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editing next week's chapter, holyfuck am i almost done it lmao. very very fun to write.

Trigger warning for anyone with religious trauma. ao3 was updated with a chapter, if you havent read the new one dont read this just yet. here for editing reasons.

Soon Elmina, Erica, Cecilia, Rudy, Darksong, Luceid, the strange goose; Bobby, and Alhazad were with in Arctica’s city limits just outside of town.

“ Rudy and I will take Elmina home.. I will try and prepare Jack for what he’s about to hear. You two stay behind, well come get you.” Cecilia said, “ If we casually walk in with Alhazad he might lose his mind and attack him, and we really do not need anymore fighting right now.” She eyed Elmina. “ Whichever one you are.”

Elmina closed her eyes. “ I’m myself, I’m just tired.”

“ You, Elmina, are going home and getting some much needed rest, my magic will make sure of it.” Cecilia crossed her arms when she looked at the sword princess. “ We can’t have you out and about with Harken consonantly trying to possess you…” Cecilia added “ No offense.”

Elmina remained quiet as she watched Alhazad like a hawk, then took her attention to Erica. “ Do you have anything to say to me?”

Erica didn’t respond.

“ Better yet, before I forget, since there’s a warrant for you two.” Cecilia paused before walking away. I’m going to cast invisible on you both.” said Cecilia, as she held her staff high, Erica and Alhazad were bathed in light, instantly they vanished from sight. “ You two should be able to see each other, and see us, but no one can see you.”

“ Really?” asked Erica.

“ Yes. We can’t see you at all.” Said Rudy. Erica gave her mother the universal sign, when nothing said said. She knew it worked. Alhazad snorted a laugh.

“ I’m going to ignore that.” Said Elmina, having an idea of what had just happened.

Rudy, Cecilia, Elmina and Darksong walked into town.

Arctica was quiet as they walked by homes, all of them were dark, slowly the small party made it to the Van Burace home, as Elmina unlocked the door. When they entered, no one was inside.

“ Honey?” Elmina called.

“ Doctor?” said Cecilia. They were met with silence. The three looked at one another and slowly walked around inside, Rudy ran up the steps and found no one. Cecilia checked the downstairs, and even the basement and previously sealed room which contained Harken’s armor and Scythe.

“ No one’s here.” Said Rudy as he walked down the steps and met Cecilia in the living room. Elmina looked worried and confused.

“ Where did they go?” Elmina puzzled.

“ I don’t know.” Said Cecilia.. Her attention turned to Elmina. “ You need rest, you need to go back to bed, I’m going to put you to sleep. We don’t need you being…”

“ I know.” Elmina admitted defeat. “ This is beyond me, at this point. Very well..”

“ Come on, lets get you to bed.” Cecilia helped her walk up the steps. They walked into the bedroom that Elmina shared with Jack. Elmina went under the covers and Cecilia tucked her in. “ I promise, nothing is going to happen to Erica, and Jack will eventually show up. We’re gonna figure this out.”

“ If it’ll keep Harken from killing somebody.. So be it.” She sighed Cecilia offered her a glass of water that sat by her nightstand, and cast SLEEP on her and Elmina fell into a deep slumber.

Alhazad stood with Erica just outside the city with Luceid and Bobby, hiding in the tree line. “ Something’s wrong.” The demon lord commented. “ All the humans are gathered in one location, and there is shouting..” He listened with his advanced ears.

“ What do you mean..” Erica asked.

“ They aren’t in their homes, they’re…” he peered at the city. “ Come with me.”

“ But we were told to wait here.”

“ No one can see us.” Alhazad gave her a puzzled look. “ What are you worried about?”

“ I guess you’re right…” Erica reasoned as she took Alhazad’s hand and the two walked through town. Luceid followed, Bobby remained behind, nestled under some bushes, and buried his head under his wings.

