The Demon Inside

by AiriaMurillo

Hollywood Undead aren't your average rock band. They are Cambions, demons who have lived for hundreds of years. They have been forced to keep it secret from everyone they meet, change their identities every few years so they are never discovered. Then one day they meet a man, a quiet man who needs their help. How quickly are the willing to change their ways to help just one man?

26. Chapter 26

Demon Inside Chapter 26

~one month later~ 2014~

Jorel p.o.v

Tonight, we are going out hunting. I take a glance at Danny, he doesn't look well at all. After the show we played last month he suddenly got really sick. He now spends most of the day in bed sleeping then seems to be fine for a little while after he wakes up then gets worse before he goes to sleep. George has been trying his hardest to help Danny, but he hasn't found a way to help the poor youngster. He hasn't seen anyone with the same symptoms that Danny has. We just have to treat his symptoms as best as we can while he is suffering them. Like if he was to have a high fever, then we would put him in the bath and cool him down. If he was in pain we'd make him rest to try and help him feel better. I'm so worried about him.

I wrap my arm around his waist tightly, trying to let him make me take most of his body weight so he could stand okay. "Let George take you back to the hideout. We know you are ill, we can see it. We can always take you out hunting when you are feeling better," I tell him. Danny shakes his head and stands up on his own a little more. "No, I'll be fine. Maybe the hunt will make me feel a bit better," he replies. Damn my stubbornness have rubbed off on him. Maybe I am also seeing some of his independence from having to basically raise himself most of his life and trying to survive through difficult scenarios that keep popping up like Aron attacking him, developing new powers and even his ex-girlfriend threatening him.

"Okay, if you are sure you're going to be fine Danny. You can always let us know if you want to go home," I tell him before we find our targets to get essence from. "So, I take it Danny is being stubborn," George asks me. "Yeah he refuses to let you take him back to the hideout. Maybe I should have forced him to stay behind," I reply. I let go of Danny's waist and I could tell that Danny had some of his strength back, but not all of it. I am still worried, but there is nothing else I could do about it Danny won't go home. I'll just have to keep a close eye on him throughout the hunt and make sure I can take him home in one piece. The last thing we need now is something to go horribly horribly wrong before we go.

"If you said no then he might be God knows where trying to find us. Here we can keep at least five pairs of eyes on him at all time. It may be really worrying now but it will be better for Danny in the long run," George tells me. He was unfortunately telling the truth, having Danny here and having everyone keep an eye on him is better than him at home or wondering around god knows where. "I know George, but I can't help, but feel like something is off tonight," I tell him. Soon we are done with the hunt. We make our way out of the new orphanage. My worst fears came true. Aron, Truth, Yumma and Arina are all there blocking our exit. I don't feel confident enough to shadow-travel Danny out of here back to safety in the state that he is in.

I make sure everyone stands in a formation where Danny is the most protected. It is highly likely that Aron knows Danny is a siren and wants him to complete his collection. "Well, well, well, my night has just been made," Aron says, it was a comment that made everyone roll their eyes at him, even Danny. They had even more brainwashed minions who were walking in, this was not the best place for a fight. "Oh, really Aron, it's going down," I tell him, my voice dangerously low. They attack us first, I am made to fight Yumma first. He is easier to fight, I am stronger than him. Aron would have been a fairer fight to be honest. George was fighting Truth and we both defeated them easily, so we could help the others and keep Danny away from them.

Dylan's made it his mission to protect Danny who is looking worse as the fighting goes on. He isn't fighting any one and he is against the wall. He looks like he was either going to be sick or pass out at any moment which wouldn't be good. I make my way over to get Danny out of the fight. Maybe I could get Hayden here and smuggle Danny out and he would have the leader of our kind protecting him. I decided as the minions started trying to tackle me to the floor that I would snap their necks. They would die for picking the wrong side. Arina stands just next to the shadows, out the way of the fight and not cheering anyone one. that could be useful for me, I could do something with her that close. Dylan is really starting to struggle holding back the minions and keeping Danny out of harm's way at the same time.

Aron decides to use that as a chance to make a beeline for Danny. I try and beat him to my soulmate, but more minions keep blocking my path. I snarl at one and start breaking more necks and killing more of them. They are only humans and I am actually following the law by killing them since Aron can never keep his mouth shut. George, Jordon, and Matt follow my example along with Dylan which now leaves Danny undefended and very vulnerable. I tried to get one of the others to help me reach Danny sooner before Aron does and grabs him. I was too late, Aron sneaks up behind Danny who is unaware of the danger lurking behind him until the bastard clamps a cloth over the smaller male's nose and mouth. I fucking hate that chloroform works on us.

