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ENG The Castaway Daughter
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00:02my mother was the tragic heroine of a story that ended before i was born when she died
00:09her four childhood friends cut me out of her body still breathing that's how i got four fathers
00:15the most powerful senator in the country kingmaker of presidents garrison the four-star general who
00:22has never lost a war dr julian the nobel winning surgeon who built the largest pharmaceutical
00:29empire on earth jacks the underworld king whose name makes the five boroughs go quiet every girl
00:36in america indeed me until my 18th birthday gala that was the night she came home sienna the daughter
00:44of their perfect muse from that day forward my forefathers became strangers sienna claimed i
00:52insulted her alistair had his security detail wire my jaw shut and starved me in the basement for
00:5872 hours sienna claimed i poisoned her dr julian dragged me into his black site toxicology lab
01:06and let the test specimens eat through my cheek and devour one of my eyes sienna claimed i hired
01:13traffickers to violate her dr julian lifted me by the collar and threw me into the underground training
01:20grounds made me a plaything for the men there for three years three years and i stopped fighting
01:27tonight when my door opened again i reached for my zipper like i always did then i heard a voice
01:34not from the doorway from inside my skull
01:45the voice called itself a neural interface it said my mother was the original host that she'd left
01:51this world in a hurry never knowing i survived her now she knew now she wanted me back i was
01:57already
01:57moving i pulled a combat knife from the weapons rack on the wall pressed the edge to my throat mom
02:03is
02:03alive i'm going to see her the joy drowned out every instinct to flinch i dragged the blade and a
02:10hand
02:10caught my wrist mid-strike pain exploded through my fingers the knife clattered to the floor a boot
02:16stepped on it alora you want to die i knew that voice i looked up before i could stop myself
02:22jacks his jaw tightened don't call me that i cut ties with you three years ago jacks the underworld king
02:29when i was seven a rival cartel kidnapped me he walked into their stronghold alone took three
02:36bullets and two blades when they let me go i cried at the sight of his wounds he'd smiled and
02:42said the
02:42bullets didn't hurt only my tears did of all four fathers jacks loved me the most jacks picked up the
02:49knife glanced at the cut on my throat then without warning he slashed the blade across my skin his voice
02:55came out like ice you're as cheap as your mother elida she at least had the decency to die in
03:01front
03:01of us you picked a sewer i almost told him i wasn't performing then i remembered they never listened
03:11i lowered my head you're right mr sterling did you come all the way down here just to watch the
03:18show
03:18jacks froze for a second don't flatter yourself it's sienna's birthday her coronation as america's
03:24sweetheart she said she's ready to forgive you i came to bring you to her gala
03:32three days ago the news had broken alistair was naming sienna the official sterling heiress
03:43is sarah lane tinkerad of the population thank you flory it was supposed to be mine he'd promised
03:50it to me when i was ten the old alara would have set the city on fire the new alara
03:58just said
04:00i'm not going he dragged me out by the wrist this isn't a request threw me onto the back of
04:07his
04:07motorcycle took me to his penthouse scrubbed the grime off me put me in a black couture dress then
04:16drove me toward the sterling estate in the back of the town car he kept talking meal when you see
04:24her
04:25don't provoke her don't speak unless spoken to don't provoke her every word cut deeper than dr julian's
04:32scalpel ever had i stared at the east river blurring past the window i want to see my mother i
04:39stood up
04:40open the door and jumped 70 miles per hour a scream ripped through the car behind me the pavement rushed
04:49up and then i was in someone's arms jacks we rolled twice across the asphalt blood ran down his face
04:57from
04:57where my skull had struck his his voice came out shaking with rage elora are you insane i reached up
05:06to wipe the blood from his cheek his expression turned to stone and he shoved my hand away as if
05:11i burned him if you want to die next time die i won't save you again if you want to
05:23die next time die
05:24i won't save you again my hand froze in the air out of the corner of my eye i saw
05:31the hudson black and
