Zorravixen: Honestly I got this idea from reading another fanfic, A Jinchuuriki's Tears, and from reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, both lovely reads. Basically this is a darker story of a Candy, which involves teenage pregnancy, rape, and some adult things, so if you are not of age then I apologize you should not be reading this. My Candy Love does not belong to me if it did the AP point something would be reduced or flat out removed all together. Neither do the works A Jinshuuriki's tears and Les Miserables belong to me. My Candy, however, does belong to me, to some extent.
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"[She] was one of those beings which are brought forth from the heart of the people...she was joy itself. Her splendid teeth had evidently been endowed by God with one function - that of laughing. Her thick [pink] tresses, inclined to wave, and easily escaping from their confinement, obligated her to fasten them continually. Her rosy lips babbled with enchantment. The corners of her mouth, turned up voluptuously, seemed to encourage audacity; but her long, shadowy eyelashes were cast discreetly down towards the lower part of her face as if to check its festive tendencies. Her whole toilette was indescribably harmonious and enchanting [she] was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. She possessed two types of beauty - style and rhythm. Style is the force of the ideal, rhythm is its movement." (pg. 64, Hugo, Les Miserables)
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Lienda never considered herself to be beautiful despite her name means, 'beautiful.' She knew she was happy, with her older brothers and father.
Her life took a turn for the worse when she came home late from school, being a cheerleader had both its advantages and disadvantages, after all. Lienda was being followed, just when she felt she was close to home; she felt hand being covered by well-maintained hands. "My little rose," he groaned in her ear, Lienda whimpered and bit down hard. Lienda managed to evade for a few blocks, he eventually caught up.
"Now, now, my rose," he purred as he held a Glock to her temple. This would have been much easier, but you had to make it difficult." Lienda's eyes widen and she let out a loud scream.
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She puked for the fifth time this day, and the nurse made her go home, mentioning a stomach bug going around. Lienda looked at the clock, what is wrong with me?
"Cosette," her cousin, Missy, called out. Lienda looked at her and smiled. "How is my dear, sweet Cosette?" Lienda smiled despite the pain.
"She has a stomach virus," the nurse interjected. "I advise you should avoid all contact with her, and take her a doctor to check what is officially wrong with her."
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"What do you mean she is pregnant," Missy demanded. The doctor didn't look up from the clipboard. "How can she be pregnant?"
"Well Miss. Mercer we ran all the tests, and all the signs point to pregnancy, we gave both a blood and urine test, the exams came up positive. Not only that"—the doctor held out a picture—"she is only two months along."
"How can this be," Missy cried. "She is only a child."
"Well she can abort it," the doctor suggested. Missy glared daggers at him. "It is only a suggestion; you do not have to take it to heart."
"We are talking about a human life here, who is purely innocent in all of this," Missy spat, "you should not be talking as if this was some kind of sick game to you."
"By all means, I apologize," he adjusted his glasses, "now I suggest you speak with your cousin in regards to all of this."
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"P-Pregnant," Lienda stammered her eyes as wide as saucers. "How is this even possible? I never"—Lienda's eyes widen in realization.
"That is what I said Cosette, but I saw the ultrasound picture and that does not lie," Missy chuckled. Missy turned her attention to Cosette. She noticed her pink hair shielding away her face. "Cosette, are you okay?"
"I know how this happened," Lienda whimpered as she grabbed her knees.
Missy looked towards her, eyes wide with disbelief, "How?"
Lienda looked away and bit her lip, "It happened a few months ago."
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Missy's eyes widen in disbelief, "Are you sure?" Lienda nodded, tears running down her face. Missy ran her fingers throughout her ebony dyed hair, "Shit, shit, shit, of all that guys, why him!?"
"I do not know," Lienda muttered, "he just picked me, 'Rose.'"
"He won't be easy to catch and take down," Missy admitted, "He'll use every trick in the book. You know if his father is gets his hands dirty, his son may be just as dirty as him." Lienda hugged her knees, her eyes lowered, taking on a darker shade. "It won't be easy."
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It was becoming harder for Lienda; she heard the whispers behind her back and felt the entire student population glaring daggers at her growing figure. She was lucky she wasn't showing, but the rumors were still just as awful.
Look at her, plastic surgery, is she really THAT desperate?
I heard she already slept with someone.
Slut. Whore. Prostitute. Skank. Loser. Nasty.
It isn't a surprise really; pinkettes are the bimbos and nymphos of the world, after all.
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Lienda sat down underneath Sakura High's native tree. She looked up to see the falling petals surrounding her giving her a princess of spring look. Lienda heard a cough and she looked up to see Carmen smirking at her. "Hello Carmen," Lienda smiled, eyes closing mimicking a cat.