I get into the shadows and quickly travel to Arina, Aron is not going to get away with this scot free. I grab her and pull her back and she screams which stops the fight and alerts anyone else in the orphanage to something going on. Danny is now unconscious in Aron's grip now. "Let her go," Aron growls at me. The minions die while the fights end. I strengthen my grip on Aron's sister, not caring if I leave any marks on her. "Give Danny to Dylan and you can have her back," I tell him, the only reason I am kidnapping her is because he has my Danny. His grip loosens on Danny for a moment then it tightens again. "No, I need him," he tells me. I tighten my grip on his sister further. "Well, you won't need her then," I tell him, making my point plain and simple.

He hesitates, and I could see him trying to weigh up his options. He has to decide between his own sister and an enemy siren and I knew deep down who he was going to pick, and I was getting angry. He leaves with Danny and the rest of the crew that are still alive follow with him. "Fuck, I knew something was off when we got here," I spit angrily. Dylan took Arina off me and left with Matt back to the hideout. We all had to leave a minute later anyway because we heard police sirens. Now the one I love is in the enemies' scummy claws. George takes my arm and leads me to an alley nearby. Danny is unconscious, so he can't sense how angry I am about this whole thing. I knew Danny should have stayed at home.

"Jordon go back to the others, we'll be home soon enough," George commands. That made Jordon leave after a minute, but he wanted to make sure I am okay. "Don't worry Jorel, we will get Danny back I swear," he tells me, placing his hand on my shoulders to make me look into his eyes. "He'll be dead though, he won't do what Aron wants him to," I tell George, who squeezes my shoulders. "No, don't think like that Jorel. We will get him back alive and you will both make it through this war alive," he tells me. I know later on after this has all settled down that I would be okay and not think like that. I just want my baby back, I want Danny to be walking home with me right now and not being taken to some random place.

We head back to the house soon after I calmed down. I knew Ava and Tyler will be in their rooms fast asleep, but Ava and Jess were in the main house and still awake. "Why is she here?" Asia asks when we walk in. I guess they were both waiting for me to give the explanation. "Her cunt of a brother took Danny while we were hunting so I grabbed her as revenge," I tell them. They both gasp, they love Danny like a brother, like the rest of the coven do. We weren't expecting to be ambushed during our hunt and we will have to be more careful where we go for our next hunt. Arina had been taken to an unused room so I can interrogate her a little bit so that I can figure out if my suspicions of why Aron took Danny is true or not.

I crouch in front of Arina, who looks oddly calm despite what happened tonight. She came into the orphanage and her brother kidnapped Danny and because he did that I kidnapped her. "What does Aron want with Danny?" I ask her. I was not expecting to get an answer from her, but her and truth seem different from the rest. "Aron wants a pure sandman coven to put Los Angeles in eternal sleep. He knows Danny is stronger than most sirens," she answers, I bet she has heard Aron say this a lot of times and is sick of it being said by now. Also, typical Aron, always thinking of what benefits himself more than what benefits other people. He proved it when he chose Danny over Arina. I still think that Arina is human, but I'd have to check.

I put two fingers on her neck, checking to see if she has a pulse. She has a strong and steady pulse and she looks at me like she was confused. "I was checking to see if you have a pulse. After all these years you are still not a Cambion?" I ask her. She shakes her head. "Aron says he doesn't want me to change. He feels like the change will destroy me," she tells me. Airia, who is Jordon's younger biological sister changed just after Danny did and she is still just as caring and pure as she was before. I don't think Arina would change for the worst if she turned into a Cambion. Aron just doesn't want to deal with training another Cambion. Truth, Yumma and Gadjet were all trained before he recruited them.

I chuckle at her, she really knows nothing about what her brother is really like sometimes. "You're his weak link. You are the one thing that can get him killed. You being human and knowing so much about our kind and that would get you killed by the council or any other coven that knows. If we don't kill Aron during the war then the council will do it when they get their hands on him," I tell her. I was being truthful to her, she was going to die here anyway so I might as well let her in on what Aron has been "protecting" her from. "What are you going to do to me?" she asks, almost starting to sound a bit fearful. She hasn't even seen George and I at our worst and we are so angry right now it might just happen.

