The Watchmaker

13 - Forever young

-Lumiere-

(A/N - Yes, for the very first time I'm writing in Lumieres POW! I'm so excited.)

I unlocked the door to her bedroom only to stare doubtfully at the girl who was tearing down the wallpaper from her luxurious walls.

"Marianne?" I whispered, trying not to make her flinch, but it did not work. She instantly turned from her art project and jumped to her feet with jerky movements.

"You!" She screamed and threw herself at me with her long fingernails ready to scratch me wherever possible. "You promised you would come back!"

I managed to face away from her and grabbed her wrists and stopped her from doing any damage to my pale skin, but her feet kept kicking me wherever she could. I let her, it wasn't as if she was hurting me and she had been locked inside this room for weeks now, thanks to Anthony, she had too much energy bundled up inside.

"I know, and I'm here now." I said with a sad smile on my lips. "The young Lord is back and I had to take care of a few things." I told her calmly as I let go of one of her wrists and picked up a glass container filled with blood from my pocket and handed it to her. And as if I had given her a command she stopped the kicking and her big blue eyes widened even more.

"For me?" She whispered and took a step back, her body relaxed, but her eyes were still fixed on the vial.

"If you behave." I said warningly and removed the corque.

"I will..! I will..! I WILL!" she answered as she jumped up and down on the spot with a wide grin on her face clapping her hands excitedly. "You know I will Lu-Lu, I will behave, I try my best every day, you know this." She said with her eyes begging me for the ruby drops. "I'm just bored." She insisted, talking way too fast for me to take in every word, but I got the message. "So terribly bored, Luie." She said one final time before I let her take it from my fingers and the glas touched her lips within seconds.

I watched as her expression changed, the predator inside her had awakened and this was the reason why we held her locked up in here. She was not in control of the beast inside her and we weren't sure if she ever would be.

"How do you feel?" I asked gently and sat down on her bed and had a look around at the mess she had created. She had made a habit of tearing off the wallpaper and painted the walls with vibrant colors, mostly of beast like creatures and other horrendous things which belonged in nightmares and not on the walls. Maybe it was her way of coping with her new life, maybe it was the portraits of the demons that walked beside her.

"Better." She said with a smile and sat down on the floor, with crossed legs by my feet.

She was lying, I could see it. Her body was shivering, her muscles tensing and her eyes flickered all over the room. She was anxious. "Don't lie to me." I said firmly.

"Is Clocky around?" She asked, changing the subject. "He is really nice, maybe you could ask him to come and visit me."

I gave her a nod. "He is catching up from lost time with his husband."

She started giggling and her cheeks blushed. "Oh, I didn't know he was married."

"They've been married for over a hundred years." I explained. "It was arranged by our lord but they love each other now, it seems." I said with a dry voice, barely hiding my jealousy. I wasn't in love with any of the two, I only felt attraction towards women. But I missed my brother's company.

She tilted her head to the side and met my eyes with a look of wonder. "Over a hundred years ago? How is that possible?" She asked and I was relieved that she hadn't taken notice of my emotions.