Authors Note: Even through this is the re-uploaded 2015 version of the 2007 version of Stockholm Syndrome, I am open to considering any and all constructive criticism and even things that you the reader my want in current or subsequent chapters. So please don't be shy and please review. It's good to know what the audience is thinking, even if just a short blurb. Also, please forgive me but because I am a guy I will do my best to depict Miley's side of the story as well as the emotions, but I am not going to pretend I am the best at depicting and elaborating emotions. Despite this I will try to put Miley's and Theo's POV on display later on.
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This story will depict various criminal organizations and their members in the United States with a harsh yet realistic and appropriate manner. These criminal organizations are often racial, but mostly ethnic based. By no means is the intention or the wish of the author to stereotype or stigmatize any particular ethnic group as a whole in any negative way, whom the vast majority are hardworking, well-educated, and law abiding citizens who contribute greatly to society.
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Stockholm Syndrome Redux
Stockholm syndrome: an involuntary psychological state in which victims of kidnapping or abuse begin to feel sympathy, emotional bonding, solidarity, and even amorous feeling for his or her captors.
FBI National Academy
Langley, Virginia
Behavioural Science Graduate Course Lecture
June 19, 2017
Here at the FBI National Academy, the world's best of law enforcement are receiving the best advanced police training. This lecture is presented by a world renown Swedish psychiatrist, PhD recipient, and world authority in the field of Stockholm syndrome from Lund University in Sweden. We join him on his lecture on Stockholm syndrome and law enforcement. He speaks with a heavy Swedish accent.
"As you are all aware, scenarios which involve hostage taking are becoming more frequent. Therefore today we will address the very real psychological phenomenon of Stockholm Syndrome which is a constant and ever present risk during times of hostage taking."
"Now to begin, Stockholm syndrome is not exclusive to what we would know as conventional terrorism and hostage politics. Symptoms of Stockholm syndrome have also been identified in the relationships of slave and master relationship, in members of destructive cults, and most commonly...
in battered wives cases…
Couples Dormitory 610
University Village
University of California, Los Angeles
Several years previous to the lecture, and when the main story takes place
The normally cool California autumn air rushing through the house's open windows is disturbed by the odours of pan frying and onions. Even with all of the windows open, the whole kitchen smelled of dinner as a frazzled brunette struggled to get dinner ready before her boyfriend got home. As fatigue slowly enveloped her petite 18 year old body she was jolted awake by the stinging memory held by her face, reminding her of what would happen if she didn't have dinner on time. For every day at around 6 or 7 in the evening, the love of her life Jake Ryan would come in and without saying a word drop everything he was carrying at the door and rush straight to the kitchen to eat. He didn't worry that he left his stuff at the door because as he had reminded her time and time again, he expected her to pick it up after him. After all, to him she was the woman…
Miley lowered her head to herself after coming to that realization but felt no anger. Jake was all she had now. It had been two long years since she was forced to give up her alter ego. You see by 2008 Hannah Montana was on indefinite hiatus. So from that point on she was Miley Stewart, a normal high school girl. But by 16, the people in her life had changed. Sure she still had dad, but since Hannah, her father was always busy either at the office or worse, on tour with new talent that he had managed after Hannah. Her brother Jackson had joined the U.S. Marine Corps in the previously year and was stationed overseas in Iceland. And what made things worse was that while away on her last tour, Miley's best friend Lily and long-time secret crush Oliver had found love, that is in each other, and were going strong, making Miley the third wheel. For a time, Miley had no-one and nothing was the same as it was before.
However in 2009 something did happen in Miley's life. Jake Ryan came back to Malibu and actually stayed put. The end of his frequent uprooting to Romania and Italy were over and with the permanent settlement of his TV show Zombie high in California, Jake and Miley had resumed their relationship in full force. It was through Jake that Miley had rocketed to pinnacle popularity status in high school. But however popular she may have been, she was no longer the same person she was back in freshman year.
You see, while Miley was still Hannah, she kept these two worlds separate because she wanted the life of a normal teenage girl. By 2009, she had the opposite problem. Miley was a performer at heart and not having any outlet for her desire to please fans had caused her to search for something else to please. Thus she at diverted all this desire to Jake. Since 2009, Jake Ryan had been her world. She did everything to please him. She ignored her family, friends, and college aspirations. By senior year, her grades consisted of C and D's. In fact the reason why she was even able to attend UCLA was because her father had donated thousands of dollars of her Hannah money annually to the university every year since she was in middle school, and the University chairs didn't want that flow of donations to end.
At that point, Miley heard the door open and in came Jake, in the same arrogant and self centered piss poor attitude that had enveloped his life since his TV show was cancelled the year before. Ever since that point every audition that Jake went to had come up bust.
Miley greets him.
"Hey Jake, how are you?" Miley asked.
"How do you think I am?" Jake sneered back walking towards the table and sitting down.
"I was just asking…," Miley replied, trying in vain to stop him from asking what she knew he would ask.
"Is dinner ready yet?" demanded Jake.
"Almost," replied Miley
"Almost?" yelled Jake, "I'm out there busting my butt trying to land auditions, and all I ask is that you do what you're supposed to do and have my dinner ready, and you can't even do that!"
