Shenron-puppy: Yoha peoples! Dagger is busy, so I get to post the next two chapters and write the next one as well, this one was mostly Dagger though...
Dagger-kitty: at least I got it to you.
Shenron-puppy: ya, after two whole months! Anyway! As for the chapters after that, who knows.
Dagger-kitty: I have an idea! Why don't we... .: looks over at Shenron :.
Shenron-puppy: .: spinning in chair making weird noises :.
Dagger-kitty: perfect, Shenron has lost her mind again, this shall be interesting.
Shenron-puppy: Bark! Anyway, I shall make this peice of paper do the disclaimer!
Piece of paper: I don't see why I have to do the disclaimer, but, I'll do it. We do not own constantine or any of its charactors.
Shenron-puppy: MAHAHA! I WIN! Now, ON WITH THE FIC! mahaha!
Chapter 3
The door to John's apartment slammed open, revealing a pissed off demon, and a bored psychic.
"Thats it! I give up! HE CAN'T BE TAUGHT!" Shenron screamed at the top of her lungs. She walked into Johns kitchen, followed by the psychic himself. He wasn't paying much attention though, instead he was thinking back to his, "adventure" for the past three hours.
-Four hours earlier-
"How about this?" Shenron asked holding up some article of clothing.
"No." John replied from his chair.
"This?" She asked holding up a different one.
"No."
"This?"
"No."
-Two hours later-
"This?" Shenron asked desperately.
"No." John said sleepily, his eyes closed, not even looking at what Shenron had pulled out.
"You're not even looking!" She yelled John.
"You're surprisingly right, I'm not." He said, looking at her with one eye. He closed it again, shaking his head. To his surprise, he was thinking about Dagger. He barely even knew her, yet he felt drawn to her, like moth to a flame... a really, really, deadly flame. His constant thoughts about Dagger almost scared him. Shenron chuckled at the look on his face and put her hands on her hips.
"You thinking about what I think your thinking about?" Shenron asked, still chuckling a little.
"What would that be?" John said, not very amused.
"Dagger... and how you're in love with her."
"Dagger, yes. Love, no." John said discustedly.
"Really? Well then, let me spell it out for you. You-love-her." She said, saying every silible with exaggeration in the last sentence.
"How would you know?" John said, a little intreaged at how much she knew.
"I'm a dog; I know a thing or two about humans' emotions."
"Uh-huh." John said, nodding his head once.
Shenron dropped the clothes she was holding and grabbed the back of the collar of his shirt. She dragged him out of the store, having everyone in the mall staring at them. "We'll dicuss this over really big cups of coffee."
-End flashback-
The dazed look on John's face disappeared, only to be replaced by one of determination. He looked around his kitchen and spotted Kia in her usual green long sleeved shirt and black skirt. Her black hair was pulled back into a somewhat messy ponytail. A sporting smirk was displayed on her face. He stalked over to her.
"Where's Dagger?" John asked.
"Papa Midnight's place. Why?" Kia asked, feigning confusion.
John gave her no answer, instead he left the apartment just as quickly as he'd entered.
"You must have had an interesting conversation with John about his love for Dagger, no?" Kia asked looking over at the demon that had just taken a seat across from her at John's kitchen table.
-two hours earlier-
Shenron dragged John all the way to the food court. She walked up to a coffee shop and waved at the person running the place. He was John's height with a black shirt and pants, and an apron on. His hair was blue, messy, and unkept.
"Yo, Rio. How've you been?" Shenron asked, letting go of John, and leaned against the counter.
"Shenron! Its been, what? Four weeks since you've been here!" Rio said walking over to the counter. He looked over at John, then back at Shenron with a confused look. "Who's he?"
"Just a human I have the unfortunate pleasure of having to know." Shenron said, annoyance in her voice.
"Too bad for you." Rio said, chuckling at Shenron's dismay.
"You know I can hear both of you." John said, getting really pissed off that he had to stand and listen to them make fun of him.
"I know. I just like to torture you." Shenron said turning to look at him.
"Really? I hadn't noticed." John sarcastically put in. Shenron just turned her head back to Rio and waved her hand as if she was done with him.
"So, what'll it be?" Rio asked.
"One coffee, and one "Mocha." Shenron said.
"Of course, coming right up." Rio turned and started making there order. John just stood there confused as to what Shenron was actually ordering. After a few minutes, two cups were placed infront of Shenron. She payed Rio, said good-bye to him and sat down at one of the tables.
