Chapter 10: Fear, desperation, and guilt- feeling

At Klaus' lab

Dante

I was lying on a cold, hard surface. It didn't feel very comfortable, but still I didn't want to get up though.
Suddenly I remembered everything that had happened; Zhalia, the suits, Klaus. For a brief second I believed it all had been a weird dream, but when I opened my eyes, and examined the room I was in, I realized it wasn't.
The room was about five by five meters, with a grey metal- like floor and bluish grey walls. No windows, one metal door, a metal table and a chair, and cold fluorescents on the ceiling.
I sat up and noticed my hands were tied behind my back. Just great… How long have been asleep? And where's Zhalia?

I felt a wave of ice-cold panic coming over me. I forced myself to calm down, and see the positive side of the situation. Unfortunately there was no positive side. I'm so screwed
I was seriously screwed, there was nothing more to say, just screwed. There was no way anyone was going to find me here.
The only thing I could do now was waiting until Klaus would come by and reveal his plans, if he was going to do that at all.

So I waited… and waited… at least two hours, maybe four, maybe even six. I had tried to count the seconds but was impossible to keep up doing that.
It's weird, but if you really have nothing to do but think, time passes by really fast. But I was starting to get really hungry and thirsty and that was bad indeed.
I tried to distract my thoughts by thinking of Zhalia, but imagining where she was now, and in which condition soon became too painful. So I tried to think about my brothers, but I found it hard to picture their faces. It felt like ages since I had last seen them.

The door opened and a person came in.
"Good afternoon Mr. Vale." Klaus said. "Before you try to do something audacious like attacking me; this house is filled with suits and electronic protection, you'll never get out of here alive."

That son a bitch had all the power and he knew it. I gnashed my teeth and resisted the urge to attack him after all. It would be useless and probably only make my situation worse.
"Where's Zhalia?" I asked him.

Klaus smiled, though without any joy. "Why this interest for my sweet daughter?"

Daughter?
"Daughter?"

My astonishment seemed to amuse him. "Yes, my daughter. Maybe not biologically, but I raised her, taught her everything she knows… and she thanked me by leaving me." He said. "Leaving me after all we've been trough… she thought she could just do that but she was wrong… she belongs to me…"
He seemed to be talking to himself more than to me. Now this guy's really starting to creep me out.
And I was worried about Zhalia. A lot. Where was she? What happened to her? Was she unharmed? The thought that something bad had happened to her made my blood turn into ice.

On that moment

Lok

We were sitting in a bus, heading towards the place Dante had to be, according to Sophie's spell. The spell was called Anyfind, and could be used to enchant an object from the person you're searching for, so that it points out where the person is located. So Michael and I searched a suitable object from Dante (one of his titan's he hadn't with him when he disappeared) and gave it to Sophie. She used the spell and held the amulet above the map of the world (sounds kind of wicca- like doesn't it?). First nothing happened, but then the amulet glowed up purple and touched the map on Slovenia. Whereupon we searched a map of Slovenia (took us quite some time, a good map of Slovenia is hard to find) and did the same thing again. This time the amulet touched the map a few kilometers north of the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana (ha, try to say that ten times in a row).

We had taken the next plane to Slovenia, and now we were in the bus. The place we were going to was very remote, somewhere in the forested Alps, far away from cities and big roads.
Most of the other passengers had already got off. Me, Sophie, Michael, and a man who looked like some kind of forester were the only one left (and the bus driver of course).
I pictured the place where they (we now assumed Zhalia worked together with Klaus, because he has an address somewhere in Slovenia according to his file) were detaining Dante as a big creepy castle, or a sober cement prison, like you see in movies. But Sophie on the other hand, thought it was a sweet little log cabin.
"Because a log cabin won't attract any attention." She said.

"But it's so remote, it doesn't has to be unsuspicious." I said.

"Once we're there, you'll see I'm right."

"I bet you're not."

"Ok deal, we'll bet. The winner… treats the other on a nice dinner."

Michael sighted. "Guys, focus! This is not the time to think of romantic dinners, it's rescue- time."

All of the sudden the bus stopped.
"This last bus stop, uspeh!" The bus driver said.

We stepped out of the warm bus, into the cold. The bus driver waved at us, before turning around and driving away.

"Damn it's cold!" Michael said. There was a freezing wind and the thin layer of snow on the trees indicated that the winter falls early in Slovenia.
Fortunately we all had put on a thick coat, but we hadn't brought any hand gloves, so put my hands into my pockets.

"W- which way do we go now?" I asked with chattering teeth.

Sophie pulled a map out of her pocket. "We have to follow that little road uphill." She said, and she pointed to the forest behind us.

"I don't see a road." Michael said.

"It's there, you see?"

If you looked really carefully you could see there was some space between the trees; the 'road'. Which appeared to be just a (with snow covered) sandy wood path, barely three steps broad.

"It better be a short walk." Michael muttered discontentedly.

