INSIDE LYDECKER'S MIND

Rating: G

Summary: A short piece that goes between NOT SO HAPPILY EVER AFTER and the sequal I am writing now.

A/N: I am writing a sequel now. I should hopefully be done soon. I would be done already but school started and I've been getting about 3 hours of homework a night, which doesn't give me a lot of time to write.

Thanks: Thanks to LadyCallie for the idea of writing a piece in Lydecker's POV. Thank you!!



I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to hit her. But it was the only way to get her to come back. No matter what those kids think I do care about them. She belongs here at Manticore, not in Seattle.

She was always a stubborn one that Max. Always the one to disobey orders. But she was my favorite of all my kids. I consider them mine. And in a way they are.

They think I'm a monster, but I'm not. I do care about them. They don't know it, but I do. That's why I had to bring Max back. She's safer here. She may not think so, but it's true.

And I had to show that boy she's not a puppy he can take home and train. She was created for a reason, they all were. And they will be used for that purpose.