I am Baaack! Part 11

But there had been hints that maybe Joan would change. For Rose, the Joan roller coaster was going up again. She wanted that outcome so badly - a Joan who would use her skills only for good, who would shed her dark side. And the task for helping that change along would rest almost entirely on the shoulders of a man who was playing a woman who was playing a little girl! Under the plan to simply take Joan out, Adain would simply have had to endure whatever Joan chose to do to Dainie, within reason. Now it looked as if he might have to use all his experience as a diplomat and businessman to complete Joan's conversion. Rose believed he could do it, but she wasn't happy about it. The Lord had helped Daniel in the Lions' Den. Would Allah help a Muslim man who had violated just about everything his religion said a man should or should not do? Would Allah help Adain - Little Dainie - in the Bitch's Den?

When the potential need to put Adain in the power of Evil Joan had arisen, Rose had initially refused to even consider it; it was too dangerous. Having fallen in love with Adain, nobly put him aside so Ross could pursue being Ross, having got him back again while so very afraid he would leave her, and finally finding out that he loved her enough to stay and change for her, she was not about to lose him now! Two things had changed her mind: First, Adain himself insisted on the masquerade; he was thoroughly and completely PISSED at The Three Bitches, both for what they were had been planning for Rose ("What if it hadn't been Salielah and I who bought you, Love?") and for how they had tricked him and Salielah. Also, he was in no doubt about the evil in Joan; he hated all three equally. Second, double agent Robbie, with "his" Marine Corps training, would be there to protect him.

Rose made her decision. "What time should I bring her 'round?"