Torture, Torture, Torture!
Chapter 3 - To Remember...
By Poochie Moochie

DC: I don't own Escaflowne's characters, I'm just using them for my poor pathetic excuse of a story.
AN: Hay-ah! I hope everyone is enjoying their vacations. Happy New Year! Tee hee... I made lots of mistakes in my story, but I promise you I'll fix them, and try not to be sloppy with the other chapters(That will be posted eventually). Please review when you're done with the boring writings of nonsense below. Thank you. Eh, btw you'll see numbers listed by some words, if you scroll down all the way to the bottom you'll be told what that word means.





Dilandau stood still, rather tensed. Hitomi's arms were wrapt neatly and tightly around Dilandau's stiffened waist, her forehead pressed upon his chest. Some of Dilandau's men walked by briefly glancing at Hitomi and himself, they beamed with amusement at what they saw and thought of a "passionate" embrace. Dilandau's facial expression turned sour slightly, he raised his idle arms from his sides to push her. Not wanting to have her feelings hurt(Hint, hint(?). Surprise, surprise. o.o;), he did it softly. She let go of him, gracefully returning her hands to the clenching of her upper shirt/dress, as he expected her to do so. She bit her bottom lip and furrowed her eyebrows at the awkward silence. Dilandau spoke up, causing Hitomi to startle, "Don't. You're getting on my nerves, stop acting so... You don't need to be nervous, so stop looking at me that way, and don't bite your lip." He averted his gaze from her as he finished. Hitomi reached out for him, as if to bring his gaze back to her, she quickly brought her hand towards herself. She did as she was told.


Dilandau headed towards the west wing of the Vione, which where his room was. Hitomi walked closely behind him. Often Dilandau was stopped by people, men mostly, they talked for quite awhile. Hitomi listened to them as she hid behind Dilandau's back. By doing so, she aroused interest in every person that walked by or stopped to talk with Dilandau. Some asked her name, where she came from and where he found her. Every question that was asked about Hitomi, was stepped around by Dilandau. Changing the subject of most of his conversations more than twice, got him aggravated. When they reached the towering high doors of his dorm, Dilandau asked, "What is your name?" She shrugged, not wanting to sound strange with her unfamiliar voice, she kept quiet. "I suppose I'll have to name you something. I can't be calling you pansuke(1) all the time." He said while smirking. Hitomi scowled, then retorted, her voice sounding rough, "Kutabare(1)."


"Josei... Do you like that one?" Dilandau asked Hitomi, who was perched upon a desk. She ate an apple silently, she nodded in approval. It had took three hours to give her a name she liked. Picky brat, Dilandau thought fouly to himself. He was sitting on his bed, surrounded by books and papers, his armor and boots were laying lazily on the cemented floor. Dilandau pushed his glasses further up onto his nose. "Josei" thought nothing much of his glasses, except that he looked sophisticated and he seemed as if he was embrassed of them, perhaps he was, she was not sure.The frames where silver and the lenses where shaped rectangular, long in length. He very well knew that she would not mention the fact he wore glasses to other people, he also knew she was above that, it was clear in her behavior, maybe he was mistaken.


He stood upon the bed and walked off it, towards Josei. He sat down at the desk, patted the side of her knee with his backhand, gesturing her to slide her legs to the side of the desk, so he could get something from the drawers. She flushed a little, then slid off from the desktop. She tiredly walked to the bed, crawled under the sheets and watched Dilandau pull what looked like a journal from the drawers. Strange, she thought. She then wondered why she thought it was "strange" for Dilandau to have a journal. Maybe my memories coming back, she once again thought to herself. "Memories..." She barely whispered.She was reminded of the sorcerers.She shook her head and closed her eyes attempting to try get her thoughts away from "them".

Dilandau's Journal:
Entry 45

Dear journal,

Van's companion is now in my care. It seems the sorcerers did something disturbing to her, causing her to become weaker than before she knew who she was. She was renamed, simply because I had not known her name, neither did she or anyone on the Vione. Josei, a rather unexciting name. I wonder, what if she gets her memory back. Will she forgive Van for leaving her? Ditching is a better way to put it... Will she leave the Vione? Will she join Zaibach? I better keep a close eye on her. She is my only pawn to get revenge on that damn Van Fanel. What a pain in the ass.


Dilandau looked up from his writing, to see Josei asleep. He sighed deeply. Then returned his attention back to his journal. He then pressed hard on his wounded cheek with his index finger, while writing nasty things about Van.



1. Pansuke/Kutabare: Both of these words are very bad! Profanity. I won't tell you what kutabare is. But for pansuke all you have to know is what Dilandau often calls Hitomi in the first chappie.
2. Josei: Is another way of saying woman, rather than "onna no hito". I couldn't think of anything eles to call her. I'm not creative. T_T; But you know it would be stupid if he always called her woman in the fic, so I decided to use it in Japs. I dun't make sense. -_-;

AN: Forgive spelling errors, I will fix those later, when I post another chapter. What do you guys and girls think of the name change? Confusing? Review plz!