"Can't believe that old goat's making us live together, for FUCKS sake!" Will groans as he slams down onto the couch in the rather cramped apartment. God batman irritated the fuck out of Will sometimes. Rai on the other hand was quiet, examining the walls and taking in all the new things. She could smell fresh paint, like the place had been recently fixed up.
"Hello… Wednesday Adams? See if there's a beer in the fridge." Will groans, closing his eyes. Although the reference went completely over her head. Had Rai known what he meant, she'd likely be appalled.
She was glamoured, to look human. Blonde ringlets cascading over her ivory shoulders. Horns hidden, eyes fixed to a bright bronze, at first glance she looked normal. Although watching the way she moved was a give away. She had no bounce or natural sway to her gait. Moving much like a ghost, never a falter or even a stray breath. This form seemed so familiar yet foreign. It was all she could bring herself to display herself as. Her eyes meet the irritated man's for a split second. "Calm down. Stressing does nothing. If anyone should be stressed it should be me. Demon Slayer?" Rai asks, sitting on the coffee table next to the couch. She supposed she may as well attempt to be friendly.
"Ugh. Crucify a few rotten murderers and that's what they'll call you." Will groans, sitting upright, eyes finally scanning over his equally reluctant roommate. "So how about you. Demon?"
"Devil actually."
"The difference?"
"Demons are a dime a dozen. Rarely intelligent. Even more rarely sentient. Devils however are a class of demon. Each with names, personalities and intellect far superior to the common demon." Rai explains, seeming to gaze to the floor.
"How on earth does a demon become a devil?"
"How does a half-amazonian get ice magic?" Rai diverts, much to Will's surprise and dismay.
"Human genetics meld with Amazonian genetics strangely. I didn't get a lot of her abilities, but I did get a random perk I guess." Will shrugs. "Although I do wonder why you hide behind that disguise? I've seen what you look like." The blonde boy asks as the devil stands and begins moving into one of the bedrooms. His question being completely ignored.
The demon was currently occupied with a wooden music box playing the tune of Swan Lake, her eyes fixed upon it as it brought some faint memories back from the dead. She could remember the strain of staying up on pointe, leaping graciously and landing easily. She also faintly remembered children doing their best to copy her. Why children? This memory was immediately followed by the smell of smoke and burning skin.
"Rai… Rai." Will called as the devil went silent, beginning to sit up in concern as she snapped out of it. "You alive? Erm… dead?"
"Yeah- I'm fine. Um. Get some sleep. Long day tomorrow and you need rest." Rai stands.
"Don't ya mean, we?"Will ponders as he gets up, looking across the hallway to his roommate.
"Demons don't sleep. We're forever restless. Part of the whole 'burn in hell thing.' we don't even have to be burning or in hell for the constant mild annoyance of exhaustion." Rai groans, flopping back on the bed, blonde ringlets falling perfectly around her head in a golden halo.
This struck Will as horrible yet cool at the same time. Not needing sleep was useful, yet he imagined constantly longing for rest would be miserable. "So… Is that the only side effect you have?" He asks leaning against a door frame.
"I wish" Rai laughs. "We constantly feel the desire for all seven deadly sins. Lust, sloth, envy. Although not conventionally and some species more than others. I'm more predispositioned to have wrathful tendencies. The constant urge to tear someone apart is always at the back of my mind. The capability to do it is there too." Rai blinks, gazing at her own hand, imagining what would actually happen if she were to kill some innocent human. To see their souls struggling against her, helpless to escape and only to be swallowed whole and deconstructed into what made them human. "Only thing stopping me is myself."
Only after a small awkward silence could Will actually reply. "Well. At least you haven't actually done it."
"You're wrathful too. I can see it all over you. But you don't mean to be. You weren't even born that way." She turns to stare Will down. Eyes seeming to bore right through him. "Someone made you this way. What did they do to you?"
Will bites his lip and shakes his head. Slinking back for a moment. "I think I need to go to bed." He thinks aloud, roaming down the hallway to his bedroom, leaving Rai continuing to stare where he just was. Having seen that flicker of pain in his soul that he tried so desperately to hide.
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"Bruce, come on. What's your plan? Those kids are dangerous. One's a monster and the other one is a demon. We can-"
"My plan is a fast acting team we can send on missions we don't want association with or don't have time for, or can't waste league members on." Bruce interrupts, typing at his desk.
Superman huffs, settling into an office chair. "So they're scapegoats. That makes me feel much better."
"Not scapegoats. It's a probationary period to let them work off their issues. Then they'll be admitted." Bruce pulls up some more files and turns the screen around. "We can't have a team of two people though. So I've collected a few more." The bat pushed the mouse to Clark for him to scroll through the profiles. "Those two will just be spearheading the operation."
"This is insane. Some of these kids kill people. Hell one of them's a fire breathing half-beast. This better work, or we're in deep-"
"It will. Trust me." Bruce drones as he lets down his cowl.
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The next day started with Will groaning in the bathroom mirror trying to get his hair to behave and then smogging up the bathroom with a fog of hairspray. Once he got it right where he wanted it he glances up to see himself in the mirror, then turns to immediately find his roommate right there, where as she didn't show up in the reflection. The half-breed jumps before remembering the whole 'living with a demon' thing. "The fuck, Rai!?" He half-shouted catching his lost breath.
"Sorry. I was trying to find that horrible smell." She was holding her hand over her nose. "Guess it's just that spray."
"Hey, bitch. We can't all have that whole anti-gravity smoke hair." Will sasses as he looks down to his phone, realizing there was absolutely no service and the device was going berserk. "Oh come on, phone."
"Oh,Sorry." Rai immediately apologizes and steps back a good three feet which immediately restores the device.
Will blinks, turning his phone over and experimentally checking SnapChat. "Wh-how?"
"Strong demons distort devices. Very few electrical devices can withstand it." She kept a good distance as Will kept checking his phone to ensure it was alright.
"Noted. Freaky, but, noted." He states walking past her for the front door, grabbing a pop-tart on the way. "Bats wanted us at mount justice in half an hour. Some kind of important mumbo jumbo. Probably some shit about cackling clowns and obese men pretending to be flamingos."
"You mean penguins?"
"Exactly"
Will smirks as he opens the door, pressing a button on his keys to unlock the beat up red truck in the driveway. "You coming?" He asks as he holds the door open for Rai, who immediately stalls at the idea of getting into a car.
Thoughts of flames and the horrid smell of gas fills her mind. "No. I'll meet you there. I don't really do cars." And with that Will was off, left to think as the demon faded from his rear view mirror.
