Sequel: This is a sequel to "What Lies Hidden". Please read that first!

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Katsura Hoshino owns it… I just enjoy twisting her ideas for my own warped amusement…

Warning: … D. Gray - Man is in its self bloody… so…

Spoilers: Some …This chapter goes up to chapter 204, so this will by my little warped and twisted rewriting of those chapters…

Portuguese Translator: BelleTiger BT (Your so awesome!)

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Updated: 7/22/2011

- Neah speaking to Ellen or Crown Clown will look like this

- Anything that are Memories will be like this. And if it's a major memory then it will also be separation from everything else

If you have any suggestions that might help to make things clearer, please let me know


Ellen's silver eyes were staring at the walls of her cell, her pink lips set in a straight line. The young woman pressed closer to Timcanpy, who was also bond and restrained with spells and chains.

"Remember Ellen Walker, everything that happens from this point on is for your own good."

The white haired Exorcist closed her eyes and leaned her head against her master's golden golem. Tim tried to move to cuddle with her, no doubt feeling her despair, but the chains kept the rather large golem from moving more then a few inches.

A soft broken smile twitched at the corners of her lips, Ellen's eyes opening just a fraction. A tear broke lose from her white eyelashs, slowly sliding down her pale white cheek, following along the scar that was carved into the left side of her face.

"The name Ellen was a take off the name Allen."

How could he have known that? How could he have known any of it…?

That man looked just like her Mana; he acted and spoke just like the man that Ellen saw as a father. Though the Millennium Earl couldn't…

Ellen shuddered and her heart ached...

…He couldn't be her Mana, because the man had died, he was dead

The young woman curled more into herself as her mind floated back to the one day that had changed her life forever. That day, that horrible day so many years ago…

She had gotten separated from the kind traveling clown, lost within those busy city streets. She had been under the man's care for exactly five years to the day, had became dependent on him. The young girl could barely remember what her life had been like before the man had taken her from the hell that had been her life before…

Young twelve year old Ellen Walker had changed so much since meeting the kind man that she now called father. Her rather foul language was now nothing but polite words. Her lips were always smiling instead of frowning. Mana Walker loved his adopted daughter and had turned the once unruly street urchin into quite the well spoken young lady.

Since the day the clown had taken her in, Ellen had never been out of his sight. She had never wandered far from her father's side, because she had always been afraid that…

That she would be left behind…

But then Mana had always been sure to stay close to her, to never let her to far away from his side. The clown had told her to stay close to him and that day Ellen hadn't listened. The young girl that she had been then had been determined to buy her father a gift, because that day…

Because that day had been a special day, it had been December 25th, it had been Christmas day.

But even more then that, it had been the day that her beloved Mana had taken her in, had become her father...

Ellen's memories of the following events became a little blurred once she had ventured away from Mana, they were foggy up until the moment that she watched her beloved father die...

Then the Earl came…

The young woman's right hand rose and covered her left eye, the white haired Exorcist trembling as her pale white fingers traced the scar that she had received that night…

That's right.

The Earl was trying to confuse her. That horrible man was using her pain and love for her beloved foster father to confuse her, to make her doubt herself. He was masquerading as Mana Walker to break her… to…

It was all lies.

The curse carved into the left side of her face was her proof that Mana Walker was dead.

The Earl must have had that one Noah with the white hair, Wisely if Ellen remembered right, get the information about her name…

But…

"I heard that you are refusing to eat." A voice broke the young Exorcist out of her thoughts. Ellen's silver eyes blinking and turning to look to the open door to her cell. Howard Link stood at the open door, his dark eyes looking at her with a cold look.

The young woman frowned and turned her eyes away, pressing closer to Timcanpy and completely content to ignore the Inspectors presence. This seemed to irritate the Inspector, the man growled and stormed into the room a long moment later. The white haired woman couldn't stop herself from flinching when the blond Crow pushed a large white ceramic bowl into her face.

The young woman hesitantly took the bowl, uncurling and set it on her lap. Ellen removed the lid slowly…

White rice greeted her confused silver eyes, with 'Eat shit Leverier' written on the top…

A soft pained smile pulled at her pink lips then, the young woman's heart once again aching within her chest.

"Eat." Link growled out angrily, the man taking a heavy seat on one of the chairs within Ellen's rather large cell. The young woman sighed and began to eat slowly, her stomach remembering that it hadn't gotten food in the last few days.

Silence filled the stone chamber, Ellen refusing to look up from her rice, the Inspector also refusing to look at her, his face turned to the now closed door. When the blond Crow finally spoke Ellen turned away from her food, her silver eyes chancing a glance at the blond.

"The Order has questions for you Ellen Walker." The Inspector said in an even tone, the man still not turning to face her. "Questions about your 'interactions' with the Noah…" the blond continued just barely above a whisper. Ellen could feel her pale cheeks heating; her embarrassment over what the Inspector was implying making the Exorcist loose her appetite. Her shame over her rather odd relationship with the Noah of Pleasure making the young woman blush darker.

If the Order was to find out about it, well Ellen was sure that they already considered her a traitor… but if they were to find out that she had been having sex with-

"The potion that Chief Komui put into the Black Orders water," the Crow continued seemingly talking to no one, Ellen unsure if he had taken notice of her reddening cheeks. The young woman swallowed and pulled just a little closer to her Master's golem, taking whatever support she could get, waiting for the Inspector to continue speaking. "I am not sure if anyone has told you about the rather troubling side effects…"

This got Ellen's attention, the white haired woman turning her confused silver eyes back on to the Crow, her pink lips twisting into a frown. "Side… effects…?"

The Inspector sighed heavily, the young man still facing the door, though the man was now looking at her out of the corners of his eyes. "Yes, the side effects. When you returned after running off the first time, you reported that nothing happened… if that's true then you have nothing to worry about. But-"

Ellen's petite frame stiffened and she could feel a nerves fear start to rise in the pit of her stomach. The young woman terrified to hear what the Inspector was going to say next. "In the women effected by the potion… it seems to make them more… fruitful."

The Crow stood from his seat and turned to face her, the look in his eyes cold, his mouth set in an uncaring line. Ellen found it hard to look at the man now, the young woman not understanding why the Inspector was telling her this, though Ellen took notice of the small amount of concern in his voice when he spoke again. "For the women that were effected, there has been a hundred percent conception rate - But considering what you have told your supervisor, you have nothing to worry about."

With that the man turned to go, the Exorcist swallowing the lump in her throat.

"Ah yes, by the time I allow you to leave my bed menina, I'll have given you an even greater gift then that power..."

Terror rose and seemed to turn her blood into led. Her heart twisting and Ellen felt like she was going to be sick. Her silver eyes widening with her mortification over what the Inspector was implying.

"But if you were lying then, for what ever reasons, I am sure that a deal could be made if you were to decide to cooperate in your interrogations…"

The young woman opened her mouth to speak, her petite frame shaking. If what the Crow said was true then…

Then…

Her worse fear…

What would the Order do to her if she was…

Oh god.

"The Third Exorcists… Thank you for trying to help them." Howard Link said in an even tone, the man pausing just short of the door. "We were all friends once; having gown up on the streets together…we were all close…" The blond continued just under his breath, the man speaking so quietly that Ellen almost missed the words.

Her heart hurt even worse now.

She understood what it felt like to have nothing, then to form a bond with someone, only to have them taken from you…

It was horrible.

Ellen was horrid.

Because all she had been doing up until now was hating without knowing why. The Thirds had been part Akuma, but then they had also been human

They had been someone's friends.

Family

That feeling that the young woman had come to associate with the Fourteenth started to rise then, Ellen shuddered and closed her eyes against the growing darkness within her. She could feel it, purring soothingly and whispering softly in her ears…

"I am the Noah of Destruction, whose true name is Neah."

Ellen could feel that darkness trying to wrap around her, rising to choke her and drown her…

"Welcome my precious Apostle, Fourteenth in the Clan of Noah. ~ The Noah of Destruction. ~ Awaken with me; my Apostle… let me cut the strings that tie you, like how I couldn't do for him. ~"

The Fourteenth had sounded so happy, so utterly thrilled when he had spoken. His happiness had been so genuine

…Like a child, he had sounded like nothing more then a child

The Fourteenth…. The man that had been the younger brother of Mana Walker…

What had he been talking about? What had the Fourteenth meant by the words that he had spoken? What… what did he mean be 'puppet'…?

"He was also once a mere puppet, who's master manipulated into performing a twisted and bloody parody, and you too 'Allen', you too have been made into a puppet by the same master without even realizing it…"

A puppet..?

