#i tried to put an extra ivory ribbon i had in her hair but i couldn’t do it without it looking stupid 😔

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Rebecca is ready for the new school year and so am I!

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Chapter Eight: Imprisoned hearts, captured memories, Edwin's acceptance  by OrangeLetters88~

"They weren't even Vampires before this experiment! You lied to me Everett. The last one to come in was literally a roofied child. I learned when I was taking blood samples and vitals. This cannot continue." A female voice shrilled.

"It doesn't matter who it is as long as they don't have a track record or if we can erase it. The whole point was to create a more animalistic vampire to take out the vampire community. For now they will live in the cages they are no longer humans, but they can hired out to take out inner vampire dwellings." A deep male voice rang out to pull out needles spilling them to floor while he attempts to open a rusty drawer.

A large cage with a wooden crate inside containing two teen the ages between thirteen and sixteen, both sitting side by side comforting each other as they come out of a complicated surgery after just turning into a vampire; tired their conditions barely sanitary enough to heal them.

"Clarence I feel sick. My head is throbbing...I miss home. I miss my Mom and Dad." His weak voice whispers while he laid his head on Clarence's shoulder.

"It's okay, try to rest even if it's on me." Clarence reassured him till the man who brought them out to operate comes to the cage unlocking it.

"00023-45-37 please come with me." He asks calmly reading notes off a notebook with deep red stains. Clarence gets up following behind. "00069-46-20 you will be next okay?"

He lays his head against the crate that's when he bends over throwing up outside the cage on the man's shoes. He tries to slap Clarence's friend when he catches his arm in the attempt.

"Leave Joseph alone, he is sick cause of you assholes. The most you can do is granting him some humanity." Clarence clarifies shouting. The man backhands him so hard against the bars his head splits. He cries out when a woman comes forth wrapping her body around she pushes her bosom against his face.

The man takes her arm; she struggles to keep her position to protect him. "They are clearly not well."

He pulls her hair so he wails fighting. Clarence feels like his heart is going to explode. Thump, thump his heart goes pumping fast. Thump, thump it goes again like something pulling his head apart from inside before he yells catching their attention.

The woman grabs Clarence. His eyes luminous like opal shining in the sun despite how dark the dingy basement is. She grabs his hands running towards the stairs with him.

"He is a product not a child anymore. I warn you to unhand him to him or I will..."He says brandishing a pistol in front of her with his hands shaking.

"Or you will kill me?" She scoffs continuing to walk hand in hand with Clarence. She collapses on the stairs. "Bastard..."

"I am sorry, but this project cannot get out...00023-45-37 you are no longer human. You are needed for something much bigger than us." He states tossing the gun to the ground.

Clarence bends down to try to pick the woman up, but no avail. She smiles at him. "You will be okay, but you must be strong. I..I am sorry." Tears lace her face in globs her nose running. She lays her head against the head of the stairs before taking her final breathe.

Someone Clarence thought was his savior even for a moment even made him give up in despair. "I will come with you if you allow me to bury her at least...she deserves that least."

"00023-45-37 I will agree to your terms, if you come silently." He beams like nothing happened. Clarence sticks his hand out waiting for the man to take him through his abandon he looks down one more time in silent prayer at the lady wishing even more so deeply she never tried to help them at all.

"All hope must be extinguished of ever getting out. Hope is useless in the castle Edwin." Joseph was talking to a maid dressed in traditional European dress from 1800's. He picks up a bowl of ice water with white dish towel.

Alex sits up against the pillow in shock. Dressed in a white nightgown, his face flushed, but his cheeks glowing red with sickness. Joseph pushes him back down when he notices the shackles on his hands able to only spread apart arm's length wise pulling them taught.

"Shhh now my pet, you are sick. Welcome home." Joseph explains softly.

Dabbing Alex's forehead with a cold wet towel before pressing it against him longer letting it settle there, Joseph adds more pillows and closes the curtain. Another maid comes in with two large vials of blood.

Powerless he accepts his current position watching Joseph attentive to his beckon. "Please let me..."

Joseph downs the vial to go in to kiss Alex feeding him the blood like a helpless child. He presses his chained hands against the head of the bed straddling himself on top forcing him into submission with his tongue down his throat with intense French kissing. Joseph puts his hands under his back to prop him up to support his hands lifting Alex's shirt grabbing his sides.

