Raychaell: All right, my dear readers! Since pitiful me hasn't received any new reviews T^T, I'll just go straight into the story. Warning: VIOLENCE AND SWEARING IN THIS CHAPTER!

William: Will Lady Claudia be safe then?

Raychaell: Don't worry, she will! And before I forget, I do not own Black Butler, only my own OCs.

Thoughts – Italics

"Mind speaking"

"Normal conversation"

Claudia awoke with a small muffled groan. Her head hurt and she could sense that something was wrong. She was lying on a hard surface, which chilled the patches of bare skin that were in contact with the hard surface. Her arms were bent back behind her and her wrists were bound together with a cold and sticky material. Her ankles were bound too, with the same material. Must be masking tape, she thought. When she tried to raise her arms over her head, she couldn't do it. Instead, it remained stubbornly behind her. It was then Claudia felt the weight on her arms. They must have bound my arms to my sides as well, she realized. Her legs were in the same state, bound together and unable to pull apart. She also felt something soft and cool on her face. When she tried to open her eyes, she saw nothing but blackness. With the disgusting taste of something, possibly fabric, in her mouth that was impossible to spit out, Claudia came to the conclusion that she had been bound, gagged and blindfolded.

Whoever gagged me must be a professional, Claudia decided, for the fabric weighed down on her tongue, making speech impossible. When she tried to reach out to the minds for any possible humans in her vicinity, her mind went all woolly instead. Thinking was hard to do, and her senses were a little dull. She cursed mentally, for she now knew that she was kidnapped, and not by any ordinary person at all. Whoever did this knew that I was a telepath, Claudia thought furiously. She decided to use her other senses.

She sensed movement; a van possibly, and smelled cigarette smoke, her kidnapper was a smoker. Sound of a conversation reached her ears, which could either mean her kidnapper had an accomplice or that he was talking on a phone. She gave way to a shiver suddenly and realized she felt cold. Must be the air conditioner, she mused to herself. In an effort to preserve some body heat, Claudia curled in a fetal position, which was the best she could do considering her current state. Then the vehicle came to a sudden stop, which sent the unprepared Claudia flying into another hard surface. Owww… Claudia thought with a wince as she felt her back protest at the harsh treatment.

"I'm getting down to take a leak. Check on the girl, will ya?" A gruff voice suddenly spoke. Judging from the pitch, a male Claudia thought to herself. And he had a partner as well, for she suddenly heard the scraping of boots against gravel and a huff as someone opened a door. There was also the sound of someone taking a leak. Then her blindfold was yanked down, making Claudia's eyes water as her eyes tried to adjust to the sudden light.

The moment her vision cleared, Claudia glared at the man who was currently staring at her with an amused gaze. He had a salt and pepper beard, and dirty brown eyes that mocked her helpless state even as she glared. He smelled of cigarette smoke and was bald. He hooted in laughter upon seeing her glare, and turned his head back to address his unseen partner.

"Hey Douglas, she's awake and all riled up! She looks just like a pretty little vixen with those eyes and looks of hers."

His partner called back. "Then tame the little bitch and show her who's boss!" Claudia's eyes widened at this, and her mind immediately came up with the worst possible scenario: rape. She tried to back away the best she could, only to give way to a silent yelp as she was yanked back by the roots of her hair. The man laughed at the fear in her eyes, and whispered to her.

"Don't worry about your virtue, little lassie. The boss said we could do what we want to you except touch your virtue, so you're safe with your virginity. Then again, he also said to beat you so as to tame you!"

With that, the man slapped her right cheek viciously. It brought unshed tears to her eyes but she continued glaring at him. At this, the man dragged her out of the vehicle by her hair and threw her down on to the ground. Claudia silently screamed as her shoulder jarred at the impact. The man just continued laughing as he kicked her several times while Claudia tried to curl up to protect her organs from serious damage. Then the kicking session finally stopped, making her sigh with relief as she had been close to fainting with the pain. Then it continued again without warning, this time with a ferocious intensity that made Claudia scream mentally for the pain to stop. Soon the pain overwhelmed her, and Claudia gratefully sank into unconsciousness.