Ellen wasn't anyone's puppet, and what did he mean by a bloody parody…? Could the Fourteenth have been talking about his betrayal of the other Noah…?

And if so then… why did he make it sound like he had been forced to betray the others?

The darkness rose faster then, that same giddiness twisting and infecting every nerve, but this time there was something else… A deep sadness and mourning just bellow that twisted happiness…

That laugh rang out and echoed in her ears, but now the young woman could hear the aching madness behind the happiness… Ellen could feel the pain

Ellen could barely hear the cell door open, could barely hear the sounds of someone speaking. The young woman did feel it when someone lifted her shivering frame up from the cold stone floor, the Exorcist could feel the chill that seemed to crawl along her skin at this persons touch…

Then the real pain came…

Pain.

Fear.

Her pink lips parted to scream, but no sound came. Her petite body ridged in the arms of the man holding her, every muscle in her body locked and tight from the overpowering fear and the burning pain running through her veins. The Exorcist's head was thrown back, her silver eyes wide and unseeing…

The young woman couldn't even breathe!

Then the prescience that was causing her this fear and that pain was gone, Ellen curling into herself. The Exorcist's silver eyes were wide and her slight frame quacking as the young woman watched the thing attack Howard Link through panic filled eyes…

The Inspector made a sound half way between a scream of pain and something else…

It sounded like this thing was ripping out his eyes, but Ellen's vision was too blurred to see…

What was it doing to him-?

"Good night little guard dog." a wicked voice whispered, the sound of it alone brought an even greater fear into her heart. Following that fear was panic as Ellen realized that this man was going to kill Howard Link.

Ellen forced her shaking body to her unsteady feet, her sight blurring even more and that horrid fear was making her blood run cold. The young woman's lips twisted into an angry frown…

Because fear didn't do anyone any good, anger on the other hand-

She had never felt so afraid, her mind muddled with such a soul cutting terror

No… this fear wasn't just her own… some of it was coming from that darkness…

Ellen's silver eyes narrowed and the words were hissing past her lips before she could think about what she was doing. The young woman's mind, in her moment of fear, reverting back to a time long, long ago…

"STOP!"

Before she had met Mana …

A time years ago, when all she had been able to feel was hate and anger, because if she had felt anything else she wouldn't have survived-

Crown Clown invoked as her mind pulled up a hell that Ellen would rather not remember. The young woman remembering what it felt like to never feel safe or loved, to be a seven year old girl on the streets-

And that circus hadn't been any better…

Her Innocence was quivering and resonating with her terror, the second Ellen's mind realized that she had to stop this thing from killing Howard Link, it lashed out. Crown Clown attacking the thing that was the source of the young woman's fear, because unlike all those years ago, it now could do something about the horrid fear Ellen was feeling, because Ellen was no longer a weak malnourished child….

Ellen's sight started to clear a second later, her terrified silver eyes widening even more when she saw that Crown Clown had imbedded one of its ribbons into the Cardinal's forehead…

The Exorcist fought to catch her breath, her heart twisting in her chest. Oh god

She killed him.

Ellen Walker murdered the Cardinal.

"To still be able to move now, you must possess truly amazing spiritual power." The man spoke and Ellen's heart clenched, that fear once again taking over, the young woman finding it that much harder to breath as the Cardinal took a slow step over the unmoving body of the Inspector.

How-?

The man's mouth twisted up into a cold smile, a few more steps brought him before her, his hands raising and coming to rest on her paling cheeks. "Love. Fellowship. Sadness. Despair. There is no being more unevenly and deeply connected to Innocence as you…"

This thing's thumbs were then caressing her cheeks almost lovingly, Ellen's petite frame shaking as her pupils dilated in terror. This man's touch was almost gentle, but the young woman could feel her skin itch with the need to get as far away from this man as physically possible. "You really did grow up to become a beautiful Exorcist, Ellen."

The man's mouth twisted into a cold and unbearable smile, his eyes narrowing and burning into Ellen's terrified silver. "Don't be afraid, my poor little Noah, just relaxed… Let me make everything better …Ellen." The Cardinal hushed almost sweetly. "Everything will be much clearer when I'm done…"

Pain and terror…

…Images flashing before Ellen's wide silver eyes…

Her masters cocky grin burning into her mind. The young woman's pink lips parted once again, clear crystal tears sliding down her cheeks as the Exorcist watched this man, the Cardinal, put a pistol to the Exorcist General's head…

"I should have known-"

Her Master's voice rang out within her mind…

"You did a real number on that brat didn't you?"

