Hello all, midnightrebellion86 here with another chapter.
Yup, no super long wait in between chapters this time.
Chapter 3 Monsters Among Us AU: Part 3.
Bette and Dot are now settled in Elsa's tent after arriving on the camp grounds. There are two pencils and two notepads placed in front of the two headed woman. Bette, with her huge grin, eagerly grabbed her pencil and notepad and immediately began writing in her diary.
"Dear Diary, I have seen my future," Bette said. "It is pink and wrapped in silk. I never thought my escape from darkness could be so complete. I found myself in the middle of a movie star's palace. Elsa's tent is the epitome of glamour. There is only one law here—the bigger the star, the bigger the tent. Glorious freedom. For the first time in my life, I dare to imagine myself surrounded by beauty.
Dot picked up her pencil and notepad immediately when Bette finished writing in her diary.
"Dear diary, my soul plumbs new depths of despair, " Dot said. "I long for the quiet of the farm. The warmth of my bed, the smell of flowers outside my window. I'm surrounded by a cesspool of activity. No words can do justice to the depravity that permeates the grounds."
After the twins finished writing in their diaries, they got up and left Elsa's tent to go join the others. While hanging out in a smaller tent with the other people, Bette and Dot observes a smaller person holding a chicken. The twins get frightened when the little person bites the head off of the chicken like it wasn't nothing.
A young man sees this, and comes over to the twins. "Hey, don't be scared," The young man said. "Meep just got a little excited. It's not everyday he comes across two beauties in one body."
Bette and Dot blushed at the compliment.
"Hi, I'm Jimmy," The guy now known as Jimmy said. "Jimmy Darling."
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Several hours had passed, and now Bette and Dot were now sitting in Elsa's tent again. A bearded lady by the name of Ethel entered the tent carrying a tray with two bowls of soup. The moment Bette spotted the bearded lady with the food, she didn't hesitate to speak out.
"She won't let me eat." Bette said.
Ethel glared at Dot when Bette told her this. "Stop this foolishness, Dot," Ethel demanded. "You need your strength to perform."
Ethel placed the tray in front of Bette and walked over to a nearby chair and sat down.
"I'm gonna sit here and watch you eat that entire bowl," Ethel said as she pulled her chair closer to the twins. "And you—if you try to stop her, I'm gonna slap your ass silly into next week, swear to god."
Dot just gave Ethel a 'try me' stare, and it didn't sit well with the bearded lady.
"You ungrateful little bitch," Ethel insulted. "After all Elsa's done for you. She rescused the wretched and unloved and gives them a home. That's what she did for you. That's what she did for me."
"She did?" Bette asked in her usual naïve tone.
Ethel then tells Bette and Dot her story on how she got rescued by Elsa.
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Jimmy and Amazon Eve are hanging a banner just outside the camp grounds featuring Better and Dot.
"Up two inches on your side, Evie." Jimmy said.
"Okeydokey, but we're out in the sticks," Eve said. "And this sign is rinky-dink."
"You think everything's rinky-dink." Jimmy said.
Another man with abnormally short arms had a skeptical look on his face. This was Paul. "I don't like this, Jimmy," Paul said in a British accent. "I don't like this at all. Cops already been snooping around once. And now you say they're looking for these two. Should we really be putting up a banner? Whole thing gives me an itch. What if we get raided?"
Paul was taken out of his rambling about the issue with the banner when he heard two sets of footsteps coming from behind him. Paul turned around, and he saw two people that looked exhausted and dirty. The first person was a young woman with beautiful pale skin, mid back dark brown hair and brown eyes. What caught the attention of Paul was the woman's abnormally large ears. The second person was a few inches shorter in stature. He had dark skin, brown eyes and black curly hair. But he had a huge birthmark on his face that was very visible, despite the color of his skin. He was carrying an instrument case.
"Oh my god, these two need some help!" Paul said with urgency in his voice.
This prompted both Jimmy and Eve to turn around.
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Ada and Trey are now sitting on a brown couch inside of a huge red tent. Sitting before them is a woman with curly brown hair and brown eyes, and she is wearing a red fur coat as she holds an opium pipe in one hand. The woman is carefully eyeing the two.
Ada and Trey had since been cleaned up and Trey's wounds were cleaned as well. They now had on new clothes. Trey is now wearing a dark gray wife beater, dark jean shorts that goes down passed his knees and brown shoes.
Ada is wearing a simple short sleeved casual blue dress that stops at the middle of her upper legs.
Elsa offered the two a drag of her opium.
"No thanks." Ada declined in her London accent.
Trey just shook his head no when Elsa stretched the pipe in front of him. She retracted her hand and spotted Trey's carrying case.
"How long have you been playing?" Elsa asked.
"A few years now." Trey stated.
"Well, around here, you earn your keep by performing," Elsa said. "Our next show is already booked, but I expect to hear some music coming out of that thing the day after our show. Now, what are your names?"
"Trey." Trey said.
"I'm Ada." Ada said.
Elsa turned her focus to Ada. "And what can you do, my dear?" Elsa asked.
"I don't know." Ada replied with a bit of nervousness in her voice.
"We'll figure something out," Elsa said. "But for now, go rest up. I need time on my own."
With that, Trey and Ada got up to leave the tent, with Trey taking his baritone horn with him.
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Elsa is now in her tent watching stuff on her projector. Pepper begins cleaning up some leftover mess from earlier. Ethel enters the room, and Elsa takes her attention off of the screen.
"Would you like some help with that?" Elsa asked.
Ethel shook her head. "Not on your life," Ethel replied. "I'm glad to see you taking time to enjoy yourself."
"You spoil me, my darling." Elsa said.
Elsa turns off the projector, but she's interrupted by the angry footsteps of a woman. "I got to get the hell out of here," Penny said with her voice full of venom. "This place is a snake pit! I got to get back to my life, my family, my church, my people!"
Elsa, not happy with the outsider insulting her home, immediately came up with a counter. "The opium does that to you," Elsa stated. "Leaves you in a cranky mood when you smoke too much. But I agree. You should go home now, before you become addicted. Ethel, will you fetch her candy striper uniform?"
Ethel nodded her head and Elsa turned her attention back to Penny.
"We even washed it for you," Elsa said before mumbling a few things to herself in German before turning her attention back over to Penny. "Remember, when you leave here, you say nothing about your time with us."
This didn't sit well with Penny. "Are you nuts?" Penny argued. "I was drugged, ravaged. Everyone needs to know what goes on out here—the real freak show!"
Elsa's blood was boiling now, due to the way Penny was acting. More specifically, calling everyone in her camp freaks. But, somehow, she managed to hold in that boiling rage.
"Oh, no, my darling," Elsa said as calmly as she could. "You are confused. You liked it here with us."
Elsa then shows Penny what had been recorded on the projector. Penny had a look of embarrassment on her face, and she admitted to liking what had happened to her. Elsa then turned off the projector. Penny finally composed herself after a brief moment.
"I'm going to tell everyone about those depraved monsters!" Penny shouted.
Elsa, not able to deal with any more of the girl's insults, finally snapped. "I'll tell you who the depraved monsters are!" Elsa shouted at the top of her lungs. "The monsters are those on the outside that look at us as nothing but an oddity. Now, get out of my sight!"
With that, Penny rushed out of the big top to head back to where she came from. Once Penny was out of sight, Elsa took a puff of her opium to calm herself down.
Pepper had finished helping Ethel with cleanup, and she had come back and was holding Ma Petite. Pepper put the small woman down, and she came running to Elsa.
"Miss Elsa, Miss Elsa!" Ma Petite called in her wee voice. "A chauffeur in a big car came and bought out the whole show tonight!"
Elsa let out a laugh as a huge smile crept onto her face. She was now over her bad mood from the argument with Penny. "No!" Elsa said with excitement. "What did your Fraulein Elsa tell you? I knew it would work. That banner is bringing them in. Those twins, and hopefully that man with the permanent mask and that big eared girl will save us."
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Morning had come and everyone was in the food tent enjoying breakfast that Ethel had made. The breakfast for the day was scrambled eggs, bacon, hash browns and pancakes. Elsa and Ethel were busy talking amongst each other at one of the smaller tables, the pinheads were busy twirling their spoons in the air and laughing, a woman with no legs by the name of Suzy was busy talking to Amazon Eve, Meep had just bitten the head off of another chicken, splattering blood on the ground just outside the tent.
Paul and Jimmy were busy hanging out and talking to each other about something, but the newcomers, which consisted of Bette, Dot, Ada and Trey were at a table by themselves. Bette had her usual naïve smile on her face, while Dot just looked at Ada and Trey, doing her best to determine if they were even worth a second of her time.
"So, are you both performing in the upcoming show?" Trey asked the two headed woman.
"No." Dot said flatly.
"Miss Elsa hasn't given us anything to perform yet," Bette added with a little more life in her voice. "We're new, just like the both of you."
Dot, not liking Bette's openness snapped. "Bette, shut up," Dot snapped. "Don't tell the whole damn world that we're gonna be stared at like a damn newspaper."
Ada let out a small giggle at Dot's snarky attitude, which didn't go unnoticed by Dot herself.
"And what are you laughing at?" Dot asked. "Elsa didn't give you anything yet, either. But I'll be damned if we're gonna be anyone's training monkey."
"I take it you like the quiet more, Dot." Ada guessed.
Dot couldn't help but smile at Ada catching on to her. "I like her." Dot said telepathically.
"You need to smile more often, sister." Bette relayed back mentally.
"And you need to quit being so damn gullible, sister." Dot argued back.
Trey and Ada looked at the twins with puzzled looks on their faces. They hadn't heard a single word the two were saying to each other. To them, the twins were just being silent. Ada was bout to say something, but they were interrupted when both Paul and Jimmy came over to their table.
"Hey, are you two alright?" Jimmy asked Ada and Trey. "You both looked exhausted when we found you, yesterday."
"Yeah, I'm fine," Ada said in her cute London accent. "Thank you for asking."
Paul, realizing that the girl had a similar accent as his, decided to join the conversation. "Hey, my name is Paul," The man with the very short arms said. "This is Jimmy."
"Nice to meet the two of you." Ada said.
"So, what are you guys performances in the show tonight?" Trey asked.
Paul let out a little chuckle before replying. "Well, my friend, that you'll have to wait and see tonight." Paul replied.
"Okay." Trey said back.
Jimmy was busy admiring Bette and Dot one moment then the next, his eyes was on Ada. Ada was now wearing a different casual dress that showed much of her legs. But due to her sitting down, the dress rolled up to her thighs, making it look shorter than it really was. Not only that, she had her right leg crossed over her left. A bit of drool escaped from the mouth of Jimmy. The staring didn't go unnoticed by both Dot and Ada.
"Jimmy, are you just going to stand there in dreamland, or are you going to talk?" Dot asked bluntly.
Jimmy's face turned red with embarrassment, and knowing that he was caught, he immediately moved his eyes away from Ada's legs.
"Oh, sorry," Jimmy said as he wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth. "I was just thinking about the show tonight."
"Sure you were." Ada said, knowing that was a total lie.
Breakfast had ended smoothly, and everyone helped with cleanup. After breakfast, Trey, went to go hang out with Paul and Amazon Eve. Ada, being the curious one, wanted to know the motives of Jimmy, so without him knowing, she followed him off the camp grounds.
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Ada had elected to use her long hair to hide her large ears, and she had just made it to a medium sized gray house, just a half a mile away from the camp grounds. Jimmy had his motorcycle parked behind the house. Ada tiptoed her way to one of the nearby windows of the house.
She peered in, and saw several women getting undressed. But more importantly, she saw Jimmy remove his gloves, revealing lobster claw like hands. Ada, being one with abnormally large ears, didn't get grossed out by the deformed hands, but what did get her sick, was what came next. He used his clawed hands to finger each of the women, and they were leaving money for him. Due to her recent failed relationship with her now ex-boyfriend, Alex, Ada now had a different opinion of Jimmy.
Ada had stood there for awhile, and was completely unaware of Jimmy on his way out the door. When she finally came to, she saw Jimmy heading for the backdoor, so she immediately took off running as fast as she could back towards the camp grounds.
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Trey was sitting with Bette and Dot out in the open field, away from the tents and enjoying the Florida sun. Well, more like Dot was cranky, but Bette had a huge smile on her face.
Trey turned his attention to the head on the right. "Are you ever in a bad mod, Bette?" Trey asked.