When she awoke, she was aware of tremendous pain all over her body. It was at this time she became grateful for the gag for she was sure that she was close to screaming with the agony she currently felt. It took all of her will to concentrate and ignore the pain as she closed her eyes to concentrate better. When she opened her eyes again, the first thing she noticed was her missing blindfold. Apparently her kidnappers had not bothered replacing it, allowing her to see the interior of the vehicle clearly. Or at least, as clear as she could see out of her left eye while her right eye was swollen shut.

Therefore she observed the stark white interior with a curious gaze, noting a few rolls of masking tape left abandoned near the hub of the left wheel and the strips of cloth that the rolls laid upon. From the looks of it, it was clearly a van, with its back windows heavily tinted to prevent anyone from seeing in. Turning on her back, Claudia was able to see a metal frame separating her and her captors who were too busy chatting away to realize she was looking at them. Despite her efforts to see the face of her captors, Claudia's helpless position meant she was unable to do so. And even if she could see them, the pain was returning and blurring her vision.

With a defeated air, Claudia curled up into a fetal position once more, not bothering to use her other ability seeing as to how much she hurt everywhere. Closing her eyes, she managed to nap for what seemed like a few seconds before she felt the van jerk to a sudden stop and hear doors slamming. Then a voice was heard. It belonged to the man who had reveled in her pain yesterday – or was it a few hours ago? She had no idea. Her sense of time was screwed after the kidnapping from her manor.

Thinking about her home brought around a fluttering sense of fear. Were her servants all right? What about William and Jade? And Rouge especially caused her more fear and worry for him as she vaguely remembered holding his hand tightly then struggling feebly as someone tried to separate them. Then she had felt sudden warmth on her hand, and the cold prick of a needle to her neck before everything went black.

Another voice was heard, snapping Claudia out of her trance. The voice clearly belonged to a male, but it did not belong to Douglas or her other kidnapper. Instead, for some reason or another, the voice sent chills down her spine and made her unexplainably mad upon hearing it. She shook off the strange feeling and forced herself to listen to the vaguely familiar voice.

"Is the girl inside?" The voice asked.

"Yes sir." Her unknown captor replied.

"Let me see her." There was the sound of footsteps towards her. Claudia quickly closed her eyes and faked sleep. She heard the back door open and a gasp of delight, before the voice spoke to the other two.

"I see you roughed her up a bit. Nothing against the rules I set, I hope?"

"Nope sir. We just taught her a small lesson on being silent that's all."

"Nothing too serious I hope."

"Just a few broken ribs and a possible concussion sir. Is that all right with you?"

"It's all right. She's going to get worse anyway when I break her."

"Good luck with that boss. That little lassie sure is feisty and hard to break."

"Don't worry. I have a plan for her that will break her quickly." At that, Claudia had to force herself from trembling with fear at the man's dark words. She forced herself to listen again.

"About the money…" Douglas began. Boss cut him short – she had decided to give him a nickname seeing as to how it was a pain to differentiate between the two unknowns.

"I have it right here." Boss must have shown Sadistic – which was the nickname she had given to her unknown captor since he had laughed at her pain – the money he paid to get the other two to kidnap her.

The money must have been enough to satisfy the two for she heard him say to someone else, most probably his minion. "You there, get her out of the van and bring her in. Make sure she's trussed up tightly because I do not want her to have any chance to escape. And before I forget, jab her with this too."

The minion complied and she felt the weight of the van shift as he got in. Then there was the cold prick of a needle again, making Claudia struggle feebly before everything went frustratingly black again.

When she came around again for the third time, the first thing she saw was an all too familiar face looming right in front of her. She automatically recoiled, and spat out the first thing that came to mind. "You bastard! I should have known it was you all along, Lord Victor Bogart." This only served to make the sallow faced Lord laugh in her face but also made her realize her gag was gone.

Reveling in her freedom of speech, Claudia proceeded to give him her opinion on the kidnapping. Needless to say, with her experience in the kitchens and also the occasional accidental curse from Rouge, her language was more colorful than what a normal fourteen-year-old girl should have. And Lord Bogart was not amused. A slap to her face cut short her rant painfully, giving Claudia the chance to re – examine her surroundings.

She was in some kind of room, with high roofs and blank walls, which had no windows. Strange men filled the room and surrounded her while she was seated on a straight-backed wooden chair, masking tape, again, binding her tightly to it. Her legs were still bound and the masking tape that was no longer covering her mouth was stuck to the side of her mouth instead. She tested her wrists hopefully only to get her hopes crushed as she found her wrists bound as tight as ever.