No!

"He wanted to give her something that she wouldn't have been able to have otherwise…"

Please!

"You fucking bastard, it took us a while to figure out exactly what you did to her."

Please-! Don't make her-!

"How did you find them? Mana and I-"

Don't make her watch! Please!

"-He should have realized that he couldn't-"

Bang

NO!

A bright flash of light broke the young woman out of the visions of her master's death; Ellen's trembling frame sliding to the floor as the blast tore the Cardinal away from her…

"Como você se atreve- {How dare you-}" A familiar voice seethed out, the tone lined with venom and hate.

"I've been waiting," That smooth voice growled as thin arms were then wrapping around her neck and holding her close. "Seven thousand years-! Eu vou fazer você pagar-! {I will make you pay-!}"

The rage behind those words made Ellen shudder, even with her world consisting of nothing but that deep seeded terror…

"Ellen - Ellen -? Shh, its ok, we're here now." A familiar girl's voice shushed her, and the young woman felt her body start to relax as her clouded mind started to clear. Ellen's silver eyes fluttering closed, more tears flowing down her pale white cheeks.

"Ah, and which one were you again? You Noah are all alike..." The Cardinal asked in an amused voice. The man pushing himself up from the cracked stone floor, his form twisting and taking on a new look.

Ellen's silver eye snapped open as a horribly familiar green glow filled the room, the color fading to white a second later. The young woman looked upon the Thing that had attacked her and Howard Link.

Now the Cardinal looked more like…

"A Lost One-" No, he wasn't a Lost One, no he must be a- "An Accommodator?" the young Exorcist choked out, her voice wavering. The young white haired woman unable to turn her eyes away from this Thing until the first voice spoke again.

"Ah, not quiet menina." Ellen's wide silver eyes turned to the man that had spoken, her heart fluttering in her chest as the Noah of Pleasure pushed himself to his feet and took a few steps closer to her and a deeply frowning Road…

"This 'person' is neither human nor compatible. This is an Independent Innocence, which exists solely to protect the 'Heart'" Mikk spoke in a completely calm voice that earlier venom gone from his tone, Tyki Mikk's golden eyes not once looking away from his opponent.

The younger girl pulling her closer when the Thing giggled wickedly, its glowing green eyes narrowing at the Noah that was standing between it and its target.

"The Earl calls it Apocryphos." Road whispered softly, her arms tightening their hold on Ellen's pale neck, one of her small hands petting at the young Exorcist's soft white hair soothingly. "We won't let it hurt you again Ellen. ~"

The Thing, Apocryphos, laughed cruelly. Then titled his head and grinned rather maliciously. The monstrosity sliding into a stance of some kind, like he was waiting for the perfect moment to attack…

"Oh? And what do you parasites think you can do to stop me?" The Thing hissed out, a twisted amusement heavy in his tone. "Nothing that's what, to Noah, my existence is equal to that of a grim reaper. Now be good cockroaches and give me back my little toy…"

Mikk growled warningly, the bastard ducking an attack from Apocryphos in the next second. The Noah's mouth twisting into a wickedly wide and cold grin as this left an opening. The bastard landed a good solid blow to the Innocence's middle, sending it flying back and into the far wall of Ellen's cell.

Tyki Mikk didn't pause; his right hand raising and a powerful blast rocking the stone walls around them. Ellen felt relief wash over her, the young woman was so sure that this Apocryphos couldn't have survived such a blast…

But the young woman choked in panic when Apocryphos emerged from the ground behind Mikk, the Noah turning a second to late, the perverted bastard was struck and sent into the opposite wall with a loud crash.

Tyki Mikk was quick to recover, the Noah's mouth twisting into an enraged snarl and made to bring his hands up to unleash another blast, but the Noah of Pleasure was again to slow, or maybe it was that this Independent Innocence was just to fast…

Apocryphos took hold of Mikk's hands and forced them back to his sides. "Don't think," The Innocence hissed out, its tone cold and spiteful. The young Exorcist could see the blood dripping down from the two men's hands…

"To Noah, my existence is equal to that of a grim reaper."

