That night when Vanessa returned home, as Claude helped her undress, the girl asked quietly "Am I beautiful Claude?"

The demon froze and looked at the girl with a stunned expression. "Of course Vanessa you are beautiful," he replied.

"Then why do I feel so ugly right now?"

"Does it have to do with what that Shinigami told you?"

"Yes, I feel like Will thinks I'm stupid, which causes me to feel ugly and invaluable," Vanessa whispered.

He put his hands on her face and said as he looked into her eyes "You are the most beautiful thing in my world, and I will make you feel beautiful Vanessa." The demon wrapped his arms around Vanessa's exposed waist as he leaned his face against the side of her head.

Claude began to use his tongue to trace over Vanessa's ear, who in turn he received a shiver from. This caused Claude to pick up Vanessa and lie her down on her bed while hovering over her. The girl remained silent and almost stoic like.

Faustus began to kiss and lightly nibble at the flesh on Vanessa's neck, careful not to hurt her. He licked over their contract, which sort of stung Vanessa a little. Claude ran his hands all over the girl's body, feeling every part of her, learning where was sensitive and where wasn't. Looking at her, Claude took her chin in his ungloved hand and captured her lips in his as he possessively kissed her.

Vanessa shuddered lightly when she felt the demon's tongue in her mouth and his teeth viciously bite into her lips. Claude pulled away and whispered "Now you know that when I call you mine, I truly mean what I say."

Something in Vanessa's mind clicked. She remembered William saying something almost exactly like that. "You are so much more than a little sister to me Vanessa. Now you know when I say I love you, I truly mean the words."

This realization caused Vanessa to snap out of her trance and in her sudden fit of either rage or sadness, was transported somehow to the Shinigami Realm. She was lying on the cobbled stoned road wrapped in nothing but a bed sheet. Rain was pouring down heavily on the human girl as she picked herself up and started walking around the Shinigami Realm to try and find William's apartment.

Finally, she found it. The lights were out, but she had to try, because she was getting cold and tired. When she knocked on the door, William T. Spears sat up from in bed and reached for his glasses. "Honestly, who could that be at this hour?" he wondered as he turned on a lamp in the living room and walked to the front door.

He opened it up to find a drenched Vanessa with a bed sheet wrapped around her half naked body. "Vanessa?" he asked. The girl began to cry as William took her into his arms and brought her inside. "What happened?" he asked as he sat her down on the couch. She was soaking wet, so William went off to retrieve a towel and a spare set of clothes.

He gave her the clothes, which she quickly put on, in embarrassment, and then dried her hair with the towel. The Shinigami wrapped a blanket around her and pulled her into his arms as he sat down on the couch next to her. "What did that demon do to you?"

"He touched me," Vanessa whispered.

"What?" William asked in a shocked tone. He put his hand under Vanessa's chin and looked in her eyes.

"Claude said he was going to make me feel beautiful, and then he started licking me, then kissing me, then biting me, and running his hands over my body," Vanessa explained as tears slid down her face.

"Damn demon," William muttered. Vanessa laid her head on William's chest as he stroked her wet hair and pulled her closer to him.

"I'm sorry Will, he did lie to me," Vanessa realized.

"You were under his trance, you didn't know," William said. The girl looked up at him.

"So what happens now?" she asked.

He put a hand on her face and replied "I'm going to murder that demon for hurting you, and then I'm going to come back home and take care of you like I should've done all those years ago."

William softly kissed her lips and felt Vanessa deepen it. "First can we go to bed, I'm tired."

"Yes, c'mon, let's go." William took her hand and led her to his bedroom. They lay in bed wrapped in each other's arms, and listened to the rain fall outside.