Chelsea: [wearing her infamous really cool black coat, purple armwarmers and a pink slippers, Chelsea walks out and stands on her soapbox] It has come to my attention by a reader who shall remained unknown that the story has been to...
Gemini: Complicated?
Sirius: Conflicting?
Gemini: Confusing?
Chelsea: ALRIGHT I GET IT! Damn. Ok, so as I was saying some one brought it to my attention that there was too much, blood, gore, guts and killing. So I got carried away. [shrugs]
Gemini: So that means...
Chelsea: Um, for all of those who liked the blood, gore, guts and killing, I apologize, but it has be planned before hand that this is the last we see of assassin Gemini.
Gemini: ... [blink] WHAT!!!
Chelsea: I'm reintroducing Killing Gemini back to the world she came from, sorry folks, flame me if ya like.
Gemini: Wait a minute... I never agreed... THIS IS SO NOT IN MY DAMN CONTRACT!
Love is a Battlefield
[Chapter ten]
You see yourself as some kind of
lily of the valley
You come around here in your ballet slippers padding on my alley
And you know that you can't dance
Cause you know you never had the chance
I'm gonna dance for you!
"I'm gunna follow you" – Pat Benatar
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"Did you find them?"
"Of course I did, and I had my jaw broken for it too you bastard."
"But it healed I see. I think it went well."
"Go to hell."
"Ah, ah, ah. None of your tongue Missy, you volunteered for the job."
"Yes, well, I wasn't aware that I would be attacked with a knife at my throat, have a hypodermic needle shoved in to my side, then be the bitch for three fucking hours. Then I had to sit there and watch these two fucking faggots be all lovey dovey. I swear, by the looks of it those two were shagging each other rotten just by looking at each other."
"Well, what did you honestly expect from someone like Gemini Cielo? The woman is a clinical psychopath."
"No she isn't. And you know that."
"Yes, but sometimes thinking that you are antisocial is good enough."
"Well, their location has changed, I have no idea where I was before I came here."
"But you have the pictures?"
"As you requested. A color photograph of Diana sky, other wise known as Gemini Cielo. The Prophet will eat it up and the Dementors will have a field day."
"Yes, I hope they bring her kicking and screaming."
"They will Cornelius, they will."
"Hello Albus, please, do come in," Lily said warmly as she swung the door open for her former Headmaster to enter, "She is inside."
"How is she doing?"
Lily look a deep breath, then exhaled as she closed the door, an overwhelmed smile lingering on her lips, "She's like everything I remember."
"Ah, now the problem with that Mrs. Potter," Dumbledore said lightly, removing his indigo hat, "is whether that is a good thing, or a bad thing."
"Albus?" A deep voice said softly from the foyer, "I don't think this is what Moody intended on happening to me."
"Hello Miss Cielo," Dumbledore said warmly, stepping forward and enveloping her small hand in between two of his large, aged hands, "It has been to long."
"Far too long."
"Have the others arrived?" Dumbledore asked Lily softly, not removing his hands from Gemini's.
"You are the first Dumbledore," Lily replied, "Please, come and sit."
"The others?" Gemini asked as she was lead in to the Potter's sitting room, "Who else is coming?"
"Gemini my dear," Dumbledore said as he sat down, taking her down with him, "When Mr. Black over there first told us that you were alive, we were overwhelmed with relief. You see, when Moody began to train you, none of this was ever intended. You were supposed to be an Auror, a great Auror like he is. We needed you not only for your strength and stamina, but we needed you for you're gift."
"My telekinesis?"
"No my dear you're immortality."
"Are you alright?" Lucifer asked softly, moving from the chair he was sitting on to the bed where Xander was currently curled up on, rocking back and forth.
Lucifer and Xander had rented a hotel room in Wizarding Rome while Gemini and Sirius went back with the Potter's.
"I don't know," Xander replied, his pupiless red eyes wide as he turned towards the man who sat next to him on the bed, "I don't like this mortal body."
"Then why don't you change?"
"I cant. An Orb Demon changes their shape to please their Master. When I first came to my mistress, this is the body that pleased her."
