Title: Demon's Pretense
Characters/Pairings: Lady, Trish
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 360
Warnings: Language, some fighting.
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimers apply.
Notes: Written for the LJ comm prompt-in-a-box round 5, #38 (quote below). Set during the episode 4 of the anime.
That's the second time you've tried to kill me today." John Smith (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 2005)
They met each other for the first time during the early morning hours, slaying an unlucky demon. Lady had assumed the other woman to be a demon herself; she was asked to investigate her, because of the blue lightning shooting out of her hands to kill the monster. As a demon-hunter, Lady could not allow her to leave and endanger the lives of innocents, so she had to be dealt with. Before Lady managed to kill her, she vanished into the night unscathed.
Their next meeting in town went by without a fight; they didn't want to destroy their favorite boutique after all.
They met again that night, armed and loaded. They exchanged blows like greetings, the intent to kill stifling in the air like the dust they whirled up, as they dodged kicks and barrages of gunfire. Lady was unsurprised to see the wound inflicted upon the other woman's stomach by a grazing bullet heal immediately. That settled it. This mysterious killer was a demon, even if she remained in her human form, despite the threats and provocations Lady spat out during their close-range combat. Damn that bitch if she underestimated Lady, thinking her weak.
Suddenly on the ground, with that bitch's gun pointing at her forehead, Lady thought that maybe she was, before the events of recent days and weeks replayed behind her eyes. To be done in by the likes of her, in a cursed moment of inattention - what a way to go.
The last thing she heard was a deafening shot-
...before she opened her eyes to a smoking gun seconds later. Next to her arm was a hole in the ground.
That bitch had missed. Intentionally.
Turns out she was no bad guy after all, but one with screwed logic for luring Lady out to destroy the actual bad guy instead of talking to her, although Trish, she finally found out the name, was right in that Lady probably would not have listened anyway. She had been set out to investigate Trish by a priest, the same clergyman who was now standing before them in all his demonic splendor.
Funny how appearances could deceive.