(Y/n) huffed and panted in irregular patterns, trying to regain a steady flow of oxygen before she began pumping her legs to print up the street. Allowing her feet to automatically escape out of the area, (Y/n) pushed away every other doubt in her mind that would deter her from the goal ahead and simply pushed on with the objective of enlarging the proximity between her and her prison.

As she entered areas that seemed like foreign paths to her, she slowed down her stride to regain a bit of stamina, as well as try and get a grasp of her surroundings. The female stopped to lean against a wall in a panting manner, attempting to reestablish her rhythm of breathing. She looked around herself to familiarise with the surroundings.

'Calm down. I just need to see which way I should go to get to my house...but where am I?' Scanning through the roads, she could barely connect the environment to her memories. 'I've been here before, right...? Damn it, I should have thought ahead before starting to run!' She inwardly scolded herself for her sporadic instincts and gave out a low huff of frustration.

She focused her sights at a bend in the road and mapped her next destination with the aid of her recollection of the journey. Analysing her chances and coordinates she spent a moment planning the rest of her route with careful precision before proceeding to take cautious steps towards the assigned path,straying away from the area.

Before the female had even taken a few paces away from her resting spot, her body automatically froze at the sound of a chilling click echoing from behind her. (Y/n) stood solid as she could barely comprehend the inclination of heavy, susurrus pants. She hesitantly pivoted her head back to be apprehended by the male she had previously outwitted and escaped from.

The female's breath ceased to fill her lungs as she stared at the weapon pointed at her form. The boy held the gun unsteadily as he tried to gain a rhythm to his breathing from what seemed to be a desperate chase that was proven fruitful. His hand soon stabilised along with his respiratory system before menacingly focusing on his target.

"R-Ren...? But how? I gave you-"

"Sleeping pills?" He mockingly finished her sentence as though her choice of attack was inept compared to her needed effect. The dark eyed male shook his head to indicate his disapproval. "You give sleeping pills to a man who can't sleep...didn't I already tell you those worthless things can't help me anymore?" He stared at the frightened female as his grip on the gun tightened in fury.

(Y/n) widened her eyes as her attention was drawn back to the source of her inevitable death. "Ren, please...just calm down-"

"Excuse me?! You've got no right to be acting so eloquent and sensible after what you did to me!" The female inwardly retracted at the unseen sight of the musician's dormant rage. She wanted to take a step back but her mind kept discouraging the provoking action as well as her body refusing to relax its muscles. "You used me. I was the first one to be on your side when you were backed against the wall and then you decided to take advantage of that."

The girl shook her head in calm demeanour -trying to keep her panic from spilling through the seams- and attempted to settle the raved boy as he took a few steps towards her. "Ren, I'm sorry. I needed to do something and I needed a way to get out. Permanently." Nevertheless, the male continued his slow stride towards her with an unwavering glare.

"I was willing...I was willing to give you the freedom you needed. All be it, not what you wanted but we've gone over the reasons why you were to remain where you are. You let my guard down." The boy was only a few feet away from the stumped girl, the gun stretched out and pointed at her head. "Then you made yourself look vulnerable and dependent so I can give you what you wanted." His steps were inches apart from the female as her bones shook with the point-blank proximity of the weapon. "And then..." (Y/n) lightly whimpered as she gazed at the merciless charcoal eyes that captured her sight in a noxious scowl while the male's expression shifted into one of disgrace and anger. "You manipulated my feeling towards you...that kiss, was worth so much to me at that moment while it was nothing but an escape measure for you." The female gulped as her whole body tremored at the male's vicious tone.

"Don't do this, don't do this..." The quivering words escaped the female's lips as her lungs began desperately intaking oxygen to accommodate for her frantic heart. However, the boy narrowed his gaze and seemed undeterred by her plea.

"You think I'll let you go at this point? If...if only you could just stay with me...if only you could be only mine...that would be nice, wouldn't it?" The girl drew her focus back to the barrel of the weapon as she saw the boy tightening his finger on the trigger, leaving a black sheet to envelop the girl's mind as all her senses fixed for her death.