As Alhazad had pointed out, no one was home. Alhazad founded the sounds he could here of shouting, almost preaching. They were in the guardian temple. Rebuild after the invasion all those years ago. Slowly they approached, and looked In through the windows. Outside, a large T was erected, and all the symbols and iconography of the guardians were marked off, or taken down. Inside they saw Lilly yelling at the pulpit, one of the guardian maidens, who took care of the temple was on her knees. Begging for mercy. There was more yelling. Inside was her father Jack. Listening, with the doctor beside him. Erica gasped as she saw her father, and then looked to Alhazad, and Alhazad looked at her. They both then looked inside the temple, watching and listening.

“ The Guardians have failed to protect us from the demons time and time again, today, we call and name a new guardian of our planet, the one and only true god! He will save us, he will protect us, he will help eradicate the demons form this planet!” Lilly screamed at the pulpit. The true creator of everything, Yahweh, who had given his only son. May he damn all the unbelievers and those who betrayed us, may he damn the guardians who brought back the demons!”

There was cheering. All of Erica’s old bullies were there. The entire town was there.

“ Erica Van Burace tried to kill me, by having the demon Alhazad returned to human form slay me with his dark magic! But did he succeed? NO! Because I was healed by the power of the one true god! Our Lord. Our shepherd! Our savior! We are but his flock he must protect from the wolves!” Lilly continued. “ Here partake of this bread which is the body of his son our Lord Jesus Christ, and this wine which is his blood and be saved! It’s the only way!”

Alhazad and Erica watched as someone handed out pieces of bread, and poured wine as people passed the cup around. They were all terrified. Erica was going into shock. This was here fault. She secretly blamed herself. If she had never brought Aubrey.. Alhazad into the bunker, if she had only kept to town. If only she had done anything else that day. Everything lead up that one moment where things went south and changed her life forever. Alhazad reached and grabbed her shoulder. Bringing her back. “ Breathe little wolf.” He moved behind her, holding her. Then took left hand and hit a part of her right, below her thumb, a form of tapping he heard read about briefly when treating traumatized demons, it worked on both species. “ Stay with me,” he whispered in her ear. Their eyes followed Jack as he chewed on the bread and drank a bit of the wine. After he sipped. Lilly called his name.

“ Jack! Just today you were invaded by one of the demons, that demon, Alhazad. The one who invaded the castle all those years ago! He worked his way into your home. Like your wife, your daughter let him inside, didn’t she!?” there was more shouting, everyone was in uproar. “ He has taken hold of you daughter’s soul and she is now beyond saving, your wife too, was once corrupted by him, and she too had to be purged of the demon that possessed her” Erica froze, her eyes glued to her father.

“ Stay with me little wolf.” Alhazad whispered again. “ I am right here. Stay with me, that is no true lord, not like I am, he’s a fraud. He can’t hurt you. Listen to me. I am right here. I am real. I love you with out conditions and for all your perfectly imperfect human imperfections. I am here with you.” His whispers of affirmation helped. But it didn’t prepare her for what she was about to hear.

“ Yes! He did! That monster is back and my daughter sided with him! ” Jack shouted back. “ My daughter attacked me today in order to defend him, she used her own sword against me!” he admitted. Anger all over his face. “ I was also betrayed by Justine. Justine is the one who brought Alhazad back from the dead!” Jack exclaimed as he slowly stood up, using the crutch to to support his weight. “ Erica has sided the demons, Justine has abandoned us, you’re right!” he explained to everyone “ They have to be stopped. It’s like when Luceid betrayed us and died with the demon Boomerang during the war!”

Luceid snarled at the mention of her name and her old master, her hackles rose.

“ Justine revived Alhazad?! You see! The guardians don’t care about you! Only our Lord does, the one true god!” screamed Lilly. “ Alhazad tried to slay me, stop me from spreading the message of the One True Lord, the One True God! Yahweh!!”

Yelling and cheering went on within the church. Erica began to cry. “ That’s not whats happening!” said Erica. “ No dad, no no no NO!! DAD!! That’s not true. DADDY DON’T LISTEN TO THEM!!” Alhazad pulled here away from the window before she could hit it, least she give away their postilion.

