A/N: I had this update ready ages ago, but then I lost it and had to rewrite it. I have like 2 minutes now, not enough time to answer reviews, but I will give you guys a general thank you, and dedicate this chapter to Zyalea, for being nice enough to draw a scene from my story. Thanks so much! Oh, and to anyone else; check out her gallery, it's awesome!

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Mandy stalked her way into her living room, glaring at the ground curiously, and pondering things that many considered unthinkable. She closed her eyes and let herself fall on the couch. SHe was almost asleep when an annoying voice brought her to.

"Mandy?" SHe looked up. It was Billy. "Why did you bring Grim back?":

She motioned for him to sit next to her, and thought about her answer for a moment before replying.

"We needed new minions. Erwin doesn't work." She said, simply. Billy's eyes narrowed.

"I don't believe you." He said. He sounded stubborn, and she paused for a solid fifteen minutes. Billy smiled slyly.

"Oh, I get it." He said, laughing under his breath. "Mandy lov--"

She cut him off slamming a hand over his mouth.

"You make one more sound, you lose your tongue." She said, meaning it completely. Billy seemed to get the point, because he nodded and looked at his feet when she finished.

"But then why are you being mean?" He asked, tilting his head slightly. Mandy gave him a look that was so purely her, she knew he couldn't argue.

"Grim has learned insolence in his absence. He needs to re-adjust to being my property." She said without a hint of emotion in her voice. Billy laughed under his breath again, and Mandy looked back at him to see a notebook in his hands. She snatched it from him.

Written across the page in bright green writing, was the word "Dominatrix". Mandy twitched, and glared pure malice at Billy.

"Yes... I suppose you're right. Would you like a demonstration?" She purred, and Billy gasped. He shook his head, and not two minutes later ran out of the room. Mandy picked up the pen and notebook, and wrote in small cursive writing underneath "Dominatrix", "Score 1: Fear".

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Grim walked into Mandy's living room just as Billy left. Had he had eyebrows to raise, he would have done so. He walked up behind where she sat and folded his arms at the words on the notebook.

"So that's what you planned to do." He said, simply. Mandy turned around, shocked. He could tell she was mentally scolding herself for letting her guard down. He had seen her do so before. He sighed. He knew she would have wound up being his boss sooner or later, even if it hadn't been for that hampster. SHe was destined to be queen of darkness, and would eventually overthrow him in the underworld. Or would she?

She had faded into simply staring at him in her normal 'what do you want' way. He sat down next to her.

"Erwin's hair is finished, and I must say I am quite proud of myself." She continued to stare. He yet again would have raised an eyebrow. "Listen, I know you. I know you want to be in control, and I know how you could be. If you were to come back with me to--"

"No." She interrupted. He tilted his skull slightly, and she shook her head. "I know more than you think, too. I know what your trying to do, and I've heard what your demons have been saying. I was destined to rule you. I never was one to screw with destiny."

She had a sort of arrogant smile on her face. Grim's eye sockets narrowed. If that was the way she wanted to play it, fine.

"No, you weren't. But you were always the type to screw with death..." He said, suggestively. She twitched.

"Yes, of course, in the style of a dominatrix." She said, sarcastically. "Does that pick up line always work for you?"

He blinked.

"What is your problem?" He asked, standing from his spot on the couch. She shook her head.

"I don't have one. It's the rest of the world." She smirked, and pulled her notebook back up to her. Grim shook his head and simply left the room.

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Mandy looked back down at her notebook at the second thing she had written. Just under the first, read "Score 2: Sarcasm".