TETHERED
WARNING: A very descriptive chapter ahead. It's not blunt, but young minds should probably ignore certain portions just in case. You all have been warned and will be warned one more time below! It contains parts from the chapter I skipped over to keep this story from being too mature! So replies to some of my awesome reviewers first though:
Secret Agent Codename Bob: You know somebody HAS to make things go horribly wrong in my stories!
DisneyChannelLover: Ethan's gonna be fine, eventually, he's literally got Benny.
itrymybest: He's going to tell, a lot sooner than you think! And Jesse's gonna get his sooner or later.
Sam: Glad you're enjoying reading it, I'm enjoying writing it! Hopefully I will not disappoint!
Enjoy all!
Chapter 7: Broken (Part 1)
Ethan was having one of the worst nightmares he had ever had in a few years, and it spawed from what's been happening to him the past few nights. Jesse killed his parents, his sister, he killed his friends too, and all because "he told". And Jesse was after him next, "Who's going to save you now seer?" Jesse asked evilly, bearing his bloody fangs.
Ethan yelled as loud as he could, little did he know... he was actually screaming.
Benny was sleeping soundly on the floor when he heard Ethan screaming, he shot up quickly and looked around the room expecting to find some supernatural creature in his room, instead he saw nothing and got up to see why Ethan was screaming, he was being terrorized, in his dreams. Benny gently shook Ethan, Ethan began thrashing, Benny shook him harder, "Get off of me!" Ethan yelled trying to shove Benny off of him, he almost caused Benny to fall back into his night stand.
"Ethan dude, what the hell?" Benny asked at Ethan shoving him.
Ethan asked him confused, "What?"
"You shoved me!" Benny yelled, "I almost fell and broke my lamp." Benny said calming himself. He saw Ethan was breathing heavily and he looked freaked out, "You okay dude?" Ethan looked at him sternly, "Stupid question I know," Benny sat on the bed next to him, "Wanna talk about it?"
Ethan said to him mockingly, "No, I don't want to "talk about it"." He saw this hurt Benny, Ethan began to explain "I'm sorry Benny, I'm just, I just, I, I..." Ethan stopped when Benny placed a finger over his mouth.
"Stop talking E." Benny said to him softly. Ethan sighed and fell back into his pillow harshly, making a wincing sound. "Careful man." Benny said to him.
Ethan looked at his tired friend, "Benny I'm sorry, you're losing sleep and it's all because of me."
"Ethan stop apologizing, it's not your fault! I'm glad to do this, I just wish you would talk to me is all." Benny explained placing a hand on Ethan's shoulder, Ethan flinched at first but relaxed.
Ethan did a wry laugh, "Good thing I'm not home with my parents, they might think I should be put in the nuthouse... you probably do to, I wouldn't blame you if you did." Ethan said somberly.
Benny said to him sternly, "Ethan, you've got to stop doing this to yourself! Your parents wouldn't think you're ready to be placed in the nuthouse, I certainly don't, they'd just want to help you, and so does your best friend."
"Benny if I tell you the whole sad story, you'll never look at me the same again and neither will Sarah!" Ethan snapped before adding, "You might not look at me again anyway after he kills me."
"This is why you need to tell me E, I wanna help you, protect you!" Benny said to him, "And so would Sarah, but who says she'd even have to know anything?"
Ethan smirked, "Please Benny, you have a big mouth, literally."
"That's a low blow Ethan!" Benny calmed himself from being angry at Ethan's apparent stubborness, "Besides, you're acting as if you can't trust me, when you know you can."
Ethan fell silent, deep in thought at what Benny last stated, he knew he could trust Benny, but it's because he cared about Benny, and his other friends and family, he didn't want to tell. Ethan stared at Benny for the next minute before falling deep in thought. He let out a deep sigh and simply asked, "You really want to know?"
"Only if you're ready to tell me Ethan, I don't wanna force it out of you, especially since you're asking yourself a question you already know the answer to." Benny didn't want Ethan to feel any more guilty than he already did.
Ethan asked of him, "Benny if I tell you... you have to promise me you won't tell anyone! Not Sarah, not Rory, not your grandma, my parents... ANYBODY!" Ethan yelled.
"I promise." Benny said to him.
Ethan said to him sternly, grabbing his arm, "Benny promise me!"
"I promise you Ethan, nobody's gonna know! They won't hear it from me, I promise you!" Benny promised him, "Now E you're hurting my arm!"
WARNING: The next portion of this chapter becomes descriptive. Young readers, I urge you to pass this portion of the chapter until I tell you it's safe. Everyone else, hold on to your chairs!
