Just let me die
Chpater 6 – Block C
A/N: Those of you who read my other story, Ignored, remember that comment in the first chapter about having a writers' block on this story? Still there. I'm only updating because I love you guys so much.
If you do care about the fact that there had been an update here, you should thank teal-lover and phoebe x-15, because I promised to phoebe I would write soon so she would write soon on her stories and teal-lover reminded me that I hadn't updated here in a long time. So here I go writing again, it probably sucks but you pushed me!
Disclaimer: No I don't own Charmed. Did you expect me to?
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Chris now sat on the floor in one of the cells in Block C. He tried to figure out what was imagination and what was reality.
He hadn't cared about anything for such a long time that it was hard for him to remember how long he had been in the cave down at the torture chambers. Probably for a very long time. Not that it mattered though.
He tried to rationalize. He knew for certain that Wyatt had come into his cave and that he had kicked him. He also knew for certain that he was not in the cave anymore but rather in this cell with open front, or rather with bars in front of an open front. And he knew that something had to have given Wyatt a reason to come down to his cell. He never did that. And he was quite sure that Wyatt had talked to Chris' hallucination.
So there was the question, where they even a hallucination?
They had to be, because it was impossible, if they had followed him they would have gotten to a time long before now, it wouldn't make any sense for them to come here.
They have no experience with time travel, smartass!, he thought to himself. What if they just messed up? What if they were really here? Was it possible?
No, he thought, trying not to get his hopes up. His hopes tended to be crushed. If you expected nothing, no one could disappoint you.
He tried to get his mind off the possibility of the sisters being here. Instead he turned his attention to the girl. She was stubbornly staring at the wall and didn't say a thing. Chris would have found that unnerving when he was younger, but in all the time he spent alone in the cave he had learned to tolerate silence.
He wondered if she knew what these walls she was staring at were painted with. All the cells in block C were painted in a red color and had wooden panels on the floor. There were no beds, but the wood was quite soft so they were relatively comfortable. Well, at least if they were compared to the place Chris had spent the last years in.
The rooms were not well lit, there were only torches in the hallway. Block C had quite many cells. It was underworld, too, just like the cave and all of Wyatt's other prison facilities. But that was disguised quite well. The walls and floors were even and flat. The hall was the only evidence of this place once having been a cave. The walls there were rocky, because that made the shadows that the torches cast more intimidating and scary.
The whole purpose of the complex was to scare the people unfortunate enough to be here. Nothing bad happened here, but this was the place were people were put before they got to the torturing chamber. Eduardo, the low-level demon who was responsible for the design and management of this part of Wyatt's main lair put a lot of significance to the psychical terror. The low lighting and the randomly occurring screams from far below where people were tortured were not necessary but only built for intimidating the inhabitants. The fact that the whole floor was always very silent was a part of that purpose, too.
The walls didn't have their red color for no reasons. The walls were painted in blood, taken from either people who were executed by Wyatt's demons or lost a lot of blood in the torturing chambers before being "fixed". He figured he had been responsible for at least a square meter of wall paint in the time where he was actively tortured. Normally that thought would have made him sick, but after everything he went through he simply didn't care anymore.
Well, even if they were late or hallucinations, of whatever, he figured, picking up his former line of thinking, all in hall they had improved his state and at the moment he could only be grateful for that. The old wounds didn't hurt so much thanks to the healing the girl had applied after the demon had left, and no matter how creepy block C was, it was way more comfortable than the place he had almost seen as "home" over the last years.
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Wyatt rolled his eyes at his family who were just sitting there staring at him in shock. God they were boring.
"Can't you at least pretend to have some reaction? You're creeping me out", he said in a bored tone and sighed.
Just when he had hoped they would show some reaction they were all distracted by a demon entering.
"My lord", he said and bowed deeply. Wyatt recognized him, though he didn't know his name. He was some low-level demon who worked in the executions department.
"Cut the crap", Wyatt said in an annoyed tone. He had wanted to shock his family a little ever since he had felt their unannounced presence in this time an hour ago. "What do you want?", he asked impatiently when the demon straightened up..
"Sir Curlios asked me to tell you they are all ready for the termination of the last remaining relatives of resistance members", the demon said emotionlessly and just stared straight ahead.
