Chapter Four - Infernal
Wild Life - Jack and Jack

Now you're talking to the king of the jungle
We got lions, tigers, bears, oh my.

Lilith stood in front of a small black bag, staring down at the contents surrounding it. She didn't need to pack much, toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, maps, blanket and the keys to a car she found out front. She had been looking around the house before finally deciding to pack, she had found a picture of Kai with a girl similar to his age...and kept it. She'd like to remember the guy that she had spent two years with.

"You're leaving?" Lilith jumped, curse words escaping her as she fumbled to stuff the picture in the bag, quickly piling the stuff on top of it. She felt him move closer, his figure looming over her. "That's a shame," he said.

Lilith zipped the bag up and threw it over her shoulder, whacking Kai in the stomach. His grunted and moved out of her way, watching as she turned to face him, her eyes showing sadness and anger. "Don't lie, Malachai," she hissed.

Kai smirked at her fiery spirit. "Did you mean to rhyme that?" He chuckled, his nose scrunching up. He let out a sound of approval as she began to charge at him, screaming out curses as her fists hit his chest. He caught her fists mid-air. "Woah, crazy pants, calm down."

Lilith breathed heavily, tendrils falling over her face as she heaved from the anger consuming her. "Fuck you, Malachai!" She yelled in his face before falling limp in his grasp.

He let her go, watching as she dropped to the floor ungracefully, curling up in a ball. "Ew, what-what are you doing?" He asked as she began to whimper and cry, her arms covering her face.

"Go away," she said, her voice muffled.

"What? I can't hear you?" He crouched to the floor.

"Go away," she repeated.

"Sorry?" He began to smile as she peaked through her arms to glare up at him. His smile dropped when she looked away and decided to sit down next to her. "Was my threat too harsh for you?" He prodded her side with a finger.

Lilith squirmed away from him, her head turning away from him childishly. "I don't like you," she said, her lips forming a pout.

"I don't like you either," he replied, crossing his legs. "I tolerate you because you're the only other human being in this world and I'd rather keep you close than let you leave," he confessed, his eyebrows furrowing.

Lilith looked back, her eyes lighter as she heard him say this. "What are you saying Malachai?" She asked through her slowed tears.

Kai's eye twitched at his name. "I'm saying if you call me that one more time then I'd rather be alone," he snapped before shaking his head, standing up. "I'm not saying anything, go, leave, but don't call me if something happens to you." He bowed at the doorway before slamming the door shut behind him.

"Prick," she murmured, wiping her wet cheeks. "I don't need a Kai Parker in my life, no ones needs sociopath in their life, it's how they end up dead most of the time," she hissed to herself, standing up and grabbing her bag that had fallen to the floor. "Excluding Sherlock."

"You are an independent woman, Lilith Black, you don't need to lean on anybody. You can do this," she held a fist in front of her, forming another with her other hand. "Fist bump," she said as she bumped her hands together before running down the stairs.

She couldn't hear Kai about the house. She caught sight of a pager on the table and walked over to it. She had seen both her mom and dad have one of this, she also remembered being grounded for breaking one of them.

Lilith stuffed it in her pocket before grabbing the newspaper and pen resting on the side by the kettle. She ripped off a blank bit of the newspaper and wrote;

Kai, I took your pager lol. If you ever need me (important only) then page me.

L

She pondered whether to put a kiss but decided against it, throwing the pen onto the table beside the paper. She grabbed the keys from her bag, zipping it back up and walked out of the house, closing the front door gently.

04:36am

Lilith's pager had gone off sixteen times and she was scared to call Kai back. He must've been angry when he found out she had taken the pager and for that reason she wanted to avoid him like the plague, but then again, she did write a note saying to contact her if important

Maybe it was?

She was currently residing in her own house back in Vancouver. It had looked so different in 1994 but still her house. She couldn't remember much about her past at the age of six, her life was so dysfunctional that it was all a blur to her but as she had begun to tour the house once again, memories came crawling back.

Lilith sighed and stood from her bed whilst grabbing the pager, she walked out of the room and down to the end of the hall where the upstairs telephone sat. She pressed the numbers to the caller.

"My pager." It was silent after Kai spoke, the tense air traveled from one phone to the other, bouncing back like a tennis ball caught between two rackets.

"Who is this?" Asked Lilith, forging a British accent. She sounded as awkward as she felt. She could hear him breathing heavily down the phone.

"We are the only two people here, please tell me you're not dumb enough to try that and you were joking just then?" Her reply was silence, her eyes wide. "Fine; if you're not in Portland within twenty-four hours I will follow through with my threat and-"

"What? And what? Torture me to death every day?" She snapped, cutting him off mid-sentence. "I'll make sure you go down with me!" She let out a breath. "I'll come back, I'll bring your stupid pager, but you can fuck off thinking that I'm staying in that damn house with you."

"Ooh, you're awfully brave over the phone," he replied sarcastically. "Twenty-four hours," he sang before hanging up.

"Son of a bitch!" Lilith screamed, throwing the phone at the wall, she watched as it shattered into pieces, bits hanging from the telephone line. "Balls."

