Title: See that thingy above!!!! It starts with B!!!

Sumarry: See first chapter, I'm too lazy to copy, paste.

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Lief/Dain. SLASH!!!!!

Note: Hello everyone. I have returned. This is my personal favorite chapter, and I've been waiting to write it for a long time. =) =O =D Hope ya'll like it!!!
Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah; don't rub it in! I'm a sensitive guy!

Now on with the show!!!!!

Chapter 8: Stuff

Oh, oh, hold on,

Through the storms and the tide

Rushin' past the moment

And I'm just goin' along for the ride.

(My gorgeous poetry/song! I know you love it!!!)

Lief only shivered ever so slightly as he closed the door of the chamber, Guards surrounding him. He was only a little sore but not a mark visible on his fine Victorian skin. The Guards flinched back ever so slightly as he looked up at them with bright, challenging blue eyes.

He was a new person entirely.

As the Guards shoved him into the room, Lief leapt forward, riding the push rather than stumbling like a worthless domino.

The door slammed shut and Lief put his head against the wall. Breathe. Just breathe. He felt as if his body couldn't take it. Something was different about him. Something that she'd done to him. It felt like he had too much energy, too many emotions to contain. One second he felt strong and valiant, the other he was battling a headache and the sense of forbidding that told him something was just plain wrong.

Not to mention making it feel like his brains were being torn apart.

"I bet this is all a lie," he said, looking around the room, "And illusion. Probably a sorcerous one at that. I bet it's a prison cell."

He walked over to the bed and picked up a small note.

L-

Got to go help with new project. Be back by night.

-Dain

Lief threw away the note and lay on the cover, looking up at the ceiling.

Why am I always so confused these days? Why? What sort of childish game is she playing at…?

After a few weeks of no action, no questions, Lief felt his entire supply of curiosity and frustration ball into one. Powered by his new fire of energy and emotion.

"Reveal you stupid thing!" he shouted at the room.

And it did just that.

A wave of blue glow washed into the room, rippling the bright, rustic colors of finery into threads of smoke. It passed over Lief, who stood and looked around.

It was a cell. Or similar to one. With grey stone walls, trickling with icy water. He breathed in the misty sort of air. It was a cold humidity, scented with mildew and mold.

But it was dank and poor; not the glamorous suite that Lief was used to.

And, perhaps, the scariest part was that Lief had did this himself.

"Magic." He whispered in awe, "I did magic."

Those words didn't change anything, but suddenly he felt calmer, his emotions and thoughts more clear, more organized.

He looked down at his bracelet that glowed when a truth was said. It was glowing, but it flashed briefly, and suddenly the red eyes of ruby were blue.

The same sapphire shade of his eyes.

"Sorcery." He murmured, fingering the serpent's head. The small etches in it's skin were a swirl of marks and lines, glowing in his vision as the poisonous red and grey glow of the Shadow Lord. He blinked and they were gone, though the chamber was still a cell-like room.

Suddenly the door opened. Lief turned, seeing Dain entering the room.

He was frozen to the spot. How would his master react to having his lord's spell broken?

"Lief." Dain greeted, wrapping his arms around him from behind, nuzzling his neck.

Lief leaned back into the embrace, but his eyes still flickered around the cell, "Why are you back early?" he murmured, knowing that it was only mid-morning.

"3-19, another Ol, decided that he wanted to be all special and named himself the only Ol on the project." Dain said, not the least bit phased.

Lief sat down on the bed, and Dain turned around, "I'll make some tea."

Lief nodded, not really listening. He wondered if Dain could see the revealed chamber as he could. He checked the snake bracelet. The sapphires—well, if they were sapphires—seemed to be pulsating, but the serpent was giving him no help.

"Do you notice something different about this room?" he asked as Dain handed him a cup.

"Should I?" Dian asked curving an artful arch of a black eyebrow.

Lief, frowned, "I'm not sure."

"You're here," Dain said, "That's different."

Lief purred as his love's lips came crashing into his, tongue exploring. Leaning into Dain, Lief buried his face in his shoulder.

Dain took a sip of his tea as silence crept between the two. Lief gently left Dain's embrace, sitting up and looking into his tea

Inside he saw something swirling. At first he thought it was sugar, but than he noticed that it was glowing, a swirling maelstrom of pulsating green flecks. Lief cried out in shock, dropping the cup, causing tea to splatter all over the place.

Dain looked at him. Lief was shaking, staring at the swirling mass of brown. The green was gone, and in his cup was just the sludge of sugar.

Now, Lief thought, I am definitely going insane.

"What's wrong?!" Dain asked, grabbing a cloth and starting to mop up the liquid.

"I….thought I saw something in my drink. Here let me help."

Eventually, they managed to sponge the tea form the coverlet and carpet, Dian said that he would make arrangements to have it taken care of. Lief nodded, taking another spot on the bed.

"So what now?"

Lief looked up as Dain sat next to him, "Huh?"

"Well, what are we going to do? We've got the whole day to kill."