Repulsed Alex shoves Joseph away. He leans over face red staring at the bed. Joseph kisses his forehead. He looks up at him saddened. "Joseph please tell me where Alice is. Please set me free."

"Invalid requests my sweet pet. You are here for life. I ask you get used to your chains and nightly visits. You actually holed up in a jail suite. You may get called out once in a while to walk around. Eat with us. We can date around my cute little pet." Joseph explains nearly thrown off balance with feelings of romance that hung heavy in the air.

Alex looks away demoralized when Joseph grabs his cheeks pulling him forward to kiss gently. "Yes Master...please keep me safe under your wing." Alex says softly with a sigh.

"Oh Master...I like that. For now I need to go. One more vial of blood sits on the window seal. Use it wisely my Darling." Joseph responds before shutting and locking the doors behind him.

"There is no hope of escape it seems..." Alex says to himself looking around the large room. The room includes a night pot. A basin filled with steaming hot water. Almost nothing modern is in the room. His clothes, phone, keys and wallet looked like they confiscated.

He sits in a dressing gown meant for sleep time. They truly wanted him to have no outside comforts.  His four walls that surround him a proper sitting window, a cushy bed all dressed in ivory white.

He gets out of bed checking the small cabinet, but it is all filled with extra nightgowns and dressing for wounds. He taps the floors and walls in case, but nothing. He sits on the bed to realize under the pillow there is a couple books to read, but is in no mood so he moves them to the window seal by the vial of blood.

He lies in the bed for what it seems hours gone by. A maid unlocks the heavy bolts on the door. Another maid dressed in navy blue with small ribbons printed in her dress bows. "You are being asked to come down. Please follow me sir."

Alex's chains clank going down the stairs. A long corridor by the stairs leads into the kitchen. Edwin and Joseph are seated drinking casually with small dishes in front of them consisting of shrimp risotto, vegetable soup, cut apples in a basket and dinner rolls.

The maid stands behind where a clicking is heard. Alex becomes aware of the fact she is holding an antique blisset, 50 caliber coat pistol. "My friend this is just reassurance. You are already chained like a dog. I can assume right away you have no will to fight me...you feel humiliated right?"

"N-no Master..." Alex stutters. The maid puts the gun down smiling.

"No worries sir. I was under no obligation to fire at you. Just to scare you a little here and there, but always to keep you in check." She responds with a slap on the back. "Loosen up sir!"

Alex laughs a little, but his stomach was in tangles. Being marched in front of his captors like a slave, he decides to look ahead so as not to anger or attract their attention if he looks around.

Alice comes down in a beautiful baby blue gown with gold embossing. Holding the edges of the bottom of the gown only to drop it on the floor with the notice of the guest in chains, Alex could feel the aura around her; she officially has become the sheath.

Her hair a lighter shade, her eyes sparkled. Her fangs almost receded. She was happy and blissful and unaware of her situation. "Oh Edwin, who is this gentlemen, why is he shackled like this in a nightgown; so young and kind of cute looking, but surely there is a reason you would do something like this. Please explain yourself."

"He is not our prisoner, but for now he needs restraint dear Alice. He is dressed nicely. We cleaned his wounds also is Joseph's partner. This is merely a formality." Edwin specifies.

"Then there is no need for chains on him then. Please hand me the keys. "Alice demands holding her hand out. Edwin decides to play along and let her have the key. She unlocks Alex's chains accidentally touching his hands in the process. A wave of feelings comes over her for a moment. She withdraws.

His warm touch eased her heart. She smiles then quickly disengages stepping aside.

He rubs his wrists, but acknowledges they are going back on.

The maid picks the shackles up glaring at Alex and then back at Edward who nods. He pulls a seat out for Alice before sitting back down allowing her to be seated.

Edwin and Alex locked in contact. "Before we dine I will go over some rules for your pet Joseph."

"Oh my, please follow house rules pet or you will be whipped. The dungeon in located downstairs by the way in which you will un-willfully be punished by me and in truth I don't want too, but if I need too I will." Joseph discloses with stars in eyes.

Alex shudders at the thought instantly. Flashes of the earlier event with his hands going up to his chest had him inch back from the table even further wanting to already escape, but where?

"You know you had been under the fever curse so long we didn't know you would make it through or not. Half the night you were comatose even worse than a vampire who had not had blood in a long time.  Joseph sat holding your hand praying." Edwin says thoughtfully.

