Disclaimer: Yet again I do not own The Rocky Horror Picture Show or Shock Treatment. I still only wish I did. It all belongs to Richard O'Brien. Except for things and characters I make up I guess
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Luckily there was a big woods in Grenton, too. The house landed and they quickly ran out. Riff Raff scanned the woods.
"Its safe" He declared.
"Not with you two dressed like that, it isn't!" Columbia said, referring to the strange space suits and hair styles Riff Raff and Magenta were donning.
"Zhere's nothzing we can do about zat. Just lead us to ze house!" Magenta grumbled.
Janet knew precisely where Brad lived. She had only ever visited once before, but the memory was engraved into her mind. She didn't know what to expect of Charlie; the last time she had seen him he was a bundle of skin and bones with a mop of curly black hair, unable to speak or walk. Now he would be leaving his toddler years. They stopped outside a fairly ordinary house in an identical looking street.
"This is the place?" Riff Raff asked.
"Yes" Janet nodded.
"Me, Riff Raff and Columbia vill stay out 'ere. Voo go in and get ze child - oh, and you'll be needing zis!" Magenta said, passing Janet a sachet containing white powder.
"What for?" Janet asked.
"Mix zit into a drink and give zit to Brad, it vill knock him out for two hours zat ze most. More than enough time for us to get avay" Magenta explained.
"Drug him?" Janet gasped.
"Just go and do it!" Riff Raff snapped.
Janet nervously pocketed the powder and walked up the path. She knocked on the plain white door, her stomach winding its self up into knots. The door opened and a small boy was stood behind it. He had a near afro of black hair.
"Yes?" He asked. He sounded just as Janet had imagined Frank would sound at that age.
"Hello Charlie. Is your Daddy in?" Janet asked. She didn't want to give away that she was his mother.
"Of course. Come in!" Charlie willingly stood aside to let his mother into the house.
"Are you not aware of strangers? I could be anybody you know" Janet warned as she side stepped into the house, aware that the others were watching her every move. Charlie shrugged.
"Everyone in this town is nice. There's nothing to be afraid of" He explained.
"That's good to know but you should be more careful..." Janet stopped talking; Brad had came into the hall to see who had come in.
"Janet!" He gasped.
"Hello Brad" Janet said nervously.
"What are you doing here?" Brad asked.
"I wanted to see my son" Janet shrugged, "Any chance of a coffee? I've come quite a long way" She asked.
"Fine, follow me..." Brad lead Janet into a small and neat sitting room.
"Nice to see the house looking well kept" Janet commented.
"What did you think it would be? A dump?" Brad asked, as though offended.
"No! I was just..." Janet trailed off.
"Who are you?" Charlie asked.
"I'm-" Janet was cut off by Brad.
"Charlie this is your mother" He announced.
"Mommy?" Charlie asked.
"Yes sweet heart, and I've missed you so!" Janet stooped and hugged her son.
"I'll go and get that coffee" Brad said.
Janet sat down on the floral sofa and watched her son play. He never left her thoughts but she told herself she would never go to visit him; if she did then he would know her and be in her life. She didn't want that. Brad returned quite suddenly with two cups of coffee. He handed one to Janet.
"Mommy I want some juice!" Charlie announced.
"Go and play with your teddy, Charlie. Me and mommy are talking!" Brad said.
"I don't like my stupid teddy!" Charlie shouted.
"When Charlie said he didn't like his teddy you knew he was a no good kid. But when he threatened your life with a switch blade knife..." Janet sang.
"What a guy" Brad said.
"Makes you cry" Janet added.
"And I did" Brad sighed, then he suddenly became quite tearful, "He's such a great little guy, Janet, I wish you could see that" He said.
Janet put her hand on his shoulder and Brad bowed his head, looking away. Seizing her chance, Janet sprinkled the drugs into his coffee. When he looked at her again she was done. Janet smiled.
"Drink up!" She said, taking a large sip of her drink.
Brad took an even bigger gulp of his coffee. He opened his mouth to say something, but slumped against the wall and fell asleep. The drugs had knocked him out instantly.
"Daddy!" Charlie screamed.
"Ssh! Daddy's just sleeping ... why don't we go out for a bit and leave him to sleep?" Janet suggested, putting her cup down and reaching for the frightened little boy.
