chapter 2

"Oh, fuck!" Rebekah shouted without thinking, and spun around hoping to find a way to open the mirror again. But to her dismay she could not get it to open from that side.

"Crap!"

Rebekah, turned around slowly, not seeing very far in the light from her one candle. The voice could still be heard. It made her uneasy.She came to the conclusion that either she was dreaming or really was crazy Either way, she had no other choice but to head towards it and hope for another passage way out.

It took a few steps only to realize that the corridor ended in a flight of steps. Rebekah remembered she was still wearing Christine's wedding dress, and there was no way she would not get it ruined by exploring a dark, dusty passage wearing it. She groaned and rationalized with herself that she didn't exactly have a choice. She had gone through the looking glass, and was now about to go down the rabbit hole as well. Again, she laughed nervously.

Trying not to trip on the dress, let alone catch it on fire while holding it up and carrying a candle, Rebekah went down a steep set of stairs. She was now in what had to be the basement of the auditorium.

The voice was all around her. But, as far as she could tell, there was nobody down there. Rebekah shivered, and her eyes began to water. For some reason her eyes watered when she was scared. Soon she would probably be in tears of full fledged terror. She needed to find away out of that basement before she completely freaked herself out.

Rebekah stumbled around the rather empty room. There were some chairs stacked up and a pile of rags sat in the corner. The walls were solid and the only opening was the stairway she had just descended. Rebekah's heart fell. She was going to be stuck down there…forever. She was going to starve to death with only the imaginary singing voice there to keep her company.

The moment that she thought that, the singing stopped. She was in complete and utter silence. And then to make matters worse, a gust of cool air circled around her, startling Rebekah and chilling her to the bone. She dropped the candle and the light went out.

"Fuck!" Rebekah screamed! "Oh my God! I'm gonna die!"

"No." A masculine voice said from somewhere behind her, near the staircase, said. "You won't."

Rebekah screamed.

The voice sounded sympathetic. Yet when Rebekah heard it this time she recognized it as the same voice she had heard singing. It was elemental, velvety even. It almost gave one the sensation of feeling your tired limbs glide through satin sheets. Rebekah's body, which had been frozen from the cool air, was instantly warmed up. It was all because of a voice. A voice which now spoke to her and was coming closer. Rebekah backed into the wall.

"Don't be afraid. If I was going to harm you I would have. I have no desire to see you…suffer." The way he said the last word was interesting, as if he chose his term carefully.

"Who….who are you? What do you want?" Rebekah was ashamed at how tiny her voice sounded.

When the voice responded, it sounded amused…yet distant and sad. "You can call me Julian. I don't ask for much, just that you listen."

"Julian? Is that your name?" she asked, slightly calmer.

"It is for now. Until I wish it otherwise." The voice said.

Rebekah squinted trying to see the source of the voice. "Why don't you keep the same name? You've had more than one?"

The voice laughed. It made Rebekah's spine freeze, and her heart pound. The laugh was beautiful. "I have had many names. Different names for different ages."

Rebekah almost laughed at him, but then he said something that stopped her cold. "As have you."

Rebekah blinked. "What? Who the hell are you?"

Then out of no where there was light. It took a few moments for her eyes to adjust. The man standing before her looked to be somewhere around twenty three or twenty five. He was holding a torch, which was the source of the light that filled the room. He had white-blonde hair, that was slightly long on his forehead, spilling into his eyes. His eyes were what caused her to literally stop breathing. She fainted. For the first time in her life, Rebekah fainted.