"So, who was he?" John asked, intrigued at how Shenron could know such a charactor. She stared at him with her forest green eyes, one of them twitching from agitation.
"We're here to talk about you and Dagger, Mr. Constantine. Not my love life." John let the subject drop before it even began. Shenron took a sip of her "Mocha" and looked at John with an undieing intrigue. "Now Mr. Constantine, I will ask you this, and you must answer truthfully. Do you, or do you not, love Dagger?"
John sat there, staring at his coffee, wishing that Shenron would quit staring at him as though she were a police officer and he had just been accused of murdering her friend. Finally John answered, "I think I might."
"Thats a good start." Shenron said relaxing a little and bringing her knee up and resting it against the table. "And this is going to take a lot of cups of coffee."
-End flashback-
"You could say that."Shenron said, shrugging her shoulders. "How did you know we talked?"
"Well for one thing, I didn't get a 'what the hell are you still doing here?' Also the look on his face, and the fact that he never even noticed that I'd declawed his bathtub with a chainsaw." Kia said as if it were nothing. Shenron got up, knowing that Kia was telling the truth. She looked into the bathroom and immediately stared laughing at what John had not noticed. His previously clawed bathtub was now an ordinary, if not oddly placed, tub. She shook her head, still laughing. Kia grinned like a Cheshire cat and removed a pack of cards from the duffel bag at her feet.
"Poker?" Kia asked bringing the cards out of the box and shuffling them.
The two settled down to a game, even though niether of them was paying much attention, the game was just to get rid of time. They were also worried about John. After all, Dagger didn't exactly deal with others emotions well.
-Papa Midnights-
Dagger settled down at the bar, immediately ordering a gin and tonic. She recieved her drink and had barely had a chance to even sip at the alcoholic beverage, when a half demon came towards her.
"I don't believe we've met. I'm Balthazar." the half demon answered in a suave tone. Dagger looked at him, then looked back at her drink. She sighed, and looked back at Balthazar just before she threw the drink at him. She gave him an evil little grin.
"Gin and tonic," she informed him just before waltzing off into the darkness of the bar. Balthazar growled, but refrained from killing her. He walked to the back rooms of the bar, where Papa Midnight himself sat, watching the whole thing. Balthazar stared him in the eye, Papa's eyes were humerous.
"I'm surprised you didn't kill her for rejecting you." he said, showing Balthazar a seat. Balthazar didn't move, he just stood there with the same uncaring, angry look on his face.
"I couldn't." Balthazar snapped.
"Awww, are you developing a concious?"
"Not fuckin likely. That was Shenron and Kiashi's human. My ass would be grass if I even tried to kill her." Balthazar said angrily.
Midnight's eyes opened wide with surprise the more he thought of the facts racing through his mind. There are two full demons on Earth that are to stay as long as 1) there human was alive and 2) they did not kill unless told to do so by a higher being. These two demons are a wolf demon named Shenron and a vampire named Kiashi. They came to Earth because they were supposed to take this human girl's soul, but she accidentally dragged them into this plane when she was revived. They'd served as her protecters, friends, and I believe I heard that one of them is her landlord. If I am correct, she gets killed in my bar, they can do whatever they want to it, and anyone in it. He thought, making sure that all his facts are straight. He went over them one more time, then looked back up to Balthazar.
"Where is she now?" He asked in a slightly scared voice.
"Somewhere." Balthazar said, not particularly interested in the subject of the petite psychic.
"She can take care of herself." said a particularly dark voice. Both of the men turned to find two outlines standing in the doorway. One of them walked forward, showing herself to be a woman in a black tank top, with black pants that had purple clothe covering parts of it. Her hair was dark green and had silver streaks in it. Her forest green eyes were cold, but humarous at the same time.
"I'm not so sure. There are lots of halflings out there who would love to kill her...and I happen to be one of them." Balthazar mentioned.
"You're so kind," the figure said, walking up into the light. She was wearing a green long sleeve shirt and a black skirt that came to the middle of her thighs. She had a pierced lip and eyebrow and had one fang draped idoly out of her mouth on her lip. Midnight gave a shudder at the sight of Kiashi's fang out of instinct. "but it won't be our human who ends up dead tonight."
Balthazar sneered but held back from trying to physically harming them. The two walked out of the room and went into the loud bar. They ordered there drinks, rum and a strawberry daiquiri, and sat at the table nearest to a corner. They watched the hands on the clock, waiting for the sound of shots to ring out in the nearby alleyway.