"Are you serious? He was under the fever curse?" Alice asks. She sticks the palm of her hand out closing her eyes. "He is still inflicted...he could easily go back into it. He needs treatment. I will make rounds later."

"So kind Ms. Alice's heart is. We will have maids assist you. You know what. No need for rules today. You need to feel better first." Edwin says with the clap of his hands. The maids thrust him up the steps and back into the bedroom.

The door slams after they re-shackle Alex dead bolting the door. "Something definitely happened..."

It's the middle of the night, the full moon is out. He see's black silhouettes in the courtyard, but no sounds. He decides to close the curtain and sleep in case he needs the energy. Afraid to use the vial of blood he stashes it away in the drawer.

"Alex...Alex!" The voice says. He jumps up afraid it is Joseph.

"A-A-Alice!" his teeth chatters. She puts her hand over his mouth to quiet him. She grabs his chains to muffle their sound bringing his hands towards her.

"I can't remember much other than your name. A maid will be coming soon with medicine as I requested. I came something about you felt warm. I wasn't lying when I said you were still inflicted with the curse like you were meant to stay under it." Alice explains quickly when the maids bring needles, powders and pills.

She squeezes Alex's hand before taking the needle and dropping it on the ground breaking it. Her sensitivity to what was contained attracted Edwin to the room.

"Alice, are you okay my Darling?" Edwin asks lifting her hand bleeding from the broken glass.   Alice is shown from the room never allowed to return from that point on.

The days seem to melt one into another for Alex. He is certain he caught on to Alice knowing something. The maids would drop vials of blood off to just keep him alive, but depression set in so he starts to neglect his health lying in bed most of the time.

A maid cries out when he faints at the door instead of retrieving his serving. Joseph fluffs his pillows making him comfortable. His glassy eyes peers up at his detainer through blurred vision, he finds he is so weak even the comforts of his hands are nice. Alex clutches his fingers and starts to cry.

Joseph's expression softens seeing Alex sobbing. He kisses his forehead gingerly. Edwin gently knocks on the door before coming in. "He can't even stand...my poor pet..." he wipes Alex's tears away with his index finger.

"The psychological torture of being in the room all the time may have hurt his health!" Alice scolds stomping her feet.

"Shush Alice. We're assessing what to do now." Edwin says examining. Joseph gives him puppy eyes. A maid hands him a syringe. Steadying his hands he slowly pushes the blood into his mouth into small amounts till it is emptied.

Alex falls asleep shortly after holding Joseph's hands. Alice stands behind worried, but not sure why she is worried.  "I will feed him weekly myself for now on. It seems he is lonely. I didn't realize he could be so sad like this..."

"You are a horrible owner then if he is your pet to leave him in seclusion Joseph. You could at least read him stories or talk to him..." Alice says hitting him on the head with her fist.

"I will check on him tomorrow for another feeding. The nurses will check his vitals long into the night to make sure he is stable. I don't understand this feeling Alice. I was practically raised in a cage till about age twenty. The warmth my pet is looking for is unusual to me."  Joseph expresses sobbing into hands.

"The word you are looking for Joseph is scared. You are sad and scared for your pet." Edwin states scrutinizing the wardrobe where he slings out the extra nightgowns on the grown breaking all his hidden vials of blood he decided to not consume.

Aggravated and mad, but understanding of why Alex would put his vials in the drawer. "Maids please clean this up. NOW! Do not leave a shard and Joseph you take responsibility for Alex or you will kill him for his blood. This is nonsense!" Edwin shouts as he steps over shards.

"Yes Edwin. Please forgive me. I will take better care of him." Joseph almost stutters. He decides to stay with Alex the night while the maids come in and out. Alex wakes while a nurse takes vitals.

He rolls his head to the side to take notice of Joseph. "Master...you stayed with me." He breathes

"You truly believe me as your master don't you...?" Joseph responds embracing Alex in a hug. He smiles back clinging to him before he settles him back down in the bed.

Joseph rubs his hands down Alex's neck before biting. His sheer aroma was enough to send him into a frenzy of sexual excitement exchanging a bloody kiss longingly. Alex allows him this time to lift his nightgown off.

"So he is your boyfriend isn't he Joseph? Anyways Edwin calls for your presence. Get dressed lover boy." Alice says trying to embarrass him. He was more than happy to stand in front of Alice in the buff to prove he was not shy about his body.

