It's the sizzle of bacon, and the yapping of Mario's dog that causes Sue Sylvester to stir. She glances at the time in confusion, even as she reaches to touch the empty side of the bed. It was a little after six in the morning, and she couldn't remember the last time her husband had gotten up before eight am, let alone made her breakfast. The whole thing felt eerie, apart from the dog yapping away the house was too quiet, Mario usually sung or hummed loudly as he worked, or at least had the radio going.
Maybe she's being paranoid, but nothing is sitting right to her. She glances her nightstand and opens the drawer and pulls out a small revolver. A gun that she had bought soon after Titan had gone after Charlie and people had started to end up dead. Charlie hadn't made a move yet, but with this recent attempt to lock Charlie up and have her killed by paying a few inmates, had backfired spectacularly. Upper management, was in a panic since Charlie had been let out, no one knew when she was going to strike.
"Mario?" Sue calls out. She waits for a moment, but there is no answer and the paranoia comes back. She steals her nerves and grips her gun as she quietly makes her way down the stairs and towards the kitchen, pausing when the dog finally stops yapping.
"There's a good girl."
Sue felt an icy grip wrap around her heart, and she nearly drops her gun, it was definitely Charlie. But how had she gotten in? They had a top of the line alarm system, another feature that she had insisted they install once they had lost another set of men against Charlie. They didn't have video or any sound just body parts. She brings her gun up and rolls around from where she had been under cover pointing the weapon at Charlie's head. "Freeze."
Charlie looked up from where she was feeding Mario's little Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Ricotta, bacon. The smile on Charlie's face faded slightly when she saw the gun pointed at her head, "Sue."
"What are you doing here and where is my husband?" her hands were shaking, even as she kept the gun trained on Charlie.
Charlie rests her head on her hand as she leans in, and points to the pantry. "Don't worry I wasn't going to kill him, I doubted he knew the type of woman he married."
Sue slowly moves towards the pantry, circling around the island and reaches back behind her to open the pantry doors, and takes a quick look, relaxing for a moment when she spots Mario unhurt, even if he is currently tied up with a gag covering his mouth. She turns to Charlie who hasn't moved "What do you want?" She says stepping back to pull the gag from Mario's mouth. Charlie still didn't look particularly perturbed by the fact that she had a gun pointed at her, and that made her uneasy.
"Personally, to kill you." Charlie said as she picks up some bacon and takes a bite. She chews slowly, "Don't worry, I've turned over a new leaf, I'm not allowed to kill anyone unless I feel like my life is in danger. And since it isn't, I'm here to convince you to do the right thing Sue, the thing you should have done years ago. Telling the world what you did to those teenagers, the experiments you ran on us, naming everyone involved—"
Sue didn't hesitate to pull the trigger, but instead of a loud bang and the flash of the muzzle, there isn't any and she feels a sharp pain tear through her leg causing her to drop the gun in shock as a scream rips from her lips and she clutches her leg, she can feel warm liquid pooling around her leg.
"Sue! What did you do to her!"
"Did you see me do anything?" Charlie asked as she finally got up. "You seem like a decent man Mario, and I'm sure you enjoy the life your wife provides you, letting you run your shitty Italian restaurant, that has a few health code violations, you have your dog. You live in this lovely house, drive nice cars, and I'm sure you're proud of your wife, being in charge of her own department." Charlie squats down in front of Sue and picks up the gun and gets up and places it on the counter before heading back and taking a look at Sue's injury, it wasn't life threatening she had made sure it wouldn't be, still she uses her ability to remove the bullet that's lodged in Sue's leg and holds up the bullet for Sue to see, watching as her eyes go wide.
"How did you—" Sue sputtered, swallowing when the bullet suddenly disappears in front of her eyes. "You survived going through the singularity."
"And to think that I thought you were nothing more than a middle manager," Charlie said tapping her finger on Sue's nose. She turns to Mario, "Your wife was instrumental in running illegal experiments on teenagers and children, I don't know how many teens there were, I lost count of seeing them coming and going but I survived."
"Liar!" Mario insists, he knew his wife. She had worked with kids, teaching cheerleaders.
Charlie took that moment to poke the hole in Sue's leg, twisting her finger into the wound, Sue doesn't scream, instead she grits her teeth and lets out a broken sob, as she tries to hold it back. "Tell him." When Sue's mouth clamps shut Charlie sighs. "Sue, tell him the truth. I think you owe me that at the very least. Because if you don't give me what I want, I'll find someone else who I can easily put the fear of god into, and I assure you that for me it will be easy. You think your boss won't sing for me when I do the exact same thing, that he won't tell me exactly where Dani is."
Sue licked her lips, Charlie had left them alone, and she knew poking the bear would be a stupid idea. Figgins would certainly talk if he was in even half this amount of pain. "I'd want immunity."
"I don't really care if you get immunity Sue, just know that if you're out here. You'll be out here with me, and every bad day I have, I'll think about how you and your people tortured me. How you pumped me full of drugs, how you starved me, assaulted me, killed all those children and then tried it again, and I'll remember how you're still out and I'll pay you and your family a visit," Charlie said with a smile.
Sue shudders and looks at Mario, she loved him, sure sometimes he irritated her, and there were days when she wondered if he was holding her back. But he didn't deserve this to be terrorized. "It's—it's true."
Charlie doesn't look at Mario, she doesn't know what she had expected but she doesn't feel relieved or vindicated. She's not sure she's feeling anything at all. "There's a lawyer in the Northern District of Illinois, who would very much like for you to walk in and confess, with all the documents to back it up. The names of every child that you killed, pictures. Everything." When Sue doesn't say anything, she gets up and places a hand on Mario's head.
"Okay," Sue says before Charlie can do anything. "I'll do it!"
Charlie tilts her head slightly, still not moving her hand from Mario's head, "Do you know where Dani is?"
Sue swallows. "Morocco, we gave her three million dollars to stay in Morocco," she manages to get out.
Charlie nods at the information she'd been given and turns to Mario, tapping his forehead gently. "I imagine you're thinking about calling the police the moment I leave. Telling them that I broke in and shot Sue, and did some weird magic tricks. That will only make me come back Mario, so keep my name out your mouth or I'll make you wish that I had killed you." With that she pats Mario's cheek and walks out of the pantry flicking her wrist and freeing him. She touches the gun which sinks into the island and everything that she touched disappears. Leaving the kitchen clean of her presence. She dumps the bacon on the ground for the dog and makes the plate disappear before pausing and looking at Sue. "I know you may think you have time to figure something out, but I've got eyes on you Sue, and your husband. So, if my friend tells me that you didn't make your appointment tomorrow, and that you didn't show, then I'll find you again. And this time I won't be so kind." With that she sinks back into the darkness, she was going to give Santana an update, and then she wanted to curl up next to her and sleep. Long teleportation's like this drained her.
