Chelsea: A little old lady got mutilated late last night...
Lucifer: Werewolves of London again
Xander: do do do do do
Chelsea & Lucifer & Xander: AHWOOO werewolves of London! AHWOOO! Do do do do ... do do do... [dances]
Remus: You know, I really don't like that song.
Chelsea: Aw that's ok! [glomps on to Remus's arm] I still lurve you!
Lucifer: Hey, does she always do that?
Remus: [nods] Thank god Sirius isn't here to...
Sirius: [pops in to existence] YES! [points] I knew she was attracted to someone! [dances]
Chelsea: HEY! I just so happen to think Remus is a very pretty boy. It's not like I want to sleep with him or anything.
Gemini: [grumbles] Stupid asexual...
Sirius: o.O Asexa-what?
Gemini: the stupid authoress doesn't like any forms of physical contact in the sexual sense...
Sirius: [blink]
Gemini: [sigh] that means no kissing.... and nothing past kissing...
Sirius: [giggles] PRUDE!
Chelsea: [twitch twich] OMAE O KOROSO! [pulls broad sword out of Spandex Space] HURTING GEMINI'S LOVE INTEREST HURTS GOD! [proceeds to chase Sirius around the studio] YIYIYIYIYIYIYIYI!
Farferello: [pops in to existence] [chewing on knife] Hey, I heard my war call! ... [blinks as Chelsea and Sirius run past] [grins] I like her. [eyes sword] Hey! Can I lick your sword!
Chelsea: Sure farfie-kins, but let Leigh do her work ok?
Farferello: Ok! [sits down and knaws on Gemini's ankle]
Gemini: Why me...
Love if a Battlefield
[Chapter Eleven]
"Bring me to life"
"Gemini, are you-"
"I'm fine."
"Are you sure, I don't-"
"I told you Sirius, I'm fine," Gemini repeated from her spot on the bed, her voice flat and monotone as she slowly enveloped her hands in blood stained hand wraps, "I'm just a bit under the weather, nothing an hour at a heavy bag cant fix."
Sirius, sighed, throwing his hands in the air as he turned back to his bike, "You're immune system doesn't need you beating the shit out of your body, your immune system needs time to treat its self, go back to bed, get some sleep and you'll be fine."
Gemini stood, clenching her fists as the wrap molded to her knobby fingers, "You don't know what I need," She replied, walking over to the heavy bag hanging in the corner of the loft, "Only I know that."
Pulling her hand back, she swung a well controlled punch to the bag, smiling as it swung back on impact.
Shifting weigh back and forth from foot to foot, Gemini was placed in the same state of mind she lived in when she fought, lived in when she use to be on missions, lived in when she killed, lived in when she lost it, lived in when she was growing up.
Gemini found that it was during boxing that she was really true to herself, and against popular speculation, it was when Gemini was the calmest, and the least anger driven. She learned from a young age that if a boxer was to become anger driven, then they would fail. Boxing was always trampling lines in to the ground when it came to ethics, but then again any sport where you had to beat some one with your fists to win would be considered anything less than ethical, but one had to actually be a boxer to understand it.
But then again, that's how Gemini lived her life. While she was an assassin, she never killed while angry, the emotion just never slipped into her system.
While she spoke to her brother, regardless of what happened, she was never angry.
But when she was with Sirius... anger seemed to rear it ugly, red head at every chance it seemed fit.
And that worried her.
Why would the one person from her past that could actually burrow in to her soul like he could want to make her rip the hair from her scalp.
Gemini didn't like knowing things. She didn't like things being out of her control. She knew what was expected of her, she knew what the prophesy asked of her, she knew that it was up to her to revive the old religion in the mortals that resided in Italy, to bring back the memories to those who have forgotten.
All of this she knew she had to do, no problem there, she was accustomed to following orders, these orders just so happen to come from the Fates above, and if they weren't followed through... only they would know what kind of chaos would be created.
But that still left Gemini with that little problem known as Sirius Black. All of these things to accomplish and Sirius was growing on her like the tumor from the under world. One particularly good looking tumor that any other person in the history of the world wouldn't mind growing on them.
Then why did Gemini mind so much? Back in school, they got along great, or they got along as well as Gemini's temper would allow them. They referred to each other as siblings once upon a time, but now after the whole Diana Sky incident she was finding it harder and harder for her to stay in control.
And she didn't like that.
She never understood why Sirius affected her so much. And it made her angry, which usually appears like she was angry with him. She wasn't angry with him, she was just angry that he could take every thing that she was worked so long to control and then rip it apart into itty bitty pieces.
"Hey Gem, you doing alright over there?"
Gemini narrowed her eyes and swung hard, her telekinesis subconsciously flowing through her hands as the heavy bag was ripped from its support beam, Gemini watching in feigning interest as it slammed in to the far wall.