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Dagger left the bar, going to the alleyway outside for a quick smoke. Instead, just after exiting the crowded club and entering the alleyway, she found herself in a half cirlce of halflings. One of them stepped forward, obviouly she was the leader.
"Mariam. How awful to see you again." Dagger said, hoping to piss off the 6' 3" hispanic half-bat demon.
"Still sarcastic as ever, aren't ya you stupid whore." Mariam said, slowly coming closer and closer to Dagger.
"Hey at least I sell what you give away."
Miriam growled out a word that sounded like Bitch.
"I have to try at it, but it comes naturally to you." Dagger replied with a smirk. Mariam stopped, just a few feet in front of Dagger.
"You stupid human. Shut up and listne to me, you are going to die, and we are going to be the ones that assist with that death."
"Really?"
"You got it bitch." With those words Mariam nodded to the others who moved towards Dagger. Instead of panicking, Dagger merely grabbed the guns hidded in her waistband.
"Fun." Dagger instantly stared shooting, watching with humor as, one by one, the half demons died. After all the halflings except Mariam were gone or dead, Dagger looked at Mariam, one gun pointing at her. "Run Mariam, run."
Apparently the hispanic demon didn't have to be told twice as, evidently, she took off like a bat out of hell(a/n no pun intended.) Just as Dagger put the guns back into their holsters and turned to go, she heard a voice in the shawdows.
"Are you always this reckless? Or was that just a one-time deal?"
"John." Dagger acknowledged, obviouly annoyed. "Why are you here?"
"I needed to talk to you." was John's simple reply as he stepped into her path.
"You talked, I listened, now get the hell out of my way, I am not in the mood."
"No." John replied, his voice so quiet Dagger almost didn't hear him.
"Move!" Dagger yelled, hoping to frighten him into moving. Instead, John grabbed Dagger's shoulders and pinned her against the brick wall.
"Dagger-" John was interupted.
"I said MOVE!" She shoved him off of her and pounced. She started beating him with her fists, one after the other, right in his face. The physical assult continued for a few minutes until Dagger finally got up off of him. She kicked him in the side, knocking the air out of him. She got up and left, hoping to drown her confusion and sorrow in a glass of tequila. John gasped for breathe, holding his stomache. He looked up and saw Daggers retreating form. He closed his eyes and fell back to the asphalt, still trying to catch his breathe.
"Damn." He muttered as he got back up, wincing. John turned towards the door of Papa Midnights, and as he went in, he repeated the word. "Damn."
He walked over to the counter of the bar and ordered a shot glass of whiskey. The whiskey came, he drank it, and ordered another. Balthazar decided he was going to grace John with his presence and walked up to the beaten Constantine. John saw the halfling and sighed deeply.
"I was hoping you were an illusion." John said. Balthazar didn't even acknowledge the comment.
"You look wonderful John, you know black and blue really is your color."
"Shut up will you?" John said more as a statement than a question.
"Sorry, but no."
"Then burn in hell."
"I do, it does wonders to my skin, no more premature wrinkles." John thought for a moment then rubbed his head. Balthazar started laughing. "Your wit is failing you, John."
Balthazar started laughing when he noticed that a pair of slender arms had wrapped themselves around John's neck.
"You aren't tormenting poor John now, are you?" Even in his half-drunken state, John recognized Dagger's voice.
"And if I am?" Balthazar asked a little nervously.
"It'd suck to be you." Shenron told him from the darkness behind him. Balthazar jumped, his chair clattering to the floor. Kia appeared out of the darkness and helped Dagger drag the unconcious body of John out of the bar.
"Take him Kia, I'm gonna go kick some demon ass." Dagger said walking back into the bar. Kia just nodded and dragged him to a large black truck. Dagger marched inside the bar and noticed that Shenron had the halfling by the front of his throat. She let go though as soon as she saw Dagger, and moved aside. Dagger got up into Balthazars face, pissed as hell. "If you ever torment John like that again, I will kill you. I'll deport your sorry ass back to hell where it belongs."
Balthazar shook his head. "Why? You love him or something?"
Dagger gave the halfling a quick upper cut, then turned and flounced out, Shenron following behind.
"Lets go home."
Shenron-puppy: I'm FINALLY DONE! MAHAHA!
Dagger-kitty: Yup, now I hope you enjoyed that chapter, and don't worry, the next one won't take as long.
Shenron-puppy: Yup, so bye for now.
Dagger-kitty: Yup, see ya.
Shenron-puppy: Androids are weird.