“ We must stay with in the church until the storm is over, the demons cannot enter, here with in these walls we are safe. This is Holy Ground that now belongs to our lord! Let us pray! This no longer belongs to the guardians, it is our Lord’s House!” Lilly preached to the crowd.

“ Lets go, you don’t need to hear anymore of this.” He whispered to her. “ I love you, okay? I won’t be twisted by this nonsense like your father is. Come on, lets go home, tell the others, and leave this wretched kingdom. I’ve heard enough.” He said with deep contempt.

Alhazad, Luceid, and Erica rushed to her home. Erica quickly opened the door. Forgetting she was still invisible, Rudy nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw the door opening and heard the footprints.

“ We have a problem.” Said Alhazad, as he removed the invisible spell off them both. Erica was inconsolable. Taking a seat on the sofa as Luceid began to lick her face. She hugged the giant wolf and sobbed into her fur.

“ We were just about to come back and get you..” Rudy stated, as he was working around the kitchen to prepare something for everyone to eat. “ You were supposed to wait.”

“ It has started.” Alhazad said. “ Lilly is at the temple for the guardians, she’s brainwashing the entire town, including her father.” He gravely looked at Erica who was unable to talk, crying her eyes out into the Guardian of Desire. “ That young guardian maiden might be hanged…”

“ It’s just like what happened when I was a kid. But it’s worse. It’s real this time! Dad hates me, he believes all these lies about me! He’s… It’s happening again!” she said between sobs. Alhazad quickly came to her as Luceid moved out of the way, giving him space. The demon lord knelt down in front of her at face level. His hands on her shoulders, tenderly rubbing them. Her hyperventilating caused her to choke on sobs wreaking her body.

“ Erica, my dear, hush, shhh. Listen, my heart, my precious little human, my little wolf. Listen to me.” He said tenderly.

She raised her head to look at Alhazad, her face an ugly mess if tears and snot.

“ It is NOT the same as last time. You are not alone, not anymore. I will protect you. I will not abandon you and I won’t betray you as your father has. I love you, now and forever.” He kissed her forehead. “ This isn’t worth crying over, my dear sweet little wolf. Breathe little wolf, breathe..”

She weakly looked at him and nodded and sniffed. Her body shuttered and she coughed. The man who used to be known as Aubrey wiped her face off with near by tissues, and Rudy handed him a wet washcloth, and the demon lord gently cleaned off her face.

“ You keep crying like that, your sinuses are going to get all blocked up, and I’ll have to have Bastis go in there and unclog them, he’ll stick his little needles in there and I can promise you you won’t like it.” He teased. Erica laughed a bit, a broken laugh . She reached and hugged him tight.

“ You give stronger hugs when you’re in your true form.” She croaked into his chest. He throat raw from sobbing. Her breathing returning to normal.

“ The house is too small for that.” He said gently as he rubbed her back.

“ That bad, huh?” said Rudy still a bit shocked to see Alhazad consoling Erica, or to be frank any human. “ It’s hard to believe you’re the same man who experiments on humans for fun.”

Yahweh makes me look like a saint, his body count is significantly higher.” Alhazad said as Erica continued to cling to him. “ I never killed my creations when they failed to meet the goals that I had asked of them, I never damned them into the fire pits of Hell the rare times they went rouge.. I merely laughed, amazed at my own ability to create life with free will and a soul. And when they died? I retrieved their broken bodies gave them rest, healed them, then recreated them when they fail to meet up to the standards I had given them.”

“I’ll watch the door, if anyone arrives, I will alert you.” Luceid nuzzled Erica and walked through the front door in a wisp of smoke.

“ I just put Elmina to bed, again.” Said Cecilia as she walked down the steps. “ Something happened.. Didn’t it.”

Alhazad quickly explained what happened and what he and Erica had witnessed at the guardian temple. He continued to hold Erica rubbing her back. “ I don’t know how long they’re going to be.” He finished. “ But she insisted that they stay there to avoid the demons.”

“ We’ll make eat food, at least, while we’re here.” Cecilia looked around. She and Rudy made their way into the kitchen to finish preparing something to eat.