"No!" She screamed in desperation, tightly shutting her lids to prepare for her imminent demise. However, instead of the final blast she expected to hear, as a bullet would rip through the small space of air and into her head, a dull click was heard as she stood shaking in terror, deluding that time had stopped. As she opened her eyes with disbelief, there was nothing that had changed from her previous sighting as the gun stood pointed at her with the trigger pressed.

The girl felt an arm wrapping itself around her quivering form, enveloping her in its warmth. As the weapon fell from its target, Ren looped the spare arm around her to fully embrace her shaken body. (Y/n) had to take a few seconds to reassess the scene before the puzzles could properly fit in her head. Her body stiffened at his touch as the boy held her close with a longing grasp, keeping his hands crossed over at her back.

"It was...empty...?" The girl nervously concluded, earning a small chuckle resonating against her ear.

"I wanted a measure that would make sure you didn't try and run away from me..." He slid his hand up to hold the girl's head and push her stiff body further into him to establish a clear grasp on her. "But you've been such a disobedient girl my muse...you think I can trust you after that deceitful behaviour?" The female gulped and as her breath shook while entering her lungs. Ren chose to avoid making eye contact with her, mindful of revealing the coveted intentions behind the darkness. "That's why I'll need to take precautions to make sure you're never able to do that again..."

The girl furrowed her brow at the hanging comment before she felt the male's supporting structure disappear before her as a hand pushed the female with relentless harshness. (Y/n) was thrown to the ground face down, forcing loud coughs from her impacted lungs. Before her head could stop ringing from the blow, she felt a great pressure on her legs. As she looked back to evaluate the disturbance she discovered the boy had taken to rest on top of her hamstring muscles, having his back turned to the bewildered female. "Ren, what are you doing?!"

The boy remained silent as the girl tried to crawl or roll out of his body weight to no avail, securing her in a restricted position. The boy's conscience shunned him from daring to glance at the vulnerable girl as his next actions would equalise with her betrayal. (Y/n) grunted and huffed with each attempt to unlatch her legs from the boy's pressure. Swinging back with her feet to kick him only ended in his blocking defence, while her back could not bend or flex far enough to reach him with her hands.

"Ren, what's going on here?! What are you doing, get off?!" On the contrast to her demand, the musician continued to stare contemplatively at her feet before he chose to make a move into reaching into his pocket.

"Do you know what the Achilles Heel is...?" The girl stared at him in wonder as she tried to find some sort of recognition to the name. After receiving no response, Ren let out a deep sigh. "It's a tendon at the back of the leg that connects the calf muscle to the heel bone...when the calf muscles flexes the Achilles tendon pulls on the heel. It allows us to stand on our toes and allows us to run and jump properly." The female attempted to follow the boy's track of inference and as he pulled an object from his pocket her mind snapped at the realisation that was thrown at her.

"Ren! Ren, what are you doing with that?! Stop!" (Y/n) frantically flailed her arms at him to try and pull his attention, only managing to grab his shoulder before he shook her off. Ren removed the lid of the item before inspecting the exacto blade of the sharp knife. He sighed with reluctance as his mind battled with the moral weight against the desirable outcome. "Ren, put that down! What are you gonna do?!"

Her question was answered as the boy leaned over to grasp tightly to one of her ankles as he studied the back of her foot. "If the tendon is ever fractured or cut the person won't be able to walk or even stand until it begins its process of healing...if the tendon is cut, you will be left immobile..."

The female rattled her head in disbelief as she clawed at the male to subdue him. The boy locked her separate kicking limb under his arm as he steadied the female's foot. He ignored her pleading screams and thrashing as he held onto the foot tightly with a secure grip. "Don't do this! Please, I'll come back, I promise I won't do anything just please stop!"

"I'm sorry my sweet muse...if I'm to have you, I need to take away everything that you depend on. Now please stop moving, it's such a delicate process and my first time on a live specimen." The female felt tears brimming at her eyes as she begged for her release, fearing his oncoming vengeance. Ren took a chance at glancing back and giving the girl a saddened, reassuring smile. "Please don't worry, this doesn't actually hurt as much as you think." He averted his attention back to the top of her heel as he took a deep breath to prepare himself for the sight. "Believe me, this will hurt me more than it'll hurt you."