"No, she isn't." Dot replied, speaking for her sister.
"Before I came here, I used to sit in open fields all day and play my baritone horn." Trey said.
"You play an instrument?" Bette asked with excitement in her voice. "Can we hear you play?"
Dot growled at Bette, which made Trey laugh. "That blunt attitude of yours is funny," Trey said. "But I like it."
Dot let a rare smile come to her face. "Thank you, Trey," Dot said gratefully before turning her attention to her sister. "At least someone likes me for who I am."
"So, what were your lives like before coming here?" Trey asked.
"We'd rather not talk about that right now." Dot said sternly.
"It's fine," Trey said. "Sorry I asked.
Trey got up from where he was sitting.
"I gotta go help move some things in the big tent," Trey said. "And Bette, you're cool, too. So don't feel left out."
This made Bette's already wide grin grow wider with pride. "He called me cool!" Bette said with her usual excitement.
"Shut up, and let's get going." Dot said as they stood up from their seat to follow Trey.
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Ethel and Jimmy are now inside of Jimmy's caravan, and Ethel is counting money that Jimmy just gave her. Ethel frowned at the meager amount of money that was placed in front of her.
"Eighteen dollars, that's all?" Ethel asked with disappointment in her voice.
Jimmy just laughed at his mother's response to the small amount of money. "One of them finished so fast, I felt bad charging at normal price." Jimmy said.
"Well, nice doesn't pay the bills," Ethel said as she pocketed the eighteen dollars. "Nobody saw you leave, did they?"
"Nope," Jimmy replied. "Left through the back door."
Jimmy frowned a bit when he said this.
"Mama, I'm tired of leaving through back doors, like a common criminal," Jimmy said as he looked his mother in the eye. "We deserve a better life. We all do. We can leave this place."
"Absolutely not," Ethel quickly said. "Elsa's doing the best she can. Times are tough. Thanks to Red Skeleton and Lucille Ball, folks are getting their jollies at home now. We gotta stick together. These are our people."
"Our people are a bunch of drunks." Jimmy argued.
"Carnies drown their sorrows in a little hooch—so what?" Ethel said.
Jimmy, not liking the way the conversation was going, growled a bit under his breath. "So what?!" Jimmy snapped. "They have programs for people like that now. Support groups. I can get them help. A clean start. We can get out of this dump."
Ethel glared at her son. "You watch your mouth." Ethel warned.
"I've had it!" Jimmy shouted as he slammed his fists against the table. "I want out! There's got to be a place somewhere, anywhere! We can buy a tract of land on the cheap. We could plant crops, live off the land."
"What, so now you're Moses leading the Israelites?" Ethel asked.
"Well, why not?" Jimmy asked. "I want a normal life."
"There is no normal for us, Jimmy," Ethel said. "You want to be a hero, go talk to those twins. Make 'em eat. Make 'em like it here. But no flipper action."
With that, Ethel left Jimmy's caravan.
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It was nighttime, and Jimmy had finally decided to come out of his caravan after thinking long and hard about what he and his mother had talked about earlier. However, Jimmy was taken out of his thoughts when he heard the faint voice of Bette betting someone to get away from her. Jimmy, rushed over to the tent that Bette and Dot sleep in. Jimmy stormed into the tent.
"What's going on here?" Jimmy demanded.
A policeman turned his attention away from the twins to face Jimmy. "I gotta thank you," The policeman said. "That sign you freaks put up helped me find my two main suspects."
The policeman then pulled out a pair of handcuffs and made his way over to the twins.
"Bette and Dot Tattler, you're under arrest for murder." The police said before cuffing the twins.
Bette's face tensed up in agony from the handcuffs. "That hurts. It's too tight." Bette complained as tears welled up in her eyes.
Jimmy, not liking what was going on, decided to intervene. "Now, hold on just a second, detective," Jimmy said. "Bette and Dot are victims, too. They were stabbed themselves."
"Is that why they ran from the hospital?" The cop asked.
There was a brief moment of silence, due to Jimmy not being able to come up with an answer.
"Their mother died days before they were attacked, and there was no sign of forced entry at the house," The cop said. "The way I see it, they murdered their mother, and then they tried to cover it up. It wouldn't surprise me if they were involved with the killing at the lake and the Bachman murder."
