Yesterday's Sun - 1x1 (Don't delete!)

[Captain Kaycee]

Katherine hadn't been able to get anywhere when the door opened and she ran out. She was trying to run with a chair still attached to her, and she didn't have any hope of breaking it. It was completely metal, and any hope of disconnecting with it was slim.

That is, until she saw the keys on one of the desks.

She ran up to the desk and snatched the keys with one hand, using her fingers to get it into the keyhole. There was a sharp click, and one of her hands was free. Katherine then quickly undid the other handcuff, wasting no time as the chair fell tot eh ground behind her. She began to run with more agility than with the chair, until the door in front of her closed with a shut.

"Damn it!" Katherine growled, banging on the door. It was her only way out of the underground place. There were red lights shining everywhere, a siren blaring in her ear drums to indicate her attempt to escape. She was gasping for breath as she began to run to another door, only to find that it had shut her inside as well.

Katherine ran once more to a door, but a steel wall dropped down in front of it. She was now trapped; she had reached a dead-end and men were coming from all directions towards her. "No..." Katherine gasped, unable to think of a last-minute solution. She was trapped.

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The bow continued to flash brightly, getting even brighter as if it was coordinating Katherine's heartbeat with the lights. The blue shifted to an orange, and finally to the familiar red that it had last time. Only this red was slightly discolored, and didn't look like the blood-color it had been last time.

She's trapped.., in some type of prison facility... The bow wasn't exactly talking, but it was able to communicate by thought. It shot out its words to both Lance and Rem, but said nothing more. It was indeed a male voice, but it had went silent and refused to speak.

[Cloudsong]

Lance's eyes widened as he heard the male voice invade his mind. What the hell was this thing? Rem hadn't explained anything about the weapon being alive, and certainly not that it could speak. "What-?"

Rem's eyes widened as he heard the voice. It was obviously the bow speaking, and he found himself automatically clenching his fingers tightly around his crossbow. He didn't hear Lance finish the sentence, and instead just shook his head, clearing his throat. By this time, most of the group had gathered around, their eyes questioning as they saw their leader practically frozen as he glared at the now blood-red bow. Lance seemed very disturbed, and was giving Rem a look that was a mixture of anger and confusion.

"They have Katherine," Rem said simply to the people who had assembled in front of him. "I don't know who it is, but I think it's Maxime and... And I'm going to go get her." He knew that he sounded almost crazy, with such little evidence. Half of them didn't even know who Maxime was. The looks everyone was giving him proved his suspicion that he sounded crazy, but he didn't seem to care.

"I'm coming with you," Cat said suddenly as Rem turned away from them, her voice determined as she stepped forward, her long red hair slightly illuminated by the glowing bow.

Rem opened his mouth to protest, but she cut him off. "Don't bother saying I can't, Rem. I'm not letting you go alone - you can't fight every battle on your own." She brought out her gun from her jacket, nodding. "You need our help."

Lance nodded. "I'm coming too," he said, stepping forward and taking Cat's hand. Rem was unsure if he was offering to go to save Katherine, or simply because he wasn't going to allow his girl go in without him. Although he suspected the second, he didn't comment on this.

"Fine," he said finally. He glanced over at the two siblings who stood close to each other, seeing that the man was opening his mouth to speak. "Neil, you stay here and keep everyone else safe. I'll keep you informed of what's going on." His tone was firm; he wasn't going to risk anyone else's lives going out on this mission.

Neil gave him a scowl, but just nodded.

Rem nodded to the two who had offered to come. "Let's go." They nodded, and followed Rem as he took the lead down the deserted streets.

They hadn't gone nearly two blocks however, when a gunshot sounded loudly from the side. Rem flinched as something sharp made contact with his arm, and reached over to pull out what appeared to be an empty syringe - what it had contained that was now injected into his body, he was unsure. But its effects were rapid. He barely registered that his two companions had been shot down too, and that Cat had fallen to the floor. "What's going... on.." he murmured, feeling consciousness slipping away from him.

He was vaguely aware of the gang members seeping out from the shadows of a building, approaching them. Before he knew it, everything went dark.

( We can time-skip to when they wake up :3 They can be in the same cell as Katherine? )

[Captain Kaycee]

(Okay! :3)

Katherine sat in a cell that had no light whatsoever, other than the small glint that shone through a peephole on the door. She felt like she had been in there for days, when really it was probably just hours. The men that had cornered her had dragged her down further underground to a cell, and shoved her in before she could try to escape again. Katherine had tried to think of any other escape plans, but they had all led to failures. There wasn't anything that she could do; she was probably going to be trapped in there until she died.

However, her spirits had lifted when she heard the familiar clicking of the cell door. As she lifted her head up, she watched as a single man had been thrown onto the ground beside her. Katherine's eyes widened in shock, recognizing it immediately to be Rem. "R-Rem..." she whispered, her breathing hitching in her throat. He wasn't dead; his chest was still rising and falling. But he was unconscious, and he was in Maxime's fortress. He would take him away and make Rem join him, and that would be the end of humanity.

