| The End Is Only the Beginning Chapter 16: Getting A Shock I am pleased to announce the engagement of my daughter Kathryn Merteuil to Michael Perry. As the words began to resonate in Sebastian's head he still couldn't believe them. Marriage? Was she nuts? She couldn't marry Michael he was completely and totally wrong for her. He didn't know the real Kathryn and if he did he would probably end the thing right away. Sebastian knew she was mad at him earlier but to accept a marriage proposal, was this some sort of revenge? Well he wasn't going to let her go through with it. As everyone cheered and congratulated the happy couple Sebastian starred daggers at his former stepsister. She was looking everywhere but at him and it was making him even more pissed. Look at me god damn it, he thought, you can't do this. Finally she looked over at Sebastian's stone cold face and her smile dropped. Their eyes locked and neither said anything although they were pretty sure what the other was thinking. As the two stared at each other no one seemed to notice except Annette who was sitting at the table next to there's. As soon as Tiffani had made her little announcement she has glanced over at Sebastian to see what his reaction was. As expected he looked something between shocked and heartbroken. As she watched her former boyfriends face she couldn't help but feel somewhat sorry for him even after all the shit he had put her through. He loved Kathryn for whatever reason and now she had all but smashed his heart. Annette was awoken from her thoughts by Chris who snickered "what a joke. I give it two months." She smiled slightly and said "a month. A month before he finds out what the real Kathryn is like and dumps her sorry ass." Chris laughed and kissed her neck "your so right. God look at Valmont, how pathetic." "He loves her," Annette said softly. "Even if he doesn't know it yet." "Yeah well that's over now. I wonder when the next course is?" As Chris and Annette chatted about the announcement Kathryn couldn't tare her eyes away from Sebastian. Her mother and Michael were talking wedding plans, even though Kathryn had told him she wasn't getting married for at least another year, and didn't seem to notice Kathryn's attention was elsewhere. Part of the reason she was dreading this party so much was she knew her mother was going to tell everyone about the engagement. After Michael had asked and she accepted she told him she wanted to keep it secret for a little while, but it was too late. He had already asked Tiffani's permission so she was well aware already of the news. It had pissed Kathryn off so much because it hadn't even occurred to her mother that she might say no. It was a done deal. Now she looked over at Sebastian and wished she could take it all back. She wished she didn't care so much about her reputation and could just give Michael his ring back and let Sebastian take her to her bedroom. But she couldn't, it would ruin everything. Besides the way he was looking at her she had a feeling sex was the last thing he was thinking about for the first time in his life. Suddenly he got up without warning and left the table. No one really noticed except Kathryn who was debating with herself whether to go after him. She stared over at her mother and soon to be husband who were chatting happily and decided, fuck it. She didn't care if people thought it strange that she was chasing after Sebastian. Kathryn leaned over and whispered to Michael that she needed some air and he just nodded. She got up from the table and left the dinning room then tried to figure out where he had gone. She was about to head to her room when she noticed the balcony doors where open. As she stepped out into the cool night air she saw him standing by the railing with his back to her. "Were you going to tell me?" he asked his voice complete ice. "Of course, I was just waiting for the right time. I'm sorry Sebastian." He spun around angry "your sorry? Oh well that just makes everything better doesn't it? Jesus Christ have you lost your fucking mind, you can't marry him." Once again he was telling her what to do, and once again it was pissing her off. "Why the hell not? Michael is the perfect guy and he loves me." He continued to glare at her "the question is do you love him?" For whatever reason the question startled Kathryn. She hadn't thought about it really. Love was not a big deal to Kathryn, it was never important. "I-I don't know. It doesn't matter." Sebastian shook his head in astonishment "Of course it matters! Why the hell do you think people get married in the first place?" "For reasons other than love" "It will never work" Kathryn stepped closer to him "why not, because you say so?" "Because your too different." Sebastian put his hands on her arms and it a softer voice he said "he'll suffocate you Kathryn. Yes Michael is a nice guy but in case you've forgotten your not. What are you going to do play the Mary sunshine act for the rest of your life? Hope he never sees the real Kathryn?" She knew what he was saying was true but wasn't about to admit that to him. "I could do it if I had to." "But you shouldn't have to. Even if by some miracle you could pull it off for months or even years it would destroy you eventually, pretending to be something your not. You know I'm right. You deserve to be with someone who understands you, who likes who you really are." "Like you?" she asked quietly He