"Oh, right", Wyatt groaned. Over the fuss of having his past family here he had totally forgotten about this thing. He had promised Curlios, the head of the execution department to be there, and he had really looked forward to seeing the last people related to those who dared to oppose him whipped off earth's surface. They were fairly over three hundred who had been kept waiting for their own end for over three months to make them more hopeless and fearing. He loved to watch the misery of others, but right now it was an unwelcome distraction.
He sighed, knowing he couldn't weasel himself out of this. He didn't even want to. He wanted the soon-to-be-dead people know, that he had won the war and that they would never ever have a chance to take over again. The most intelligent plan to get rid of his dominion had failed seven years ago. And now these people were the only ones left who couldn't agree with his ways. Well, actually they weren't, none of them had ever complained about the situation, but they were related to people who had and since those were ling dead they were the last bit of people close to opposing him to be found.
"Okay", he said finally, "I'm coming", he said and waved a hand to the demon, telling him to leave. "Oh, please get Jennifer here right away so she can take care of the prisoners", he added.
He didn't even need to turn around to know his family was not all to happy about being called prisoners. But it was their own fault for being here.
He turned around and looked at them. "well, I gotta go, ruler of the world is a busy post and I wouldn't wanna miss this for the world, so you need to excuse me."
He turned to the entrance again where Jennifer had just come in. He looked at his family and saw their startled faces.
And that was understandable. She looked exactly like the girl that had just been here telling them that Chris was fixed. The only difference where her slightly darker hair and her obviously different wardrobe. The other girl had been wearing a wide white T-shirt and a light blue skirt. Jennifer however wore a tight fitting corsage in black with red ribbons and tight black leather pants that were really good to see her feminine body.
He smirked at his family who were staring at her without saying a word.
"Impressed?", he asked. "I got two of them", he added grinning at them. He was proud of having these two girls here. They were both sexy in their own way and quite talented witches. Before any of the people sitting at the table could answer however, Jennifer spoke up.
"You wanted me?", she asked obviously not too pleased to be summoned here-
"You can bet I want you", he responded with a smirk willingly letting the different meanings of these words linger in the air.
"But didn't you forget something?", he added and looked at her expectingly.
She rolled her eyes at his insisting on these stupid rituals. She bowed down, but the way she did it looked so careless and as sarcastic as such a gesture could possibly get. "You called me, 'Lord Wyatt'?", she asked, pronouncing the words Lord Wyatt in a way that made it seem as if this was the most ridiculous and annoying thing she'd ever heard.
But much to the surprise of his family Wyatt didn't comment on her manners but got to the point directly.
"I want you to take these guys to block C. Jessica is waiting there with Christopher, you can tell her to return to her former duties", he said. She nodded, looking so not pleased about the nature of her assignment and walked towards the table. Wyatt meanwhile shimmered out to go to his appointment.
"come on", Jennifer stated blankly and waited for them to rise. When they didn't move, she remembered something and waved her hand muttering something. When she was done the Charmed Ones and Leo were finally able to stand up again, lifted of the invisible force that Wyatt had used to restrain them to the table. They got up, since they didn't have much of a choice and followed the girl when she was slowly walking out of the room.
"Didn't Wyatt want to take Chris to block C?", Paige whispered to Phoebe, hoping the girl in front wouldn't notice.
"Yeah, you're right. Maybe we can talk to him. I don't like the future very much, you know?", Phoebe responded also whispering. But she was probably a little loud since Jennifer turned around and looked at them, face blank of emotions. She just shrugged and continued on her way.
Piper meanwhile was on the verge of tears. Her son was so evil and so… she didn't have the words to describe it, but he seemed to enjoy every bit of all this. He had confessed that he had killed their future selves and he was responsible for Chris' current state. She was so furious at this bastard. She refused to believe he was her son. But meanwhile she felt so sorry for Chris. Now she knew why he wanted to change the future. It was awful.
"Is she a demon?", Paige suddenly asked Leo in the hope his elder powers could make out who this girl actually was. Leo, who had been lost in similar thoughts as Piper looked up. He closed is eyes concentrated. After some seconds he opened his eyes again, glad he hadn't walked into a wall. "I don't think so, but I can't quite pinpoint what she is", he responded to Paige's question in a hushed tone.
