DeWynter Blues

Disclaimer: This will be a bit darker than some of the others as it will include some torture. Read it at your own discretion.

It had not been easy lately for the DeWynter sisters. First, they were taken their rightful position as leaders of the Syndicate, thanks to Killbane meddling with Phillipe Loren over how the fight with the Saints should be handled. Second, Barry decided to overthrow them as he wanted to lead until Phillipe returned from his business deals. To top everything off, that snake Barry even provided some footage recorded from a hidden camera in the Syndicate Tower's torture chamber. He decided to use that footage against the sisters, thinking that they could play ball with him.

They weren't sure what they could do anymore. Viola and Kiki had their prostitution business, as well as Safeword. But even Barry wanted a bigger cut than what they were getting. The twins had worked with Loren for quite a while and likely got their start as college interns for some of the legal businesses that the Syndicate owned and right out of college, they made careers out of their jobs and later became Loren's right-hands.

The twins sat in their condo. Kiki was looking at her laptop computer to see if there was anything to report on their businesses, while Viola sat at a table nearby looking at her own computer. Unfortunately, her mind was not on the task.

"I can't believe that asshole," Viola said.

Kiki looked up. "What was that, sis?"

"Barry, he took over our rightful leadership, as we were heirs to Phillipe and now he had that video of us helping Johnny Gat," Viola said. "I know Phillipe is not dead, but even with him out doing other things, we were supposed to hold down the fort."

Kiki took a deep breath. "I hear you. But we have to find something to get over Barry. You were right when you said that Mr. Dickson would have been better suited to be a leader. I mean, yes, he is a bit arrogant, but I respect him as a businessman. But Barry, he had been kissing Phillipe's ass for a while and thinks that he could just take what was rightfully ours."

"I know what you're saying, but what can we do?" Viola said. "I don't know about you, but I have a feeling that Barry will show everyone the video and we'll be totally fucked. I know Phillipe respects us as equals, but something tells me that if he sees that video, we'll have nowhere to run."

"I don't trust that guy, either," Kiki said. "I know he has had it in for us for a while. Not to defend his actions, but I can see why he thinks we might be traitors if we helped free Johnny Gat."

"I know that Phillipe has his way of handling shit if things don't go his way," Viola said. "If the leader of the Saints just cooperated with our little deal, none of this would have happened."

"But you also got to remember that Phillipe even brought in Eddie and his Luchadores," Kiki said. "Yes, you are right, we have been there when Phillipe had gotten into some shit, whether it was for business reasons or just someone fucking with us. But Eddie, he seems to enjoy inflicting pain on people, as do some of his roided-up flunkies. Killbane probably had Phillipe's ear, probably trying to lure the Saints to come to us so that we can all kill them. Shit, you're also forgetting that Phillipe even wanted us and Matt out of all the stuff with Johnny."

"Matt's just a kid, a wimpy one at that," Viola said. "Which is why he has those two girls lead the Deckers when it comes to assault and defense. The rest of them are young as well, not quite there to get into the heavy shit we seen."

"Right, but it was only a matter of time until Phillipe and Killbane would have gotten the brutes on Gat," Kiki said. "We both know that Gat and the Saints' leader are relentless. They had planned on taking us all out to begin with. You may have said that Phillipe looks at us as equals, but think about it, sis. Ever since all the bullshit with the Saints started, even before he left, all that was on his mind was what the Syndicate should do about the Saints. Did it ever cross your mind that he treated us a bit like afterthoughts after all of this started? Phillipe knows what we're capable of, but either Eddie and/or Barry had his ear for so long, or maybe he just started to see that we're not worthy of the throne when he goes. He would have involved us in this. Yes, we have our business, but so do Killbane and Matt. It wouldn't have made a difference."

Viola sat there in silence. Her sister had a point. It just seemed a bit off of Phillipe to just leave the two sisters out of this. Did Phillipe lose respect for the twins? Could the fact that they helped out Johnny Gat be a sign that they didn't want things to escalate further or was it a way to get back at their boss?

"You know, we have our credentials and stuff," Kiki said. "What do you think if we go into business for ourselves? Maybe we should start our own organization. We don't need to deal with all this bullshit."

Viola nodded her head. "I think we can do this."

Suddenly, Kiki's smartphone rang. The contact on the screen read "Zoey."

"Hold on, I got to take this," Kiki answered. "Hello, Zoey, what's up?"

"Kiki, I need you and Viola to come to Safeword," Zoey said. "Clara and Lillian need to discuss something with you."

"Can't you just tell me and Viola what's going on over the phone?" Kiki said. "I'll put it on speaker."

"No, I have to tell you in person," Zoey said. "Come down here. We need to talk."

"Okay, we'll be by in a bit," Kiki said and then ended the call.

"What was that about?" Viola said.

"Zoey wants us to come by Safeword," Kiki said. "She said it was urgent. Not sure what it is, but we have to see. Come on, let's get going."

Both sisters got up to leave. They drove their Temptress to the BDSM club in Rosen Oaks. They parked their car in front of the club. For some odd reason, this place didn't look to be busy that night. In fact, it looked kind of empty. On any other night, it would be a happening place, with gimps and dominatrices being in the central part of the club with the bar and women dancing in the cages. Usually the action would be happening in the rooms.

