Chapter 25

"You are so adorable!" One of the girls squealed.

Torian looked at his ring, then at the girl. He'd already been given hell once for freezing the shop when a girl said something along those lines, and snarling at her that she 'could bloody well stay there and learn from her stupidity.'

To hell with it! Torian pounded his fist downward…only to have Sevron grab his wrist at the last second.

"You can't keep doing that just because you're angry! What if demons attack and we can't move?" Sevron growled at him.

Torian looked at the hand holding his wrist and lunged for it, biting Sevron lightly on the knuckles.

"Fucker!" Sevron yelped, jerking his hand back.

"Don't be a baby, I barely touched you," Torian rolled his eyes, but then paused, he'd bitten harder than he'd thought. There was blood running down Sevron's hand.

Torian took Sevron's hand in both of his own and licked lightly at the wound in apology. The least he could do was make sure that it didn't get infected.

"Where's Aridan?" Ken asked, looking around for the excitable blonde.

"He said he was going out with one of the girls. He promised to not go far," Yohji explained.

"I'm sorry," Torian said very softly, lapping gently at the flesh.

"You need to be more careful. I'd have kicked your ass if it were me," Ken pointed out, glaring at him.

"If it were you I wouldn't give a damn, but he's mine!" Torian growled at him before taking an injured finger entirely into his mouth, cleaning the blood away.

Torian didn't even spare him a look, he just continued cleaning. He paused when he noticed the heated look in Sevron's eyes. He continued his ministrations, taking longer than he needed to, just to see Sevron's discomfort.

"Now you're just being cruel," Rem snickered, grinning as he walked by with some soil.

"Are you being cruel, love?" Sevron asked with a smile.

"How many times do I have to tell you guys, not in the shop!" Ken all but shouted.

"You hadn't said it to us yet, so I thought we were safe," Sevron laughed.

"Oh, please, just because it makes him hard doesn't mean he'd actually let Torian do it," Rem laughed, "Even he's afraid of Torian's teeth being anywhere near his…"

Silver slapped a hand over Rem's mouth to cut off that sentence.

"You're not working in a bar right now, idiot," Silver growled at him. "And if I see one more of you girls videotaping this shit I'm going to make you eat those phones!" Silver snarled at the girls who quickly jumped back to working on the flowers.

"Its about time. They've been at this way more than usual, its annoying," Ken griped. He was used to them being pests, but having them follow everyone around the shop taping with their camera phones was beyond irritating.

"I am in total agreement," Yohji laughed.

"You guys! Don't be so mean!" Omi squeaked in their defence.

"Devi, come down from there, please," Omi all but begged. There wasn't much left to the roof, and there wasn't anything he could do to work up there anymore.

"Okay," Devi agreed. Aya wanted to smack the little demon for not having listened to him the million times he'd told him to get down.

'Thank you, Devi," Omi smiled and patted him on the shoulder before going back to clipping the stems.

"Only cause you asked nice, but if even one of those girls touches me I'm going right back up there," Devi grinned at him.

"Could you water those?" Omi asked, pointing to the flowers at his right that were almost in bloom.

Kyriel and Gabriel were in the storage room, doing what Ken hoped vaguely resembled work instead of play.

"Kinda sad that the demon does more work than the angels," Ken snorted.

"Yeah, well, they're angels. They aren't meant to do human labour. Its actually a taboo, that's why Gabriel looked pissed about it and why I offered for them to stop. Not that I would let them work if I had the choice. At least in my bar I can make sure they don`t work. Their world is a lot more cutthroat than ours. If an angel pulls a muscle you can damned well be sure that they will be attacked if they can`t hide it," Silver explained.

Devi wanted an in depth discussion about Weiss's work, but knew better than to ask, not when they were killing other humans, and not with so many civilians around.

"Very rarely will an angel ever admit to an injury if they alaren't one hundred percent sure that you can be trusted, and even then sometimes they won't."

"So, how do you guys feel about going to the Crimson Rose when all of this is done?" Silver asked with a grin.

"What better way than to pick up a certain someone than to show up to come and fetch her."

Aya's heart was racing just at the thought of Aya-Chan being his prize at the end of all of this. Of course he had no idea what he would tell his sister about his lifestyle now. Could he lie to her? He'd never been able to in the past.

Author's notes: Thanks JollyBigSis and Blackorcid for your reviews.

my laptop needs to be fixed up, so if i can manage to get onto my brother's for a little while for the next few days I'll update as per normal,

if not then it might not be until Friday night or Saturday.

Sorry in advance if its the latter.