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Herobrine's Pov

"Her name is Kat. Be sure she doesn't escape."

"Yes, my Lord. Is there anything else I can do for you?"

"Remember she is immortal. Do not disclose any information she asks for, unless it is your name. If you are unsure that she deserves the information, come back to me, and ask."

"Understood. May I take my leave?"

"You may."

Vin left, his dark bones rattling with every step. That human girl was definitely smart, but when she was overcome with panic, she was an easy target. Deciding to visit her dreams, I went back to the cell she was in. Still sitting in the corner, Kat seemed miserable. Sending a cloud of sleep over her, she tensed until my ability forced her into sleep. I visited her sleeping mind, and her dream was… wait, why wasn't she dreaming?

"Why are you here? I'm not becoming your advisor, Herobrine! I don't want to become a terror like you!"

I turned to see her standing there, glaring at me. However, she didn't seem to be angry, or have any emotion at all other than surprise. I walked up to her, knowing she would shrink away from me. Four walls boxed us in, along with a roof as soon as I was a few meters from her.

"You won't become a terror," I said, "you will become my advisor."

"When I'm dead," she growled.

"You're bold to speak to me like that."

"Well I know what you can do to me! You can take my soul and change my memories, or set me aflame, or pretty much anything you desire!"

So she knew more than I first realized. She had panicked and told me information she likely didn't want me to know that she knew. When she realized this, she broke down and cried again. I didn't let it show through emotion, but it hurt me to see her cry. I put a hand on her shoulder and crouched to be eye level with her.

"Stop crying. I do not like seeing my advisor cry from fear of me or for any other reason."

"I ALREADY TOLD YOU I'M NOT YOUR ADVISOR!" She punched me in the face with surprising force, but I remained unmoved.

"Kat, it will hurt less if you give in. We don't have to stay in Minecraft forever, I rather enjoyed seeing your Earth house, and if I were honest to myself, I would have to say I like you for your tenacity and boldness. Not everyone can stand up to me like you have, and especially, punch me like you just did."

She tensed, and I knew I had hit something to chip away at her resistance against me. She looked up, her eyes probably still blurry, I could see tears in the corners of her eyes. "I still don't believe you. You just want me as a toy for your enjoyment," she blubbered.

"We're still in your sleeping mind right now. I know you like me, but I also know by the way you're acting that you are afraid of me. You need to calm down, or we'll always be enemies, and I'm not one you want to make an enemy of."

I withdrew from her mind, and looked at her, still sleeping. She seemed worried, and I could hear her talking in her sleep. She was saying for me to come back. After she began crying again in her sleep, I did return, and stood before her again, waiting.

"He's just too scary… all the myths and legends about him… but he doesn't seem like he really fits all of the descriptions… just… most of them."

"Well, how did you imagine me before you knew me, then?"

She jumped back as I looked down at her, waiting silently.

"W-well… a silent, lone wolf… that scares players for the fun of it, then kills them and tortures them for his own sick enjoyment."

"I would never torture a being. Death is better than torturing, even though death isn't always a good thing. Scaring players is my favorite pastime. The lone wolf thing is somewhat true, but I've always heard players say that, 'behind every great man is a great woman.' Well… before my code was banished and embedded in these files, I heard that. Anyway… I want you to be the great woman next to me, Kat. We don't have to like each other, but I do want to ease the tension between us. I don't want us to dislike each other."

Her blue eyes went wide at my explanation. "Really?"

I smiled, nodded and said, "Yes, really. I would enjoy having you as company as we begin overtaking Minecraft."

"Then you have to do the killing, because I'm not killing anyone, even if they'll respawn."

Sighing, I backed up as I took my hand away from her shoulder. "So, are you ready to be my advisor, then?"

"I don't think so. You're still… scary."

"You know I can't help that. You're going to be with me every day as my advisor, so I promise you'll get used to it."

She nodded, and I could tell she was thinking hard. Waiting, I sparked up a dream within her mind. She jumped, looking around, and saw what I knew was her childhood house.

"Before you ask, I used your memories. This could be every night, Kat… any other memory, too. Listen… I'll let you think about it more. Another two days, and I'll take care of you, along with my chief commander, these next two days."

"Okay, but…"

"Im not bribing you with the dreams. If you do not wish to be my advisor, I've decided to let you… go."

"What? You wouldn't kill me?"

"No, you are too pretty a girl for me to stain my hands with your blood, even if you are immortal, but I do encourage you to be my advisor. We have much to learn from one another."

I left her dream and her mind alone, and saw Vin walking in. He stood at attention immediately, but I walked past him and went to my library. I wondered if I had anything on humans still in my library. It had been a while since I had been near one, let alone care for them. Looking in my book I had found, I noticed she most likely needed food by now.

"Lord Herobrine, a certain man has been spotted heading toward the castle. He is close by the doors now."

Great, he just had to visit me today, didn't he?

I nodded, placed the book on a table, and teleported to meet Notch at the front gates. He looked at me with a smirk, one I knew all too well. I tried to keep my rage from boiling over, putting on a confident smirk.

"Well, you're still stuck here, aren't you? How many times have you killed this poor Minecraft player so far?"

"Once. I'm laying low to make them think they were hallucinating," I said, my smirk growing at my lie.

"You? Lay low? Don't make me laugh."

"Oh, but it's true this time, Father."

"Don't call me that. I am not your father."

"You made me."

"Indirectly, now shut up about it."

"Don't talk to me like that," I warned, "or this player might find themselves facing me sooner than you think."

"What do I care?"