"What if you were given a new master?"
"I would be given a new gender, a new identity. A new species perhaps. But... I don't want that. I Like staying in human form moreover anything else. It's horrid being an animal. But..."
"Why not?" Lucifer asked calmly, beckoning the demon to rest in his open arms, "I thought you said you didn't like your body."
"That's not it. I adore my new form. I don't like remaining in a mortal body. There are very many limitations. I feel..."
"Yes?"
"I feel dirty."
"Dirty!?"
"I feel looked at. i feel worthless. I have killed many people, more people than my mistress has. Yet, with all of my powers, she doesn't use me for it. I'm not a suitable servant."
"Xander," Lucifer said softly, resting his chin on his shoulder, "It's not you. Trust me on that one ok? My sister is a very powerful person, and she is a very independent person. There is nothing that you or I can do to change that."
Xander stood up on his knees, white hair falling in front of his crimson eyes as he asked softly, "But I don't understand why?"
"When we were younger, Gemini and myself, gods, we had to be about five years old, before I was taken away... we were playing in the streets with some of the other boys in town. They wouldn't let Gemini play because she was a girl. Heh, you know, there are something that's people shouldn't do, not letting a five year old version of my sister play with the boys is one of them, needless to say she took her shoes off and beat the poor kid mercilessly with it while I held him down until our father dragged her away, kicking and screaming... she was punished," Lucifer sighed, his voice softening in memory, "severely. But she never told my father I helped her. She accepted the help, but when the consequences came around... she would always take the blame, to save me."
"But what does that have to do with..."
"Everything," Lucifer laugh bitterly, "have you noticed on how she tries to ignore Sirius on every account?"
Xander's eyes narrowed, "Yes, that stupid mortal. I don't like him, and I find my mistress very wise to avoid him at all costs."
"Xander," Lucifer sighed, smiling slightly, "The reason why she doesn't want to be around him is that he makes her remember what it was like to be normal."
"Normal?"
"Human."
"But if she doesn't like it then why did she..."
"Do this?" Lucifer suggested, linking his tanned fingers with Xander's incredible pale ones.
"Y-yes..." Xander gulped, his breath caught in his chest, "That..."
"It's called 'holding hands,'" Lucifer explained softly, his free hand playing with the hair that hung low over Xander's red, depthless eyes, "It's what people do when they feel an emotional bond with someone."
"Then..." the demon gulped again, "Why are we holding hands?"
"Because I think you're gorgeous and sadistic and I think I'm gorgeous and sadistic and I think that if we put our gorgeousness and our sadism together, we would make quite a pair."
Lucifer smiled slightly at the shocked look on the demon's pale face as he leaned forward slowly, tilting his head down. Slowly, his lips came into light, gentle contact with Xander's, and he shivered in pleasure as he kissed the other man, tentatively at first, then gradually deepening the touch until they were kissing passionately, mouths opened, tongues intertwined.
With a growl of lust, Xander deepened the kiss, his hands moving up to twine his fingers in Lucifer's thick hair, holding the other man's head in place as he kissed him hard and furiously. The Demon moaned into his mouth, and Lucifer swallowed the sound of the other man's excitement, the vibrations of the sound intensifying his own passion.
Smiling behind the kiss Lucifer withdrew slowly, his dark eyes losing themselves in Xander's red orbs, glad to see a smile on the usually cynical demon's lips.
'You've done this before?' Lucifer asked, slightly amused as he rose up on his knees, having found that they fell into a sitting position mid-kiss.
"I am an Orb Demon Lucifer," Xander said softly, leering up at him, "I do whatever my master wishes."
"My sister is your master," Lucifer pointed out, grinning.
"She wont mind."
"Oh, you naughty boy, that deserves a spanking," Lucifer laughed, getting ready to launch himself at the lusty demon when an idea popped into his wonderfully sex driven mind as his eyes brushed past the open bathroom door, "Xander darling, are you still feeling dirty?"
"hm?"
"I think it's time to clean you up."
