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Facilier
"Well Your shadow returned to you, but also my shadow. That would have given you twice the power. But it asks quite the toll." Facilier pointing to her, as she laid in bed.
"If you use too much power, you can stay unconscious for a few while, so it's not really common for us to use it all the time." Facilier did wonder how it would feel, to have such power. What would he do with this power… take over the world.. Resurrect the dead. There were a lot of things he wanted…
Would he save Lucinda too, why did she actually help him, she seemed to have a goal. What kept her from that.
"So.. how come you decided to save me after your killing spree?"
Lucinda looked up to him and she blushing deeply.
"I.. Uhmm… It was something shadow said…" Lucinda looked at shadow to help her remember. But shadow disappeared. "Huh… ?" Facilier also was baffled that Shadow left after a question. This was not like him… what is he hiding?
"Oy! Lazy Ass, Get back here!" Facilier called out, but no one came. This was peculiar. He wondered what the damned thing did.
"I think I know what he said…."
"Oh? What?" The cat just got killed by his curiosity.
"You loved me…" Facilier's head turned in a darker shade of red. One, he was extremely pissed at Shadow. He just rattled at her that he might had a liking to her.
"Is this true…?" Lucinda asked looking at Facilier.
"I uhm.. I indeed grew attached to you, Cherrie. But love… Yeah well.. like family I guess…"
This… was what I absolutely not wanted to say… I just… threw her in a family-zone.
How can I say such things… why do I keep lying to her… I need to stop this…
"Oh… of course.." Lucinda said sadly.
"No..Wait…" Facilier said and he moved his arms around Lucinda, Pulling her closer.
I like her, and I will let her know that it… I know she has a thing for me… So how bad can this go.
"I'm sorry… I still need to learn how to tell the truth…" Facilier whispered as he moved closer to Lucinda. As he had one hand placed on her hip he moved his other hand up to her cheek. He could not feel only his own heart racing, but also hers. This was a good thing… right.
"What are you doing…?" Lucinda whispered as she looked into his deep purple coloured eyes.
It was time for Facilier to fall back at his charismatic self again.
He could hear that Lucinda's breathing became heavier and looked at him with slight fear but also longing in her eyes.
"See something interesting, Cherie..?" Facilier whispered as he brushed his lips over hers.
Facilier still had his hand at her cheek, and he smirked as he could feel how she was glowing
At that moment he could feel Lucinda's hands on his chest as she moved closer.
"You have a weird way of treating… family…" She whispered with a smirk.
"Well… You have two kind of family… The one you can't choose" Facilier said as he grabbed he hand and kissed her fingers.
"like your mother and father.." Facilier continued as his kisses reached higher up to her palms.
"But we also have the family we eventually choose…" With each word he placed a kiss going higher up her arms.
"Like…lovers." At this moment he was almost in her neck. Facilier could feel his confidence come back. As he looked up now to Lucinda, he could see she had a blush from her cheeks to her ears.
"This Has to be a dream… right,…" Lucinda whispered insecure.
"I know I am the man of your dreams,… I know who's name you moan at night.. But don't worry.. This is real…" Lucinda's blush turned a deeper shade of red and looked shocked at Facilier, covering her lips, as if she just moaned his name. Facilier's grinned evilly.
"Oh… god… Tell me that I didn't do that…"
Facilier smiled and nodded.
"Jup, Just the other day when I woke you up, I even asked if you had nice dreams… Too bad you didn't seem to remember…Should I help you relive those dreams maybe" Facilier was having the time of his live, flirting away without feeling a spat of guilt. The faces Lucinda made would be printed on his memory for ever. And the next face Lucinda made, he wasn't gonna forget that either.
She seemed determined and she grabbed him on his jacket.
"Well, I can do some magic too, Shadowman!"
She then gave a quick pull and gave Facilier a full on forced kiss. Luckily no teeth were hurt in this scene. It was something Facilier certainly didn't expected, but he took the surprise with both hand, and kissed her back with not only all his love, but magic as well. Sending tickling vibes through his fingers as he held her, intensifying their first kiss. Lucinda moaned softly at the touch of his magic.
Lucinda.
Lucinda felt slightly disappointed, not knowing if it was right to hope for Facilier's love.
"No..Wait…" She heard Facilier.
Was he gonna tell her it was different, that it was even less then family. That he just liked her as a distant friend…? But then she felt Facilier arm around her and being pulled closer. She could feel her heart fasten up. What was he up to… Is this what 'family' did?
