"Are you still angry with me?"

I looked over in the far right corner of my office,

Where she was standing, halfway in shadow and still glaring at me.

"Does it look like I'm angry to you?"

I took a good look at her and she appeared slightly irritated and miffed rather than angry.

"Well no, but it's kind of hard to tell, since you're tucked away in a darkened corner of my office glaring at me and you refuse to speak with me.

Seems like rather angry behavior to me but then again I could be wrong."

"You know I was beginning to like you, just a little bit, then you slapped that bracelet on me like I was some kind of criminal again."

"I don't think you're a criminal. Criminals are dangerous. So far you haven't endangered me in anyway. So I have no reason to treat you like one.

That bracelet is for your protection not mine".

"Oh really. Protecting me from what?"

Her voice had grown in volume considerably out of her frustration.

"From yourself."

"That makes no sense especially when you said I wasn't dangerous".

She struck out her chin in a challenging fashion.

"Then it's meant to protect you from the outside world".

" Oh I see, then the outside world is dangerous to me and you want to protect me I suppose?"

"Precisely. That's why you're here, that's why you're alive, it is my duty to keep everyone on this island safe".

"Oh so I am on a Island after all.

That's really good to know. Yet here's something you should know, the reason I'm here is I was taken, I was brought here against my will, I was practically dragged here by these weird men who weren't even human. They spoke in a even weirder language, one that I'd never heard of before.

Was that for my protection, being hauled away like that?

Was being torn away from everything I've ever known was that to keep me safe?"

"I wouldn't know but my superiors usually have good intentions and very good reasons behind everything they do."

"You seriously believe that after what happened last night and the drugs in the food? That chemical compound you found what if that's driving you crazy and robbing you of your memory?"

"Oh so we're back to this scenario of my superiors keeping me in line by drugging me yet again.

You know besides that little unidentified compound, you really have no proof of that."

"What about that incident last night? How do you explain that?"

"Do we have to discuss that now? I'm really not in the mood. Look I said I was sorry and I promise it won't happen again.

Can we leave it that?"

She still wasn't satisfied with that and she continued to give me the silent treatment.

"Giving me the silent treatment yet again I see. Fantastic. Oh well it's not as if I'm not used to it."

"You don't want to listen to anything I have to say anyway so what's the point?

You didn't even bat an eyelash when I described to you that I was actually kidnapped so what's the use of talking?

You could care less about how I was brought here. You're happy just as long as you have your power, your wealth and ultimate control over everyone and everything on this wretched little island.

Now you have your own personal slave to massage your feet whenever you please.

It must be awfully tough living in those royal shoes of yours."

She had snide sharpness in her tone that was full of disgust and discontent.

I thought about defending myself but I decided to remain calm.

I wasn't going to lose my temper again over her.

"I know you're trying to get under my skin and it's not working. No your words aren't going to bother me, not today.

I've had enough of you getting me all worked up and I am not going to allow you to antagonize me any longer.

So if you're expecting a big reaction, think again.

I'm not going to get over emotional, it's really not worth it and it's a waste of my powers and mental energy to keep reacting to you.

So maybe you could stop with this constant

stream of insults.

You hate me, I get it, yet you don't have to constantly remind me of that fact.

So why don't you just, take it easy, take a break, do whatever it is you want to do over there in that corner, just as long as you're

not doing anything disruptive like telling me how much of a villain I am. Oh by the way I need more coffee."

"Unless you want coffee in your lap you can get it yourself".

Now she was seriously getting under my skin.

She had said that if I was to be successful that I should be nice.

I wasn't quite sure what she considered to be nice but I thought maybe I should start with being polite first.

"I know it may be somewhat of a inconvenience to you but perhaps you could be so kind to take my cup and refill it,

please?"

I sounded like I was pleading to her especially towards the end when I said the word please.

Surprisingly it worked and she took my cup and refilled it just like I had asked.

After great long while of silence she said something that surprised me.

"I don't hate you by the way. I just hate being here. You see I didn't sign up for any of this.

Now you on the other hand, you had a choice but I didn't have any say when it came to my fate."

"Well you could have fooled me. Look, I'll have you know that as indifferent as i may seem I do... have emotions just as you do.

I do, listen to you and I do care despite what you think of me.

I'm not as heartless as you think I am.

Now let me see your wrist".

She stepped forward from the shadows rather stiffly and she held out her hand to me.

"I do hope it isn't uncomfortable for you".

"No it isn't. I don't even feel it's there to be honest."

She jerked her hand away and her face became stoic and obdurate.

"What I have I done now?"

"You say that you care but I'll never believe it, not as long as you keep me here against my will."

Her eyes were soft and saturated with sadness.

I didn't quite know what to say to that.

Then I felt something I'd never felt before ,it was sympathy.

I actually felt sorry, it wasn't just pity, it was a heavy over whelming wave of guilt accompanied with that kind nature that I never thought I had.

Was it possible that I was changing or was I merely discovering something that was already there?