Author's Note: For those of you who don't know, I am activeley looking for a beta on all of my fanfiction's that are in progress. I have already emailed a few of you, but so far only one person has gotten back to me, if you want to beta read this story I would more than welcome you.

Sorry this chapter took so lond to get up, I have been busy but I will try to get better at it.

Chapter Two: Hiding From Boys

Finally, Erutis thought, peace and quiet, they would never think to look for her here. She closed her eyes in blissful contentment.

"What do you think that you are doing here?" the coldly spoken words didn't startle her. Nope, she'd been waiting for them.

"Meditating, and hiding from Raenef and Chris until they find something better to do."

"Get out."

Erutis nearly fell off her seat. "What? What do you mean 'get out'? I won't bother you. I just want a quiet place where they won't think to look for me. Come on eclipse, have a heart."

He shuddered, had that been a curse. "I don't care. They will come in here and interrupt my quiet and thus my day will be disturbed. So...get out."

She stood up and stared him in the eye. "You know eclipse, one day, long from now; you're going to need someone else's help. And you know what? I don't think anyone will care."

With that she sprinted out of the room, trying to avoid being set on fire. She kept running down the hall, hoping that neither Rae nor Chris would see her. Usually around this time they would give up and Rae would go to his office to work on demon lord things and Chris would write letters home to the other clerics. Although she suspected that Eclipse thought he was trying to build an army and thus monitored him closely.

Well, she thought, might as well go bother Rae. So she headed to his office, intent on bombarding him with questions until he couldn't stand her any longer. She walked quickly down the hall and knocked on Rae's door.

"Enter," came the imperious tone. She opened the door and skipped through, seeing Raenef at his desk with a mountain of paperwork spread out before him. He didn't look up or acknowledge her presence in any way.

"Hi Rae."

". . . "OK, that wasn't working.

"What are you working on?"

". . . ." New tactic.

"Chris has an army headed this way."

". . . . ." Another.

"I saw Eclipse dancing naked in the courtyard with the guardians."

". . . . . ." Grrr.

"Would you like to have sex?" Joke. Big joke.

"Take off your clothes," he said, never lifting his head from the pile of paper work he had in front of him. Strangely enough, she felt compelled to do exactly as he said. She began to remove her weapons and scabbard. Then proceeded to her boot and armor, then the rest of her clothing.

When she began to take off her tunic he looked up, his face etched in thought and his eyes filled with an unholy light. She paused momentarily to look at him.

But he took her hesitation as a challenge and stood up to help divulge her of the rest of her clothing. She started when he touched her. She shivered and parts of her that she would rather remain hidden became hot.

She looked up into his face and eyes and saw beyond the happy, idealistic Rae who was her friend, to the Demon Lord Raenef whose intention was to make her his lover.

His hands moved across her shoulders and down to the edge of her tunic, his fingertips lightly skimming the inside, against the bare skin of her stomach and she was suddenly aware of where she was, what she was doing, and most importantly, who she was with.

"Rae, I. . ."

"Quiet," he snapped, then his tone gentled, "You are mine, you know this. It is just the matter of the claiming. I will claim you."

Erutis frowned. She had never heard Raenef talk like that, quiet, final, a lot like Eclipse. Hmm, I should talk to Eclipse about that, but first...

While she had been thinking, Raenef had moved his hands up to her budding breasts and was cupping them, lightly touching the nipples.

"Raenef, this is wrong. I don't think.."

"Do not think. You are mine. I will have you. Do not fight against it, you would not like the consequences." He paused to smile at her, a mix of dominance and lust. "Now remove the rest of your clothing. Do not be afraid, you will enjoy this."

She couldn't believe he would say something like that. Why that pompous, arrogant, pig-headed, male chauvinistic jackass. She would cut him in half if she thought she could.

But just then the door was knocked upon. "Master Raenef," Eclipse's voice came from out in the hall. He opened the door and let himself in. "I am in search of the knight. There is a messenger here from her demon lord."

Raenef's eyes narrowed and he placed a possessive arm around her shoulders. "I am her demon lord. She is mine."

Eclipse made a long-suffering sigh and touched the thumb and forefinger of his right hand to his temples. "Yes, Master Raenef. But we don't wish a war. And they have declared that they made a first claim on her." Eclipse turned to Erutis, his usually emotionless face bordering on an actual expression. "Do you have anything to say of this before we attempt to deal with it?"

Erutis glanced around nervously. "Is there a back way out of this place? Because if they sent who I think they did he won't be far behind him."

Eclipse glanced up and glared at her. But when he caught Raenef watching him he backed off. "Erutis," Raenef said huskily "who exactly is he and what situation have you landed yourself in that I now have to fix?"

Erutis glared at him from under his shoulder and raised her hand to smack him. Raenef, without even looking at her, caught the hand before it made contact

'Don't do that again,' he said in her mind.

"Okay, okay. Here it goes, my mom was a servant in a demon household, not a demon lord, he was a demon, second class. He fought in the Hagma Wars, his name is Europe. My mom fell in love with him and he with her, and then, pop, you get me and my three older brothers."

Eclipse looked up, "Are you trying to say that you are half-demon?" he asked incredulously.

She gave him a nasty look, "I'm not trying to say it, I am saying it. My dad is a demon, my brothers are half-demon, like me, and my mother is human. You got a problem with that Eclipse?"

She looked over to see him staring at her in mild shock. "Europe is your father?" he began to chuckle softly. "Europe? The demon who spent ten days and ten nights looking for the battle of Exar? The demon who was only given the second class title because of his parentage? That half-insane, vermin-loving, science-wielding, sorry excuse for a demon is you father?"

Erutis stood shocked. He had just insulted her father, big time. 'Why I oughta'...she thought, but suddenly Eclipse did something astounding, he burst out into hysterical laughter. He laughed so hard he fell to his knees and held his stomach while he rolled on the floor, pausing sometimes to point at Erutis, and began laughing even harder. He howled with laughter and pounded the floor.

'Why I oughta' Erutis thought and started for Eclipse, her intent clear. But Raenef's outstretched arm stopped her. Raenef didn't look very amused as he watched Eclipse roll on the floor.

"Eclipse," he said, his voice sounding stiff and very unlike him, "collect yourself."