Chapter 3 Blind Betrayal

Chloe

April 22, 2014

10:14 PM

Tillamook Forest

Tillamook Saw Mill

The guard removes the bag over my head and throws me back into the cell. I land on my back when the guard tosses me back in with my hands restrained. Then the guards do the same with Max, Rachel, Frank, and Warren. And then they slam the door shut leaving the five of us in the dark. We're now locked inside a dark cell. Thanks to Rachel's betrayal.

I couldn't believe my ears when Crosby told us the truth about Rachel. Even after everything I trusted her for, even after making her promise she was sworn to keep, she just couldn't stop lying to my face. I stare at that traitorous bitch when she's tossed inside. I feel a rage coming on. I just wanted to fuck that back-stabbing cunt so bad, I actually do.

"You!" I shout to my ex. "You back-stabbing cunt! You set us up!"

I hump on her ass and come at her. I hit her ass so hard with my retrained fist like a sledgehammer until I let all my rage out. Rachel tries shielding my bounded fists with hers as I fuck her up. God, why do I even bother with this bitch?

"You lied to me again, Rachel! You fucking betrayed us all!"

"Chloe, settle down!" shouted Max. "The guards will hear!"

"I should've never have trusted you! You should've never have come back!"

"Chloe, knock it off!" shouted Warren. "Will you!?"

"Thanks to you, we're all dead! We're doomed! We're fucked!"

"Chloe, shut up!" snapped Frank.

"Don't you fucking tell me to shut up, you low-life trailer trash! This bitch played us all! She was working for that double-crossing Crosbitch all along! I'm not the bad girl here!"

"Chloe, we get it! Alright?!" snapped Max. "She betrayed us. But lashing out on her won't change what she did."

"I don't need you to say anything for me, Max. She lured us over to those monsters and her bullshit story about LA and Jack Divine. 'Here it goes, Chloe. I went to LA and started living dream with the great Jack Divine. You should've been there to see it all.' You just can't stop bullshitting me, can you?"

"You're right, Chloe," admitted Rachel. "I can't. But what else was I supposed to say? How do you just tell your ex you were resurrected by Chrysalis and worked as an agent?"

"I don't know, Rachel! How bout just saying it! How hard can that be!"

"I knew how you'd react is how hard."

"React to what? React to the truth or the lies you spit out, huh? Which one's easier to react to?"

"Well at least I wasn't lying when I told you I thought I knew what to say but didn't on your doorstep, Chloe."

"Fuck you, Rachel. You didn't think you knew what you were going to say but didn't. You just didn't have the balls to spit the truth is what happened. God, I never asked for this. I never asked to live. I never asked to be saved. I should've died that day! Why couldn't Nathan just shoot me in that bathroom!?"

"Chloe Price, how fucking dare you!" muttered Max. "Are you listening to yourself? Have you forgotten that I never had to let you die that day to begin with, huh? Were you even listening to Crosby when he said that he's the one who killed six-hundred Arcadians just to divert people from knowing he was about to go hellbent on intertwining Elysium on this planet and taking over the universe!?"

"I don't care, Max! I refuse to live through this! Even after my father's death, five years apart from you and I, and our crisis Rachel and I risked our lives for you, it's just never enough for me isn't? I just want someone to put myself out of my misery right now. I'm better off being killed by a poor little rich raised by a hypocritical narcissists than being brought into a fate worse than death!"

"Chloe, I would take that back if I were you! Right now!"

"Why should I!?"

"Because you said it yourself on that stand in court. You were grateful to be alive and that's that!"

"I've had a lot to take back in life, Max. Give me one reason I should that back."

"I would take a bullet for you, Chloe. I wasn't fucking with you when I told you I would die for you in that bathroom that night, you know. I really wasn't."

"Am I supposed to be persuaded by nightmares you have, Max? Because I'm not. Why should I?"

"You think I'm bullshitting you the way Rachel had? Nightmares or not, it was real to me. I don't know how, I don't know why, I don't care. Your the last person I want to see to die. You wouldn't even guess how many bullets I've seen you taken, Chloe. I rather see you dodge a bullet and myself bite the dust from Nathan's bullet with your name on it, than watch you die like a fucking animal a dozen times. Either way, the fact that my powers don't summon cyclones in the air, we'd both die for nothing. All the more reason tearing that Polaroid in half, unaware that the so-called Project Cyclone was responsible, was the right and most obvious call considered. You can't possibly fathom sacrificing yourself was the better call. Why can't you just accept the fact that shit happens to us and it could be so much worse?"

"Oh, it's already worse, Max. Take a good look around. Thanks to Rachel's betrayal, we're all locked up in a shit hole while Crosbitch is out there taking over the world with his commie a-holes. If I had your power, Max, or Rachel's, or anyone of yours, I would go back and change everything from this ever happening! Everything!"

"Hey!" shouted Frank. "Why don't you quit pointing fingers at your two girlfriends, little Miss Poor Me, and not forget that there are two other people in this cell who you've dragged into this fantasy of time travel and terrorism and start thinking about other people for once! I could've stayed my ass back in Arcadia in my nice warm caravan with Pompidou and for the record, Rachel, I'd be reacting the same way your ex is right now. Not only did you lie about this bullshit story to Chloe, you lied about it to me. When you swore to me on our relationship bracelet you wouldn't. And I've left my poor Pompidou behind. Maybe Chloe's right about you. You really are a back-stabbing cunt."