"Lies," Dot said. "You're telling lies."
"So that's it?" Jimmy asked. "Case closed?"
"Look at 'em." The cop said. "They're monsters. The Jury's gonna have no problem seeing that."
"Don't call them monsters." Jimmy said, anger boiling inside him.
"I call a spade a spade," The cop argued back. "Now, you should get out of my way."
Jimmy just stood tall, and whistled. Paul, Amazon Eve and Trey entered the tent. The policeman immediately noticed Trey.
"Ah, so you finally gave up playing that stupid horn of yours, and joined these freaks." The cop taunted.
"They're not freaks," Trey stated firmly. "They're my friends. And I believe you have two of them in handcuffs."
The policeman let out a chuckle before replying. "Hahaha, that's a good one," The policeman said as he laughed a bit more. "I suppose Alex and his friends didn't beat enough sense into you, then."
"Let them go!" A female voice with a British accent shouted as she rushed into the tent.
The cop turned his flashlight onto Ada, and laughed some more. "Well, I'll be damned," The cop said. "Trey and Alex's trash in the same tent with each other. Stupid freaks."
Jimmy continued to stand firm as Alex and Trey blocked the policeman's path to Bette and Dot.
"I can't let you take them." Jimmy said.
"And who's going to stop me?" The policeman asked as he brought out a gun. "You and your miscreants? Come tomorrow morning, my boys are gonna come over here and run you out of town. There is no place in Jupiter for freaks."
"Don't call us freaks!" Jimmy shouted.
"I'll call you the hell I want to, you freak…" The policeman was cut off.
Jimmy had used his lobster clawed hands to grab the cop by the throat, but Trey had dealt with this cop in the past, so he didn't hesitate to get involved. He kicked the gun out of reaching distance the moment the cop dropped it.
"Jimmy, I have unfinished business with this fucker," Trey stated with anger in his voice. "I think we should make his ass suffer."
Jimmy, now understanding the situation, nodded his head in approval.
"Evie, take his walkie talkie off of him," Jimmy ordered before facing Ada. "Ada, you uncuff Bette and hand Trey the cuffs."
Ada nodded, and took the keys off of the officer, who was still being held by Jimmy's unusually tight grip. The cop went from being cocky to frightened in a heartbeat. Ada uncuffed Bette and Dot and handed Trey the cuffs. Trey then cuffed the policeman, and Jimmy let go of the cop.
"You're not so cocky now, are you officer?" Trey asked.
"Go to hell, Trey." The cop spat.
"Let's tie him to fire pit," Trey said. "But we strip his ass of his uniform. I want that badge as my little trophy."
Jimmy, despite having more seniority over Trey, elected to listen to the fired up man with the birth marked covered face. Everyone surrounded the policeman, and dragged him outside the tent.
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The policeman is now down to his tighty-whities and socks as he lay on his stomach over the firepit. Bette and Dot looked at Trey.
"Now what do we do?" Dot asked.
"We kick his ass, but don't beat him to death," Trey stated. "I want him to feel every last blow that he's about to receive. You may use weapons, but not his gun. The baton is okay, though."
Grins of satisfactory appeared on the faces of Jimmy, Amazon Eve, Paul, Ada, Bette and Dot.
"Ladies first, though." Trey said.
Ada was the first to step up. She grabbed the officer's baton, and she had a look of fury in her beautiful brown eyes. "This is for reminding me of my past." Ada said as she swung with all her might, connecting hard against the officer's nutsack.
"AHH, YOU DUMBO-EARED BITCH!" The cop screamed in agony.
Bette and Dot were next to take a hit on the policewoman. Dot grabbed a tree cherry switch, and she laughed. "I hope you enjoy this, you uniformed bastard." Dot said as she whacked the policeman in the back several times with the switch, leaving several red lines against the man's back.
The cop was screaming in even more agony now. Amazon Eve stepped up next, and due to her strength, she elected to slap the cop several times across the face. The cop spat on Eve, angering the tall woman, and prompting her to punch him in the jaw.
Next up was Paul, but due to his short arms, he settled for kicking the cop in the face a few times. Next up was Jimmy. He used his clawed hands to break the policeman's nose, causing blood to squirt on the cop.
