Disclaimer: I do not own Tin Man, But rest assured I owned the rest of the other characters in this story to spice things up. *Big grin* Enjoy.

Chapter 14:

Azkadellia was dressed in another black dress that was shoulderless, she walked pass the unfamiliar walls thinking... this was the place she could start off with. She built a whole new self and marry this man. She had only been writing letters to him, but he was the one she knew would be perfect for her. Finally arriving today, she freshened herself up ready to meet her husband to be.

The oak doors open to reveal an elder man who looked like he was well into his 40's, he was bald and plump. Azkadellia only curtsied at the sight of the man, she had never expected him to be handsome or charming and she was prepared.

"Lord Edgar?"

"Ah! You must be Azkadellia."

The man came forth to kiss her hand, as he smiled to be in the presence of such a beautiful woman. She was right, Lord Edgar was a nice man indeed.

"It is to my utter most regret to inform you that it was not me who wrote you that letter."

Azkadellia was surprised indeed as she merely stood there, before she replied.

"So who wrote it?"

"I did, beautiful."

Beside the door stood a young man, he was around her age and charming as he was devilishly handsome. One look into his eyes, and she could tell he wanted nothing more than to have a beautiful lady at his hand. A trophy collector. He must have been the anxious one, and perhaps the person least likely to have wrote that letter.

"...I must have been mistaken. Are you sure?"

Azkadellia did not flinch when she asked the question, but to her surprise the man pulled her close to him as he said in a light-hearted tone yet, his eyes carried something more sinister. She knew it, but this was her punishment. She had killed so many innocent people she would have been punished ages ago and this was probably her living hell and perhaps this would be the life she had to lead.

"Surely you ought to believe me?"

His hold was tight and rather painful, she looked at him with a defeated smile. She laid her hand on his chest as she leaned her head into the hollow of his neck as she replied

"I guess so."

He merely swooped down and kissed her cheek as he walked out without another word. His father on the other hand, changed his manner as he replied in a very deep dark tone.

"You will not anger my son... and consequences of running is far worse..."

Azkadellia resigned to her fate as she was excused, she didn't expect much kindness anywhere, after all she was the wrong one... at fault and never loved. She was accustomed to it already, she was going to get use to it now. The moment she stepped out, she saw her fiancee kicking a man his age as he said

"Did I not tell you to make the letters sound like me? You dumb flith!"

Azkadellia walked briskily towards him as she said in her coldest tone.

"What are you doing?"

The man was surely handsome, but his smirk made him handsome outside but twistedly ugly internally.

"Teaching my servant. You have a problem princess?"

Azkadellia was slightly afraid but she didn't back away as she replied

"Yes, I am disturbed. Now leave the man alone."

The man smirked as he removed his foot from his servant as he used his two hands to pinch her cheeks together as he said in a soft but dangerous tone

"I'd think that old man would have warned you, not to cross me..."

It was painful as he was pressing his fingers against her cheeks rather hard, but her cold eyes bore into his eyes. She wasn't going to back down from this fight, she had enough of hurting people and she wished to make that change.

"You are lucky I am willing to marry you darling... As former dark queen you are one fine cold specimen. I will enjoy you throughly when we are to be wedded two weeks from now. Enjoy your life while you can... Azkadellia."

With that he removed his fingers and sure enough her cheeks were red and painful. The man kissed her roughly on her lips before removing himself from the hallway. Azkadellia saw all this happen, her knees sank and gave way.

She felt like she was truly living her punishment, and yet she was still scared. Tears were streaking down her eyes and her bruised cheeks, she was surprised by her new fiancee's behaviour and he would be violent... there was no guarantee for it.

The servant was crawling towards her slowly, he seemed like he was speechless. She saw he that he was a relatively handsome man as well, he tried to smile as he placed a hand on her hand. She felt like she was looking at Ambrose when he tried to comfort her, so she smiled back at him and asked,

"I am fine... Are you alright?"

"Jack..."

"You were the one who wrote the letter?"

The man nodded as he replied in a very worried tone,

"I wrote some bits to be cruel and evil... why did you still come?"

Azkadellia thought back, surely he did sound rather scary but even then, it felt like the writer himself was kind and compassionate. She didn't want to have an easy life, so she was ready to be paying for all that she did.

"Because... this is what I deserve."

The man could not believe what she had just said, he seemed shocked but he stopped silent when her fiancee reappeared with some women who seemed to like casual relationships. She merely looked at her future with no hatred or love, just platonic understanding. The man could see it in her eyes.

"Why, my darling fiancee is so well behaved? I guess you've learnt to cooperate? I guess I am in a better mood now, I will even give you this scrappy little Jack to you."

"You are most generous. Thank you dear."

Azkadellia never wanted this easy, she was just as ready to bite him as she was ready to be submitting. There was something strange in the man's eye, he laughed before he took another kiss from Azkadellia and out he went with his two new ladies.

"So Jack you will be under my care now."

Jack merely replied

"Pardon my abruptness your ladyship, why do this to yourself? You deserve more!"

Azkadellia merely smiled in a sad way as he helped escort her to her room as she replied in a very soft tone...

"I deserve this... you didn't hear about me Jack, so you wouldn't understand."

Jack frowned, this beautiful specimen of a woman was strong, kind and caring in nature deserve nothing of this! She deserved nothing of this kind of treatment! Especially from her fiancee!

She needed a loving fiancee, the one who would love her. He decided he would risk his life to write a letter back to the castle to get someone who loves her to save her. She doesn't deserve this at all!