A/N: Hello again! Yes, this is being updated now, because I really need to study later! That, and I hope to watch Schitt's Creek later (which has Catherine O'Hara)! I have to go to bed sooner tonight, because I have my exam tomorrow, also. Then, after my exam is done, I'll be able to do whatever and update this whenever! So, let's go!...
Chapter 26: Returned
Kevin's PoV:
A flashlight suddenly shines down the stairs, blinding me. I look away, since I'm not used to the light. "Well, well, well... Yelling, are we? Whatever happened to behaving?" I manage to look at the direction of where I hear Elise's voice, coming down the old basement stairs. She trudges through the ankle-deep water, over to me.
"I'm... I'm sorry..." My voice, weak.
"Why were you yelling, hm?" She continues to make her way over to me, then stands in front of me, shining the flashlight down at me, still blinding me.
"There... There are mice... or... or rats down here... I could hear them... and they started coming toward me... I'm sorry... but it's just so... cold and scary down here..." I answer, barely able to talk. I hang my head, feeling ashamed of being so scared.
"Well, at least you're being truthful," She then looks around. "It's not that bad down here. I bet there was a time that someone camped out down here," She then looks down at me again. "I'm sure those mice or rats wouldn't have hurt you..."
"I'm just... scared..." I admit, trying not to cry.
"Aww. You don't like mice and rats? What about spiders?" I shiver, when she says "spiders". "Aww. Well, I'm glad you learned your lesson," What lesson? She then crouches down in front of me, saying, with such an evil look, "If you ever try to escape again, you'll be down here for the whole day, you got it?" The whole day?! I couldn't even stand being down here for a half hour! "You got it?" she asks, even more scary than before.
"Yes..." I just nod, feeling so pitiful.
"That's a good boy..." She smiles, rubbing the bit of messy hair showing from under my hat. "You ready to come out now?" I perk up and nod, anxiously. "I thought you might. Come on..."
"Hey! Elise! What the hell is taking you so damn long down there?!" I freeze with fear, when I hear Harry's voice.
"I'm coming, honey!" she hollers back up at him. Honey? Could this be Harry's wife? She unchains me from the rotting wooden poll, pulling me up from the water-covered floor. Though, before we head up from the basement, she wraps the chains around me again, panicking me. They're keeping me chained up?! "Now, come on," She tugs on my arm, pulling me towards the stairs. I can't help but hide my tears, as I don't want to be mocked by Harry or Elise.
She pulls me up the stairs, even though I'm so cold and weak; I can barely walk, let alone try to make it up the stairs... Luckily, she's hanging on to me, so that I don't fall down the stairs... "Come here, you little shrimp," Harry pulls on my other arm, leading me down the hallway, that's now not so dark, anymore, because of Elise's shining flashlight. I can now see that I was right earlier, about there being spiderwebs. I can see that they're all over the place! I also find out that I'm actually wrong about there being bats... Though, spiderwebs and bats are the least of my worries right now, because not only was I locked in an old, wet, dark, cold basement, with mice and possibly rats, I have to wonder where they're bringing me... Where's Marv? What are they going to do to me?
I never thought that this would happen to me... I never thought that I'd ever be kidnapped, let alone chained up... I'm scared of where we're going to... I'm so close to relatives that are probably here in Paris, but yet, I'm so far away from getting the help that I so desperately need...
As soon as we're out in the lobby, where it's light, and Elise can shut off her flashlight, I see that the front door is open. I'm able to see the natural lighting of outside, and it's not so blinding. I'm brought outside, and there doesn't seem to be anyone around, except for a new gray van parked out front, with Marv waiting by it. As soon as he sees me, and how dirty, cold, wet, and scared I am, he immediately has a look of sorrow. "Jesus Christ... What the hell did you do to him?"
"We had to teach him a lesson, Marv! He needs to learn where his place is!" Harry answers Marv, in his angered tone.
"What did you do to him, though?"
"They..." I start to answer Marv, when I'm smacked at the back of my head. Frankly, I'm not sure which one did it, if it was either Elise or Harry... Probably Harry... The hit to my head was hard...
"Harry, I told you that I didn't want this to seem like a kidnapping!" Marv shouts to Harry.
"Would you shut up, Marv?! You'll disturb the neighbours! We all know that this is a kidnapping! You know it! I know it! Everyone knows it!"
"Look who's shouting now..." Marv comments.
"Don't get smart! Now, get in the driver's seat!"
"Come on, Harry, at least take the chains off of him..."
"No! Now, get in the front seat!"
"Alight, alright..." Marv sighs and struts to the front of the vehicle. At least Marv feels bad for me... I think I can use that to my advantage...
Since the back doors are already open, Harry and Elise both lift me up and load me into the back. "Get in there, you little shit," I see that they weren't smart enough to get a van that doesn't have windows in its back doors... "Now, lay down and don't move," Harry orders me. I just lay down on the uncomfortable van floor, doing as I'm told. I see that Elise leaves Harry's side, and a moment later, I hear the passenger door open. I look up to see that Elise has entered the front of the van. "Hey, nevermind about her... Look at me, kid," I look back up at Harry, feeling intimidated, but I try not to cry in front of him; especially in front of him... He smirks down at me, chuckles, and says, "Welcome to this World, kid. You'd better get used to it..." The van doors are then slammed shut...
To be Continued...
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A/N: Thanks again! You know what to do! Well, that was quite the chapter! What did you think? I guess it's time to start doing the boring stuff... Aka, studying... -.- Though, after that, I can watch Schitt's Creek! :D I guess it's a good thing, because that means you people get an update to this sooner! Like, right now! :D Well, this story will get exciting on Thursday! Thursday I'll be free! :D I won't have any more work to do! I can do whatever I want! That includes updating this! :D Well, I should go and do the exciting thing, called "studying"... -.- I'll catch you peeps tomorrow, with the final chapter before the surprise that I have for His Protector! Tomorrow's chapter will be a celebration to the end of my work and the exam! I find it appropriate, and oddly convenient! Well, enough of me talking! (You must really get sick of me...) Ciao! :D
- Majora's Mask Freak184