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Title: Beauty and the Beast
Challenge: None
Word Count: 235
Notes: I need to stop listening to Disney music


He winced in pain as she pulled the petals off the small daisy in her hand. He couldn't help that he was in tune with nature, it was his element. She quietly spoke the words of and old childhood past time; 'He loves me, he loves me not'. He nearly reached out to take the flower from her, to breathe life into the dead organism, but he couldn't bring himself to take it from her. Though, through his fidgeting, the young girl had looked up from her game, and offered it to him.

He raised a brow. "What is this for?"
"Do you love me Marluxia?" The child questioned, before rising to her feet.
"Love? I don't know how to love." He sneered, before reaching out to take the flower from her. "But…. I promise you freedom."

He grabbed the flower, running his fingers across the center of it before pulling out a seed from the pod. The girl blinked, brushing back her blond hair from her eyes as she watched him burry the seed into the pot she had pulled the flower from. He whispered something sweet, and watched the flower rise from the ground, and bloom.

"Keep and eye on it Namine…" He smirked, before continuing on. "It's like the story of Beauty and the Beast; when that flower fades into oblivion, your freedom is lost from this castle. So keep it well."