Chapter 16

While Caine and you had passed out back in your room David had walked up to your door, only to walk away yet again. He repeated this action maybe a dozen or so times before Ragatha and Pomni took notice.

Pomni and Ragatha approached David, skeptical of if they should even bother to ask why he kept pacing up to your door just to walk away again. He seemed to be mumbling to himself nervously and agitated. Part of him knew that creepy eyeball jaw man was no good news, and that if he wanted he could send him straight back to the hellish landscape below the circus floor.

"Uhhh—hey!" Pomni awkwardly smiled and raised a hand to wave at David. While Ragatha stood in silence waiting for his reaction.

"Hey." David looked over at Pomni briefly before going back to looking over at your door. His hand now resting on his chin deep in thought. "Is this hell?"

Ragatha's eyes opened wide and she nervously chuckled. Pomni reassured him that the circus wasn't hell, and they all seemed to be alive here. Just trapped. This caused David to go back to wondering just how everyone came to be trapped here, "So we all just put on that weird headset...huh?" He mumbled, "Maybe it's like sword art online?"

Pomni glanced over at Ragatha and she just shrugged. 🤷‍♀️ The jester inhaled and deeply exhaled, "So uhh— why do you keep walking up to y/n's room and walking away?"

David fully faced Pomni hearing y/n's name, "I came here to find her. She'd been missing and no one really cared to listen to me when I said she probably got lost in one of the creepy old ass buildings she'd hang out in. She used to go to places like this to get away from the world. Like a safe haven." He chuckled darkly, "You kinda need it when you do what we do for a living."

Ragatha spoke up, "Why do you keep hesitating?"

David winced thinking about those strange creatures with multiple rainbow colored eyes. The black writhing masses surrounding and drowning him. His reaction was visible and Ragatha became concerned as he flinched. "Are you—uh — good?" She tried breaking the uncomfortable silence after her question remained unanswered.

"That monster is in there isn't he?" David's words came out in a low rumble. His body began shaking in horror, scared Caine might hear him. His voice remained barely above a whisper. Pomni quickly stifled a laugh with her hands and bent facing away from David. Hoping to not upset him with her reaction.

While Ragatha lightly chuckled at David's seemingly genuine fear, "Who? Caine? I mean I guess he can be a bit much, but I wouldn't call him a monster."

David shook his head, "You haven't been there. Have you? To the place with the black monsters who have rainbow eyes."

Both Pomni and Ragatha straighten up and stop laughing. Suddenly their expressions became serious. Pomni slowly turned to face David again, "What are you talking about?"

David looked almost hysterical recounting where he'd been sent to when he first arrived in the circus, "It—it was below the floor here. There were dozens. Maybe even hundreds of them. Monsters with massive black forms and hundreds of rainbow colored eyes. All staring at me in the dark waters."

Pomni and Ragatha gasped, speaking in unison, "The cellar."

David looks at them with fear ever present in his eyes, "you've been?"

Pomni and Ragatha both shake their heads no.

"How do you know about it then? What is it?" David asks now slightly afraid of them too.

Ragatha begins to explain, "Well when people stay here for awhile. Something terrible can happen. If you go kinda crazy you —" she paused before continuing. "Some people become abstracted when they start going crazy. Caine sends all the abstracted circus members there. It's probably best you calm down so we can talk this out rationally without you abstracting."

Ragatha's words made David pause his panicked breathing before he straightened himself out, "you're right. I need to focus. I came here for y/n."

And with that he marched over to y/n's room.

(Slight 🍋 NSFW scene ahead. Didn't wanna get anyone's hopes up for a full spicey chapter. So I figured this warning would do)

He shakily knocked on the door.

No answer.

Only a slight shifting noise. Like someone was waking up.

Inside y/n's room Caine began to stir still laying on her very well loved and abused form. His member slinked out of her hole with a sickening pop. Their juices spilled onto the sheets. You stir in your sleep slightly and groan in detest to the lack of warmth that was filling your core. Your body shivers as his warmth leaves your chest. He snaps his fingers, the juices from before all cleaned up. The blankets now covered your sleeping form. He snapped his fingers once more, now fully dressed and walking over to the door.

"Well-well who might be interrupting my sanctified y/n time!" Caine joked playfully assuming it was one of your newly befriended circus members coming to talk to you. Caine dropped the happy friendly sing song act the moment he realized it was David. His jaw slightly clenched and his fist on the door frame tightened. His words laced with a fake kindness, "What seems to be the matter David?"

David stood there in fear. His worst nightmare was coming true. Not only did Caine answer, but he seemed to have just finished sleeping with you. A pang of hurt bounced around in the pit of his stomach as he had a crush on y/n back in the real world. He dropped his head down before stuttering, "it's just— I— I uh— wanted to talk to—uh —y/n" He nervously fidgeted with the hem of his shirt. While Ragatha and Pomni quietly walked away. Hoping to avoid the awkward interaction.

You stirred in your sleep, dreaming of your work place. A familiar voice rung out. Shooting you out of your sleep. You hear the voice in the circus now. Not just your dream. Your curiosity peaks as you turn on your side. Caine notices you shift to face the door, still naked. He quickly slammed it in David's face. Earning a fearful shriek on the other side of the door as David fell on his ass.

"Who was that?" You ask half awake, wondering if the person out there really sounded like your coworker. Or if you had imagined the whole thing. Caine shrugged it off, "oh it's no one just the newest member." You begin to stand and get dressed.

"Oh perfect. I can finally meet them!" Caine frowns at your words and raises an eyebrow. He's hesitant to let you two meet seeing as David had a previous connection to you. You pull a dress over your head, adjusting it as the fabric cascades over your curves. Caine's fingers nervously tapped on the other side of the shut door. A quiet knock was felt from the other side as David attempted to find you once more.

Caine swung it open, eyeing the man up and down before walking out of the room. You followed suit beaming happy as ever, "hey! How's it going."

David stared at the strange cartoonish cupcake avatar before him. Even though you looked different he could still tell it was you. "Y/n?"

You freeze, your body unable to move, heart rate quickening.

'Why does that voice sound so familiar?'

The haze of your dream before was wearing off. And with it the memory of Damien, your former coworker, drifted away. Though part of you was fighting to remember. The other part felt the memories were just too distant and too foggy to retrieve. You stare at him, puzzled.

Caine gently rests a hand on your arm, "y/n dear, are you alright?"