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A/N: I kept on adding things to this until it got ridiculously long, so I finally said "Screw it" and deleted it. The story is what it is, problems or no, and there you have it. Normal chapters will resume after this one.

By the way, do you know how hard it is to explain Chucky and all of his scars to seven-year-olds?

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He is asleep on the stairs, and even in sleep he looks like he's in pain. She thinks that she should really wake him and help him get out, but she can't. Instead she sits on the couch, holding herself and watching him.

He is beautiful, even when he is in pain. His clothes are stupid, but his hair is cute and his scars turn her on to no end. His mouth twitches up in a semblance of a smile, and she unconsciously echoes it. She wonders what he is dreaming about. Killing? Tiffany? Maybe even her?

She hopes it isn't Tiffany. When she first started reading about him and watching the movies and following his story on the news, she had liked Tiffany. She had had a respect for her, and great admiration. Maybe even a little crush. The doll was hot, and Jennifer Tilly's voice was sexy. But as she fell deeper into his world, she had grown to hate her. She was prissy and perfect and, yes, his wife.

She knew that she was dangerously close to being just like her. She could tell that he was often reminded of Tiffany. He got angry, and his left eye twitched very slightly. Usually he killed something. It hurt her that she couldn't help him, but she couldn't. Soon, though.

She knew she would eventually have to tell him that she loved him, but he wasn't ready yet. He still thought about Tiffany most of the time. The one kiss had given her hope, but it had also dispirited her. It was only a small kiss, hardly even counted, but it had felt so good. It was the forbidden fruit that she could never have.

She wasn't even sure she wanted his love. She knew what had made her go with him, and she didn't regret it, but she still wasn't comfortable with killing. She wanted to be, god knew she did, but it just felt wrong. She couldn't tell him, not after what she saw him do to Glen/da in Seed of Chucky. Going to him was not an option.

She would have liked to talk to Tiffany. Even though part of her hated her, she knew him better than anyone else. She would understand her qualms about killing, and comfort her. She would probably try to convince her to come with her and Glen/da, and she might go with her. That was the main reason she had ignored Tiffany, and why she had panicked so much when Tiffany had held her hostage. She was terribly afraid that, if given the chance, she would run.

What she wanted most was to make him better. It was what she had wanted for all of the serial killers she had fallen in love with. She wanted to convince him that he was good and to make him stop killing. She saw what had happened to Tiffany when she had tried, and so she hadn't yet. But soon she would. Probably while they were in this house.

She was very curious about his past. She wanted to know why he was like this, who had done it and why. She wanted to cleanse him of his past, to turn him into a new man. She wanted his love, yes, but not a killer's love. She wanted warm, comforting love that would hold her when she was sad and cure her when she was sick. She wanted him to hold her.

So she had left him in the stairs, hoping it would help him understand what he did to people when he kidnapped and then killed them. It probably wouldn't help. Then again, it might. But she would get him out soon, let him calm down, and then they would talk. They would talk for a long time. Hopefully they wouldn't yell, but knowing him that wasn't very likely. She prayed that he would come out changed.

She doubted it, but she prayed.

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He is between sleep and wakefulness. He didn't like to be here. He had no control over his thoughts or dreams. Everything was up to what his subconscious thought he needed to be shown, and he hated that.

He is thinking about Tiffany. He usually thinks about anything else since she left him. He loved her so much. Her presence calmed and soothed him, like a cool hand to a burning forehead. She was beautiful, good in bed and a great cook, no matter what he sometimes said. Yes, she drove him up the wall, but he did love her. And now he misses her with all he has.

He misses Glen very much too, but he doesn't want to think about his son. Glen reminds him of all that was wrong with him relationship with Tiffany, and he only wants to think about the good. Glen also reminds him of her, and he doesn't want to think about her as a child.

He thinks he may love her too, though he would never admit it. She was fifteen, twenty years younger than him. A minor. Yes, age matters less when you're a doll, but that didn't make it any less wrong. A year older and it wouldn't bother him as much.

She is like Tiffany in so many ways, yet totally different. She was a hopeless romantic, yes, and he knew on some deep level that she had a problem with killing, but she wouldn't admit it. She reminds his of Tiffany when they first met, before he had jaded her and turned her into the ruthless killer that she had become. Young, beautiful, naïve.

He thinks, probably even knows, that she loves him, and this scares him very much. He doesn't want her to turn out like Tiffany is now. She would kill him if he said so out loud, but she is young, beautiful and naïve, even if she doesn't realize it. She is so full of life and love, ready to give it away, confident that it will be returned.

But he knows that this is only part of her. He senses that her mood swings are only the tip of the iceberg, and that she has some problems she has to work through, probably having to do with her dead parents. But he did too, and he wasn't about to yell at her for running away from her problems when he was the king of avoidance. He had even managed to forget, even for only a few hours, that he had killed Tiffany and Glen.

That scares him very much. He felt so hopeless when he had forgotten, like he feels in times like these. He is so used to being in total control, it terrifies him when he's not. His one weakness, and he thinks she knows it.

But maybe it's not his only weakness. Lately he's been feeling like he's on the edge of some great cliff. He is fevered most of the time, though he doesn't know it. He has been fighting with her, and he thinks this isn't how it's supposed to be with her. It's mostly him, though. He feels panicked and rushed. Twice he has ended up in Evidence because he hasn't been able to think of a plan in time. In the old days, he wouldn't even have to think. He would just do, and it turned out okay. Now nothing is going right, and he thinks he might be going crazy.

The concept seems ridiculous. He is a serial killer, after all, and takes pride in being nuts. But this is different. This is a feeling like he is running out of something crucial, something he cannot live without. He doesn't know what he can do about it, and this makes him feel afraid and lost.

She has been trying to have a serious conversation for him for a day or two, he can't tell. Time has been running together as well. He thinks he will talk to her about all of this then. He thinks she will be sympathetic, maybe even have a cure for him ready-made, like Tiffany did in the old days, before they were dolls. And if she hates him because of this and leaves, then she is better off.

He knows that when he wakes up for real, he will remember none of this. These thoughts are not available on a conscious level. Talking to her will unlock them, and he knows that he will have some sort of a breakdown. She will probably want to know all sorts of things about his past, and he will tell her. He will let himself be weak in front of her this one time, and then he will take all of this and lock it away. He will become his old self again, and he will feel right again.

He actually doubts this, but he can always pray.

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Well there you have it. Short, OOC, and very important. It's supposed to be OOC, by the way. I don't want to say anything else, but it's supposed to be like this, and it will be better again next chapter. PLEASE review this time, because I've never written anything like this before and I wanna know what you guys think.