Life's lie || Umbrella academy

Chapter 4: Man on the Moon

Zariah was tied up on a chair. Their kidnappers had left her alone, but Klaus wasn't so lucky. They had cut him, hit him and so much more, only to find out where Five was. She didn't know why they wanted to know it and she didn't care. They just had to stop hurting Klaus. That was the one goal she had, so she started screaming. The tape in her mouth hindered her from screaming really loud, but she did make the two weirdos with masks irritated.
"Number Five, where is he?" The pink dog demanded to know.
"Don't... Stop. I'm almost there." Klaus grunted.
"Is that a-"
"Yep." The blue dog confirmed. Zariah chuckled softly at her brother's antics. It was a typical Klaus thing to do.
"Shut up." The pink dog hit her on the head, she kept chuckling though.
"Ah, there's nothin' like a little stranglin' to get the blood flowin', am I right?" Klaus shot a quick glance at his sister to know if she was still alright. Zariah looked back at her brother, concern now growing in her. He was shaking and bloody. They had yet to lay a hand on her and she would have that rather than for them to continue on Klaus.
"What is so funny, you asshole?" They blue bear got frustrated. He hit Klaus on the head before sitting back on what I presumed was his bed.
"Well, for one..." I tried to beg Klaus to stop, but he just shot me a 'I got this' look. "you spent the last ten hours beating me senseless, and you've learned absolutely nothing. I mean, nobody tells me shit. The truth is, I'm the one person in that house nobody will even notice is gone." Zariah was shocked. He sure couldn't mean it. But she started thinking. He was always gone at random times and it was true that not many of her siblings would've noticed. She even doubted that someone would miss her. "You kidnapped the wrong guy!" Klaus laughed. The blue bear guy hit him one more time.
"What about the girl?" The pink dog asked her partner.
"We could give it a try."
"No! No, no, no. How about you keep your attention on me, huh?" Klaus protested, but they chose to ignore him. The tape was ripped from Zariah's mouth and she gasped slightly at the sudden burst of air through her mouth. The bear guy stood in front of her and slapped her back hand in the face.
"Where is number Five?" He asked already irritated with her.
"I don't know! Why not ask him when you see him." I shot at him. My comment was rewarded with another hit in the face.
"Stop it." Klaus chimed in. I shot him a 'shut up' look and he complied. I spit on the man's trousers. He made a sound that she could only interpret as one of disgust.
"Hand me that." He gestured to something behind me. His partner handed it to him. Her eyes grew wide when she saw what the dog lady had given him. It was a cigarette lighter. He lit the flame with one hand and with the other hand he removed her right shoe. She tried to kick him, but her leg was tied to the chair. She let out a scream when the flame touched the side of her foot. The pink dog lady put a wet cloth, which they had used to water board Klaus, in her mouth to silence her. She was now longing for her medicine so she could stop feeling.
"Where is the boy?" The dog lady asked as the bear man stopped for a few seconds. The cloth was removed from her mouth and she could now taste the tears she didn't know she had.
"I- I don't know." She cried out. It was true. She didn't know anything about what happened the previous day. Only her date with Jake, but nothing after that.
"Stop it!" Klaus tried, but they didn't. The lady pulled out a knife and traced it over Zariah's skin, leaving marks that started bleeding. One on her left shoulder, one on her right leg, one on her cheek and one on her eyebrow. She was happy with the red dress she was waring. It meant that Klaus couldn't see all the blood that covered her body.
"Please, let us go. We're unimportant in this family. We know nothing." She begged her captors. The lighter was brought against her skin once more, burning a larger part. The whole outside of her foot was now burned. The lady signed her partner and they left to another room.
"Are you okay?" Klaus looked at her with concern in his eyes. He had dropped his whole careless act as soon as they started hurting her.
"I'm- I'm fine." She tried to keep her voice steady, but failed miserably. "How are you? They went at you for about ten hours!" She brought the subject to him again.
"Nothing I can't handle." He assured. They just looked at each other until the two psychos came back in.
"Maybe you're not hitting them hard enough." The man stated.
"Me? You're the one with the stupid orthopedic bracelet." The woman shot back.
"I told you already, it's just for support." Zariah looked at Klaus. He seemed to be getting worse.
"I don't know, but it's driving me crazy." Klaus suddenly said. Zariah looked up at him confused. "The bitch won't shut up!" He complained.
"Hey! Watch your mouth." The female yelled at him.
"What did I say about eyes front?" The man added. The two talked to each other some more, but Zariah turned her attention to her brother.
"Klaus? Talk to me." She tried to get his attention, but he stayed silent.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait." Klaus tried to stop the two when they grabbed his coat and Zariah's purse.
"Let's see."
"What are you doing? That's mine. That's personal stuff." He told the woman. I looked with big eyes as the man pulled out my bottle of pills and looked at it with a fake fascination.
"What do we have here?" The woman pulled out a bag of Klaus' drugs. She handed it to her partner and he compared the two.
"Hey, no, no, no, no. Be- Be careful with that." Klaus tried. "It's- It's my asthma medication."
"I need those!" Zariah yelled at them. She really did and she wanted them right now.
"Now we're getting somewhere." The bear sounded kind of relieved.
"Hey! No, Hey! Whoa! No, hey, hold on! Hold on!" Klaus cried out when the man crushed both of their pills.
"No, no, no, no, no, no." Zariah started to panic.
"We can have a conversation. We're adults." Klaus tried again. The man just crushed more of them and Klaus began jumping up and down with his chair, frantically trying to get him to stop. "Listen, I can- I can get you cash. Amputee hookers, whatever. Hey, just, please, just listen. Just don't- No- Please."
"Chocolate. Mm-mm-mm!" The man ate some of the weed filled chocolate that Klaus had kept in his coat.
"Not until they're high as kites." Klaus said after a few seconds of silence to something or someone in front of a dresser. He closed his eyes and began breathing a little heavier.
"Klaus. Calm down. Please." Zariah begged him.
"This could be all yours," The woman taunted him. Zariah could only watch as they were bullying her brother. They had already crushed her pills, so there was nothing that she longed for anymore. "for the low, low price of telling us everything."
"Okay, fine." Klaus seemed to comply.
"Klaus, no!" He shot me a half apologizing look as he cried softly.
"Okay, I don't- I don't know where Five is. I wasn't lying about that. But I can tell you that he's- hasn't been making much sense since he came back." Zariah nodded in agreement.
"Elaborate."
"He was acting like-" Zariah started, but couldn't find the right word.
"A lunatic." Klaus finished. "He's been sitting in this van in front of a- a lab or something, and looking for the owner of an eyeball. One of those fake ones." Klaus sounded confused at his own story. She eyed Klaus again. He seemed to be in a lot of pain, which wasn't weird at all. He was keeping strong for her though and she knew it.
"That makes no sense." The bear didn't believe him.
"Hold on, just hold on. Tell us more about this eye, and why is it so important?" Zariah didn't know why the pink dog lady believed Klaus' story, but she was curious as well. She hadn't talked much with Five since his arrival and she didn't really know what he was up to.
"He said it had something to do with the end of times, or something." Klaus started to cry.
"Klaus..." Zariah wanted to comfort him. Just give him a hug or something, let him know she was there for him.
"I'm fine." He tried to reassure her while choking back a sob. The two kidnappers looked at each other and walked over to the chairs without saying another word. They pulled both of their chairs back, but instead of taking them both to the same place, they locked Klaus in the closet while Zariah was sat in the bathroom, facing herself in the mirror. The blue bear man taped her mouth shut again before shutting the door.