So hopefully this chapter sheds some light on that last one. The italics in the beginning are lines directly from the book.
Shout outs to my first reviewer Sara: You are obviously an awesome person with even awesomer taste (:
Keeper: Oh just wait the plot I wrote for this fic is more complex than any other I've written.
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Disclaimer: This goes for all the following chapters cause' I'm lazy. I own nothing pertaining to KoTLC. All rights to Shannon unless I add another character.
Sophie POV (Flash to the day before)
"The easiest thing would be to kill you and your little friend and be rid of you both. But it's never that easy, is it? Sure it is with you friend. He'll be disposed of soon enough."
"Why? It's me you want. Why don't you just let him go?"
"And cast suspicion on your disappearance? No, we can't have that. Don't worry he wont feel a thing. I'm not a monster after all."
"You're worse than a monster! You kill innocent children!"
Sophie could feel him, his face mere inches from hers, grab her forearms as he breathed in his chilling whisper, "Oh no my dear Moonlark. The Black Swan took away any innocence from you a long time ago." His grip tightened warming her skin to an uncomfortable heat. "If you are so innocent why do you seem to always be in my way?" He twisted her skin tighter. She cried out, sobbing as the horrible smell of burning skin filled the room. "Why do you always fight the Black Swan's battles? If you're so innocent, then why are you their little weapon, their powerful little toy?"
Sophie tried to respond, to beg him to stop, but it took all her will power just to keep from blacking out. "It makes you wonder," Her captor mused, "What they would do if I took their little puppet away?" He leaned in, his lips brushing against her ear, "Permanently."
"I-I don't understand! You're Fintan! You're part of the Black Swan!" Sophie cried desperately. At this the owner of the ghostly whisper began to laugh, a full on maniacal laughter fit. I'm at the mercy of a complete lunatic.
In a last ditch effort she reached out, trying to reach Fitz, transmitting to him for help.
But you're dead.
Not yet. Please Fitz-
She was cut short by someone hitting her head so hard had she not been tied down, she would have fallen out of the chair. "She was transmitting again."
"Oh Sophie, if only you knew." The pyrokinetic sneered. "I'm not going to kill you, my dear." He said as he grabbed her chin with surprising gentleness. "No, I'm going to make you mine. I'm going to turn the Black Swan's own precious weapon against them."
"I will never help you!" Sophie shouted with as much conviction she could muster through her pain.
"Well see now, you don't really have a choice." With a smile in his voice he called out to the telepath who had hit her, "Quinlin, come here and wipe her, will you."
"What? Quinlin? But you-I don't understand! And what do you mean wipe her!"
"Exactly what it sounds like you little brat. Quinlin here is going to wipe you mind. Obviously."
Trying to think over here pounding heart Sophie tried to remind herself they couldn't penetrate her mind. That she was safe. But their confidence was disconcerting. "You know as well as anyone that my mind is impenetrable. You yourself couldn't get past my blocking. What makes you think you can now?"
"Because I've always known how to get in. I was past your barrier that first day! But do you think I wanted to explain that to the council? I'm not an imbecile, Sophie. I'm in there right now." And her heart might as well as stopped right then when she searched her mind and found a trace of his consciousness.
"How?" Sophie didn't try to stop her voice from shaking now. Didn't try to hide her fear.
"I have my ways. Past alliances. But that is neither here nor now. If I were you I would say some goodbyes. You may notice some, absences from your memory rather soon." With that he pressed his fingers onto her bloody temple and before she could utter one more word, she felt her world fall apart.
No, she felt it disappear.
Am I a horrible person? I just realized this entire chapter was a torture scene. And that Sophie has a worse life in any story I've written than in the actual book. Yep. I'm a terrible person. Well I hope it makes good reading. REVIEW. Bye (: