"𝔐𝔶 𝔪𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔯"

Trembling hands.

Irregular breath.

Racing heart.

No matter in what direction she stepped she only found dead end. Cold metallic bars weaved together covered in rust and wild vines holding prickles and barbs. Red roses sat gracefully over them wearing crowns of beauty yet the cage still looked deadly. Old, rusted with long gone dried blood sprints covering the floor and the metallic bars that stood for its walls. Who knows how many souls would have been in there yearning to escape. Mia couldn’t see through the leather blindfold that rested on her eyes and held an electronic lock at the back of her head that she felt when she touched it trying it pull it off. One foot chained made her hear the rustling of the chain bangles against the dirty floor with crisps of leaves littered over it.

“H-hello?” Her trembling voice boomed in the void and then only made her realize how huge it was.

Was it a room? A cellar? A cage?

That was the farthest she deduced from the metallic bars with prickles kissing them.

“Hello? Is anyone there? M-master” Mia whimpered. In this loneliness that rested around her and creeped to her heart like some disease, the mere thought of even the silver haired guy seemed to bring her a slight comfort. She hated being alone… between the dirt, between the cold. And all she desired was right now an escape out of it, a streak of light to swipe her blindness away, even if it were the cold dead white lights of the cellar downstairs.

Yet she knew she was not down there. The freezing damp air that held a soft fragrance of red roses and fresh rain kept striking her existence time to time making those soft little hair stand on the back of her neck. Yet all in all, the fear never subsided. It was there pushing her to lose her calm drop by drop.

“M-master, I-I am scared” She whimpered yet again not knowing how the silver haired guy fell in love with those words. Jimin stood on the outside of the metallic room sized cage with a red cloth draped and covering it all up and sky high. He rested his head forth with the red cloth over the wall of the cage.

Eyes closed.

A smile stretched on his smooth lips that became warmer with every caress of his fingertips over the cloth.

He loved hearing that trembling fragile soft voice of hers call out to him in desperation. He enjoyed knowing she needed him, wanted him, urged for him.

Jimin absolutely loved it even if it was forced.

A soft laughter boomed in the void as he tittered pulling his head away and straightening his figure. Slowly his lids parted and he turned around now to see the same tea party room he had visited before with a much familiar figure now sitting on the same seat as the former Alice.

His Mother Dear.

“Isn’t she adorable? See how she calls me.” Jimin chirped happily while the weak and old figure of his mother strangled over the chair had her shaking orbs stuck to the cage that held a living breathing human inside being treated as a toy.

Meanwhile Mia turned to the source of the voice and leapt in the direction stumbling she gripped onto the metallic bars with prickles that pierced through her freezing numb hands yet she never felt them.

“M-master please get me out of here, I-I am scared.” She pleaded to which Jimin turned back towards the cage with his smile blossoming more making his face glow in happiness.

“Oh Mother see how much needs me, Oh I love it she’s such a precious jewel, and I’m really possessive of her you see, so possessive…” He craned his neck looking back at the old shackled figure of the woman with his smile turning wider just like that of the… Cheshire cat.

“You are one of the few to have the honor, dear Mother.” He snickered.

Yanking the red curtain away making it fall off the rusted metallic bars of the cage, Jimin exposed it forth to the pair of old eyes.

Mia’s helpless figure stood there trembling to the cold and fear. Dressed in blue frock with white inner and black shoes, she resembled to the many headless corpses that stood in the hatter’s house.

“Isn’t she beautiful? See I found her, didn’t I tell you that I will find her one day”

“… see I found her.”

Mia was breathing sharply through the skin cutting cold that hugged her from all sides yet she was curious to know who else was in the room with them, an outsider? Someone to help her out of here?

Now, now, isn’t our little Alice hoping for a lot hm?

“Did I not tell you that no one… that I literally meant no one could ever take my Alice away from me, not even you Mother, yet you never believed me hm.”

Walking back to the cage, Jimin kicked the cage rattling the metallic bars causing Mia to jolt and stumble back.

“Doll look whose here, A very beloved guest of mine.”

“M-master I-I’m scared.” She whimpered again.
Opening the locked doors of the cage Jimin slid them apart exposing the exit.

“Come here, come to Master.” He spoke in a raspy whisper sending chills to kiss the knobs of her spine. Mia stumbled forth walking towards the source of voice reaching her trembling, numb and bleeding hand forth that Jimin grasped onto and pulled her out of the cage with the chains that dragged along her feet. He pulled her out and into his arms pulling her back to himself, back hugging the trembling figure into his warm embrace. Though the actions were comforting it still left Mia gasping in utter fear that piled over her heart feeling the silver haired guy so close to herself.

“Guess who is it?” He whispered against her ear making his warm breath fan against her skin causing the girl to shudder and breathe ragged.

“M-master…” Utter panic was visible from the girl’s behavior yet she tried her best to not let the guy sniff the fear off yet the cold sweat beads that blossomed on her forehead never went unnoticed by the old woman forth.

“Oh come on you have to guess it.” Jimin reached his hand up to her jaw gripping on it a bit too tight to be gentle and nudged her to answer his question. The actions left Mia to gasp and shake in his arm.

How could she even know who it was forth with her eyes masked away from the vision?

But it was the mad man after all, then how could one expect for the things to be done the normal way.

“B-but Master-…”

“You should be able to guess it, you should be….”

“I-I don’t know Master.”

The said left Jimin to look at the blindfolded girl in utter disappointment.

“You are not very good at guessing Alice, how disappointing.” Spoke the mad man while his hand travelled from her jaw to the side of her neck and up to her temple and towards the blindfold. He punctured in the small set of numeric code and unlocked it making the blindfold fall off of her eyes. The sudden illuminance of the room brought Mia to hiss and close shut her eyes tightly.

Jimin clasped his hand on her jaw yet again and made her look forth while he hung his head over her shoulder and pressed his cheek with hers. Cuddling her in his embrace he made her peer to the third existence in the room… living existence, but not for long.

“Doll meet my Mother dear” He whispered while Mia stayed frozen in her place to see such an old lady strangled to the chair.

“Mother meet my Doll, My lovely Alice” His eyes glittered with pure mischief.

There was something about this girl that the old woman had her face pale and throat dried, the moment she set her eyes on the girl with jet black hair.

Big almond eyes, stark black hair and those rosy lips and cheeks to the icy skin.

It was indeed very similar that left the woman in shock.

Yet for Mia, she never recognized the old mute lady.

“Is she your mother?” She asked looking up at the silver haired male with curious yet shocked eyes.

Jimin had heard her for the first time to initiate a conversation and that to about him, it left his heart thumping against his chest. Yet those grey piercing orbs left the girl to steal her gaze away, a strong shudder that rattled her senses.

“Well yes my biological mother. The only good she ever did to me was giving me birth.”

“B-but if she’s your mother, why’d you t-tie her up?”

A question it was or a dagger that twisted through his bleeding heart painfully.

The sudden change in his aura brought Mia to look back at the guy who tightened his embrace around her snuggling closer as if something was scaring him.

“If… If I let her go, she-… she will hit me.”
The said left Mia to furrow her brows in confusion as she peered at the devil himself curling up in fear, she looked back at the woman who seemed to be weak and innocent. It wasn’t fitting in her mind as to why would he say such a thing.

“Mum thinks I-I am bad, she beats me, i-it hurts so much Alice.” He snuggled closer like a scared kid trying to find comfort for.

Mia looked back at the woman to see her shaking her head trying to speak yet her lips trembled and she just ended up staring at her with pleading eyes.

Get away from him.

She shook her head signaling Mia yet she never understood why the woman would act like that if she really was his mother.

“I’m not bad right? Master is good, You agree… You agree to me don’t you.” The way he spoke, it sounded as if he is too desperate to hear those words. Gripping onto her face, Jimin turned it to himself keeping a firm grip on it as he peered right through Mia’s shaking orbs.

