Sirius: I hate you so damn much.

Chelsea: Good, because I don't like you that much either.

Sirius: Bite me.

Chelsea: Ok! [attaches on to sirius's arm.]

Sirius: .

Lucifer: Peppermint Schnapps?

Sirius: . …please…

Love is a Battlefield

[chapter seven]

'I ran away today, ran from the noise, ran away
Don't wanna go back to that place, but don't have
no choice, no way
It ain't easy growin up in World War III
Never knowin what love could be, well I've seen
I don't want love to destroy me like it did my
family'

Family Portait. Pink.

        Gemini walked calmly through the park, sporadic rays of sunlight peaking through the thick arms of the large trees. The small upward fixture of her lips remained as the sound of children reached her ears.

        They were laughing.

        Gemini could honestly not remember the last time she laughed when it wasn't back up by the sadistic glee she received when she killed a death eater.

        Now here she was, former Ministry assassin, walking calmly through the park in broad day light, when her face was on wanted posters for all the Ministry's assassins and bounty hunters to find.

        To bad she was the best.

        Those aurors would have a hard time trying to kill her, seeing on how she was trained to be perfect. Half of the aurors in the Ministry respected her too much to kill her, the other half were too scared or too stupid to even try.

And even if some one was hired to kill her, with all of her knowledge, regardless of whether it was white magic or the dark arts, they would be no competition for her. She pitied the poor mortal who tried to kill her, because Gemini would have to do the proper thing and return the favor.

        She might not be the Ministries best assassin anymore, but she still had all of the qualifications of the best assassin, one of which includes lack of remorse.

        Poor mortal.

        Poor pitiful, insignificant mortal.

        Just as Gemini was about to bask in the glow of ripping the man to pieces a muffled scream reached her assassin enhanced ears, coming from the alley way in between two cooperate buildings just outside the park.

        She may not be paid to kill anymore, but a sudden kick or maternal protection over came her as she bolted towards the alley way, her knife slipping easily in to her hand.

Her mind numbed as she slipped in to her assassin state of mind, she slinked carefully in to the alleyway, just in time to see a dirty middle aged man push a girl in her late teens to her knees, tears rushing down her face, staining her cheeks.

With one swift kick, Gemini knocked the wind out of the man and rushed to help the girl to her feet only to be found face to face with the putrid slime of the alley ground.

"Trying to save your little friend where you?" the rugged man asked as he picked Gemini up by her collar and pushed her roughly against the brick wall, "Time for your punishment pretty one."

        Gemini looked up at the man and grinned a slightly deranged grin before saying, "Punish me hm?" she was hit one again as she slid down the wall, ignore in pool of blood she was now sitting in, "What is a weak man like you capable of other than raping defenseless woman?"

        "You little wh-" he froze, a petrified look on his face as he stared in to two orbs of enraged obsidian.

        "mission complete," Gemini whispered savagely as she thrust her body forward, taking her knife and pushing it into the mans chest, watching with a silent pleasure as the life spilled from his soulless body, before turning the blade around complete, insuring his death.

        She pulled the knife from the mans body, pushing the lifeless man against the wall, watching him slide to the floor.

        She put the blood coved knife back in its hiding spot before turning to towards the shiver girl who was huddled next to her, sobbing.

        Gemini knelt down, titling the girls face up, her amber eyes overflowing with tears, "Are you alright?"

        The girl nodded, wiping the tears form her eyes before looking at the dead deatheater, "Wh- what are we going to do with him? Who are you?"

        Gemini rose to her feet, looking at the dead man who was lying in a puddle of his own blood. She kicked him sharply before turning towards the girl and saying, 'He's staying here.'

        "Who are you?"

        Gemini turned towards the shivering girl and knelt down next to her once again, brushing her hair from her face, "My name is Diana Sky, and I do not think a girl like you would want to get involved in my affairs.'

        The girl nodded, "very well," she stood, bringing the girl with her, "Run," she gave the girl her jacket to cover up the ripped clothes and blood, "Get as far away as you can from this place. Never speak of my name, just hold it in your heart. Now run!"

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        Sirius was out, Gemini was only Diana knew where, and Lucifer was completely bored out of his telepathic mind. He had already messed the minds of every one on their floor and now the old lady next door was fully convinced that her potted plant was talking to her and the couple across the hall thought their significant others where having secret affairs with Marilyn Monroe, Elvis or the ass on the fourth floor who was always hitting on him.

