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Sylvie

Dinner had been a sad attempt at pretending to get along for Sylvie's family, as an only child she had no one to look up to or protect her when her parents grew cold and bitter to each other. Halfheartedly her mother had tried to make dinner with consideration in mind for each person, but of course her father only gave snide comments for how much it separated their family that they couldn't share a meal that was all the same. It didn't make much sense to Sylvie if she had chicken nuggets and macaroni or if her dad had a steak with potatoes and corn or even that her mother only had a salad. Wouldn't it make sense to eat things you like?

"No of course Ally have another glass of wine that will help us get this marriage back on track" her father spoke rather rudely as he sliced into his steak making loud and annoying scraping sounds on the plate which made Sylvie wince and her mother scowl.

Her mother only swirled the red wine around in her glass before setting it down on the table for a moment though she kept a tight grip on it talking with a slight sigh to her words, "I wouldn't need so much Henry if you would just show me any interest at all. How else am I supposed to deal with day in and day out of you just stuffing your face and then rolling over in bed with no affection to me?"

"Oh wow Ally right in front of the kid, what class I think you've had enough of that shit." Henry had a bitter tone to his voice as he stood to take the bottle and glass from Sylvie's mother.

Henry was a fairly tall man being six feet and slightly muscled, nothing overly done but enough to show that he probably did just enough working out to keep his beer belly from protruding. Sylvie had gotten her blue eyes from her father, but not the brightness in them they assumed that her eyes would lose their eerie glow when she grew older. Sylvie didn't have many features besides the blue eyes from her father and had gotten her pale skin and black hair from her mother, as well as her tiny stature and small nose. She still had some time to grow, but from looking like the runt with all the other kids she may not make it past five foot while her mother was five feet and an inch in height.

Ally only stood and snatched her glass with her before tripping on the chair and dropping the wine glass to the floor before catching herself on a near by counter. The glass shattered and glittered in the kitchen's low light before settling with a tinkling sound, the wine splashed on the floor and spread the glass out a bit before settling in what looked like blood in the low light. With a curse her father stepped around the shattered glass and back handed Ally across the face so hard Sylvie's mother cried out and smashed into the counter bruising her side terribly, Sylvie only stared without a word not wanting to be next.

"FUCK Ally what the fuck is wrong with you?!" Sylvie's father only fisted his hands while yelling before reaching out to grab Ally by the hair and ripping her away from the counter though she made a poor attempt to grab at the corners she was near him in a second, his other hand pointed to the mess on the floor.

"Let go Henry, let me go or so help me I will fucking call the police this time. I swear...oh fuck my mouth is bleeding." Her mother had one hand on Henry's where he refused to loosen his grip on her hair and the other went to her mouth where blood was slowly dribbling free from a gash on her lip and then spilled onto her hand rather quickly.

With anger, Henry let Ally go and shoved her away so she had to blindly grab for the kitchen counter while stumbling backwards. His nostril's flared in anger before he shut his eye lids and sat back down at his chair for a moment and put one arm to rest on the dining table and the other moved to rub the bridge of his nose.

"God Ally, can't we just have a nice dinner for once without your drinking habits?" he let out a sigh and looked up to see his daughter with wide eyes across the table from him and he scowled a bit before speaking softly to her, "Sylvie, hunny, why don't you go to bed early tonight - mommy and daddy need to have a talk. You can watch some cartoons on your little TV before you go to bed sweety." Henry tried to make up for what she had seen and heard, but God knows the child's memory would last for a life time with this.

Sylvie looked from her mother who ignored her daughter to clean up her lip with a near by dish cloth and then Sylvie turned to finally look to her father before she nodded slowly and grabbed her half eaten plate and her cup of milk and headed for the stairs, though not even half way up she could already hear her parents start fighting again with another smack and a whimper from her mother while Ally screamed at Henry to back off.

Walking into her room Sylvie ran to put her food and drink on her nightstand before going over and shutting her door quickly with a loud click, she then made her way to her dresser and pulled off her shirt and pants to put on a nightgown, jumping when a knock on her window had her spinning so fast she almost fell. Though she caught herself and stumbled a little as she walked past her bed to where a form in a clown mask crouched on the edge of the roof behind the window pane, Sylvie gave a small smile before slowly working at pushing the window up before Michael grabbed the bottom of the window and pulled it up fairly easily and then jumped into the room forcing Sylvie to step back.

Sylvie shoved her tiny body at Michael's form and hugged him tightly and without hesitation Michael pulled Sylvie into a tighter hug and ran a hand up to her hair to pet it softly before pulling back to see Sylvie wince in pain.

"What's wrong? Did I hug you to tightly?" ,his voice was concerned and now that they were alone his face showed his concern while he pulled out of Sylvie's small arms.

Sitting very carefully on the floor Sylvie pulled her foot up as close as she could to her face and her eyes grew large and she spoke very quietly, "I-I'm bleeding."

