If Walls Could Talk III
By Tituba Parris
See the Love Inside
If walls could talk - oh
They would say "I want you more"
They would say "hey - never felt like this before"
And that you would always be
the one for me
If walls had eyes - my
They would see the love inside
They would see - me
In your arms in ecstasy
And with every move they'd know
I love you so
-Celine Dion
This time there would be no forgiveness. There would be no feelings that he owed the monkey anything.
It wasn't fair. Tituba had just came back to him. Now, she would be taken away from him again. Once more he would not know her for many years, he wouldn't get to see her smiling face. All he would see was a photograph, a mirror image of her.
The idiot monkey probably meant well… however his idiocy just reversed his good intentions. Now she would die, without having lived for a month, she would die.
Frieza wasn't going to let this happen. He was going to stop them. It wasn't truly Tituba's fault that she was married to him, and she never did anything to deserve such a fate as this.
He watched carefully, every move anyone made. Every watch change where one guard left and the other took his place. They were all such fools to think that he, Lord Frieza, would allow himself to be taken to trial.
They would also, soon regret their incompetence at trying to take away from him his child and wife. Scarlet wasn't sentenced to die, but she wasn't going to have any mercy from the place she was going to.
Goku along with his family were now being shipped somewhere else… he even heard rumors of the little bastard being sent to his home planet! Just because he furnished a few Sayijin there in the past few years didn't mean a damn thing! Son Goku shouldn't be allowed to stay anywhere that Lord Frieza dwelt!
Damn that Sayijin! It was because of him that his family were dying! It was an unimportant consequence right now. For now, he had to concentrate on his family and what he would do once he got his hands on them. They would no doubt be weakened. They had to stay awake half the night as he had. He had more training in that field and did not need as much sleep. He would have to act quickly though. He still hadn't found a way to get either of them out… not even himself for that matter! He couldn't tell what time it was, there was no window. The only clue that he had of the time was a little while ago, when the guard changed his shift. He had to Frieza that Tituba would be dead in the next three hours.
Frieza felt that time was slipping much to fast for him. He had to get out of here! He had to know what time it was, the guard wouldn't tell him, not even to taunt him. Maybe this one had some mercy after all, maybe not.
Then, he saw his opportunity, the guard wasn't paying attention, and the field around his cell wasn't very strong. Maybe… maybe if he could just break free from his imprisonment… he could save Tituba… if it wasn't already too late already.
Frieza decided to take it. If the field killed him, he would have lost nothing. If he did not take this chance he would regret it for the rest of his very about to be cut short life.
He threw himself into the bars, instantly the room went bright. The rooms all around dimmed. Frieza screamed, pain shooting through his mind, through his body. He was determined, he wouldn't stop, he couldn't stop. Nothing was going to keep him from his goal. He would meet this challenge… because he was stubborn, because that's the kind of person that was, and would always be. Finally the pain went from excruciating to a sort of irritating twitching, dull pain and worst of all the feeling of total thirst. Frieza took note when he was able of conscious thought that the room was VERY dark. The power must have been overloaded by his abrupt actions.
"Switch to emergency power!" He heard a yell from outside.
Frieza tore through the temporarily inactive cell, the guard was out cold, probably got some of the jolt Frieza brought upon the room. Frieza took this opportunity to run like a mad man. He had to find Tituba now! He had to find a clock too. He smiled grimly, before she had died the last time he had been desperate trying to find the time. He, however, vowed that the same mistake would not be repeated. She would not die!
He took off down the hall, guards fired at him continually as he went by. Sometimes he would get lucky and he could ram them into a wall, he tried to stay his mind of Tituba, and get rid of any guard that he could. The more he took out of commission the fewer he had to deal with when he left. Run, hit, dodge. As long as he kept those tree activities up he would be fine. He also silently blessed the fact that half of the back up lights didn't work. Making it a bit more difficult for them to find their escaping captive.
