A demoness awakens XXV
Disclaim: The charas are not mine, they belong to Kim Harrison and her Hollow series.
WARNING: Spoilers from "Black magic santion"
Pairing: Rachel / Al
Charas: Rachel / Al / Trent / Quen / Ceri / Maria / Jenks
Summary: Jenks pixed Trent and Al, after this Rachel pays his family a visit while her demon is off doing his own stuff.
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A demoness awakens XXV: Raided
- Rachel -A smile ran over my lips, and I raised my thumb at Jenks, what a nice idea, couldn't have come up with anything more suitable.
He grinned and finally landed on my shoulder.
"Yeah eat this you silly little fairy fart sniffing bastards!" I laugh with him until the itching seeped through the bond and I could feel it as well as Al. Strangely Jenks attack wasn't triggering my instincts, maybe because I knew a pixing wouldn't be a treat; just fucking uncomfortable for the pixed one.
Al went misty and reformed beside me.
"I think we are done for now, thanks for pixing him Jenks, he might have learned his lesson."
"You aren't taking Trent, Al!" I ordered the demon angrily.
"No, I'm not, not now anyway. Let's go, there is a second matter to take care off before we will spell one of Trenton's mirrors and after this is done little pixy-man here can bitch at me for fucking your brains out." He grinned while I punched his upper arm, turning red. Jenks wasn't so sure whether he should laugh with the demon about this comment or not. He decided not to.
Al took my elbow and bowed to all the people in the room, before he led me out through the terrace door, turning on his heels the moment we were under the threshold.
"See you soon." He eyed Jenks over who was still sitting on my shoulder.
"Will you come with us?" The pixy was airborne and about to get in Al's face.
"Don't start screaming before you know where we are heading." I sensed him entering his playful mood again and spoiled it before Jenks could get really angry.
"I will kick Cormel's balls to the moon, for forcing Ivy to bite and bind me. I would like to have you for backup." Jenks flashed a shit-eating grin at Al, dusting silver sparkles.
"See big bad demon, you ain't enough to keep her save, you hear that, she wants me as backup." I grumbled lowly.
"Jenks don't taunt him. And Al don't even think about answering that. Al you're a strong demon and I never said anything else, but I have never been on a run with you, and Jenks is my friend and partner for years. He is the best backup one can think of, and Cormel might be waiting for us to show up, it's never wrong to have some extra muscles with you."
The demon laughed full out and cleared a tear from his eyes after he had enough air again.
"Extra muscles, what muscles are you referring to." I rolled my eyes at that and looked at Jenks, dusting a dark angry red.
"He's not a people person, is he? That demon is even faster with pissing off others than you Rachel. You're going to need my help, I'm with you. So what happens next? Driving over to Cormel's?" He landed on my shoulder again, his trust meant a lot to me.
"Driving? You're kidding, aren't you?" Al asked. "Why should we? He is only a line-jump away from us."
"He expects Rachel to strike. Remember white earth witch, with a little talent for the lines. If he knows about her turning demon, he's expecting one with the weapons and powers of a witch." That got the demon thinking.
"You think we should go to his place playing harmless? I don't like that much."
"Do you think it would be better to level the building? Pretty overkill don't you think and you might have to off Cormel, which would leave Ivy's carmilla without protection. I think it is better if Rachel goes where as witch,kicks his ass, and after that she can show him a part of her true power. This ought to impress the undead, might even be able to scare him into taking Ivy back." He said again taking his Peter Pan pose.
"Mh doesn't sound silly anymore. The undead are pretty tough to impress, pure power rarely works. This might be a great way to manage that. But we will have to enter my kitchen for supplies."
"Your kitchen? We don't need curses to work it the witchy way." The pixy flashed yellow and rose over teen feet in under a second.
"Beside I'm not going to the ever-after ever again." Jenks shout down.
"Hey little man don't be silly, if you think playing harmless is going to solve this matter, I might go for it. But we will not enter there unprepared, which means kitchen it is, beside Rachel normally use her splat gun and sleep-time potions." The demon grinned getting a wired look from Jenks, but slowly the agitated pixy came down again.
"And you could have a talk with Ivy too. I promise to bring your back, unharmed." I said, finally decided the men had talked enough. Both were eyeing me over.
Jenks dropped a few inches in height and I extended my hand for him to land on, he did.
"All right, give me a few minutes to talk to my family." He was already a few feet away before I screamed after him.
"Wait for me; I want to come with you. I own your kids an apology." I said and got rolling eyes from my demon.
"You're about to fuck our reputation six ways to Sunday. Demons promising save passages for free, giving away godparenthoods to elves, and apologiesing for their nature." He shook his head and took a grip on my arm, turning me around to face him, while Jenks waited halfway between Trent's garden trees and his house.
"I will get your splat gun and anything else the IS, FIB and Homeland Security left behind." The demon gave me a kiss, which I fought until my knees went weak, but Al being Al jumped right the moment I gave in.
Jenks landed on my shoulder again.