        Lucifer needed someone to talk to.

        He sighed as he stood up, clad in a pair of boxers and running socks, scratching his stomach as he looked around the small apartment for something to do.

        If he were back at his old house he would have some runes to read, but all Sirius told him was good to do around here was watch a bunch of women pretend to be lesbians on the cheap, 13 inch television in the corner of the room.

        Girls, yech, cooties.

        Running a hand through his chin length hair, he looked down at his flat stomach and poked his belly button, watching with a smile as it indented slightly. One of the benefits of living in the middle of no where was that you had to grow your own food, meaning there was none of this lard covered McDonalds crap to clog his veins.

        Maybe he should do some sit ups.

        Lucifer yawned. Nope. To lazy.

        Blinking sleep from his dark eyes he wandered in to the kitchen, looking for a source of nourishment that didn't involve seven pounds of sugar and other 'necessities' Sirius had stocked the cupboards with.

        Lucifer smiled when he found a box of Cheerios behind seven other boxes of colorful, marshmallow infested, sugar coated crap and brought out bowl and a spoon.

        Lucifer turned around promptly dropped his breakfast on the cheep vinyl floor.

        "Who are you."

        Lucifer gulped as a mysterious man stood in the door way, who he would have sworn to be an albino if his eyes weren't pupilless. The pale man took a step towards Lucifer as he present the question again.

        "Who are you. What is you purpose here."

        "I-I'm Lucifer," he stammered, his charm out the window as he stared at the godlike man in front of him, "I'm Gemini's brother."

        The man cocked his head to the side as he walked, or rather floated in front of an extremely nervous Lucifer.

        "You are Mistresses brother?" He asked, but two pale hands on either cheek, his eyes of ruby fixed on Lucifer orbs of umber, he looked at him intently for a moment's time before saying calmly, "I trust you. I am Xander. You sister is my Mistress."

        "Mistress?"

        "I am her loyal servant. My name is Xander, I am an orb demon. I was given to her as a gift so I am her fateful servant until the day we are parted."

        "Wow, ok," Lucifer said breathlessly, looking in to the depthless red eyes, "Quick question though, why do you look just like Sirius?"

        At this the demon smiled and took a step back, giving Lucifer some breathing room, "I took the form that was most pleasing to my mistress, who corresponded to her inner desire in order for her to be completely pleased in my presence."

        "So you take shape to be any person or thing your master secretly finds pleasurable?"

        "Yes, I do."

        Lucifer gulped, "Oh, that's nice."

        Xander looked down to see Lucifer's white knuckles and they held on the counter behind him for dear life.

        "What's wrong with your hands?"

        Lucifer blushed and quickly shoved his hands in to his nonexistent pockets when he came to the nasty realization that the pants he thought he was wearing… were gone, meaning he was standing in the kitchen, cheerios around his feet, in his underwear, with the most beautiful creature he has ever seen who just so happens to be a demon.

        Perfect.

        "You dropped your cereal," Xander said innocently, kneeling down in front of the pale and nervous man, "You are blood with my mistress so I will treat you as I treat her,"

        "This better not be what I think it is," a dark, slightly amused voice called from the doorway, "Other wise I think Sirius would have some competition."

        What ever color was left in the Demigods face fled as he saw his sister, smirking that goddess awful smirk, watching with amused eyes her Orb Demon kneeling in front of her panting, sweaty brother.

        "Mistress!" Xander said as happy as a demon could as he rose to his feet and rushed to her side, "Forgive me for not being able to help you Mistress I-"

        "Shh," Gemini said softly, holding a finger to his pale lips, "I need you're help with something, come with me to my bedroom."

        "Yes Mistress," Xander said curtly before rushing from the room.

        Gemini left to follow the demon, but not before projecting something in to the telepathic brother's mind.

        'Go take a cold shower and get your mind out of the gutter

'Shut up Gem Gem, you don't ever want to know what Sirius thinks of you'

'…'

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"YOU WHAT!"

"I quit the ministry Sirius," Gemini said flatly, her arms folded over her chest as she sat on her brother's lap, "is it that hard for you to understand?"

"That means that..."

