Maeve awoke to a small voice whispering her name. She realized she must have fallen asleep and that someone had removed her chains during the night. She looked up to see Denzel standing over her, trying to arouse her from her sleep. She instantly got up and hugged him.

"Denzel" she smiled. "Am I ever glad to see you!"

"Hi Firefly" he replied. "It's been too long"

"Does this mean that Sinbad's come back for me?" asked Maeve a little too eagerly for Denzel's liking.

"I'm sorry Maeve" he replied sadly. "Sinbad left earlier this morning with the clone"

"But, how could he not tell the difference?" she asked quietly.

"Oh he did" assured Denzel. "But he said something about liking this one better or something about the clone doing more then you used to do"

"Oh" whispered Maeve as her heart truly shattered. Sinbad not realising the clone wasn't her was one thing, but him realising and not caring was a completely different concept, one Maeve had never even truly contemplated.

"Personally I think he's an idiot Maeve. He had you, and yet he chose that bimbo over you. He obviously isn't worth it"

"Yeah" nodded Maeve vaguely.

"If that had been me, I'd have never let you go. Do you remember the day I proposed to you?"

"Oh Denzel, we were 10, we were completely different people"

"Aye, your right of course" he agreed. "Anyway, I guess since Sinbad's left you've got nowhere to go, you're welcome to stay with me for as long as you like. I'd be happy to have you again" he smiled, almost kindly.

"He's really gone" she whispers as it finally sinks in.

"Maeve, you need to get over him, he wasn't worth you. You deserve someone who will take care of you, treasure you like the jewel you are, someone like me. I know it's been years since we were together, but I'd like to try again, take you out to dinner sometime, what do you say?"

Maeve just nodded vaguely. Her mind was clouded with thoughts of Sinbad, how he'd chosen that clone over herself, she'd never seen it coming, which was probably why it hurt so much. Yassil was right, this was worse.

"Maeve, I know it's a long shot, but I never stopped wanting to marry you, I still love you, maybe more then I did back then. Nothings changed"

Again, Maeve nodded despondently as Denzel grinned.

"MAEVE" Sinbad yelled for the umpteenth time. "Why are you doing this Yassil?" he demanded. "Why are you letting me watch this?"

"Well Captain, I had intended on letting you leave with that clone and living happily ever after, but you had to nosey your way back. This is the payback you get for messing in my affairs"

"But why are you doing this to Maeve?"

"Oh Sinbad, Maeve also tried messing in my affairs once, it cost me my Island and she needs to be punished. Normally I would have just killed her, but that seemed too easy, too nice, it wasn't satisfying enough. That's when I met Denzel, Denzel promised me power by teaching me magic, he promised me an inside view on how to conquer Eire again, and all I had to do was one little favour. Denzel told me he knew about what Maeve had done, said he understood for she had broken his heart too when she left, but he said he still wanted her. Of course, he didn't love the bitch anymore, but he still WANTED her…do you know what I mean Captain?"

"I understand" said Sinbad through gritted teeth.

"Anyway, he taught me how to use a scry bowl to see an image of anyone I wanted, and through this we spied on Maeve. We saw her attachment to you and it made Denzel's blood churn, and that's when I realized. My revenge and Denzel's request could go hand in hand"

"I don't understand" said Sinbad, only just containing his anger.

"Dear Captain, it was easy. You were her main lifeline, as she is yours. We saw what happened to yourself when she was taken from you, and she didn't have a choice. So we decided to see what would happen to her when you chose to leave her. That was what the clone was for, and after you had left, Denzel would get to marry her. Of course, it wouldn't be a very honest marriage, I mean who wants to be with one woman all their life right?" he laughed. "But after watching her all this time, I decided that I wasn't quite getting enough out of this deal, an incredible sexy babe like that…it didn't seem fair to waste her on Denzel. So we came up with a deal, she'd still marry Denzel, but we'd both share her wedding night" he laughed
"You monster" screamed Sinbad as he went to strangle Yassil, only he never got there. Instead two beams of blue magic flew out of his hands and into Yassil. Yassil stood there paralyzed, completely shocked, though not as shocked as Sinbad. But Sinbad quickly decides that whatever he was doing, he wasn't going to stop for anyone so he kept concentrating on what he was doing until he saw Yassil fall to the ground, dead.

He quickly shook his head, kicked him once for good measure and ran out of the room to find Maeve and Denzel.