Ethan quickly released, "Sorry Benny." Ethan fluffed his pillow before laying back on it. He began to tell Benny what had happened to him, "Well Benny, after school Wednesday, I waited for you outside, but I saw that you had other after school plans... spying on Della." The guily at those last words sat in on Benny's mind. (Quick A/N: Bold is Ethan's "voice over", Italics is "replay" from other chapters.)
Ethan contiued, "I went home by myself." Ethan then walked under a tree where a branch broke and fell in front of him, causing him to jump back, his backpack falling on the ground. "Ahh!" Ethan yelled, looking up in the tree, he didn't see anything, "Rotten tree trying to kill me." Ethan grumbled, he reach back to pick up his back and noticed it was gone. "It was weird, when I was walking, I thought it was just a rotten treebranch... until he appeared." "What the hell are you doing here Jesse, I thought you skipped town." Ethan asked waving a number 2 pencil around, as a weapon.
"I did, I came back." Jesse answered, "Tsk, tsk Ethan, you really expect a pencil to stop me?" Ethan pointed the pencil in Jesse's direction, as if it were a knife. Jesse then threw Ethan's back pack at him, causing Ethan to drop the pencil for his bag and that's when Jesse struck; grabbing up Ethan and his bag in a flash. "He took my backpack," Ethan continued, "I was about to go after with the pencil, but he threw it at me; long enough for me to get it to throw me off guard. I screamed, begged for help, then everything blacked out." Ethan stopped.
Benny said to him softly, "I shouldn't have followed her, I should have went home with you like I usually do." Benny then asked him out of curiosity, "Who is "he"?"
Ethan held up a hand, "Please, let me finish Benny, this is hard enough as it is." Jesse had brought Ethan back to his mansion, Ethan unconscious, Jesse stood there, eyeing the sleeping human teen, it was almost peaceful... Jesse all of a sudden hit Ethan in the face. "OW!" Ethan yelled trying to move his hand to his face only to yelp in pain again, he couldn't move his arms. "I woke up sharply, he hit me in the face, and I was... tied to a bed. I bargained with him, begged to give him what I thought he might be after, I even told him I wouldn't tell anyone about him abducting me for it. He didn't care about it, I even thought he was after me for Sarah, he wasn't. He even texted you both, making you think it was from me."
Benny deduced, "The next morning I assumed you were just angry with me about Della, but it wasn't you, it was from him."
"Yeah, he didn't want anyone to come looking for me." Ethan agreed. Jesse tossed Ethan's cell phone across the room, it smashing to pieces into the wall. "What do you want? My blood? Take it! Just let me go." Ethan asked irritated.
Jesse threatened, "Oh, your blood isn't all I'm, taking."
"What else is there left for you to ta-" Ethan stopped at what the evil vampire possibly had in mind. He looked to see Jesse with a somewhat lustful expression on his face. "I knew then that I was a goner." Ethan stated. "He didn't want to do this to Sarah, he knew she'd fight him to the death and possibly win." Ethan watched as the vampire eyed his arm, "First things first." Jesse said taking off Ethan's wristwatch and tossing it, shortly before showing his fangs and taking a bite out of Ethan's arm. Ethan yelling in pain and objection. Jesse took his fangs out and yelled, "Shut up!" Jesse continued, "The longer I have to do this, the longer you'll be stuck here." Jesse said, blood dripping out of his mouth, he reinserted his fangs in Ethan's wrists and began drinking, Ethan whimpering in pain.
"Ethan...?" Benny ask slowly, knowing that what Ethan told him next, wouldn't be good.
Ethan continued, not wanting to answer Benny's question. "He sunk his fangs in my wrists, he slowly drank from me for two hours, knowing what pain I was in, he didn't care... but after that... that's when it got worse!" Ethan yelled to Benny in pain. Jesse then hopped on the bed on top of Ethan and began kissing his lips, forcing his slithery tongue in Ethan's mouth, Ethan trying to fight back, but no avail. Ethan then felt something pushing his leg, Ethan then had a look of worry splash over his face even more. Ethan then spit in Jesse's face in disgust. Jesse wiped it off with his sleeve before punching Ethan in the mouth as hard as he could, his lip bleeding slightly. "You spit anything else out and you'll wish I was going to kill you after this is over." Jesse threatened kissing Ethan on the lips again, licking the blood on them. Jesse then untied Ethan's hands from the bed posts and literally ripped Ethan's shirt off and tossed it aside.