"You are either going to have to quit or get a new partner."

"This sucks."

"That it does."

"We need income, and I don't know what job you can apply for with your qualifications."

"An assassin?" Lucifer suggested playfully, pushing his sister's hair away from her neck and kissing the soft flesh softly.

"Will you two stop doing that?" Sirius snapped his gray eyes narrowed at the godly siblings, "You're flirting with each other, it's disgusting."

"We're not flirting," Lucifer said in a sultry voice as his arms wound themselves around Gemini's scarred body, "Sibling love is a beautiful thing," he whispered, kissing Gemini's neck as he pulled her tightly against him, 'You're just jealous, you just wish you could do this to her.'

'Get out of my head Lucifer'

'Aw, is someone sexually frustrated? I can help you out with that if you want.'

"Lucifer, "Sirius growled, "Get out of my head."

"Poor baby," Lucifer moaned, pulled his sister closer as she leaned back on the bed, pulling her down with him, "Poor jealous baby."

Gemini yawned,  rolling over so that her cheek pressed up against Lucifer's bare chest, an uncharacteristic smile gracing her usually cold face as her brother wound a fist in to her umber strands.

"Ti Amo Lucifer," Gemini whispered softly before kissing her brothers chest, intertwining her hand with his as she slipped in to slumber.

'Why the fuck can't I do that?' Sirius snapped with his mind, his eyes narrowed at the twins, 'that's incest you know.'

'We're not fucking each other senseless Sirius, so it's not incest, rather the love an asexual would feel. You know why she lets me do this Sirius?' Lucifer asked, an eye brow raised in question, 'I do this because she lets me, she trusts me to let me do this. To touch her, and if I wanted to go by the scriptures and do all the things your mind fantasizes about she would let me. She loves me. You love her. Make her love you'

'What about you?'

'My tastes run more along the lines of an immortal being.'

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"Mother," Aradia called out, stretching her arms above her head as she walked in to her parents bed room, "Mother, she is asleep now, you can safely enter her dreams with out fear of being seen by her conscientious self."

Diana arose from her slumber, blinking umber eyes open as she pushed her brother's arm from her torso, pulling herself gracefully out of bed, pulling on a sheer ominous white robe to cover her nude body.

"Very well then, is Hypno ready?"

"Yes mother,"

"Excellent."

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Lucifer sighed, swinging his legs over the side of the bed, his natural stealth to ease himself off the bed and not waking his assassin sister. He paused, holding his breath as he looked at his sister, who stirred slightly before resuming her stone cold slumber.

She was such a heavy sleeper for a person who was trained to kill, but it was so ironic that she could snap out of slumber quickly if needed.

They didn't make them like the use to.

Lucifer knew there were many advantages to being a telepath, not only could he know what people were thinking, but he could change their perspective on thing, change their voluntary reaction, change their thoughts patterns and pretty much give, to those who needed it, a very nice mental mind fuck.

Settling in to the old arm chair that they had found in the street, she pulled a blanket up to his chest, a smirk still on his full lips. He had a mission tonight, and his mission was as follows: he knew that his sister had feelings for Sirius before her whole mind erasing, creation of the super assassin psychopath fiasco. He also knew that if Sirius didn't have some interaction with his dear sweet sister, then he was going out to find a cheep hooker to fulfill his unnatural libido and lust for the now partially mental intact former assassin that was sleeping peacefully on the old, broken bed.

Showtime.

Lucifer rubbed his hands together, his umber eyes disappearing behind café lids as his mind slipped in to an alpha state and he got to work.

This would be fun.

Sirius Black, Man Whore extraordinaire sat in an extra large throne made of gold in his majestic palace, a wide smile on his perfectly chiseled face, a black leather jacket hanging off his bare shoulders, tight, black leather painted on to his perfectly muscular legs.

"Sir, can we do anything for you Your All Highness Sex Master?" A small, high pitched, female voice asked below him.

Sirius looked down and smile at his faithful women, those who came to him solely to feel the pleasure that it Sirius, the All Highness Sex Master.

"No Women, there is nothing that I need right now. What is on my agenda today?"

The woman who spoke before, who was clad in a scantly leather outfit, cleared her throat before saying clearly, "Well sir, those who are less fortunate than you in bed sir are here for their appointment, today's topic is 'How to Pull an all nighter with out passing out'."

