A/N

To Zul, Nightmare06, and realkhyz thanks for the comments.

You guys kind of got me in trouble, I had written a lot ahead of time so I can post slowly on a schedule, but I got excited and posted a lot more, sooner than I had wanted to.

I'm glad you are enjoying the story and I just hope I can keep it up.

Chapter 3 - The disappearance of Elise

It was frightening to Vayne how normal it felt waking up in this room now. One could grow accustomed to just about anything given enough time, this was a belief Vayne held to be true. Still, she didn't want to become accustomed to this, waking up in captivity wasn't something that one should simply get used to but she had.

It had become a routine, Vayne would wake up in the morning either on her own or through Elise's prodding and the spider queen would have food waiting for her in the dining room, it was always something different and it always tasted great. The food was like a currency and in exchange for being fed Vayne would talk to Elise.

At first Vayne hated it, she didn't want to be anywhere near the Spider Queen let alone hold a conversation with her, but after a few days the whole thing had this air of normalcy to it and shameful as it was to admit she began to look forward to it. It gave her morning a certain life that had been missing from them even before she had been kidnapped.

That isn't to say that she is enjoying her particular predicament, escape is still on the forefront of her mind even if the task has been made doubly difficult by her location. In their morning talks Vayne had tried to pry information on Noxus Prime from Elise in order to try and give herself a mental map, though the information Elise gave her wasn't very helpful. There were a lot of land marks that Vayne couldn't make out by name alone so they were useless to her, but she couldn't give up outside of Elise just letting her go, this was the best bet she had.

Vayne sat up in her- the bed and pushed the covers off of herself, rolling to her feet her actions much more confident unlike her first timid actions upon waking up in this for the first time days ago, she moved to the door curious to find it slightly ajar. It was not unusual for Elise to enter the room while Vayne slept, but usually it was to wake her, it was uncommon for Elise to enter the room without saying anything to her though, if she had done it before, then she had done a better job of covering her tracks. Vayne for her part didn't think much of it and instead pushing the door open, retracing steps that had become almost practiced by now, she moved down the stairs onto the bottom floor and moved towards the kitchen where she knew Elise would be waiting for her. She always glanced at the door as she passed by it in the morning, knowing that it was unlocked and knowing that her first steps towards freedom lied beyond it, but knowing as well that moving towards it would be a mistake on her part. For now Vayne would fall in line, the kitchen had been her initial destination and it would stay that way.

She could feel that something was off as she neared the dining room, usually the room was well lit by the early morning sunlight that flooded in through the windows that Elise would open, but there was a gloom that had set in the hall as the windows remained closed, Vayne stepped into the dining room and found that it was void of life the large table was empty, no food and no spider queen.

She walked deeper into the large empty room heading for the double doors on the other side that she knew led into the kitchen, which was just as dark and deserted as the dining room, she looked around at the multiple counters and large expensive machines that lined the walls. Refrigerators that looked like they could stock food for an army, and oven and stove combinations that looked like they belonged on the set of a cooking show.

She could see meat taken out and set on the counter along with other random ingredients and water had been ran recently in one of the sinks. It meant that Elise had been here, and had been about to go through her morning routine before something came up. Something that she was still occupied with. Briefly Vayne wondered if she should be worried, if not for Elise than for herself. Perhaps someone had found out she was here and any minute now soldiers from the Noxian army would be coming to apprehend her, escorting her straight to the arena where her execution would be held as a public spectacle.

Vayne shook her head, perhaps faith in her kidnapper was a stupid thing to have, but she didn't think anything would happen to her under Elise's roof. She trusted the spider queen to keep her safe. But she still wondered for the whereabouts of Elise. Though wondering wouldn't reveal to her anything, so instead Vayne picked up the meat from the counter returning it to the refrigerator which she assumed it came from and then she dug around for something to eat before returning to her room. She'd just wait for the Spider Queen's return before she did anything else.

Oddly enough the thought of taking this chance to escape, never once crossed her mind.

Elise didn't return the next day, or the day after and it was becoming harder for Vayne to just go about her day without becoming more and more worried.

The day before she had tried looking for her, opening many of the doors in the large house checking through study after study, random guest rooms and bathrooms. No matter where she looked she couldn't find Elise. Though if she said that she exhausted all of her options she would be lying.

There was one door that she had not looked behind, a door that she had tried walking through before but Elise had a knack for appearing over her shoulder when she was about to stumble across something that Elise didn't want her seeing. It had started with Elise stopping her from walking out the front door by appearing atop the steps behind her, but with this door it had been a little different. Vayne could remember quite clearly how Elise had warned her.

"Aren't you a curious little thing?" The spider queen had said crossing her arms and fixing Vayne with a look her eyes very slightly narrowed.

Vayne looked from the spider queen to the door and back again, for the first time she felt that she had Elise on the back foot, the Spider Queen wanted her to stay out of something and Vayne would push it just for the sake of showing Elise just how she was always made to feel.

"Something in here you want to keep hidden?" She asked playing up to the curiosity that Elise was accusing her of. "Perhaps secrets from the isles."

Elise nodded. Vayne hadn't exactly been expecting an actual response.

"The less you know Vayne, the better. I'd really hate for things to become complicated because your eyes land on something that they really didn't need to."

Vayne knew a threat when she heard one, so much for getting the upper hand.

Now that the Spider Queen was gone, Vayne found herself standing in front of the door again. It was the only place she hadn't looked, and just standing in front of it made her feel uneasy, as though opening it would change something in her, and it wasn't just Elise's warning ringing in her ears.