Don't worry Tina-chan. Frieza promised. I shall be with you soon, and those who are trying to end your life will soon find theirs abruptly ended.
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"SIR! Lord Freezer has escaped from his cell!" One of the young officers broke into his superior's office. "I think you know where he is going!"
The man had a ragged mustache. "I see." He rubbed his upper lip.
"I knew those fools couldn't hold that little terror of a white lizard." He frowned. "Well, it's time to jump up the female's execution."
"Sir?" The young officer questioned.
"We can't allow both of them to get away." An explosion sounded all the way across the compound, shacking the very foundations. "I suppose that they didn't put restraints on the young female did they?"
"Why… no sir. Her power was so pitiful they saw no need." The boy answered.
"Fools." He said calmly. He stood up, leaning on his fists, both resting on his desk. "That was where you younger Icejin was being held." His brow wrinkled. "I want you to go get the older female Icejin and bring her to the designated spot where she is to be executed."
"But sir… is that necessary?"
"DO IT! NOW!" For the first time the man lost his patience and composer with the young man. "Go get her! We can't allow Frieza to get away with this scot-free!"
"Yes SIR!" The young officer made tracks out of his superior's office and yelled down the hall to get the woman named Tituba.
The man brushed his mustache carefully. He had been waiting to long for this day. When Frieza was finally brought to justice. He couldn't allow Frieza the chance to escape, neither could he have his wife and child back.
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Tituba sat quietly in her cell. Even when the lights went out she didn't budge from her spot. She did, however, seem very worried about it. She felt such a coward, as tears rolled down her cheeks. She didn't want to die. Yet, she knew it would happen in just a few short hours. The compound rumbled, she heard and felt a tremendous explosion. She hoped it was Frieza, she didn't want to die, she wanted him hear and now. If Frieza were here he would keep her safe.
The door was abruptly shoved open. Tituba looked to it hopefully, Frieza has finally come to save her. "Get to your feet."
Tituba seemed to mentally melt at her wild fantasies playing tricks on her mind. "But it's not time to go yet… I still have three hours." She whined.
He didn't wait for anymore complains as he dragged her to her feet and pulled her down the hall way.
"NO!" Tituba sniveled. "Please… not yet!"
"This was going to happen anyway." The guard said impatiently. "Now be a good little girl and come with me."
Tituba cried and sobbed. She knew she wasn't acting very dignified, nor was she showing her upbringing very well, but she wanted to live. She could die right now. Right when Frieza was about to save her.
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"Scarlet!" Frieza finally found his daughter in the process of destroying a small section on the building. He knew she was badly wounded. They not only exhausted her, but she had been shot with one to many tranquilizers. "Scarlet, get out of here now!" He desperately wanted her to release him from his bounds, but she was to weak and any effort used on his would undoubtedly lead to her demise. He wasn't about to loose both Tituba and his daughter.
Scarlet was too tired to argue. With a swift nod she drilled a hole in the ceiling, using her fists.
Frieza didn't wait to watch her leave. It was up to her now to get out. He had other things to deal with now. God he hurt so badly from being jolted, but he would be fine later.
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They grabbed up her hands, clasping them above her head. Tituba moaned, not knowing what they were going to do to her.
"I don't know if this is really going to work sir." One of the men pointed out. "This isn't going to be humane."
"Killing is not humane. She should have known that before she started her life of crime!"
"Hai." The officer looked at Tituba. "Tituba, we are going to send a electric current through your body, via the chains holding your arms, hopefully it will kill you sooner than we hoped it would."
Tituba just looked at them all, he face haunted. "Yes." He words were a sliver of sound.
"We wanted to give you a lethal injection but with the lights out it has been made difficult to find." He really didn't want to do this to her, hooking her up this way wasn't going to kill her easily, she was too strong. Those idiots had no clue that they would just cause her pain and suffering. "If we find it we will give it too you, that is if you are not dead already."
