A/N: Thank you all for reading, and sorry I suck at updating this, I've been busy as of late with school stuff and personal things. But here's chapter two for you all! I will update more soon since I have summer vacation coming up, promise. And as hard as I tried, the blank beta spot refused to be fixed. So I'd like to thank for being my beta, you're amazing Michelle! You guys so read her stuff too, because they're super good and amazingly written. Anyway, I hope you enjoy, even though this chapter is mostly dialogue based to buildup to the chapter as more of a more flashback feeling , as I had planned in the outline. Happy reading!

LACEY:

I didn't care to be sweet. I wanted to live on the edge. Like when Rumple beat up that guy to impress me. I was alive. I felt the thrill of the rush. It was amazing. And that feeling soon resurfaced when I came back to the Rabbit Hole the week after I schooled Ruby in pool. Apparently her beginner's luck had worn out.

"Back again Miss French?"

Miss French? Who the fuck was that? "What?" I said without second thought.

"Oh, sorry. I meant Belle." The bartender said in apology. I still had no idea who he was talking about, until I remembered that Ruby said Belle when she said hi to me. Apparently that was my name around here.

I just stuck with it and glanced around the room, looking for the jukebox. I found it in the back. I guess they moved things around a bit. I walked over there and selected a song.

"Ah, I love that song too."

I didn't hear her coming, and my heart did a million flips. "Jeez, Red."

"Red? That's new." She was swirling her spoon around in her martini, "You know I like Ruby better."

After the mini heart attack, I think I get to call her whatever the hell I feel like. "Well, until you put that hood of yours on, I guess I can call you Ruby."

She just sipped another sip of her drink in response, probably to stop herself from murdering my ass. Eh, all in good fun.

"You up for some more pool? Well, if you decide to stop drinking that damn martini."

She stopped drinking. Looks like I caught her interest. "You're on."

BELLE:

Ruby? What the hell was she doing taking me to the hospital? Not that it's unappreciated, but what was I doing with Ruby that I can't remember?

"Wait. Ruby?"

"Yes." the doctor says, and doesn't miss a beat, "And according to our records, Miss Lucas is missing."

Ruby? Missing? Something wasn't right. I saw her at Granny's yesterday. There was no way… "When did she go missing?" I spit out finally, I needed an answer, because the world was not making any sense.

"Last night." My face drops. Of course, since I saw her at Granny's. But, why? "Do you know where she is?"

Before I could answer there was the sound of footsteps. Emma was walking down the hallway. That's odd. What was she doing here?

"Emma?" I called, and she stopped in her tracks and walked into the room. "What are you doing here? Is Henry okay?"

"Actually, I was looking for you."

"Why were you looking for her?" The doctor asked Emma, who was not in the mood for 20 questions.

"Ruby's missing."

"We know that, so what does that have to do with me?" I questioned, none of this made sense. What the hell did I do?

"Belle was the last one to see her." She glanced over the doctor's shoulder over in my direction, and then continued, "She needs to come and answer a few questions."

LAYLA:

Of course she's missing. I wanted it that way. It was all part of my sudden fixation. I was stuck in a constant state of obsession with her.

But all obsessions have their damages. I did my damage. Quite well I might add. When I find a target, I stick with it. But then again, sticky thing come off eventually. Either you force it off or it goes away on its own. Since the second option wasn't gonna happen, I had to force it off.

That's why they call me Layla. It means dark haired beauty. Well, I don't have dark hair, but everyone seems to say I'm the beauty. I mean, that's what the good side of me is.

Ugh, those two. I can't believe were one person. We're so different. Belle's the kind, generous, goody two-shoes. Lacey is rebellious and doesn't like playing it safe, but she's not on my level. I'm a new kind of monster. I'm darker than the sky in the country at night. Darker than your room when you shut all the lights off. Darker than smoke.

Ruby Lucas was just the first to unleash that monster.