"Tink's rotten body, you reek of burnt amber and… arousal, I can't believe it he really turns you on."
"Shut up, Jenks. This is awkward enough without you adding to it with snippy comments." I took a deep breath and got to my feet, while he rose into the air and lightened my path.
It took me almost teen minutes to find the new home of the clan, Jenks and one of his daughters lighting the clearing. Little shrieks came from all around me and it didn't even took them a second to surround me. A bit of uneasiness floated through me.
"Jenks?"
"Miss Morgan?" One of them ask, not friendly but also not angry, but this gave no indication of their purpose, since pixies were able to kill cold bloody. I recognized the tactical formation they were holding, which made me gulp. It was the same they used to defend the garden against an invading fairy clan.
"Yes, I'm sorry for everything what happens after Ceri summoned me. I … lost control over myself.. It never was my intention to hurt anyone of you and I'm thanking God that you all seemed to be okay." The pixies kept silent, which was not happening very often, it could mean everything, most likely nothing good.
"I'm also sorry about the church and your garden and that radiation-thing, there must be a way to get rid of it so you all can return to your garden safely, if you still want to go back by then" I looked down, showing my pain and trust with it.
"What about Miss Tamwood, Rex and Bis?" One of his sons asked me, his voice was totally even, which was able to scare the hell out of me, adrenalin hit me hard.
"Ivy is with me, at Al's place, she is safe and sound, and after we kicked Rynn in the balls she will come back this side of the lines."
"She is in the ever-after?" One of his girls squeak, at least they weren't completely neutral anymore.
"Yes she is, because Rynn blackmailed her into biting me. She failed to bind me and she will end up as a blood-gift if we don't change the undead's mind. For this I need your father's help." Jax his oldest son hovered a few feet before me and looked me right in the eyes.
"You're a demon… Miss Morgan." Pain cramped my chest; I couldn't avoid that truth anymore.
"Yes… yes I'm. But I'm still Rachel as well; I'm trying very hard to remain myself."
"Hard to stay …" A lot pop made the pixies flee into the the darkness of the night, little shrieks of panic and silence afterwards, right before my demon exploded into existence.
Jenks was airborne and had his sword in his hands, he and his tribe would be able to kill us both in no time; what was this idiot thinking.
"Are you fucking nuts?" I yelled at Al and he turned almost black eyes on me, only now I received his feelings, and he was really, really furious. A treat of uneasiness ran through me and I crossed my arms before my chest, too stubborn to admit that he scared the daylights out of me.
"What!" I demanded with impatience.
"Gone, everything is gone. No kitchen, no books, no splat gun, nothing, it's like the house has been cleaned out." I stared at him in disbelieve and Jenks landed on my shoulder for support.
"What about the garden?" The pixy was starting to sound a bit angry himself.
"Gone as well, not a single plant left, never seen anyone cleaning up like this." The demon growled and I felt numb since I didn't know what exactly I should think. They took everything what belonged to Jenks, Ivy or me and none of us was going to take that lightly.
"These sons of Tink's twat, how the hell could they do this, this is against the rules. We didn't do anything wrong. What has my family to do with demon-duels?" The tiny man screamed.
"Nothing, I assume it were the guys of Homeland Security which cleaned out your living place, since the coven would have just burned it down. Beside at least the stuff Trent told you about radiation is true. The place feels damn uncomfortable; I think they took all the things so no one would steal something. They try to contain the damage, and they're probably on the run for the ones who did this."
I blanched and looked at the pixies, some of them were back in the formation and some were still hiding. Al looked down at me and shook his head.
"Forget it, I don't know any demon-curse doing that, beside if it would have been your doing, Ivy would have shown syndromes of it."
I went even whiter in the face and Al had to support me, otherwise I might have fallen on my ass.
"We all used a curse… so we don't know." Jenks gave a whistle of astonishment and was dusting bright yellow in worry.
"Ivy did what?" He asked, while Glenn came back to my mind.
"She took one of my curses, and she makes a pretty fine male." Al laughed even if I knew he was only doing it to taunt the pixy, my fist connected with his upper arm.
"And why did she do that?" The pixy gave us a good glare, and all his know-how as a father showed, but Al didn't even flinched, maybe it wasn't working on five thousand plus years old demons. I, for the time being, felt uncomfortable and tried to switch the topic.
"Stop that! What about Glenn, Jenks is he okay?"
"We don't know, he vanished from work right after the area was sealed, but until then he seemed to be fine, even if his memory was a bit messed up" I growled lowly and bit my lip.
"Don't tell me Homeland Security has taken him hostage."
"Not just him. Everyone, even the IS staff vanished." He still was dusting yellow.
"Fuck." I said with feelings, and I wanted to kick their asses for it. My demon just shook his head, but he refrained from uttering whatever was going through his mind.
"If we can persuade Rynn and he allows Ivy back into his carmilla, what if feds hunt for her next?" I mumble lowly, but both of them had good enough hearing to understand me anyway.
"That would be bad." Jenks said and crossed his arms in front of his chest.
