A/N: I'm baaaaack! You thought you'd gotten rid of me—you were wrong! BWAHAHA!
Ahem. Sorry, had a migraine since Saturday, little giddy that I can open my eyes and elephants don't start tap-dancing in my skull. Couple a notes and stuff.
Cris-X: You sure I didn't tell you anything in Interlude 1? Really sure? ::grins evilly::
Darlin: Ah, yes, how did Leslie get to Angel's wings? All will be revealed soon…
Nate: Don't die, here's more!
She shivered a bit on the stone floor, trying to remember something, something important, but it was gone, gone like everything. Her blood was drying on her body, sticky, coppery, but she didn't move to wipe it off. It was warm, the only warmth she had, no clothes, no blankets, just her blood…
The tickle in her mind came again, persistent, but she blocked it down. Master wouldn't want her to reach out again, no, not again, never again, last time she'd hurt, three men dead, oh no, never again.
Master wanted to help her, he did, because he was Good, and she was the Beast, and he wanted her to be Good to. If she was good then Master would take the memories away, wouldn't make her live them again and again and again…
…and she screamed, but he wanted in her mind, couldn't reach it the normal way, used magic, dark, tearing at her like the Darkness, not the Darkness, but same, and he dug into her mind and her thoughts bled…
She whimpered, knowing she wasn't supposed to think those things, knowing that Master would never hurt her like that. Bad, bad, bad Beast…
The tickling in her mind was stronger, and for a moment she broke down and she felt it, concern and love and desperation, and wanting to know where she was.
And something in her, deep within, reached out and sent back just a little, just a very little, little pain, little hurt, and love, oh, the love wasn't little, was it, no, she knew him, the love was huge, and oh, God, here I am, help me, save me!
And then the door was open and Master was there and she knew she'd been Bad, and the memories came to life again…
And she drowned in them…
A/N: What was that?! Hmm…sounds like we need to go back in time! So that's what we'll do, next chapter!