Sinful Obsessions: Drabbles for Ruby & Bela
Title: Darker than Light
POV: Bela's
Song: "All of this Past" ~ Sarah Bettens
Some days she remembers it, what she gave up, who she gave it up to, what she gave it up for.
My soul, my lovely soul.
And maybe if Ruby had been around back then, she would have given it a second thought.
But a girl her age shouldn't have had to go through what she did, the agony, the pain, all the tears she nearly killed herself trying to suppress.
And finally, riffling through a book of dark magic, finding the antidote to the poison running thick through her veins.
Didn't she deserve to be saved?
Because if she didn't save herself, who would?
Ruby knows and this scares her terribly, makes her want to curl up in a ball and cry.
Because there's always the chance the demon can use it against her, even though she knows Ruby won't.
She wouldn't hurt her like that.
Bela breathes deeply, her mind spinning around in circles, her past coming back to haunt her like it always does on nights like these.
Ruby is asleep beside her, or pretending to be, she isn't too sure whether demons sleep.
Bela stares out the window, rocking back and forth as she once did on the swing set all those years ago.
The day she heard it could all go away, her parents, her worries, her screams for release.
It was never the money.
"Bela!"
Ruby? No, it can't be…
A hand on her shoulder and she's back to reality, a less tragic alternative.
Ruby looks at her, just looks, and Bela wonders what she thinks of.
What she thinks of me.
But around Ruby it's impossible to tell, actions speak louder than words in her world.
"Lilith?"
Bela feels herself nod.
"She didn't deserve your soul."
The human hears the unspoken, 'I do'.
To be continued…