Chapter 15: Discovery

As I crouched there, pondering what to do, I heard a crash come from right next to me. I whipped my head around and saw Annie sitting there, her eyes large as she watched one of the bottles on the desk we had been hiding behind slowly drop to the floor.

Suddenly the table was whisked away and Calendrica and Malvagita stood in front of us, their eyes red with fury.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!!!!!!!!?" demanded Calendrica, picking up Annie.

"Put her down!!!" I cried, standing up from where I was hiding.

Annie struggled in Calendrica's arms, screaming as though the world was ending. Which it might have been. Malvagita swooped down on me and wretched my hands behind my back.

"Let…go!!!!" I twisted back and forth, but her grip was too strong and I only succeeded in hurting my arms. I stared over at the wall where Jack and Clu were chained. Both boys wore an expression of shock and pain.

"Calendrica, what shall I do with this one?" asked Malvagita, shaking me as if Calendrica didn't know.

"Keep her," said Calendrica, who was in the process of making Annie look like Jack and Clu. Annie's eyes widened as a bandanna was shoved in her mouth. She looked helplessly at me, but I didn't know what to do.

"Why keep her?" asked Malvagita, "She is small and weak and of no use to us."

I kicked my leg back in anger, hitting Malvagita in the shins. She howled with pain and tightened her grip on me so much that I felt as if my arms were going to break.

"Shut up, foolish one!!" cried Calendrica, taking me from Malvagita, "Can you not see that she is special?"

Special?

"Special?" asked Malvagita, scowling at me.

"Yes," said Calendrica, leading me to a chair in the corner of the room. She gently sat me down and I was starting to wonder what she was up to when I felt cold metal clamp around my wrists and ankles. She had locked me into the chair, and I was now facing…Jack and Clu.

"JACK!!!" I cried, struggling against the bindings, "I'll get you out. Both of you!!"

"I'm afraid that won't be possible," said Calendrica, "As we have big plans for these boys. And you're going to sit here and watch."

"But, why?" asked Malvagita, "She's not useful to us in any way."

"She is nosy beyond belief," said Calendrica, "And I think it's only fitting that she witnesses the unspeakable things we're going to do to her friends."

"What are you going to do…?" I hissed.

"Well," said Calendrica, walking over to Annie, "First we'll tear this delicate one's soul out, leaving nothing but an empty shell void of emotions."

Annie struggled and began to cry, her sobs muffled by the bandanna.

Malvagita laughed and walked over to Jack.

"And then, I'm going to give your brother the most intense pleasure he's ever felt in his life," she said, running her hand over the front of Jack's pants as he desperately tried to get away from her.

"Ewww, why would I want to see that?" I asked.

"Because afterwards, I'm going to kill him. And you wouldn't want to miss that, now would you?"

Jack screamed from behind his bandanna as Annie continued to cry. I froze and began to think about what I could do to save them.

"Oh, and that's not the best part, dear Fiona," said Calendrica coming over to me, "Then you're going to watch while I take your beloved Clu and make him scream for mercy, beg for me to stop. But I won't. And you're going to sit there, powerless to do anything to help. And then you're going to watch as I rip out his beautiful heart."

Panicky, I glanced at Clu, who showed no emotion on his face at all.

"But before we do anything," continued Calendrica brightly, "I think my Golden Boy has something to say, don't you, lovey?"

Clu stared at Calendrica, his eyes narrowed and his face twisted into a scowl. Calendrica walked over to him and deftly untied the bandanna.

"Come now, lovely, do say something to Fiona. She is our guest of honor, after all."

I stared at Clu who was looking at me through watery blue eyes.

"I loved you," he said softly.

"Tell her Angel, make her feel your pain," whispered Calendrica.

"Everything I did was for you," he said.

I stared at Clu, listening to his words.

"I tried to be there for you. To help you out when you went off, to protect you when you got in trouble, to stand up for you when no one else would. I lived for you."

"Tell her what else…" hissed Calendrica.

"I…I…I watched you. Constantly. I snuck in while you slept and watched you. I loved to look at you sleeping. You seemed almost peaceful as opposed to your usual fireball personality. I wanted so many times to reach out and touch your hair or run my fingers over your soft skin."

"Tell her your deepest secrets, love…"

"I…I…I can't…"

"TELL HER!!" roared Calendrica.

"I…I…wanted you…so badly. I…wanted to take you into my room…slam you down onto my bed. To love you so much that the world would be able to hear and know of my love for you."

And with that Clu slumped back in his chains.

"You see that, Fiona?" said Calendrica, breaking the silence, "He loved you. And what did you do? You know what you did, and now, you'll have to live with the guilt of knowing you killed your best friend."

"I wouldn't have killed him," I seethed.

"Oh, but Fiona, you would!! You see, had he not been devastated, he wouldn't have run to me for solace. So, yes, you killed him."

"I didn't kill him!!!!!!!!!" I cried, "I…I love him."