She supposed the uneasy feeling was a sign in and of itself that she might just need to take the risk. She wanted answers, felt like she needed them at this point, and this was how she would get them.

She set her hand on the knob and felt her nerves kick in, gripping her heart with a bit of fear before her experience kicked in, her breathing evening out and her grip on the knob tightening. There was no stopping her now.

Vayne pushed the door open and despite the experience she had, she still felt fear raising back up into her as the light from the hall flooded into the room allowing her to see what was inside.

To say she had found what she was looking for was an understatement. She had found a lot more than that.

The room was another study, bookshelves lined the walls stocked and nearly overflowing with tomes and other oddities. There was a large desk in the middle of the room and sat behind it in a reclined chair was Elise.

Something was very off about her. She was nude as the day she was born and it was in this state of undress that Vayne could see a degree of sag to her skin that wasn't there before. A closer look at her face showed wrinkles and strands of gray in her hair that seemed to have appeared overnight.

"Ngh." The Spider Queen let out a soft murmur and squirmed in her seat, a translucent green aura appearing around her.

For the first time Vayne noticed the idol on Elise's desk that seemed to be pumping magic into her being. She could see almost instantly the effects of the magic. Elise's skin tightening the youth returning to her hair regaining its volume and she lost the sag in areas where she had gained it. Vayne's eyes lingered where they shouldn't watching as the perk returned to Elise's breast. That healthy jiggle when the spider queen let out another distressed murmur and squirmed about.

Vayne felt her heart beating fast for entirely different reasons now, her cheeks were ablaze and no matter how loudly her brain screamed for her to look away she just couldn't avert her eyes. Not until she heard Elise's tired voice speak up.

"You shouldn't be here."

Vayne's's heart nearly jumped into her throat when her eyes scanned up to find Elise starring right at her, her cheeks were flushed, not as much as Vayne's but still very much flushed and her eyes seemed to be a bit glossy. She looked exhausted.

Vayne opened her mouth to speak but then closed it, she couldn't find any words to force past her dry lips so she didn't even try, she took a step back and pulled the door closed, blocking off her view of Elise and her luscious form.

She hurried back to her room in complete silence. Her thoughts running away with her. Images of Elise's nude body, and thoughts of what she'd have been able to see had the desk not been between them.

Vayne didn't get much sleep that night, a pounding headache made sure of that.

She woke up sick.

Which to be honest was something she had seen coming. She only got headaches when she was on the verge of getting sick, and last night she had gotten a particularly nasty one. Well maybe that was a lie, but she seemed to remember her head throbbing every time she roughly tried to shake it free of thoughts of Elise. Perhaps it was the unrest in her emotions that had caused her sickness now, the thoughts she knew she shouldn't be having running rampant through her mind.

She sat up, feet hanging over the edge of the bed provided for her, she placed her hand on her chest feeling her now calm heart beat and remembering how hard it had been pounding the night before, how loudly it had sounded in her ears.

Vayne pushed herself to her feet standing straight, and instantly regretting how quickly she had gotten up. Her head began to throb painfully and she felt dizzy. Her hand raised to the sides of her head massaging at her temples and trying to balance herself.

It was all there. The runny nose, the fever and the overall state of feeling like complete shit.

Vayne sniffed, and made her way slowly to the door. She needed something to drink and while she didn't feel hungry at all she still needed to eat something. She hadn't fed herself properly in the days that Elise had been missing... Vayne didn't even know if she could say the woman had been missing anymore. Rejuvenating was a better word. It was still fresh on Vayne's mind, the vision of Elise's body going from old to young with a surge of magic. Her curves regaining that youth in a matter of moments. It did things to Vayne that she couldn't really explain.

Her mind was still wandering when she made her way into the dining hall, so much so that she didn't notice that some of the windows were open and that it was much brighter than it had been the past couple of days. However she did notice that the door to the kitchen was open.

She froze starring at the open space wondering how she should proceed. For the first time since she had opened the door to Elise's study did Vayne realize what she had truly done. She'd been warned against opening that door after all and she had no clue how Elise was going to react now that the she was back on her feet.

Vayne debated turning right back around and going back up to her room and awaiting her fate, but she knew better than to run from things. She moved to the kitchen door peeking into it carefully, she couldn't see Elise right away but the open refrigerator door led Vayne to believe that the Spider Queen was simply hidden from few.

Vayne could hear faintly the sounds of her moving things around before Elise came into view holding in one hand the meat from the other day. She closed the refrigerator and turned to the counter, stopped when she noticed Vayne standing in the door way.

The Night Hunter watched as the Spider Queen's face lit up at the sight of her before her expression changed her brow furrowing and her head tilting at Vayne. It seemed Elise remembered what Vayne had done, because suddenly Elise was upon her raising a hand so suddenly that Vayne flinched closing forgetting all of her training.

She felt Elise's hands on her but not in a violent manner. She felt first the Spider Queen's touch on her forehead and then the hand slide down to her cheek and slowly Vayne opened her eyes to see Elise scrutinizing her.

"You're sick." It wasn't a question and in response all Vayne could really give was a sniffle.

For the second time in so many days, the meat was returned to the refrigerator and Elise walked past her beckoning to Vayne once she was in the door way. "Come, let's get you cleaned up and into warmer clothes." Elise said turning to walk before pausing and looking to Vayne with a teasing sort of grin. "You've been in need of a bath anyway."

Vayne supposed the Spider Queen wasn't angry with her, but now she had the urge to punch her.