05:33glittering under the street lights i laughed once bitter remember what you said mr sterling
05:42then i ran four strides the guardrail the night air i launched myself over the edge
05:50jacks was terrified of water he'd almost drowned as a child he'd just said he wouldn't save me so when
05:57the freezing hudson flooded my nose and dragged me under i smiled coming mom darkness then a slap
06:08across my face so hard my teeth rang you little you can't stand a little honest work at the training
06:15grounds you had to stage this whole performance in front of your father do you know he almost died in
06:21that river dr julian of the four he and i had been closest the other three ran empires he was
06:31the one
06:31who raised me he taught me to read taught me medicine taught me which herbs could kill and which
06:39could save he never raised his voice at me not once until sienna came home sienna had planted one of
06:48his venomous specimens on herself and screamed that i did it dr julian had whipped me until my back was
06:56raw
06:59alora i failed you i raised a monster
07:05later when sienna was poisoned again he force fed me pheromone pills and locked me in the containment chamber
07:15the specimens chewed through my skin from the inside out he saved my life afterward but he couldn't save
07:24my left eye i didn't speak now he took my silence for defiance raised his hand to strike me again
07:32and
07:33jax's hand shot out of nowhere catching his wrist mid-air brother she's tried to kill herself three times
07:40tonight already i looked at jax he changed clothes his wounds were bandaged his face was ghost white
07:52so it was him who pulled me from the river he couldn't swim i didn't want to imagine what that
07:57cost him jax exhaled thank god dr julian turned back to me alora today is sienna's gala act out in
08:06front of us if you must but do not do this in front of alistair and garrison his medicine cabinet
08:11stood against the far wall i yanked open the drawer closed my fingers around the black vial swallowed it
08:17whole dr julian's face drained of color he lunged shoved his fingers down my throat do you know what
08:22that was needle to my wrist black blood out when the black turned red he exhaled alora you would die
08:31over a title tears rolled down my cheeks they mistook them for joy i dropped to my knees doctor
08:37mr sterling please just let me die i don't want to come home i want my mother i told them
08:48everything
08:49the voice the neural interface my mother waiting dr julian pulled me upright alora your mother is dead
08:57we sat with her body for seven days we watched her rot the voice is trauma he said it wasn't
09:04i knew tires screeching outside alistair and garrison burst through the door faces white brothers
09:10have you seen sienna she's missing all four of them turned to me in perfect terrible unison i knew that
09:17look no it wasn't me jax's hand closed around my throat he dragged me into the courtyard plunged my head
09:23into the stone fountain under up under up last time where is sienna the truth rose in my throat i
09:32swallowed it make them kill you i smiled up at him sienna oh i killed her and before i did
09:38i let 12 of my
09:40favorite guests from the training grounds have her first four faces went white alistair sent for the
09:46instruments garrison brought the agency's best interrogator dr julian force-fed me a stimulant
09:52so i'd stay conscious jax gave the order the blades went in mom i'm coming an assistant sprinted down
09:59the hall senator sienna we found her alive my scream tore through the estate hot blood splattered across
10:08their faces the interrogator's blade driven clean and perfect straight through my heart
10:15the blade in my chest burned i almost cried almost but i was going to see my mother through the
10:22haze i
10:23saw them running toward me alistair ripped off his thousand dollar suit jacket and pressed it hard
10:28against my chest garrison slammed the interrogator into the wall so violently i heard something crack
10:34dr julian forced an experimental compound between my lips and jax jax just kept saying my childhood name ellie
10:41ellie don't close your eyes don't you it reminded me of a winter i'd forgotten i was six years old
10:48burning alive with the fever of 104 they canceled four boards a pentagon briefing a ceasefire negotiation
10:55just to sit around my bed just to coax me into taking medicine they used to love me so i
11:01memorized
11:02their faces one last time i closed my eyes the world should have ended there but five days later i
11:08opened
11:09my eyes again alive in dr julian's guest room and the girl sitting at the edge of my bed was
11:15sienna