Now that she had deduced her location and status, she could no longer put off her hatred of looking into Bogart's face. He was once handsome, except years of greed and hatred had twisted his looks and made him ugly. Greasy black hair hung over his face in messy waves, and a pudgy nose and cruel black eyes gazed into her hatred filled amethyst eyes with a smug grin on his small mouth. His black and white business suit hung on him like a piece of dirty laundry and showed off his ample belly. Basically, Lord Victor Bogart was ugly and she hated him with all her guts.

After all, who could forgive the man who ruined her childhood when he burned down the townhouse her parents were in and left her orphaned all because he wanted her to marry his equally ugly and greedy son, who was thankfully not here. Bogart grinned at her and started his usual speech.

"Ah, Lady Darius, it's a great honor to have a great beauty like you here with me. The reason why I invited you here was because I wanted to prepare you first in time for your upcoming collaboration with my family and also, your future engagement and marriage to my son Ian! Isn't that great?" He said eagerly. Claudia only snorted and glared at him.

"No way in Hell will I ever marry or ally myself with uglies like you, Bogart. So why don't you take your plans and shove them up your big fat ass?" She sneered, earning her a punch to the jaw, which made her see stars for several seconds.

Bogart merely grinned at her again before crooning to her. "Oh, but you will, my dear girl. You see, I have some plans to break that mouth and feisty spirit of yours. Take a look at this collar and tell me if you recognize it."

Claudia's eyes widened at the sight of a black collar that had a small box on it. She recognized it all right. When she was thirteen, she had seen a collar like this on a show dog at one of the carnivals she attended. The poor dog had been shocked with it several times during rehearsals when he was either unresponsive or slow to obey his owner. The excessive use of the collar had ended in the dog being electrocuted to death and her swearing to never let another suffer the same fate. But it seemed now that she was going to get first hand experience on the dangers of the shock collar.

Trembling visibly, Claudia tried to reach out with her mind again, but it still all woolly and unresponsive to her needs. Bogart smirked at the fear in her eyes. "Scared now, are we, Lady Claudia? You know, when I saw this collar, I knew that it was just perfect for my needs since it means that I can use it and torture you till you beg for mercy and promise to obey me." He taunted while the other men remained silent but smirked at her fear.

"N – n – no no no nooo!" Yu can't use that thing on me! It's illegal!" Claudia tried to plead with him, only to have her words fall on deaf ears as the greedy Lord laughed at her distress. He began to attach the collar he held to her neck while two other men came forward with more collars to attach to her arms and legs. Once they were done, Bogart stepped back to enjoy the sight of her trembling form before him as he held the remote for the collars up before her in plain sight.

"See this remote? I've made it the master controller so that when I press this red button, you will get shocked by all five collars" He proceeded to demonstrate and watched in satisfaction as she screamed in agony as the high voltage spread all over her, causing her so much pain.

Claudia slumped forwards when the painful electrocution ended, semi conscious and barely aware of laughter in the room as they watched her in pain. No more, she thought wearily. It hurts so goddamn much so stop itt! Claudia shrieked mentally and out loud when the button was pressed without warning. She continued screaming much longer before someone shoved her gag back in and taped her mouth shut, effectively shutting her up. But it still didn't stop Claudia from begging mentally for the pain to stop.

After what seemed like hours, the electrocution stopped and Claudia slumped forwards once more in extreme agony. It was getting hard to think around all the pain she was enduring but she soon saw something positive come out of the torture; her gift was back. Without further ado, even while she screamed in pain, she let out a mental call for help to the only person she knew could help her now.

"Help me Rouge! Answer me! ROUGGEEE!"

Rouge was tired. The blood loss he had endured from the wound he received for holding on to Claudia made him dizzy and lightheaded. However, he continued sitting wearily in Claudia's private study, the one place all servants were avoiding upon learning of Claudia's kidnap.

Right now, however, he was close to yelling at Ciel who was arguing with Will again about how they should proceed about finding Claudia while Jade, Sebastian and he watched wearily from the sidelines.

"I say we go out there again and search one more time! Lady Claudia's kidnappers would not have gone far, that I am sure of!" Will argued for what felt like the hundredth time. He had been blaming himself endlessly over her kidnap and was bent on finding her to resolve his guilt.

