My Fair Monster by Lila Dubois

Author:Lila Dubois
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2008-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

INT. SCENE — JANE’S APARTMENT

JANE and MICHAEL sit with their backs on either side of a BEDROOM DOOR. Both are visible in profile. JANE is bathed in soft yellow light from lamps. MICHAEL sits in shadows and moonlight.

Jane shook herself, closed the document she’d just typed the scene into and went back to her list of questions.

“After your wings…er…unfurled, that’s when I ran. What did you do after that?”

“Why did you run, Jane?”

“I was frightened. You…roared, and then there were suddenly these huge wings filling the room. I hadn’t meant to run. I wanted to stay here and help you.”

“You should have run when I told you to. Next time I tell you to run, you run.”

“Would you have let me go?”

“Maybe. I meant to. It took the last of my control to tell you to go, to send you away before I scared you. You stayed just long enough that I lost the rest of my control.”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make it worse. I wanted to help.”

“Are you sure you wanted to help?”

“What do you mean?”

“Are you sure you didn’t want to take the chance to see my monster form?”

Jane’s mouth dropped open in shock. Is that what he thought? That she’d stayed so she could watch him lose control? If only he knew how scared she was.

Maybe it was time to tell him.

“Michael, there’s something I want to tell you.” Jane leaned her head back against the door, realizing this confession would be much easier when she didn’t have to look at him.

Something in her tone must have alerted him, because she heard Michael shifting on the other side of the door, and when he spoke his voice was louder, his face closer to the doorjamb. “Yes?”

“I don’t want to see you as a monster. I’m scared of you. Of you and Luke and Henry. The other girls…they’re all brave and strong. I’m scared and have been since the first time I saw Luke as a monster. After Runako almost killed Lena, after he and Luke fought, I wanted to run away. I wished…I wished I’d never met any of you.”

Jane paused in her story and the silence from the other side of the door was deafening.

“I don’t want to see you as a monster, but I need to. For the sake of the project, sure, but more for myself. I can’t go back to pretending that turning on the lights kills the monster under the bed. The monsters are real, you’re real, and I need to face that.”

Jane bit her lower lip. She’d said enough, more than enough, and though her instincts were to keep talking, explaining, justifying, she had to force herself to stop.

The silence stretched, and tears filled Jane’s eyes. She’d just killed her relationship with the most interesting man she’d ever met.

“Why?” His question startled her and Jane jumped slightly, wiping her eyes before she remembered he couldn’t see her tears.

“Why what?” she replied.

“Why did you ask to see my monster form?

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