Overt Religiosity

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                "This is insane, you're insane!" Caleb tightened the shackles of the potential slayer against the stone wall making sure there was almost no give in them whatsoever.

                "Careful now." Caleb said, "So far you've lasted much longer then the others but you keep flappin' your gums and that's gonna change in a quick hurry." Caleb warned before roughly tying a gag around the girls mouth.

                The girl looked extremely angry and frustrated but she wasn't unfamiliar with this mad man. A look of hope flashed in her eyes when she saw something, someone on the other side of the room. Caleb looked over to see what was so hope inspiring and half smiled.

                Another young woman had entered the room wearing an extremely modest, very thick, floor length wool dress. Her hair was tied back from her face, a black cloth covering her head. She didn't wear any make-up at all, but she was still young, fair, and beautiful. However, the young woman didn't seem to take any notice of the captive or Caleb, and simply cared a box with her.

                 "Oh, that's hardly a place to be lookin' for any help. That's my Belle." He said as he motioned for the young woman to come over to them. 'Belle' as he called her instantly put the box she had been carrying down and walked to him. "This here is the most God fearin' woman there ever was. Doesn't speak out of turn, does what she's told, does everything she's supposed to. Most importantly of all, obey's her husband . . . her only Lord and  Master." The potential's eyes went wide as she looked between the young woman and the insane preacher. Caleb grinned, "Now there is a look of confusion I've come to be familiar with whenever someone meets Annabelle. See, unlike you and all the other women of today, her thoughts are pure, she's not a whore. She's faithful and obedient to me, knows her place like all women should." He looked at Annabelle and motioned for her to go back to her chores. Instantly she turned and went back to work as he'd told her.

                  The girl chained against the wall was still confused and even more defeated then before.

                  Caleb grinned, "I know what you're thinkin'. Why the thought is as clear as day written across your face. Why would a man with such clarity about the manipulative, deceitful, dirty female sex, take a wife? Annabelle has been taught her place and her duties as a woman since she was born. She's recently turned 18, but we've been married in the eyes of the law for two years, since she was 16." Caleb reached up and tightened the restraints.

                   Her dress was thick and designed to hid her form, but there was still the tell tale shape of her body that couldn't be mistaken. She must have been 8 or 9 months pregnant. Caleb noticed that his victim was starring at Annabelle's body. Without a word or warning he backhanded her so hard, a cut appeared by her eye.

                   "You mind your manners girl, otherwise my hospitality is gonna run out in a fast hurry." He warned before turning away and taking Annabelle from the room by the arm.

The Rescued

                   "Tell me more about this girl you saw. This girl 'Belle'?" The slayer asked. "Caleb said that she was his wife?" She said just as confused as everyone else.

                   "I know, I'm still just as confused as you are. He says she's completely faithful and loyal to him and I don't doubt it. I've never seen a girl so beaten down. She doesn't speak and she does whatever she says instantly without question or hesitation." The girl answered.

                    Giles crossed his arms, "You said she was pregnant?" He asked. 

                    "Yeah. She's got to be almost ready to pop. The clothes she was in were ridiculously excessive. I think he makes her wear them to hide herself. It was a high collar, floor length, long sleeves down to her fingertips dress. SO much material I don't know how she can even breathe wearing such a thing in California. The whole outfit might be to hide her pregnancy but . . . she just can't." The girl answered.

                    The Slayer looked at Giles who was lost in thought. "What is it?"

                    "Well, as it's been well established, Caleb has proven himself time and again to be the most misogynistic, woman hating man to walk the earth. He's of the opinion that all woman are soiled, dirty, unclean . . . and irredeemably evil. Taking one as a wife and impregnating her, is so completely out of character for a man like that." Giles explained. "So why do it?"

                   They all fell silent a moment trying to figure out an answer. Willow was the one who was to answer, "The first." She said, "It can't take corporeal form unless it's born into this world in a body of it's own." She said realizing what was going on, "Caleb is providing a doorway into our world for the first. It will be able to move about freely doing it's own work instead of influencing others to do it for them." 

                     "What else did you find out about 'Annabelle' Is she a captive? Is she there willingly?" Giles asked the rescued potential.

                      The girl thought about what she had witnessed first hand, and she didn't have good news for the ex-watcher, "She's not part of this. What ever is between her and Caleb, it's between them alone and started long before he came to Sunny Dale. She didn't look up, her eyes were always cast down. She did whatever he said without hesitation."

                       "I suppose the most obvious question right now is as to weather or not what the girl is carrying is human. We've only just become acquainted with Caleb. We don't know if this is a normal or mystical pregnancy." Giles said.

                      "We could ask her." Xander suggested.

                      "She won't talk to us. She wouldn't hesitate to call for Caleb if she was cornered. She knows him well enough to not want to do anything to cross him or make him angry with her." The potential said. "I don't want to think about how she learned such a thing."

                      "Well maybe that's why we do to him what he did to us." The slayer said. "Kidnapping seems to be all the rage these days."

 

To be continued . . .

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