"He's right you know, gals," said Warren. "You all could've left my ass out of this and I would've had a better time with Brooke, Kate, and the other during the field trip instead getting my ass kidnapped with you guys! And you destroyed my drone! Now we all got to hope David and the others find out we're missing. Halle-fucking-lujah, everyone. Congratulations. The world is ending and we'll all end with it. There's goes our field trip. This heist of ours was all for nothing."

"You know what everyone," began Rachel. "Just stop talking for one minute and hear me out. I don't care if you believe and think I'm bullshitting you all, but it's true as my word are spoken. Being brought back to life by Chrysalis was the easiest part. Working for Chrysalis is nothing compared to what your all bickering about right now. I have been all over this globe fighting the worst quantum terrorist that ever lived just so I could see you all again. And then I have to risk my life once more in Arcadia Bay so Max could win her case. So Chloe, just for once, stop bitching about how life could've been than what it is now and just show some gratitude for all the good I've done for you despite my deception! Will you!?"

"All the good you've done for me," I say. "And for what? So you could rat us out and get Max and I chloroformed and abducted here? What's the point in repaying the good you've done only to betray the promise you made at that mansion? Easy for you to be the know-it-all because you think you can get away with lying all the time. I'm done believing what you have to say."

"Why would you lie to us, Rachel?" asked Max. "Was it really necessary to make up some story about this Jack Divine thing of yours? And why would you set us up like this? How does someone like you get brought back to life by Chrysalis and work as an agent for them?"

"Truth be told, the thing between Chrysalis and I is a long story," said Rachel. "What Crosby said was true. The last thing I remember in that dark room was Nathan injecting me with an overdose. The first thing I remember waking up from my coma was lying down on a table in some morgue they had at HQ being dressed up in a gown. They knew about my powers and wanted me to be an agent. They trained me, gave me some place to live in Portland, and sent me on missions to stop terrorist. When they told me I was free to go, that's when I came back."

"What exactly did you do with Chrysalis if you worked as an agent for them?" Max asked.

"Like I said, long story that I don't think I can make short," she answered. "Chloe, I know you don't have any reason to believe me. I know I've been selfish and naive to you and everyone else, but I never wanted to hurt you. Not on purpose. You can't rule out that I've actually done some good for you once in a lifetime and it isn't fair to just say that I would betray you on purpose. Please, Chloe. I know I couldn't keep my promise from before, but this time I will. This time I swear on our friendship that I promise for sure. I really do."

X/SQUARE/LM - FORGIVE RACHEL

B/CIRCLE/RM - REJECT RACHEL

"You betray me twice, and somehow...I'm now forgiving you twice. But only because now since the world is ending and we all just might end with it, at least I'll die knowing that the friend who betrayed me still loved me. I've got nothing else to say, Rachel. I really don't."

Before anyone else could say a word, we all of a sudden hear gunfire and distant voice that sound content. Everyone has their heads raised and alert. I stare at the door where sounds come from.

"You hear that?" asked Max. "What's happening out there?"

"Madsen, the signals coming from through this door," said a voice from the other side.

"Open the door! My step-daughter's in there!" another voice shouted.

"David?" I say to myself.

The cell unlocks and opens to reveal Chrysalis soldiers with guns and flashlights coming to the rescue.

"They're here!" a soldier shouts. "We have them! They're inside!"

The soldier kindly lower their weapons and cut us free from our restraints. Talk about convenience. We're saved.

"We'll aren't you boys a sight for sore eyes," said Frank. "Just when we thought we were trapped in this cell forever."

"Tell me about it," said Warren.

As soon as I and everyone else is freed from their restraints, I see David and Captain Cage enter the room. David was carrying a rifle and wearing a tactical vest. When we see each other eye to eye, David runs inside in relief.

"Chloe! There you are!" he shouted in excitement.

"David! You came!" I shout back.

My step Dad gives me a real tight hug. Knowing that I'm safe and sound.

"Oh, thank goodness your alright! Your mother and I thought we lost you! Where were you and what the hell happened!?"

"We got kidnapped by the same goons that attacked the expo is what happened. How did you find us anyway?"

"Oh, well, we traced a signal on Rachel's phone or something. We'd figured we find you here."

"Wait, you mean..."

"I put a tracker on my phone so David would find us," said Rachel. "You trust me now?"

"Thanks for coming back for us, David," said Max. "Took you long enough to find us. We owe you."

"Well, you have Rachel to thank for her cleverness," admitted David. "Let's get you guys and gals out of here."

"HQ, this is Cage," said Captain on his comm. "We have the hostages. Moving out to secure the captives for evac immediately."

"Roger that Captain. Advise you move out of there and secure the captives ASAP. You've got Neo-Chrysalis forces advancing reinforcements to your position."

"Copy that. Cage out."

Note: So yeah, my anthology story is going to be about Rachel working as an agent for Chrysalis. With some flashbacks to go along with it. Otherwise, I may end up writing the flashbacks for my oneshots when I start writing them. Either way, I may write a chapter or two for my anthology story during or after the completion of season two as well as my oneshots. Though I might write my first oneshot during the completion rather than after or I might not. The oneshots will consists of deleted scenes from my stories, backstory for characters, etc.

Until next time, stay tuned!