"I'm sorry…," Miley began fearfully.
But that apology only brought action from Jake. In response, as Jake got up, took an open pitcher full of water and with one throw from his wrist emptied all its contents on Miley's face.
"Your sorry? Sorry isn't going to help me; sorry isn't going to put food on the table. Maybe if you hadn't f-d up your Hannah career we wouldn't be in this mess and you'd still have a father."
At that, Miley started to sob, like she did too many times on a regular basis when Jake came home angry and abusive. Jake knew all too well about Miley's need for him. He also had no problem exploiting Miley's secrets and weaknesses mercilessly because his arrogance and hubris had apparently robbed him of his conscience over his zombie slayer years. He took all of his anger out on the one person who apparently loved him more than anything else. Miley. Apparently it made Jake feel bigger and better to make Miley weak and dependant on him, since she couldn't fight back and was too dependent to leave or call the police.
"I'm…I'm," Miley began sobbing.
"Oh good lord, what are you, what are you going to cry again? That's all your good for isn't it…?" Jake spat out.
The abusive rant that came out of Jake's mouth after this was soon toned out by Miley, only because she heard it too many times before. You see to Miley what Jake thought of her was true. It was Miley's almost sick devotion to Jake that drove her apart from her father in 2009. First it was the whole dating an older guy thing, and then it was how her grades suffered. Both were the source of her father's urging to dump Jake, but Miley would have none of it. The straw that broke the camel's back was when Miley announced that she wanted to live with Jake while attending UCLA. When her father had given the ultimatum of either Jake or himself, she chose the former, and soon after Miley had moved in to the dorm with Jake. Only after she had lived with Jake and after he started to come home after failing to land auditions did she begin seriously regret that decision. But by then, she had already alienated Oliver and Lily, both of whom had gone to Duke, and was estranged from her father and brother, both of whom only she felt were unapproachable.
As she began to clean up the water off her face, her nosed picked up an odour that was potentially dangerous for her if Jake smelled it. The onions were burning. Unfortunately, Jake noticed it too.
"Those better not be the onions I smell, you stupid…," Jake spat out as he retreated to the bathroom, "I'm not eating burned garbage cause of you"
Miley then sprung into a panic driven action as she struggled to save dinner. While doing so, she thought of what she had to do. She get dinner cooked and served, then she had to clean up the mess Jake made, then she would have to sit during and after dinner, listening to Jake bad mouth her as well as the producers who in Jake's eyes were fools to turn down the "great" Jake Ryan. Any other person would see that Jake's hubris, arrogance, and deluded sense of self-righteousness knew no bounds, and that any self-respecting woman wouldn't tolerate this for a second. But to the broken Miley Stewart, Jake was the only link she had to the past. It was the only way that she could hold on the "best of both worlds." Frankly, Miley was convinced she needed Jake and it almost seemed like she needed him controlling, or else he might leave her, a prospect that to her seemed far worse than abuse.
"Oh god, my Eco test's in two days," Miley remembered to herself.
Like in high school, her university studies were suffering too because of Jake. She was a freshman, so her major was undeclared. Despite this, she had a full time course load, yet because of Jake's demands, she barely had the time of a part time student to study in. She was supposed to be a full time student, part time homemaker, but to the abusive Jake Ryan, she was little more than a full time, on demand cook, maid, punching bag, and sex toy. And indeed at the behest of Jake and his abuse, those qualities were pretty much all she was.
Just as Miley finished thinking that, Jake came back just as Miley finished setting the table and serving Jake his dinner.
"Oh yeah, Miley, we're going out tomorrow, me and some important people are going to a casting party. So wear something decent." Jake ordered while eyeing and commenting on the messy and wet sweats that Miley was wearing.
"Jake, I don't think I can, I have my eco test in a few…"
(two seconds elapse)
SMACK creek, thud
Enraged at Miley's perceived disobedience to him. Jake had given Miley a brutally harsh, yet clean back hand smack with such force that if you heard it, could swear the neighboursacross the streetcould hear the same thing. This terrible force had thrown Miley's petite 5'4'' body to the kitchen floor, but not before the back of her left hand hit the hot stove on the way down.
Jake then moved towards Miley, just so that he could stand and talk down to the poor, broken girl who was sprawled out on the floor hurt. By the look on his face, he seemed to enjoy it.
"I wasn't asking you, I'm telling you we're going out tomorrow and if you do that again you're going to be seeing a lot more just like it," yelled Jake.
And with that Jake stormed out of the house taking his jacket and car keys with him, but not before taking the partially burned dinner that Miley made and dumping all over her body, adding insult to injury and further breaking Miley's spirit.
"I guess I'm going out tomorrow," Miley whimpered to herself as she began to sob as she struggled to get up.
"Why Jake, I love you. And I know you love me too," Miley said to the unforgivingly empty dorm.
A/N: Again I must reiterate, this is not an attack on Miley Stewart or Cyrus for that matter. This is a necessary set up for the themes current and ahead as specified earlier.
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Just remember this is not a nice story nor was it intended to be. Just keep an open mind and I assure you all will be worth it at the end.