George and the others were in the room, they wanted to know what Aron plans on doing to their little brother. I could kill Arina right here and now, but there is a huge risk that Aron finds out and straight up kills Danny for it which would end the war right there since I will die too. "I am going to keep you alive for now, but because of how much you know, you won't be making it out of here alive," I tell her. She goes pale then like any normal human being would when they are told that they are going to be murdered at any time during the next few days, weeks or even months. Her phone rings and I take it from her. I know exactly who was calling without even checking the caller ID. It was Aron, he'd have to check on her to see if I have killed her or not already. I decide to answer.

Phone call:

A: Arina, thank god. Are you okay?

J: She is fine for now.

A: Hand her over Jorel!

J: Why should I Aron? You have Danny and besides she knows too much for me to do nothing. Give Danny back.

A: Well you can't have him back.

J: Aron, we have been over this. You give Danny back and I will give Arina back to you. That is if the guys don't get bored of her and kill her with my permission by then.

A: If you kill her Jorel I won't hesitate in killing Danny.

J: If you kill him then more charges are added to the list.

A: What do you mean?

J: Well, there is the human who knows too much, starting a war without reason, kidnap, have a coven of all the same type need I go on? All of those lead to death.

A: What about your kidnap?

J: Arina will die by the end of this war. If I kill her for knowing too much, then I will be law abiding. If Danny dies, then it gets a whole lot worse for you.

A: Fine, he won't die. Do me a favour and turn her once she dies.

J: I will

~end~

I smirk, he basically just gave her up. I won't be turning her into a Cambion that's for sure. I don't need another Cambion in my coven. I just need my Danny back. "Well, well, well it looks like big brother doesn't really care for his little sister," I tell her, and she gasps at me. "He wouldn't dare turn his back on me," she says, then thinks about what she has just said. "What if his choice affected if he lives or dies. Aron is selfish, he won't keep you alive if it means that he dies," I say. Tears start falling down her cheeks and I wipe them away. I feel bad to be the one to tell her all of this and have to pick up the pieces when she falls apart and is destroyed by what her brother has done. I am not being completely cold hearted with her.

"You won't be dying today. I will be doing it this week though, but you won't feel a thing when you pass," I tell her. I am not 100% dark hearted and I hope she can see that. "Please don't turn me Jorel. I don't want to live forever and just watch Aron betray everyone who loves him over and over," she tells me. That is fair enough, I felt like she is a good girl who has been born into the wrong family and she should have been adopted at birth somewhere where this wouldn't have to happen to her. "Okay, Arina if you don't want me to turn you then I won't," I tell her. If Hayden was here watching this, then he would be proud of me and proud of the way that I have dealt with this despite the emotions I have bottling up inside of me.

"Take her to the guest room and try and make her feel at home," I order the others, getting up from where I was crouched. "Are you crazy Jorel? We can't keep her!" Jordon exclaims, clearly uncomfortable at this whole ordeal. "No Jordon we aren't keeping her. We are being the better and stronger people by making her last day more comfortable," I tell him as Dylan takes her away to the guest room. Asia walks in and puts her hand on my shoulder. "Are you sure that this is the right thing to do?" Asia asks me. "Yes, if I can show that I am the better person and show mercy and show that I have heart then maybe any remaining minions will leave Aron and not have to die," I tell her. I was never a big fan of murdering people like we had to tonight, but I was trying to protect my family.

Now that Aron has Danny, I need to let Hayden know about this latest development in the coven war. I leave for our meeting place just as the sun rises. "Jorel, my child what happened?" he asks me when I arrive. I was later than usual and just a mess. "When we were out hunting tonight, Aron attacked," I tell him. "What else happened?" he asks. "He took Danny. At the moment Danny is really ill and no one knows what is wrong with him. He didn't stand a chance against Aron," I tell him. Hayden was shocked, "I took Arina, she was just standing there. She is human since Aron refuses to turn her," I add. I was trying not to break down crying just explaining what happened to Danny to my dad. He loves us and protects us as often as he can.

"I trust that you will deal with it appropriately," he tells me. I nod at him. "She will be killed in a day's time. We are going to make her last day as comfortable as possible she knows that I am going to make it painless," I tell him, and he was proud of me. He closes the gap between us and wraps his arms around me and hugs me tightly. I hug him back and start to relax. "Don't worry my child, someone will return Danny to you. I am proud of how you are dealing with this, I know it is heart, but if you keep the same level of compassion you have been showing then it will all go right in the end," he tells me. Hayden treats everyone like they are his children. He approves of mine and Danny's relationship and we have his blessing which is rare to get, but we treasure it every time we celebrate another relationship milestone.