(Y/n) could barely believe the scene before her, trying to conclude the entire placement as a horrid dream. However, as the felt the thin coldness of the blade being placed at her heel her motor functions began rebelling as she thrashed herself around, trying to knock him off of herself. But Ren easily readjusted to her desperate retaliation and secured her lower body still. "Ren, don't! Please don't!"

The female's throat let out an agonised scream as she felt the thin sharpness easily sliding across her flesh, creating an unfairly deep incision at the back of her leg. Ren stopped the action for a moment of clarity and peace as he looked away to take a deep breath and stabilise the nausea that came with the unwanted sight of the open wound. He blocked out the girl's pained crying and whimpering as he shakily focused back on the job at hand.

(Y/n) trembled as she felt her body slowly draining, feeling every moment of the torturous, deep cuts that he continued to make before reaching the band of tissue he was aiming for. The girl's shouts became horse and dry as she exhausted her vocals from the strain, letting out light hiccups as her tears sprinkled to the ground. Her foot stung with an intensity that lead her to beg for her entire limb to disappear, just to put an end to the agony. Soon, she felt her head spinning around in her small world, as her ears could barely pick up on her own chokes. As her body could no longer support her exhausted endeavours she became limp from the dizziness that followed the loss of substance withing her.

Her vision shifted and swirled as the pain soon numbed, sensing her motor functions relax. The girl let her hefty lids recline, allowing the darkness to engulf her perception. Letting the girl enter a separate reality.

Before all her sensed could fully merge into consciousness, the female's ears were graced with a soft tune that delicately floated in the air. The serene melody vibrated through her every bone as her lids began stubbornly trying to lift their own weight and allow her to focus on the environment that held the symphony. (Y/n) sensed the cold, smooth surface that she laid on and was disoriented for a few seconds before her vision was finally allowed clarity.

As the harmony continued playing with a loudness that stirred her entire form awake, (Y/n) slid her hands across the polished texture to try and lift the upper part of her body up to inspect the conditions. As her hazy pupils drifted across the unclear area, her eyes adjusted the moment her sights connected with a certain individual that stood only a few meters away.

Ren looked up from his working hands to unite sights with the drowsy female. "You're awake. Are you feeling well-?" Before the last syllable was uttered, the girl immediately made a move to jump up and bolt for safety, only to realise the large structure she had been laying on remained above ground level, allowing her body plummeted to the floor. Ren quickly stood up to approach the fallen girl as she tried to recover from the sudden collision. (Y/n) gasped as she quickly tried to distance herself from the boy's presence and attempted to make another leap at sprinting out of his proximity. "(Y/n) don't!" Ren attempted to stop the girl but as she pushed away his demand, her goal to stand up and run was never reached as her body was attacked by an excruciating shock that shot through her legs.

"Agh! O-Oh God!" The girl immediately retreated from the action to plunge back to the ground as she grabbed for her pained joint. As she came in contact with the area, a burning sensation seared through her muscle as she further cried out in agony from the great discomfort caused. "Oh God! IT HURTS! It hurts! Make it stop!"

The boy kneeled by her side as he gently took her panting form in his arms to settle her pained sobs. "Calm down my muse. You might have opened up the laceration again with that much strain." At the sound of his words, the male was shoved away as the girl rolled over to crawl onto her hands and knees as her denying mind soaked the infernal.

"No...no, no, no, no! This-this can't be happening." She lifted one of her legs up to set it flatly on the ground without causing it too much stress, though easily furthering the irritation. She nervously rested a hand on her thigh to prepare and prop herself up in order to stand straight. She hesitated for the first few seconds before pushing up to attempt at applying pressure.

"(Y/n) stop!" Ren launched out as he realised the girl's intents, however ahead of managing to grab her moments before she sunk back to the ground, the female was denied any support against her weight.