She turns away in gales of laughter. Finishing he comes back to kiss Alex once again in a flurry of desperation before dressing. He drapes Alex in his nightgown once again coxing him to rest. His neck still dripping, a nurse designated maid comes in catches sight of the neck marks. Covering them with a large Band-Aid, she detects a different air about him as he reaches for Joseph's hand.

"Goodbye for now my Darling pet." He says with a kiss.

The maid helps Alex out of bed temporarily sitting him on the adjacent chair across from him. He sits patiently. She peaks over to make sure he is un-moving. She changes the sheets and blankets wrapping them into a bundle and tossing them into a pile across the room.

"Alex..." She asks with one eye open.

"Yes Ma'am?"  

"You love your master Joseph don't you?" She questions. Putting down new pillows, his chains nervously clank at the question. She is slightly astonished.

"Yes Ma'am, I was punished because I did not accept his love. He did not visit me till I was down on myself. Now he is back and I am happy to give myself to him." Alex's eyes wide almost convulsing. She touches his hand to stop the shaking.

"Look Alex..." The maid stops momentarily thinking. "I need to give you your bath." She says smiling.

He follows her from behind to the private bath. She unlocks the shackles tossing them to the side. She lifts his nightgown washing him and dressing him in a new night shirt.

She gently pushes him down on the bed. She tosses the sheets on top of him. "Hands please..." She re-shackles the cuffs on his hands before turning the light off.

Alex can hear the locks turn on the door. He sits up. "Is this the torture Alice once felt on behalf of my old clan?" He whispers to himself. "Just a little more even if he violates my whole body..."

He wraps his arms around his shoulders dipping leaning down. "The stop watch...did I drop it too..."

Alex begins to cry softly. The tears feel unending as he bends grabbing the sheets. He looks up seeing Alice open the door. "I heard you crying Alex. Are you okay?"

"Yes Master..." Alex responds humbly.

"You don't have to lie to me like you do to Edwin and Joseph. I am not stupid like they are." Alice says sitting by his bedside at the chair.

"N-no...no master, I can't form my own opinion. My life is Masters..." Alex says in a small voice laced in despair.

"Then I will protect you, please trust me please. If I can find a way out for you then I will. I promise! After all were all vampires!" Alice responds with the biggest smile. She waves going out through the door.

"Impossible...you are in a mental cage yourself Alice..." He whispers sitting back.

Around six o clock am Joseph and the maid drop by. "The maid told me you were a good pet. You let her do her job and leave.  Later we will take a walk and have some hi-tea. Right now I will watch you take your weekly supply of blood."

The maid hands him his vial. He downs it handing it back to the maid. "You may follow behind us once sir."

Alex silently accompanies Joseph and the maid. This time he is allowed to sit at the same table as Edwin, Joseph and Alice. Slightly flustered at his chains and nightgown when everyone else is dressed in eggplant purple and gold; Edwin hands Alex a cup of dandelion tea and a couple cucumber sandwiches.

"You look much better Alex." Edwin compliments him.

Alex doesn't feel hungry so nudges the tea and food a couple inches away in a way for the first time the smell of human food makes him sick. "Thank you master..." he says with a blank expression. "Master may I go back to my room?"

"A maid will escort you." Edwin says ringing a small table bell.

Getting back to the bedroom he throws up in night pot. Something about the smell of food sets him off. Alice throws the door open. "I made an excuse to come here. I learned they taint your blood portions that are why you are throwing up! It's partly digested blood of the dead instead of fresh blood. I have to get you out of here!"  

Alex drapes over the night pot kneeling. "Alice, I don't think I can...get up anymore. She swoops down having him piggyback on her. He wraps his chains around her neck to get comfortable. She holds his legs firmly so she can walk.

Trudging down the stairs Joseph meets them at the bottom. "Get out of my way Joseph! He needs help!"

Edwin slaps Alice in a fit of rage. "Whatever Joseph does with his pet is not your business Alice. He may have accidentally given him the wrong blood. We don't know the story."

Joseph picks Alex up from Alice's back. She is heartbroken seeing his appalling treatment. His blank stare eats at her heart.

"Yes Edwin...I am sorry. Please forgive me." She glances at Edwin before lifting his hand and softly kissing the rings on his knuckles. Caressing his hand with her reddened cheek, tears fall; Edwin looks up at her.