11:18sister you're awake her voice was syrup dr julian crossed the room to take my pulse his face was flat
11:26the
11:26blade missed the ventricle by a hair i flew the experimental regen serum in from switzerland five
11:31days he'd burned a million dollar compound on someone who just wanted to die alera if you didn't
11:39touch sienna why didn't you just say so why put us through that the other three nodded only sienna came
11:46to my defense don't scold her it's my fault i got lost i just wanted to buy her a gift
11:53her eyes glistened
11:55on cue sienna missed her own gala worrying about you apologize now i laughed it hurt my ribs
12:05i laughed anyway apologize for what exactly the room froze i never laid a finger on her not once in
12:13my
12:13life every crime she cried about she staged and you bastards believed every tear sienna's face crumpled
12:22on cue and dr julian's hand came up so fast i didn't see it move just felt the sting bloom
12:29across
12:29my cheeks sienna ran to alistair clung to his sleeve father send me back to the compound new mexico
12:39that's where i belong the four of them melted instantly they hushed her promised her she was
12:46their precious girl then they turned on me alistair's voice dropped you're jealous that's all this is
12:54jealous like your mother don't dr julian slapped me jealous like your mother spiteful like your mother
13:03your mother would be ashamed of you don't you dare bring up my mother
13:09my mother risked her life to hide you four when your father was assassinated
13:15my mother emptied her trust fund to buy the evidence that exonerated the sterling name
13:20my mother found the witnesses my mother testified at the hearings my mother gave you this empire
13:27and what did you do alistair you left her at the altar for a stranger who'd been in your life
13:33eight
13:34weeks garrison she called you crying for help and you didn't pick up the phone julian
13:42jacks you swore you'd protect her you drove her into the water called them by their first names
13:49four faces went bone white they hadn't realized i knew and alistair's voice came out horse almost a
13:57whisper how do you know any of this
14:02because of lily my mother's made the one person they couldn't make disappear alistair had banned
14:09her name from every inch of the estate after she died burned every portrait paid off every witness
14:16shipped every servant back to wherever they came from the tabloids thought the titans were grieving too
14:21hard to bear her image i know better they were furious because my mother had driven sienna sienna's real
14:28mother into hiding by dying when i was not i fell out of a tree and into the condemned east
14:35wing of
14:35the estate lily was there still living in my mother's old rooms the ones they'd sealed she looked at me
14:41and started to cry your eyes are your eyes are exactly like she told me everything my mother helped
14:47alistair escape the men who killed his father my mother nursed garrison through his first combat wound
14:52my mother synthesized the rare compound that saved dr julian's dying sister my mother found jacks when
14:59the underworld left him for dead and brought him back with her bare hands she'd been their whole world
15:05until fiona came alistair broke off the engagement two weeks before the wedding jacks who'd comforted my
15:12mother through the humiliation confessed his love to fiona behind her back garrison imprisoned my mother for her
15:19own safety dr julian watched it all happen and said nothing when fiona planted the last false
15:25julian my mother stopped fighting lily told me everyone thinks she drowned herself out of heartbreak
15:32but that morning she was smiling she told me i was going home i asked isn't this her home
15:38lily shook her head and her answer has never left me since she said her real home was another world
15:44and she said you could go there too back in the present the four of them sat in broken silence
15:52ellie
15:55if you're miserable here come with me come see the world travel
16:03you said once you wanted to be like me jacks you don't want to take me away because you love
16:10me
16:11you want to take me away so i stop making sienna uncomfortable his eyes flickered bullseye
16:17if you take her with you she needs medical supervision
16:22i'll take her to my private facility in geneva
16:26no she'll come back to the training grounds with me she was obedient there loud enough that garrison's
16:31own chair fell over as he shot to his feet back to the training grounds
16:36garrison haven't your men violated me enough yet the room went dead silent suddenly his voice came
16:43back at me like a gunshot what did you just say
