Sometimes evil wins...

Oh to be free, and feel the wind on my own skin after so many years in captivity. I would seek revenge on those that imprisoned me, but their world had burned into a lifeless cinder ages ago.

How many years have I spent waiting for just the right person, with just the right abilities, to come along. Of course they had to be genetically me as well.

I'd thought that the first Jamie of this world would be it, of only she hadn't been genetically female.

The time it took, the endless time.

The endless featureless time.

I'm not one to revel in blood, but the response I got for killing that child was delicious. Jamie lived up to all of my expectations. And this body. My own at last.

I walk around these halls and look at all of the sheep. With a body of my own, I won't need to feed for years yet. Endless life, mine to take. I will be more careful this time. I won't be caught.

It is so hard helping these people to make their plans to capture me without laughing at them. I've won, and they don't even know it. They'll become complacent over time.

Ah, to breathe the air again. To feel the clothing on my skin. Even if it is a dress. Anything is better than nothing at all.

What shall I do today? How shall I be?

I want to leave this place, but the power to walk between words seems to be linked to her spirit, and not her body. It's a pity, but I can bend this world to my will all the same.

I only hope that they do not ask me to prove my abilities to them.

Oh, the things I could teach them about their abilities. They only barely understand the power they have at their finger-tips.

The things they would see if they had even half of my lifespan.

I watched the people of my old world die. Their terror fed me even after the few spirits I could snag from the abyss had long been consumed.

All those years I survived on thos spirits foolish enough to wander into my cell. All those souls I consumed to get one or two more years of existence.

That is all in the past.

"Jamie, is there something wrong?" The short haired girl is looking at me. I think she's concerned for Jamie's well being. Too bad for her that it's too late for all of them. Maybe I'll have to use her before I get rid of her. It's been so long since I was able to perform.

"No, pet, nothing's wrong." That was the wrong name to use. I can't use her real name, since I haven't been here long enough to learn it.

I kiss her on the cheek and hug her, "I'm just a little stressed with the waiting. I'll be alright."

She seems to relax. Well, there's another I'll have to keep my eye on.

"Jamie. I think you and I should hop home for a bit. I'd like to spend some time with Mom. The Beast usually lays low for a bit before making himself known. And we've got the headsets now, so they can reach us even there."

The Beast, huh. Cool. "I think we should wait a bit longer, Olivia."

Now I've really stepped in it. I was sure that I'd heard other people calling her that. Her look at me, though, suggests that I'm supposed to call her something different. For the life of my I don't know what that is.

"Call Jamie."

Um, I'm not wearing a headset.

"Lock Jamie, Call Walker."

What's going on? Something about those headsets I don't understand. I leave the room looking for somewhere to think. I don't understand what's going on here, and I need to figure it out. I'd thought I had enough forays here to get everything down. Why did they go and change everything at the last minute.

It's like someone out there simply wants me to lose.

This isn't fair.

It's my turn to win. I waited patiently, more than patiently. I slowly created all of the proper situations so that Jamie would be the proper vessel. Got her to leave her home, and avenge a murder. Then, when she had someone else in her head, she would want to get that person into an appropriate body.

I had the empty body all ready for her, and had convinced the idiots in this world to keep it alive.

Then, it was a matter of getting her to hate me enough to slip into the space between worlds, a place only someone like her could get to, and free me.

So simple, yet it took me eons to achieve. And here I am going to be done in by someone who thinks their power greater than mine.

I feel her pull me even now, trying to command me. Command ME!? Never. I am above her commands now that the full weight of my spirit can manifest here in this world.

I need to return to Olivia.

Ok, so she almost got me there. I need to keep focused. . .and return to Olivia.

I laugh and walk the other way, even as something in my mind tries to get me to change direction. A focused will can defeat even you, Queen.

'Honey, I'm HOME!!!'

Oh shit.