Hola' minions! Hope everyone is doing well, and I'm so happy to be uploading this chapter quicker then I thought I would! Thank you to everyone that followed and favorited this story, would love more than two reviews but thank you so much to the two that did review! Also, if anyone is confused, I did change the name of the story to, But I still stay cause you're the only thing I know, the other title I just threw on there quickly so I could publish the story but I found one that I like much better. Alright without further adieu, here's chapter two! -yup, totally rhymed hahaha Please review and let me know what you thought!
Three years later...
Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months, before Lydia knew it, it had been three years since she had met Crowley at the crossroads. It was ironic to her now that it seemed like going to the crossroads that night had helped her choose her path when she was at her own crossroads in life. After a week of waiting for him she had the strong urge to summon him again and get her deal she so desperately wanted but she forced herself to see that there was always another way for everything. Her life was far from perfect now, but it seemed to get significantly better as time went on. Throwing her bag in the back seat of her 68' Charger, Lydia slid into the car and put on her sunglasses. This car had meant everything to her dad and brother. They rebuilt the car from the ground up when she was seventeen and even helped with some of it when she had the time. Looking back now, she wished that she would have spent as much time as she could have with them. Not wanting to go down the dark road of memories again, Lydia quickly took a deep breath and pulled away from the motel she stayed at the night before. Looking in her rear view mirror, she slammed on her brakes when she seen a familiar giant black dog standing in the middle of the road behind her car. Throwing the car in park, Lydia quickly jumped out but when she looked again, the dog had seemingly disappeared.
"Great, now you're hallucinating Lydia." She told herself and let out a humorless laugh. A second later, she felt her phone start to vibrate in her pocket and looking at the screen she seen it was her friend and mentor, Alex Mason.
"Hey what's up?" Lydia said into the phone.
"Just seeing where my girl was at, haven't heard from you in a couple of days." He replied.
"Yeah sorry, I got in so late last night that I just crashed." She said as she got back into her car. "I'm actually heading out from the motel right now."
There was a long pause before Alex asked, "Are you alright? You don't sound like yourself."
"Yeah I'm fine."
"Lydia..."
She closed her eyes and sighed. She knew she should tell him what she seen, but honestly she didn't even know if what she seen was real. That and Lydia had a strong feeling that she shouldn't tell him anything about this. Alex knew about how she summoned a crossroads demon two years back, but she never told him anything in detail. The way Crowley had made her feel and the things he said to her, she knew to keep to herself.
"Alex, I'm fine. Just tired. It was a long night and I have a very long drive now."
Lydia had met Alex a few weeks before she had met Crowley. She got a call out of the blue, and he explained that he was an old family friend and that her parents would have wanted him to help her out. Alex turned out to be a hunter and Lydia quickly learned all about what he hunted, everything else was history. He taught her about demons, vampires, werewolves, and many other monsters and how to kill them. Before she knew it, she was out hunting with him. Never in a million years did she think she would be out killing things she never knew existed. The only reason she agreed to learn how to hunt, was because he told her that contrary to what the police said, her parents and brother were actually killed by a nest of vampires. He promised to help her find them and make them pay. After a week of staying with Alex, she found a book all about demons in his bookcase and found a passage about crossroad demons. She knew at that moment that she could make a deal and find the pack that killed her only family and take them out. But once that fell through, she was once again on the hunt.
"Alright, I'll believe you for now, I take it you wouldn't want to check out a case on your way back here then." Alex said to her.
"I'm fine. What's the case?" Lydia asked.
"Well my little grasshopper, think you could handle your first demon? Hey maybe it will end up being that crossroads jackass you met a few years ago." Alex joked.
Lydia rolled her eyes and listened to him tell her about the case and location. Alex told her he would email her more information then told her to call him once she got there. She hung up the phone and focused back on the road ahead of her. Taking out a demon on her own put her a little on edge but she'd do it anyways and maybe even get information on the monsters that killed her family.
About 4 hours later, Lydia was pulling up to the address Alex had given her. Confusion swept over her as she stared at the beautiful, two story, white house that sat right in the middle of a suburb.
"What the hell." She said as she got out of the car.
Lydia had never killed a demon before and even after reading everything Alex had emailed her on it, she still didn't feel very confident about it. She decided to just check out the house for now, then come up with a plan later. She quickly made her way up the side of the house and found a window that shown into the kitchen. There was a man in a suit with his back towards the window and a second man tied to a chair with blood dripping from various parts of his body. Lydia began to move around the outside of the house to try and find some sort of distraction so she could get the other man out of there. Before she knew what was happening, something grabbed her from behind. Her arms were both forced behind her back as she was led into the house.
"I found this one snooping in the bushes outside." Said the man who held Lydia's arms.
As she quickly took in her surroundings and peeked over at the man tied to the chair, she realized something was not right. The bleeding man looked up at Lydia and his pupils quickly flashed black before turning back to their normal color. It was only then that she noticed the devil's trap on the floor underneath the chair he sat in.
"He's a demon." Lydia said to herself more than anything.
"That's right, and I'm sorry to say that we don't approve of humans spying on our business dealings." Said the man holding a long bloodied blade in his hand.
