The Secrets We Keep To Stay Alive (JohnDave)

Chapter 16- Shattered Mirrors

"Mirrors will shatter, crushed by the weight of the world"

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Dave's PoV
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[EB]: alright, I gotta head out if I don't want to die
[TG]: fine, me and my ass will be awaiting your return my sweet prince
[TG]: stay safe though, 'Kay?
[EB]: yea, yea, I'll be back soon, don't worry :B
[EB]: see you soon Dave!
[TG]: see ya, you better message me right when you get back okay?
[EB]: yes mom
[EB]: :B
[TG]: I love you <3
[EB]: love you too <3

[ectoBiologist [EB] ceased pestering turntechGodhead [TG] at 8:15 p.m.]

I sighed as I closed pesterChum. For some reason I had a bad feeling about this whole deal with Vriska. Maybe it's because it's Vriska in general, but I feel like it's something more to it. All I can really do is hope that everything goes right and wait for John to message me again.

I lay on my bed, listening to music to pass the time. Just in case, I make a mental note to check up on John at the school if he doesn't message me by 9, that should be more than enough time to get this bullshit over with, right?

   I'm probably being super over-protective of John, but it is Vriska we're dealing with.  There wasn't much I could do at this point but wait and hope that John would message me soon.

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John's PoV
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   "Well look who finally decided to show up, let's get this over with, shall we?" I heard Vriska's voice echo in the silence.  I could practically hear the sadistic smile that was bound to be on her face.

   She came out of her hiding place in the shadows so I could see her, I forgot how intimidating she could be when she really wanted something. 

   "Let's go somewhere more private than an open school yard, okay?"  She smirked, but I'm surprised she doesn't want any witnesses.  I don't really have a choice or a chance to answer, so I just follow behind her to the garbage bins that are sectioned off from the rest of the field and school.

   My heart was beating out of my chest and I could basically feel the adrenaline running through my body.  Nevertheless, I stood there waiting for her to restate her demands and for me to accept without mentioning our loophole.

   "Great, this is much better don't you think?"  She asked, not really expecting me to answer.

   "Since you followed me here, this will make this next step a lot easier."  Vriska explained, although I didn't quite know what she was talking about exactly. 

   Then my question was answered as two rather large figures appeared from behind where Vriska was standing.  They slowly approached me, and I responded by slowly backing away until my back hit the wall.

   I felt the two hold my arms against the wall with no intentions of letting me go anytime soon.  I looked at Vriska, she stood there, trying to keep herself from laughing, at me I assumed.

   "You're really gullible you know that, John?  My plan of telling the school, that was all just an empty threat.  And yet you totally believed me, didn't you?" Vriska explained as she continued to laugh at me, "Although I did need you to come here for a reason, and I knew you wouldn't come unless I threatened you and Dave a bit too."

   "See I made a good deal with some people who happened to be looking for you, and my part of the deal is done.  Thanks for being stupid enough to fall into my web, it was nice knowing you, John!"  And with that, she turned on her heel and left me for dead.

   Not even a second later a cloth covered my mouth and nose.  Startling me, I quickly took a breath in, not realizing the drug on the cloth.  My world went black and I couldn't put up a fight.

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    As I regained consciousness, my head hurt like a motherfucker.  I tried to stand up, but I fell right back down on my knees.  I could feel my hands being pulled down and chained together. 

   My vision was very blurry and I couldn't see for shit, but I was in an all too familiar location.  I didn't need to see where I was or know the name of the group Vriska made her deal with, I knew.  I also knew that screaming was futile as well as trying to escape in my current state.

   Eventually one of the members of the group came and found me awake.  He didn't say anything to me, he simply acknowledged that I was awake and walked off.  A while later, someone else came.  My eyes looked up to meet them, but when I saw their face, I really wished I hadn't looked at all.  Staring back at me was the man of my nightmares and the origin of my pain, Spades Slick.

   A look of frustration and annoyance was clear on his face as he approached me.  He had the other person who had came by before release my hands as Slick held me up by my hair and dragged me to another room.

   It was completely silence, I didn't dare to speak and Slick didn't want to waste his energy talking to me.  He shoved me into a dark room with a metal table in the middle.  Forcing me onto the table with my back exposed, Slick strapped my hands and feet onto the table using the ever so convenient leather straps attached to it. 

   He left for a moment, but then came back with something in his hands but I couldn't quite make out what it was.  The end was glowing red and orange, the rest a dull and cold black.  He cut the back of my shirt off, leaving my back exposed.  My eyes widened as Slick pressed the glowing end onto my right shoulder blade.  A searing pain ripped through my body and I let out a scream.  The pain was almost unbearable and it kept coming even after Slick put the stick away.

  I was dragged back to my small cell and my hands were chained down against the wall again.  Even though I couldn't see my back, I knew what had happened. 

   Spades Slick had just branded me.

   I cried out for anybody to save me, but no one came and no one would hear me.  I needed Dave.  Oh god, Dave.  Does he know I'm gone?  Has he told my dad?  Does he care that I'm gone?

   My head slumped forward as I waited for sleep to take a hold of me again. I wished for sleep to take me anywhere than this place, anywhere than this personal hell.

But I'm caught again in the web of the spider, but this time is different. There won't be a knight in shinning armor to save me. I'm trapped and there's no escaping this time.

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Heh, please don't kill me. Sorry if this seemed kind of shitty and rushed, because it kind of is. I feel like this chapter could of been a lot better tbh. But maybe that's just me.
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I love you all and I really appreciate you all actually reading this semi-shit story <3
•~>Kee