"Look, he will be okay. It's okay you felt scared for Alex. It is only a natural emotion. I assure I did not mean to make you cry. It is me who should be asking for your forgiveness." Edwin says feeling some sort of confusing sympathy towards Alice.

"I assure you...it was a mistake. One of the maids may have mixed up one of the vials with mine. I would purposely not try to poison him. "Joseph annoyed turns toward Alice once more. "I ask you stop taking pity on a pet."

His expression almost heartless despite his words, back inside Alex's bedroom he lays him down considerately. "I am sorry master...I did not want to go I promise it won't happen again..."

"I know pet...I could tell by how sickly you looked that you would not have." Joseph says in a tender voice. He cups his cheek. "We will talk later alright? You just need rest."

"Yes master..."

The light goes out; Alex stares into the half-moon displayed in front of his window before drifting off to sleep. He is standing in darkness when he sees a very young Joseph cross his path running.

"00069-46-20 has progressed quite well. He is now age eighteen and has adapted to being a hybrid vampire. He takes missions without further complaints anymore. They sleep like animals on crates without the needed guide of the cage anymore." Says a man in a grey suit watching 00023-45-37 and 00069-46-20 talk to a newly turned captive female crying, she is crying uncontrollably.

Her face swollen from the pain of the surgery 00023-45-37 is comforting 00046-47-50. She is much younger by far and scared. She was granted the iron pressed collar which is tagged and chipped like the other two. "My name is Sarah...no one should be named numbers!" She cries out. She was also human before the experiments.

The days ahead she would be beaten into using her name made of numbers. To forget her human name to her would be to destroy her humanity and she would not let that happen against her new nature.

00023-45-37 would end up taking the brunt of many of the fights ahead defending her reasoning.

"Alex can you hear me?" the voice echoes thunderous tone.

He looks around when they all stopped moving. "Vepar?"

"You look like absolute hell, but I have healed you of your poisoning. You might not have made it through the night. You been so muddled I haven't been able to reach you. You have lived as a pet for almost twenty five days...but you also don't have my scriptures so I cannot fully help you as much as I would like too, but I can manifest to you a key." Vepar explains.

"You are my Master Vepar, I am glad for any help you were to have given me. I feel much better. When I can I will send my blessings to you. Right now everything has been taken from me including my life." Alex says bending down over the images that just disappear.

"Your clan is looking for you. Don't give up. I will help you when I can as well. Just keep me in your heart." Vepar states with courage in his voice.

"Thank you so much Vepar!" Alex shouts. He suddenly had awoken. Alice holding his head up with a teacup full of water in attempts to get him to drink.

"Oh you are awake. Are you okay? I am sorry I barged in, but I couldn't stop thinking how you needed help." Alice says blushing.

"It's okay Master. I am okay now." Alex responds timidly. Knocks on the window spook them. Alex runs over trying to push the window up, but to no avail. Christian tries his best to push the window open from his side. Alex slams his weight against the glass.  

They both shrug at each other. Christian signals he will temporarily leave pointing down. Alex doesn't want him caught. Reacting fast to the situation Alex fake faints in Alice's arms dragging her to the floor. The door bangs open.

"He fainted dear Edwin! I was only trying to give him water!" Alice shouts. Edwin observes the tea cup spilled on the ground.

"We saw someone on the grounds running away from this spot. Did you see anyone?" Edwin questions.

"No Darling. I need help bringing Alex on the bed though. Please help me. I will look with you after if you need me to do so." Alice insists pouting in a cute voice.

"No need Alice my sweet...you are kind and do not need your hands dirtied." Edwin says helping Alice before leaving. The door is slighted. Alex sits up shocking her.

"Alex, were you faking it?" She whispers.

"Of course, but the last days I have not. I had been pushed to brim. I truthfully don't know how much longer I can take...my true master is entity Vepar. No one here has that right to take my humanity away from me..., but they have and I am losing it." Alex confides back.

Alice gets images in her head suddenly of him from a hill lying from what seems to her a deathbed in cold rain on the hard cement. Abruptly she intertwines her fingers between his. The two share a passionate kiss under the moonlight night.

"I know you...more and more we interact I feel like you are home, but I don't know why...please Alex tell me why I know you..." She pleads.

He looks down nervously. "I am the one who turned you into a vampire. Not Edwin Alice, but I don't expect you to believe me. It's why I never said anything..." Alex says feeling guilty.