"So what you're telling me," Gemini said slowly, "Is that you thought I was dead."
"Yes," Dumbledore replied.
"And the thought never occurred to you that Fudge was up to something."
"Yes."
"Not up to your usually standards Dumbledore," Gemini said softly, "Had it not occurred to you that I could kill a man by the time I was 15? Did you forget that I happen to be one of the best in the ministry?"
"Not at all Gemini."
"Then why did you worry?"
"Fudge calls you the perfect weapon," James said softly, his head in his hands, "I don't know why we didn't pick it up sooner. He always referrer to the 'best damn agent' he had under his command as 'the perfect weapon'. He never shut up about you."
"Thanks," Gemini snapped, apparently not flattered, "But that still doesn't answer my question."
"He was getting there," Remus said softly, his calm voice one of reason, using the same tone he used to get through to her when she was still a student, "You see Gemini, the day after our graduation, Moody had come to our home and asked us where you were. He didn't know, so we assumed that Fudge would have told him anything he had needed to know about you. Knowing this, we assumed that Voldemort had found you..."
"And we all know how badly he wanted you on his side," Lily sighed, a sad smile on her lips, "You were so close to being with him when you were younger, we feared that he had gotten you, but when we heard nothing..."
"We thought you had died," Sirius finished, "I have your Certificate of Death back in my Gringotts Lot."
"You are all mad," Gemini said darkly, pushing her dark hair behind her ears, "Voldemort can't kill me and you all know this. You know I am above all of you, you know that I am above him."
"We know Miss Cielo," Dumbledore said softly, his eyes boring in to hers, "but we are glad you are alive and well and in our presence."
"What do you want with me?"
"The better question is Miss Cielo," Dumbledore began, "what do you want?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You no longer work for the ministry Gemini, and now you have to decide what you are going to do."
Gemini's eyes narrowed as her eyes met his, a threatening look in her eyes.
"I don't know what you are talking about."
"I know you were an assassin Gemini," Dumbledore said softly, ignoring the gasp that escaped Lily's lips, "I know how many people you killed, I know how you killed them and I know how you seduced them," he continued, taking no notice of the anger that was growing in Sirius's eyes, "But now I have to ask you Miss Gemini, can you adapt to a life of a free woman? Can you become Gemini Cielo the Citizen, not Diana Sky the assassin?"
The room was thick with tension as Gemini stood, her hands balled in fists of possible rage. She closed her eyes and bowed her head before saying with obvious effort, "I haven't a clue Dumbledore, what do you tell a soldier who has become accustomed to battle?"
At this Dumbledore stood, a sad smile on his face as he looked at the rock solid face of his former pupil, "Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards," Dumbledore began, his intense stare never leaving Gemini's face, "But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter -- do you go to pieces in a mortar attack? -- but the unexpected ones -- here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?"
"What are you talking about Dumbledore?"
"What he is asking you," Sirius snapped, standing up from the other side of the room, breaking his silence. "is if your such a great soldier, if you are Fudges favorite, if you are so bloody amazing then you should be able to take this on little 'mission'!"
"Mission?"
"You have proved yourself as a warrior Gemini, you have shown the world that you can take anything on with the slightest of ease. Now show the world that you can coincide successfully with it."
Gemini's eyes widened, her jaw dropped as she stared at Dumbledore with shock screaming from her eyes, "And how Dumbledore, may I ask, do I do this?"
Dumbledore placed a hand on Gemini shoulder and said, "You still have that orb demon?"
"Xander?" Gemini asked, "Xander is off shagging my brother, I highly doubt that he would want to house train his master."
"Very well then," Dumbledore said, a sparkle in his eye, "Mister Black, I have a task for you to complete for the Order."
"Sir?"
"I want you to make Miss Cielo here accustomed to civilian life."
"You mean live with her sir?"
"Any objections to this?"
"No sir, not at all."
"Very well then," he said excitedly, a wide smile on his face, "Miss Cielo," –he took Gemini's hand- "Mr. Black" – he took Sirius's hand, "Please, do play nice, I don't want to hear from either of you with poor news, I want to hear happy, good results from both of you or I'll have you both on Caretaker duty with Mr. Flitch, is that understood?"