Quickly Michael went over to her night stand and turned on a lamp before going back to sit near Sylvie and pulling her foot into one hand and the other hand shoved his mask off so hard it flew to the ground by the bed without a sound. He examined her foot and found a piece of glass sticking slightly out of her foot with blood flowing slightly down her heel. "It's some glass, hang on I can pull it out." Michael used his fingers while slowly and carefully pulling the small piece out and then walking to the window and threw it out into the night.

"They were fighting again and mom dropped a glass cup, I guess I didn't notice I had stepped on it till I got up here...thank you Michael." Sylvie looked up to Michael and saw him picking up his mask with one hand before helping Sylvie up with the other and then into the bed not minding the blood.

"It's ok, want me to get your TV on for you?" he gave her a small smile when she nodded and he went, turned on the little tube TV her parents had put in her room when they had gotten a new one for their bedroom. The TV already on her cartoon channel it flashed in black and white as a show started with a cat chasing a mouse in circles.
He climbed up onto her bed with her and sat next to Sylvie with his back to her head rest while Sylvie grabbed her food and offered him some though Michael shook his head no signaling he was full before Sylvie started eating. Though Sylvie did jump when a crash from down stairs sent up another round of shouts from her parents.

Sylvie looked up to Michael and spoke softly, "I wish my dad would stop hitting her..."

Michael tilted his head slightly before looking down at her legs and pulled her night gown up past her knees where a large hand print rested on her left thigh and he then placed the cloth back where it was speaking some what angerly, "Also you...I don't want him hurting you."

Sylvie only watched what he did before she nodded and continued to eat her food. She finished all to soon and then finished off her milk before placing them back on the night stand and then lay down and rested her head on Michael's hip to watch the show while he pet her hair with one hand. She didn't cry but she spoke with shaken words, "I hate him Michael...I wish he wasn't around anymore...I wish...wishing doesn't help, I should know that by now."

Michael

With his hand fisted Michael continued to pet Sylvie's hair with his other hand to soothe Sylvie while inside he raged in anger at how she was treated. It was similar to what was happening at his house. He and his little sister Angel had to put up with Ronnie's bull shit non stop, Ronnie was abusive to his mother when he wasn't broken himself which was almost always though that didn't stop Ronnie from screaming and hollering at the top of his lungs at all of them. Ronnie was the reason Michael had been waiting at Sylvie's window so early since he had chased Michael out with a broken bottle and curses while Michael's mother screamed at Ronnie to leave her son alone.

When ever his mom tried to help him get away Ronnie only got more pissed, but no, he never really beat her since she was occasionally a strong woman and with Michael's mom usually it was more of a shouting and cussing match then any beating, but especially how can a bruised woman do her job if she looked like what the cat dragged in and no one wanted to see that. So Michael filed it away where his fantasies reined and his mind could do what ever he wanted to Ronnie and also to Sylvie's father, what Michael wouldn't give to make the man pay for the things he did to Sylvie.

Michael wasn't blind to what was going on when he played with Sylvie and she would climb or stumble and when she wore a dress that would ride up or a to big shirt that would fall off her shoulder and he would see the big hand printed bruises on her tiny body and the rage inside Michael would escalate to it's breaking point.

She belonged to him, he knew that she did and he would protect what was his. He knew since she had come to play with him ever since they were tiny and she would beg her mother to take her to his house. He had even acted the same way with his mom and that surprised her since his mom couldn't find much to interest him really. Though only their mothers got along and that was fine with Michael since he didn't give a shit what his mom's boyfriend thought or even what Sylvie's father thought of it.

Judith wouldn't really baby sit when they went to his house, but that was ok since Sylvie and him mostly watched TV or played with his rats which he showed Sylvie how he cut them properly so they would bleed out quickly before flushing the bodies so he wouldn't be found out. Michael knew Sylvie wouldn't tell on him, she always watched and let him do all the work without questions. In truth, Sylvie always watched when he killed animals and he was sure she didn't take pleasure in killing them, but she didn't flinch and try to run away either. Almost like she had sick fascination with it and that was fine with him, he wanted to show her what he could do and what power he held.

One time they had snuck up to Judith's room when her door was cracked open and they had seen Judith and Steve making out and while Michael felt something inside him he noticed that Sylvie only watched with a slight interest. When they went back to his room they had kissed on the lips with Michael's insistence while staring at each other in the eyes, though nothing else had happened he felt that their bond had some how changed with that kiss although they didn't know what it meant, they just imitated what they saw.

"I'll take care of you Sylvie, don't worry I'll make you safe," Michael glanced down to see a sleepy eyed Sylvie looking up to him before she nodded a few times. "Sleep little Sly, I'll watch over you for a while..."

Michael watched as Sylvie fought to keep her eyes open, but eventually she couldn't keep her eyes open any longer and her lids closed for good with her breathing soon deep and even. Watching her for a while longer Michael continued to pet Sylvie's hair before he looked up to watch the show end with the mouse atop the cat cheering at beating the cat once again. Michael could only smile as he saw the out come, soon he would be that mouse on top, soon Sylvie would no longer suffer and he would make her safe.

Looking down at Sylvie again he squeezed his hand in her hair slightly before whispering, "Mine..."