The cell door next to them had opened up as well, and two more bodies had been thrown inside. She could hear them hit the ground from the vent that separated the small cells. There was one just large enough to see a person's face, but it was down on the cement floor between the two cells.

Katherine turned her attention back to Rem, and put her head in his lap. She began to brush his hair with her fingers, trying to calm herself down. Maxime couldn't take him away... he couldn't. He knew how to manipulate people, and if he had manipulated Rem to think he had died, then there was the possibility that he could get Rem to join. Katherine couldn't let that happen.

She looked down at his dim-lit face and began to sing an old song that her mother had sang to her before she went to sleep every night. It was a long time ago, but she remembered it like it was yesterday. "And sometimes when the beetle's horn...hath lulled the eve to sleep... I steal unto her shieling lorn...and through her dooring peep. There on the cricket's singing stone... she stirs the bogwood fire... and hums in soft, sweet undertones...the song of heart's desire..."

[Cloudsong]

The distant sound of a woman's voice singing was vaguely aware to Rem. He didn't awake until a while after the men had thrown him into the cell, and as he slowly began to stir, still hearing Katherine's song, he sighed quietly. Her voice was like an angel; so sweet and clear. Am I dreaming...? Or had he simply died? Either way, he hated how his usually perfect reaction time was now seemingly in slow-motion. It took him a moment for the vertigo to leave him, and after a few minutes he finally opened his eyes, seeing everything was still blurry. He could faintly see Katherine's face in the dim light. She was holding his head in her lap, and had the most pained look on her face. It hurt to see her in so much, and he slowly tried to pull himself up, wanting to see if she was injured. Why did she look like she was so terrified, as if someone was going to come in at any moment and take her away?

"Katherine," he murmured, wincing as he felt his body ache at the slightest movements. The way the men had thrown him in had not exactly been gentle. He put a hand over his eyes for a moment, silent. "How... where is this...?" His voice was slightly groggy still, as he had just been woken up from the drug.

( Brb going to take a REALLY FAST shower XD STAY ON! )

[Captain Kaycee]

Katherine had continued to sing until she felt Rem stir beneath her. It almost frightened her, but the place was so silent without her voice and so dark that anything would startle her. She guessed that he was given the same type of drug as she had when she was injected, and knew now that it would knock out people for a good couple of hours.

"Ssssshhhh... don't get up..." Katherine ordered, putting her hand on his chest and gently pushing him back down into her lap. "It's going to take at least ten more minutes before that drug's effects go away." She stared down at him, trying to hide her emotions like he could do. But it was rendered useless, and her anxiety and fear were emitting off of her more than she would have wanted.

"You're underground. They kidnapped me and brought me here earlier... and when I tried to escape I was captured and put into this cell," Katherine began to explain. "I... I saw Maxime... and he talked to me. He told me what he was going to do... what he had planned... and he's going to take you away..." A few tears fell from Katherine's eyes and landed in his hair, but she was too worried to be thinking twice about shedding tears. For once in her life, she was scared.

[Cloudsong]

Rem was so weak that her gentle push caused him to fall back onto the ground, his head once again resting in her lap. He didn't seem to mind however, and just relaxed as he felt her hands lightly holding him down. For a moment he was silent, just enjoying the closeness they shared, until she began to speak again. So he had been drugged? This piece of news didn't surprise him in the slightest, and he slowly opened his eyes up again to look at Katherine again.

They were underground? "Well at least this makes it easier on me... to find you," he said, in a lame attempt to make a joke as she told him of how she had been kidnapped earlier. As she continued on to say that Maxime had been the one to do it, he furrowed his brows slightly, this piece of news seeming to surprise him. Maxime had been the one behind all of this? But why had he captured Katherine, then? The question stumped him, and perhaps if he were completely in his normal state, he would have an answer to it.

However, as she continued on to say that the man was going to take him away, he hesitated, unsure of what to say. With one look over at her, he could see that she was terrified, and he felt a tear land in his hair. She was crying? Immediately he felt almost as if his strength had returned to him, just by seeing that she needed him. Her vulnerability caused something inside of him to stir; the vow he had made to always protect her. He pulled himself up from where he lay, feeling as if the effects had almost worn off. They hadn't though, as he was still unstable. "Take me away?" he repeated, seeming puzzled by this. From what, exactly? From her? That would never happen. "Katherine, I don't really know what's going on here, but I promise that I'm not leaving you." His voice was soft, and he reached out and gently wiped away a tear that was streaking down her cheek. For a moment he just allowed himself to take in her appearance, seeing how distraught and terrified she looked. It hurt him like it were his own fears and pain, and silently he pulled her into a hug, wanting her to feel safe in his arms.

[Captain Kaycee]

Katherine was trying her hardest not to feel like crying even more than she was. Her breathing was unstable, and every time she tried to take a breath, it would hitch in her throat. She didn't want him to leave... but Maxime had acted like he was so sure that Rem would follow him like a dog. He had said that Rem would surely be on his side in seconds, and that she was easily replaceable. At the time she had been so angry to not actually listen to his words, but now they sank into her head like a needle.