"Wonderful!" Sirius exclaimed, standing up, allowing all to see the, erm, 'friend' that has made Sirius so well known through out the world, "Bring them in!"

"Oh, and one more thing sir," The woman announced, a seductive smile on her face, "a Miss Gemini Cielo is here to see you sir."

"Oh," Sirius asked, looking genuinely surprised, "What is she here?"

"I believe she want you to," Her smile widened, "Work your magic on her."

This was heaven.

Lucifer scrunched his nose up, moving on to his next victim in line, not wanting to watch some pervert 'work his magic' on his twin sister.

        Ah, Xander. The sexiest, well, not person, but sexiest being he has seen, mortal or not. Lucifer found it much to his surprise, and his excitement, that Xander slept in the nude.

More eye candy for him then.

Xander stood in all of his Demonic glory, his pupil less red eyes alight with a sadistic laugher that was often found in his mistress's eyes as he looked down on the insignificant mortal who wished to do impure things with his dear sweet mistress.

"Mortal!" Xander laughed, his voice echoing off the walls of the old apartment room, "You have scarred my mistress! You have taken away her innocence and now i shall do the same to you. I shall show you what happens when you threaten the soul of my mistress. You have to deal with the body of a demon."

Sirius, who was only clad in his yellow and black pin striped boxers and a pair or socks, quivered in fear under the all mighty sexual lust  of Xander.

Oh, look. The poor mortal wet himself.

Lucifer almost burst out laughing when he saw the yellow stream flow down his milk white legs. Lucifer clenched his eyes shut before opening them slightly and letting out a series of mental giggles.

Yes. It was confirmed.

Sirius, the Sex Master of the World had just pissed himself.

Priceless.

Maybe Lucifer would have a little bit of fun. Just a little.

Rubbing his mental hands together, Lucifer reached out and took Sex Master Sirius, placing him in Xander's sadistic dream.

Lucifer prayed that Sirius was a masochist. Though he highly doubted it, a demigod could pray couldn't he?

"Well she must beg like the rest," Sirius said blissfully, his eyes closed, arms wrapped over his chest.

"SHE!" Xander screamed, stomping one demonic foot down on the ground, "First you mock me and my mistress then you call me a girl!" He tossed his chin length hair over his shoulder, "Then you expect me to beg!"

This certainly took a toll on Sex Master Sirius when he opened his eyes to find that he was not in the presence of beautiful women, but standing in the shadow of one pissed of demon who just so happen to look like him.

Any other man would have fainted, but not Sex Master Sirius. Oh no, Sex Master Sirius did something much more noble and manly and all mighty.

Sex Master Sirius screamed.

Ah, a homosexual sex fiend stuck in the dream of a bisexual demon who hasn't had sex in the past thousand years or so.

Lucifer loved being truly evil.

Silently he left the two highly attractive men to do the horizontal tango for a better, more delicious dream.

His sisters.

Now Lucifer had never actually been in one of his sister's dreams before, let alone experience the dream of a psychopath, so he was completely unsure on what would happen.

Would it be a void of white, consisting solely of noise? Or would it be like an old muggle movie, a series or pictures and frames running choppily through her mind, whether they had to deal with each other or not. Would it be calm and serene or a place of raw, unadulterated chaos? Heaven or hell? Peace or destruction?

Quite frankly Lucifer wished his mind would stop thinking other wise he'd have to jab it with a q-tip before he lost his balls to venture in to his sister's mind.

OK. He was going to do it.

There was only one problem.

Breaking through her mental wall. Getting her to smile was hard enough and she was awake for that.

Slowly and softly Lucifer out stretched his psychic hands, slipping them in to his sisters mind, forming a bond between the two third eyes, a bond strengthened by both blood and psychic abilities. There had to be a niche, a dent, and softened spot within the assassin's mind that he could slip in to. Something that would let him in. Something in her sleep cycle, in her dream cycle, something in her self subconscious that let her guard down just slightly so he can slip in unnoticed.

Bingo.

Her guard was down for a few seconds, but that was enough for him to slip in and hide within the dream, not really wanting to soak in his surroundings in fears of 'pulling a Sirius'.

But nothing happened.

Lucifer's mental self lay on his stomach for a good 5 minutes before a soft voice reached his ears, a soft familiar voice that had often plagued his dreams as a child.

