Nightmare County (Reader x Seed brothers)

Chapter 11: I've Been Here Before

     Just like before you had awoken feeling hazy. Your vision blurred from being knocked out earlier. You couldn't move any of your limbs being tied to a chair once again. Fear settles in as you remember the familiarity of this room. You managed to escape only to wind up in a more dire situation than before. Within the silence you started to hear footsteps sound around you. Along with the fear came the panic and tears were threatening to spill already. You were visibly shaking as well.

     "Does this all seem familiar to you?" You hear the voice of John say as he puts his hands on your shoulders causing you to jump slightly in your chair. You attempt to move forward to try and get his hands off you, but as soon as you leaned forward John was quick to roughly push you back into your seat. "Don't move, I want you to take a look around." You swallow the air you didn't know you were holding.

     "Do you know what happened when I found out you had died on your first day out?" John says, bringing his face close to the side of yours. You both look forward, staring at the wall. You respond with a simple muffle 'hmm?' "I was devastated. I thought in a way I killed you, you weren't ready to go outside. I should've had someone guard you while you were outside." John's grip tightened on your shoulders causing you to wince and panic even more.

     "It wasn't until I caught news from my brother Jacob that he saw you running around the Whitetail mountains." John says, you still panicked from everything, start to notice the annoyance in his voice. "It was then I realized that you had managed to trick me. Here I thought we were bonding." John chuckles lightly. "Oh how wrong I was, you find joy in hurting those around you." John had now moved to the front of you facing you meeting eye to eye with him. His hands still on your shoulders as he looked down at you.

     "And here I thought you had changed, you were compliant, you actually did stuff you were told. But it was all a show, a plan from the very beginning to blindside me and hit me when I least expected it." John was getting more angry as he explained how manipulative you seemed to him. You were pressed against your chair trying to get away from him. You avoid eye contact and try to look anywhere but at him.

     "Just like a snake, slithering its way around everyone during the nights. Except when you least expect it, the snake would wrap itself around someone's neck." John's hand trailed up to your throat grabbing ahold of your throat causing you to look at him out of fear. "Slowly squeezing it tightly making sure they can't breathe until they are dead!" John's grasp had gotten tighter and you were finding it harder to breathe. You start struggling out of impulse, not being able to make a single noise since your mouth was covered. John didn't stop though, not caring if you were in pain. By the look in his eyes it seemed like he wanted you to be in pain.

     You were now squeezing the chair with her hands still somewhat flailing around, her vision seeing dots as you were being strangled. Your throat feels sore and your lungs ache from lack of air. John had finally let go and once he did you start to gasp trying to catch your breath the best you could, your throat hurting from being held tightly. This was great, you knew this was only the beginning and that thought alone made you panic even more than you were already. He grabs ahold of your chin making you look up at him.

     "You're so beautiful." John takes a second to compliment you. His eyes glances down for a couple of seconds before looking back into your eyes. "When you can't somehow backstab anybody and left helpless." He lets go of your chin and you automatically look towards the ground not wanting to look at him.

     "I was wrong about you," John says, his tone changing, looking down at you. In John's eyes couldn't tell if he hated you or not. He couldn't tell if he enjoyed watching you, scared for your life having to depend on him for what happens next to you or if he wanted to let you go and let all this go, pretending none of it happened as he treats you like a queen. Though he would feel more comfortable with you tied up and left to atone so you couldn't be given the chance to betray him. You deserved this all after all, whatever he did he would hold no regret. He was going to make you beg for mercy from him and cry to him why faking your own death and lying like you did was wrong. He was going to break you. Nobody was going to help you either. Joseph trusted John enough to not bother checking on you two. The other two siblings were already busy with their own stuff so he could do whatever he wanted.