I do not own any aspect of Repo! The Genetic Opera, but I am obsessed nonetheless…
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Graverobber asked with little patience.
"That's no way to talk to the head of GeneCo, now is it?" Amber smiled as she walked closer.
"What do you want? Z? Cause I don't have any on me and I'm pretty sure you have an unlimited supply now."
Graverobber backed away from Amber's advances.
Amber still walked closer.
"Don't you mean 'who do I want'?" Amber asked as she brought a hand onto Graverobber's belt and gave it a tug.
Graverobber shoved Amber away in disgust and turned to leave the alley.
Amber's two guards stopped Graverobber from leaving.
"Oh… you're no fun anymore," Amber pouted.
"Sorry to disappoint, but I don't have time to fuck you at the moment," Graverobber scoffed as he tried to push past the guards.
"What's the hurry Graverobber? Shilo will still be in the room where I left her by the time we get back to my office," Amber laughed and placed a hand on Graverobber's shoulder as her guards turned him around to face her.
"I promise," she smiled.
Shilo stared at the black bag in front of her, a body bag that supposedly contained the remains of her father, Nathan Wallace. She backed up against the wall, never letting her eyes leave the bag, almost as if she expected it to move at any second.
It was a sick and cruel game that Amber was playing at, but Shilo knew that she could expect at least this from the infamous Amber Sweet. Amber was one of the offspring of Rotti Largo after all.
Shilo cringed when she thought of Rotti Largo. The mere thought of Rotti could make Shilo feel as sick as she had been on her medication. The man was kind to Shilo… at least what she believed at the time was considered kind… and promised to give her a cure for her blood disease. She trusted Rotti and he killed her father.
Tears started to form as Shilo tried to shake the memory from her mind, but she only managed to unleash all the thoughts and questions that had haunted her ever since that fateful night at the opera. She felt shame and sadness hit her all at once. Every aspect of the opera began to flood her mind.
The whereabouts of her father's body was one of the many thoughts that overwhelmed Shilo with shame. The shame was almost too much to handle at times and it was a main factor in Shilo's inability to leave her home.
Shilo had always known that she was especially prone to feel shame. She got it from her father and when he was alive, she saw it every day in his eyes. Nathan was ashamed for killing Marni and now, Shilo was ashamed for everything that had happened at the opera and for leaving her father's body behind. She had her mother's eyes but she also inherited her father's ability to harbor shame and the guilt slowly ate away at her sanity just as it had with her father's. Her genetics truly were a bitch.
At the moment though, Shilo was faced with a challenge with two possible outcomes. She could look inside the body bag and maybe silence some of the voices in her head, the ones that pestered her about leaving her father's body behind, or she could look inside the body bag and the guilt over seeing her dead father's body could possibly send her into mass hysteria.
Shilo walked closer and closer to the bag and read the identification card. The body in the bag was identified as: Nathan Wallace.
Shilo cautiously sat beside the body bag and stared at the zipper. She could easily pull the zipper down and look inside to make sure that it was her father or wasn't her father, but she didn't know if she could handle it.
She grabbed the zipper and began to pull it down slowly. If it was her father's body, then maybe she could make some sort of deal with Amber. Shilo would be able to have both of her parents in the tomb connected to her house and all would be well. There would be no more thoughts about her father's body being subjected to GeneCo tests or in a mass grave somewhere. She would know that both of her parents were where she could find them.
Shilo was just about to pull the zipper far enough to expose the top of the body's head, when the lights flickered and the door swung open. It was Amber, who moved aside to let her guards toss in another body bag… this one, however, was moving…
Shilo rushed over to the moving bag and opened it to find a rather tied up Graverobber.
"Graverobber!" Shilo squeaked, elated to see a familiar face. She quickly removed the gag from his mouth.
"Shit… fucking bitch…" Graverobber coughed as he began to sit up. He motioned for Shilo to untie his hands.
Shilo shoved him quickly, pushing him back a little. "Why the hell did you think it was safe to leave me?"
"Nice to see you too, kid… and sorry, but I didn't think that the psycho bitch knew where we were," he said apologetically while he motioned, with more urgency, for Shilo to untie his hands.
"I'm still here, you know!" Amber shouted.
"Shit, really?" Graverobber said sarcastically.
Amber motioned to her guards.
The guards pushed Shilo to the side and proceeded to shock Graverobber in the back with their tasers.
Graverobber clenched in pain and sank to the floor as the electricity sent spasms through his body.
"Stop!" Shilo screamed as a scene all too familiar to her began to play out.
"Don't worry Shi! I'm not going to kill him!" Amber laughed and walked to a control box just outside the room. She pressed some buttons and nodded to her guards who had the unconscious Graverobber contained.
A cord with a hook slowly dropped down from the ceiling.
Amber's guards dragged Graverobber and attached the hook to the ties around his feet. The cord began to retract back into the ceiling, efficiently hanging Graverobber upside down so that he was close to the ground, but high enough so that Shilo could not release him.
Shilo stared at Graverobber, who was now hanging upside down from the ceiling and still unconscious.
Amber's guards walked out the door and stood guard while Amber watched the confused Shilo.
Shilo looked at Amber in the doorway.
Amber turned to her guards. "Await further instructions."
"You too, Shilo," Amber smiled as she slammed the door.
A/N Soooo sorry for the long wait but I am very busy with all of my college stuff… I will try to update as soon as I can since I have a tendency to leave you guys hanging! (kind of like Graverobber right now!) (Remember: LOTS of REVIEWS = Happy Author (^_^) = *~* more inspiration *~* = Quicker UPDATES = !HAPPY and Satisfied READER!)