We part ways and I head home to the rest of my family. Ava is awake and eating now, I didn't sleep tonight, and I don't want to. "Morning Ava," I tell her, I messed up her hair and she complained about it. "Morning Uncle Jay," she says, and then looks around the room. I never usually get up unless Danny is awake so that means Danny is usually only a few seconds behind me when we go and get a drink or food. "Where's uncle Danny?" she asks us, once she had finished her breakfast and realised Danny wasn't here. I have a moment of panic, what do I tell her? How do I explain this to her? I have to tell Jason some excuse as to why Danny can't have Scarlett until we find him again. Luckily for me George decided to step in.

"Ava, a very mean man took Danny away. We are trying to get him back, but it isn't easy, and we are all upset right now," George tells his five-year old. I send a thankful look George's way, I wouldn't have been able to say that to her. Her eyes start watering as they fill with tears, so George picks her up and holds her close to him. "It is going to be okay though Ava, we will get uncle Danny back," he adds, as he rubs her back to calm her down. I felt awful, if I kept Danny behind when we left and since this place is secure from that scumbag he would never have been taken in the first place. I hold back tears of my own. I need to let Jason know that Scarlett can't come over for a while. I grab my phone and leave the kitchen.

On the way to Danny's room which I share with him now and my room became the guest room Arina is staying in until she dies, I walked into Matt. Luckily, we didn't fall, but we did apologise to each other then go our separate ways. I close the bedroom door and slide down the wall next to it. I openly let the tears flow now. I sent a text to Jason, I made up some excuse that Danny and I were going to be away for a while so unfortunately Scarlett wasn't going to be able to visit with her dad until we get back. He told us that Scarlett thinks that we have gone on a holiday with my family for a while and they all hoped that we'd have fun. I don't think it would be wise to tell Jason that an enemy has Danny.

I move to sit by the bed. I might snuggle with Danny's pillow tonight so then I can have his scent to calm me down a little. My tears turn into sobs as I think about my bear in dirty scum's hands. I really love Danny and I can't stand to think of what Aron might do with him. "Jorel, can I come in Hun?" Asia asks about ten minutes later. The tears are still flowing like rivers and I was still sobbing. "Yeah," I say, my voice cracking a little bit. She opens the door to the bedroom and walks in. I was trying to stop crying, but I was struggling because it's an emotional ordeal when your boyfriend gets kidnapped from right in front of you. "How are you feeling Jorel?" she asks me, I think she is the first one to ask me that.

"Awful," I admit to her, she walks close to me. "In what way?" she asks me, maybe if I explain how I feel then I will feel better about myself and how I handed the situation because I feel so bad and so guilty. "Like half my heart is gone," I tell her, she crouches down and hugs me tightly. "Aw boo, you will feel that way. Your soulmate has been cruelly taken away from you. We will get him back, it will take some time though," she tells me. I hug her back and make another attempt to control my tears. I realised that my thoughts and feelings will be a bit here there and everywhere. I finally manage to stop crying and relax. I have Arina's death planned so it will be painless, and it will be fine and under control.

"It's okay to cry Jorel, you can cry in front of me anytime," she says, rubbing my arm to comfort me. The rest of the guys will find this weird though. I am the leader of the coven. I am supposed to be the strong, brave, calm and organised one. At this moment in time I consider myself to be an emotional train wreck. Then again, I know it's not too well to bottle up your emotions. It took me a while when we met Danny to get him to open up at all to me. Then when he woke up from the coma it took at least three weeks to get him to open up to me and the same when he woke up from the change into Cambion. He is better now at opening up to me, but still likes to hide things from me even now. I think he was hiding what happened back at that show to me. He has been very ill since then and he didn't tell me what was wrong unless he told me a few symptoms.

I close my eyes and relax with Asia comforting me. It does feel nice to be on the other side of this for once. Usually I am holding Danny or one of the three kiddos and cuddling them to make them feel better from whatever is making them upset. "Mommy, is uncle Jay okay?" Ava asks, when she walks into the room. "Yeah, he is just very upset about what happened to Danny," Ava replies, then I feel a small weight on my chest. I know it is Ava giving me a comforting cuddle. "I love you uncle Jay. Uncle Danny will come home, he'll miss you too much," she says, and I chuckled. Even she knows how clingy Danny can get to me sometimes. She doesn't even fully understand the situation, but she still tries her best to comfort me.

