Glass House
By AmaraSidhe
(Note – I don't own anyone in this mosh pit of characters, with the exception of Reese Benoit. She's mine. And this is for Satin Frost (Kitten). The title was pulled from an Ani DiFranco song of the same name, as I was listening to it when I wrote this – some lyrics are at the bottom. )

-- Prologue --

Reese Benoit had always been…unnaturally quiet.

But now – her dark eyes here frozen in horror, dark seawater orbs unblinking, mouth slightly open…
There was so much – wrong.

She'd been mutilated, scared, stolen…taken away.
That – creature had brought her to her knees, screaming, crying, begging for mercy. Begging for someone to barge in and save her.

But he…it was coming in again –
The click of the lock, the slide as the key slipped out…
Those expensive shoes, tap tap tap against the linoleum…

Someone, anyone…don't let it be him.

Shivering, she closed her eyes, tried to think it was someone else standing there, tried to think…
Someone else's hands running through her cocoa hair.
Someone else teasing her, snickering as she tried to pull away…

Some way…to change the nightmare.

-*-

That's when her eyes snapped open, her breath heavy as fingers slipped against the wood of the door, the door to the outside world – the heavy door that kept her in this prison…
In the dark.
Trapped in her nightmares.

But she could hear voices outside.
A familiar, overconfident…smirking tone. Though…it almost sounded worried. Tired.

I just…Reese…what if she's dead? What if she's dead and I can't do a thing about it, huh? Then what? I guess…

Tears glistened again, her cheeks stinging as the salt water fell over her face. It was unmistakable.
But...she was quiet. No one could hear her in the soundproof box.

I…I love her.

-*-

She…needed to go back to where it started.

life just keeps getting harder
keeps getting harder to hide
darker it is around me
easier it is to see inside
and outside the glass
the whole world is magnified
and it's half an inch
from here to the other side