Alice gets up to leave knowing she cannot stay long term in his room. "I think...I love you...even if it's not that me I was. I will be back later." Alice sighs. The door closes, he hears the click of the lock and he is once again alone, but his heart filled with so many stars that his chest feels heavy.

A glare from an object under the cabinet hits his eyes. Alex gets up to retrieve it thinking someone dropped something. He gasps picking up the watch. "Vepar..." He clutches it tightly. "I can save you Alice...I love you..."

Through his tears he feels happier than he ever has in this hell hole as a prisoner. He felt hopeful in hopelessness.

The next day he is roused to wake immediately upon warm hands going up through the sides of his chest. Kisses going downward while Joseph gets a hold of his chains pinning him against the bed working his way up he caresses Alex's lips with an intensity till Alice takes a sling shot hitting him in the back of his head for fun.

"Don't leave the door open if you don't want me bothering you Brother Joseph!" She announces. "Might I add were supposed to meeting clients. Your pet can wait till later loser!"

"When are we not meeting clients? Who is on schedule today?" Joseph asks growling.

"Mr. Rico from the Mexican quarters is hoping to make a pact with Edwin today. He doesn't want me to come though...am I a pest Brother Joseph?" He gets up from on top of Alex to pat Alice on the head.

"Lil Sis, you will never be a pest, just these pacts are important is all. I must have just forgotten." He locks the door taking off.

Alex hears muffled talking which disperses quickly. He decides to sit at window closing his eyes feeling the heat from the noon sun eventually he ends up leaning into it. Joseph slowly opens the door to see Alex sleeping against the window on the large seal.

A pang of guilt gushes over him. Walking over to him he lifts him up with ease. Alex gazes up. "Yes Master? Please do what you wish with me."

"I think I will just let you rest today. I see you are getting used to your life here my love." Joseph responds embracing Alex.

"Yes Master, peaceful days..." Alex says softly.

00046-47-50 is seen running out of Alex's bedroom door like a ghost. Her laughter, smiles, her presence is heard right down to her pale smell of lime perfume.

Joseph stands perfectly still. "Master, are you okay?"

"Did you see that?" Joseph muttered afraid.

"No Master...what happened?" Alex says with a smile. He can feel Joseph shake. He sets Alex down on the bed sitting beside him looking at the door.

"Nothing my pet...I think I am just tired."

Alex wraps his arms around Joseph for comfort he responds back. He decides a kiss on the head is good enough for now.

"Do you not love me enough Master?" Alex sneaks a grin.

Joseph becomes more animated going in for a more loving kiss; Alex wraps his hands around Joseph's neck pulling him down. "I want Master to have eyes for only me. Alice is trying to take you from me." He wistfully and playfully says.

"No, no my love, she is Edwin's. Not mine. I am sorry I am always busy. I will find more time for my pet okay? Be a good pet for master okay?" Joseph stares forward getting up. "Master must go now. I love you...I promise." Joseph spouts more passionately then Alex has ever heard from someone like this.  

Alex found himself blushing as soon as the door shuts to a click. "But...I don't love you Joseph...I can never love my captors...I will never..." He whispers under his breathe feeling unsettled.

"Alex can you hear me? This is Ida. This transmission won't be long. Christian was testing the area so we can infiltrate. Tell me you are okay Alex."

"I am okay for now, but I am constantly being watched. I am being treated like a pet here. My freedom is restricted and Alice has memories of us. She has become the sheath, but we do not know when Edwin plans to strike using the vorplal blade." Alex tries to get so much information in.

"Over...be careful and take care of yourself. Christian says he saw you in chains, can you confirm you are getting enough blood in your consumption?"

"Only enough one vial every five days, Ida...I really miss you all. I am so lonely here...I don't know how much more I can stand of this life. I am forced to degrading myself for a mad man who is always boy horny."

"Hang in there a little more Alex please. Christian says man up and take one for the home team!"

"This is daily! Shut up Christian! Anyways thank you..." Alex starts to cry. Ida can hear him clearly.

"I a-am sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry Alex!" Ida responds in his distress. He cries even harder. "I got to go, but everyone says they love you. Please stay strong through this hard period. Transmission out."

With that there was silence again. He feels the emotional rush of loneliness. He would find himself lying on the window seal more after that gauging his surroundings outside.