"Hello Pudgy," Carmen teased flaunting her lithe figure, in an obvious attempt to mock her. "Why is someone like desecrating the school's tree? Something so ugly and fat ruining something so beautiful, I am surprised the tree hasn't withered."
"It is such a lovely day," Lienda replied in a distant tone. "Who knew that the petals would be falling this late?" Lienda played with the fallen petals.
Carmen felt her eye twitch; "Hello fatso I am right here," Carmen waved her hands right in front of a far eyed Lienda.
Lienda blinked and smiled, "Yes, Carmen."
Kristy glared daggers at her, "Honestly fatty, you need someone to monitor what you are eating. Just because your delinquent of a cousin lets you do whatever you want, doesn't give you the audacity to shovel down food."
Lienda looked up to the sky.
Carmen rudely pushed Lienda against the tree, "Hey listen you little twat, when we are speaking to you, you better listen."
Lienda smiled. I am so tired, yet I being nice to my former friends, "My apologies, Carmen, did you say something. I will try to pay attention, next time."
"Pansy Pinkette," Kristy hissed.
Lienda looked completely exhausted. Her pink hair lost its luster and sheen. Exhausted green and blue, heterochromic eyes stared out into the world. Lienda began wearing clothes one too many sizes for her. She looked so small, weak, and pathetic; she didn't look human, much less a living organism.
All Lienda could do was retreat to her own little world, and hide behind her mask. Just grin and bear, just grin and bear in order to face a condemning world.
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There were times it was much too painful for her to walk. Her ankles swelled into these deformed mauve colored swellings. She would always lie in bed; her cousin, eventually, pulled her out of school, citing bullying reasons due to her growing weight, and put her in home schooling. Lienda knew it was mainly for the child and the rising suspicions that were erecting in school.
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"Have you decided a name?" Missy asked her one morning. Lienda drank her tea and ate her breakfast. "You haven't?" Lienda didn't reply. "Oh c'mon now Cosette you have to decide on something."
Lienda gave her a bashful chuckle. "It slipped my mind." Lienda sipped at her tea. "I do have some names in mind, but I guess I will know at the right time. Since I know he or she will be born in August or Early September."
Missy flashed a cheeky grin, "So either a Leo or a Virgo? Now since you are a Scorpio, let's keep our fingers cross for a Virgo, you need stability in this chaotic life that we live in."
Lienda smiled, "That would be nice."
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It started out as a jolt. Lienda stirred. The jolt further escalated into something much more painful. Lienda woke up in a cold sweat. She screamed in pain and called out for Missy. Missy then woke up her uncle, Lienda's father, her cousins, Lienda's brothers. They all hurried up and packed their belongings along Lienda's. They managed to arrive at the hospital.
Lienda felt a screaming weight crashing through her pelvis. Pain far worse than she ever imagine, despite the fact she took classes. They forewarn everyone about the pain, but she never fathom that it would be this bad.
The pain blinded her sense of perception. She heard a string of words, Dilated, pulse, contractions, epidural. Lienda shook her at the word of epidural. Mother handled this without that, she confided. Lienda cried out and knew she was in pain for hours.
Eventually she heard, "I see the head keep pushing!" Lienda weakly nodded and continued to push, timing it to every possible contraction she mustered. Lienda felt her vision go blurry from how unbearable the pain was.
Look down Cosette, ordered a melodious voice. Lienda managed to have enough energy to look down and see a bright red alien like life form. Its wails pierced the entire room. Despite its grotesque form, Lienda adored it.
"It's a boy," smiled the midwife.
Lienda felt her father ruffling up her sweaty pink hair, "Cosette he is beautiful, what are going to name him." Capt. Mercer looked at his grandson with sadden eyes bring back memories from the past. Maye our daughter is now a mother, do not worry I will get the bastard who did this to our daughter.
Lienda held her son, her heterochormic eyes twinkling in delight. Lienda studied his face, "Jace Edward Mercer."
"Jem," Missy beamed. Lienda nodded and immediately dozed off to sleep, while the midwife took the child away to the nursery.
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Missy eyed her uncle, "So how goes the evidence?"
"Not so good, Missy," Capt. Mercer replied rubbed his salt and pepper, "We have something, but not enough."
Missy bit at her lip piercing, "He is just as much as rat as his father."
"Missy there is saying that goes around, 'The apple does not fall far from the tree,' truth be told, my sons are following my footsteps," Capt. Mercer explained. "Although, we did managed to find a formal police report, but Lienda's description is too androgynous, and I highly doubt he would consent to a DNA testing, to prove that it was him."
Missy looked towards her cousin's sleeping form and at the blue blankets that covered her 'nephew.' "Shit we are in for the fight of our lives, and Lienda will be getting the grunt of all this."