"I love you too Ava. I'm sure Danny will come home soon," I tell her, opening my eyes briefly to look at her smiling face. She is too pure and innocent for this world like Scarlett and Tyler are and even Danny. Asia slowly stops rubbing my arm as I calm down. I hope Danny is okay and Aron hasn't harmed him. "Are you quite comfy there Jorel?" George asks, I didn't even realise he had walked into the room. "Very comfy. I am sorry about acting this way," I tell him, my eyes still closed. "It's fine Jorel, we can't stay strong all the time. At the end of the day we are all here for each other. Besides I would be very concerned if Danny was taken and you didn't get upset over it," he tells me. Ava snuggles a little close to me, making me open my eyes and hug her back.

We all have some hugs for ten minutes before they go to take Ava to kindergarten. I adopted a kitten around the same time I adopted Louie for Danny. I brought him into the house a few weeks after Danny had Louie and I called the Bengal kitten Tiger. He enters the room and he rubbed his furry little head on my arm and my hand like normal. I run my hand through his fur, making him purr with happiness. "Hey Tiger," I tell him, even though I know he can't talk back. Tiger always knows when he is needed. I enjoy his company and like how he shares the bed with Danny and I during the night. I hope Aron hasn't done anything harmful to Danny and if he has then he would die a very horrible and painful death.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Danny's point of view~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I replay the fight in my mind where I am being taken God knows where to Aron's hideout. I am blindfolded so they don't know that I am awake yet. Why didn't I let George take me home when Jorel asked me? I know I am sick, I know I have necrosis and if something doesn't happen soon I will die a second death. I have no chance of fighting back against them while I am in this state. I hate being stubborn sometimes, but even I had to deal with the consequences of my actions and each decision that I make has a way that it could either go right or wrong. My decision to go out hunting tonight ended up badly for me. I got kidnapped from my beloved by the guy who has given my love nothing but hell since the day he first met the guy.

I really can't remember a lot from the fight that went down. I remember Deuce and a lot of other people including Truth blocking the exit. They were attacking us, and Dylan tried to defend me from them, but we were overwhelmed, there were about 6 maybe 7 of us and least 12 of them. At some point someone knocked me out with chloroform and I felt the anger radiating from Jorel and I heard someone scream, but that was my last memory from the fight. I figured that Aron was the one who knocked me out because I heard him bragging about it when I first came round from being knocked out. I know it took about five minutes or so for him to knock me out completely, it's not like instantly like you see in the movies.

My leg currently feels numb from the knee down. I figured it was from the necrosis, but I only did the smallest amount of research on it before I got too freaked out by the images that I saw. Soon they know something will be up because I won't be able to walk because of the feeling in my leg. Truth seems to be different from the others, maybe he can help me leave this damn hell hole. I doubt it thought, he is the enemy while Aron is around. Truth did beat me up when the war started, but he helped me when I discovered my chosen one powers. Damn it Danny, focus on the task at hand. Also, stop talking to yourself you weirdo. I think I may have finally lost my mind, I think I may have finally become crazy.

Oh great, now I am definitely feeling loco. I feel someone kick my right foot quite harshly. I manage to make myself act like I was limp to make myself seem unconscious to the people around me even though I knew I wasn't, but everyone else wasn't. "He's still completely unconscious Deuce, how much chloroform did you use?" Yumma asks. Someone else kicks me and I react the same. Maybe I should do acting full time when the band eventually splits up. We are all living and working together, eventually someone is going to have enough and leave. "Enough to keep him down until I can chain him up. I don't want any resistance," Aron says, despite sounding confident when he was bragging he was definitely sounding unsure now. I heard him trying to call his sister and him talk to Jorel for a little bit.

I feel the van stop suddenly which made my body lurch forward and slump down on the floor face into the hard-cold floor. "Bring him inside Truth, knock him back out if you think he might be hostile to you when he wakes up," Aron orders, and I feel myself being lifted on truth's shoulder. I kept my eyes shut and my act up. they still think I am unconscious and I want to let them believe that for as long as possible. The ride inside was a bit bumpy, but I felt like I was still able to keep the act up for a bit longer. A few minutes later I feel a cold wall against my back as I am chained up to the wall. Someone removes the blindfold that I didn't quite realise that was covering my face. I keep my eyes closed when the blindfold is removed. They still think I am under. Aron slaps me quite harshly in the face and I don't react.

He then throws water on my face, so I fake the whole I just woke up thing. "Good morning fuckboy," Aron says, my natural instinct is to try and wipe the water from my eyes, so I can see. Then I forgot that I was chained up. Gadjet was wiping my face with his sleeve, but he wasn't careful about it. I wasn't expecting to be treated nicely anyways. "Do you like the chains? They are one hundred percent unbreakable," he tells me. They are strong, but I bet I can find a weakness in them and exploit it before too much longer. "Yes, I love them," I tell him, being sarcastic with him. I can use being face to face with him to take the piss out of him and mocking him like I know how bad Jorel wants to do this, but luckily, he isn't here. I thought about the soulmate mark on my left ankle and how it stung since I was taken away from Jorel. If I ever lost my leg would it move to the right one?