"I'm fine Sirius," She said darkly, clenching her fists to regain feeling, "Absolutely fine."
Sirius whistled in amazement, his jaw dropped as he looked at Gemini, "Love, remind me to never ever push you past your limits because damn ..."
Gemini laughed softly, allow a smirk to tug at her lips before slowly unwrapping her eternally damaged fists.
"How did you do it?" She asked softly, sitting down on the floor where Sirius was crouched, tinkering with his motorbike.
"Do what?"
"Get into my life?"
"And your bed?"
She smiled slightly, "Yeah, that too."
"Gemini," He replied, putting his wrench down and using his arm to wipe the sweat from his forehead, "It's simple. We've been friends since we were eleven. You let me in. Of course you put up a horrible fight, but you let me in, and I thank you for that. But now you're stuck with me, because I highly doubt that any other person in the male, or female, population would ever be able to handle the beautifully fury that is Gemini. "
Smiling, Gemini stood, flexing her swollen finger slowly as she walked towards the bathroom, "I'll be in the shower, if I see you taking a peek I'll use that telekinesis of mine to make sure to you will never have children."
"Yes'm"
"Good."
"But if I'm a good boy and stay here and tinker with my bike, can we use our bed for something other than sleeping?"
"You will cut off that train off thought, unless you want to become an exiled couch boy for the rest of your life."
Sirius paled considerably.
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Lucifer yawned, smiling softly as he felt a warm weight on his chest. Blinking open umber eyes, he peered down upon the mass of white locks that were ghosting across his bare chest.
Lucifer has woken up like this everyday since that faithful night in the showers where Xander had opened everything up to him, when Xander showed him his soul and let him in.
Lucifer has slept with many a men, and woman, before he was reunited with Gemini and before he met Xander, but never in his five years of sexual activeness has he woken up to feel as content and at place as he did when he woke up in Xander's arms.
And he liked it.
'Hey, Gem, you guys up yet?'
Lucifer lay back, awaiting his sisters answer, not wanting to wake the sleeping demon that was sprawled across his chest.
'Yes,' Came a faint reply 'But Sirius is still asleep. He doesn't believe in waking up at 'psychotically early' hours like I supposedly do.'
'I guess it's in our blood to wake up early yes? Xander darling is still sleeping.'
Lucifer lips twitched upwards as the deep mental chuckle of his sister reached his mind, 'You're not wearing my poor demon out are you? Remember, you break him, you buy him.'
'Oh I'd never break him,' Lucifer projected back, 'Wear him out a bit yes, but not break the poor dear.'
'Good.'
'So' Lucifer thought, trying to keep conversation, 'How is civilian life treating you?'
'It's horrid,' was her immediate response, 'Sirius still has a desk job in the ministry, but they're paying him next to nothing, which can barely keep of our loft's rent paid. I need a job, but I don't really have any qualifications...'
'Other than torture and maiming and assassination,' Lucifer corrected, smiling as he felt the annoyance from his sister.
'Yes, that. I was thinking... I was thinking that if I go back to what I'm use to, then we'll have enough money for food and rent and the such.'
Lucifer narrowed his eyes in confusion at the last comment, back to what she's use to?
'You're not thinking of becoming a contract killer, are you?'
He was rewarded with a mental chuckle, 'No, nothing of the sort.'
'Is it legal?'
'I don' think so, but I wont get caught.'
'Alright...' Lucifer sighed in his mind, 'Just as long as you stay safe.'
'I will... Sirius is up, I must go. Send Xander by love.'
'Ti amo Gemini.'
'Ti amo.'
And the mental walls slammed shut as Gemini blocked him from her world.
"Morning sunshine," Lucifer said softly as Xander's eyes blinked open, "Sleep well?"
"I want to sleep some more," Xander whined, pressing his cheek harder against Lucifer's chest, "What is it with you Cielos and waking up at insane hours in the morning?"
Lucifer laughed softly, playing with the demons hair as he said, "If Sirius weren't so rampantly straight I would have to keep you two away from each other at all costs."
"Hm?"
"Nothing love, go back to sleep."
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Sirius turned the flame off on the stove, grinning as a huge egg and everything-he-could-find omelet slid off of the frying pan into a plate before placing the pan in to the kitchen sink.
Smiling happily he put the omelet down on the table, listening to hear the water running, telling him that he had exactly seven minutes before Gemini would be out and ready to snap at him for not doing the dishes.
For someone who was so chaotic as a child, it came to a big surprise to him to find that Gemini was very picky about her kitchen. He guessed it was an Italian trait.
Lucifer once told him that an Italian is never faithful to their lovers because every Italian has an affair with food.
But Gemini couldn't cook for her life, and him and her couldn't be exactly called lovers.
Yes, they slept in the same bed, and yes, Gemini allowed him to kiss her and hold her and hug her just as long as his hands didn't wander, but they weren't lovers.