Trey stepped up next, and he was rubbing his hands together in excitement. He picked up a large brick and made his way over to where Ada had done her damage. "Well pig, time to permanently lose your manhood." Trey said as he dropped the brick onto the cop's nutsack.
The policeman let out a blood curdling scream, but Jimmy covered the cop's mouth. Trey then brought out matches.
"Okay, now we burn the fucker alive," Trey said. "Then we piss on his ashes."
Before anyone could protest, Trey lit the match and tossed it on the cop, setting him ablaze.
The cop writhed in agony as he tried with all his might to break free. Jimmy, Bette, Dot, Ada, and Paul looked on in total shock at what Trey had just done. After a little while, the cop was reduced to nothing but ashes, and all that remained of the fire was the smell and that of smoke. Once the smoke was died down more, the males took out their mini me's and began taking a leak on the cop's ashes. Following that, the women did it too, but they had to climb onto the fire pit and squat down to do it. Once that was done, Trey took his tropies, which consisted of the gun, the baton and the badge.
"Well, that sure was eventful," Trey said. "Now, I'm going to go bathe."
With that, Trey made his way back to his caravan. The others looked on at the retreating figure of Trey. They were no longer shocked. But instead, the looks of shock were replaced with that of respect. Ada had a faint blush on her face. No one had ever gone out of their way like that to defend her, nor had she seen someone take action like that for a friend before.
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It was now time for the show to begin, but there were only two people in the audience. There was a young man with a spoiled attitude and an older woman sitting to his left. The older woman turned her attention to the spoiled young man.
"Do you like your seat, dandy?" Gloria asked.
"They're all my seats," Dandy replied in a stuck up tone. "I could sit anywhere I like."
"Yes, you can." Gloria agreed without any hesitation in her voice.
"I like the one you're in." Dandy said.
Gloria laughed a bit before getting up and moving one seat to her left, allowing for her son to obtain her former spot.
"How's that?" Gloria asked.
"Better," Dandy said. "The seat's warm."
"Mother made it all toasty for you," Gloria said. "Can you see okay, darling?"
"There's nothing to see," Dandy said, growing impatient. "Where are the freaks? I'm getting bored. I don't like this, mother."
"Remember what Dr. Peterson said," Gloria stared. "If you allow yourself to become agitated, that nasty rash will come back. You don't want that, do you?"
"Places, everyone!" Paul shouted from backstage.
The stage lights brightened and circus music began to play. Ethel made her from backstage and took the mic. "Ladies and gentleman," Ethel said. "Everything you've heard is true. All that has been advertised is here, under this tent. Wonders. Curiosities. A plethora of the strange, the weird, the bizarre, the unusual! Meet the woman known as the amazon!"
The light beamed on Eve.
"Paul, the eel boy!" Ethel said as the light beamed on Paul. "Lobster Boy! From India, the smallest woman in the world! The pinheads!"
The light beamed down on the announced people before Ethel started again.
"Now, for two new additions, first, meet the Siamese Twins!" Ethel said.
The light beamed at Bette and Dot.
"Meet the woman with big ears!" Ethel announced.
The light beamed at Ada, who just looked a bit nervous.
While this was going on, Dandy had his eye on the twins and on Ada.
"And lastly, the man with the natural mask!" Ethel announced.
The light then beamed at Trey. Once Suzy was introduced, Ethel introduced Elsa, and she sang Life on Mars.
Things were uneventful after the show, save for Gloria and Dandy's failed attempt at buying Bette, Dot and Ada. Dandy stomped out in a huff with Gloria following close behind. The ones that were involved in killing the police had made a pact to not say anything about what happened to anyone.
That's it for this chapter.
I thought I'd summarize the rest of the chapter. I really didn't feel like hearing Jessica Langue sing Life on Mars, although she does a damn good job at it, in my opinion.
I wanted to add to the killing of the cop, because in my opinion, he deserved a more severe death for how he was treating the freaks.
Next chapter, we finally say hello to Dell, Desiree and Maggie. Oh, I can't wait to write the interactions between Dell and Trey. Speaking of Trey, we'll finally hear him play his baritone horn. Well, not literally.
Lastly, thanks to NotMarge and Anja86 for the reviews from last chapter.
Bye for now.