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

Chapter 116 - Duo

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Kidnapping
Past trauma
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AARON'S POV:

The anger that is bubbling inside me is unbelievably gruesome. She's gone again. I keep failing her, failed to protect her.

"I was literally gone for all of two minutes!" Shouts Kenji, who I just finished screaming at. "It's not like I went out for fucking dinner and left her! I went to the bathroom." He defends himself to me and Theo. Me being an angry fiancé and Theo being an angry brother.

"Her life was in danger you fucking moron!" Screamed Theo, his face red with complete fury. "You are to blame for her being kidnapped."

Kishimoto's face dropped, all the life behind his eyes drain when Theo's words reach him. "I know, man! I know that I am to blame, you think that I don't feel mega guilty about that?!"

"I don't care how guilty you feel you complete ass hole!" Responds Theo. "My sister is more than likely dead, because of you!"

"Stop it!" I shout over both of them. "One, she is NOT dead!" I grit my teeth. "Two, you two arguing isn't helping anyone, and it's definitely not helping Juliette!"

They both pause and turn to me, they both have guilt stricken faces. Kenji's contorts into something I haven't seen on his face before - it is a look of both self-hatred and guilt. Two emotions that are so similar, yet, they hold such disarray in comparison.
Theo's face is one of anger and pure rage, one that, no doubt, is close to my own.

I do anything to get her back, and I know that these two men will do anything to get her back as well.

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JULIETTE'S POV:

Never once have I felt so much loathing all at once. Of course, it makes complete sense! So, I suppose, some of it must be a kind of guilt. Annie and Sebastian were both at the RARE's base, so, for them to have met, is entirely possible and probable. Why didn't I think of that before?! If I had, maybe I wouldn't be where I am right now, stuck in a padded cell, with nothing by my own self pity.
In times like this I wish that I could go back in time and warn myself of what was to come. Tell myself to stop being to stupid and think for a second. I would make sure that I never let Annie out of the cell she was in. But I can't.

"Pathetic." I say to myself, as I lay on the floor, curled up in ball. "You're so pathetic, Juliette." I tell myself, over and over, like a repetitive poem. "You should have known. After all that's happened with Anderson, Sebastian, Ian and Adam, you should have seen the signs!"

"Yes, you should have, sister." I hear Annie's voice bomb through, what sounds to be a speaker. "And, for what it's worth, you're making yourself look even more pathetic by talking to yourself about your misery. Though, I am quite enjoying it." I can hear the smile that's plastered on her face and it makes me sick to my stomach. "Don't you think, Seb?" She begins to laugh.

Then, a second voice comes through the speaker, it's Sebastian, or, apparently, according to Annie, Seb. "Oh yes, it is absolutely hilarious to hear her petty ranting."  He laughs along with Annie. "Does this give you a weird sense of familiarity? Is it bring back memories of when I kidnapped you for the first time?" He pauses for a moment, almost as if he is giving me time to answer him - as if he hasn't just asked me a rhetorical question. "Though, I must admit, last time you did look much more frightened."