16:48and the second you left they told me the general himself had given the order i was a new asset
16:55don't
16:56go easy on her there was someone in my cell every night sometimes one sometimes three dr julian
17:05you taught me about conceptives i use them every time dr julian's lips went gray tell me you didn't
17:11use sylphrist extract i nodded he doubled over like i'd stabbed him that compound erodes the uterine
17:18lining every dose is like grinding bone how did you better than a baby silence jacks moved first grab
17:25garrison by the collar you piece of you told them to i didn't garrison's voice was a whisper i never
17:34gave
17:34that order could sister be exaggerating garrison exhale exactly my men would never i peeled off my
17:43blouse my back was a map whip scars burn marks the ruined tissue from the silphium lacerations that
17:51had healed wrong because no one had set them every man in the room stopped breathing and garrison's hand
17:57was already on his phone shaking so hard he could barely dial as he barked into the receiver pull every
18:03officer who had access to her cell tonight
18:09the four men who had tortured me for three years were finally finally looking at me like i was real
18:18sienna saw it too her eyes flickered with something cold i pushed i don't want to live with any of
18:24you
18:25i want to go home to my mother dr julian and jacks exchanged a look i couldn't read
18:32alora you've been through trauma the voice isn't real but we can make you comfortable each of us kept
18:39one of your mother's rooms you can live in whichever one you choose i shook my head i want my
18:45mother
18:45why doesn't sister stay with me she's afraid of men now my staff are all women i'll take care of
18:53her
18:54four pairs of hopeful eyes swung toward me i opened my mouth to refuse then i saw sienna's expression
19:01the small triumphant curl at the corner of her mouth and i understood exactly what she wanted living with
19:08the fathers would keep me alive living with sienna would kill me i smiled back at her matching her mask
19:15with my own and said the two words that sealed it okay sienna
19:24exactly what i expected the second the door closed behind the titans her smile died she led me to a
19:31windowless room in the sub-basement of her brownstone her two handmaids forced me to my knees i didn't
19:38fight you brought me here to torture me congratulations i'm not surprised sienna lowered herself into a chair
19:46across from me legs crossed wine glass in hand your mother killed mine i'm just balancing the books
19:53then kill me kill me and we're even go on you think i won't you won't your mother was a
20:02cheap
20:02slut a homewrecker a whore passed around every bed in manhattan don't speak about my mother
20:10she lunged slapped me drew a knife pressed it to my throat my mother was royalty my mother was the
20:18last
20:19daughter an older woman princess her chief of staff careful caught her wrist princess careful
20:25sienna blinked snapped back to herself she laughed soft and cold and waved the older woman off but she'd
20:33said too much and we both knew i'd heard every word of it death is a second of relief i'm
20:41not giving you
20:41that i'm going to keep you alive conscious watching while i take everything that was ever yours one
20:48piece at a time she clapped twice four large men walked in my stomach dropped before my brain caught
20:55up i knew those faces every single one of them they were from the training grounds my body started
21:01shaking before i could stop it the men who came to my cell for three years they were yours sienna
21:08laughed
21:08delighted every single one hand-picked for you i'm a generous sister aren't i garrison's men couldn't
21:17have been infiltrated by just anyone a four-star general's personal command i tested her aren't you
21:23afraid garrison will find out if i wasn't certain he wouldn't i wouldn't have done it which meant she
21:30had moles inside the u.s army and if she could bend garrison's command to her will there was no
21:36telling
21:36how deep the rot in this city went or which of my father's empires was already hollowed out from the
21:42inside she clapped again the men moved toward me the familiar smell hit me first cheap cologne and
21:49military-grade soap my stomach flipped sienna didn't want me dead she wanted me hollow every time i got
21:57too weak her doctors revived me two weeks in i was skin and bone barely lucid then the fathers started
22:04showing up one of them every day she wouldn't let them see me sister is resting she gets agitated when
22:10she sees men they came back and back and back until dr julian on his fourth visit offered to fly