Darksong watched the entire scene unfold.. Then spoke. “ I am going to look after Elmina.” And trotted upstairs.

Alhazad shifted himself. “ Erica,” he murmured in hear ear, “ I need my hands, you going to be okay?”

Erica pulled away. “ Yeah, I think so.” She leaned on him.

“ Can I see one of your sketch books? An a pencil and a ruler?” he asked, Erica got up and brought him some from a shelf on the other side of the room. “ Is it alright if I draw in it?” she nodded. Wondering what he was going to do.

The demon mad scientist leaned over, placing the sketchbook on a coffee table, and quickly got to work. There was a long puzzling math problem, then he started drawing lines here, and lines there, another math problem, and then what looked like something that would belong in his lab. Soon he was finished and studied his own work.

Cecilia and Rudy brought over four plates of food; potatoes, with butter and bacon and cheese, seasoning, and some warmed up stew. The four ate in silence. It was strange for her to see Alhazad as human, or human like being, eating calmly like human.

“ It is rude to stare.” Alhazad said in between bites, his cold eyes locked into Cecilia’s. “ I’d expect a princess to have better manners.”

Cecilia took her eyes away from him and kept them on her plate.

When they were finished. She saw the drawings in Erica’s sketchbook, which looked like detailed plans to build something, it flawlessly drawn.

“ What is your plan to kill this thing?” Cecilia asked looking at the drawing. “ We know so little about what’s actually happening…”

“ It will involve your tear drop. And I need to find a way to contact Emma and retrieve my old equipment from the laboratory on the Island.” Alhazad replied finishing the last his food.

“ Oh my goodness, no you are not using this as an excuse to re-create the Dark Tear Drop and end all life on this planet!” The innocent one almost shouted.

“ Re-createing the Dark Tear Drop is my plan, I could have it amplified by a energy of a woman it resonates with, and fire it at the source of this war god. Possibly Elmina or Erica, it doesn’t matter. The women have similar vibrations.”

“ Me? What?” Erica stammered. Her voice horse from her crying earlier. “ That sounds painful, I don’t..

“ It won’t hurt heart dear, you’ll be fine, I would never do anything that would cause you to suffer. Trust me.” He soothed her.

“ Don’t trust him Erica. That is Not happening, Alhazad. I won’t let you. Erica he’s lying. I won’t allow it.” Cecilia pointed her finger at Alhazad.

“ How would you, dear princess, stop me. I won’t over complicate the science for your under developed primate naive brain. It is the only weapon with in my power to create that has the power to kill a god.”

“ Well, we will have to find another way.” Cecilia snapped at him.

“ Unless you suggest I find a way to get to Marduk.”

“ NO. I know what you want to do! You just want finish what you and the other demons started, all of this is a GIANT SET UP!” she pulled out her staff.

“ Honestly you know what I could, and I very well should. This planet is dying begging for the sweet release of death, a mercy kill for this planet would be for the better. There would be no more pain, no more suffering. No more bigoted humans to spread like a virus across the galaxy.” Alhazad got in her face. “ Because no matter what I or any other demon does you’ll never see us anything mother than mindless soulless machines that are incapable of feeling any kind of compassion.” Alhazad turned to Rudy who was reaching for his ARM. “ Really, Brother? You’re made up of the same stuff as me. These miserable maggots will turn on you the moment they feel you aren’t trustworthy. You remember how you were treated your entire childhood, how even Cecilia looked at you the moment they saw your severed arm.” Cecilia froze when Rudy lowered his weapon to look at her. “ Oooh so you don’t think I know about that?” he smiled wickedly at Cecilia, and said in a feminine voice mimicking the innocent one; “ No… It can't be… Rudy's body is a machine… Just like the demons!”

The color left Cecilia’s face. Erica froze too. Rudy looked to the princess, pain written all over his face.

“ You were unconscious when it happened.” Alhazad said to Rudy.