Diana.

Lucifer lifted his head up to find himself face to face with a blue flower, an entire meadow of blue flowers actually, blue and purple flowers that stretched as far as the misty, blue, snow capped mountains that loomed off in the far distance.

Lucifer stood, looking around the field, finding that there were a few trees scatters sporadically through out the scenery, a few large boulders tosses carelessly around in no particular place.

But two people caught his eye and the air caught in his chest.

This was nothing that he expected.

Gemini sighed, rolling her eyes as she found herself in the same dream.

The same goddess damn dream she has been having since she ran in to Sirius.

Again.

It wasn't as bad as before though. Now at least she could put her arms down, and the jutting glass wasn't wrapped up her legs and covering her face. It was just covering the top of her upper torso. Her heart, the only place left that hasn't been saved.

Gemini used her enhanced telekinesis to hold her mid air as her long, nude legs folded themselves underneath her body.

"Are you quite done sitting there and staring at me?" Gemini snapped at Sirius who was sitting on the grass in front of her, a dumbfounded look on his face.

"You shouldn't speak to me like that you know," He said lightly, a slight smile on his chiseled face, "It makes the work harder for me and for you. Every time you lash out a piece of glass gets put back and I have to bloody myself up again to take it off."

"My heart bleeds."

"So do my hands. Every time I touch you remember?"

"Go kill yourself."

"Ah ah ah," Sirius scolded, "You added another piece."

"Good."

Sirius sighed, rolling on to his stomach to escape her cold glare.

Good. He should feel intimidated by her.

Gemini was about to lash out about how this was a dream and how she hates him as much here as she hates him in real life when suddenly a soft voice reached her ever attentive ears.

I am the great Diana,
Queen of all enchantresses
And of the dark night,
And of all nature,
Of the stars and of the moon,
And of all fate or fortune!

Gemini blinked. She knew this voice. It sounded so…

I who rulest the tide,
Who shinest by night on the sea,
Casting light upon the waters;
I who art mistress of the ocean
In thy boat made like a crescent,
Crescent moon-bark brightly gleaming,
Ever smiling high in heaven,
Sailing too on earth, reflected
In the ocean, on its water;

It sounded so like herself.


I implore thee give this sleeper,
Give unto this good Melambo
The great gift of understanding
What all creatures say while talking!

And it was gone, a soft breeze carried the voice to her ears before vanishing entirely with out a trace. It was the same incantation as before, when Aradia had graced her with her presence and given her the gift of the tongue, something that only Diana could grant.

But it was different. It was spoken in first person. It wasn't Aradia speaking. It was her.

It was Diana.

"Ok," Sirius declared, climbing to his feet, "What if I kiss you? Will that make the glass break?"

"What?"

"If I kiss you? I tried by force and have found it impossible to break it from around your heart, so what if I'm gentle, will it break?"

"If you try to kiss me I will use every power that flows through my veins to ensure that you have a very horrid and wretched death."

Sirius grimaced as he sat back down on the ground, "It was only a suggestion."

Lucifer silently slipped out of his sister's dream, a shocked expression on his face as he opened his physical eyes, his pupils enlarging, trying to capture all for the light in the room.

Diana had reached out to her.

        She had actually interacted with her.

Directly.

Lucifer sighed, rubbing his temple with his thumb, trying to detach himself from everyone's minds.

He stood up and climbed in to bed next to his sister, not bothering to crawl under the blankets as he tried to will away the whispers in the back of his mind that plagued him if he didn't constantly have his mind tied on a tight leash.

He looked over at his sleeping sister and sighed.

He prayed that she would remember everything that morning.

It would be a shame to forget the voice of the goddess whom you owe everything too.

Lucifer: [jumps up and down] I like!

Xander: Why is that Lucifer?

Lucifer: [blushes profusely] n-n-no reason…

Chelsea: [beams] You two are so cute! [takes a picture]

Gemini: [blink] I thought you were asexual… DON'T LEAVE ME!

Chelsea: [Sweatdrop] Don't worry Gem Gem, I am, but as the great Andy Warhol once said Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. I loved Andy! [wails]

Gemini: Tell her you hate this chapter… I do…

Lucifer: Be nice Gem, I LOVED it! [huggles Chelsea]