Author's Note: Really short one - another will be on the way. Enjoy.
Chapter 21: Are You Gonna Leave Me Now? Part 2
He reached out to her and gently caressed her face. His coarse skin was such a stark contrast against her silky smooth skin beneath it. He savoured the feeling and wondered how something seemingly insignificant could have such a profound affect on him. How every touch altered his being, his very core. How invisible electric sparks shot from his fingertips as they hovered over her skin. How was it so smooth? How had she remained untouched by time? How had she remained so perfect, so fragile, so innocent? A frown played on his features as he thought of how wrong he was. She wasn't innocent, she was possibly the most dangerous thing he'd ever come across. He knew that he should have ended it, should have ended her. But he couldn't. Looking down at her now he knew more than ever how much he loved her. He knew that killing her would have been right and that somewhere in the future terrible events would have been prevented by ending her here, now. But it would also kill him. It would rip his already fragile heart to pieces.
She shifted for a moment and his train of thought was broken. Her hair fell across her face and he couldn't help but remind himself of how perfect she was. It was in these seemingly insignificant moments that he felt whole again, that all the pains of his past were erased. He was shocked then by how his love had transformed him. How loving his woman had brought him back to life. Back from the brink of darkness and despair. Then he wondered into darker thoughts. Thoughts of how he had nearly ended it not two hours before...
'Please...don't do this...' her voice was so timid, so shaky. He looked down at her with hard features and refused to let her in.
'Shut up.'
'Please...just give me a chance to explain, to make things right...' she was in tears now as she begged for her life, for her very soul.
'How could you possibly explain? Your a demon!.' he grabbed her by the collar and slapped his fist across her face. She turned her bloodied face up to him and pleaded once again,
'Please...I never lied about loving you.' he laughed at the concept and pulled her closer to him.
'How can you love? You're not even human!'
'Please...just let me explain.' He threw her back against the wall and reached into his back pocket. 'No...no...no!' she yelled as she saw the diary in his hands.
'I'm going to send you back where you belong demon.' He watched as her body shuddered with fear and saw as the panic set in her features. His heart arched looking down at her, he wanted to stop, he wanted for it to be lie. But it wasn't. She was a demon and he was a hunter. There was only one thing to be done, she had to be sent back to hell. His heart broke as she continued to cry at his feet.
'This demon soul belongs in this body. It was born in this body. I grew up as a human.' She said through her tears. His look softened for a split second but he soon hardened as he convinced himself that it had to be done.. He began reading from the journal and the effect was almost immediate. Her body shook and shuddered in the most sickening way and a pained expression was frozen on her face. Soon it was too much and a loud guttural scream ripped through the air. Black smoke billowed from her mouth as he finished reading and his heart pulled in his chest as he realised it was done.
But somehow it flew back in the direction it had come, back into her body. She collapsed onto the floor in a heap and he ran to her side. His fingers brushed the side of her neck searching for a pulse. She was alive. How had this happened? The spell should have sent the demon back to hell, he had seen it work before.
He scooped her body into his arms then and knew that he didn't care what she was, all that mattered was that he loved her...