“ Rudy I’m sorry.” Cecilia panicked. “ I didn’t think.. We were all scared.. Back then.. I.. Was stupid, Rudy I was so stupid back then, I shouldn’t have said that.”

“ Get a clue girl! I'm getting very frustrated listening to you.” Alhazad quoted Jane from all those years ago.

“ WAIT!! How do you know these things?” Cecilia looked shocked. “ You shouldn’t know these things, you weren’t even there!”

“ Just as I figured. You’re gonna try and deny it?” Alhazad said coldly. Cecilia shook her head. “ But go ahead and kill me, you won’t have any defense against this monster calling itself the new god of this world. And this war-god will show you suffering beyond your wildest dreams. Far beyond anything I could ever inflect. As soon as It and and every other human finds out what you are, Mr Roughtknight, you’ll be labeled as a demon as well, and slaughtered like the rest of us made of living metal, my old servants in the cave, any demon or holmcross that’s still alive will be considered a demon or some other abomination in the eyes of their new lord.” He ranted, cold and direct and honest. His eyes turned to his human companion, and softened when his eyes met hers. “ Erica my love, you and Cecilia will be burned at the stake for the crimes of witchcraft and committing unholy acts and lustful thoughts with demon.” He said with contempt. “ Hell they probably already think I violated your body in some way. Taken your virginity. You’d be seen as a woman who’s no longer pure for her future husband.” He scoffed. “ THAT religion? That god? Hates women, more than you could ever imagine. The rights and freedom of every single woman and little girl rests in our hands… BUT YOU. Princess Cecilia Lynne Adlehyde will never see me as anything but a soulless machine that is incapable of any form of redemption!” he shouted.

“ Alhazad..” Erica gently approached the enraged Alhazad and wrapped her arms around him. “ You aren’t a soulless machine.”

“ She doesn’t believe it.” He glared at Cecilia. “ Let go whatever past grievance you have with me if you want to save this planet and every soul.. Demon and human alike. Garrett and the rest of this miserable city is being brainwashed, and the moment they leave that temple and come home, any of us that doesn’t align with their laws will be put to death.” He bristled.

Cecilia lowered her staff, Rudy gave her a pained look, “ I’m going to check on Elmina and bring her and Darksong some food. You guys figure this out.”

It was quiet as Rudy walked up the steps, closing the door behind him. Alhazad and Cecilia watched him, then turned to give each other a hard look. Neither budging. The last royal figure and demon prince of the metal demons, and Cecilia the last known royal blood of the Adlehyde family. While Erica didn’t agree with Cecilia’s opinions, she understood her reasoning, the day the Dark Tear Drop was activated was one of the scariest days of her life. Only to be out matched by today.

The two continued to bicker amongst themselves in whispered tones. Not to wake Elmina, neither wanted to deal with Lady Harken’s wrath on top of this heated argument.

But then Erica had an idea.

“ What about a sword..” Erica said meekly.

She was ignored.

Erica whistled. Both Alhazad and the princess looked at her.

“ What about a sword? Like the guardian blade? But a demon blade? I mean.. It doesn’t have to be a device that shoots energy, just a sword. If this horrible thing is tangible.. we could drive a sword through this guy’s heart. They’re saying it’s Holy and this and that… if we have a sword, a metal demon sword, with the dark energy of the Dark Tear Drop.. Maybe that’ll kill it.”

“ A sword..?” Cecilia asked. Alhazad thought for a moment, you could see his eyes focus on the idea, this might actually work.

“ Would you wield it?’ Alhazad excitedly asked Erica . “ Would you wield this demon blade? Claim it as your weapon and use it to protect those ones you love?” He said in dramatic tone grabbing her by her arms. It sent chills down Erica’s spine. At that moment he truly looked like a mad man, a mad scientist fixated on a new creation. The dark haired man stood over his love, it was at that moment Erica noticed how tall he actually was. He was taller than her father. “ We could melt down Azrael, and create a sword infused with the new Dark Tear Drop.. I would have it resonate with you, you could amplified its energy, you could drive this mighty sword deep into the soul of this war god..” the disguised demon scientist continued his dramatic speech. “ And destroy this miserable importer of a deity.” He finished with one arm holding Erica, the other making a dramatic dramatic fist with his hand.