"Good, now I have taken you and brought you here for a very good reason. I am in the process of making a pure siren coven and I believe that you will be of use to me. That way I can put Los Angeles in eternal sleep and feed whenever I wish with no interruptions and no Jorel to stop me," he tells me. I frown a little bit, I didn't like his plan. "That was a lot of I in that speech of yours there. What is in it for the rest of your coven you want to have?" I ask him, he has to restrain himself from slapping me another time as I did just ask a valid question. If I was going to join the coven which is very unlikely I would want to know what is in it for me to leave my comfy coven in which I am the deputy leader of to be in the bottom ranks of until Aron eventually gets bored and kills me. Then again if he kills Jorel he will lose me automatically because I would die within three hours of Jorel dying.

"To feed whenever you want to, to have no worries about anyone catching you and revealing you for the monsters we all are inside. The demons inside of us will be fed and the city will be ours, what do you think" he asks. (A/N: Roll credits! Comment if you got that reference) As tempting as I find that offer, I can't take it. I have a daughter whom I love deeply, and I can't condemn her to live like that just to satisfy any demon lurking inside of me. "What if I refuse your offer?" I ask him. "Well, then I would have to kill you," he answers. I don't want to die, but I can't see saying yes to his offer as being the right choice. The song we made for American tragedy came into my head called I don't wanna die. I wasn't going to sing it and use my full potential on a useless piece of shit like him.

"Well, I guess you are going to have to kill me then," I tell him, making him unhappy because it was not the answer he wanted from me. Maybe this is all part of his plan. To kill me which would kill Jorel and then the rest would follow and fall like dominoes. These thoughts have to rely on the assumption that he knows Jorel and I are soulmates, that is something I am doubting at the minute. "Such a shame Danny, we could have made a great team you and I. Maybe I could change your mind," he tells me. He leaves the room with Yumma and most of the minions leaving me alone with Truth. Now don't get me wrong, I think Truth is okay, but I can never be sure what team he is on. He acts nice around me when he is alone, but in front of Aron he is different.

"How do you feel Danny?" he asks me. I look him up and down, judging if he is going to be nice to me or not. "Fine for what happened tonight," I tell him, keeping my answer short and sweet. He looks around making sure no one else will come in. He bolts the door which makes me a little nervous. "Danny, I want to help you. Aron is being extremely childish, and he needs to let Los Angeles go before it kills him," he says, talking quietly to me. "Well, if I have learned anything about Aron, he isn't going to stop," I reply, talking just as quietly. We didn't want anyone to overhear us talking to each other in case they thought that I was turning Truth against them. If they suspect anything then they could kill us both.

My body decides now it is the best time to throw up. "Uh, Truth. I feel like I am going to be sick," I tell him, this has been happening a lot lately. He quickly grabs an empty trash can and holds it just under my chin. I throw up a minute later and I feel weaker then before. I want to curl up into a ball and just fade away but since I am chained up I can't. Two minutes later I close my eyes. I hear Truth putting the trash can on the floor. "You're obviously not okay Danny. What's wrong?" he asks me. I try to move my left leg, but I am already finding it more difficult. "My left leg," I tell him. He rolls my trouser leg up. He saw the injury and I knew he was shocked. Then he quickly rolled the trouser leg down when Aron walked in.

He could open the bolt from his side. "I trust he is healthy," he asks. "Not completely. He is experiencing some side effects of the chloroform and has some torn ligaments in his left leg," Truth replies, mixing a bit of truth with lies to make Aron happy. Even though it wasn't the serious truth Aron sill glared at me, I am unusable to him while I am injured. "That's a shame, I can't kill you anyway. Jorel will rat me out to the council," Aron says, the last part with disgust and the thought of being rumbled. I open my eyes and look at them. "Oh no, I was looking forward to dying by your hand again," I tell him, probably being a little too sarcastic.

Aron slaps me again. "Don't get too cocky Daniel. I can still make your second death happen," he tells me. God I love pissing him off. It is so easy to do and I enjoy the satisfaction I get when he gets pissed off. Yeah, the slaps hurt for a little bit, but I enjoy the satisfaction which makes it all worthwhile. "Truth, you never said he has a fever," Aron tells Truth. "Well, I did say he has minor side effects. The fever he has is going to be one of them," Truth replies. I just hang where I am, relaxing with the cold feeling on my back where my shirt touched the wall. "Is there anything I can do to make you change your mind?" Aron asks, pacing in front of me. I shake my head, I'd rather die again then ever collaborate with him. I don't tell him because I think I have pissed him off enough already, I don't want to push my luck.