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"Bradley Miles Holbrook is being charged with statutory sexual assault, the suit is being filed by the plaintiff, Lienda Cosette Mercer. Nicholas Wright, Lienda's attorney, has this to say. 'Lienda was threatened against her will to have sex with Bradley Holbrook, we will see to it that this criminal will no longer threaten young girls,'" narrated a reporter.
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They warned her that she would be seen as a criminal, even though she knew she was innocent. They received harassing, threating calls from all hours of the night. Letters thrown through the window, and they tagged the window, until Missy made traps and threatened the vandals to chemically castrate them as a forewarning to Bradley. Needless to say that stopped the vandalism to Missy's home, due the fear what Missy can do.
Lienda never went back to school; instead she went homeschooling with a tutor. She knew Carmen would be supporting her older brother. She knew she was behind her persecution, calling her a 'lying pink skank.'
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"Listen here Rose, either you drop off the charges or you will be sorry," Bradley threatened. Lienda just listen, eyes wandering to her lawyer.
Nicholas nodded in an encouraging tone. "How can I be sorry, since you already ruined my life?" Lienda replied.
Bradley scoffed, "You are nothing more than a lying whore, trying to receive money and find your baby's father."
"You are nothing more than a pathetic being that enjoys using and abusing women as if they are only for your enjoyment." Lienda coolly declared.
She heard Bradley giving her a throaty chuckle, "So what if I did rape you, no one will ever believe you. Look at what you are, Rose, a Naval Officer's daughter, and you share the same blood to the town's delinquent? As for me, I am the town's golden boy on top of being the mayor's son, who has the love of the entire town; you can never win this battle, rose!" Lienda looked over towards her lawyer. "Honestly if you think that this will make me play daddy to that little bastard, you are dead wrong, just like those other skanks." Lienda's eyes widened.
"There were others before me," Lienda prodded.
"Honestly it was more of a favor, a service to fuck all you, whores," Bradley sneered. The line went dead.
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"Lienda Cosette Mercer do you know Bradley Miles Holbrook," inquired the prosecutor.
"Yes I met him once before at Carmen's sleepover," Lienda replied.
"Yet you are accusing him, along with several other women that he raped you," the prosecutor added. "From what my client tells me you knew each very well and that you have been dating."
"That's a lie I never had a boyfriend," Lienda clarified. "Carmen and I use to be friends, but we had a fall out, I haven't seen Bradley not since that incident."
"Yet how could you have pinpoint that Bradley Holbrook is the one who raped you, claiming that you haven't seen him in years and the policy report description does not accuse Mr. Holbrook," argued the prosecutor. Lienda bit her lip. "Are you after his money, the Holbrook estate, or is this some petty revenge against Carmen?" Lienda heard Carmen and Bradley smirking.
"I know it was Bradley because he had a very distinctive tattoo," Lienda objected. "The police report mentions a very distinctive tattoo in a very general area." Lienda raised her gaze, challenging the prosecutor. "I even authorize to have my son to take a paternity test to prove, Bradley is the sperm donor."
"I object," Bradley interjected.
"Overruled," the judge declared.
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"In the case of Jace Edward Mercer, Bradley Miles Holbrook, is the father," the analyst read the results.
"Lies," Bradley declared.
"We did the test three times," the analyst retorted, "they all came back positive."
Lienda looked towards her lawyer. "Well that proves that Bradley is the father, now to prove that Bradley raped you." Missy sighed.
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"Well Miss. Lienda from what Bradley tells me that you slept together on more than one occasion," the prosecutor began. "I have also have testimonies declaring that you have been prostituting yourself, more than one occasion."
"That's a lie," Lienda replied. "The police reported noted signs of rape and not only that noted that I was a virgin. The physical evidence contradicts what you are declaring prosecutor."
The prosecutor glared, Lienda challenged his glare. "I rest my case." Lienda noted her lawyer beaming. Lienda blushed.
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"Honestly I don't know why we are still continuing this case," Bradley declared. "She found her baby daddy, now she is set for life."
"Bradley you are being charge with multiple accounts of statutory sexual assault," Nicholas Wright, "along with other minor charges."
"You heard those testimonies declaring Lienda a prostitute," Bradley objected.
Nicholas Wright sighed eyeing the Holbrook heir, "Those testimonies were declared false and are being charged for perjury. Now honestly Mr. Holbrook, just really tell us what happened that night."
Bradley grinned, "Fine. On that night I was walking home when Lienda appeared telling me she would make my night special. I agreed since she was pretty, I gave her fee after our 'meeting' and then I went home."
"Hold it," Nicholas interjected. "Exactly where were you, Mr. Holbrook, and do be specific."
Bradley sighed, "It was somewhere in the Snowy Brooks area."
"Fascinating that you say that, Mr. Holbrook, however I have evidence that suggests you are lying," Nicholas declared, "I have a witness testament from Mr. McArcher, declaring that you were actually several blocks away from the victim's school and that when he was attempting to locate the source of the scene, he saw you running away from it. Can you explain that?"