pulled away and shrugged "maybe." At this Kathryn let out an annoyed groan. "You are unfucking believable. You expect me to what, dump Michael for you cause you might be interested in me?" "That's not what I meant. This is hard for me." She glared at him "well boo fucking hoo. You have no idea what this is like for me." "Oh well then enlighten me. You're marrying the supposed perfect guy. He's nice, he' smart, he's supposedly much better in bed than I am-" "Not exactly" Sebastian turns around surprised by this "excuse me? All I've been hearing about is how you don't need me any more because you have Michael to satisfy you." Kathryn sighed and wondered why the hell she was telling him this. "I've only slept with Michael once." His eyes went large "what?" "Only that one time in Paris and that was it." "But I heard you" She shrugged "we were just fooling around." All of this came as quiet a surprise to Sebastian. Hear he's been tormented with images of Kathryn and Michael together for weeks and now she tells him it never happened. "Why in gods name would you tell me you've been fucking him?" he asked angrily. "Because" Kathryn said just as angry "you were fucking everything in sight and it was driving me nuts! I wanted to make you jealous and low and behold it worked." "The only reason I was with those other girls was because you told me there was no way you would ever be with me!" "You were my step brother! It wasn't like we could just start dating. So I went out with Michael I didn't really think it would go anywhere. I thought we would break up after school. Then we got in that fight and I thought I was nothing to you so when he asked if I would marry him I said yes." He shook his head and said sadly "well I guess were just fucked." She turned around and looked down at the city below her. She had never felt more trapped in her whole life. They were both quiet for a minute before she said softly "I have to marry Michael Sebastian whether you like it or not." "Your making the biggest mistake of your life and you know it." She turned around and hissed, "well it's my life and I choose to marry Michael." Kathryn turned back to the view and Sebastian sighed. "Fine your right. Go live your life and marry Michael. I hope your happy together." "We will be," she said coldly. Sebastian headed back in the house then turned around and said "you know you make it really hard to love you sometimes." At that Kathryn spun around to face him but he had already left. * * * * * * Shortly after Kathryn and Sebastian had left, dinner had ended. No one had noticed that the couple had disappeared except for Annette. She could just imagine what that conversation was like. She was curious if it was really over between the two of them now or if this was just another game between the two. Either way it didn't matter to Annette anymore she was no longer interested in what happened between those two. She had her own life to live. At the moment she was looking for Chris. After dinner the two had gotten separated and she had been looking for him for the past fifteen minutes. After searching the entire first floor she decided to check outside thinking he might have gone out for air. As she was heading out she all but bumped into Sebastian who was also on his way out. She smirked at him "rough night?" He turned around and glared at her "you could say that. Where's prison boy?" She rolled her eyes at his comment "I don't know I'm looking for him. I don't suppose you've seen him?" "No haven't had the pleasure but you better find him before he finds some kids to play with." Annette shook her head "so very funny, but I think that you and I both know Chris is innocent." At this Sebastian snickered "Annette Chris may be many things but innocent isn't one of them. He's seriously fucked." "Speaking of seriously fucked where's Kathryn?" His expression got even harder at the mention of her name "who knows?" "I take it her engagement came as a surprise. I hate to say I told you so-" "Go for it" he interrupted her. "You were right all along about me and Kathryn. She was only playing with me and I let myself fall for it. I knew what she was, what she was capable of but I didn't care and now everything's gone to shit. So congratulations you were right." "Believe it or not I wish I wasn't. I never wanted to see you hurt Sebastian, least of all by Kathryn." He shook his head sadly "yeah well its too late now." She studied his expression for a moment "you really love her don't you?" Sebastian shook his head "it doesn't matter. She's going to marry someone else" As he headed towards his car she said, "well if it helps any I don't think she loves him." He turner to her as he got to his car "strangely no, but thanks anyway. See ya Annette." "Bye" she said as she headed back in the house to look for Chris. Sebastian was about to get in his car and then turned around and called out "hey Annette." She turned around "yeah?" "Seriously watch yourself around Chris. He's not who he seems." He then got in his car and drove of leaving Annette thinking about what he said. * * * * * * God damn him she thought as she climbed the stairs. How could he say that to her knowing she had no choice but to marry Michael? You make is so hard to love you sometimes. Love, what the fuck? He had never mentioned that word around her and now that he had she was even more confused. Sebastian had taken off afterwards and Kathryn had