The female was paralysed as she continued staring at the ground she had nearly crashed against. Her knees trembled as her muscles throbbed with pain and strain, giving the girl an agonised time while her tears freely flowed out of her eyes. She heard words being spoken but the voice remained muffled while her mind tried to weave itself around the situation, like a delicate string that can easily snap at the slights of coaxing. (Y/n) looked up at the boy holding her.

Ren shut his lips together at her gaze. The female stared at him with consternation before using all her strength to push him away and shuffled back in a panicked demeanour.

"No! Don't come near me! AHH...! Oh please stop!" She tried to purposefully avoid touch the wound as she attempted to sooth her pained joint with the slightest of touches, feeling the cut open in a sticky, dry trail to allow the bandages around her leg to soak up. The boy came to her side to try and inspect the wound before he was pushed back. "Don't touch me! Don't hurt me anymore!"

The female slid further out of the male's reach before her body hit a large, stiff leg. She looked back to see a jet black surface that lightly reflected her image back. She trailed her eyes up to see the instrument that the girl concluded, had been laying on.

"(Y/n) please listen to me. If you continue moving around so much you'll make it worse for yourself." Ren reached out to inspect her injury but was denied access.

"Why...what have you done to me...? What...what has happened to me?" Ren lowered his gaze as the girl could only look at him with a distant and estranged stare.

"I don't want my muse to leave me...can't you understand (Y/n)?" Scuttling further back from the boy, the girl shook her head violently at his reasoning without uttering a single word. "I want you. I want everything you are, to belong to me. Where I can cherish and savour it to my heart's contempt. That can never happen if you keep trying to leave me (Y/n)...eventually, this had to be done."

As (Y/n) took a moment to grasp at her reality before the words were allowed to fully sink in. "You...were planning to do this to me even before I escaped? You were...actually going to do this to me even if I hadn't-...?" The girl's voice trailed away at the unbelievable epiphany that rattled her entire frame.

Ren quietened at her alert reaction to the fruition. "I didn't...it was only as a last resort...in case you were becoming too subverted. It wasn't something I voluntarily wanted to cause you." However, the girl shook her head as she tried to inadvertently use her feet as momentum to shift away from the insensible boy, only to scream out in pain as her fractured tissue rebelled against the movement with a tormenting wave of pain.

"Stop it! Stop it! Make it stop hurting!" The female grasped at the floor in a frantic attempt to relieve the ache. The male clenched his fists at the sight of the tortured girl before soothing his conscience with deluded ideals.

"You're...my darling muse. I can't live without you (Y/n)." The boy quickly closed the space between himself and the grounded girl before taking her frightened expression into his hands. "It feels like everything is shattering all around me when you leave me...I can't sleep without your presence to comfort me. Every night that you're apart from me feels like I might drop dead any second from exhaustion. And I wish that were the case...it becomes so frightening to even close my eyes that I try to keep them open throughout the whole night. But with you, I can relax peacefully without feeling this horrible burden." The girl stayed paralysed as the male indulged in barraging her with gentle strokes that were meant to sooth the trembling female.

"Stop...please..." Her words were a barely audible whisper as she tried to distance herself from the clueless male.

"Music...is all that's left for me to rely on...the only thing I enjoy more than living. But the moment you become absent I become no less than a novice. But it all flows so well when you're here...if those things were to leave me, I feel like I'll absolutely lose it...you understand, right?" To the boy's grieving disappointment his assured smile disappeared the moment the girl rejected his reasoning, allowing a few tears to escape her eyes.

The male hummed in thoughtfulness as his expression became solid and unreadable. He contemplated for a moment. Then after glazing over her response, the girl immediately felt pressure around her wounded ankle, leaving her crying at the unimaginable pain. She tried to hold the boy's hand in an attempt to stop him from causing further harm. "Stop, please!"

"I have had all I can take (Y/n). If my muse won't cooperate with me I'll have to make sure I work hard to change her mind. I'm not afraid to do something drastic, my muse." (Y/n)'s muscles trembled as her mind clouded with intimidation the more she stared into his deep, onyx eyes that flared with a challenging premonition.