“ But I’m not a demon..” Erica meekly replied.

“ What’s the problem with being a demon? Or being mistaken for one..?” Alhazad asked.

“ No-non-non-Nothing.. I.. I mean, well. I don’t have a problem with you…”

“ The problem isn’t demons, my dear. It’s the fear you have of other people who DO have a problem with demons..” Alhazad looked at Cecilia as he answered.

“ But I’m not Lady Harken..” Erica said timidly.

“ No, but in some way you are her daughter. Like it or not.. And you did best her in that little fight you two had earlier, knocking her back to protect me. I think you could.” Alhazad noted. “ That kind of rage, that kind of devotion, that kind of mad love? That could control wield my new masterpiece..”

“ But I don’t have a dark soul.” She said timidly.

“ Erica,” Alhazad laughed his mad trademark laugh. “ I have a dark soul, and you love me you are mad about me, and I love you. There’s nothing to be ashamed of, if your soul has a little bit of darkness in it, channel it, use it, be proud of it, OWN IT, then maybe you can use it to take out this sky god, and send it to the void where it so rightfully belongs.” He continued.

Erica have a slow nervous nod. But Alhazad’s little dramatic speech didn’t phase Cecilia, it was a sense of relief that he was finally acting like himself. He was more predictable that way. A part of Cecilia hoped it would wake Erica up, let her see how he truly was. But Erica seemed more intrigued by the strange man.

“ I’d honestly feel safer if the Dark Tear Drop was infused with a sword, and not that horrible machine you had at Pandemonium.” Cecilia finally spoke up. “ As for contacting Emma, like Erica said before, there is a telegraph machine that should be at the Sheriff’s Office, we could try that.”

“ Why didn’t you use that to warn Arctica about me in the first place?” Alhazad side eyed her. “ That wasn’t very smart,” His comment was meant to hurt. To scold. She ignored it.

Erica bit her lip. It was mean, but him getting his gabs in seemed to keep him from being too judgmental, and after Cecilia had been treating him, Erica felt it was deserved.

“ I didn’t want to cause a panic. And none of us know how to contact Sheriff’s Office. But I know what Emma’s line is.” Cecilia explained.

“ We should probably get some warmer clothing and a different outfit for you…” Erica looked at her love. “ I don’t know what we have here that’ll fit you, Alhazad.. I’ll go get Rudy. Maybe he can check the shop.. It’ll be safer if it’s him. But we need to find something different for you, that suit while looks good on you. It is a little…”

Alhazad raised an eyebrow, “ What.”

“ It’s a little loud.” Said Erica gently. And padded his arm. “ I’ll go get Rudy, you two try not to fight for at least 10 minutes. Okay? We don’t need to wake up either of my moms.” Erica then went upstairs to get Rudy.

Alhazad heard Erica close the door as she went into her parents’ bedroom. The demon lord then turned to face Cecilia.

“ Do you want to know why I named her scythe Azrael? Why I chose that name?” Alhazad asked the innocent one.

“ No..?” Cecilia said, as she started collecting the plates.

“ Azrael is the name of an harbinger of death, and I can’t think if anything more fitting than to slay this Abrahamic war god than with the angel of death.” He said with a hint of pride. Cecilia didn’t comment.

“ If this is as bad as you say it is, we need to make it look like we were never here.” She said as she cleaned up the kitchen. Giving him a nonverbal clue that she did not want to talk about it. Alhazad didn’t pick up on her human social cue at all. Or continued to talk about the subject to spite her.

“ I’ll go remove the blade from Azrael.” The demon lord stated. “ We’ll hide it in one of the bags. I may have to gently persuade Erica into this.”

Cecilia gave him a look. “ Gently,” she scoffed

“ Princess, if you could, gather some provisions, as I believe we may away for a a while after we speak to Emma.”