But it wasn't the case. The twins had full access to the club as they owned the place, but still, nobody at the front desk, the red and pink lights in the main part of the club were dim.

"Hello?" Viola said.

"Is anybody here?" Kiki said.

"Hello, ladies," a male voice said. The lights were dim, enough that it was hard to grasp who said that.

"Barry?" Viola clearly recognized that voice. "What are you doing here?"

"Here to take care of business," Barry said.

"What are you talking about?" Viola said. "You already took some of our business."

"Well, you see there is one last bit of business that I need to take care of," Barry said. "I'm looking right at them."

"What?" Kiki said.

Suddenly, Zoey, Clara, and Lillian started walking out, as well as Gus and Victor, and other higher-ranking muscle within the Morningstar like Pete and Norman, one of the top snipers in the organization.

"What's going on here?" Kiki said. "Look, we don't need this. After what you did, Viola and I decided that we are leaving The Syndicate."

"Yeah, that's what I wanted to talk to you about," Barry said and looked to the three female Morningstar members. "Ladies, do the honors."

Clara and Lillian grabbed Kiki, while Zoey and Pete grabbed Viola and pointed a gun right to her head.

"You see, there's one thing you didn't think of," Barry said. "It seems that none of us tolerate traitors around here. Whether it's helping the enemy or leaving the organization like this. I will say that I understand your reasoning, but Killbane…and also Phillipe suggested that something needed to be done."

Viola stood there with a look of concern on her face. Some other female Morningstar soldiers came in and held Kiki down and pulled her dress off of her, as she was just in her underwear. Clara and Lillian held crops and floggers, as well as S&M paddles nearby. The other Morningstar members held Kiki as she lied face down on the floor and restrained her feet and hands in case she would try to fight back or make a break for it.

Clara and Lillian went forth and whipped her on her back. They started with the crops, as they had whipped her multiple times with them. Then moved onto the floggers, as Kiki's back started turning red, as well as started gaining welts on it, much to Viola's horror as she was forced to watch this happen. She cried at the sight of seeing her sister get beaten like this.

But it didn't stop there. They had turned Kiki's body around. She winced and shook at what was happening to her. Clara and Lillian broke out the paddles and swung them downward right to her stomach. Kiki turned over a bit, as Clara kicked her right in her stomach. Kiki coughed, but that didn't stop the two to break out the flogger and crop, commencing the whipping once again.

Kiki's body was red and welted. Tears ran down Viola's face and she shook at the sight. She even wondered if she was next after they were done with Kiki.

"STOP, PLEASE, STOP!" Viola yelled and pushed Zoey away from her and grabbed the gun from her hand and pointed it at everyone.

"My sister and I are out! OUT!" Viola yelled. "Don't try to stop us, okay? You all made your point. If you come anywhere near us, I'll fucking kill you."

Viola undid Kiki's restraints and guided her up to her feet. She even picked up her dress, as she knew that was one of Kiki's favorite dresses and it was rather hard to find, too. The sisters had expensive tastes.

She got Kiki to her feet and put her arm over her shoulder. Kiki was still able to move a bit and was able to hang the dress from her arm. Viola guided Kiki out of Safeword and turned around and pointed the gun towards everyone. Much to the sisters' surprise, the other Morningstar members didn't even try to shoot them.

After they walked out the door, every one of the Morningstar muscle stood close to Barry.

Zoey leaned towards Barry. "Hey, you want me and the girls to follow them and take care of them?"

Barry took out a cigar and lit it up. "No, they'll be dead soon enough. We take care of them and then we, along with the rest of the Syndicate take care of the Saints."

Viola put Kiki in the passenger seat of their Temptress. Kiki breathed hard after the beating she took. Viola went right for the driver seat and started up the car.

"I'm taking you to a hospital, Kiki," Viola said. "You look really bad."

Kiki replied. "Barry, I should have known that he would tell everyone about that."

"At least you had the balls to tell Barry upfront that we were leaving," Viola said. "Fuck all this shit, I can't let them get away with what they did to you. He said that Killbane and Phillipe ordered this. You know what that means, right?"

Kiki slowly nodded her head.

"Look, you need some help," Viola said. "I'll think of something soon, okay?"

"Got it," Kiki said.

Viola pulled up to the hospital in Loren Square. Being that the Saints ran Downtown now, it would seem a bit safer for her to be at that hospital, as opposed to the one in Camano Place, where that one still had some Morningstar influence.

Viola got Kiki out of the car and went to the front desk to have her get checked in. She got beaten rather badly. She needed some treatment. Some EMT's came out and escorted Kiki to an emergency room. Viola stood there and watched. She knew that Kiki would be better soon, but she also knew that she and her sister were marked. There had to be somewhere to turn for help.

Author's note: Yes, Kiki will live through this. I also didn't like the way Kiki was killed off in the game. It was so sudden and for what reason, just because Killbane didn't like being addressed by his real name?

The title for this chapter is based on a trophy/achievement that was supposed to be for Saints Row IV. It seemed that Viola was originally going to be in that game, but wasn't. There were even audio logs made for her. But it was scrapped and she ended up being in Gat Out of Hell.

I will bring Kiki back into it, as I am also putting in some additional content in this version. Just wait and see what I will do. Stay tuned.