Aron turns to Truth. "Is there anything you can do to help the healing process before my business trip?" he asks. Now this might sound like he is caring about me, but he really wants to force me to join. "Well, putting him on a cot bed is the only thing we can do for now. This needs more time to heal and having to support his body weight on the wall doesn't help," Truth says. Aron sighs. "Very well, I'll have brought in after he eats," he says. Then he storms out like a diva. He didn't noticed the half-full trash can in the room. "It'll be okay. I can get you on the road to recovery and home when he leaves," Truth tells me. I give him a little smile. "Do you think he will do anything to me in the meantime?" I ask. "Don't think he will, not while he thinks your ligaments are torn," he tells me.

He grabs the trashcan and throws the contents of it out of the small window he opened to let some air in. The room Aron has put me in is a decent size for its purpose. The walls have an ugly, plain, cracked paint job on them. The floors have been tiled with dirty white tiles. The door is like a jail cell door. The small window allows me to see the little bit of the outside work, but I doubt anyone can see in. My arms are chained above my head with old, tight, rusty chains which are bolted to the ceiling. My legs are bound the same way only this time to two loops on the floor that are also rusty. The chains have probably been here for a few hundred years at least. Maybe they have been here even longer.

The room has a black and clear plastic drawer tower. I could see all kinds of torture equipment in the first three drawers. The last drawer looks like it has a first aid things inside like bandages and Band-Aid. Truth grabs a pack of baby wipes from that drawer to clean my mouth. Then he uses another one to clean my burning skin. Yumma enters with a tray and a metal bucket. He places them in front of Truth and leaves. On the tray there is a plate with bread and am and a jar of peanut butter. There is also a glass of water and a sponge. I glance at the jar of peanut butter with unease and Truth notices. "You allergic?" he asks, nudging the jar. "Yeah, always have been," I reply. He throws it out of the window. "Then you are not eating it. I would try some water first since you've been sick," he tells me.

I nod in agreement, as I am still chained up he places the glass to my lips for me and tilts it slowly until I get a small sip from it. I swallow the water and I was glad it soothed the burning in my throat. Truth waits patiently. The rest of the day kind of went similar to that. I wasn't sick again. Aron came in and cut me up a little bit but nothing too major. I know Truth is on my side and will try his best to defend me while he is here and get me home in time when Aron leaves in a couple of days' time. I hope he can keep his promise to me and he will take me home, so I can be back with my lover and be safe. He manages to help me settle into an uneasy sleep by making me think about my family and being safe at home.

Jorel p.o.v - a few weeks later -

Danny has been missing for three or maybe four weeks now. It keeps blurring together because of the soulmate fire I have been experiencing since I watched Danny being taken from me. I know Aron stabbed Danny twice on the day that Arina died and something has happened to Danny's left leg, but I couldn't quite work out what exactly has happened to it. I have a scar line going around that leg a few inches below the knee. We killed Arina by painlessly shooting her in the back of the head. There was no mess and it was dealt with in a very professional manner. Hayden was there just to make sure that it was all dealt with and that we didn't mess up because of the emotions that are going on around us.

Jason was keeping me updated with Scarlett and I sent her a video when it was night-time and said Danny was sleeping but we loved her very much. I have some intel from a minion that they might be staying in the Linda Vista community hospital. I have no confirmation on this though. No one has seen them there when they have done the stakeouts. I just want my baby back here when he belongs. I heard a knock on the door and George shouting at whoever was there. I ran to the front door and gasped at what I saw. Truth was standing there with an unconscious Danny in his arms and he seemed to be missing part of his left leg. He also had the soulmate tattoo on his right ankle now. I looked a Truth who handed Danny to me and the fire went out immediately when I held him in my arms.

George harshly dragged Truth into the house and closed and locked the door while I take Danny to our room to rest and recover from whatever went on. I kissed my soulmates head, but he didn't respond to me. I wasn't expecting him too, but it hurt me just as bad. I go back down the stairs to get the full explanation from Truth. George and the others were angry, but I was willing to give him a chance. He brought Danny back to us, Danny must have trusted him enough to reveal our location before whatever happened went on. "Aron doesn't know Danny and I have gone yet. He is away on business, so I thought it was the best time to bring Danny back to you guys," he starts, then he goes on to detail what he discovered was wrong with Danny and how he sorted it out.

