Glass shattered as the Janus fae slammed its head through the glass table.

"Sorry about that lovely, but I am tired of pussyfooting around. Know this, If you do not give me what I seek, I will make you watch as you kill everyone you ever loved in the most creative way I can think of before killing you, so I will ask again, can you do what I asked?"

Vex giggled manically as he slammed the fae's head into the table again…just for good measure of course.

"Yes…Damn you to hell, I will do it, but know that there will be consequences."

"Blah Blah Blah all that when one door closes another opens shit gets old, I don't care about the consequences. I never have, now do it … or tonight your family will be my personal entertainment old man."

Vex released the fae from his hold as he said "Then let 's get this party started."

Vex sat on the chair across from the Janus fae watching as the other made the preparations to do what he asked, to bring Her back to him. He would have never left if he would have known what was to happen. He would have broken his own blood oath to protect her. A life time of regrets and pain paled in comparison of what he had been through since she had sacrificed herself. That damn little wisp of a human girl had stolen his heart, and here he had though he had lost that years ago.

Since he had found out what had happened he had been searching for a way to bring her back. Not alongside the Succubitch mind you. It was because of her She was gone. Her heart had to be sacrificed to close the portal, but it wasn't only her heart, but his as well, his Kenzi.

Vex had called in every favor he was owed, and well used his dashing personality to take care of the rest. After all who could resist him? It had taken months of pouring over books, and god how he hated reading to even find a possible way to bring Kenzi back, then even longer to find a Janus fae, the only ones with the ability to open up doorways between life and death, the past and future.

No one knew why he hunted a Janus, or why he had called in all of his favors. Most just assumed it was one of his normal devious plots to create havoc. This time it was different though, something in him change when he had learned of her death, the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back so to speak. He had tried to ignore the feelings he had for her when she was still alive, always reminding himself she was a lowly human pet, and he the last of his kind. That why he had left her the first time. She made him want to be a better fae, she made him want to try to redeem himself, but he knew that wasn't possible, he was too much of a coward to face his past. But, then he had gotten the news.

He had flown into a rage when he had found out, and well let's just say his reputation had grown after taking out several people in the vicinity. But after that the pain had come, and the obsession. She was the only one who ever saw good in him, that ever believe that he could change. For Christ sakes he had given her his favorite ebony handled makeup brush. He admitted what he had denied while she had still been alive, his love for her, that the little Russian terror had swindled his heart alongside a couple of other things like his favorite mascara.

All he could think about was getting her back, to hear her call him Vexter, and to play the latest addition of Robot Hookers with him. He knew that even if he got her back that she would never love him, he had done too much in his life for her to love him, but she would be alive, she would make her cheeky little remarks and have a blatant disregard for the fact he could break her like a twig. She would be Kenzi, and that is all that mattered to him. That she was alive in the world, even if she never loved him, she would always be his, his heart, his soul, his redemption. Any price he would have to pay would be worth that.

"So What's it going to be old man, a quick romp in the back room, I promise I won't tell the misses." Vex laughed to hide his true worries.

"No you little hedonistic prick, I can open the door to bring her back, but when I open the door to retrieve her soul, it will open a door into your soul. All that you have done, all the pain, misery, and chaos you have ever caused will come to the forefront. I can bring her back, but you on the other hand may lose what little bit of sanity you have remaining, if not your life as well and even then it might not work" The Janus said.

"Oh goody" Vex stated with a crazy smile "I think that you would have been jumping at the chance to finally off me, the dark Mesmer…the Morrigan's assassin. They would write ballads about your bravery from here to the halls of the Ash."

"Yes. But it ever got out that I you died in the process of me bringing back a HUMAN girl from the dead my family is a good as dead. "

"They are as good as dead if you don't do this Janus, and I'm in the mood for a little foreplay tonight."

"Fine, so be it, we shall begin." Said Janus as he began to strap Vex into the chair "Oooh Kinky, and you didn't even buy me dinner first" Vex pouted.

