Survived Me: a Shatter Me fan-fiction (Warnette)

Chapter 111 - Me Insted Of Her

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Kidnapping
Hostage
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AARON'S POV:

I can see my fiancée's two older siblings standing in front of me, and they're only standing there to hurt and punish their little sister. How sick can these two people be? I don't understand how they could do this, I mean, putting it in retrospect, if it were James, I wouldn't even think about hurting him.

"Why?" I ask Theo and Annie. "I don't understand why you're kidnapping me."

"Because it punishes Juliette." Says Annie, smirking.

"Why would you want to hurt your own little sister?" Anger ripples through me.

"Before her, we weren't locked up!" Shouts Theo. "It's all because of her, all because she had to have a curse. It has nothing to do with us, yet we were punished for her inner monster."

Annie continues. "We used to be free, used to have loving parents who actually cared about us. But no, she had to ruin it."

I scoff. "That's not Juliette's fault! She is a victim in this!"

"Our lives were perfect, then she came along! She deserves to have someone who they love most stripped away from her, like she did to us." Says Annie.

"That's why we plan on taking her life from her, for good." Finishes Theo. "But before that, we are going to rip the one who she loves most in the world, taken away, like she did."

"What?" I breathe, harshly. "Don't you dare hurt her! Don't you dare even lay a finger on her!"

Annie chuckles. "You see, this is why we needed you out of our way - you'd do anything to protect her, for some reason, and it is, quite honestly, revolting."

"Please don't hurt her, I beg of you, please!" This is the first, and only, time I have begged for anything in my life. "Hurt me instead! Kill me, instead!"

Theo laughs. "Absolutely not! What would your father think about all of this, Warner?" He pauses. "Oh, wait, she killed him."

I stare at Theo, with pure shock. I can't believe what I am hearing right now. "Excuse you!" I force myself to remain calm ... ish. "With what rights do you have when it comes to speaking of, not only Juliette, but the grotesque and cruel man that I had to endure as a father figure!" My attempted calmness is now out the window.

"You can't be serious, Warner!" Laughs Theo, his tone mocking me, like I am a fool. "He was your father!"

"And Juliette is your sister!" I shout.

Both their faces flash with rage.

Just as Annie opens her mouth to say something, Juliette's shout rumbles through the walls of the basement.

"Don't you DARE tell me to calm down right now! Do you have any idea what it's like to have your fiancé MISSING?!" Juliette's voice brings hope to me.

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JULIETTE'S POV:

"Come on J, calm down." Says Kenji.

The fucking audacity!

"Don't you DARE tell me to calm down right now! Do you have any idea what it's like to have your fiancé MISSING?!" I shout.

Kenji, and everyone who's in the room - Castle, Delelui, Winston, Brendon, Alia, Lily, Sonya and Sara, they all freeze.

"I love that man with all that I am! You don't understand that if we don't find him, don't find him alive and healthy, the majority of myself will die. He is everything to me. For fucks sake, I want to marry him, I want him to be my husband! I want to spend every second of every day with him! I want to grow old with him - see that blond fluffy hair turn gray, then white." I stand up, tears pouring from my eyes. "I never want to wake up in a bed that he isn't in, one that's cold and lonely. He is the only thing I want to see as the first thing when I wake up, then, the last thing I see before I go to sleep at night."

Kenji is sitting there, his mouth hanging open. Castle is just looking at me with pity. Delelui is looking at me with worry - no one else knows that Delelui is Aaron's grandfather, so they don't understand why he is so worried, either. Winston and Brendon both have a sad looking face with slightly watered eyes. Sonya and Sara are crying.

I wipe my own tears and head out the door to the meeting room, deciding that if they will only contradict my efforts in finding Aaron, then I might as well do it all by myself.

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AARON'S POV:

After hearing Juliette's words, her declarations of love, before, I assume, she stormed out, I say to myself:

'You've got to get out of this, to save Juliette from whatever it is that Annie and Theo have planned for her, and just to hold her. Tell her that I feel the same as she does. That I heard what she said, and that there is nothing I want more than for all of her hopes and wants to come true.

I turn to Annie and Theo, who look completely disgusted at what Juliette said. "Pathetic." Annie rolls her eyes. "How stupid!"

Theo laughs again. "I know, she is so clueless."

That riddles me with anger. "Don't you dare call her clueless! You can do whatever you want to me! Kill me, torture me! Dismember all my limbs one by one - but don't go anywhere near her!"

They both look at each other and then burst into fits of laughter.

"You are just as pathetic as her!" Shouts Theo, like this is comical, which it clearly is, to him.

I never knew I could hate somebody as much as this! I thought Kishimoto was tipping on the edge of my last nerve - but these two, they're ten times worse than Kishimoto, and that's hard to be, it's hard enough to beat Kishimoto on the scale of my anger and composure.

These two individuals sicken me to the core. I don't understand the logic behind their movement. The way they're blaming Juliette, is just completely wrong. How can Juliette be to blame for something their parents did?! How on earth can they blame her for that? It's insane.

"You two really are two pieces of work." Annie huffed.

I internally laugh, coming from her? She thinks me and Juliette are pieces of work, they should look at themselves.

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Word count: 1146

(A/N): (I know this is a short and reasonably pointless chapter, but I just needed to explain a little more about who Annie and Theo really are and what their motives are, before continuing on with the story. I know I've been kinda inactive the last few weeks, but I've just been so busy, but now all the shit that was going on is over with, I can get back to being more regular with updates.)