I know it's not very long ... but I just wanted to give you a little more background information on Elyse.
Chapter 2
And her name begins with E, and ends with E.
Elyse was a good waitress. She could smile and serve and take orders like she was born for it. If you saw her while she was working then you couldn't be blamed for assuming she was a nice happy normal girl. When she smiled like that she was almost pretty. 1.
She wasn't altogether fond of her job. In fact, she hated it. It was boring and the people who came in there had so little imagination that when she gave them a glass of water the only they would do with it would be to drink it. It would be depressing if Elyse was the type to become depressed by such things. She wasn't. She was the type to kidnap them, force them to think of some incredibly creative way of getting free before finally killing them in an incredibly gruesome manner. But if she was the type to get depressed then she would be very depressed indeed.
But she liked serving children. 2. She liked treating them as if they were adults - how other people treated adults, that is, rather than how she normally treated adults - just so that they got that feeling of being so important. Elyse wanted children to feel important. Because maybe, one day, if a child had the confidence, she would find someone just like herself to talk to. Elyse wasn't at all lonely but sometimes she thought it'd be nice if she could talk to somebody. It got boring when the only people who understood you were dead or in books.
And, besides, Elyse wanted somebody to tell things to. Things like you have to cut through quite a lot of skin on a dead dog before anything fell out and that if you cut a living worm in half then both bits will keep squirming and will probably live for a while or at least until the spider eats them. Interesting things.
The children she liked best were the ones who came in with their nose stuck in a book or who stared straight at her without blinking at all when she gave them their meal. The odd ones, the ones who didn't quite fit in. Reading meant that they were at least a little smarter than the average brat, staring meant that they were either trying to creep her out or find out more about her. They wanted to frighten her or to get more information. She liked the children who stared.
She didn't like the ones who were rude to her. No matter how creepy Elyse was, she always made sure she was exquisitely well-mannered. Somehow, this helped her creepiness along a bit. Nothing makes someone fret more than a teenage girl who is courteous to the extreme.
Adults were a different matter entirely. Elyse was, of course, gracious and helpful to them … but, when she looked at them, her eyes went blank. Completely and utterly blank. It was weird, most people's eyes show at least a little emotion when talking to somebody - but not Elyse. Blank.
The other members of the workforce avoided her. They didn't like to go near the tables she'd served, perhaps thinking they'd get contaminated, perhaps thinking she would like them to encroach on what they had labelled as 'her territory'. Whatever the reason, they stayed away from where she'd been. And Elyse stayed away from them, thinking them all mindless drones, completely incapable of anything other than being horrifically normal.
For Elyse, normal was the very worst thing to be.
1. When she smiled her creepy smile she was almost mind-bogglingly terrifying.
2. With ketchup. 3.
3. Sorry, sorry, I couldn't resist.
AN: Thought? Suggestions? Ideas? Requests for any villains you particularly want to see?