But they were... together?
He had to be grateful for that though.
When the world you are living in is trying to be over thrown by an evil dark lord who obviously never got his daily quota of bed time stories as a child, the woman you are sharing a bed with is a telekinetic demigod, one of your best friends is a werewolf, and your other best friend is a blood relative of Godric Gryffindor and your other best friend can turn into a rat on will you have to be grateful for the little things in life.
"What did I tell you about leaving pans in the kitchen sink?" Gemini asked, a towel wrapped tightly around her body as she looked at a grinning Sirius, her long brown hair plastered to her body.
Like leaving the pans in the kitchen sink for your girlfriend to yell at you for.
"I forgot." Sirius lamely said, smiling as he saw Gemini's lips twitch upwards.
Rolling her eyes, she flicked her wrists, murmuring a cleaning spell under her breath, not taking the time to notice the pan washing itself.
"You know I hate it when you leave things lying around," Gemini said lightly, sitting down across from Sirius, a brush in her hand as she began working on the massive amount of hair.
"I know, but you're cute when you get angry," Sirius laughed, shoving some of his omelet in his mouth, "Your nose scrunches up and your eye brows furor together and you look like a puppy dog."
"A puppy dog?" Gemini laughed, "Please, people avoided me at all coasts when I was angry when we were in school, I don't think comparing me to a dog would be proper."
"I guess not," Sirius agreed as he watched her battle the unruly knots with a large, red, paddle brush, "Why do you keep you hair so long if its only going to be a knotted hell?"
Gemini, while still battling with the knots, replied, "My mother had long hair, my grandmother supposedly had long hair, but what do I know, she died before Lucifer and I were born. I guess it just comes as tradition, living up to expectations."
"I guess," Sirius replied softly, never taking his eyes off of her, "I like it that way, it looks... nice."
"Thank you."
"Any time."
"Come out with me tonight."
Gemini let go of her brush, letting it stay safely tangled in her hair, "What?"
"Come out with me. Prongs invited us out to a club tonight, just him, Lily you and me, what do you say? We haven't left the safe house out of necessity since forever."
"I don't know Sirius i..."
"Please."
Gemini bit her lip in thought, her assassin trained mind filing through everything wrong that could happen to them if she left the house. Some how the daily prophet had gotten a picture of her and now the entire world knew that Gemini Cielo, the troubled teen from Hogwarts was actually alive and well.
And when the rumor started to spread that Diana Sky was Gemini Cielo... death eaters, dementors and crazed fan wizards all out to get her for different reasons would be on her in a second.
If she went out of the house, she would need a disguise.
"Sirius," Gemini said softly, "If I am going to leave this house then come back alive with out a hit placed on my head, I need to go in disguise."
"That's fine," Sirius said, shoving more egg in to his mouth, "You know who's good at that sort of thing, Bella. She's in to the whole incognito thing now."
"No need," Gemini said, standing up and grin on her lips, "I already have a disguise picked out."
"You do?"
She nodded and silently walked toward their bed, pulling something out of her bedside table drawer.
She turned back to Sirius, holding up a vial of putrid moss green liquid towards him.
Sirius knew what that was.
He knew Gemini was amazing at potions.
He's seen the effects of her potion brewing wrath.
Polyjuice potion.
But from who?
--"Lucifer," Gemini said, walking behind her brother, whipping out her field knife, "I need to borrow some of your hair, if you may."
Lucifer's eyes widened as tried to dodge his knife wielding sister, but with no avail.
Gemini stood behind him, a wide grin on her face, a lock of her brothers equally dark brown hair clenched in her fist.
"Thank you Lucifer Dear," Gemini said, patting him on the head, "You," Gemini snapped, turning towards Sirius, "You need to pack. We're leaving tonight."--
"Holy shit... you're not thinking of..."
"Sirius darling, you'll be dating my brother for the night," Gemini said lightly, tossing her head back, letting the putrid potion slide down her throat in to her iron stomach.
Sirius would just watch in awe as his girlfriend dropped to her knees and underwent the seemingly painful transformation.
When it was over she was pulling herself to the bed, the towel falling to rest at her... his... hips as he fell back in exhaustion.
Oh dear god he is gorgeous
Wait a minute... what?!
No... wait. No, I'm so not gay, but god, why is he so fucking hot and...
'You're not gay,' A deep voice laughed in his mind, 'Love knows no gender Sirius. You love my sister, and you'll love my sister regardless of the fact that she looks just as I do.'
'Why the fuck do you always show up in the worst times?'
'Gem Gem Darling contacts me and tells me to read you.'
'Thought so.'
