Chapter 3:
Dante placed her on his bed and cleaned her wound, and just like he thought, it wasn't anything serious. At this point, he was racking his brain trying to figure out what was going on, she was clearly just a regular human, she didn't even seem to be a medium or have any psychic abilities, but still demons were after her, everything was just so strange.
As he was pondering the situation he realized he had barely had any sleep and decided to lay on the two-seat couch in his bedroom near the bed. He was very tired so it didn't take him long to fall asleep. Unfortunately his rest didn't last very long…
- What am I doing here?! – he heard someone yelling at him as he was suddenly hit in the face and was waken up
He knew the hit was supposed to hurt him but it was just enough to wake him up. Being a Nephilim had its advantages, one of them being having a very high tolerance to pain.
- You are the guy from before! – she said as he sat up
- Yeah, and you should be thanking me instead of hitting me in the face! – he said sounding very irritated
- What happened? Why did I wake up here? – she said with panic in her voice, she was starting to freak out
He tried to calm her down and proceeded to tell her what had happened and why he brought her to his apartment.
- Wait…What were you doing outside my apartment at 6 am? – she asked nervously
- I…Uhm… I just had a bad feeling – he explained, but she didn't look convinced at all
- Well… I have to go – she said believing he was some kind of stalker or something like that
- You can't go, they'll come after you again, you need me
- Yeah, I don't think so – she said in a serious tone
Dante was a man of little patience and he was starting to lose it.
- Listen, you know what you saw there on the street, maybe if you stopped injecting drugs in your body you would distinguish reality from your hallucinations – he bluntly said, but immediately realized he probably shouldn't have said that last thing
- How do you even know…? Ok, you are definitely a stalker – she said as she pushed him away to get out of his place
Dante rolled his eyes, he was genuinely trying to help someone for once in his life and this is what he gets in return.
- You know what? Leave, I don't care – he said as she left the apartment
Only a few minutes went by and Dante was already out going after her. He had a weird feeling in his chest, something he hadn't experienced since "that" day, on that occasion he didn't have the chance to make things differently, but he had the chance now, he was just hoping it wouldn't be too late.
He could see it from the distance, Limbo, which only meant one thing, she was in trouble… again.
- Shit!
Dante ran as fast as he could arriving just in time, as she was surrounded by three demons and once again there was a portal which closed as soon as Dante got there.
He easily killed the demons with his sword Rebellion and approached her, she seemed too terrified to even talk.
- Are you ok?
She just nodded in response.
- I told you, you need me. Whoever is behind this knows when I'm close, that's why demons only appear when you are alone.
- Ok – she just muttered still in shock
- You'll have to stay in my apartment for a while, until I figure this situation out.
And suddenly, staying with the stalker guy with weird hair color seemed like a good idea compared to the demons.
- Fine – she agreed – I need to pick some stuff up from my apartment
- Sure, I'll go with you
They went to her apartment which was still a mess from that morning's abduction. Dante sat on the couch and waited while she packed her stuff.
- Come on! Hurry up, what's taking you so long? I'm starving! – he said after half an hour of waiting
- I'm packing! Shut up
He was already kind of regretting helping her.
This is the last time I do something nice for anyone.
Once she was done, they started silently walking to his place.
- I have tons of questions for you – she finally said
- They'll have to wait until I have lunch, I'm not in the mood
- Fine – she said as she was having a bad feeling about this whole thing