"Orphans Beloved: "Rachel's Unfortunate Halloween Experience…"
Summary: Like my Immortal Beloved and Sheldon Swifties bits in my Buffyverse and Sheldonverse, these are fragments and short bits, some longer…Just to fiddle with ideas, possibly forming longer tales later.
Disclaimer: No copy write infringement intended…
(Having some fun with this one, so a multi-parter. Pair to "Helena Has Busy Day…")
Part III…
"I ask again…Where the devil are you taking me?" Rachel, struggling to keep down a rising sense of dread.
"Think of this as a learning experience…Your chance to know what it is to be black-bagged and kidnapped, in a figurative sense, only…" Alison noted.
"Let me out…So help me I will have you both charged, your brats taken away…" Rachel fumbled with the door.
"Child-proofed years ago…" Ally shook her head. "I'd've thought that would be in our files or at least, obvious…And Rachel, I won't warn you again about speaking of my children in any way."
"Donald…Donnie…" Rachel, cleverly sounding an Ally note in her voice… "You don't want to hurt me…You're a nice man…And I look like your wife."
"Mr. Hendrix for now, please…Debatable, given how you've tormented my wife and her sweet sisters…It's because I am a good, I hope, man…That you look like Ally only makes what you've done worse." He replied, calmly.
"I'm the one who's suffered here…" Rachel began.
"Only what you richly deserved." Ally, coldly.
"If you harm me, you'll pay…"
"Mr. Hendrix…Thanks for depositing me at the Toronto airport to take the first flight to New York." Ally, in perfect imitation of Rachel.
"No problem, Miss Duncan." He nodded.
"See…" Ally beamed at the stunned Rachel… "Easy as pie…Courtesy Clone Club membership. Say, honey?…You know a weekend in NYC might be a fun break. You could drive down and meet me somewhere."
"You'd never get away with it…" Rachel, anxiously.
"But, except for our good and conscientious friend, Arthur Bell, who'd only be so out of duty, who'd care?" Alison eyed her calmly.
"My foster guardian…Aldous…He's alive…I spared him. He'll never let you get away with harming me, he loves me." Rachel desperately.
"I gotta admit, it was the one redeeming thing about Leekie…That he did care about you girls…" Donnie nodded. "But I doubt he'll be coming back to help you, Rach."
"Please…Please don't hurt me." Rachel, pleading now… "I'm finished at Dyad…I can't hurt you or the others. Just drop me somewhere and let me run. None of you died at my hands…Please…For my father's sake, your creator…" she eyed Ally who stared at her.
"Poor Dr. Duncan…I do think he meant well, at the end." Ally sighed. "And you should know I only mention him because you did first."
"Yes, sister…He was a good man…He wouldn't want you to hurt me…"
"We're not the ones you'll have to answer to, Rachel." Donnie, grimly now.
"Indeed." Ally, coldly.
"Say, look, a Clown Burger…Anyone else starved?" Donnie suggested.
"Donnie…You promised to keep away from fast food. And I've been putting a little on, with all the drinking." Ally, sternly. "There's an F2O, we can get a salad… Rachel? You want anything?"
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Nearly three hours later…
A groggy Rachel awakening…In what to her single, depth-deprived eye, was apparently a very dark room…Perhaps a large closet or cellar…Or…
Garage? She blinked…Remembering Donnie's words at the station…
"Hello?!...Alison?!...Donnie?!..." she called. Feeling…
Hmmn…Bound to this chair…Both arms and legs…
"Not amusing, people…" she tried a defiant air. "Don't think because the wheel has dropped me down a bit today, that I won't rise again…"
"It's because we're afraid of that that you're here, Rachel…" a voice in the dark…Light snapping on…
"Cosima?..." Rachel whispered. "Please…Don't let the others harm me. I was only doing my job…"
"Hardly…" Cosima frowned, adjusting her nasal tubing… "You destroyed poor Kira's bone marrow and you were going to mutilate Sarah…What the hell is wrong with you, Rachel?"
"Sarah took away my father…He died because of her…" Rachel, furiously…
"You made him kill himself to prevent any more experiments on people…God, Rachel…" Cosima shook her head. "We were cooperating…You could have studied Kira, to some extent, with Sarah's willing consent. Ethan could have been your father again, he wanted to be more than anything..."
"Sarah mutilated me…" Rachel glared. "Look at this…My eye…"
"Actually…That was me…" Cosima shrugged. "And I did it to protect Sarah…You forced us to defend ourselves. And now…" she eyed her…
"As you say, the wheel may turn again…And we're tired of having you hounding us, simply because you're a miserable, frustrated bitch." Calm tone. "I could put up with you, but Ally and Sarah have kids…Our brothers Donnie and Fee can't have you messing up their lives…Helena needs peace and a chance to recover from all that abuse…And now Sarah and Kira have a chance to reunite with Kira's father…No. You're just too much for us to have to deal with right now, Rachel."
"You bitches have taken everything from me! Take my life, too, now! Go ahead! But someone will answer for it. Questions will be asked! I won't be…Forgotten…" she looked at Cosima's sad face, trembling… "Please…Please, don't…I'm all alone…Even Aldous is gone. Please, sister…Please!"
"Hello seestra…" a voice…Another light snapped on.
"He…Helena…" Rachel blinked.
"Happy Halloween, problem sestra." Helena eyed her from her chair, cocked head, wan smile.
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