Part Three
In the dungeon The guards shoved Holly against a wall in an empty cell and before she had the chance to fight back was shackled to that wall,around her throat-wrists-and ankles,in a standing position just to make the torture that much worse. Chuckling amongst themselves they locked the cell door for good measure and walked away without another glance back to the woman they had just bound to the wall,forced to suffer until the Lord decided to spare her from the pain and misery...if he indeed planned on doing that at all. At the current moment,Holly was certain he would let her die where she stood and not give a care not to give her bones a proper burial either.
'I hate this place'
She muttered under her breath darkly,her eyes narrowed into small slits as she glared out of the bars infront of her and felt the anger seething from her,she hated feeling this way but felt she rightly deserved to given that she was given no explinantion of what was going on nor why.
'Looks like Lord Beckett has 'big' plans for you'
Unable to move her head to look to her left,Holly had to do her best to side glance to the cell beside her-there pressed against the bars were two friendly faces she DID know.
'Amber! Erin!'
She gasped,half surprised and half relieved, more glad that she no longer was alone and hoping that perhaps they had more of an idea of what was going on then she did.
'What...'
'I don't know what you've done this time,Holly,but you better not think we're going to fix it'
Amber teased though her face remained as serious as always, and as always she seemed to be cooping with this better then the others but Holly knew better, she knew that Amber was only acting like she was fine for the sake of the others around her. Trying to hang her head and only managing to have the shackle pinch her throat,the woman bound to the wall let out a loud growling sigh and turned her gaze foreward again, it didn'd sound like her friends knew any more then she did about any of this weirdness.
'How's this MY fault?'
'Do you really want me to answer that?'
'No'
'Then don't ask'
Silence fell between the two as they let the arguement end mentally,the only noise eminating from around them was the soft sound of snoring somewhere in a cell or two away, apparently there was more then just them there but in the dark they couldn't see who. Holly growled again and eyed up her friends,Erin was being oddly quiet but it was probably due to not taking well to any of this at all. She looked pale and rather sickly looking,not like her normal assert self,had the situation been any different,Holly may have had tried comforting her but right now she just wanted to get away from this place and to hurt the man doing this to her and her friends.
'So how did the pair of you end up here?'
Holly asked finally,deciding that conversation was better then dwelling on the silence and unjustness that they had been imprissioned.
'Our gracious host,Lord Beckett found me and tossed me in here personally, something about riff raff, I don't know I was trying not to ...but oddly enough Erin was already in here when I got here'
'I told you I woke up and I was in this cell'
She replied defensively,why was she acting like that? Did she have something she didn't want to tell the other two? Holly slowly did her best to nod and hummed. Though she didn't have much time to debate the matter as an older man suddenly appeared at the cell holding Amber and Erin,he looked troubled and like his mind was a million miles away.
'Ladies,please forgive me. I would never have allowed this to happen. Beckett seems to just be in a fowl mood'
As he spoke he only would look at the pair in the cell,making it obviously clear that he was avoiding looking at Holly or in her direction at all.
'You are free to go'
opening the door,he stood to one side as to allow the two woman to exit. Erin lept to her feet and was all too glad to get out of the small cell,giving the older man a polite smile and nod she didn't wait for Amber who was more reluctant to even get up and move.
'What about her'
Amber asked bluntly as she slowly climbed to her feet,she too was avoiding looking at Holly but it was due to glaring at this man, to her all the men involved were the same and just because this one was freeing them didn't mean that he was any different from the one who had imprissioned them to start. The man shook his head and finally looked over to the woman against the wall, he did look upset to see her,though it was a different way then Beckett had,it was almost a piting look he had in his eyes.
'There is nothing I can do for her. Even if she hadn't cheated death and washed ashore here once more. She is still a pirate and even I would have had her brought here'
Amber and Erin shot strange glances to each other,then to Holly, who was no longer paying any attention to anyone in the dungeon. Instead her attention was tightly focused on a black spider which decided to walk along her,seeing that the wall was cold and this strange object was much warmer and more interesting then the bricks it had been travelling n before this.
'You two must leave,I hate to tell you this,but there is nothing you can do for your friend now, she has chosen her fate'
He looked sad as he spoke this,but quickly ushered Amber and Erin away before either woman could protest or stall him any longer, whiether he was doing this because he was told or without Beckett knowing was not certain but it didn't seem to matter either way. Amber knew that any more arguing and she would probably be thrown back in that cell and she couldn't help Holly if she too was locked away, she knew that Erin would be of no use and just get in the way -and as they followed the old man she was devising a way to both ditch Erin and free Holly.
