Disclaimer: I do not own LG and if I do, that shower scene would last the whole episode.
Some of you did ask if Lauren is G!P, no she is not. It is just that she is a beast right now and it is hard to determine her sex. Okay she does wear clothing but I figure it will be ridiculous for a huge muscular beast to wear a dress so pants wearing Lauren it is for me :)
Thank you all for the amazing feedbacks I got for the story, I hope you all enjoy this chapter!
Part Two:
Prepared she was to see the beast but prepared she was not to see such monstrosity in front of her. She wanted to scream but no sounds escaped, only her mouth hung wide open and her face a mask of horror.
A face that was not a face belong to that of a human but resemblance that of animals. Menacing eyes with slit pupils, its jaw set into a frightening snarl, showing sharp razor edge teeth and short blonde hair covered its face. 8 feet tall it stood, muscles evident underneath its clothing, simply massive the beast was.
Staring at it wide-eyed was all Bo could do, the image before her forever burned in her mind. A nightmare the beast seemingly walked out from, and a nightmare it would haunt Bo to the last of her days if she were to survive this.
Much to her surprised, to the shadows the monster retreated, for it could see the terror adorned Bo's face and terror it did not wish for her to be.
"Apologize my dear, I did not wish to scare you."
"M-my Lord, ..."
"My name is not my Lord nor I am a Lord."
"Then, then what is it is your name if I dare so ask." Bo's voice trembled; nowhere she looked but the shoes on her feet.
"Lau... Lewis, you may call me Lewis."
Silence engulfed them. Bo dare not to move, confused as to why she was not dead by now. Some sick game the beast must be playing, waiting to strike when her guard was down. As if sensing her confusion, the terrible voice once again spoke.
"Fear not my Ysabeau, nothing harmful will be in your way, as long as you are here. It is my promise to you."
It did little to reassure her, but nodded she did anyway for she thought it was the right thing to do and she did not want to anger the beast. Who knew what it was capable of and Bo did not wish to find out first handed.
Unbeknownst to Bo's eyes, in its pocket the beast retrieved something small, least it was to the creature's large hand. It seemed to be a stuffed animal, a rabbit to be more precisely. Inanimate the rabbit was but animate it suddenly became. The rabbit's ears were twitching and its limbs moving, as if it was trying out the new body. The beast whispered something to the stuffed animal. All the while to the scared beauty before them their eyes were trained upon.
Lowered the rabbit to the ground, the beast spoke yet again in its terrible voice.
"Ysabeau." Visibly Bo flinched but stood still she remained. Went on the monster spoke but drawn away her attention was a black stuffed rabbit. To Bo it walked toward and to Bo it waved its hand. A gasp Bo let out for how could it be? Then Bo realized how right her father was, the beast's power was something they simply could not compare. To make the non-living into the living, surely the reverse would be fairly simple. To her astonishment, with a high-pitched voice the rabbit said.
"Hi, I'm Kenzi."
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Perched on Bo shoulder the rabbit – Kenzi – directed her where to go. Hallways upon hallways they passed but still there was no sign that they had reached their destination, all the while Bo couldn't help but admire the handiwork of the castle. Such detailed designs, so grand and majestic it took your breath away. To think that the only inhabitant was that Lewis creature and maybe Kenzi the black stuffed rabbit, it must be lonely. As soon as the thought came, Bo shook it away; such horrible creature cannot feel – only human can.
"We're here!"
Excitedly Kenzi screamed, startled Bo out of her thought. She opened the door in front of her and walked into the room, all the while took in the details before her. The room was luxurious and grand, more so than the one she had when her family was still rich and powerful. Drawn to the large windows Bo strode over, only to reveal the expansive garden her room overlooked. Flowers of all kind bloomed under the blazing sun, teasing Bo's nose with their tantalizing fragrances. Then a single rose bush her eyes caught sight of, and soured her mood immediately. A rose she asked for and a rose she shall received. Received she did and its price she also paid. A rose for a girl. Given its scarcity, perhaps a fair trade it was. A rose for a beauty, what a fair trade indeed.
Away from the windows she turned and the curtains she dropped, no longer did the garden appeal to her.
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"Dinner is at eight!"
Yelled Kenzi suddenly, reminded Bo that she was not alone. How the stuffed animal could walk and talk was beyond Bo's mind.
"You should get ready Ysabeau, since Laur- I mean Lewis will be joining you."
Animatedly the animate stuffed rabbit kept talking, the appalled look on Bo's face it bypassed. Dinner? With the beast? Not nearly a day she lasted and already dinner she shall became. A prayer she sent, a quick death she wished. Oh father, please forgive this daughter of yours, alone I left you be!
"Ysabeau, Ysabeau!"
Screamed the rabbit, and it shook Bo out of her distress.
"Dinner Ysabeau! You must get ready, it's almost seven now. There is no time for you to mope around!"
"No."
Vehemently Bo shook her head; dead she would be anyway so why must she dress up? She wished to be alone for now, to prepare her mental for her upcoming death. She told the rabbit as much and if its eyes could widen Bo knew it would be now.
"No no no no, Ysabeau. Laur – Lewis would never harm you, you have to believe me. I know with Lewis' appearance it is naturally for you to think so but that one has the gentlest soul you'll ever see. I promise you, Lewis will never hurt you, and if you do get hurt, I will kick Lewis' ass for you!"
The image of a stuffed rabbit kicking the bum of a gigantic monster brought out a giggle from Bo, but still she did not trust Kenzi's words.