"I tried to get away Benny, I did, he was stronger and quicker!" Ethan said on the verge of tears. Jesse kicked Ethan to the floor before picking him up and shoving him back on the bed. Jesse whispered his Ethan's ear, Jesse's other hand gently caressing Ethan's other cheek, "You know something seer, you'll beg, scream, cry, and plead for mercy and guess what...?" Jesse asked him whispering even lower, "It. Wont. Come. At all."
"Jesse, you don't have to do this." Ethan said meekly. He knew that this was making Jesse even more wild.
Jesse chuckled, "And there's the begging." Jesse then hopped back on top of Ethan and began removing his pants and boxers, before tossing them away as well.
"Why are you doing this?" Ethan asked trying to hold in tears.
Jesse answered, "Because, I can and because I want to." He said running a hand down Ethan's thigh, Ethan unintentionally releasing a shudder, he saw Jesse got a big grin on his face. "He made me do, things to him Benny," Ethan began crying, "And he made me do them back to him." Ethan sniffled, "That's where the punch to the nose came from. I b-bit him where it hurts." Ethan feeling his nose snap, he let out a loud and painful muffled yelp before crying loudly, which was a bad idea because Ethan felt he was about to suffocate, blood dripping out of his nose; Ethan started gagging because a certain something was blocking his mouth's airway. "When he was finished with that, I threw up on the floor and then he just snapped."
Jesse then harshly slammed Ethan to the floor. Ethan, in pain on the floor almost too refuge to it, Ethan didn't move after he hit the floor. Jesse saw Ethan almost content with being on the floor, so Jesse started kicking him harshly. "Right when I thought it couldn't get worse, it got worse Benny! For his finale he threw me over his bed and, and, and raped me!" Ethan cried. Jesse then bit Ethan on the back of his shoulder while harming Ethan in the worse way possible. Jesse had basically just took everything from Ethan. Jesse picked up his own clothes off the floor and put them on. "Ethan, I had fun, didn't you?" The vampire asked, the boy sobbing on the floor. "I already know you won't tell anyone about this... but in case you do, I have even more fun planned... I already do anyway, but it'll give me a pretext to do it again."
IT'S SAFE TO READ AGAIN, NORMAL POINT OF VIEW.
Ethan continued quivering, trying to fight back tears, "H-he did the same thing last night, t-told me not to tell." Ethan looked to see Benny staring at Ethan, his mouth agape and a pained expression on his face as if he were about to cry. Ethan wiped some tears from his eyes, "Benny, say something."
Benny got of the bed and walked over to the window. "Ethan this is so my fault." Benny said proping against the window.
"Ben-" Ethan started, getting out of bed, me made a groan sound and held his stomach, pain shooting in it. He tried his best to ignore it and he walked over to Benny. "So what Benny, you're summoning vampire's to rape your best friend?"
Benny exclaimed at what Ethan asked him, "What, NO!" Ethan titled his head to the side and gave him a look, "O-oh." Benny said akwardly, "You were joking."
Ethan placed a hand on Benny's shoulder, "The only way this is your fault is if you summoned him to do, that, and since you didn't... Not. Your. Fault." Ethan stressed.
"Yeah, but I was chasing Della, if I was with you I could have protected you with a spell or something, I-" Benny started frantically.
Ethan reassured him, "Benny, maybe for a few minutes you could have, but he would have probably killed you and made me watch."
"Ethan that's another question, who is he?" Benny asked him, Ethan looked away when Benny asked. "Uh, if you don't want to tell, I'm not going to press. But the way you talk, it's like you know him and what he's capable of, and if it's like you say Ethan he-."
Ethan interrupted him, "Jesse."
"Wh-what?" Benny asked confused, thinking he was mistaken, hoping he didn't hear Ethan say what he thought he heard him say.
Ethan took a deep breath and said as calmly as he could, "Jesse is the one, who did this to me."
Benny fell quiet for a moment simply staring at Ethan in disbelief of what he said, "Wow... now I understand why you didn't want to tell me. Now I kinda wish I didn't know. Ethan I-" before Benny could continue, Ethan threw himself into Benny, tightly hugging him.
Benny didn't really know what to do, he just held Ethan, rubbing his back.
How many people are blown away, crying, or are on the floor? That's why I left that brief author's note noting a change to the category to "Angst". But to everyone worrying about Ethan's well being, he's unstable right now, but Benny's there... if he doesn't make things worse, y'all know Benny! Hit me up in the reviews please people as we count down the days until season 2 premieres in the US, June 29 at 8PM/7c on Disney Channel!
Also note, this is the first chapter of "Tethered" I've posted without "Clueless" being posted with it!