But she wasn't able to hold in her tears any longer when he wiped one of hers away and wrapped her into a hug. She began to sob into his shoulder, her arms around his neck. She had no idea what to do, and the only option to her kept telling her to go to Maxime's side to stay alive. But he was insane... and Katherine trusted her father more than her biological uncle.

"Maxime... h-he said you belonged to him..." Katherine choked on the words. She had tears streaming down her cheeks, trying to find the right words to say. "He said that... y-you were going to... be under h-his command... and that... I was just another replaceable thing to your... life..." She stopped speaking then, hiding her head into the crevice between his neck and shoulder.

[Cloudsong]

Rem held her close as she sobbed harder. He could feel her shaking with every breath, and with every word she uttered, he could feel the fear pulsing off of her in waves. Her words were almost not understandable through the crying, but he found that he could make out almost everything. Why had Maxime been talking to Katherine about him as if he were some object that could be put under someone's control so easily? And why had he kidnapped her in the first place, if Rem was his target all along? Was it just to scare her? Silently he stroked her hair, unsure of what to say.

"You're not replaceable," he said suddenly, as she hid her face in his shirt, feeling her rapid intakes of breath as she struggled to breathe through her sobs. The sound of a door slamming somewhere far down the hallway made him freeze. "Katherine, listen to me.." His voice was suddenly urgent, and he pulled away from her so that he could meet her gaze. "Do you hear that? You're everything to me.. you are my life now." He hoped he could hear that he spoke the truth, and a small part of him was unsure why Maxime had told her this - it was a complete lie. "I love you, Katherine. And I swear... I'm not leaving you." His words were honest, and he silently leaned in and kissed her forehead lightly, a sudden look of determination on his face.

The sound of footsteps approaching was becoming louder. They were coming - or at least, someone was.

[Captain Kaycee]

Katherine lifted her head from his shoulder, her face red from sobbing. She was staring directly into his eyes as she heard the sound of somebody coming towards them through the hallways. No... they were going to take him away! She knew it! I can't let that happen! she started screaming inside of her head. But his words that he started to tell her made her feel a bit more confident than she had a few minutes ago. It reminded her that Maxime's words to her had not been true, as much as she had debated over them.

She felt his lips against her forehead, and she closed her eyes silently while the footsteps continued to get closer. But when he pulled away, Katherine grabbed his wrist and kept him from moving. A simple kiss on the forehead wasn't going to suffice to the feeling that she was going to lose him forever. No, she needed a proper kiss.

And Katherine did just that. She grabbed onto the collar of his shirt and pulled her towards him, kissing him roughly on the lips. This might have been their last day to ever see each other again, and she wanted it to leave a memory in both of their minds. It had even occurred to her that he said the three words that she died to hear. "I love you, Katherine." The words would leave their mark in her head, and she knew that it would become a recording that played back for hours in her head.

When Katherine had finally pulled away, she looked back at Rem's face. "Don't let him change you..." she whispered, putting her hands on his cheeks. "Remember your real friends. Don't forget about Neil... or Lance and Cat... and even Maya..." Katherine sucked in a breath, listening to the footsteps come one step closer to their cell. "And don't forget about me. Remember me... always..."

[Cloudsong]

The desperation in her kiss was almost frightening - it made Rem see that her fears really were real. she really thought he was leaving and not coming back, and it pained him to realize this. He kissed her back just as intensely, wanting to remember the feel of her lips against his, the sweetness of her taste. If what she feared was right, then this could be the last time... The last kiss, embrace, and feeling of closeness. It would never be the same after this, and he was aware of it.

He pulled away with a heavy heart, not yet feeling satisfied. The sight of Katherine, with her face streaming with tears, and her hand on the sight of his face made him feel a feeling of longing that would perhaps never subside. As the footsteps became louder, and the person approached, he felt himself tense up, only half-listening to her words. "I won't," he whispered, leaning in and kissing her quickly on the lips once more. "I promise I won't... Katherine."

The man began to unlock the heavy-duty lock that was on their door, and Rem finally broke the gaze they held, and saw an enormous man with the signature red bandana on his head - the gang members that had attacked him earlier. Gently he gave Katherine's hand a squeeze before picking up his crossbow into almost trembling fingers.

"Rem Nightfall, you come with me." The man's voice was low, and he roughly reached out and grabbed him by the arm, pulling him roughly away from Katherine's grasp. Because Rem was still slightly drugged, he didn't try to fight back. That, and he wanted to face Maxime without any injuries.

"Katherine, I will come back," he hissed once the barrier had been put up between them. He glanced over to where Cat and Lance were still unconscious, and hesitated, his eyes full of pain. "Take care of them.."

It looked like he was going to say something more, but the man roughly pulled him away from the gate, dragging him down the hall. Rem didn't struggle, and once he was out of eye-sight of them, he hung his head.