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

Chapter 114 - Trying To Help

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Kidnapping
Trauma
Blood
Violence (in vivid detail)
Injury detail
Murder
Hostage
Abuse
Talk of abuse
Talk of neglect
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I wake up to the fuzzy and unclear view of a room of full white. I cannot make out any defining features of the room being as my vision isn't at its best right now.
My head feels like it may explode and my stomach feels queasy.

The last thing I remember was being in the bag and being yeeted into the back of some kind of car. I remember the needle in my arm, something was injected into me, which might be what is causing the queasiness in my stomach. I look around and blink my eyes a few time, clear up my vision.

I am in the middle of a white padded room. I am sat on a white chair, like one of the little plastic ones you'd get at school. My hands are tied behind my back.

Well, fuck, this isn't good.

Annie must be around somewhere, if not already watching me through some kind of camera.

"Annie!" I shout. "Get your ass here now!"

Nothing happens.

"I know you can hear me Annie! I'm not stupid, this isn't my first time being kidnapped."

Once again, nothing happens.

I groan, I really don't feel like doing this whole 'kidnapped' thing if he now. To be honest, I feel moody, because... well, you know, red times...
Plus, I also have bad cramps.

Suddenly the door opens and in comes, of course, Annie. "Well, hello hello, little sister."

"Annie come on, just let me go." I look at her, seeing that she has the imprint of a gun, in the pocket of her blazer.

She shakes her head, her wicked grin increasingly grows. "Are you serious, Jules? Come on Juliette, as if that would work. Are you fucking stupid or something?"

I feel her inject something into my neck and the whole world around me fades.

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AARON'S POV:

"Kishimoto what happened?!" I ask, Theo and I were searching the sector for Juliette when Kishimoto came to us out of breath and panicked.

"It's Juliette!" He shouts. "I went to the bathroom and when I came back to her office, there was blood everywhere!"

My eyes widened in shock and in horror. "What?!"

"I don't understand what happened! I was gone for all of two minutes, if that!"

"YOU LEFT HER ALONE!" Screams Theo. "MY NOTE TOLD YOU TO STAY WITH HER YOU BASTARD!" He charges for Kishimoto, pinning him against the wall.

"Woah woah, easy man, I'm sorry." Kishimoto breathes, clearly scared of Theo.

"EASY?! MY SISTER IS EITHER DEAD OF BEING TORTURED BECAUSE YOU HAD TO PISS!"

"Wait what?" Me and Kishimoto ask at the same time.

"Annie wants her dead, but she also wants her to suffer as much as possible." He answers, letting Kishimoto go - pity, I preferred it when he was seconds away from being murdered. :|

"Wait what do you mean?!" I suddenly realise what Theo is saying.

"If we don't find her within a few hours, she will be either dead or barely alive." He concludes, and that sends a gallon of anger, sadness, worry, panic and hatred down my spine.

I am going to kill Annie! If she so much as lays a hand on Juliette, she will wish she was still locked in in that fucking cage!

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JULIETTE'S POV:

I wake up once again in the same room, the room is so simple yet I have come to find all its complex shadows irritating. I've got no idea how long I've been here, how long ago I was sat in my office. How long ago I was looking for Aaron. I don't have a clue. But I do know one thing, if Annie is here, that means that Aaron, Kenji, Theo and the others are all safe - so that makes me feel slightly better.

The room I am in is cold, I don't understand why it's so cold, I mean there's no windows or anything like that, so there's no draft. The only thing in this room is the chair I am tied to and a mirror opposite me. I have no doubts that it's a two sided mirror. Annie is, more than likely, watching me right now from behind it. It's creepy, knowing someone is watching you but you can't see them.

I pull at my restraints, trying to use my powers to help get me out of this situation, but for some reason it's like they're gone... like they've been deactivated.

I know that it's possible that she has injected me with some sort of medication that can deactivate my powers, but I struggle to wonder how on earth she set this all up. I mean not too long ago she was rotting away in a cell!

I simply have no way out, no way of letting myself free. I have to wait and hope that Aaron finds me in time, and time, right now, doesn't seem like it's something we have a lot of.

Instead of just sitting here, I close my eyes and begin to think, think of what I could possibly do to help Aaron find me, though I seem to come up with absolutely nothing. I don't even know where I am right now.

I feel lost, like I'm stuck in a nightmare that I can not wake up from. I feel worn down and flawed. I no longer feel the strength that I normally do, I can't feel the energy that usually courses through my veins and encourages me to breathe with a smile on my face. I no longer feel so much strength that I know that I could smash a wall. Because, simply, I can't - I no longer have that ability. I am simply a normal woman right now. I have no power and, to be fair to Annie, her plan not only worked, but it's genius.

She has successfully cut my lifeline from inside me, and replaced it with something that leaves me cold and alone.

I remember reading Alice In Wonderland for the first time and thinking about how she must have felt when she first entered the rabbit hole and found that she's lost. I thought she'd have been scared, terrified, but now I'm questioning if those types of emotions are too vague of descriptions to apply. Or when Alice came across The Mad Hatters tea party, the sheer amount of confusion that she must endure, trying to find out an answer to a question that he is completely ignoring.

Or when Mary first finds the Secret Garden, when she reaches out for the door handle that the robin led her to, the sense of knowing not what is behind, but knowing that it must be something better than the side that she is on. Or when she meets Collin, the sense of relief I wish I could have, knowing that someone else is there and someone else understands what it's like to live in the place and way she does.

The mirror is my gate and the chair I am tied to is my rabbit whole. I am stuck in Wonderland. I know that the other side of the mirror is better than the side I am currently on.

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Word count: 1300

(A/N): (Fun fact, when I first wrote Annie and Theo, I was going to make it so Annie and and Kenji got together. 😂🥲 I was planning for that to happen until a few chapters before the one where Annie and Theo kidnap Aaron. But I think this is a better character for her. I think I made the right choice scrapping that idea. Plus it's more fun to write an evil character than what I had planned!)