Chapter One: Painful Memories
-Bane's POV-
"Bane Hemlock, please rise." I stood, staring at her. Willing her to look me in the eyes. Just look at me, I begged her silently, please.
She wouldn't. She just stared straight ahead, speaking in her scientific way... More to the candy citizens than to me, I thought. "You are accused of exposing candy citizens to a highly poisonous substance, thus corrupting their bodies and causing them to fall ill; many of them died. This, as you know, is murder. Do you deny these charges?"
"I do not." I couldn't lie. It was all true. I closed my eyes for a moment. "I am guilty, Princess." And still, she wouldn't look at me. I knew I must have broken her heart; Glob knew my heart was breaking.
"Then you know what I have to do?" I opened my eyes and looked up. This time she met my gaze. And the pain in her eyes crushed me.
"Do what you must, Princess," I said, unable to keep the sorrow out of my voice. Something inside of her seemed to harden in that moment. I watched as the pain in her eyes gave way to something different, something deeper than sorrow... It was almost like she had aged years in a single moment.
"So be it," she said softly. Then, loud enough so that everyone could hear: "Bane Hemlock, you are henceforth banished from the Candy Kingdom. May you never be seen in the confines of these lands, else you be put to death." Her voice wavered slightly when she said the last few words. The people sent up raucous cheers, elated that their tormentor was finally to be out of their hair... Princess Bubblegum turned her back to the crowd and left the room.
She never looked back.
"Bonnie..."
I snapped back to reality when I heard the thunder roll. I stared out into the darkness; my fire had gone out in the rain. I was protected by the water resistant tent I had set up next to the fire, but nothing could shield me from the cold that settled in my bones.
I shivered, rubbed my arms, and pulled the blanket tighter around my shoulders.
Bonnie...I'm so sorry. My head hurt from the memory of that terrible day, the day I had been banished from the place I had learned to love, the only place I had ever stayed at for more than a few months. Of course, it was all my own fault I had to leave. My Princess wouldn't have sent me away if it weren't for a reason.
Murder is a good reason to banish someone for all eternity. I tried to shake the dark thought out of my head.
"No!" I said to myself. "Bane Hemlock, you are many things, but you are no murderer."
Still, those innocent people had died... And it was all my fault.
I never meant for it to happen. I never wanted to hurt people; I just couldn't help it. It was simply who I was, not who I wanted to be. All I wanted was...
Well, I guess that doesn't matter now, anyway. I've never gotten what I wanted. At least not for long. After all, for a short time, I had all I had ever wanted...
I just had to leave her behind when she cast me out.
So, yeah! Thanks to a new friend of mine who likes this story I decided it was unfinished, and I will be writing more of it. Quite a bit more. Really you could read it as it is and pretty much get it, but I'm going to add a lot more detail in the next chapters.
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