He has taken note that window is glued closed or was made to be unable to be open. The glass is not easily dented. Rapping his knuckles against the window once again he knows they are newly installed before Edwin had planning their long term stay.

He winds the watch in case, this is no average watch. He pushes it under his pillow for safety. When people come it detects their hearts. When the key inserted it will revive Alice and can retrieve the vorpal blade, but right now everything is about timing.

The books he finds useless so time to time he would tear a page out producing origami figures in shapes of animals and hearts biding his time. His feedings are forced and no longer is given vials on their own.

For the first time Alex hears the doorbell ring. Checking his positioning he recognizes the car from the distance. His heart beats fast. He scatters to the window seal to make it seem he does not know anything.

The maids open the door to his room. They carry massive decorative metal spears which cross when walking or if he stops.

Alex is brought to a small room. The door is left open. Edwin sits in his chair with Joseph flanked to the back standing. Christian sits in the adjacent chair with Clarence in the tail by Alex.

Christian sits with his legs folded holding Alex's book. "You have my Master Edwin. Even more the fact you thought we weren't smart enough is insulting." Christians says with a sneer on his face.  

"It isn't I didn't think you were smart enough. I just didn't care...besides he is now a pet not a master to anyone. Isn't that right Alex?" Edwin challenged Alex.

Alex clenches his teeth. "I..Y-yes master..." Alex responds looking down. Christian appalled gets up when Clarence scolds him.

"Christian please sit down now!" Clarence shouts. "Edwin, you have Alice and Alex and I demand clearance to both. Surely we can make a pact so we can get them back."

"How can Christian make a pact when he is not the leader? I have his leader. I have grown fond of humiliating him when I can. I do not have to give that up just because you feel like it." Edwin turns his in aggravation.

Alice peaks up behind Alex. A glimpse of Christian and Clarence send her headaches. She withers to the floor seeing Christians smile; she remembers the taste of his blood in her mouth the first time. She recalls how Clarence feels from when he caught her at the end of the cliff.

Edwin gets up seeing Alice black out. Alex reaches down to pick her up. "You filthy dog, you are demon and you would never understand what Alice means to me Alex. A wretched cur doesn't deserve her love."

Clarence moves the maids aside who blush seeing him. Joseph about to rope a collar over him stops dead in his tracts. Edwin is speechless.

"I am no one's pet Joseph. Edwin she is not your Alice!" Alex laments pushing the key into the watch.  Their surroundings disintegrate. All of them inside of a bottle where they are small, Alice is gone. Edwin snaps Alex into fever curse as revenge at arrival. "Take my suffering!" Christian goes into to kick Edwin who is about to snap again. He backs down.

Joseph beats on the interior of the glass. They all seem trapped. Christian shakes Alex. "Wake up man. You can't do this now when we come for you."

"Edwin you literally think everything is a game and only for you don't you?" Clarence questions. "Joseph, give me the damn keys!"

"And what if I refuse?"

"Then I will beat your ass right here and now since we literally have nowhere else to go!" Clarence shouts pulling him up by the collar. Joseph tosses Christian the keys unlocking his chains freeing his hands from their limited position.

"You had to dress him like tabernacle choir boy? Nothing speaks more attractive then cult white apparently!" Christian fumes. "Edwin reverse the spell you bastard! Have you not tortured him enough?

"Shut up, we have more pressing matters. I refuse to undo the spell." Edwin looks up seeing the Queen of hearts. She taps the glass.  

"I have been waiting for you Edwin, hello to his little friends." She says releasing them on the floor. They automatically take normal size. "Edwin, you are no longer the Cheshire cat and soon you will no longer have those inter-dimensional abilities to spells automatically."

"What are you talking about? What is happening to Wonderland?" Edwin asks concerned.

"Wonderland is dying. Dear Cheshire cat. I ask you back for vorpal blade so a new cycle can start. It is written whatever was will be again. Maybe they won't be us, but they will be another Wonderland. The Queen must perish soon...we don't have much time left." Alice explains holding her hands out.

A tear runs down his face. "I can't...if I do then none of this will have ever happened. I wanted Alice all for myself..." Edwin drops to his knees. Bringing the sword up to his chest, holding it with all his might; the queen takes notice of Christian holding Alex.

"Be still for you have suffered, but I will not allow you to suffer anymore. When Alice puts the sword into the large opening in the middle of the garden then everything will be gone Edwin. Please accept your name because that name is forever yours." She points out.

