The hell priest's apprentice. (Completed).

Chapter twelve.

Briar had received her name from Laselo, being reminded of a scared rabbit caught in the brambles. She was a pale little thing when he was first assigned to her, frail and underweight in a hospital gown too big for her. In his eyes she was still that same child he met years ago, even after having broken so many laws in one day.

"Just, why? Why did you go against order like that?"

He asked while bringing her down from the chains the Engineer had her in. Instead of replying, she hugged around his fat neck with tears running down her cheeks. "I'm sorry momma! Bella and her friend wanted her memories, and-"

"And to use them to her advantage against me."

Pinhead suddenly spoke as he came forwards, his hands folded behind his back. "So the zombie had used young Briar to her advantage, which if she was successful the memories would have been delivered and the Commander indeed can remember-"

He paused, staring down at the two before him. "It's all like a set of dominos, really, first she gives her niece the memories back, then she realizes her human nature and the supposed "atrocities" she had committed for nearly a decade, then she kills herself to escape this life. Roxanne believes that killing my prodigy will get to me."

The Hell Priest knew it was true too, but he dared not admit to it while speaking with his brother in hell. Laslo sighed heavily, holding his child upon his stomach while she was buried into his chest. "My priest, I have to be honest with you- you always assume the worst out of everything."

His remark earned him a cold glare from the Hell Priest. "I wasn't the same when I had left Kirsty behind the first time, but after the incident with the Chanard Institute- I am more than careful when it comes to those I love."

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Stripped of her rankings, Bella was forced to leave her career that she worked and fought for. All of her ranks stripped away just like that, because of being involved with her aunt. All the trouble due to allowing her human side to reign over. Living within the maze wasn't the easiest either. Bella would have completely lost it if it wasn't for Balberith offering her a place in her library.

"Where do you want these tomes moved?" Bella asked, carrying a stack for the tiny, elderly cenobite as she led her throughout the library's mazes of books.

"Top right next to the ancient torture methods of hell."

She spoke, gazing at the vastness of her collecting. Bella obliged and reached easily with her height. Balberith scratched her chin. "I never would have thought of the Hell Priest sending away his prized creation, especially to the mazes of hell."

The younger cenobite sighed in response, leaning against the shelves with her protruding hooks glimmering in the light casted by hundreds of candles around them. "I am sinful for letting my human side take over-"

"And breaking your father's heart."

Balberith finished for her, motioning her to follow with a beckoning of her hand. Confused, she followed after with it resulting to being lead to a smaller room, Balberith's own personal living space with a table, chairs and comfortable furniture. She nodded for Bella to take a seat while gathering a tray with a pot and two cups.

"Can't you see it?"

She asked, placing the tray down as she poured Bella something hot and steamy. "See what? That I betrayed my Hell priest and-"

"Naive to how he truly feels about you."

A skeletal hand caressed her face, followed by a crooked smile from the librarian. "Shall I tell you the tale of your origin?"