Disclaimer: I do not own DP.
A scream echoed from the basement, spectral and full of pain.
Jazz Fenton thought that she knew her fears, how to control them, how to face them. But then again, sometimes the deepest fears hide from the rational mind, and come back to haunt her- in the form of her baby brother being tortured by their very own parents.
Phantom shrieked and writhed, muscles working involuntarily as they jerked him back and forth in his restraints. He gained a brief respite when the electric current slackened, but before he could open his mouth, he was yelling again, even more volts jolting through his form than before while Maddie Fenton stood by taking down figures with a cool, collected face.
Jack Fenton lowered the voltage yet again, looking to his wife for a nod or a shake of her head. Phantom gasped, trembling. "P-please..." Maddie nodded, and the lab was once more filled with inhuman screams.
Jazz willed her limbs to move, her mouth to speak, anything to stop the torture her brother was enduring, but she felt as though she was stuck in limbo, unable to so much as twitch an eyelid, watching and trying not to retch while Jack increased the voltage, each turn of the knob tearing increasingly wilder screams from their subject.
Finally, the screams stopped, and two rings formed around Phantom's waist, turning him back to Danny Fenton in front of their parents' eyes. He was barely breathing, and in the shocked silence that followed, Jazz could hear a final rattling breath, then his chest stopped moving, and the Fentons' world fell apart.
Sobbing, Jazz jolted awake.