**Disclaimer** don't own slayers....duh, dont own Field of Innocence by Evanescence Lina wandered around her room very bored. They'd told her not to come out of this room unless summoned to do so, and yet, her curiosity rampaged like a caged beast, what was this all about? Why kidnap her? And how, HOW, did they know she was gifted?! Sitting roughly on the bed, Lina stared at her right hand, scarred purple from all the cuts and bruises her father subjected her to, just to be sure she didn't use her gift.

But now, now she was given the chance to use it, for what she didn't know, but it was a chance. But then, she had no idea what these two wanted with her.

Deciding to calm down before panic siezed her, Lina lay down on the floor and relaxed, taking in a deep breath, she began to sing while she fell aleep.

I still remember the world

From the eyes of a child

Slowly those feelings

Were clouded by what I know now

Where has my heart gone

An uneven trade for the real world

I want to go back to

Believing in everything and knowing nothing at all

I still remember the sun

Always warm on my back

Somehow it seems colder now

Where has my heart gone

Trapped in the eyes of a stranger

I want to go back to

Believing in everything

Where has my heart gone

An uneven trade for the real world

I want to go back to

Believing in everything

Where has my heart gone

Trapped in the eyes of a stranger

I want to go back to

Believing in everything

A tiny girl laughed gleefully while running amongst a field just outside of the village marketplace of thousands of pale pink flowers and grass to go up to her waist. The skirts of her blue dress fluttered behind her with the grass when the wind blew. A bright blue bow with color to rival that of the endless sky almost blew from the child's brilliant red hair and she had to put her hand atop the bow to make sure it didn't do just that. In the midst of the child's play, frantic voices came to her ears of her mother, whom she thought was grocery shopping, and the villiage bread seller.

"Please your ladyship, don't! They'll banish you from the village!"

The voice of her mother was not so much frantic as it had an urgent tone to it, "He's got to be helped and I won't sit around idylly ignoring him when I have the power to save him."

"But Lady Carnen!"

"Even though it takes my life."

Lina ran to her mother, no longer as jovial as she once felt, she didn't have a full understanding of magic and how physical strain worked into the whole deal, but she did know that her mother often spoke of strong spells that could claim one's life during casting. Lina was old enough to know what death meant.

"Please, you have a child to think about!"

"Mamma!!" Despite her pace, Lina's small legs seemed not to be carrying her very far, this grass didn't seem as wonderful as it had once been, cutting at her bare legs. entangling in her toes and tripping her. Where were they? Why wasn't mommy listening? Fat tears ran down Lina's cheeks.

"I regret leaving her the most, but her father will love her, of that I am certain. I have a chance to redeem my family name for the future of my daughter. If I don't do this for the village, I do it so my daughter won't be ashamed of her family and self, I do it that the people may appreciate the powers and accept my daughter."

"But won't his highness resent being revived by the village witch?"

Lina hated it when they called her mother that, she always seemed so sad when they denounced her as such, "Mamma don't!!!!!"

But it was too late, no insult reached Carnen's ears, no desperate child throwing her hands out for her mother was seen. A white light burst in a pillar before Lina, a shockwave of power surged ahead, heedless of any standing in the way. Lina was thrown backward, eyes shielded from the light, screaming and sobbing.

Just as quickly as it had come, the power vanished, leaving complete quiet, not even birds sand, the sun seemed less bright, and the sky slightly less blue, although the bow seemed to glow even more brilliantly. The silence, however, was broken by the baker rushing over to the male form sprawled ont he ground, "You're highness?"

The man groaned and coughed, but was ignored by the small girl, finally making the last sprint toward her mother, who also lay on the ground, "Mamma! Mamma don't die! I forbid it!""

Carnen opened her eyes weakly and smiled at her daughter, softly, she spoke, "My Lina, dont'' forget the gift given you," Carnen took Lina's small hand, "never taint it with evil intentions and never be ashamed of it. What I give today is what must have been done, I want you to become stronger than me and do good my child. I'll always love you, my light, my little firefly." Carnen closed her eyes for the last time, smiling gracefully.

An unearthly scream tore its way from Lina's mouth, then she lay sobbing on her mother's body.

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Lina woke with a start, her face wet and stained with tears, "Mamma, they rejected you, cursed you, and spit on you, but you still saved that prince, how could I ever become stronger than that? But I'll try, I promise."

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a/n: sad? realistic? hope so, just to let you know, this is probably the last of the memory chapters, but if u can see the pattern, i'm going for a song in every other one so there will be other significant chapters to come. sry it took so long, but i've just been devoid of any inspiration to write or type. the next chapter is written, i just have to find a time when i'll type it out...so it will be out sometime!