watched from the balcony as he drove away. She had actually considered calling him, to ask what he meant by that comment. Instead she decided she would ditch the party by hiding out upstairs. The upstairs of the Merteuil home was mostly extra guest bedrooms. It also contained a library, a screening room, another den and another dinning room. None of the guests were permitted in that part of the house during parties so she knew no one would come looking for her. She went into the empty guest room to her left when she saw a bar. As she was pouring herself a drink and thinking once again about what Sebastian had said to her, someone followed her in to the room. "Drinking your sorrows away Kat?" At the sound of his voice Kathryn spun around and came face to face with a smiling Chris. "What the fuck are you doing up hear? Get out!" He calmly closed the door behind him making Kathryn uneasy. "I came to settle some things with you." "That's nice but I don't think so. I'm out of hear." She headed to the door and as she walked past him he grabbed her and pulled her towards him. "I know what you and that faggot Valmont did to me" he hissed. "And believe me when I say you will pay. Since he's not around right now I'll just have to settle for hurting you first." "Yeah right asshole" she as she kneed him in the groin and then headed for the door. She went to open it but it was locked. She shook it and shook it but the damn thing wouldn't budge. She then screamed at the top of her lungs for someone to help her. Chris had recovered from her blow and laughed. "No one can hear you scream princess. No one else is on this floor." Kathryn continued to scream and Chris came up behind her and placed his hand over her mouth. She bit down hard on his hand and moved away from him. Chris screamed "you bitch!" He hit her across the face and she once again tried to run from him. "You know I hate to do this but you give me no choice" he said as he grabbed a heavy object of the desk. Kathryn tried to get away from him but it was to late. The last thing she remembered was once again seeing the city out the window before she fell to the ground. * * * * * * After leaving Sebastian Annette continued on her search for Chris. At this point she had already searched the entire downstairs twice. Her father wanted to leave and so did she. The party had not gone exactly as she planned. Kathryn and Sebastian had managed to self destruct all on there own without any help from her. In the end it didn't make her feel better. Seeing Sebastian just made her feel worse. On top of it the comment he made to her right before driving off was still with her. It wasn't necessarily what he said but how he said it. He hadn't been trying to hurt her. He really believed Chris was dangerous. It made her wonder if it was a possibility. No, no it couldn't be. No one not even the all mighty Kathryn was that good of an actor. Chris was innocent she knew it. Annette approached the stairs leading upstairs and decided to look even thought she doubted he would go up there. What reason would he have to go up there? She decided to look anyway given she had very little options left. As she climbed the stairs something was gnawing at her. What reason would Kathryn and Sebastian have for wanting to hurt Chris? True by hurting him they were also hurting her, but what they did to him was really twisted. Annette was the one who had hurt Sebastian and yet by comparison the revenge they got on her was light. She was a little humiliated but nothing serious. Setting someone up for a lifetime sentence was. It all made her wonder if something else was indeed going on. She stopped for a second as she began to recall certain things. First there was that time when Sebastian and her where still together. He had mentioned that he thought Chris and Kathryn were connected some how. She had written it off as jealousy. Then both Kathryn and Sebastian mentioning that he attacked her and neither one of them would go into specifics. Follow that up with Chris's arrest and aggressive behavior lately. Chris isn't who he seems. Could it be possible, could she have been wrong all along? Annette once again started climbing the stairs realizing that she had to find out some things. Either Chris or Sebastian was going to spill what they knew, she was sick of being kept in the dark. As she made this vow she could of sworn she heard someone scream. * * * * * * The first thing Kathryn realized when she awoke was she could barley breath. Something was over her mouth. She tried to open it but it was no use, it was shut tight. She then tried to move her hands, which were above her head, but they to would not move. After a minute she began to remember what had happened. Chris, he had knocked her out. She was still in the same guest bedroom and was now laying on the bed. It had dawned on her that heavy duck tape was what was keeping her from moving. Kathryn tried to sit up but was immediately pushed back down by a strong hand. She looked up and saw Chris smiling above her. Of course she tried to scream but it was little use, all that came out was a muffled sound. "Well I was starting to think you would sleep the rest of the night. I'm glad your up, I would hate for you not to remember this." Her stomach turned when she realized what he was attempting to do to her. She could tell her panties were already off and he started to unbutton his pants. She once again