The male gave her a polite smile after her alert silence comforted his twisted perception. He pulled the girl's head towards his chest where he held her in a what was meant to be a sweet gesture. He felt the female's body quiver at his touch as she subconsciously placed her hands over her ankles and feet in fear of earning further punishment.

"I can see such a great future for us...and when your cuts heal to the point where you can stand I'll make sure to repeat the process. So you'll stay here where I'll see us flourish with each other."

"You're the person that was on my side when I needed it...? Yet you're the one that now keeps me like a literal prisoner...I can't even walk anymore." The girl let out a small whimper as she felt her hair being clenched into a tightened fist, while the individual holding her frowned at the unwanted remark.

"And I thought you're someone I can give all my trust and love to. But life can't be fair to everyone, right?" After loosening his hold to the female's relief, she felt her jaw being squeezed between two fingers before her gaze was forcefully lifted up to look into the male's obscure optics. "Seeing you at my mercy is probably the best sight yet...to know that only I'll be touching, hearing and caring for you, my body feels like it might melt." He began rubbing his head against her own in an affectionate simulation.

"No...no, just leave me alone already." She desperately jostled against his body, feeling her ankles and feet burning in pain from the extra strain she applied against them. To no avail, the boy refused to separate.

"Why do you cry? And push me away? I'm your only hope right now. And you're under my care for as long as I want...I'll keep you with me where my potential can truly shine and enjoy every moment of my life. With you." The male held the girl's gaze for a long while, enticing in her glossy (e/c) eyes that sparkled with a layer of tears. "You have such a sweet look...so refreshing from all these plastic smiles and deceit. To see the true muse I love so much." Ren progressively approached the girl's frightened features, and as he closed his lids to reenact what was meant to be his blissful moment, the female ducked away and jumped back.

"OW! G-God damn it!" (Y/n) clutched the floor as she felt her wounds torturing the lower part of her body. "This...this can't happen...this isn't...how I wanted it to end." She looked over at the male who had been focusing his attention on a table that stood a few feet away from the wounded female.

"This might not be how you wanted it to end...but whatever happens from now on, I'll be constantly with you. Regardless whether you betray me again or not." He turned towards the girl, allowing a ray of light to hit the long, thin metallic needle of the syringe he held. "Because now I'll make sure to give you the least viability to repeat that horrid act."

"What is that?" Widening at the object, the girl's eyes traced the item heading towards her. Ren gave her an assuring smile that aimed to settle the female's panic.

"It's simply a sedative my darling. It will put you to sleep for a while so I can change your bandages and lower the intensity of the pain." Nonetheless, (Y/n) shook her head frantically at the proposal, lowering the corners of the boy's smile. "You don't want me to help you...? I guess earning your trust and dependency will take a bit of time. You'll come to terms with it once you realise there's no way to escape from here on your own. And the only one that you'll be coming into contact is me."

"No! I don't care what I have to do. I'll scream. I'll scream until my throat bleeds and I'll force myself on my feet! I don't care what it takes, I'm not staying here with a-" (Y/n) loudly groaned as she felt one of her wrists becoming temporarily pinned down by the male's foot while he gazed at her with an aggravated expression, erasing the once patient and polite tone his features held.

"Then if that happens I'm not afraid to do something to those vocal chords my muse. Don't pull me further into this dark pit I created for myself." As the boy squatted down -creating further unbearable pressure against the hand he restrained- he managed to pull the girl's other wrist to expose the underside of her limb.

"Don't do this to me Ren..." The male ignored the last silent pray before injecting the medical device inside her vein where the drug was absorbed by her system. Soon the female's retaliating hand that remained crushed under the male's foot could only find energy for the last few twitches before completely numbing to a stop.

Ren removed his hold from the half-conscious girl as he watched the clarity in her eyes begin to dissolve into a cloudy blanket that soon pulled her lids down to leave her in an artificial slumber. Ren tilted down to steal the lip contact he could finally cherish. "Next time, it'll be a willing kiss. I'll make sure of that, my muse."