Lief blinked, "Umm…well I usually just draw or sleep or think."

Dain frowned, "So you can go do your doodles and leave me to die of boredom."

Lief looked at him challengingly, "Well what do you want to do?"

He shrugged, "Stuff."

Lief rolled his eyes as the Ol hugged him, seductively feeling up his shirt, "Just stuff?"

"Mm-hm."

Lief smiled slightly, a small plan weaving in his mind. Seductively, he curled into Dain, "Fine," he murmured, kissing him, "You win."

Dain smiled, "I usually do."

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The next morning, Lief yawned, blinking sleepily. Dain was already up, sitting on a stool and watching him.

Lief propped his head on his arm, "What?" he asked grudgingly.

Dain shrugged, "Nothing, you just look nice when you're sleeping."

"You're an oddball, Dain."

The Ol smiled, eyes lingering on Lief as he got up, putting on some clothes.

"What now?"

Dain shrugged, Lief rolled his eyes, "You know that there's nothing I have that you haven't seen before." He shrugged on the shirt.

Dain sighed, "I have to go help out with my Master's new project."

Lief frowned and came over to Dain, burying his head in his lover's shoulder, "Do you have to?"

"Yeah." Dian lifted the human up for a kiss. Lief gave it everything he had….it was time to ask Dain.

"Umm…Dain?" he asked, breaking from the kiss but still in the other's arms, "I was wondering if I could have freedom to explore the palace."

Dain smiled slightly, kissing his cheek, "My master said you would ask. You may, but no trouble, got that?"

Lief fluttered generous black eyelashes around his blue, blue eyes, "Of course."

He smirked as Dain turned around and shut the door.

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"Do you have any books on sorcery?"

The man pushed spectacles up, "Can you read?"

Lief shrugged, "I don't know."

The man at the desk snorted, "Must be fresh out of the goop jar. Stupid Ols, running around this place."

Lief didn't bother to correct him, "Do you have any?"

The man snorted again, "Follow me."

He wiggled out of the chair and Lief had to restrain a gasp as he saw him. The man was short, perhaps an inch or so above three feet. At Lief's hip. But that was because his legs were cut off. In their place was short, broad talons that fanned out in sharp black claws. Red, scaly skin clings to his arms, ending in long talons similar to those on his feet. Lief shuddered and the grotesque half-man tottled up the ladder of the bookshelf.

Lief turned away as he waited. After Dain had given him freedom of the palace—or, what appeared to be a grand one, but Lief didn't dare to reveal it again—he had ran through the halls, in search of a library or study.

Then he found this mini library, with a good amount of books and a few desks. He took a seat at a desk. He was now certain that this whole palace was an illusion…but he was afraid of using his new found power.

The grouchy talon-man brought over a few books, slamming them down on the table.

"Thanks." Lief said, smiling.

The man snorted, "Just don't ruin them, Ol."

Shrugging Lief opened the first book, reading the first chapter. He kept reading, finding out all he could. He ignored the man's eyes boring into him.

So it seemed that he could control his powers by willing them. There were many techniques to making them actually work. Some used gestures; others spoke, while some only had to think. Most spells you just willed, but some required actual methods and such. Like creating things and such. Sorcery was a blurry subject, and you needed to be very specific when handling it.

Lief guessed that he was a verbal one. But he could also see spells, said the book, and those contained marks; strings of visible will. Other chapters contained instructions on how to bend or break the will of the spell.

Lief glanced down at his bracelet, blinking and willing himself to see something. Finally, after emptying his mind he was able to see the grey and red veins within the gold, symbols swirling. He felt the emotion and will in the spell, but he had no clue what it was nor could he make heads or tails out of it.

"Might as well try something." he muttered.

He fixed his gaze on a pen in a jar in front of him, "Move."

The pen lifted, whirling in circles in the air, slowly floating towards him.

"Stop."

The pen clattered to the table.

Lief smiled ever so slightly. Suddenly, the man came over, his talon hands limp at his sides. He looked at Lief with veneration, awe, and a new kindness

"You are some Ol…"

Lief smiled, "I'm not an Ol, sir."

The man blinked, "Than what are you?"

Lief faced forward, "I really don't know."

Note: Hey ya'll! Sorry for not updating, I had school and some things in my personal life (yeah, it's hard to believe I have one). Anyway, hope you guys liked this, and no, this talon dude is not Claw, just the same experiment, but finished (you know, with the feet and all). I don't really know, so I just made that up. So yeah, hope ya'll liked this!!!

-Golmere

Now to the reviewers:

Lapis: Thanks! Glad you liked it. I love using that little phrase. I really do. And yeah, glad we have sisters. I'm so glad you saw the changes in him. Anyway, hope you liked this!!!!

homesweethomicide13: Thank you so much for always reviewing! So glad you liked it! Thanks for all the support!!!! But I will convert you eventually!!!

X-KuroxShiroxAi-x: Thanks glad you liked it! I really enjoyed changing Dain. And the torture…..more to come! Hope you liked it!!!!

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