'Hey, the girl needs her comic relief once and a while, you know? You know what, I'm just going to let you two have fun because ah- gods I hate when he sneaks up on my like that,' a shriek reached Sirius's mind, 'that bastard! Oh, he's so gunna pay... no one tickles me and gets away with it! Oh, wait... you're still here. Ah, yes, well. Ciao.'
"This is so cool!" Gemini laughed as she jumped up and down slightly in her spot, "Hey, did you know that men can jump with out their chests hurting?"
Sirius numbly nodded.
"Oh shove it Sirius, it's not like this is the first time you have ever seen a half naked man before, Remus told me about those midnight pillow fights you two use to have, I think he fancied you actually. Now come along and find me some clothes. That is unless, of course, you want me to cross dress, that way you can be seen as a gay man who is dating a cross dressing gay man and I don't think you would enjoy that."
"I'll help you find some clothes."
"That's what I thought."
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"Sirius!" Lily called, waving her free hand as the other dragged James through the busy club, "Hey Padfoot how are... um hello?" she stammered when she laid eyes upon the man who was standing next to Sirius, his fingers interlaced with his own.
"Hey Lils, Padfoot. This is Lucifer."
"Lucifer?" Lily asked, "Sirius, I don't understand, where is-"
"Look in to my eyes Lily," Pseudo-Lucifer said, "Who do you see?"
"Wait, hold on, I'm so confused right now..."
Pseudo-Lucifer rolled his eyes before locking them in a murderous stare and muttered, "Li odio."
Sirius worded out 'Gemini' with his lips as a look of realization dawned over Lily face. She threw her arms around Gemini's neck, "Oh, Lucifer, forgive me, I barely recognized you with your smashing new hair cut."
"Not a problem," Gemini laughed, grinning as she moved to give a rather started James a hug around the neck, "Don't worry Prongs, with Lily as your arm ornament no one will think you're gay."
"Oh, um, that's nice..."
"So, Lily darling, shall we be seated?" Gemini said with an uncharacteristic cheerfulness.
No use looking like her brother if she wasn't going to act like it.
She was such a good liar.
"Of course!" Lily laughed as she grabbed his hand and guided him though the table, leaving James and Sirius standing with identical confused looks on their faces.
"Sirius, I never knew you swung for the same team."
"Oh sod off James or I'm telling Lily about those late night pillow fights we use to have."
"You wouldn't."
"I would."
"Bastard."
"You know you love me."
"Come on, I'm hungry," James growled, grabbing his best friends arm and dragging him through the restaurant.
"So, what's been up with you two?" Gemini asked as Sirius and James sat down at the table that was situated in the farthest, darkest corner possible.
"Well, there was something we actually wanted to tell you," Lily said, a warm smile on her face and her interlaced her hand with her husbands, "Ge... Lucifer, Sirius... we're having a baby and we want you two to be the godparents."
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"Godparents?" Aradia scoffed, crinkling her nose as she looked at her equally confused parents, "What in the name of Jupiter are Godparents?"
Lucifer shrugged before answering, "Haven't a clue. And don't use your grandfathers name in vain, you know how he hates it."
"Big baby," Aradia grumbled, "Do you think it has to do with the baby's religion?
"Hm?"
"Well, the baby will be catholic correct? Maybe godparents... are a second set of parents... issued through a god? In their case God himself."
"Wait... so that means..." Lucifer began as she looked at his wide eyed sister.
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"That means I am going to have to devote myself to the Christian god... aren't i?"
Lily winced as she looked at her pale best friend, "Yes, we always seem to have complication yes?"
Gemini only laughed and replied, "Hey, if there were no complications then there would be no point in living. Don't worry Lily, I'll work it out and I swear upon myself that no harm shall come to your child as long as I am its godmother."
Farfie: Do you want to see my knife collection?
Xander: [thinks] ok! [skips away with Farfie]
Lucifer: NO FAIR! I'm lonely. [pouts]
Schu Schu: [pops in to existence] Mien Gott! [blink] Leigh?
Chelsea: Hey Schu. This is Lucifer. [points] Play nice.
Schu Schu: //Hey, he's pretty!//
Lucifer: //I heard that asshole.//
Schu Schu: [blink]
Lucifer: [blink]
Schu Schu: [pounce]
Chelsea: [grins] You know, Yotan is going to kill you when I send you back.
Schu Schu: don't care! ^^
Lucifer: [sweatdrop]
Gemini: [is stuck as a boy] [glares]
Aya: [pops into existence] [glares at everyone in the room]
Gemini: [glares back]
Aya: o.O
Gemini: O.o
Aya: ^^
Gemini: ^^
Aya & Gemini: [skip away to the nearest public place to be antisocial together]
Sirius: I hate you.
Chelsea: I know. ^^ That leaves only us.
Sirius: [hides]
Chelsea: and coming up next... Remus and Gemini go shopping! And have a hot three way with Sirius!
Sirius: O.O
Chelsea: Hehe, just kidding!