warnig: things in this chapter can be and possibly are CREEPY, DISTURBING, and JUST PLAIN WRONG!

thankfully, there should be only one more chapter that I'll need to use this warning on

"What are you going to do to me?" Alice asked. Edd was sitting (what on was unclear) in front of her, chin in his hands, eyes closed, deep in thought. He was also ignoring her.

Even so, he didn't need to answer her. She could already feel it happening in her mind. All attempts to back away from it failed, he attacked her mind like an army would attack a small village. It was scary, feeling the power he was using on her, and she immediately questioned what he was capable of.

All she had learned from Hyrule history was that he could control people, read thoughts, and a small bit of background Abigail had given on what he had done to the rest of the world out there. She never did learn what the limits were to his powers. No book ever said. No book ever could say.

There was nothing she could do. Eyes closed in deep concentration, she did her best to resist. But it didn't seem that Edd was trying to control her at the moment. No, he was in the back of her thoughts, messing with them.

She couldn't tell what he was messing with, he was keeping it from her.

A hand was placed on her cheek, and she attempted to shy away from it. She recognized it as the cold, cruel, touch of Edd. Something she didn't want to be feeling. But, hang on, it wasn't cold… it was warm.

Alice was instantly enraged with herself. How the heck could she think that? Edd was evil! She started to shy away from the hand again, finding that she could move. But something in her didn't want to…

Her heart was pounding now. It couldn't be possible! Couldn't be!

"What did you do!" she asked angrily.

"Open your eyes" was Edd's response. His voice was kind now, warm even.

Something that shouldn't be possible for a man like him! Alice thought angrily, but the thought was bashed down.

Open your eyes! A stronger voice in her mind ordered. It was impossible to resist.

Slowly, and against her will, Alice opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was Edd's eyes, the terrible electric green that they were. But she couldn't get herself to hate him for some reason.

Those same eyes were also the last thing she saw before all went black.

Edd smiled a sick smile of satisfaction. It had worked, and so easily to. Either she was weak or he was getting stronger.

He let the chains that held her release her, spanning the amount of time it took for the effects to settle in. They had settled in quite well apparently, because before he had time to think about what he had just did, he found that Alice was kissing him.

It's getting easier to make people fall in love with me these days he thought. If his mouth wasn't currently occupied, he would have grinned.

Grinning in his mind, Edd snapped his fingers, causing him and Alice to disappear.

And reappear right in front of the Doctor.

There's quite a list of things you don't want to see when you turn the corner. And seeing the love of your life kissing another guy was definitely one of them. Behind him, the Doctor could feel both Tabitha and Jack tense.

"He didn't!" Tabitha whispered angrily. "He's sick!" She turned to look at the Doctor and put a hand over his eyes. "Don't make yourself look more than you have to. Jack, stop them!"

Even if he couldn't see didn't help matters. The image was burned in his mind, probably left to scar forever. It was going to be a hard thing to forget, even when he did have her back. And I will have her back, the Doctor reminded himself angrily.

Tabitha removed her hand from his eyes. He glared at Edd, doing his best to keep Alice out of the picture. His rage must have been felt, because Edd grinned.

"You like my work, Doctor?" Edd asked.

"What do you think?" he replied, doing his best to keep a civil tongue.

"Apparently not" Edd said, his face a mock look of sadness. "It seems she does though." He nodded over at Alice. The Doctor didn't follow, he was trying to block her from view at the moment.

"I should have killed you when I had the chance!" the Doctor said, rage rising.

"And risk losing her? Why would you do that? At least now you have some chance of getting her back. If you kill me, there's a high chance she won't exist. And I'm nearly positive that once time is unwritten it can't be rewritten."

The Doctor bit his lip. "Can't you hear it?" he asked Edd, voice filled with sorrow. "She's screaming inside! Or are you mind reading skills not that powerful? Because right now, down under whatever she's thinking on the surface, she's in pain."

"You're making that up!" Edd spat

"I'm not" the Doctor replied. "Listen through me if you must, you'll know that I'm not."

Edd frowned and grabbed Alice's hand. The Doctor's rage rose. "Why would I want to do that?" Edd asked, sounding innocent. "It would ruin what we have!"

Alice giggled, and the Doctor's rage sky rocketed.

"You don't have anything!" Tabitha said, from the sidelines.

"Wanna bet?" Edd asked.

The Doctor didn't see what happened next, Tabitha had covered his eyes again. "Trust me, you don't want to see" she told him. He trusted her. He had to. She was the only one keeping his anger in check at the moment.

He dared to think it, but if Tabita wasn't there, someone might be dead.