Stealing Beauty

Part 21- Trapdoor to Hell

*Jensen Ackles as Jackson Miller.*

Her name was still on my lips as I woke up, the spot next to me empty. I rolled over and looked at the clock- it read 3:28 A.M. I stood up, stretched, and looked out the window. I was about to head towards the bathroom for some water when I saw something suspicious.

Maeve was outside, unlocking and getting into her black Fiat. She drove to the end of the driveway, but instead of turning left to head towards Paris, she turned right...

Towards the dead end?

I threw on a pair of sweatpants and decided to follow her. I woke Jackson up on my way down, telling him to come with me. He followed, but he was still groggy. We got in the car and drove away, turning off the headlights once we left the driveway.

"Where are we going?" Jackson asked, rubbing his face with his hands.

"Maeve just left the house. I'm a little curious as to where she went. I needed to scope it out."

We drove about a mile down the road, until we saw her black car parked on the side of the road. I parked at a distance to where she couldn't see us.

"Do me a favor?" I asked Jackson. "Grab those night vision goggles and a sniper from the backseat. Something isn't right about this.."

Maeve got out of her car just as Jackson handed me the goggles. "What about the sniper?" I asked him. He held it in his hands, but looked at me and shook his head.

"No, Konnor. If you're right and something is wrong with this, you don't need to be the one with the weapon." With that he got out of the car and I followed, shutting the door quietly as I turned the night vision on.

We were on foot for a while, deep in the woods. We're lucky Maeve didn't hear us, but we stayed far enough behind. I watched her for a while through the goggles, until she stopped and squatted down. She was carrying something in her hand. Was that a bull whip?

"Maeve Andrews is into some kinky shit isn't she?" Jackson said. "No wonder Luca gives her all his money."

"Jackson," I said, watching Maeve rustle through the leaves and dirt. "I don't think that whip is for Luca.." I trailed off just as she opened a trapdoor. She looked around just before entering, shutting the door as she lowered herself into the unknown.

"Should we follow or...?" He asked. I thought about it for a second.

"Yes, but we stay far behind." I said as we started walking through the woods again.

As we lowered ourselves into the trapdoor, I looked around for clues of anything. There wasn't much, besides 2 hooks, with one having something hung on it. I walked towards it, picking it up with my hands.

A mask?

"What the hell is going on?" I asked outloud.

"Psst, tunnel," Jackson whispered, and I hung the mask back up. We slowly trailed into the darkness, our night vision working perfectly as we walked along the concrete walls.

Towards the end, we reached a door. It had lettering on it, painted red on the metal entry.

"prison de paris est..."

Prison of East Paris...

That's when it all clicked into place.

Maeve lived in Paris.

Maisy said she went back home with those men.

Natalie was taken by men and held captive in Paris.

The King and Queen only wore masks.

The mask at the trapdoor.

Torture...

The whip.

Maeve telling us this place was abandoned.

So we would never look here.

Her and Luca lived in a mansion; they had money.

The police force paid them loads of money to capture the bad people...

Luca and Maeve...

"King and Queen..." I muttered to myself as I looked down at the floor. On it, I found more red paint, so I took a step back to read what it said.

La Dictature

The Dictatorship.

"Jackson," I stood still, looking down at the paint.

"What? What is...oh shit..."

My hands curled into fists. I was ready to break down these walls, brick by fucking brick.

"Mave has my fucking fiancee'."

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A.N.- 3 chapters in one day? Yeah. Let's just say I've been writing a lot.

I don't see myself updating for a while. Things are getting rough and I'm trying to get through my first semester of college. It's starting to become more time consuming so I won't really update until Thanksgiving or Christmas break. I warned you.

XOXO,
-Lucky8Girl. <3