Advent

21

Thursday 21st December 2017

9am exactly. Oka arrived at the restaurant. She looked around, not seeing anybody. She assumed the note sender was inside the building. Intuition started telling her it was a bad idea to go into the building. It wasn't too late to run now. She sighed and hesitantly opened the door. She went inside, seeing nothing but darkness.
"Hello?" She asked hesitantly, confused. She expected someone to be here. "Is anyo-" she began to ask, being cut off with a needle in the neck. A small gasp escaped her lips as she lost consciousness, falling to the floor.

Ayano smirked as she stood over Oka, holding a dart gun. She had fired a dart with a tranquilliser in it at her to knock her unconscious, and it had worked flawlessly. She closed and locked the door, dragging Oka to a chair. She had no plans to kill her just yet, she just needed a hostage for her plans and knew she would be ideal. Come to think of it, maybe she should've kidnapped Hanako instead because it would've affected Taro more. She didn't want to have to kill Hanako if her plan didn't get the results she wanted, because that would push him further into Info-chan's arms. She tied Oka to the chair, setting up a video camera. All she wanted was a video of a hostage to 'convince' Taro to leave Info-chan to save the hostage.

Oka was petrified as her eyes opened and she realised she was tied to a chair. A bright white light was being shone in her face, blinding her. She wanted to scream for help, but a piece of cloth had been tied around her mouth. She looked around to see who had done this, freezing in place when her eyes locked with Ayano's. She remembered last time she saw Ayano, that was back in January when Ayano tried to throw her off the roof. She also remembered Ayano kidnapping her and torturing her before Nemesis saved her. She was terrified Ayano had come back to finish her off. Ayano smirked and began recording, leaving the lens cap on so the camera would only pick up darkness.
"Hey Senpai. Remember me?" She giggled a little, trying to be cute. "How could you forget?" She giggled again. "Well, anyway. I know you're still with that red haired pervert, and I don't like it so I'm going to do something about it." She removed the lens cap so the camera would start recording Oka struggling. "Ta da!" Ayano giggled again. "If you want Oka back unharmed, you must break up with Info-chan and leave the hospital! If you don't do this by Christmas Eve, I'll kill both girls. Make the right choice!" She said loudly to be heard clearly over Oka's desperate attempts to scream for help. After a few more seconds, Ayano stopped recording. She sighed and glared at Oka.
"Shut your trap." She hissed. Oka went silent instantly, watching her. "Thank you." She sighed and began untying Oka's legs. "I want you to listen to me carefully. I'm going to let you go, but you are not to tell anyone what happened here because I will come find you and kill you. Are we clear?" She threatened. Oka nodded her head quickly. She was very confused, but she was glad she was allowed to go without being hurt. Ayano untied her completely and removed the material from around her mouth. "Leave. Now." Ayano said coldly. Oka didn't need telling twice, sprinting out of the restaurant and not looking back.

Megami stood silently on her balcony with Nemesis stood beside her. It was fairly chilly, but she didn't care. She was at peace in this moment, as was Nemesis. Megami looked down at the smaller girl stood beside her, wondering what was going on in her mind. She was quite good at picking up emotions, but sometimes felt like Nemesis was a brick wall hiding her emotions and innermost thoughts. Megami was tempted to reach over and gently hold her hand, but something restrained her mentally from doing so. She instead sent a shock through Nemesis' shock collar, making her flinch in surprise.
"Did I do something wrong Mistress?" Nemesis asked nervously, looking up at her. Megami smirked a little. She found her reactions somewhat amusing, especially since she disliked to show emotions.
"No, my finger slipped." Megami said emotionlessly, looking back out. Nemesis sighed quietly and did the same until there was a knock on Megami's bedroom door. "Go see who's there." She told Nemesis. She nodded her head and went inside, returning a minute later.
"It's Akane, Mistress. What would you like me to do?" She asked innocently, looking up. She had closed the door so Akane wouldn't be able to hear her call Megami 'Mistress', since Megami didn't like that too much.
"Stay with me." Megami told her as she went inside. Nemesis did what she was told, staying by Megami's side the whole time.

Ayano snuck back into the hospital, glancing at the bed. Taro and Info-chan were fast asleep. She had been fast asleep all day, and he hadn't moved from her side. She wasn't herself still, but he could tell she was getting better by the day. All he could hope right now was what she would be able to come home for Christmas. Taro had his arms tightly around Info-chan's frail body, and she was snuggling up to him for warmth and love. Ayano wished she was in her place. Not in the hospital, of course, but safe and warm in Taro's loving embrace. She would be there if her plan worked though. She took a DVD with the footage from the restaurant saved on it from her bag and set it down silently on the portable DVD player. He would see it and watch it, hopefully doing exactly what she told him to do on it. She gently kissed his cheek and snuck out the window again. She'd be back on Christmas Eve to make sure he had done exactly what she had wanted him to do.