I'm actually having more trouble writing the last few chapters for 'Love Behind Screen Doors' than I am for this!
Strange how these things happen, isn't it? *Random thinking pose*
Anyway, I can feel the story line for this fic getting deeper and deeper by the minute. And I seems a little (excuse the swearing here people) fucked up.
But that's how I feel it's gotten to.
And now that I think about it, I've decided to make the song how this story will end. So what you're reading is what happens before the actual song.
I kinda like that~!
I'm not sure if I'm correct in this, but I believe that the two dancing girls at the beginning of the song, the girls with the long legs, are Haku and Neru.
If I am incorrect, please message me and let me know. I want to try and get everything as correct as possible.
So you know who is who (and for the introduction of characters) he is the list:
Meiko – Lou 'Fly' Delux
Kaito – Shan
Miku – Fay Diana (aka Angel)
Rin and Len – Viv and Nick Slur
Neru – Izabellz
Haku – Senz
Enjoy~!
Chapter 6 –
"Did you see her?" The girl asks, her long legs tucked under her body as her white hair falls over her face, hiding her disgusting red eyes.
She had been told, by many, that she was ugly; her white hair and red eyes shining through the darkness and making every man, woman and child she met turn in fear.
The circus found her, an abandoned child, and raised her. But that wasn't enough for them; they wanted more.
The other girl, looking to be the same age as Fay with long blonde hair in a single pigtail to the side of her head, sighs as she struggles to sit down. She stretches her legs, the pain coursing up her body like a bullet as she winces briefly before turning to her friend and partner.
"She seemed pretty normal enough to me." The teen says. "Yet I could tell there was something different about her, just by looking at her."
"Do you think they intend to do…?" The woman asks, not wishing to finish her sentence as a hard lump forms in her throat.
The teen nods her head. "She's different, but not different enough. She hasn't met their standards yet."
The woman sighs and shakes her head. That was all they needed; another child's life and freedom, burned before their very eyes.
"Senz," the teen says.
The woman looks up lazily, sleep overcoming her. She didn't want to sleep, but that was all she was capable of during the day. She had become a nocturnal creature; the sun blinding her while the moon felt like warms rays on a nice, sunny day.
"Senz, do you think we could help her?"
"I don't think she would leave." The woman replies. "Think about how she came: all those others like us. They all came together. I can tell that she wouldn't leave without them, I'm sure of it."
"Then we can't save her."
"No, we can't. We never could. If we can't save ourselves, then how do you expect us to save someone else?"
The teen could only nod her head in despair as she struggles to lie next to Senz. "Why did they do this to us?" She asks in a whisper.
Senz could only look down at the girl as she rests her head on the others shoulder. "I don't know, Izabellz. I simply don't know."
Fay was finishing off the last touches to the garden when Lucy returns. "I see you've done a wonderful job here." She says, startling the teen.
Fay smiles up at her. "It's the least I could do. After all; you've all give us a home."
Lucy smiles sweetly at her as Fay returns to the garden. Examining the teen, she smiles as she understands why Mr. Peak thought she was the right one. There had been many more before this girl, many more that didn't survive.
But not this one.
Fay was different.
She was special.
She had the same air about her that reminded Lucy so much of that man.
The man who carried out their work somewhere else.
"Are you alright Lucy?" Fay asks, worry in her voice.
The woman shakes her head and smiles. "Don't worry about me, dear. I'm fine. But you look thirsty and hungry! Would you like something to eat?"
"Well, I am a bit thirsty…"
"Good! Then I'll go and grab us some lunch. I won't be long." Lucy says as she leaves Fay in the garden alone again.
That man had promised her something worthwhile for his betrayal; and she was beginning to think Fay was what he had promised. Lucy grins as she pours a jug of lemonade. "Let's see how our dear Fay reacts to this."
Mr. Peak was walking around when he notices a figure in the distance. Not many people could find their way to the circus on their own; hardly anyone found it by accident. He puts on his famous smile as he was towards the stranger.
"Hello!" He booms. "And welcome to the Dark Woods Circus!"
"It really is quiet a fine establishment." The figure hisses, trying to mask his voice through a lisp. "It would be even grander with a blue man."
Mr. Peak's smile leaves his face. "Ah! So it seems you have returned." He says. "Come to steal our secrets again?"
The man laughs. "Oh no, I was just seeing how my puppets were coping, now that they're free and all."
"They're doing very well." Mr. Peak replies, his smile slowly returning to his face. "You have sent us some exquisite specimens to examine. I do hope you continue sending them in the future."
