Muttering to herself, Maria snapped her phone shut, ignoring the brash and spiteful commentary of Leela as she grabbed the girl's handcuffs before they looped around her arm and sent a small dosage of electricity through the cold metal, enough to at least leave some...pretty painful burns upon Leela's wrist. "GRRRR! Is this day gonna get any more fucked up than usual?!" She growled, gritting her teeth under her respirator, such paroxysm she exhumed clenching her fists tight and glaring at Leela, "And you....shut the fuck up already! You think I'm afraid of Marky? I fear no one! No one....." Her voice trailed off for a moment, her words seeming to trigger....something to unlock a dark memory.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [i]"Klaus wake up! Klaus!"[/i] Maria was only six....witnessing the horror that unfolded before her eyes filled with dreadful tears....and it was all her fault.... The boy lied on the floor....a frothy red foam of heated blood dripping from his pale...lifeless lips, holes burned into his shirt...as if he were struck by...lightning, and his eyes dilated and wide open in a thousand yard stare, not a spark of the living to them as he just lied there....lying before Maria....his murderer. The little girl who loomed over the dead kid, her tears were equal to Maria's, so painful....so full of....so many emotions. She couldn't take looking upon that dark and melancholic face mirroring her own, only made worse.....when the Nun had soon arrived. [i]"Dear God in Heaven....what happened?! Clarice, tell me what happened to Klaus!"[/i] [i]"Ma....Maria did it! She...she killed him!"[/i] [i]"WHAT?!"[/i] Maria's eyes met with the Nun's, eyes burning into her fragile, withering soul with such disdain to her, such harsh judgment to cast upon a six year old girl, [i]"Little girl, did you kill this boy? Answer me!"[/i] [i]"I....I-I'm sorry....I...I didn't mean to...he.....he...."[/i] She could only whimper, sob and fall before the Nun like a beaten pup, which was pretty much what she was turned into when suddenly...she felt the harsh, hardened hand of the old woman lash violently against her tear-stained cheek, a hot, searing pain jolting her entire body and sending her to the floor with a painful scream...followed by the most heart wrenching words...she had ever heard.... [i]"You little mosnter! God will not forgive thee of such vile actions! Now you listen well you murderer! This pain shall follow you for the rest of your life! Every inch of your waking life will be haunted by the soul whose very blood you spilled this day, and when you die.....you will go to HELL!"[/i] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria shook herself from her recent trance....trying her best to block out those sickening recollections. To her...it never happened at all. She never killed that kid... But from then on....she couldn't deny how many lives she had taken since....