Tituba didn't respond to him, she just waited. Frieza was too late, she was going to die. When the electricity went through her it was to weak to kill her, but to strong for it not to hurt. Her eyes went wide as she screamed.
Half the people there almost didn't have the guts to keep looking at her. This wasn't the way, hooking her up to one of the electric generators wasn't right. The stupid things didn't contain enough power to kill her very quickly.
She stopped screaming for a moment, her head dropping, her teeth chattering. One of the men took her pulse, she was still alive. The man backed up, and they started the procedure again. They left the machine on for ten minutes, when they saw no movement from her they checked her again. "She is still alive." He told them.
One of the officers walked in uninvited. "Sir… we found the-" One of the men just snatched the cartridge from his hand. He loaded it up into a gun-like object. He then walked over to Tituba's pitifully slumping form. "It will all be over soon, don't you worry anymore." He said comfortingly.
"I don't want to die…" Tituba said very quietly. "Please… no…"
He didn't pay attention to her wants, his only goal was for her to stop suffering. He raised the device to her neck, pulling the trigger for it to pump it's toxic substance into her body. A red beam of light shot out, it was weak but it was no less potent. All turned to see Frieza in the door way.
Frieza took count of everyone in the room, his vision was failing him. He wanted to rest so badly, but he couldn't. He had to keep his mind stayed. His eyes rested on his goal, then he made his move. He threw his body into one of the guards holding a weapon. It threw a few of them off balance, but he forgot a few of those with weapons that could hurt in the state that he was in. They did manage to beat him with the butts of their guns, sometimes they would stop to fire at him, but only for a second. They were swatted away, even with their machinery, they had nothing close to Frieza's strength.
Humph. It's funny isn't it? Even in my most pitiful state they cannot defeat me! Frieza laughed inwardly as he raised an arm to swipe the chains off the shackled encircling her wrists. He took her up in his arms, some of them men grabbed at him as he did so, none of them seeing the tail heading in their direction. Their necks were snapped easily.
Frieza took off down the hallways and rooms. He had to get out of this place, and his body was so weak, even weakening in the state he was now in. He gathered Tituba closely as he felt fire shooting into his back. A few of the guards that he had left before were now shooting at him. He could only pray that his legs held out. It didn't take to long for their line of fire to graze Tituba a little too. Laser beams shot out and almost seemed to be drawn to her skin. One careened into her shoulder as he ran.
"Daddy… was mommy pretty?"
"Hai… she was very beautiful."
Frieza even at this moment could remember discussions he had had with his daughter once. He looked down at his wife's face, how it was speckled in blood. He couldn't tell anymore if it was his or hers.
"Can I see mommy one day Daddy?"
"Perhaps, when you have grown very old."
He temporarily found his way blocked by a door, he shoved it open, taking a brief moment to look behind him. It was a mistake. Suddenly his right eye went completely blank as one of the shots met their target. He screamed, almost dropping Tituba at that point, but held vigil. He was going to make it out of there even if it killed him.
"Do you think mommy is looking at us now?"
"I don't know."
Frieza grunted, stumbling in the hall way, his body was going to give out on him if he kept this up. They kept shooting him, they kept following relentlessly. He desperately wanted a way out. He just wanted to stop hurting. What was more painful to him was that if he stopped, he wouldn't be leaving. If they even spared him Tituba would be dead before he awoke.
His mind drifted to when Scarlet was a baby again. How she asked the most odd questions.
"Did you love mommy daddy?"
He paused at that. "Hai… I suppose I did."
It was so hard to see now. It was like running with one eye closed, he could hardly keep his balance anymore.
"Are you going to see mommy daddy? When you go to heaven?"
"I don't know if I will."
There was a terrifying moment when Frieza fell to his knees, his body collapsing under the stress. There would be no heaven for him. He wished he could die here. Holding her in his arms. Oh, how perfect this world would be with just her in it. He was sure he had thoughts like that before. He was sure of it.