However Ciel had a different opinion. "No. We should remain here and plan carefully what we are going to do now that Claudia has been kidnapped. After all, for all we know, her kidnappers might contact us." Both sides glared at each other angrily, not willing to give way. Sighing, Rouge got up with the intent to stop the argument once and for all, only to freeze upon hearing a very familiar voice in his head.

"Help me Rouge! Answer me! ROUGGEEE!"

Rouge froze in shock to hear the pain and longing in Claudia's voice. Jade was the first to notice his frozen form since they were so attuned to each other, while Sebastian was close behind her in being a second later than Jade. "Master Rouge, what's wrong?" She asked in concern.

"Claudia." Was all he said, but it was enough to stop the argument as Will broke off from his argument to rush to Rouge, gripping his shoulders with an expression akin to shock.

"You can hear Claudia?" Will said, his tone half in shock, half in demand. Rouge nodded before putting up a hand to stop the barrage of questions that were starting.

"Everyone, SHUSH! Claudia is currently very weak and I'm having a hard time just listening to her when you guys are being so noisy!" At his sharp tone, everyone kept silent and merely stared at him, hope and worry in his or her eyes. Now that the room was silent, Rouge took a deep breath and carefully answered Claudia mentally.

"Claudia, I'm here. Where are you?"

"It hurts it hurts it hurts!" Claudia merely whimpered in response, her voice laced with pain as she unknowingly passed him her pain.

Rouge winced in response, and it took all his effort not to crumple right there and then as the full volume of the torture reached him. Inside his mind, Claudia screamed again as she was electrocuted. Her pain swept over him once more, and this time he screamed alongside her.

"STOP ITT!" Rouge howled in agony, his hands clutching the sides of his head even as he collapsed into Will's surprised arms.

"What's wrong?" Sebastian asked in worry, feeling disturbed at the sight of the normally cheerful or impassive Rouge in apparent agony. Jade was the one who explained.

"Master Rouge and Lady Claudia are telepaths, which means they can hear what others are thinking and send thoughts of their own into others' minds. Sometimes they can even control your mind if they want to. Right now, Lady Claudia is sending Master Rouge her pain, though whether it's intentional or accidental I'm not sure."

Rouge answered Jade's question. "It's unintentional. She has no idea she's sending me her pain, but – " Before Rouge could speak again, he gritted his teeth as a fresh wave of pain engulfed him.

"Stop it, Red! You can't help yourself if you continue with this! Please tell me where you are! Please!" Rouge shrieked mentally. Claudia must have heard, for her screams lessened to a small whimper.

"I don't know. I have to check… Ok, I have something for you. I'm in some kind of wooden barn, which is black and has a gravel driveway outside. Wait, I have the location. Brace your mind for this." As soon as Claudia finished speaking, a load of information was dumped into his mind. He screwed his eyes shut as he felt the information start to overload his mind. A low whimper slid from his lips even as a nosebleed started.

"Tooo… muuchhh… Toooo… maanannnyy… Ssslloowww… Dddooowwnnn… " He found himself slurring. Then there was a hand, a cold hand to be exact, on his shoulder and another voice ghosted beside his left ear.

"Let me share the burden. Let us do it together." Ciel and Sebastian whispered together. Rouge complied, not that he could resist because by now he was way past any form of resistance. Without further ado, he linked their minds to his and Claudia, sharing what they knew with the two demons. Ciel and Sebastian gasped aloud in shock when they felt the link and information, but did not flinch away, merely tightening their hold.

After what felt like hours, all four collapsed, Claudia passing out since the effort of holding her pain at bay had been too much for her, Rouge staggering into Jade's waiting arms, while the other two merely collapsed onto a sofa. Closing his eyes, Rouge silently made one last connection to Claudia, passing on one last message before he fainted as well.

"Soon, Red, soon. We'll come for you, so hang on for us and we'll destroy our enemies once more and show them what the true anger of the two Roses is. This I swear upon my title as the Black Rose and Rouge!"

Raychaell: Aaand… It's done! Tada! Hope you loved it as much as I did!

William: *mad* You told me Lady Claudia would be safe but she's badly hurt instead!

Raychaell: Oh shush it. Help Jade take care of Rouge instead.

William: Hmph.

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