So as you all know I don't watch the show anymore but I got kinda inspired by the GS scenes that abbas-ragamuffin uploaded and wanted to do something with the time travel thing…sorta. I don't know if this came out as good as I imagined but I thought I'd upload it anyway.

53. Chain

There is a saying that soul mates will have a red string connecting one to the other. They say the string may stretch or tangle, but it will never break. She thinks about this as she looks up at his castle, dark and daunting even in the morning light. Of course she'd end up here. She always finds him, doesn't she? It always comes back to him, no matter what she does.

She thinks about that red string as she knocks on the door. She thinks, as the door creaks open, about how instead of a small cord, it might just be a freaking chain that connects them. That's honestly the only explanation she can imagine as she walks cautiously into the lobby of his castle.

He hasn't shown his face yet, but she knows he's around here somewhere. He can't resist for too long, and so she waits…and her expectations are met.

"Well well well, what do we have here? A visitor?" he tittered. "Don't have many of those with good intentions, most come to me with bad ones." His voice took on a more sinister edge by the end of his statement but it didn't frighten her.

She could feel his warmth on her back from where he appeared out of thin air.

"So which one are you?" he growled next to her ear, her cloak still obscuring her identity and his breath from her skin. He circled her like a predator, his face never more than a few inches from hers. His eyes probed the shadows that covered her and she slowly reached up to pull the hood back. Her blonde curls shone in the dim light but he didn't recognize her in this timeline. She knew he found her attractive, he always did, and she knew he felt a pull towards her, like a feeling of affinity, but he still didn't know her and she knew he hated that.

"That depends," she whispered. "On which timeline this is."

He looked puzzled but he still managed to lift a brow in intrigue.

"Oh?"

She quirked a smile but it wasn't all happy. "It's a long story."

His lips pulled back to show all his teeth. "I have time."

"But I don't."