tried to scream and move but he only laughed. "You mine as well relax and enjoy the ride princess no one is coming to rescue you this time. You managed to chase Valmont off and that fianc� of yours is too stupid to come looking for you. Your all mine," Kathryn could feel the tears form in her eyes but she refused to cry. She would get out of this, she always did. As Chris spread her legs and got on top of her she tried her damnest to push him off. He only held on to her tighter. "If I were you I would calm down or it will hurt a lot more. Then again I hope it hurts a lot. I'm going to fuck you so you'll never want another man in you again." As soon as he pushed himself into her she began to cry and shake. He laughed and thrusted harder. Since she was very dry his penetration hurt like hell and every time he moved inside of her it felt like he was tearing her insides apart. She screamed and screamed but it made no difference. Just when she was about to give up, something happened. Chris thrusted into her for a third time and then suddenly collapsed next to her on the bed. Kathryn looked up and was shocked to see Annette standing next to her holding the same object Chris had used earlier to knock her out. - to be continued The End Is Only the Beginning Chapter 17: Digging Up the Past The world works in seriously fucked up ways sometimes. As the two mortal enemies stared at each other it was hard to say who was more shocked. Annette because of what she just walked in on or Kathryn realizing who saved her. Either way both were too stunned to say anything at first. Annette had been looking for Chris upstairs contemplating her new theory about Chris not being the man she thought he was. She thought she had heard a scream but couldn't tell which room it had come from. Finally she got to the last room and found the door locked. It seemed strange at first given the room was just another guest room. She was about to give up and walk away when she hears Chris's voice on the other side. Annette could barley make out what he was saying but she knew it wasn't good so she once again tried the door but it wouldn't budge. Finally she realized that the bedroom next to it had a connecting door. She went to the other bedroom and found the other door unlocked. As she crept into the room she didn't call out Chris's name at first fearing the worst. Opening the door just a hair she was shocked at what she saw. Chris was on the bed fucking another women. It took her a minute to realize the other girl was Kathryn and she was in fact tie and gagged. Annette despised Kathryn but not even she deserved this. She was screaming threw the gag and crying. Since the door was behind the bed, Chris couldn't see her so she creeped into the room and grabbed the first hard thing she could find. It looked like some kind of mallet, but it was hard. Without even thinking she slowly crept behind Chris and hit him as hard as she could. He collapsed immediately next to Kathryn who was still crying and shaking. Annette quickly dropped the mallet and ripped the tape off of Kathryn's mouth. She began to take in large gasps of air as she stared wide eyed at Annette. Annette finally asked "are you ok?" Kathryn sat up uneasily and said "I need something to cut this." She grabbed a pair of large scissors next to the bed and cut threw the tape carefully so as to not cut her. It was hard because she was still shaking so bad. As Kathryn looked over at Annette she debated weather or not to thank her. She was about to when Annette said "we have to call the police." "No!" Kathryn screamed. "Were not calling the police." Annette was more than astounded at this. She was sure after what Chris did to her she would be more than happy to put him back in jail. "Why not? He tried to-" "Your not calling the police" Kathryn interrupted. "If anyone found out about this.." She rolled her eyes "only you would be worried about your reputation at a time like this. What do you suggest we do?" Kathryn looked nervously at Chris and then back at Annette "we'll wait till he wakes up and then I'll have his sorry ass thrown out. Tomorrow I'll have my lawyer talk to a judge and he'll be back in jail by lunchtime." "You just want him to get away with it? He'll only come after you again!" "Don't you think I know that!" Both girl were so involved in the conversation that they didn't see Chris start to awaken. "Kathryn if you don't tell someone he could get off then he'll come after you and next time he just might rape you only this time no one will stop him." "He already did" she said before she could stop herself. Annette was about to ask her what she was talking about when Chris sat up and said "says you. Now I thought I told you to stay still." "Chris" Annette said surprised that he awoke so suddenly. "Hello Annette" he said with an eerily calm smile. He touched his head which was bleeding slightly "I take it your the one who hit me?" Annette and Kathryn glanced at each other then she said "Chris I didn't mean-" "No, it's all right. I know what it must of looked like, but I assure you I tried to get away from her. The little slut was just so damn determined." It shocked her when she realized he was actually trying to make it look like it was Kathryn's fault. He was truly sick after all. Sebastian had been right all along. "Chris you need help" she told him calmly. A confused expression crossed his face "I need help, why? She's the