Pip let a sigh much like the one Damien had given only minutes ago.

"Damien…" He trailed off. Damien looked somewhere between hopeful and hopeless. After a moment of thinking, Pip finally opened his mouth, taking Damien's hands.

"Since the moment that we met

My world was turned around, upside down

To some degree I still regret

My memory for keeping you around."

Pip looked down upon the still-kneeling Damien, feeling a certain power of the fate of the relationship they shared-controlling whether or not to forgive.

"Boy(1), I thought that you were mine

But my broken heart's been shattered one too many times.

"Someone let you down again

So you turn to me, your convenient friend."

He was sure Damien could tell from watching Pip's face, that he was thinking back on how the various other friends Damien had made that had caused the raven to lose this one. He could also see that Damien was slipping further into desperation and despondency. However, like many times during the last few days, he simply felt numb and apathetic to Damien's pain.

"Oh, but I know what you're doing

And what you hope to find;

I've seen it a thousand times."

As he sang his next line, he gave a half-hearted smirk at the irony of who he was singing to.

"Oh, the fire we had before

Is now just bitter ashes

Left scattered on the floor."

He took his hands away from Damien. The Anti-Christ didn't put up a fight, fearful of what Pip would say, and hopeless and at a loss to what he could do about it.

"And I don't want to see you anymore;

I'm just not that strong

I love it when you're here-"

With Damien's once more hopeful face he knew he had to continue with his brutal bluntness.

"-But I'm better when you're gone.

"I'm certain that I've given

And, oh, how you can take

There's no use in you looking,

There's nothing left for you to break

"Baby, please release me,

Let my heart rest in pieces."

As tears began to trail down Pip's cheeks, Damien moved in to comfort him, but the broken-hearted cockney boy wouldn't allow it. Instead, he repeated forcefully:

"Baby, please release me

We both know that you don't need me,

Let my heart rest in pieces.

Let it rest."

When he had finished, he simply allowed Damien to remain there as he cold-heartedly walked away reminding himself once again of the third grade at Eric Cartman party. And again, he surprised even himself when he no longer cared about his bitterness and hatred for everyone around him. However, he was becoming more used to the strange feelings yet familiar feelings he was harboring as time went by.


Damien numbly got up from where he was and began to walk away in a daze. How badly had he hurt Pip? How could he prove to his beloved angel that he would no longer hurt- would he ever?

He realized now that there was only one person to help him now. As he walked across Hell, he only vaguely registered one Kenny McCormick arriving at the gate, looking around, and just as quickly hurrying away out of sight.

He had to try again right? Pip had felt some regret about what had between them- right? Pip's friendship and love mattered more to Damien than anything- his reputation for hatred, bringing about the Apocalypse, even his own immortal life. And now it was gone. This was something worth doing what needed to be done.

He could not let it end like this- and he would not.

(1) Had to change that from the original because Dai-Dai's not a girl.

A/N: O.o