"I'm sorry… I still need to learn how to tell the truth…" She heard softly in her ear. She then felt Facilier's warm hand touch her cheek. What did he mean with the truth… did he loved her or not… She hoped this wasn't a sick joke, or she might be capable of killing.
"What are you doing…?" Lucinda whispered softly, almost didn't dare to ask. Afraid to hear this was a joke. She kept staring at his face. It was so close now, she realised. How alluring his eyes were, she noticed now how deep purple they were. It was so unusual, but for Facilier's look, it was so natural. Her eyes trailed further down, lingering on his lips. She never had been this close on this way, and she felt her breathing was getting heavier the longer she stared at him,
"See something interesting, Cherie..?" Facilier pointed out before he leaned down to her and gave her a brief kiss with his lips. Lucinda's cheeks turned bright red and her thoughts were going haywire. She need to get her focus back. First he told her that he didn't love her… and only seconds later he kissed,.. brushed his lips over hers, what kind of family is he used of…
She noticed now that moved her hands up his chest. She looked up and gave a small smile
"You have a weird way of treating… family…" She hoped she made him awkward now, but it was no avail. As he grinned he grabbed her hand.
"Well… You have two kind of family… The one you can't choose" He then kissed it lightly on her fingers, sending shivers to her spine.
"Like your mother and father.." Facilier continued as his kisses reached higher up to her palms. Lucinda had a hard time to keep her voice down.
"But we also have the family we eventually choose…" With each word he placed a kiss going higher up her arms.
"Like…lovers." At this moment he was almost in her neck. Lucinda had closed her eyes and enjoyed every kiss he placed. Lucinda had a hard time not to faint again. She looked down at Facilier with a huge blush across her face.
"This Has to be a dream… right,…" She whispered.
"I know I am the man of your dreams,… I know who's name you moan at night.. But don't worry.. This is real…" Lucinda's blush turned a deeper shade of red and looked shocked at Facilier, covering her lips, as if she just moaned his name.
"Oh… god… Tell me that I didn't do that…"
Facilier smiled and nodded.
"Jup, Just the other day when I woke you up, I even asked if you had nice dreams… Too bad you didn't seem to remember…Should I help you relive those dreams maybe"
Oh god… He had heard… Well I still remember slight things of that dream…And I think I knew were that dream went about… He has to know that too… God… this is it, he has done it.. He flirted way too much and now he gets it! If he wants to play, I'll play!
Lucinda smirked with more confidence now and grabbed him on his jacket.
"Well, I can do some magic too, Shadowman!" She said and pulled him close to give him a full kiss.
She smiled slightly as he moved along with her, wrapping his arms around her. Except at the touch of his fingertips she could feel something tickling over her skin, making her moan in surprise.
How did he do that? Was it because the touch of him was still unknown to her, or was it something more… Lucinda kept the kiss going until she had to gasp for oxygen
"So it seems your still a rookie at this, mon cherie?" Smirking at her because of the short duration of the kiss.
Lucinda blushed deeply, pouted at him and pushed him slightly away.
"Well you know how to charm a lady for a short duration…" She bite back. Facilier laughed at her reaction.
"If I would continue any longer, you would admire me for my duration for other 'things'" Facilier whispered. He then stood up and stretched out his long arms. Lucinda already gained another red hot head, imagining things that were still actual unknown to her.
"Where are you going?" Lucinda asked as she looked up to Facilier who walked to the door.
"I think it's a wise thing to start looking for your problem,"
"Problem…?"
"The deal.. Remember, unless I kissed a killer into you?" Facilier smirked.
Lucinda completely forgotten about the deal. Still on cloud nine of the kiss.
"I wanna help too!" Lucinda said as she got up to go after him. Except her legs were not so cooperative. She stumbled over the floor hitting her elbow at the coffee table
"Auch!" Facilier reacted immediately and lifted her up, bridal style. As Lucinda was in Facilier's arms she started to think about the deal… and what would happen if she wouldn't get rid of the deal, or deliver 2500 souls.
Facilier
"I guess that I will.. die in ten years…." Lucinda suddenly said monotone as Facilier brought her to the tent. Facilier peaked his eyebrow at her and placed her on his favourite chair.
"Die? I won't let that happen. We live in a voodoo world, there are solutions to this!" Facilier said as he lifted his hands, showing her his tent again. He then grabbed one of the books in his book case. Blowing the dust off the book.
"Like what…?" She started to shuffle Facilier deck as Lucinda looked up incredulously.