"And shut up for once, I have to concentrate to maintain the portal. Once it is open it will feed off of the energy produced by your facing your past. As long as you confront all that you have caused the portal will remain open. This should give me enough time to draw her here. However, for her to cross into this realm your souls have to have a connection. What article that she possessed did you bring so I can track her."

"Over there in the bag, the makeup kit." Vex stated. It was the same one he had given her, he nicked it from the Succuho's house during the funeral. She probably didn't even notice it was gone.

"Then we begin" The Janus stated as he placed the brush set in the middle of the circle. Vex took a deep breath to comment on how he would like that back when it hit him.

Screaming filled the rooms as Vex struggled against his restraints and increased and the Janus kept chanting. All he could fill is pain, worse than any torture he had been through, worse than the Una Mens, worse than cutting off his own hand. The pain coursed through his body as his mind was filled with images. His mother taking her last gasping breath, he brother dead beside her, the look of understanding in her eyes when she realized it was him that had betrayed them."

The images kept coming, everything he had blocked, all the emotions, all the suffering, it kept coming crushing him under its weight.

He screamed and begged for mercy as the years and torment kept pulsing through him, the pain of a mother drowning her children, the pain of a husband slitting his throat at the dinner table, the pain of the family as they watched.

He wanted to shut it off, to stop it all but the only sane though in his head was her. She was all that kept him going. He had said he would go to hell and back for her, and now he was.

The Janus opened his eyes as the portal opened. He looked at the Mesmer in astonishment. Tears of blood were streaming down the Mesmer's face, blood pooled around the Mesmer's hands where the straps bit into his arms. Never before had he seen such a strong and brutal reaction to the portal opening. Froth tinted with blood foamed out of the one called Vex's mouth as he screamed. The sound sent shivers down the Janus's spine "all the pain you have caused you now experience, better beings than you have sat in that chair and never returned, and all this for a mere human."

With that the Janus turned his attention to the portal and began to draw the mortal girls soul toward him. When he found her she was shivering in the wastelands of Hal. "How unusual" The Janus whispered to himself. "There is more to this human that meets the eye, for she should not be residing here."

Kenzi jumped as the being approached her. She brandished a dead stick as the thing that approached her as she stumbled away from it. She had no clue how long she had been here in this freezing wasteland. It seems like ages and she was hella cold. She had kept moving though trying to find her way back to her family, hoping they were looking for her.

"Get the hell b-b-back for two f-f-faced freak" Kenzi cried boldly as she brandished her stick.

"You know you should really d-d-o something about that, don't they make creams for having an extra face or something."

"Shhh mortal one, I am here to lead you back to the one that seeks you. If you wish to return to the land of the living you will follow me."

"Hellz yea, the land of non-walk in freezing Hell and shoes, god Bo better have kept all my shoes." Exclaimed Kenzi.

"It is not this Bo that seeks you, but the one named Vex."

"Vexter, Seriously, the "I only think of myself and hate humans" Vex?" She asked in surprise as she began to follow the being back.

"Yes, it is his sacrifice and his love that have opened the portal for me to find you" The Janus explained.

"Wait, hold it right there Mr. Two face, His what, Vexter doesn't love me, the only person Vex lurves is himself" Kenzi shouted as she stumbled over the fact it was Vex, and not Bo who had found her.

"The portal can only be opened by a sacrifice and one who has crossed can only return if the one who makes the sacrifice has a soul connection, So If you doubt that he loves you, if you believe that there soul connection then do not cross or you will be stuck in neither realm and all hope of a return is lost forever."

Kenzi stopped dead in her tracks. "Ha dead in my tracks, best death pun ever" Kenzi Thought "But come on Kenzers, Vex doesn't love you, how can he. He has killed like a gazillion and ten peeps, betrayed you, works for the Dark Bitch herself as an assassin, and get his jollies off doing so. Yeah Vex is mega hot in a dark maniac who loves makeup and corsets kinda way, but he doesn't love me. How could he, I'm just a mortal."