22:17me
22:18to geneva for inpatient neuropsychiatric care and for the first time in two weeks sienna had no way
22:24to refuse without exposing herself before she let me into the room she dug her nails into my cheek
22:30remember they believe me not you one wrong word and i burn your eyes out i nodded then i walked
22:38into
22:39the room dropped to my knees in front of dr julian gripped his wrist save me she has men here
22:44the
22:45soldiers who raped me they're hers she's planning to overthrow alistair sienna went white recovered in
22:51half a second oh sister your delusions are back i'm not enough dr julian cut me off face full of
23:00disappointment exactly as sienna had predicted alara i thought staying with sienna would humble you
23:06instead you're spreading slander i won't visit again he walked out sienna bent down whispered in
23:12my ear when will you learn she turned to her men with a smile i'll remember until i die and
23:19gave
23:19the order in a voice like sugar night nobody holds back after this no one's coming to check on her
23:27ever
23:27again she dipped a braided leather whip in salt water the first lash fell then another then tires
23:33outside screeching sienna froze the door exploded inward four men four silhouettes in bespoke coats
23:41alistair garrison dr julian jacks they saw what was in the room four faces went to stone alistair
23:48stepped in first sienna what are you doing even royalty folds under alistair's voice sienna hit
23:54her knees father i can explain i was playing with sister she was so afraid of men i was helping
24:02her playing alistair's voice was below zero and what are the soldiers you've been training at the
24:07compound in north hills garrison tossed something at her feet something that bounced twice rolled and
24:12came to rest upright so we could see the face and sienna's lips formed the word no before her brain
24:18caught up to the severed head of her own commander staring back at her here's what had happened earlier that
24:24day when i whispered the truth to dr julian he'd believed me he'd noticed sienna's handmaids the
24:30throats weren't right adam's apples calluses from weapons training on their palms julian was a scientist
24:37not a fighter he'd driven straight to alistair and told the others while they were mobilizing
24:42garrison's internal audit cracked open the whole training grounds trafficking scheme unraveled
24:48they traced the money it led to an abandoned industrial site in north hills a private militia
24:54with hundreds of men a standing army inside u.s borders pointed at manhattan they stormed it that
25:02afternoon most of the force was mercenaries and ex-cons they folded in 20 minutes the commander broke
25:08under questioning in 10 and when the four of them listened to the recording of his confession they
25:12realized he wasn't american he wasn't a mercenary and he wasn't working for any cartel they'd ever
25:18heard of he was the last living general of a monarchy that supposedly ended 30 years ago he was
25:24a deposed eastern european general one of the last holdouts from the old regime the sterlings had
25:30helped overthrow a generation ago he'd been taking orders from sienna and sienna's mother fiona wasn't
25:37just a pretty stranger she was the deposed monarchy's youngest princess exiled forgotten living in a convent
25:43she'd spent 20 years planning her revenge step one seduce the four boys who had killed her father
25:50step two destroy my mother who was the one person who saw through her my mother didn't drown herself
25:57she killed her we just learned this fiona poisoned your mother to silence her then vanished garrison picked
26:06up the thread she left her daughter behind raised on hatred i found sienna in albania i thought i was
26:12saving her i brought a weapon into our home sienna was sobbing on the floor now i'm your daughter
26:19i'm your blood you can't do this to me alistair's voice could have cut glass you are not my daughter
26:28i never slept with your mother you're the bastard child of an exiled pretender bastard sienna snapped
26:34she threw her head back and laughed oh i'm not yours then whose is allura because none of you
26:42know either the room froze four heads turned toward me sienna pulled a transmitter from her sleeve
26:49pulled the pin black clad men flooded every entrance of the estate her second army the one she'd kept in
26:56reserve and while alistair's security and sienna's mercenaries collided in the hallway in a cascade of
27:02fire i slipped past all of them out the front door and into the night
27:06and i
27:06and i
27:06and we
27:07and i
27:07so
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