"You don't need to whisper", the girl said from in front of them. "I'm a witch, it's as simple as that."
"Oh", Phoebe said. She wasn't too happy that this girl knew what they were talking so easily. But there was one thing she was curious about, so she asked the girl, "Why do you look so much like the other girl?"
"I assume, the concept of twins is unknown to you guys in the past?", the girl asked in an uninterested tone. That made Phoebe blush and she felt a little stupid. But she had believed something magical behind this.
"Here we are", the girl stated when they arrived at a huge wooden door. Without hesitation she pushed it open and waved at the Charmed Ones to enter behind her. They did as they were told since they didn't have much of a choice and came to a high cave that was only dimly lit by some torches at the walls. In these walls were huge openings with bars in front of them. From somewhere they could hear a lonely scream followed by silence. They couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. What was going to happen to them now?
The girl however was totally oblivious to their fear and walked straight through the hallways in a fast pace and glancing at the different openings on the way. The Charmed Ones and Leo stopped because she didn't make the impression to them that they wanted them to follow her anymore. She walked so very fast, and when she had reached the end of the long corridor having looked at each cell she turned around angrily and shouted, "Eduardo!"
Immediately a small demon flamed in and looked at her. "You called, Lady Jennifer?", he asked her in a humble tone and looked up at her expectingly.
"You can bet your ass I called. I have the order from Lord Wyatt to put these prisoners in a cell in block C, but they're all full. I know you have the order always to keep a cell free in case Wyatt wants to put new prisoners in here. And it seems you haven't fulfilled this duty", she said angrily and stepped closer to him so her superior height to his had full impact on him.
"Well, what about this one?", he asked and waved his hand at the cell he believed to be empty.
She shot a glance at it and immediately got back to the demon. "It's occupied"
"Well it's only Jessica hanging around waiting for new orders", Eduardo replied, totally oblivious to the second presence in the room.
At the mention of her name Jessica put on a smile that everyone knew was faked and waved at him.
Jennifer however didn't grin at all. She pointed to Chris and said, "She is, but there's also a prisoner in there! Check your eyes!", she said very furious.
He looked in again and saw the half-whitelighter sitting an the floor his back leaned on the back wall his knees hugged to his chest. Eduardo was surprised at this. He hadn't noticed him before. Usually people in block C hadn't suffered any torture yet and looked a lot healthier than this guy who looked almost like a ghost.
"My apologies, Lady, I didn't realize-…", he started to apologize but she cut him off.
"No excuses, Eddi, you're doing your little mind tricks here to intimidate the prisoners? Fine by me. But how do you suppose to scare people if there aren't even any cells available? This is just unbelievable. I'm going to talk to your master and he's gonna be very displeased, I can tell you. So if you don't want me to vanquish your sorry ass right here, find a room!", she yelled drawing the attention of all the other prisoners.
"Uh well, how about we put them with him until we have another room available?", he asked in a high pitched fearful voice. Under Jennifer's yelling he seemed to have shrunk even smaller than he had already been.
"Well, then put them there", Jennifer said impatiently.
Jessica opened the door from the inside and held it open. The Charmed Ones didn't really realize that they were supposed to go there until Jennifer snapped at them, "You there, go in there! Do you think I have all day?"
At the unexpected yelling they immediately started moving and went inside the cell. They didn't even notice Chris sitting on the floor just like the demon hadn't at first.
Jennifer turned to her sister and said in a not very loving voice: ", Lord Fuck-me wants you to get back to your former duties."
Chris chuckled a little at the nickname, since he found it amazingly accurate.
Jessica just nodded and left the cell and also block C. Jennifer shot a last glare at the demon standing there shivering before walking after her sister.
After they had left Chris just stared at the newcomers. It wasn't a hallucination. They're here, he suddenly realized and a sudden surge of hope flashed through him. But then again, how did this help him. They were definitely in block C for a reason. He shivered at the thought that they could share the same fate he had…
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A/N: well it's longer than my average chapter length for this story. I wanted to get a little further because there would have been a better cliffhanger than this one, but I wanted to get the chapter done and this writers block on this story is still hovering above me, so sorry.
Anyway TBC
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A/N 2: I finished this chapter in the evening of may 30th but I couldn't upload it because the servers were overloaded. That was yesterday and I still can't update grrr