The Seeker approached the tank and Jack shrank back as far as he could.  The Seeker kneeled down, blowing a puff of his vapor smoke at the glass with a smirk.  Jack tried to look tougher than he felt.  The Seeker's eyes drifted down the tank to look over his glittering scales, before he told him excitedly.  "You must feel so betrayed, lil' prince. After all, I don't recall seeing your lover trying to save you back at that club".  Jack felt like his heart was being crushed.  Mark had disappeared.  Right when he needed him most.  The Seeker's eyes drifted back up to meet his eyes as he told him bluntly.  "You should have listened to your daddy. Humans are scared, petty creatures. They look out for only themselves. He took off, because he doesn't love you. He's afraid of you". 

Jack shook his head and mumbled out softly.  "You are wrong".  Slowly, the Seeker rose to his feet with an emotionless expression.  Then his face turned smug as he looked down on Jack to say aloud.  "Try to deny it all you want. But you don't know where he is. You only know that he is not here. And when Magdalena finds him and brings him here... You will see for yourself. He's a coward".  Jack smacked a hand against the glass, bitterly yelling back.  "I've only got two days left. If he ran at the party, than I'm glad! You'll NEVER get me to hurt him! I'd rather die"!  The Seeker chuckled to himself, before taking another puff of smoke.  Jack watched the smoke morph into a grand looking pirate ship surrounded by fog.  The Seeker stared at the smoky ship as he told Jack casually.  "You may not want to hurt him... but I can do worse things to HIM. You'll be doing him a favor by killing him quickly". 

The Seeker looked back down on Jack with blazing purple eyes, when he told him menacingly.  "I'm a half-bred. Half wizard and half siren. You have no idea what I can do to the hearts of men. I can make him break his own bones. I can make him kill everyone he loves. I can make him love someone else while you watch. I'm not going to force you to do anything. In the end... You'll just do it yourself".  Jack's hand slid down the glass in defeat.  He could only pray that Mark was long gone.  Far from here and forgetting about him.  He didn't care what they would do to himself, he'd be dead before long anyway.  He just couldn't bare the thought of what they would do to Mark if they got ahold of him.  The Seeker's eyes changed back to his dull brown as he told him in a business tone of voice.  "Now then. Since you are here. Let's talk about the show you will be preforming tonight. It's not like you have anything else to do". 

Jack was barely listening as the Seeker told him useless crap about being a star in his short life.  In was only when the tank was lifted off the ground that Jack freaked out a bit.  Where were they taking him now?!  The Seeker lead the way toward a huge tank.  The Seeker opened a hatch and told the burly men excitedly.  "When you see the light flash over there. Drop our star into his new home".  The Seeker then quickly walked away down some stairs and the burly men set his tank down to unlock the padlock on the lid.  Jack reluctantly listened to them, while waiting to be released.  Feeling more uncomfortable by the second as one man asked another.  "Hey, Roger. Have you ever wondered how merpeople have sex"?  Roger shot a disgusted look at the man, snapping back.  "Why would you ask me that? I don't want to think about that"!  A third man, answered them both in a dry bored tone.  "Same as whales. Grow up both of you". 

The first man chuckled and looked down at Jack, saying a little too lustfully.  "He's quite a beauty".  The third man struck the first man's chest, snapping back.  "Knock it off. You'll scare him".  The first man bent down to look into the tank with a weird grin as he replied a bit giddily.  "I've always like the scared ones. Makes the sex better".  Jack spotted a light flashing on the wall across the way and took his shot.  He was a prisoner... but that didn't mean that he had to play nice.  It was their own fault that they unlocked the lid.  Jack lunged for the lid, causing it to burst open and scaring the men back.  All except the man who had been kneeling before the tank.  Grabbing the front of that man's shirt, Jack thrashed out of the little tank and fell into the large aquarium tank as he took the man in with him. 

Jack pulled the man down into the depths of the tank before letting him go.  The man tried to scramble back to the surface, but Jack was much faster in the water than him.  Jack circled him menacingly like a shark before grabbing him again and slamming him into the tanks wall, telling him angrily.  "Who's scared now"!  For a moment, Jack thought about ripping the man's throat out.  When a thud against the glass caught his attention.  A young girl was staring at him with wide eyes, her hands on the glass.  The adults standing around stared at him with scared looks.  Jack couldn't do it.  He didn't want to be feared.  The man began to thrash because his air was running out... and Jack made a split second choice.  Quickly taking the man up to the open hatch.  The man was immediately pulled out by the men up top, before they slammed the hatch shut. 

Jack tried to ignore the people watching him as he explored the tank.  It was done up in a way to look like the ocean floor, but with no places for him to hide.  The Seeker wanted him to be seen.  In the center of the tank was a huge open shell that Jack guessed was suppose to be his bed.  It felt soft, but he was depressed.  Curling up on it, he laid down and turned his head away.  Let the Seeker be pissed at him for no preforming.  He just didn't feel very entertaining today.  When the aquarium closed for the night, the Seeker bitched to him and told him that he'd go hungry for such a disappointing performance.  Even as his stomach growled, Jack didn't care.  He felt alone and heartbroken.  He'd die here.  He had accepted that.  All the lights dimmed down and everything went quiet.  Jack could only listen to the sounds of the humming water pumps to his tank, hoping that they'd hum him off to sleep. 

When a new sound made him look around.  A thud.  He rolled over on his bed to stare at the large glass, when his heart started to beat faster.  There was a man standing before the glass.  Jack rose off his bed slowly and swam over to the glass.  Mark put his hand to the glass with a soft smile and Jack placed his hand to Mark's with a smile of his own.  Mark hadn't left him!  He was here!  Jack looked over Mark's clothes and chuckled.  He was dressed like a security guard, but the uniform was a bit too big for him.  He'd snuck in to see him.  Jack's heart raced wildly.  Nothing meant more to him right now than seeing Mark.  To Be Continued...