“ What do you mean?” She shivered at that thought. “ You honestly don’t understand what we’re dealing with, do you? You can’t stay here. Neither can Rudy. Both of you will be better off with us. I’ll have Emma, if she can, meet me at the Mountain Pass with the things from my main lab.. from there, I’ll recreate the dark tear drop, and we’ll have Erica forge the melted steel of Azreal with the new Dark Tear Drop, and then drive the sword deep into the chest of this vile war god.” He explained.

“ Why are you telling me this…” asked Cecilia.

“ From a demon prince to a human princess of two obsessing sides, as they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” He glanced at her overing his hand for a handshake. “ I’m just telling you everything I intend to do so, perhaps, you will relax a bit and quit threatening me. We will have to join forces to defeat this thing.” Cecilia took a deep breath, and extended her hand for a handshake.

“ This isn’t a truce, this is I won’t kill you and you won’t kill me.” Cecilia said as they shook hands.

“ That’s fair.” Alhazad dryly replied. He’d have to take what he could get.

“ What about Elmina..?” Cecilia asked. “ Elmina can take care of herself. It would be best if she stayed behind.” Alhazad said flatly. “ She may be able to talk some sense into Garrett.”

“ His name is Jack.” Cecilia corrected. “ Stop calling him that.”

“ I’d rather not leave that idiot alone.” He said in disgust. “ Anyway, Pack some food, flint, a tinder box, all the dried meat you can find, whatever healing herbs they have, and anything else you think we may need. Plenty of extra socks for everyone too.”

“ Like I did the last time we had to save Filgaia?” Cecilia asked.

“ Yes.. Buckle up, butter cup. You’re in for the battle of a life time.” Alhazad said as he made his way into the basement.

alhazad-seawolf

Aug 16

Giving Erica nf1 because I Do Make The Rules and she has it now. And if someone says "Well she wouldn't have it because her parents conically don't" Fuck you. :) Cuz no one else in my family has it either. Erica and Alhazad having a tender moment.

Al and Erica are just this;

Not really spoiler. The two are in a bathhouse, future chapter.

“ Yes, of course, I’d probably be less nervous right now if you weren’t insanely attractive.”

He laughed very hard. But he noticed her get smaller, made herself smaller in the water. Pulling her knees close and sinking below so the water was right below her chin.

“ I’m not very pretty.. Most people never give me a time of day. If you were just some normal dude wandering town I probably be too nervous to even make eye contact. Terrified you’d be like all other people who are conventionally attractive.”

“ I’m not that shallow. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, little human. I am not like other people. And whoever said you weren’t pretty?” he said in a gentle way. He pushed the hair out from her face. This was likely the best time for this conversation. As they were both naked and alone, and the warm light of the candles gave a comforting mood for the small room they were in. He knew it, he knew the things to say that would comfort him, he knew better than anyone how shallow others were about peoples’ appearance. Both demon and human alike.

“ Everyone.” Her eyes left him and looked at the shimmering water. “I’m not very dainty and too boyish, and have freckles and these brown birth marks all over my back.. There’s these little bumps all over my chest and breasts and on my shoulders and lower back.. You saw them. One time when I was swimming kids didn’t want me getting into the water because they thought they were contagious.” Alhazad made a face, a genuinely sad face, knowing that hurt. That pain. His fingers gently touching each little bump on her chest, not in a sexual way, in a tender attention to her body kind of way.

“ Is that why you sat all the way across from me..?”

“ That’s one reason..”

“ I could kiss them. They’re just a part of you. So whenever you see them you can think of me, and this tender little moment here in this bathhouse.” His fingers touched one by one, and gently moved their way to her breast.

“ NOT THE ONES THERE!” she stammered blushing as her hands covered her chest, Alhazad laughed his deep laugh. Burying his face into her neck. He loved this, stars of Hyades did he love this. There was always this burning desire to ruin every tender moment he saw humans having with one another, something he knew he could never have. And yet here he was.

“ What about your shoulders?” he asked, planting a kiss on one of the neurofibromas on her shoulder, then kissing the next one and then the next one.