She kneels down hugging Edwin gently lifting the sword from his hands. They follow behind Alice in the garden maze now made of thorns and ash.

Alice takes the blade pushing it into the stone mount, everything begins to crumble. "Edwin when I am reborn please seek me out. I am sure will be your friend this time around."

He grabs for her hand and then nothingness. They all re-appear in Edwin's house. Edwin snaps and then snaps again. Nothing comes of it.

"Your power is gone Master!" Joseph says disheartened.

"It's okay, we need to live for ourselves now..." Edwin responds softly. He walks over to Alice who is with Christian on the floor. "Look I am sorry; I had made you think I am your brother or lover. I wanted so badly to bask in your presence in doing so I hurt you."

Alice hugs Edwin. "You could have just asked me. You didn't need to play dollhouse like this. I forgive you, but Alex...you don't have your powers anymore..."

"We can't use Alex's book asshole! We are not tuned since we were relegated to use it either!" Christian huffs.

"What will happen to him Edwin if he has the fever curse no long term?" Alice begs to know.

"I-in three days he will expire if no one can break it..." Edwin replies feeling guilty.

"Alex...can you hear me? Do you remember what I said before? I meant it I really did. I meant it when I said I loved you! Please you need to come out of this for me...! For our future!" Alice says almost a loud whisper.

A vision appears from her tears. "Alice, dear sweet Alice...I have never been a good queen, but I can give to you one last gift. The last light of my life, give him this." She gingerly sets in her palm a red rose petal. "Only use it if you are truly sure of your love or it will not work. I bid you a happy life Alice. Thank you for saving me..."

She fades away. "Thank you..." Alice places the rose petal on his tongue.

A long silence between them all causes Clarence to get up. "Look maybe Steele got something in her book that can help us..."

Christian picks up Alex about to follow Clarence. "Look his hand is shaking." Edwin points out. "Our Queen would not let me down!"

"Christian...I am free from my chains?" He says weakly.

"Come on man, you are okay now. Those chains are gone forever."

Christian sits Alex down on the long couch. He sits up stretching his arms and legs before swooping a little as he drags his hand over his face. "I feel so sick..." dunking back down on the seat where Alice takes her hand to his head, he leans against her shoulder.

Edwin appears out of nowhere with his clothing and items in a small bag. "You should probably change before you leave...I never tossed your goods. I put them in storage."

Christian swipes them from his hands. "You have caused us so much trouble."

"Joseph, I know those days still haunt you. Every single time I had these visions from when you were kept in a cage. I am really sorry those events happened in your life!" Alex chimed. "You became a monster to protect yourself, but at the same time. I feel like you want to love with intensity."

"So you did see those events...I wasn't going crazy..." Joseph held back sniffles trying to not cry. Alex gets up to put his hand on his shoulder. Joseph catches him in a semi limp.

"I don't hate you. I feel like you were taking many past events of your life out on me. I played along for my sanity. I am sorry." Alex explains bashfully.

"No..no I should have expected it. I wanted you to bow to me. For once I wanted someone to understand...but no one else will fully understand my problems. I have a lot to work on." Joseph admits.

"What will you do when we leave Edwin? Joseph?" Clarence asks concerned. Christian helps Alex with going to change while Edwin smiles up at Joseph.

"We need to take a journey...a long one to access our values. We kidnapped a small clan. What is wrong with us?" Edwin responds. "I no longer have the abilities so what's the point?"

"Maybe we can find our family of those in need our help. Master has the resources..." Joseph smiles back.

Alex starts to run out and around in circles. "Yippee! I feel so energetic! No chains, no stupid slip!" Alex shouts in excitement. Alice jumps on top of him giving him a noggin rub with her fists... Christian sighs.

"You were digging her too it seems." Clarence elbows him with a half smirk. Christian walks a little further away facing back from Clarence.

"Yeah...I knew her before anyone, but I had a feeling she would never like me anyways. I am happy for Alex. He has always tried his hardest. I will be in the car..." Christian states before running out the door.

Late into the night Steele greets them all home again. Alex hugs Steele tightly. "We all missed you too! I am so glad you are back safely."

Mars hands Alex an envelope from Ida stating she was no longer getting revenge. She was happy Alex was finally freed.

"So Alex would you like to go with us on one more journey?" Steele Asks with a grin.

"Where are we going?"

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