A.N.- I just felt like clearing some things up before the story goes on since I don't really know how to fit them in anywhere else.
This is a little...backstory...to explain how things got the way they were in the story. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Richard O'Brein definetly does not own this. He does own the characters, however...all ideas are my own.
Chapter 12: Flashback Chapter
About a month after that second night at the castle, Magenta had become unexpectedly pregnant. Even though incestuous couples were beginning to become common in Transylvania, they were not allowed to have children unless they were adopted because defects were common in this type of relationship. Since abortions were outlawed in Transsexual because of an underpopulation crisis (most people wanted to sleep around instead of having children), and since Frank would not let them leave the castle to get the abortion and Riff-Raff had no idea how to go about it safely, they decided to keep the child.
Riff-Raff worked painstakingly on a medication that would ensure that the child was normal and had no defects. After getting daily shots of the medicine for most of the nine months, Magenta gave birth to Charlotte, a completely normal child.
Frank was, of course, outraged. Magenta and Riff-Raff had to fight to even enroll the child in school. He agreed to this, only if Charlotte would spend the rest of her life working as a servant for him beside her parents. After a while, Riff-Raff and Magenta regrettingly agreed to this, and their determination to escape the castle was even stronger.
A few years later, the siblings got a job at DTV, the local television station. Frank had told them to do this so they could keep an eye on the Majors family, and possibly find more test subjects for his experiments. They starred in a show called Dentonvale where they played doctors specializing in mental hygiene, Dr. Cosmo and Dr. Nation McKinley. People knew they were siblings, and they were often interviewed about the child that they were seen with only sometimes, since Columbia, whom they had given a job at the studio as a nurse, often baby-sat her. They usually answered to this by saying Charlotte was their niece. They said that her parents had died in a terrible accident a few years before, and that, as the closest relations, they were her legal guardians. No one had the slightest idea that they were incestuous, and this was very good, since incestuous relationships were pretty much unheard of on Earth.
At the studio, they had met up with an old friend from Transylvania: Bert Schnick. He had been the siblings' neighbor when they were children, and now Bert was posing as a blind man to make his TV show, Marriage Maze, more popular. Since people in Denton pitied Bert for his 'lack of sight', they felt it was their duty to watch his show and make it successful. Bert was among the only people at the studio who knew who Cosmo and Nation really were, and how Charlotte was really related to them.
Though Riff-Raff and Magenta had gotten Columbia a job at the studio, things were not on good terms between them. Columbia was still angry about the drastic measures the siblings had taken for their mission, and the siblings were angry with Columbia for not fully understanding the importance of it. Columbia, who was called Ansalong at the studio, fell in love with an intern, Ricky, and desperately wanted to tell him who she and the others really were. Riff-Raff and Magenta forbid this, however, and this could be why Columbia betrayed them when the Majors couple made a surprise appearance on their show.
Janet and Brad had gone to the studio to see what it was all about, and why all of their neighbors loved going there. They had been selected as contestants on Bert's Marriage Maze show, which was arranged by Farley Flavors, Brad's enstranged twin brother, who wanted to steal Janet from him simply to spite him. Brad was then sent for treatment at Dentonvale, much to the surprise of Riff-Raff and Magenta. They worked this into their plan, however, and attempted to brainwash Brad into forgetting that night at the castle through drugs. They did the same with Janet, and tried to make her forget with drugs that were supposed to make her only remember her fame at DTV. This whole plan backfired, however, with the help of Columbia.
When "Cosmo" and "Nation" interviewed Brad and Janet, they asked Janet to sign a contract that basically said that Brad was the property of Dentonvale. Columbia told Janet to sign the contract later, which ended up helping them escape the studio before the drugs could run their course. At the premiere of one of Farley's new shows, Faith Factory, Brad broke out of the mental hospital with the help of Judge Oliver Wright and Betty Hapschatt. He was able to escape with Janet since his stay at Dentonvale wasn't under contract. Magenta and Riff-Raff were outraged. The treatment wasn't finished; Brad and Janet still hadn't fully forgotten about that night.
They asked Columbia if she had anything to do with Janet's not signing the contract, and she denied everything. She threatened to leave the studio with Ricky, and tell someone all about the siblings' evil intentions before they had a chance to mess with anyone else's lives. That night at dinner, Riff-Raff and Magenta mixed a high dose of drugs into Columbia's food that would make her forget all about their plan and the years at the Denton TV studio, but not before Columbia went to Judge Oliver Wright and told him everything that had happened, and who Cosmo and Nation really were. This greatly helped Judge Wright in publishing his book, The Denton Affair.
Columbia never left with Ricky, but instead left with Magenta, Riff-Raff, and an eight-year-old Charlotte to go back to the castle the day after she had been drugged. Dentonvale had begun to get lower and lower ratings since Janet and Brad had left, and it eventually got canceled and replaced with a show that gave frumpy people fashion advice, hosted by Neely Pritt. The siblings had dreaded going back to the castle since it meant they had to go back to their old jobs as Frank's servants, and Charlotte had to begin her servitude since she was now old enough.