Tw: Emotional manipulation, implied starvation, abandonment, knives and blood
Trope: Vampire/prey, Supervillain/hero, corruption
There's a soft sound of a bay door sliding shut.
Soft foot steps approach the center of the warehouse, a thin layer of dust coating everything, the place long since abandoned. Whumper stopped, and tilted veir head in curiosity. A figure is bound to the chair, right where xi had been left. Whumper tuts disappointed.
"Well that is unexpected. I really did expect that if I left here for this long your team would have come to rescue you by now. It has been soooo long. I didn't even hide you that well. They seriously must not have given a damn about you after all."
Whumper shakes veir head, and picks up a hose to start washing down the mess and clean up after vemself. When the cold water hits the hero, xi stirs lightly and whines. Whumper gasps, then slowly veir eyes light up as a smirk cross veir face.
"Oh wonderful! You're still alive. The other villains told me that you're shockingly durable, but even I must admit. I'm surprised you survived this long. It's been months after all, poor thing."
Whumpee shudders. Xi is cold, sore, starving and weak. Xir powers might have kept xir alive but just barely. Xir whumper's voice echoing in xir head, reminding xir just how little xir team cared, just how long xi had been left in this warehouse slowly dying. Xi squawked as xir whumper's hand found xir chin and forced them to look up.
"Now then hero. Are you going to be more cooperative this time? I don't think you'll last much longer without help?"
Whumper pulled out a knife slowly, causing veir captive hero to sob in fear. Xi knows xi isn't strong enough to survive interrogation. Whumper looks at them with pity, gently petting xir hair, and continues talking at xir.
"You really need help little hero, and its very, very, obvious at this point that you can't rely on the other heroes dear. I suppose your only option is to rely on me. All you have to do is answer a few of my questions and I'll take such good care of you hero. Just tell me what I need to know"
The knife flashes but instead of coming down on hero, whumper has instead sliced veir own hand, filling it with vampire blood. Hero knows veir blood can heal. Xi looks up, speaking weakly.
"Anything...please Villain I'll tell you anything, everything you want..please don't leave me here again. please I'll do anything"
Whumper smirks and presses veir hand to hero's lips letting xir drink, letting xir heal, before slowly, dramatically cutting the hero free.
"Anything? you'll do anything I say? Why don't we show your so called "allies" what happens when they leave their toys behind. Just take my hand, hero, let me take you somewhere nicer, somewhere you can tell me everything I need to know. Where I can shape you into something that never needs another hero again."
Hero hesitates. Would this be abandoning xir duty? How would the others think of xir? Then hero thought about how long xi had been here, how the others had just let it happen. How they treated xir even when xi was around.
Hero takes whumper's hand. Hero is pulled to xir feet. Hero takes xir first steps in months, stumbling as Whumper helps them. Hero's first steps in months are also xir first steps into villainy.