"Oh, you should care. You don't know just how much you should care," I laughed. "Careful, Notch…"

I walked away, and I saw a surprised look on his face as I strode back into my castle, a whip appearing in my hand as I walked toward the prison cells. As soon as I got to Kat, I saw her awake, and told her through thought to scream at the top of her lungs when I cracked the whip. She nodded. I cracked the whip, and a she let out a piercing scream. I winced, but did it again, and we repeated this until Notch rushed into the room. Kat carried on the act and ran to the metal bars, clutching them as if her life depended on it.

"Notch! Oh, are you here to save me from this place!?"

"What? You pulled her into the game!? How did you manage that?"

"Did you forget about my abilities, Notch? Come now, did you really think stripping me of most of my power would really weaken me that much? It doesn't work that way, no, once my abilities are known to me, I can use them again and again as much as I like."

"You tricked her!"

"N-Notch," she sniffled, "why is he so mean?"

"I'm sorry you found the forbidden files. Now that your computer has them, though… they can't be removed."

"That's right," I growled greedily, "now she has to deal with me forever…"

"No, just until she dies."

"How stupid are you, Notch? I made her immortal!"

"You WHAT!? You… you—!"

I punched him, my code making him leave. I sighed, relieved, and looked at Kat, who was smiling but still cleaning her face of residual tears.

"Impressive. You can make yourself cry?"

"If the need arises, women can do many things."

"Mhm… oh, let me remove the bars. Why don't you go sleep in my room, tonight? I never use it anymore anyway."

"Oh, thanks… that's nice of you."

"I uh… just thought you'd like a bed to sleep on, rather than hard obsidian."

"Aw, how sweet."

I glared at her, and she looked at her feet, mumbling "sorry" as I dematerialized the bars. I mentally slapped myself for making her sad, then led her to my bedroom. I nudged her in, closed the door behind her, but didn't bother to lock it.

"Herobrine?"

"What is it?"

"I'm hungry…"

"Oh, what would you like to eat?"

"Um… fish, please… and some vegetables."

"Can do. I'll be back with it."

So she did need to eat. Hoping it would stop after a while now that she was immortal, I went off to get the vegetables from a village, just taking some carrots and potatoes. I pulled a fishing rod from my inventory and pulled in a few cod, even catching a salmon. I went back, preparing the dish but leaving the salmon out, knowing she liked salmon sushi from her memories. I read a book on making sushi, some diagrams were shown as well. I began plating the cooked meal, and tossed the salmon into a deep-freeze freezer. I had Vin bring the meal to her as I picked up the book about humans, written by my vast army and multitude of spies, again and began reading from where I left off. I hadn't gotten very far in.

Humans can also be unpredictable in many ways, women especially, when they are feeling emotional. Be careful not to provoke them in any way, to keep injuries to a minimum. Do not make the same food every day, they will begin to not like it, or "become tired" of it.

As I continued to read, I noticed how my subjects had written the book as if they intended on keeping a human like they would a cat or a dog. Trying to salvage what I could that would be useful, I finished the book quickly, then tossed it into the small lava pool near the castle entrance. I looked at the few pages I had, then put them away in my shulker box. I teleported to see Kat eating her meal, and leaned on the wall, waiting. She noticed me after a few moments, and finished her mouthful before speaking.

"Oh, when did you get here?"

"Just a few seconds ago."

"Okay… so, I know this might be a really strange question to ask, but what time is it?"

"Here, it's about nine at night. On Earth, it's only been about an hour."

"Oh… right, I forgot time goes faster here…"

"So how long would a full Earth day be worth here?"

"About four years, maybe five, if we're talking Earth years."

"That's quite a bit more than I expected, to be honest."

"Wait, you, honest?"

"Yes? I am honest sometimes, Kat. I like to be honest with you."

"Then tell me, do you like me?"

"Of course I do. You will be a great advisor."

"I didn't mean as a friend, Herobrine," she said, "I meant, do you like me as more than just a friend?"

I glared at her, and she sighed, sounding almost relieved. Of course I liked her as more than a friend, she would be my advisor. I felt something strange to me gripping me within. Oh, she meant, did I love her? I chuckled, I did not love mortals, nor would I ever because of that one mortal woman, but then I realized I had made a rash move while on Earth to get her to be more at ease around me. I had made Kat immortal, so she wasn't a mortal any longer.

"Kat…"

"Hmm?"

"I think… perhaps, that I do like you. After the first woman I had contact with, and after what she did to me, I shut out everyone… and that's when I became a cold-blooded killer. I understand that you would be ecstatic if I loved you, but after that woman… I'm not sure I can love after what she did to me."

Kat stared, simply surprised by my words. She went to speak twice, both times only opening her mouth, not making any sound. She looked down at her plate, an angered look on her face. Finally, she breathed in deeply and sighed.

"Not every relationship is like that, Herobrine. When my mother met my father, they fell in love immediately… my mother never hurt my father, or vice versa, physically or emotionally."

"That's good for your parents. Perhaps I could meet them someday."

"If you looked at my memories, then… you'd know… they're both dead."

I saw a few tears slip down her face, but she finished her meal, set the plate on the table, and flopped back down on my bed, face first.

"Oh. Well, maybe you can introduce me sometime, then." She glared at me, and I did my best to look neutral, but she did look quite silly glaring at me while she was sprawled out on my bed. I smirked and continued. "Kat, we're immortal. If we were to die, we would be able to see each other in the death realm, and each other's families as well."

"You have a family?"

"No… not unless you consider me family, which I doubt."

"I don't consider you family, but I do consider you somewhat of an acquaintance."

"So we're on friendly terms, then?"

"Yeah, you could say that."

She moved to the head of the bed and snuggled down under the blankets. I left the room, taking the plate with me, Vin taking the plate for me as I went to my throne. I had many questions to ask Kat, but it could wait until she woke. After all, I had plenty of knowledge myself, she was going to be my advisor, just my advisor.

Right?