She laughed. "Frieza… it's not like that at all. Just give me time, I want to get to know you better."
"Alright." He had agreed. "But be quick about it."
He smiled at the memories that never quite faded from his mind.
"Do you take Tituba as your lawfully wedded wife?"
"I do."
"Do you promise to love and take care of her until death do you part?"
"I do."
Frieza opened his eyes, he felt like the world was put into slow motion. His eyes caught on a gun, it's wicked black metal shimmering before him. His chin rested on Tituba's belly, he couldn't give up now. He had come to far. His hand reached out for the device, he saw, rather than felt his hands wrap around the cold steal. He could only turn his body enough to start firing rapidly into the crowd. He couldn't see them, but he could hear them screaming as they fell. He could still feel his body being shot, could even feel as his own blood squirted from it's wounds, tapered his face and body, as it hit the floor in all it's lifelessness.
He was on top of her, kissing her face. He couldn't keep his hands out of her hair. He wanted to touch her, have her right then, but he wanted more from her.
"I love you Freezer." She had kissed his cheek, so innocently.
He didn't respond to her then, it was at the tip of his tough to reply, but he couldn't. His pride would never allow him to show any sort of weakness, even to her.
Frieza fired relentlessly on those who did this to him. They were all going to die. At this very moments, without even having checked her pulse he felt that Tituba had already died. He had to bring himself to think the worst, for he felt if he let the slightest ray of hope shine through in his mind it would have been dashed.
An explosion sounded out, he knew it was before him. His blurry eyes looked up, he saw aqua green, and deep purple.
Frieza opened his cracked lips, whispering their names. "Aisuzu… Kooler."
He quickly felt the pain of being heaved up in his sister's arm. "LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO YOU!" She shrieked.
Kooler picked up his sister-in-law while his sister let out curses that would make a sailor blush. "We have to get out of here, ne?" He suggested to his sister.
"Hai… let's give them a gift for their kind hospitality before we go." She huffed.
Kooler grinned. "My pleasure."
"Ladies first." Aisuzu reminded him.
"Of course."
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"Oh your eye! It looks terrible!" Aisuzu fussed, touching the odd black metal surrounding his eye.
Frieza blinked, both eyes visible and closing, of course. "It's not that bad."
She ignored him. "You look like you did when you left planet Nameck!" She whined.
"It's just my eye!" Frieza shrieked. "It's not my entire body like last time!"
"Same difference!" Aisuzu yelled back.
"Augh!"
"Okay you two… settle down before I have to separate you." Kold shouted above both of them. "Really Frieza," He turned his attention to his son. "how could you have allowed yourself to be captured in such a way. I thought I taught you better than that."
"You mean I did!" Aisuzu spat.
It was Aisuzu's time to get ignored. "What were you thinking?"
"Not allot at the time father." Frieza confessed.
"I see… don't let it happen again." Kold left without another word.
Frieza turned to his sister again. "Your timing in impeccable… remind me to properly thank you at another date." Frieza gave her a half grin, his face lighting up. "Where is Tituba?"
"She is doing better now." Aisuzu assured. "She should be fine in a couple of weeks."
Frieza sighed. "That is wonderful news." He leaned back in his chair. "What about Goku?"
"Well," Aisuzu not even attempting to cover up her smile. "After a little persuasion… the Space Police decided to give Goku a little break. They had much more important things to worry about. He is now off the planet and heading towards his own."
Frieza raised a glass to that. "Thank god." He sipped the whine from his glass. "What of Scarlet?"
"She's decided to stay for a little vacation. Her monkey friend thought it best just to go home."
"Good choice." Frieza tittered. "It seems my family has once again come together."
Tituba was back, Scarlet was under his overly protective eye, and his sister had returned after so many years, and his brother was back from vacation. They were all together once more, and it had been a long time coming.
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The End
