WARNING: So this chapter describes what I consider to be torture so yeah there's that. There is also a curse word towards the latter half of this chapter. It's after the flashback
Andy's Pov
*Flashback*
I was looking out the window to where the purifiers were. Lauren and I were arguing, she still thinks that I like hurting people, which I don't. She turned around all of a sudden.
"What?" I asked.
"The door, Mom closed it." She said.
"Yeah, what the hell," I said walking over to stand next to her facing the door.
We looked out into the empty hall. I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked over and saw the Frost sisters and Fade. My heart skipped a beat. I took a step back then went to use my powers. Lauren did the same thing but nothing happened. I heard a voice say "On your knees don't fight."
I felt myself fall to the floor. I didn't want to but I did. My head started to hurt like crazy, almost like a burning sensation. Lauren hit the floor next to me, she was still trying to use her powers. The pain dulled as The frost sisters said, "Andrew, Lauren, is that any way to treat guests?"
Their eyes were glowing blue, and I realized they were using their powers on us. This wasn't good. They could make us do anything they wanted and we couldn't do anything about it. I looked at Lauren. She was terrified, she had reached the same conclusion that I had. That there wasn't anything that we could do and was terrifying to us.
The Frosts forced us to stand and walk into the hallway. It almost felt like I was watching a movie. I was only half-aware of what was happening around me even as I tried to stop myself from doing what they wanted. Trying to fight only made the already agonizing pain worse but I knew if I stopped fighting then they would win and I just couldn't let that happen.
Fade made us invisible to get past the purifiers. They forced us to sit in a car for I couldn't tell how long. After a while, we got to the tunnel system that Reeva had shown us the day before. Fade stayed in the car and the frosts led Lauren and me to the entrance. The frosts climbed down first then they forced Lauren to climb down than me.
We just stood there and I couldn't figure out why, it was like my brain was in a fog. I became more aware of what was happening when they made us start to walk again.
"We're almost there. It's just around the corner." The three sisters said.
I started struggling more against their control. Lauren was too. We were desperately trying to fight them.
"No, No" I heard Lauren say.
"Please," I said, begging the Frosts to not make us do whatever they wanted us to do.
They made us stop walking suddenly. I felt everything start to hurt again.
"Still resisting? I suggest you behave," One of the frosts said.
"Or we'll make you behave," the one behind Lauren said.
The phrase 'stop resisting' started playing over and over again in my head as I fell to the ground in pain. It felt like they were constantly stabbing my brain with needles.
The pain stopped being as bad as Lauren asked, "What do you want from us?"
Esme responded, "We just need some help destroying a building. Please, don't make us force you, this will all go easier if you cooperate."
"But if you'd rather do it the hard way that'll work too." her sisters added.
"We left our parents to be killed by purifiers," I said, realizing that we left them.
"The Purifiers will get what's coming to them," one of the sisters behind me said.
"I thought the whole point of doing this was to help mutants. This is mutant freedom? forcing us..." Lauren said, trying to convince Esme that this was wrong, to let us go.
She was cut off by one of Esme's sisters "We don't see it as forcing some people just need a little help seeing the light.
"So we show it to them," the other one said. The searing pain came back in full force. Everything hurt. It felt like my mind was being torn in half.
"Wait" the pain subsided "you know what happens if we keep pushing them like this. we'll break them they might never recover." I couldn't even tell who was talking at this point.
"We let you try to reason with them"
"They made their choice."
"We'll break them they might never recover."
"It's not like Reeva's gonna let them live after what they did."
I looked at Lauren, my heartbeat speeding up. She looked as terrified as I felt.
"They might as well be useful"
"Now let's get this over with. Get up."
I felt myself standing against us. I tried to fight but I couldn't. I wasn't strong enough. They made us walk for just a little bit more before coming out of the tunnels. We walked down the stairs and stood in front of the building. I looked up at the building and I realized it was Sentinel Services.
"it's time you know what you're here for." The frost sisters said in Lauren and my mind.
Lauren turned around to beg them not to make us do this. "Please, Please don't make us do this." Her voice mirrored the desperation that I was feeling. I looked back up at the building for a second before I heard Lauren cry out in pain. I looked back at her and saw that they were doing something to her with their powers.