"That depends." Sophie said with a smile. "You consider three hours as a short walk?"

"Un- freaking believable!" Michael moaned.

At Klaus' lab

Zhalia

Un freaking believable….! I knew Klaus was an evil crazy asshole, but I'd never thought he would do this to me.

XxXxXxXxXx
When I woke up, I immediately recognized the room I was in. It was the lab of one of Klaus' many houses. I had the feeling I had been here before, but I could be wrong because all Klaus' labs looked quite the same. Lots of bluish grey and metal. Fluorescents on the wall and a whole bunch of metal lockers, filled with papers and fluids, (magical) instruments, and results and ideas for his experiments.

I sat up, though it hurt to move. That Enderflame had hit me really hard.
My hands were tied behind my back, and I knew there was no use of trying to run. The doors were electrified, and cameras were everywhere. Escaping was impossible, I had seen many unfortunate Foundation- agents trying, but all had failed.
Somehow I had the idea the universe was punishing me for never doing anything to help them. Sure, I had been nice to them, I had given them food and drinks secretly, but I had never tried to do more than that. I knew there wasn't much I could have done anyway, Klaus doesn't listens to anyone but himself (and maybe the Professor), but still I could have tried, I could have cared more about them.
And now I was stuck here myself, and Dante to.

Dante…

It was my fault, all my fault. Why hadn't I forced him to go? I felt tears welling up in my eyes, but quickly blinked them away when I heard someone coming.

The door opened and Klaus came in. His face was as expressionless as ever, but I knew him well and could see in his eyes that he was angry. Very, very angry. And when's he's in a mood like that, experience shows it's better to avoid him. But I couldn't now, in fact I couldn't go anywhere, and there was nothing I could do or say to make it right.
This consciousness made my blood curdle in my veins. I felt a deep fear, fear I guess I had always felt towards him. But no way I was going to show him that.

"Zhalia, finally awake I see?"

I decided to ignore him (despite my strong presumption it would only make things worse).

"Why are you ignoring me my dear? Why are you turning against me after all I've done for you?"

"You killed my parents! That's what you done for me!"
So far the ignoring part….

"I saved you… I saved you from a trivial normal life!" He said. "You know Zhalia, you could have became one of the best Organization agents ever, my successor… But unfortunately it has turned out you're not. So we both know what's going to happen now."

I remembered all those foundation agents, and my breath caught.

"I've accomplished my pain- spell, the only thing I need now is someone to test it on."

I knew where this was going to, and tried to prepare myself for what was about to come.
All of the sudden there was a flash of red and an electrifying pain shot through my whole body. I screamed without even noticing. Seconds seemed to last hours, until it finally stopped.
I was lying on my back on the ground, heavily breathing.

"Grade?" He asked.

"Nah… a seven… is- is that all you got?" I said provocatively. Probably not thé smartest thing to do, but didn't want him to think he had already won.

He snickered. "Zhalia, Zhalia, always joking. Even at the end of your life."

He raised his hand and said the spell again.
XxXxXxXxXx

And again, and again, and again. Until he got bored and left. But he was going to come back.
I don't know how long I can take this….
How long would it take before I would break, physically or mentally. A week? A month? A year?

The thought of that made me almost have a panic attack. And for the hundredths time I tried to free my hands, but failed. No spell could break the ropes and the lockers were locked, so I couldn't search for a knife or something like that either.
How do people on in movies bear this? I thought, tough I knew movies are fictional.
They have hope… hope that somebody will save them…. Their beloved ones, the police, FBI, there's always somebody who searches for them. But nobody was searching for me. Nobody would save me. I was going to die here, and Dante to, it was only a matter of time.
Tears streamed down my face, but it felt good somehow. I cried hoping that the tears would wash out my fear, desperation and guilt- feeling.

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At that moment

Klaus

It had all turned out pretty well. I had Dante Vale, the last thing I needed to complete my biggest experiment ever, though a bit later than I had planned. And I also had Zhalia back.
I looked to Dante Vale, who was staring at me with a glance filled with deep hate. It made me smile.

I wondered how much I would tell him of my plan. I felt the urge to tell him everything, I wanted him to know how brilliant I truly am. And nobody was going to stop me. Nobody could stop me. I was going to rule the world like a god, finally.

That vision spread a deep feeling of satisfaction through my body, but I couldn't fully enjoy it. Something was gnawing on me, something was missing, something… was making me really angry. And that thing was Zhalia.
It wasn't supposed to be like this, this was not the way I had pictured it when I had met her for the first time…..

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Next chap will start with a flashback to the day Klaus met Zhalia for the first time…

Reading this back I notice this is quite a dramatic chap (and there's more where that came from xD) I guess I've watched to many episodes of Criminal Minds lately xD (ps: it's a great series)

I hope you liked it and didn't mind the Klaus pov (When there is a bad guy involved in a story I always wonder what he thinks, why he does what he does so that's why)

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