~Bad Language and Sexual Themes~
Ezra woke to a bang. She frowned, unsure if it was outside or not. There was another crash though. Ezra sat up, trying to hear over Dexter's loud breathing. A door slammed. "Dexter, Dexter! Someone is here." Ezra said, shaking her boyfriend awake. He groaned. "What?" He asked, muffled by the pillow. "Somebody broke in." He looked at her confused. Then there was a particularly loud crash and he sat up fully awake. "Okay, you wait here." He said, getting up and reaching for his gun under the mattress.
"What, so you can go and get abducted and probed by aliens and then they wipe you from everyone's memories and you die a slow, painful and weird space death? I don't think so." Ezra said, reaching for her precious Arnis.
"So, what, we get probed together? How romantic." Dexter said, creeping to the door, Ezra beside him. The quietly went downstairs. Whoever it was clearly didn't care about discretion, the lights were on downstairs. There was a man standing over the stove, cooking something. He was dressed in black, the kind of black that absorbed the light around it. His hair was the same colour. He turned as they walked in, his eyes the same bottomless black. "'Ello there! D'ya have a beer I could have with this?" He asked in an odd accent.
"Uh... What?" Dexter genuinely didn't know what to say.
"Well, ye can't have toasted cheese without a beer, can ye?"
"Why are you making toasted cheese?" Ezra asked in a small voice, her Arnis by her side. The man shrugged.
"Cus' I quite fancied it, 'ats why." He said, like it was normal.
"Yes... That's all well and good, but why are you here... specifically in our home?" Deter asked, his gun lowered.
"Ye asked fir me, didn't ye?"
"Hades." Ezra said, looking at Dexter and frowning. He shrugged in reply. The God of Death turned back to his sandwich, flipping, deciding it was done, and plopping it on a plate. He cut it into fours. He seated himself at the table.
"About that beer?" He asked, looking at them with wide eyes.
Dexter went to the fridge and got one, opened it, and passed it to him. He took a swig then a bite.
"Ah, aye, that's the stuff." Ezra sat down tentatively and after a moment so did Dexter.
"So, what's bothering ye?"
Ezra bit her lip, trying to decide how best to word it.
"Demons, that we think are your's, are trying to kill me. And they won't stop." He nodded and took another bite. He licked his fingers, sat back and took another swig of beer.
"They're not mine." He said thoughtfully. Ezra's stomach dropped.
"What? If they aren't your's, who's are they?"
"Some new fella Macon, thinks he's the shit. If you ask me, he ain't know shit. The bastard tried to ask me for a partnership. Arrogant tosser."
Dexter had gone very still.
"Macon? You're sure?" His jaw was clenched, his hand balled into a fist. He was barely breathing, he looked like a statue.
"Positive." He took another bite. Then he leaned forward.
"I don't like him. You have until the New Year to kill him. That's four months from today. If you don't, I'm dragging you both down with me and you'll both be my playthings. Forever is a long time, so you best not disappoint. Here, have a taste." He said. He clicked his fingers and was gone, just as pain erupted in their skulls. Ezra cried out, losing her balance and falling, and Dexter hissed, clutching his head. After what seemed like hours but was only five minutes, it was gone. Like a switch. It was there, white hot, agonising, blinding pain, then it wasn't. "Fuck." Ezra said, picking herself up off the ground.
"Ezra, Macon is my father." Dexter said. She looked at him. Then she picked up the plate with the half sandwich on it and launched it against the wall, watching the broken shards falls to the ground.
"FUCK!" She screamed. "Why can nothing go our way?! Why does something always have to go wrong! We were onto something! We had something! I've never had something backfire so much in my entire life!" Ezra yelled. Dexter looked at her.
"Valkyrie just got back. Me and you just moved in together, for God's sake! We should be having a celebration, not fearing that we are going to be dragged to hell and tortured for eternity!" She sighed and sat down with her head in her hands. "Just this once couldn't things have gone our way? Just once?"
Dexter scooted his chair next to her and twirled her hair.
"We'll fix it. We always do. Any chance to kill my father is chance I'll gladly take. He's after you, Ezra. I won't let him do anything to you. I'd rather die first."
"That's what I'm afraid of." She said. He tilted her head towards him and pressed his lips gently against her's. She snaked her hands up, one on the back of his neck, the other in his thick dirty blonde hair. She got off her own seat and straddled his lap on the wooden kitchen chair, not wanting there to be any space between them. His hands were on her back as the kiss got more heated, more passionate, more desperate. Ezra's heart hammered through her chest and Dexter trailed a hand into her hair, lightly tugging at the soft golden strands. Then someone knocked on the door. Ezra leaned back against the table's edge, breathing heavily and groaned. Dexter closed his eyes in annoyance. Ezra adjusted her t-shirt as Dexter got up too. It was still night, 3.32am. Ezra frowned as she walked to the front door.
"Who do you think it is?" She asked. Dexter shrugged. Ezra opened the door, but no one was there. She looked down to see a pristine white envelope, decorated with pearls and diamonds. She looked at her partner. He picked it up and read it. The cold night air rustled their clothes and hair as they stood at the door. Dexter's facial expression didn't change. He just passed it to Ezra.
Mr Dexter Vex and Ezra Bloom.
You are formally invited to the Black Ribbon Masquerade Ball.
Failure to attend will result in severe consequences.
-M
There was an address and time on the other side and nothing else.
Macon.
Dexter wordlessly walked back upstairs and Ezra slammed the invitation on the table, shutting the door and locking it. She grabbed her Arnis and twirled it angrily as she walked back upstairs.
Thanks for reading! Sorry the spacing is different from, like, every other chapter but I got a new app thing for my laptop, because my old one didn't save hardly anything so yeah! This one word count as well, so here is hoping for consistency!