one who attacked me?" Kathryn finally spoke "are you for real?" "You know it's true." "Chris I saw you. You tied her up and tried to rape her." "Rape her?" He asked astonished. "I, well" he then started to laugh "well I guess your right, but you can't say the bitch didn't have it coming. Am I right?" "You son of a bitch!" Kathryn screamed. "Chris Kathryn may have done some awful things but no one deserves that" Annette told him keeping her voice calm. "Oh wake up Annette! Look what she did to me. I'm probably going to end up in jail for the rest of my life. Look at what she did to you." Annette glanced over at Kathryn who only glared at Chris. "Come on help me hurt her. We'll get the last laugh on her and Sebastian. It will be so perfect." As Chris talked to Annette Kathryn couldn't help but wonder if she would go along with it. He was right she did have every reason in the world to hate her and it would be karma for her to finally get what she deserved. She prayed Annette was the saint she believed herself to be. "What do you say baby? I know you love me. You don't want to see me go to jail do you?" Annette was astounded that he was actually trying to convince her to go along with this. It was true that she hated Kathryn and even wished her dead on more than one occasion but she wasn't about to break the law to hurt her. Not even Kathryn deserved that. "Your right Chris I would like to see her punished for what she's done, but no way am I helping you. I loved you, I trusted you and now I find out that its all a lie. You really do belong in jail." His expression hardened "well I'm sorry to hear that Annette. We could of been good together but if your not with me your against me." Chris got up and reached for his jacket. He pulled out a small revolver "I'll just have to take you down as well." Both girls took a step back as he pointed the gun at them. Kathryn shook her head "what are you going to do shoot us? Theirs a house full of people down stairs you'll never walk out of here." "Yeah well just so long as you don't. The only thing I'm concerned about is making sure that you pay for your crimes." Kathryn's anger built and she stepped closer to him "my crimes? How about what you did to me?" "What I did to you?" "When I was thirteen" she hissed. Chris seemed to think back then laugh "oh you mean our first night together? Yeah that was a special night." Chris then turned his attention to Annette "baby did I ever tell you I went out this Kathryn before?" Annette looked nervously between the two not sure where this was going "no, no you didn't." "We had one date" "Yes and it was so memorable. God you were incredible, so hot, so...tight. You were however as I recall a little whinny." "You raped me!" She screamed at him making Annette almost jump. "You and your god damn buddies raped me!" Annette looked at him horrified "what?" Chris rolled his eyes "quit being so melodramatic. You loved every minute of it admit it. I was the best you ever had." "Your disgusting! I was thirteen for Christ's sakes, I had never done that before. I begged you to stop but you just laughed and then let your friends take a turn! Do you have an idea what you did to me that night? I have never trusted a single person after that!" "So what one bad night of your life makes up for you putting me away for the rest of my life?" "Hell yes!" Chris shook his head and glanced at Annette "do you believe this crap?" Annette was still absorbing what Kathryn had said. He had raped her and if that wasn't bad enough he let his friends also. She couldn't believe he didn't see the crime in that. "God Chris she was a child for crying out loud!" Kathryn turned to her "oh but that's not the best part. I found out I was pregnant two weeks later and he threaten to kill me if I told anyone and didn't get rid of it." He waved the gun "oh like you would of had it anyway? I did you a favor sweetheart, that golden reputation of yours would have been in shreds if I didn't." "You really are some sort of monster" Annette said almost in tears. "Oh your buying this? Come on Annette didn't we have something?" She shook her head astonished by him "it was all a lie. Every word you ever said to me was a lie. The man I fell in love with doesn't exist. Now I have had enough of this." She turned to Kathryn "I'm sorry that you don't want to tell anyone about this but its gone to far." Annette then headed for the opposite door but Chris quickly ran around the bed and grabbed her. "I don't think so honey. No one's going anywhere." "What are you going to do rape me too Chris?" Annette struggled in his arms. As he tried to control her the gun dropped from his grasp. Annette got free for a second then he pulled her back and hit her. "That's not a bad idea. A sort of two for one deal." He climbed on top of her as she struggled underneath him. Kathryn had seen the gun fall from his hand and immediately grabbed it. As soon as his back was turned she aimed it at him. She shot his arm careful not to hit Annette. As the bullet hit him he immediately doubled over in pain. As soon as Annette heard the gun go off she pushed Chris off of her and got up. Chris was starting to get up and Kathryn shot him once again this time in the leg. He clutched both his arm and leg cursing loudly at her. Annette looked up and saw Kathryn holding the gun with a calm, cold look in her face. She said simply "it's over. Call the police." - to be continued |