"That I'm the same as all those inexperienced Innocence you've destroyed so far." Apocryphos laughed cruelly, Mikk growling and his gold eyes were flashing with rage, but Ellen could see the pain and determination in that gold…

The young Exorcist could see the white feather type things twisting through Mikk's hands…

Tyki Mikk's rather irritating ability of going through things didn't work on Innocence…

Her wide silver eyes clouded with the visions that she had seen of her master…

Rage rose and Ellen pushed the smaller Noah away from her. The young woman's pink lips pulling into an enraged snarl as Ellen invoked her Innocence, her silver eyes narrowing and burning with her anger.

The thought that her ankles were still chained to the wall didn't even cross her mind as the young white haired woman shot forward, Crown Clown shooting out a white ribbon to shatter the chain that would stop her in her attack.

"YOU!" Ellen could hear an enraged voice scream, the young woman barely realizing that it was her own voice a second later. Apocryphos turned and jumped back and away from the Noah of Pleasure. Its glowing green eyes flashing with glee and his mouth twisted into a pleased smile that she was coming to it.

Ellen didn't fucking care about the look on this twisted and horrid Things face…

"Ellen! You can't get near Apocryphos!" Road called out to her, but Ellen didn't listen.

No, all the young woman cared about was making this Thing pay-

Her invoked left hand shot forward, her clawed fingers wrapping around its neck, the speed of her attack pushing Apocryphos against another wall-

The Exorcist had only a moment to take notice of the grin on the bastard's face before its own hand was shooting forward, its cold white fingers taking hold of her forehead, its grin widening. "Ah, I remember now. You are a parasitic type, so you were able to look inside me…"

Fear.

Pain.

"My poor little toy Noah…"

Ellen grit her teeth and forced her silver eyes to stay open, this Things grin widening in complete amusement. "You can't hurt me with Innocence." It purred sweetly. Ellen's pale skin was itching once again, her heart twisting as that horrid fear made her unable to move…

Crown Clown pulsed and quaked, when the young white haired Exorcist's Innocence was un-invoking, once again looking more like white feathers as it pulled back and away from Apocryphos.

"That's right, poor little tainted Innocence… concede to me-" The Thing giggled sadistically. "Did you know, dear Ellen, that this is Crown Clown's wish? He wants this for Ellen-"


"Lies!"


That darkness within her was growling and twisting in its fear and hate. That darkness that was the Fourteenth rose and Ellen couldn't-

Couldn't-

Rage rose to mix with her fear and her pain.

"It makes me wanna puke...Your touch makes me sick…" the young Exorcist hissed out, her voice lined with her anger, her hate for this Thing before her. "You fucking bastard! I'm not your toy!" Ellen shrieked, her silver eyes burning hatefully into angered glowing green. "You killed my master!"

The next second was nothing but a blur.

Apocryphos's eyes narrowed in rage, his fist rising to strike her-

But Road jumped between her and the enraged Innocence. The Noah of Dreams taking the blow in the chest, the force of the attack sending Ellen and the smaller girl flying back…

"Ah, the Ninth Follower… If memory serves me correctly, you will be an absolute pain-"

Talismans circled Apocryphos, making the Thing pause in what he was saying. The Innocence turned to frown at the one controlling the binding magic. Ellen also turned her eyes from the unconscious Noah in her arms to look at the one who had come to their rescue…

Howard Link was barely up, his right hand held before him shakily. The Crows left arm barely keeping the man upright. "Timcanpy-" Link forced out between clenched teeth, the effort of holding the rouge Innocence obviously taking up almost all of his remaining strength. "I'm going to… remove your…bonds…"

Ellen parted her lips to call out to the blond Crow, but at the same moment the spells holding her master's golem faded, Timcanpy's mouth opening and an explosion once again rocked the stone walls, rocked the inter building.

The next thing Ellen was aware of was the fact that she was inside Tim's mouth and suspended high above the Black Order…

The young woman holding the unconscious Road to her chest…

Then Ellen's vision blurred and the young woman also fell unconscious…

The last thing that the young white haired Exorcist heard was Mikk's deep baritone calling out in panic…


~~~ Portugues translations from BelleTiger BT~~~

Como você se atreve- = How dare you-

Eu vou fazer você pagar-! = I will make you pay-!


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