When Lilith walked through the front door to the Parker residence she was expecting to be slaughtered on the spot or set on fire, maybe even just have words hurled at her. That wasn't the case. Instead, she was faced with a smiling Kai Parker.

"I'm sorry for threatening yo-"

"No, you're not," Lilith said, cutting him off. "You want more magic don't you?" She asked through a well-heaved sigh.

"Guilty," he said with a smirk, shrugging his shoulders almost innocently. "You mind if I try a spell on you too? Don't worry, it's not a painful one."

"Why don't you make me see dead people whilst you're at it?" She suggested sarcastically.

Kai cocked an eyebrow, an approving expression on his face as he looked her up and down. "One trip away from me for a few days and you seem to have become sarcastic," he noted, tilting his head to the side. "I like it," he said.

Lilith sighed, rolling her eyes, on the outside she didn't seem fazed and intended to look annoyed by his flirtatious comments but on the inside she was melting as quick as butter in a hot pan. If it wasn't for the lingering thought of him incapable of feelings, she would be all over him but she wasn't crazy; yet.

"Shut up Kai and do this stupid spell," she sighed, looking away from his smoldering look. She couldn't hear the words he begun to chant and frowned, looking back at him when suddenly something came over her.

She wanted to blurt everything that was on her mind and quickly covered her mouth with her hands, sending Kai a questioning look.

"Oh, I put a truth spell on you, yeah you can't lie to me, this is your punishment for taking my pager." He smirked, walking closer to her. He pulled her hands away from her mouth, dropping them by her side. "Where is my pager?" He asked her.

"The inside pocket in the black bag," she replied immediately, her eyes wide as the truthful words came out of her. She watched as he picked up the bag, rummaging through the equipment when he suddenly became still.

"Did you take anything from this house?" He asked, looking up at her dead in the eye. Lilith gulped and nodded vigorously. "What did you take?"

"Your pager and your keys to the car and a blanket from one of your sibling's rooms," she answered, it was the truth but she still had the choice to leave out information.

"You took one more thing didn't you?" Kai whispered, his face now inches away from hers.

Lilith nodded once again. "Don't do this Kai, it's embarrassing," she murmured, tired of his tricks and games.

"What did you take?" He ignored her.

"A picture."

"Who's in the picture?" He asked, fire dancing in his brown eyes.

"You and a girl," she answered, slouching away from him but his hand had darted out, grabbing her neck in a tight grip, pulling her back to him.

"Why did you take it?" He snapped.

"Because I wanted to remember you." A tear escaped her, falling down her cheek slowly. She felt his grip on her loosen and she quickly wrenched herself from him.

"Awe, isn't that cute of you?" He beleaguered her, a cruel smile on his face. He dropped her bag after retrieving the pager and photograph. "Don't take my stuff," he ordered her.

Lilith stared at him as he walked away, feeling the loss of the magic as it left her body. She stood in the hall, once again in pain from the words and actions of a sociopath. Then suddenly that feeling was washed away and a new found emotion consumed her; happiness, hopefulness.

She wasn't going to cower and run away from him this time, she was stupid enough to believe that would've worked the first time; instead she was going to run towards him.

"Kill or be killed, Lilith," she whispered to herself as she followed the direction Kai had gone in. He head gone upstairs, she assumed it would be his room but when she checked, he wasn't there. She tried the room next to his, it looked like a girls room.

"Finding something else to take," Kai said from behind her, jolting the girl from her staring. She turned around and looked him with confidence. "Oh, oh, maybe you want to take something of my dads, you know what, you can keep his stuff, never liked it anyway," he snarled.

"No," replied Lilith. "I came to apologise, I was in the wrong, I shouldn't have stolen something that obviously meant a great deal to you," she said.

She frowned when Kai laughed in return. "This, you think this means something to me?" He laughed once again before placing a hand on her shoulder. "Ugh, this is why I keep you around, you're almost as funny as me," he said to her, tapping the end of his finger on her nose.

"Then why..?" She drifted off, narrowing her eyes at him.

"Believe me, when I say this; I do not have any sentimental attachments to anything in this house," he told her, a big smile still on his face. "I wanted to test you," he told her, shrugging one shoulder, placing his other hand on her other shoulder.

"Test me for what?" She asked, confusion in her voice.

"To see if you really are as loyal as you make me believe, I didn't put a truth spell on you, it was an illusion," he told her, winking.

Liliths mouth dropped open. "You what? No, it wasn't, I felt myself being unable to hold back any words, I-I-I-"

"I-I-I," Kai imitated her before throwing his head back, letting go of her shoulders to clap as he struggled to contain his laughter. "Illusions, cloaking, they're all the same thing," he said. "God I love magic."

Lilith's mouth still hung open from the shock. She felt his finger on her chin, a force pushing her open jaw shut. "I don't get it," she whispered in horror, turning away from him. She slapped her hands over the sides of her head, walking away from him. "I'm going crazy!" She screamed.

Kai walked after her, laughing as they made their way down the stairs.