It turns out that Danny was suffering from necrosis as a result from when I shadow travelled with him for the first time nearly two months ago. He had been stabbed by a hater and George knew about it, but he didn't know how to deal with it and wanted to keep it a secret from me because of how guilty I would have felt about it. I still feel guilty, but I know it has all been dealt with now and everything is going to be okay and Danny was alive and now going to feel better when he wakes up. I told everyone to calm down, if it wasn't for Truth then Danny probably would have died, and he wouldn't be back. Now it is a case of waiting for Danny to wake up from the anaesthetic that Truth gave him a few hours ago.

I told them to rough Truth up a little bit and then let him go. We planned with Truth how we were going to bring Aron down and it was going to be fabulous when it all goes down. In a few months' time he was going to go back to Aron then lead him here, by that time we would have moved to a new location, but we would go back there so Aron would die there. We have time to finalise the plan on our end and how exactly Aron was going to meet his demise. All I know so far is I want Danny to be the one to carry it out. Speaking of the blonde, I walk back up to our bedroom and snuggle up to him. I message Jason to say we are home, but Danny is not well, so it might be another couple of weeks before Scarlett can see her dad again.

I know Michael can make prosthetic legs, so I might ask him to come and take measurements so that he could make Danny one. The infection went right through to his bone so in order to save his life Truth did have to amputate his leg. I called Michael and explained what happened and he said he would come over in a little while and Danny could start learning to walk again by the end of the day. I was very impressed by that, I have never seen what he does when he makes a prosthetic, but I guess I am going to find out soon enough. I want to thank Truth for saving my Danny, I appreciate the effort and the risk that he took to bring Danny back to us. I know if Aron learned the truth then he would kill the guy for double crossing him.

I should actually find out what his name is, so I don't keep calling him Truth anymore. He seems to want to change his life for the better, so I think I should help him out with getting his old identity back from the nicer days. Danny is still very out if it, so I decided to go now and thank the guy who saved my soulmate's life. "Hey, I'm sorry for roughing you up, but I am sure you can understand why," I tell him, and he smiles at me. "Don't worry about it Jorel, you have already proven to me you are a better leader than Deuce ever was. It is a small price to pay for the freedom you will give me," he says, this is why Danny likes the guy. He is willing to show that he can change for the better and people will like him more for that.

"What is your real name? I feel bad that I keep calling you Truth when you want to change who you are," I ask him, and he had a big smile on his face. I think it has been a long time since someone last called him by his real name. "It is Vardan Aslanyan. Deuce never really cared to call me it once I changed and he gave me the nickname. He would beat me whenever I introduced myself to someone by that name," he tells me. I like Vardan Aslanyan better than Truth, so I am glad to learn that. "Well, Vardan I want to formally thank you on behalf of the Undead Coven for saving Danny. I also want to apologise for the hostility that happened when you showed up, but we didn't know what your intentions were," I tell him.

He decided to stay for a little while and I let him check on Danny, but not long after he checked on Danny he said he was going to go into hiding for a little while and he wished us the best of luck and hoped Danny to make a full recovery soon enough. I go back to my little position on our bed where I was going to watch Danny and wait for him to wake up from the anaesthetic. It was another two hours before Danny starts to wake up for the first time. He was very scared, he was whimpering when he came round but I was right there soothing him. He opened his eyes and looked at me almost straight away. "It's going to be just fine Danny. You are back home safe with me and the others," I tell him. He starts crying so I hold him close to me.

I calm him down just as Michael arrives with a prosthetic leg. I forgot he knew Danny's leg measurements already from when Danny changed four years ago. We fitted the leg and it looked so realistic you couldn't even tell that he had lost his leg. "What happened to Truth?" Danny asks, it has been a while since he woke up and I was happy he was feeling a lot better. We had even gotten him up and about. "We let him go, he is free Danny," I tell him, then I told him our plan to get Aron in the end and he seemed happy with it. "Thank you Jorel, he did so much to help me out, so I was glad you didn't kill him for it," he says. I rubbed the right ankle that now has my initials on it. He smiles at me and we enjoyed every moment we got together.

I went to bed that night with a big smile on my face. I am finally back with my baby peacefully sleeping in my arms. We took his new prosthetic off and he wasn't too upset by the loss of his leg. I guess he thinks that it's fine to lose his leg because he is still alive. I am so proud of the way he handled this. I snuggled up with him and fell asleep happy that this battle in the war is over.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and more drama is to come!

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