Okay, Ya'all must not have liked chapter 7? Why not? Let me know please. On the other hand here is a nice little chapter for you all! Hope you enjoy and tell me what you think!

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When Erik came home Anna was back in the room he had put her in when she was sick. He gently knocked on her door. There was no answer, he open the door just a little bit to peer inside and saw that she was soundlessly sleeping. He walked into the room and laid the lockets on a stand near her bed. He debated giving her a good night like a father would for his little girl, but he realized given the circumstances it may be quiet awkward for her. So he left the room and went to his study.

Morning came and the sun shined through the windows of Anna's room. She slowly got up from her bed and closed her curtains. "If he could be so rude to leave a quest so late at night I'm sure it would be fine for me to sleep in an hour" She though to her self as she made her way back to her bed. Then on her night stand she saw the locket. She looked at it for a moment and couldn't believe it was there. She picked it up and opened it there was the picture she knew would be there and then the picture she hadn't had there before. It was a picture of her mother, but in this picture her mother was much younger than she remembered. She looked at the picture of her mother for a long moment and then back to the picture of the young man. Then with a hopeless sigh she closed the locket. A knock on the door startled her. Then something clicked in her mind. He got it for her. Erik got it for her. "But how? The house would be locked it the government had it." she though to herself. There was a knock on the door again

"Oh ummm…" Anna rushed to find her robe and covered her night dress with it. "You can come in"

One of the servants came in the door. "The master wishes to have you join him for brunch when your ready for the day, should I tell him that your coming?" "Umm…yes….please do…"Anna responded. The butler left and Anna changed into her dress. This time she added her locket, which she should have never left behind.

She came to the table at brunch and sat down. Erik was already at the table. "Thank you" she said. He gave her that coy confused face. "For what?" he asked. "The locket and the picture." "oh yes, that, your very welcome." They were silent for a long time. "How did you get this picture?" Anna asked him breaking the silence. "I've had it" Erik responded. "I've had it for a very long time." "How did you know her? How did you know my mother?" Anna asked. "I told you, I loved a women very much, and I had made plans for her to live in this very place in the room you have stayed in since you came knocking on my door. That woman was your mother, Christine Diae. She had another love in life... Raoul De'Changy. That's who she married, that's who she chose to raise her child with."

Anna looked down at the table where the food had been laid out elegantly. "Then she became a tramp and had a thing like me…" "What are you talking about?" Erik was surprised she would even think of something like that to say. "My mother got pregnant by some other man, and…" "That man was not a stranger to your mother." Erik interrupted her. "I know who he is. You mother had once loved him very much!"

"Then I want to meet him! I want to know the man who my mother loved so much that she could bare a child with but not marry!" She stood up in her seat "That is not what it was like." Erik said again. "How do you know?" Anna yelled. "I want to meet him." Anna said now a bit calmer. "You have" Erik said. Erik realized this wasn't the best response. "You will again...soon. Now, sit down, eat…and tell me about this young man in your locket." Anna took a deep breath and sat down she put something on her plate and took a small bite before she started explaining another long story.

ooooOOOooo its one of those annoying cliff hangers!!