"So what shall it be mortal, is his sacrifice in vain, or shall we proceed." Asked the Janus.

Kenzi Started walking again still trying to sort things out, how could vex love her, Vex did not love anything but mayhem. Not that she didn't think he was capable of more, just that he didn't want to be capable of more. She walked in silence for a while until she saw a shimmering portal ahead. Suddenly a though struck her, the she had been so thrown by the thought that Vex loved her the other part had not registered.

"Yo, you keep talking about a sacrifice, what did he sacrifice" Kenzi asked worried.

"He must face his past to secure your future. That is the way that I work." Responded the Janus

"Thanks for the cryptic riddle wrapped in a mystery there Doctor Jykell. Can Mr. Hyde respond now in a less mysterious fae way." Replyied Kenzi.

They were a few yards away from the portal made and Kenzi really wanted an answer before they arrived. She didn't want to risk ending up some super fae time warp no man land place thingy based on some supposed love Vex felt for her unless she felt he was in danger. After all she did care about the dark fae jackass more than she cared to admit.

"He had to face all the suffering, pain and misery that he had ever caused, everything in his past had to be relieved and addressed in order to give you a future. Everything relieved is a sacrifice and is transformed into time that is given to you so that you may live again. Even if there is a connection He may forfeit his sanity."

"Oh Shiznet, Vex is like a thousand years old, his whole life has been about pain and torture, oh Vexy what did you do" Kenzi cried as she began to run toward the portal.

As she neared the portal she began to hear the screams. The screams she heard were so full of pain that she wanted to vomit. She ran harder. What she saw about stopped her heart. Tears of blood streamed down Vex's face, veins were popping out all over his body, and his hands were covered in blood where straps bound him to a chair. His eyes were almost all red where the blood veins had burst in them. The pain she saw was unbearable, she had to save him; Without even a pause she leapt through the portal and slammed into the floor.

In the next breath she had reached him and was shouting at the Janus to make it stop as she untied his bindings. "I back Vexy, you did it, you saved me" she said as she stroked his face as he continued to scream. "I'm here, I'm back, oh god, make it stop!" she screamed as she cried with him

Suddenly the portal closed and at the exact same moment Vex stopped screaming, he slumped against her. Kenzi frantically felt for a pulse as she screamed "No, NO , NO!" Do not do this for me, do not die to bring me back, please, please Vexy come back to me."

The Janus watched in amazement as the little mortal beat on the Mesmer begging him to come back. How could one so innocent wish for one so dark.

Kenzi continued to beat on Vex, begging and pleading, when Abruptly Vex pushed her off of him and stood up. He flailed out his hand and the Janus started to choke himself. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME!" Vex screamed in pure unhinged rage.

VEX!" Kenzi screamed as she picked herself off the ground only to be flung against a wall. She hit hard enough to break the dry wall and landed with a whimper. She cried in pain when she tried to pick herself up, "Please Vexter, help me, come back to me." She pleaded hoping he could hear her.

Vex stumbled as he heard the whimper, he knew that voice, someone was hurting her. He tried to bring himself back from the darkness that threatened to overtake him completely. She was him light, he had to find her. He dropped his hands as scrubbed at his face trying to think clearly, trying to rub out the images that he had just relieved over and over. He needed to find her, he needed to help her.

"Please Vexter, help me, come back to me." He heard her cry and turned toward the sound of her voice. Please don't be in my head, please be real he begged." He ran his hands over his face again, trying to see the present and not the past. The physical wounds began to throb and he focused on that, physical pain was in the present. He knew that, it's why he hired the top dominatrix's to inflict pain on him. Physical pain kept him from focusing on the past, so he began to focus on the pain in his arms, the pain in his legs, in his eyes. Pain, good ol' physical pain. It would lead him back to her, to his heart.

Kenzi struggled to stand so she could reach him but the Janus held her back. "No, he has to find his own way back from the madness. He does not know what is real and what is not, he sees the past when he is meant to see the future. He must finish the journey on his own.