"Yes sir," the two mumbled.
"Good!" Dumbledore chimed, putting both of their hands together, "So it is decided, Miss Cielo, I do believe that Moody can find you two a nice apartment together! Oh dear me, look at the time, I've been here for far too long!" He winked at Lily and James before leaning over and whispering in Gemini's ear, "Complete the prophesy my child, do not fight it, it was meant to be."
It was at that moment the aging wizard apparated.
"A very eccentric old man, isn't he?" Remus commented, taking a sip of his cold green tea.
"Very," Gemini agreed, just noticing her and sirius's joined hands.
"Well, Gemini, what is going to be your first thing you do as a civilian?"
"I am going to find that damn brother of mine and tell him he better not get Demon pregnant other wise I'll have to split those two horny bastards up."
"How do you know that they're shagging each other?" Sirius asked, smiling that she didn't break their physical bond yet.
"You know some people say that twins know what each other are thinking?"
"Yes..."
"Well he has been projecting everything that has been running through his mind for the past five minutes or so and it is very disturbing."
"So you mean they're..."
Gemini nodded.
And for probably the first time in his life, Sirius thanked the heavens that Xander was there instead oh him.
"So, this is it," Sirius said as he dropped his suit case down at the door of their roomy one room loft in lower London, "Our new home."
"Actually," Gemini said, pushing past him to get a better look, "Its more of a shared giant room, oh, except for the wizarding bathroom Moody had put in for us."
"You always find a way to ruin things, you know that?" Sirius joked as he poked her in the back, pushing her more in to the room.
"So I've been told."
"Shit."
"What?"
"One Bed."
Gemini's eyes grew as she dropped all she was holding as she raced towards the bed, a wide smile on her face knowing that she had Sirius beat as she leaped into the air and landed on her back a child like mirth in her eyes as Sirius too jumped in to the air and landed next to her on the bed, before being pushed off.
"I won," Gemini laughed, poking Sirius as he climbed back on to the bed, "You get to sleep on the couch."
"Oh come on," Sirius whined, his eyes growing two sizes, "The couch is cold, I like the bed better."
"I don't care, I got to the bed first, I won, I get to sleep in it."
"You never had a problem falling asleep on that couch in the Gryffindor common room after one of James' 5 in the morning Quidditch practices."
"We were kids back then," Gemini replied, rolling over on her side.
"Gemini, to most of the world, we still are kids, but that's besides the point."
Gemini smiled softly as she asked, "You want things to be the way they were when we were in school, don't you."
"If it would bring me closer to you, then yeah, I would."
"You know," Gemini said, taking his hand, "I still don't understand with foolish obsession you have with me, I'm not one to be obsessing over you know. You could have any girl in school, yet you decided to waste years of potential STD's on me."
"You want to know why Gemini? You were the one I could never have. You were like my sister, and I'm not advocating incest here, but you being so close yet so far made me want you even more."
Gemini cocked her head to the side before smiling slightly, "You can sleep on your side of the bed, but if you touch me with your cold feet during the night you wont have them when you wake up. I may not work for the ministry anymore, but assassination isn't something you forget in one night."
"Aye, Aye captain!" Sirius saluted, a large, shit eating grin on his face, "I have a question for you."
"Ask," Gemini said rolling on her back, looking up though the sky light.
"Can I give you a kiss?"
"What?!"
"Nothing big or anything, just, a kiss, on the cheek if you want... ok, that was stupid of me for asking I'll just go and unpack now..."
'Complete the prophesy my child, do not fight it, it was meant to be.'
Gemini knew Dumbledore was right. Damn inevitabilities.
"Sirius?"
"Yes?"
"is the offer still on the table?"
Gemini: I hate you.
Chelsea: [beams] I know!
Sirius: I love you!
Xander & Lucifer: [poke their heads out from behind a giant censor black bar thing] WE LOVE YOU!
Chelsea: I know!
Gemini: Ok, so maybe I don't hate you *that* much...