And the Butchery Begins
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Rating: Adult
Summary: We're going to have to go farther than we've ever have before. Push harder. Are you up for that? Kathryn and Sebastian go to war. (very) loosely based on House of Cards.
AN: First off, you don't need any prior knowledge of House of Cards for this story as it's VERY loosely based. All the quotes at the beginning of the chapters come mostly from season 1, 2 and possibly season 4 (which was awesome and totally to blame for making me write this). Also this is a cruel intentions story so there is plenty of swearing and sex and general debauchery along with some other fucked up stuff. Warnings to come.
Chapter 1:
I've Worked Too Hard
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I've worked too hard to come within arm's reach of the prize only to have my hand cut off just before I seize it.
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Kathryn hears the news during a junior league luncheon in the park.
It's an ungodly hot august afternoon. The temperature had to be at least hitting ninety with the sun barring down on them in what could only be described as a hostile manner. Kathryn loathed the summer preferring instead the icy treatment of winter. Give her snow and bitter wind chills over oppressive heat any day of the week. As it stood the only thing keeping her from sweating through her chic silk Oscar de la Renta was her own force of will.
Merteuil's don't sweat.
She hears her mother's shrill voice echo in her head and feels a sudden icy chill. It might have been refreshing had it not been accompanied by a flood of other unwanted memories that Kathryn quickly shuts down.
I bet you're sweating now mother, she thinks bitterly to herself. Enjoy burning in hell bitch.
Refusing to give the woman or her memory one more moment of her time, she tunes back into the committee chair currently addressing the crowd. Unfortunately, she's an exceedingly dull public speaker and Kathryn looses interest within moments. Instead, she turns her attention on the well heeled group sitting before her, wondering which brain dead idiot decided it was a good idea to host this thing outdoors without even the courtesy of a white tent to shield them from the unforgiving sun. She for one had no interest in leaving this afternoon looking like a Kardashian.
She's zeroing in the the giggly daughter of the deputy mayor as the culprit when Georgie Fairbanks, leans over and whispers to her, "Did you hear about headmaster Pennyworth?"
Kathryn sips her sparkling water, casting a brief mildly interested look in her direction. Georgie was a pill, but always good for gossip. "No, what?"
Eyes lit with excitement she reveals, "He got caught messing around with Liv Bancroft, you know that sophomore with the bad nose job. Her parents walked in on them at their beach house. It was a total scene!"
"I can imagine," Kathryn murmurs, posture stiffening as her stomach drops. This wasn't good. Something akin to panic beings to curl unwanted around her throat. "What happened next?"
"He got fired of course," she laughs. "Heard he left the city and everything. God, can you imagine being so desperate as to screw that loser. The guys a total perv."
Actually, yes she could imagine being that desperate. Kathryn thinks about her promised student body president position and all the degrading things she had to let that asshole do to her in order to secure it. Now the possibility stood that it was all for naught. She digs her nails into the back of her hand to keep from screaming.
"Well who are they getting to replace him?" she asks perhaps a tad too shrilly. When Georgie blinks at her in surprise Kathryn quickly adds in a lighter tone, "I mean, surly they'll replace him before the semester starts."
The dipshit shrugs, clearly already bored with the conversation. "Yeah I think they already hired someone."
"Who?" Kathryn demands. Fuck her tone, this was too important.
"I don't know, some guy, I think my mother said he was from Kansas."
When the crowd breaks into polite applause at the end of the woman's speech, Georgie joins in and Kathryn uses the moment to discreetly pull out her phone. She texts her stepbrother with this latest development. His response is two words long.
We're fucked
Author's Note: Okay here's the deal. I know I have one more chapter of Cruel Love Anthology and I will get to it but it was giving me a hard time. I originally started this thinking perhaps I'd make it the final chapter of CLA but the truth is this story, while featuring Kathryn and Sebastian (duh) isn't strictly about their relationship like all the previous chapter of CLA were so I didn't think it fit in the anthology. I'm also considering doing another anthology, this one would mix Cruel Intentions with various different films. I thought about making this the first chapter but I'm not sure if I'm going to have time to start another anthology series. That one took me years and I'm still not finished with it yet.
All that to say I decided to make this a separate fic. I've already written quite a bit of this story so far but I'm going to parcel it out in chapters. Unlike CLA these will be extremely short chapters, compared to what I normally write. Assuming of course anyone's interested so drop me a review and let me know your thoughts? Thanks.