I nodded and looked up at Al, back to the pixy and onto my feet.
"Why don't we just give her anothers idenity? I mean Trent owes you, he could fix her some new papers, and Rynn is not going to piss you off after this night."
"Al, I don't think she will take another curse to shift into someone else." I pointed out, just getting a funny look as an answer.
"If you make it into an added condition to the deal, she would have to."
"We made a deal with her already; attaching an appendix to it is not fair." He grinned at me.
"Well, you made a deal with her, leave me out of this. If you don't learn to be a bit more demon-like you're going to end up top-head in a crap-load of shit. What if the feds get a hold on Ivy and she drops all the pretty information about us, you, or Trent for the matter of it? The feds are mostly run by humans, what do you think might happen to Ceridwen and Maria?" Shock widened my eyes and I didn't know what I should think right now, even Jenks wasn't saying anything.
"If anything you could have prevented happens to that child, Ceri can go to Newt and sue you. And don't believe the woman wouldn't do it to get her child back. You have set yourself checkmate unless you think about something quickly."
"Ivy wouldn't betray me." I muttered a bit weak.
"What if the feds torture her, or her little sister, do you think she could sit by and watch? They're creative, those humans, they wouldn't refrain from using her instincts against her, or even drugs." Sometimes I really, really hated that demon.
"Fine, so do you think we should take down Homeland Security first?" Al laughed while he held his stomach, it went on for several seconds until he got that I really meant what I said.
"Have you fried your brains in the lines? Taking on that organization would be pretty stupid for a single demon, even a female."
"Well, I'm not a single anymore." I grinned at him.
"Forget it, they're big and it would mean a lot of deaths, since you couldn't leave one of these people alive. And if you start to level their buildings, killing humans almost at random, the coven would decide to go after you, and if they join forces with the feds it could go badly for all citizens of the ever-after. You could cause a war with that. You clearly don't want something like that, hell even I don't want it and I'm a lot more blood-thirsty than you." Jenks kept silent, while I eyeballed the demon over, he was deadly serious about leaving these people alone. I made a long sigh.
"So, what are we going to do then?" Dishearten I sat down on the grass, it was wet but it didn't bothered me right now. Who or what the hell had put that idea into my head?
"Easy, we steal a splat gun, go to my kitchen, make your sleep-time potions and arm ourselves with curses up to the teeth, after this we pay him a visit and teach Rynn Matthew Cormel a freaking life-lesson. The idiot should stop messing with demons, before his head decides to take a vacitation from his neck. Afterwards you're going to talk sense into your vampire and if you succeeded, you can bring her back." He seemed to be pretty optimistic for all the crap what has happened lately.
"And if she didn't." Jenks asked a bit wary of what the demon might have to say.
The guy just shrugged on the four inch man.
"I will make sure she will not be able to drop any information about the last three days."
"You're not going to give her forget portions, you know what happens to the peoples using them."
"Never said it would be forget portions." He grinned at me.
"What else is there you could do to her what wouldn't harm my agreement with her?" He shrugged at me and kept his secret to himself, which made me angry, but this time it didn't help.
"Don't you dare to hurt her!" Jenks warned the demon, again in his Peter Pan pose; Al eyed him over with his red eyes and shrugged again.
"We're wasting moonlight, are we ready to make our move?" He asked, pulled me into an upright position beside him. Almost the whole pixy-clan was now hovering around us, only waiting for the order of their father. He turned to his oldest son and whispered something into his ears. I couldn't understand any of it; Al wasn't having any difficulties with it, at least according to his body language which I was familiarizing with really quick.
Jax rose over the others and made a few low whistles with his wings; the pixies swam around us and pressed in on us from very angle possible. My pulse raged and adrenalin made my mouth dry like the sand in a desert, Al reached for a line, while my eyes found Jenks.
He was dusting in a light green, I have never seen on him before, his brood was closing in on us more and more, why wasn't I dead yet, pixies were fast enough that you never saw it coming if they really went for it. Time had slowed down, up to an extreme where I could see very beat of his wings.
Al needed three beats of Jenks wings to have a curse ready. If the demon was that fast, how was I able to best him each time he went up against me? Why hadn't he just killed my by now, it should have been as easy as to steal a child's lollipop for him?
From one flap to the next I got the purpose behind Jenks kids attack on us, it must have been a test, since he himself wasn't attacking, nor was he leading the assault. If he really wanted me dead he would have done it himself. I hustled myself into Al and tried to take over his curse, we wrestled for it. He swore at me through the bond, something inside of him snapped and he let me have it, let me have it all. Just not the way I intended it to be. Black magic coursed through me, burnt parts of my synapses as I tried to deny the curses effects. It ended with my ass on the grass, while I was slowly fading out.
"Shit ..." Was the last word what reached my ears.
Ouch, that must have hurt, stupid males and their brilliant ideas -.-".
Sorry that it took me so long for the update, but there was a certainly Halloween fic that occupied my braincells ^^. Hope to get back to an update schedule with twice a week ^^.