"Why are you hurting her?" I said to the frosts. They needed to stop hurting her but I couldn't do anything. I was useless against them.
"She should stop resisting." The two frost sisters hurting her said. They stopped causing her as much pain as they turned to Esme.
"Esme, Waiting for something," they said. She walked down and joined her sisters.
I looked at Lauren silently trying to tell her I was sorry, for everything. I just wanted this to stop.
"Time to hold hands," they said.
I felt my hand move towards Lauren's. I tried to fight but I couldn't stop it. It hurt so badly. Our hands joined and Fenris activated. It felt wrong, every second of it. Not the good feeling Fenris causes where we are in control, no. This was like it was happening to us not us causing it. I watched as our powers destroyed the building, killing the thousands that were inside. Once it stopped I just stood there for a second in shock. It couldn't quite process what we had just done. I was almost numb to it.
They forced us to go back towards the entrance to the tunnel in the parking garage under us. As we were going down the stairs I heard Esme say "Come any closer and they die. You shouldn't have come" I saw Mom, Dad, Lorna, and Marcos
"You don't have to do this. Just give them to us and we'll go" dad said. I wished that the Frosts would but I knew they wouldn't.
"Too late they're ours now," one of the frosts said. I could barely stand. The only reason that I was still upright was that the frosts were forcing me to be.
"Kill them. Kill them all," Esme said
We begged them to not make us even though it wouldn't make a difference. We fought ten times harder than we had fought before. A ringing in my ears started as I desperately tried to keep my hand away from Lauren's. Everything hurt. I was barely aware of anything except for that pain. I felt like my brain was melting and my body was on fire. People were talking but I couldn't figure out who or what they were saying. My senses were too overwhelmed to process anything.
All of a sudden it just stopped. I could pull my hand back to my side. I heard Lorna's voice but I couldn't process what she was saying. My vision was blurry and I couldn't make out anything. All I could feel was the leftover pain, everything still hurt. All of a sudden I felt that force holding me up disappear. I fell to the ground barely conscious.
*end flashback*
I blinked a few times, reminding myself that it's been over five months since that day. That I was safe. That they couldn't hurt me anymore. I pulled my knees up to my chest and tried to just remember to breathe. My vision blurred as tears formed in my eyes.
I heard footsteps coming and tried to hide the fact that I was crying. I saw Mia in the doorway. She stopped when she saw me.
"Are you ok?" she asked, her concern obvious in her voice.
"I'm fine" My voice cracked.
She looked at me as I felt a tear that I was trying to hold back fall on my cheek, "No you're not. You're crying" She came over and sat next to me her back against the wall.
I pressed my knees against my eyes and hugged my legs close to my chest. We just sat there for a while. Me crying and Mia sitting in silence. Just her being there made me feel less alone.
Eventually, she turned to me and said, "If you don't mind me asking, why are you crying?"
I turned my head to look at her. Her green eyes were filled with concern as she watched me. "I get these, like flashbacks to this day that really sucked, like a lot, and sometimes it just gets to me. Ya know." I said.
She nodded. "Was it the day that you and your sister were forced to destroy Sentinel Services headquarters?" she asked
"How did you-" I started.
"Esme told me when she was interviewing me and Josh. Josh was saying something and she just blurted it out." She said.
"Of course it was Esme," I said rolling my eyes. She had no business telling anyone that, "Did she leave out the part that it was her and her sisters who forced us?"
"Yes actually she did leave that part out," she said, she suddenly looked very concerned. I guess she was processing the fact that Esme's a little bitch.
"Yeah, well she does tend to do that. She likes to pretend it's her sister's fault only, not hers but she still did it. Even though she objected to it she did it, giving Lauren and me a whole bucket of trauma in the process." I said angrily.
"You know you should probably see a therapist," Mia said.
"Yeah, I probably should. But unfortunately when you are on the run from the government for killing a bunch of people therapists are kind of hard to come by." I said laughing.
"True, true" Mia said smiling. "You know I think I cheered you up."
"You know I think you did," I said smiling at her.
She got up and offered her hand to me. "You want to go find Lauren"
"Why not," I said, grabbing her hand.
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