The man growls as Mr. Peak looks at an imaginary watch on his wrist. "Oh dear me, it looks like our little reunion must wait." He says, cheerily. "I have a few things to attend to now."
"I did not send them to you, and I would have never sent them to you. They escaped, and I want them back." He hisses.
"My, my, my." Mr. Peak says, mocking the man. "Are my ears deceiving me? Are you giving me orders? Me, the grand master of your scheme?"
"I only want what is mine." The man replies calmly.
Mr. Peak smiles. "Ah, but you see, I too have plans for this group. And you know how I feel when my plans are ruined." He begins to walk away when a thought crosses his mind. "Although," he shouts back. "I do believe you owed us a thing or two from the past, especially dear Lucinda. Let's call them your payment to us and be on your way, shall we?"
The name of the woman causes the man to wince as the ringmaster walks away, triumphantly.
He was glad that the debt was paid in the glorious addition to his line up of freaks.
Shan punches one of the iron bars to no avail; the sound of the shackles around his wrist clanging against the bars as the ones on his ankles shift slightly as he moves. Blood was pouring out of a fresh wound on his knuckles.
"Don't do that again Shan." Viv pleads with the older teen. "I don't like seeing you hurt."
"I can't stop Viv," Shan replies. "Not until I know Fay is safe and away from this place." He pounds his fist into the bars again, causing a sharp cry of pain to escape his lips.
"This is pointless!" Fly yells. "We can't get out of these stupid things and you know it. We're stuck in here forever, and there is no way of getting out. I'm as upset about the whole situation as you are, along with the safety of Fay, but you have got to listen to reason right now. Pounding fist after fist into iron bars that aren't even budging with each passing blow isn't going to help our cause. All we can do now is wait for an opening, and when we see it, take it."
"And how long will that be? How long will we have to wait?" Shan replies angrily back. "Fay is in danger right now! And you just want to wait for the right moment to escape? I can't sit here and do nothing. I have to go and save her!"
"But how are you supposed to do that?" Nick asks, adding to the conversation at the mention of Fay. "How are you going to get yourself out, Fay to safety, and then come back to rescue us?"
Shan stops hitting the bars and looks to the boy. Viv could tell what was going though her brother's head and she was shaking her own, tears streaming down her face, as she clamps her hand to her ear. She didn't want to hear what he was thinking out loud.
"What are you getting at Nick?" Shan asks calmly.
"What I'm saying is this place isn't like Koo Island, where there were so many opportunities to escape. What I'm saying is this place may not be heavily guarded, but that doesn't mean it's easier to get out of here. It's the opposite, actually. It just proves that it is virtually imposable to get out of here; that were trapped here for life."
"And so you're just giving up?" Shan spits back. Nick winces as Viv begins to sob loudly.
"No, I'm not." He answers quietly.
"That's not how it sounded before." Shan says angrily. "It sounded like you had given up. So, which is it? Have you, or haven't you?"
The sound of someone opening the flap silences them as Mr. Peak enters, grinning wildly. "How are my pets today?" He says as he walks towards Fly's cage.
She growls at him before replying "Bite me." To which the ringmasters grin widens.
Two more people enter behind Mr. Peak as he walks around the different cages, weaving in and our in a perfect circle.
"We had tried to make you most comfortable, but we do have limitations here. We need you to put in if you want anything in return."
"Does that make us your dancing monkeys?" Shan asks with venom in his voice.
Mr. Peak just smiles down at the blue man before inclining his head towards the twins. The pair that was at the door unlocks the cage where Viv and Nick were and begin to drag them out.
Viv looks around, alarmed. "Let go of us!" She yells at the pair to which she receives a slap to the face. Nick winces, feeling his twins pain, as a small hand print begins to redden on his face, while his twins face remains print free.
"Where do you think you're going?" Fly yells as Shan tries to reach towards the struggling twins.
Mr. Peak sees this sad attempt and smiles as he clicks his fingers.
Two more people come out with a cattle prod in each hand. Shan backs away in fear as he sees the electricity course up and down the metal. Reaching in, they begin to electrocute Shan, his cries and screams of pain ringing loudly inside the tent. Fly had to look away and cover her ears with her hands, trying to erase the sound of his screams. Viv and Nick were gone by the time the torturing began.
Mr. Peak leaves them to their devices, smiling at the sound of pain and misery.
That was what his circus was about: the true despairs and horror of the human heart.