Facilier's face suddenly turned red at that question, reminding him of Mina's solution.
"Ah.. well there is this ritual… where I can take over your debt… " He said casually as he stared to fli some pages, not really looking to the pages.
Lucinda shook her head.
"No, I won't let you! This is my own fault, I'm not going to let someone else clean my mess!"
Facilier sighed frustrated dropping the book on the table. "This is not about cleaning your mess or not, your life is at stake. If you make another mess of my tent, yes I let you clean that up alone. But this is different. You can't do this on your own."
"Isn't there a way to reverse it? Since I haven't killed someone yet or used my magic really… It's like buying clothes but after a second thought you can still return them and get your money back…?" Lucinda offered
"Yeah only this store doesn't do refunds.." Facilier stated dull and grabbed another book to start looking for a solution.
Lucinda
As Lucinda looked at the book in front of her and started to read some pages. She then saw a few pictures of the ritual she did at Chris's place to get her magic. Making her think for a moment.
"Say,… Facilier…? Why did you take the deal then..? Why did you choose to kill 2500 people to get,…power?"
Facilier chuckled slightly.
"Yeah.. Did Chris told you anything about that?"
Lucinda nodded but since nobody could be trusted she wanted to hear Facilier's story as well.
"Yeah, He uhmm…, told me you were young and doing tricks on the streets. And that Chris tried to stop you and that he killed the man who taught you voodoo because.. Chris would also made this shadowman soul deal.. But if that doesn't exist…"
Facilier nodded.
"Well It was true we were both young. And extremely poor as well. So we did tricks indeed to earn some coins, to live from the streets. Then on this evening, a man appeared and saw us doing tricks for scraps. At first he laughed at us… I was so angry at that moment. But then he stood next to us and he also did tricks with us!" Facilier started to tell his tale more enthusiastic.
"But he did these great fire tricks, and we earned a lot of money. A lot! It was a week's loan. And he told us we could keep it. At that point I was interested yes. But so was Chris. I admired the man..."
"Just like I admired you? " Lucinda added with a smile. Facilier smiled sly "I wouldn't expect less… But Chris however was more jealous of him… Can't really blame him back then. So we asked his secret, and he told us. In exchange for 2500 lives we could live like gods. Back then.. I was 13 years old. I never had school.. I didn't really knew what a person's life was worth. I didn't cared for them I was too busy taking care of myself." Lucinda nodded. If you indeed never had anyone to take care of you.. how could you know better… It was probably survival of the fittest… Lucinda looked up sad.
"I feel so stupid now…" Lucinda frowned
"Why that Cheri?"
"Well, I complained about my childhood.. but… it is nothing compared to yours… I'm such a cry baby…"
Facilier grinned.
"Well.. let's say everybody probably has his own issues, right..?" Lucinda nodded. Still not feeling that way.
"So… what about that tutor of yours… did he really get killed by Chris?"
Facilier's face turned completely dark.
"Yes,…that damned man knew how much he meant for me. He was like a father to me. But Chris took his life behind my back. When I found out I was… furious. I was so mad! I hated Chris… I hated him I still hate him.. I will always hate him for taking the only thing that was dear to me… and for Christ sake he wants to do it again…." Facilier cursed as he stood up.
"He can't have it if someone else is happier then him I guess…" Facilier mumbled looking back at Lucinda.
Outside a few moment earlier.
Chris had followed Facilier back to his caravan. Chris couldn't see or hear much from the distance he had to take in order to not get caught.
"Shade! Get your ass there and come back with a report about what's happening over there."
Shade nodded and moved towards the caravan, but he didn't get far. Chris sighed in frustration, knowing Facilier must have set up a barrier. But to his surprise someone opened the door and a darker female was walking out.
"Mina..?" Chris whispered he then made sure Mina wouldn't see her.
What was she doing there… was the barrier her idea…? By now Shade had returned rubbing his back, as he had fell from the stairs. When Mina was out of sight Chris tried another try to see what was going on. Was Lucinda in there? Why hadn't she done the job already?
Chris managed to get close enough to see Facilier talking to Lucinda. So She was really there, when was she going to attack? Why was she laying on the couch like she had been ill?
It didn't took long before Chris saw Lucinda pull Facilier into a kiss and Chris sighed.
Knowing enough.
Damn child is too weak.. I should have known that… If you want to get a job done… You have to do it yourself…
Chris walked back to his own home plotting on his way back.
"Thinks still could get interesting…." He said with a smirk.