“Why are you not answering me Doll, Tell me Master is good.”

“Master” She whimpered trying to pull her face out of his grip. But it tightened the more she didn’t respond to him driving the mad man hysteric as his desperation escalated wanting to hear those words.

“ANSWER ME” He yelled digging his nails in her flesh as he screamed into her face making Mia shriek and whimper with tears glistening in eyes now.

“Y-yes, Master is good” She cried wheezing with trembling lips putting the fire blazing in his heart to an end. A shaky breathless laughter spilled off his lips and Jimin came back to his senses from his psychotic animalistic version.

“Yes, yes I am. My Alice knows it.” He spoke pressing his soft lips to her temple. The silver haired guy pulled the trembling girl into the queen chair next to his while she kept biting onto her to hold back her sobs yet she failed miserably.

It was all too quietly done that Mia never saw the old woman cut through the ropes with the knife she sneaked from the crockery somehow. She never saw it until the woman shrieked raising the knife and swinging it through the air towards the silver haired guy…. her son.

“Master” Mia shrieked reaching her hands to her mouth clasping them over it as she saw the woman to attack her own son and slash the knife through his palm that he reached forth as a shield. A groan left his mouth as the blade went through the front of his palm and poked out from the back of his hand.

Mia screamed watching the scenes unfolding forth, her heart seemed to beat too fast that it would break out from the cage any minute now.

“M-mum n-no stop don’t hit me.”

The old woman groaned with anger while she attacked Jimin, she twisted the blade around making the silver hair male whimper in pain as more blood oozed through the wound.

“WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?” Mia screamed watching the woman show such an animalistic behavior. She never thought to see such a side of the old figure.

“M-mum please, d-don’t-…. it hurts”

“H-he’s your son, stop it, you are hurting him.” The girl tried to pull the old woman back with trembling hands. The action left the woman’s grasp to loosen a little as Mia pulled her back sobbing watching the red liquid kiss the full white attire of the silver haired guy.

Jimin pulled his hand back making the blade slide out of his hand. He clutched onto it curling up into his seat while he shook and cried shaking his head watching the old woman.

All Mia ever saw in his eyes now was fear. So much fear that he cried like a small kid. She pulled the old lady away from him pushing her further.

“What the fuck are you doing?” She screamed at the woman, not because she was agreeing to Jimin’s psychotic ways but she felt angry for a woman to be like this towards her son.

“Why the fuck did you hurt him? Why would you do that to your own son?” She screamed in utter frustration.

The old woman waved her hands infront of Mia shaking her head. She tried to speak but only ended up mumbling broken words beyond recognition. She tried to reach forth and hold onto the girl, the old woman pulled at Mia’s hand nudging her to run away from there but what Mia did was something she never expected.

“Let go of me, I’m not going with someone who would abandon and try to kill her own son, you are so toxic.” Mia yelled with angry tears pilling up in her eyes as she watched Jimin bawl his eyes out curling up in his seat clutching the bruised hand to himself.

Before she could look back at the woman forth, Mia heard a gunshot right near her ear sending her senses numb to the floor with this ringing that went through her ears and reached to her head.

The old woman who stood infront of her breathing alive was now pilling onto the floor with blood oozing out of her forehead where rested a bullet wound.

It was as if everything went in a slow motion now with a static sound as Mia saw more than six figures piercing in through the darkness and invading the light.

“…..My lady You need to attend Master right now.” She heard the deep voice speak to her while she stared at the masked man after the static beep died letting her senses rise back.

“Now” He pulled her up on her feet and pushed her to walk with heavy steps towards the silver haired male who squirmed in pain that clawed at his heart more from the memories of the past.

All Mia remembered was an old hand hanging from the stretcher while the black figures carried it out of the room. The mad man she had always seen psychotic and strong now seemed like an infant clinging to her for support. In his embrace she stayed there hearing him cry yet her senses were still clouded with the scenes that unfolded formerly.

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ℑ𝔶𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔳𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔡𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔰.
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𝔇𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡: 25/05/2022
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