Kenzi wept as she watched Vex scrub at his face and scream in outrage. He walked in circles screaming random parts of half formed sentences. "Please Vex, I see it now, please come back to me my love." She pleaded. As she said it she knew it was true.

Vex was her love. It wasn't just because of all that he had done to bring her back, she had been in love with him for a long time but was too afraid to admit it. Too afraid of what Bo, Dyson, Trick, and the others would say. Too afraid to admit that though she had cared about Hale, she had always loved Vex deep down but was terrified that he could never love her as a human. Death however changed that. She no longer cared about fae politics or acceptance. She cared about Vex and him coming back from this in one piece.

Kenzi broke free from the Janus and ran to Vex's side. She grabed his face and slammed his lips into hers she kissed him frantically before pulling back and screaming "Dammit Vex, Come back to me Now! We have to go play Robot Hookers, and have makeup parties, and go shopping for killer outfits. We have to grab this chance by its man parts and ride it for all its worth. I love you, I always have, no get your head on straight so we can start living!"

"Well, All you had to do was ask Love, Screaming like a harpy only gets me riled up" A thick accent said cutting through her tiraid.

Kenzi looked up into his blood shot eyes and saw something that she had never thought to see, partly because well she had been dead, and partly because it was Vex. She saw Love.

She reached up and tenderly stoked his face "Come on Vexter, let's get you cleaned up. Me as well as I am sure I smell like Death." She joked as she pulled him toward what she hoped was a bathroom. "Hope you don't mind two face, but the love of my life and I have to get cleaned up."

A while longer Kenzi and Vex were sitting in the room with a Janus again.

"Sorry about the whole trying to kill you earlier old man, I was a little bit out of my mind, Love and all that nonsense you see, I would have killed ya too if this hadn't have worked." Said Vex. "But I'm a different man now, Oh don't look so worried love, I Haven't changed all that much. I will still be the maddening Mesmer who loves to cause trouble, but I think my days working for the Morrigan are over."

Kenzi Smiled up at Vex and snuggled closer to Vex, she still haden't sorted everything out but she knew it wasn't over yet. They still had to go back home and explain what had happened. To make others see Vex as she saw him. After all Vex was still aligned with the dark, and there was the whole coming back from the dead thing just in case the rest wasn't enough to handle.

"There is something I should tell you." The Janus said staring intently at the couple. "The Janus, as you may know, See into the Past and into the Future, and I can honestly say there has never been something like you. When Vex sacrificed his past deeds and pain to bring you back, he transferred some of his soul into yours. You two are truly soul bound. My dear" He said looking at Kenzi" you are no longer completely mortal, your soul now has the spark of Mesmer in it as well. If I am not mistaking this will allow you to live as long as he does, there also may have been some transference of power, but I am not certain."

Kenzi clapped her hand as she bounced up and down beside Vex "Easily there poppet, Old Vexy has just went through hell and back, it might take a while before I can handle much bouncing." Vex said laughing.

"But you do realize what this means don't you! I am not the weak mortal one anymore. I won't grow old and die AHHH I so happy I won't be repeating that for a long time, once was enough!"

"I agree Love" Vex said. He was actually happy. For the first time in his very long life he knew what true happiness felt like. He heart was back. She wouldn't waste away before him with old age. She would be by his side, being his heart, his life, his hope for tomorrow. "So how bout we go break the news to the Succubus and her mutt, I am sure the Human doctor would love to examine you as well" Vex said before leaning down and whispering in her ear "But not before I get to."

The Janus lead them to the door, glad to see the Mesmer go, but at the same time knowing he was changed, well as much as someone like him could change. He would still be a killer and cause plenty of mayhem, but this time for mostly the right reasons. He contemplated the couple from the window as they walked down the street. He had never seen such a unique pairing. Nothing like this had ever occurred since the beginning of time, he was intrigued for the first time in a millennia over where this couple would end up. One so dark and with so much to repent for, bound with one who was so full of love and life. The future would be very interesting indeed.