Chapter Five

"Heart Stopping Moment"

Visser One woke up a few hours later, having the feeling of being watched. Slowly, she turned over on her other side, and jumped, sitting straight up. Three was watching her. It wasn't the normal look of contempt and arrogance, it was something else, something that she couldn't identify-- something that she didn't want to identify.

((Ahhh… Visser, you are awake?)) he asked. His voice was deepened. Edriss didn't even want to think of it as… As-- oh god!… Seductive, but that's what it sounded like… She felt herself gag.

"No, I'm still asleep," she answered sarcastically.

((I really love your games,)) he said, and laughed after a pause.

Edriss shook her head, trying to shake off feeling violated. Her host was just as perplexed. Slowly, but surely, she got up onto her feet, running her hand through her hair, stretching cramped muscles. "What are you up to, Visser?" she asked suspiciously. After all, it could have been a joke of his, even though it seemed a little bit too crude even for him.

Visser Three laughed-- no giggled at her. The monster giggled. She didn't know he (let alone the host himself) had the capacity to giggle! It was warped. Like fluffy happiness springing into your mind. ((I am not up to anything!)) he said, but after a pause, his smile widened.

It took a second for everything to register for Edriss, but when she got it, she wished she hadn't. Where was the Yeerk councilor when you needed him? She would need some major therapy after this. Was he in love with her? But how? This was a sudden change from a few hours ago-- something wasn't adding up.

She felt a shiver going up her spine, as well as a gag swelling up her throat. She tried to get her voice to start working. "Yeah," she started, her voice sounding more sarcastic than she realized it was. "You stay way over at that end of the room, while I sit in this little corner over here, and we'll just wait for the council to come and get us, all right?"

The Visser Three thought of this as a game. ((Oh yes, distance does make the hearts grow fonder, does it not? Ooooh, I love your thinking Edriss.))

Edriss could have sworn that if he had a mouth, he would have been drooling at saying her own name. It was disgusting.

She rolled her eyes and went to the corner that she had indicated where she was going to stay posted-- no glued to. Bringing her knees up to her chin, she eyed the Visser wearily, knowing very well that there was something very strange indeed going on.

"That's it, I'm going to tell the council of thirteen that I quit this empire…" she muttered under her breath.

Edriss woke up not long after she decided to quite her job as being the top general in the Yeerk Empire. She rubbed the back of her neck, trying to rub out all the knots in it from laying down on her knees in fetal position. At the moment, she didn't quite remember all that had transpired before she had fallen asleep, but it slowly began to sink in. A moment of horror filled her mind, but then it slowly faded as she made eye contact with a certain green-eyed alien. Her breath caught.

Whatever Visser Three had, now gripped her-- and strangely she didn't mind it even though she knew that it must have been a bad thing to happen. At that moment, her mind seemed to have deleted why she hated the Andalite controller.

Snap out of it!

Hearing that conscience-like voice in the back of her head, made her dully snap out of it, but not enough to stop her from eyeing Visser Three as he winked at her, calling to her. This had to have been a horror movie. A part of her kept on telling her that it was so wrong, but the other half just thought it was romantic, and made her melt even faster.

He slowly began to step towards her, as she felt her mouth moving, telling him to come closer. Then time stopped.

AN: Does anyone know how to do page breaks?!