"Easy he is a paid testament," Bradley declared.
Nicholas chuckled, "Ladies and gentlemen I introduce you to Mr. McArcher, a retired police officer." A seasoned man appeared. Bradley stepped down from the witness stand and sat down in the defendant's chair. "Mr. McArcher, can you state your name and profession."
Mr. McArcher took in a deep breathe, "Arthur McArcher, I am a retired police officer."
Nicholas stroked his chin, "Can you tell us what happened on January 1st?"
"I was on my way back home from the corner store, when I heard this scream," Mr. McArcher. "I decided to go investigate, when I was trying to pinpoint the source of the scream, I saw that man"— pointed to Bradley—"running away from something, it looked like he was carrying a standard Glock. Anyways, I ran towards the direction he was running from, I found Miss. Lienda with torn clothes, crying, it dawned on me she was a victim of sexual assault. I managed to take her to the hospital and police station. It was later I found out, she was underage at the time and she had notable bruises against her temple¸ shaped just like that Glock, Mr. Holbrook had when he fled the scene."
"Ladies and gentlemen of the court not only do we have a witness we have also a call that Mr. Bradley Holbrook made to Lienda Mercer." Nicholas Wright declared.
Bradley snarled, "That is a complete lie."
Nicholas smirked and brought out some speakers and a digital recorder, "This recorder capture one distinctive call that stood out. Bradley called Miss. Mercer on more than one occasion." Nicholas began to setup the equipment. The digital recorder let out a beep. "So what if I did rape you, no one will ever believe you. What are you a Naval Officer's daughter, and sharing the same blood to the town's delinquent? As for me, I am the town's golden boy on top of being the mayor's son, who has the love of the entire town? You can never win this battle, Rose." "Honestly if you think that this will make me play daddy to that little bastard, you are dead wrong, just like those other skanks."
"There were others before me," Lienda prodded.
"Honestly it was more of a favor, a service to fuck all you, whores," Bradley sneered. The line went dead.
Bradley glared Nicholas Wright to death. Nicholas returned a cheeky grin.
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Lienda bit her lip, Bradley fled the country. They still managed to continue the court in his absence, even though his lawyers wanted to suspend it. Not even the mayor, his father, could stop the proceedings. A warrant was issued to go through his things, and they managed to find her soiled undergarments, videos and tapes of other victims, along with many miscellaneous items that DNA evidence traced to the other girls.
Mr. Holbrook wanted a plea bargain and was willing to pay for his illegitimate grandson, the judge denied the plea bargain and the suspension on accounts Bradley fled the country, he forfeited his right to do so.
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Bradley was later caught and was charged with 15 counts of statutory sexual assault, 10 counts of sexual assault, and 5 counts of poisoning.
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"Dad he really isn't coming back is he," Lienda asked her father.
Capt. Mercer looked at his daughter holding his grandson. "No he isn't Lienda he is locked away for good." Capt. Mercer held his blond grandson, smiling when he saw all too familiar green eyes. "Lienda I am thinking you should get out of this town, see a different world."
"I know what you mean dad," Lienda giggled, "the Holbrooks hate me and now they want to take Jace away, since he is 'technically' a Holbrook. The court denied them visitation rights, since the father is not there." Lienda grabbed at her knees. "And I feel bad for Missy."
"I am thinking of making you live with your aunt Faye, they have a school there, Sweet Amoris High you can go to," Capt. Mercer suggested. "Sweetie don't you worry about Missy, she can take her of herself."
Lienda looked towards her father, "I like that idea, and Sweet Amoris sounds very lovely."
Capt. Mercer brought Lienda and Jace into an embrace, "I knew you would like it."
Jace grew fussy; begging his mother to put him down, Lienda giggled and placed Jace down. Jace awkwardly stood up and immediately began to walk. Lienda let out a gasp and followed after her son. Jace let out giggles and squeals, as he was running away from his mother. Immediately he wobbled and fell back, his mother caught him. Lienda lifted him up and kissed his temple, Jace giggled.
"Well I'll be, Jace can walk and run," Capt. Mercer chuckled.
"I guess he wanted to show his mommy," Lienda beamed. And so I finally get a second chance, Lienda mused. Sweet Amoris what adventures do you hold for me—Lienda looked down—and for Jace. Lienda giggled as she watched Jace running away, and her father chasing after him. She looked towards the sky, Mom, thank you for everything. Lienda immediately join the slow paced tag.
I know, no pairings as of yet, I have yet to decide who My Candy will be paired with, but I guess we shall see what the public opinion is versus what I envision. Please read and review, and please no flames, constructive criticism is accepted, nobody likes trolls now. Unless they are Homestuck...