as darkness engulfed him completely. No one existed. Just him in a empty void of darkness. Who know what will happen to Clair now. It took them months but they couldn't find a clue on Giovanni until he decided to make his move.  They still had no clue on where he was? Where Clair will be.. How he thought everything went according to his plan but it was going all according to Giovanni. He hadn't felt this hopeless since that accursed night when Sabrina left the world.

'Yet another one.' He held his ears tightly.

'How many more? Sabrina, your friends, Clair. Who's next? Cynthia? Diantha?, Hina.' The voice whispered harshly in his mind.

"Stop." He whispered.

'Let me take control. I will help you kill them all. Every single on of them.'