The man holding Lydia threw her across the room causing her to crash into the glass cabinet on the other side. Glass dug into the skin on her arms and hands, and when she attempted to pull herself back up, a sharp pain in her stomach stopped her. Looking down, Lydia seen a large shard of glass lodged into her abdomen just above her belly button.
"I'll take care of you in a minute." The man said to her then aimed his blade back to the demon in the chair. "Now where were we, ah yes, where is your king hiding out you rat."
"I told you, I don't know. Only the higher ranking demons that serve him personally know where he resides when he's not in hell. I swear." The demon choked out.
"Well then, I guess there is no other reason to keep you alive then."
The man once again raised the blade while Lydia tried to pull out the glass shard embedded in her stomach. She quickly stopped moving when heard a loud howl and something crashed through a window at the front of the house. Seconds later, the man holding the blade was knocked over by a giant black dog.
"Growly?" Lydia said out loud.
The dog glanced over at her for a split second before going back to attacking the man. The demon had also looked over at her when she said the dog's name, no doubt confused that she could see the hellhound, just like Crowley had been. Rough hands grabbed Lydia around the waist and pulled her to her feet. She winced when the glass in her stomach was pushed in deeper by the man who had thrown her before, as he tried to use her as a shield from the dog.
"Let the girl go." Said a familiar voice.
Whipping her head around, Lydia seen Crowley standing in the next room, looking completely at ease with his hands in the pockets of his coat. All the air left her lungs in that second. He looked the same as he did the last time but also somehow seemed to have a strong presence of power surrounding him now. She instantly felt the same electricity jolt through her body that had the first time he touched her, only now it happened just from him looking into her eyes. The man holding Lydia to his body swiftly pulled out a long blade that looked the same as the one the other man was using on the demon. Holding it against her throat, the man pulled her closer to his body and took a few steps back.
"Call off your hellhound first then we'll see if I let her go." The man told Crowley.
Crowley smirked then simply snapped his fingers. Growly immediately stopped what he was doing and walked over to sit next to his master's feet, leaving the other man on the ground, torn to shreds and possibly dead. Crowley kept staring into Lydia's eyes and he seemed to be trying to communicate with her from just a look. Somehow understanding flowed through her and she knew he was telling her to try and get loose, she attempted to pull away from the man but he was unmoving and just held tighter when she struggled.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He whispered in her ear before dragging the blade down her neck to her chest. Lydia felt it cut into her skin but held back from crying out. Growly snarled and bared his teeth at the man, waiting for his chance to pounce and she decided she would give it to him. Without giving it a second thought, Lydia grabbed onto the large piece of glass still embedded in her stomach and used all her strength to quickly rip it out and forced it into the man's upper leg. There was a loud yell before he let go of Lydia to reach for his injured leg. As fast as she could, she jumped out of the way as Crowley snapped his fingers and Growly soared over her, knocking the man to the ground. Lydia tried pulling herself up to no avail, then he was there. Crowley gently picked her up and laid her on the couch before walking back towards the savage dog attack and picking up the blade that the man had just been holding to Lydia's throat.
"Growly enough!" He said loudly. The dog backed away and went to sit next to the couch undoubtedly guarding Lydia. Picking up the man by the throat, Crowley said, "Now I'm only going to ask this once. Why were you here?"
"We were ordered to find and interrogate the king of hell. Right when we were getting somewhere, the hunter showed up and was spying through the window." He choked out.
"Well it's your lucky day. You're about to be the first angel to die at the hands of the King."
Lydia's eyes grew wider after hearing Crowley refer to himself as King. Then there was the fact that he called the man an angel. She had no idea what the hell was going on and she could only pray that he would not turn that blade on her. Lydia watched as Crowley shoved the silver blade through the "angel's" heart and white light poured out of him before he fell to the ground dead.
"So that's how you kill them." Crowley said to himself.
Lydia made a move to sit up but gasped loudly and grabbed her stomach. She felt weak and knew that she had lost a lot of blood, especially after she had pulled the glass out.
"Don't move darling, I just have one more loose end to tie up." Crowley told her then walked over to where the demon was still tied up. After breaking the devil's trap, he untied the demon before saying, "Consorting with angels are we?"
"They captured me sir." The demon replied sullenly.
"Hmm. So tell me, did you give them the information they were seeking?"
"No my king, I swear."
In a flash, Crowley stabbed the demon with the same blade before saying, "I don't believe you."
Lydia watched as Crowley pushed the demon off the blade and onto the floor before putting the blade inside his coat. She had the strong urge to run but she knew she wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. Crowley made his way back over to her and sat down on the couch accessing her injuries.
"King of hell huh?" She asked.
"A hunter now huh?" He retorted and gave her a small grin. "Taking on two angels and a demon all alone, do you have a death wish darling?"
Lydia wanted so bad to be angry and tell him off, but he was right, she was in way over her head right when Alex said she was going after a demon. She was honestly so relieved to see him, then laughed at the fact that she was relieved the king of hell had come for her.
"Laughing in the face of death, that's my girl. Let's go fix you up love." Crowley scooped her up off the couch then looked down at the hellhound waiting for orders. "Finish off the other angel, then go fetch the soul I was out to collect."
The dog bounded back towards the other angel who had begun to stir as Crowley disappeared with Lydia in his arms.
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