"Get off me! I'm not going anywhere with you!" Charlie yelled.
"Vhats going on in zhere?" Magenta asked Riff Raff. The two and Columbia were stood at the window.
"They were singing ... she's managed to drug him ... she's trying to get the child ... he's fighting her off..." Riff Raff said.
"Right, we'll have to go in!" Magenta announced.
They moved quite quickly, bursting into the house and running into the living room like a swat team. Charlie screamed even louder.
"ALIENS!" He cried.
"He'll attract ze neighbours! Grab him!" Magenta hissed, looking nervously out of the window.
"I can't!" Janet said as she struggled to hold a kicking and screaming Charlie.
"Oh for Goddess..." Magenta cried.
She strode forward and slapped her hand over the boys mouth. She threw him over her shoulder, ignoring his kicks. Janet gasped.
"Magenta! How can you handle him in such a way?" She asked.
"Zits worked hasn't zit? Lets just get back to ze house..." Magenta said.
Riff Raff took Brad's car keys from the hook and they bundled into the car. It was a short drive to the woods. Charlie had wore himself out and was quietly sobbing by the time they returned to the house. Janet sat him down on her knee in the foyer and held him to her, kissing his curls.
"Its okay darling..." She whispered.
"Who are you all? What do you want? Where's Daddy? Where's anybody..." Charlie sobbed. Janet looked up desperately at her three companions.
"What are we going to do? He's terrified! Lets just take him back" She begged.
"We told voo before: we need ze child! If voo don't want to be part of zis then leave now, he's quite safe vith us..." Magenta said, she reached out and stroked Charlie's arm.
"D-don't touch me!" Charlie warned. Magenta simply laughed.
"When are we going to Transylvania?" Columbia asked eagerly.
"Magenta, Janet, Charlie and I are going to Transylvania ... you however are not" Riff Raff replied.
"Why? I want to go!" Columbia said.
"I'm sorry - again - for what I'm about to do Columbia ... I do hope you forgive me" Riff Raff stepped forward.
He pulled from his belt the ray gun he had killed Columbia with the last time they had met. Magenta laughed. Janet froze. Charlie stopped crying. With a flick of his finger a red beam jetted out from the gun and zapped Columbia in the centre of her chest. It had no effect. Riff Raff frowned and tried again. It was Columbia's turn to laugh.
"I have eternal life!" She explained, "I can never die!"
"Vhat? Zat zis impossible!" Magenta gasped.
"Not for me it isn't. So you can't get rid of ... I guess I'll be coming along with you guys after all!" Columbia smiled.
Riff Raff let out an angry yell and threw the gun across the room. Magenta rushed to calm him down.
"Now, now my darling ... zhere zis other vays we can get rid of her!" She reasured him.
"And how are you going to do that?" Columbia asked smugly.
"Just push voo out of ze house of course" Magenta said.
"Wait!" Janet begged, "Let her come! She could be useful. I'll make it perfectly clear: I don't trust either of you. Let her come along or I refuse to follow through with your plans!"
"Ha, as we shown you before, there are ways of making you" Riff Raff said.
"You can whip me into tatters" Janet said.
"We'll just kill you. We don't need you to come along either, you were simply going to look after the child during our trip. We were going to kill you when we got to Transylvania anyway, and leave your corpse floating in mid space ... should make a great news story when they find you" Riff Raff said.
"You crooks! I was right to never have trusted you!" Janet cried.
"Now now Janet, zhere's no need for tears! We could never have let voo come back 'ere once we had left, voo know too much" Magenta said.
Columbia suddenly dived across the floor, reaching for the gun. Riff Raff jumped on her. The weapon was clutched in both of their hands and they both fought to snatch it away from the other.
"Let-it-go!" Riff Raff panted.
"Never!" Columbia snarled.
Riff Raff wrapped his fingers around the trigger.
"If you don't let go I'll pull the trigger! I don't care who gets hurt" He warned.
"Do it!" Columbia dared.
Riff Raff glared at her. He pressed his fingers hard on the trigger. The beam flew into the air. There was a noise as it hit something, followed by a blood curdling scream. Everyone turned to see who had been hit.