"If you was saying the truth, then for what reason does the beast take me here? Beside its desire to devour me completely?"
The rabbit was reduced into silence, for it did not have an answer. But an answer Bo still got from that very silence.
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"At least change your clothes Ysabeau, please."
Begged Kenzi for the umpteenth times.
"You're not going to die Ysabeau, Lewis won't hurt you."
Again and again the rabbit repeated and maybe, maybe, that if Bo let it kept repeating, perhaps she would come to believe it. Desperately she hoped so.
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Alas came the time and once again Kenzi perched on her shoulder, together they headed toward the dinning room.
All the while Bo was consumed in fear, for she did not want to die. Fear aside, hope was also found inside her albeit a glimmer it was. Lewis won't hurt me. The Beast won't hurt me. It can't hurt me. Oh, how much she wished for it to be true, how she wanted, needed, Kenzi's words to be true.
Much to soon the dinning room appeared and her desire to run flared yet again but Bo's quenched it down, for she knew how useless it would be to flee. Bo walked into the room but there was no sign of the beast. She let go a sigh of relief when the clock stroked eight. Almost immediately, she sensed a presence and which presence she knew.
Tall and straight the beast stood, fine clothes it donned in. Menacing it still was and terror it still invoked from Bo.
"Ysabeau." Tipped it head the beast greeted Bo.
"Lewis." Bo's voice trembled but she did not stutter and Bo was glad. Even more so when she did not fall when curtsied as well.
"Please, have a seat."
The monster's voice was still terrible but noticed Bo for the first time, it was much gentler than when they had met.
Bo gazed over to the direction the creature had pointed. A lengthy table with two chairs at its opposite ends. A fireplace it was next to and on its surface food of all kind was on display. Bo finally took notice of how hungry she was for the grumble in her belly could be heard loud and clear. Embarrassment filled her face and quickly her hands covered her stomach, as if they could block out the already sounded noise. Filled the air a sound Bo could only decipher as a chuckle and to her horror it belonged to the beast.
"You must be hungry. Have a seat Ysabeau then we shall get started."
Bo sat on one of the seats and soon the beast followed, face-to-face they were facing and everywhere but the monster Bo faced.
The meal was delicious and Bo was content, not bad if this indeed was her last meal. Every now and then, she stole a glance at the beast. For a monster, it was fairly civilized to Bo, its speeches, its manners and the way it walks screamed grace and poise. It wore clothes for heaven's sake! How this creature could be all of these things was beyond Bo's mind. Even it ways of eating was elegance, completely contradicted with what her mind had conjured of it.
Meats, from her body it stripped out, blood red blood would dripped from its hands, its face, it would dripped with her own blood. Alive she still would be for it enjoyed her screams of agony. Again and again she would scream, but again and again the beast still tore at her body, again and again till nothing left of her but a skeleton.
Brutal images flashed before her but she quickly shook it away. In her mind was one beast, but in front of her existed another one, so very unlikely they seemed to be but so very capable and unforeseeable the one before her. Cooked meat and vegetable it ate, with fork and knife and everything, even how comical the small utensils were compared to its large hands.
"Your food shall get cold Ysabeau if you stare any longer."
"I-I apologize my Lord – Lewis." Bo dropped her gaze immediately.
"No need for you to apologize for you did nothing wrong. You must have questions and you shall not fear to ask."
"A-are you going to eat me?" Squeaked Bo and with that the monster let out a bellowed laugh. So sudden the sound and so dark it was that it scared a small yelp out of Bo.
"I apologize my dear for it was not my wish to make you fear me so." As abruptly as the laugh came, as abruptly as the laugh gone. "No, no Ysabeau, I did not bring you here because I desire your flesh and as I had given my words to you, no harm shall come in your way as long as you are here. Under my care and protection."
"If it was not my flesh you wanted, then what is it that you want from me?"
"That my dear, is something I cannot give you an answer."
"Am I to be your doll or something? Staying here and play whatever sick games you are planning? Am I right?"
Exploded Bo and shock was evident in both the monster and Bo's face. Mouth hung opened, Bo did not believe that she had gone off on a monster no less. To raise her voice to a monster, to accuse it of something terrible, she may as well had a death wish. Once again the beast astounded her, for it did not lash out at her or lunged at her like she had anticipated, but instead spoke to her in a calm voice.
"No, Ysabeau no. I have no ill intentions toward you. You need not have anything to worry about me. You need not have to behave yourself around me, nor the need to watch your speech when you are with me. You need not to fear my wrath for Ysabeau, I gave you my words and I always keep them. Do you understand me Ysabeau?"
Slack jawed and wide eyed, Bo nodded for she could not think of anything else to do. Words replaying in her mind, sure what she heard was correct? No fear the beast said, she shall have no fear. Shall she have no fear? Her doubts still lingered but the creature seemed sincere and against her bettered judgments, to the beast she gave her trust. If she were to die, well, under the ground she thought she was by now and yet she was still breathing. It must spoke of something and Bo prayed that she got that something right. And for the first time in a long time, a smile found its way onto Bo's face.
"Bo."
"Pardon me?"
"Please call me Bo."
(Spoiler Alert for those who haven't watched 5x12 yet!)
P.S. Please tell me that I am not the only who think that Bo will turn herself human with Lauren's defae serum! Since Lauren being fae was not working and Bo only ever want Lauren so she surely would turn herself human to be with Lauren, right? Anyone has the same thought?
