Still own nothing.

I shall get this chapter in soon, I'll try to do one tomorrow, but then that's all you will have for possibly two weeks. I'm sorry but that's because I don't Microsoft word at my other house. But PLEASE stay faithful! I WILL get to it eventually!

A Daughter of Darkness

Chapter 2: How I've watched Her Grow

I watched my daughter from the highest rafters as she made her grand disappearance. Chip off the old stone. I smiled. She was so much like me, yet, so much like her mother. If it had been me down there, we would be at the Viscount's funeral right now.

I'm glad she didn't kill him, not for his sake of course but because I didn't want my only child to become a murderer. She has changed so much in her precious thirteen years of existence. I wish Christine had been able to see her daughter grow up.

Bethy had been a wonderful child; filled with Christine's happiness and my curiosity. She was an easy child, but a sweetheart. She used to smile, she used to laugh and dance around our underground home. But not anymore.

As she got older, her urge for a mother and to truly see the outside world grew much stronger. Walking to and from school wasn't good enough for Bethy. She started to have different feelings, different emotions, one's she needed to have a mother to talk to. Just last year, she got a small crush on a boy in her class, and she refused to talk to me about it. Like me, she can be VERY stubborn.

She grew angry and cold, like me. She grew up with hatred in her heart, her once happy and carefree heart. I miss that Bethy. Every day it grows worse. After this little encounter with the Viscount, she's going to be a nightmare to deal with.

I used to write to Christine often about her little girl that so desperately needed a mother in her life. Christine refused to leave the Viscount. She feels it's her duty to stay with him. Duty, she went against her duty every time she came to me thirteen years ago. After Bethy was born, she said her goodbye's to me and to her daughter and said she could never return.

I have never seen Christine sadder. The way she held Bethy in her arms when she was saying goodbye was heartbreaking. She never wanted to leave her, it killed her to do so, but she left her none the less.

Maybe that's one of the reasons I love Bethy so much, not just because she's my daughter and I loved her with my whole heart and soul the first time I saw her, but also because I know what's it's like to be abandoned by your mother.

I miss Christine, I wish she had stayed with us and helped me raise Bethy, for I know I've made some bad mistakes in raising her. Had I not her would still be that happy child she had been at age five.

I remember how I used to smile at her, how I still do. Every day after school she used to run into my arms and put her tiny arms around my neck, and she would laugh and laugh as I twirled her around in circles.

When she's with me she's still that happy girl, it's when she's around other people that my lovely characteristics come out in her.

She's close to the labyrinth now, and I have to arrive before she does, for then she'll know I've been spying, then my afternoon as I've planed it will be ruined.

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