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"Chris! Wake up damn it!" Raenef yelled while shaking the poor cleric to the point of giving him whip-lash.
"This had better be worth it Rae." mumbled Chris. "What the hell–" he stopped at the look of fear and despair contorting the young demon lord's fair features. "What's wrong? Is there anything I can do?" Great you moron he gets you out of bed, aggressively I might add, and you want to comfort him? Supergenius my ass, Chris' sulky side added.
Shut up no one asked your opinion, Chris thought, he wasn't in the mood to put up with himself at the moment.
"It's Eclipse,—" Raenef began before biting his lip and ending the sentence.
"What did you have a spat?" Chris asked with an indulgent smile. He might not approve of the feelings that occasionally radiated off the two demons but Raenef was such a sweet creature that there was no way he could stay disgusted. Plus Raenef was clueless and probably thought nothing of it.
"No, he's hurt. And I think he's dying. And I need you to help me save him. Please say you'll help." Raenef begged, tears streaming down his face.
"Ummm" began Chris. Shit how the hell should I handle this?
You could say just "no". Would that be so hard? The other Chris asked. No one would blame you. Heck you would probably be congratulated for letting the menace pass on.
Yes, but this is Raenef asking. Chris whined at the other half. You can't just say no to Raenef, not even Eclipse can. But how can I bring myself to help a demon? How could the rest of the order understand that I saved a demon because a demon lord asked me to.
"There isn't time for this Chris! Eclipse is dying NOW! Just come with me!" and with that Raenef reached out and grabbed Chris's arm and teleported back to the garden.
In the garden Eclipse was growing colder by the moment. He had tried to keep pressure on the wound, even though he knew it was futile. Now even that effort was too much. He knew that he was going to die alone and that scared him. How stupid, he thought, I have never feared death before now. Why start? I have been through centuries of death and destruction. I have participated in war, and now, for the first time I am afraid. I think that is because I now have something to lose. With that thought Eclipse began to cry, silently and gently but the tears were still there. What the hell am I doing? I have witnessed the deaths of many and they never brought tears. Why should my own be any different? True I'm leaving behind a master that I love but many of my previous masters claimed to care for me and they did not cry when they left me. Nor did I. Besides Raenef promised to be back before the end and do I want his last memories of me to be of me being weak? But regardless of these thoughts, Eclipse was still weeping silently when Raenef and Chris materialized beside him
Raenef instantly dropped beside Eclipse and lifted Eclipse's shoulders slightly to place his beloved teachers head on his own lap. "Eclipse, please talk to me, or at least open your eyes and look at me," he begged, brushing the raven bangs from Eclipse's eyes and face with shaking hands. Eclipse opened his eyes with obvious effort, but now that they were open, Raenef wished that they would have stayed closed. Their usually beautiful amethyst depths were shallow and clouded with pain. Seeing this caused Raenef's tears to increase. Inside he knew that it meant the end was here. He was too late and now Eclipse was going to leave him.
"See," he whispered to Eclipse trying to keep those thoughts out of his tone, "I promised that I would come back and I did. And I brought Chris and he's going to help you." Here he looked to Chris for confirmation his eyes plainly saying "Please."
Chris' face was averted from Raenef's as he waged the inner war on whether or not to save Eclipse. I warned you, the Dark Raenef said. And yet you got your hopes up. I knew that there was no way.
He'll help. He just has to. Raenef thought desperately. I can't live without Eclipse I can't.
Silently Chris nodded and moved forward to examine the wound.
See I told you, Raenef thought smugly.
Whatever, who would have guessed.
"Raenef," Chris said after a moment, "it is probably going to hurt him while I heal him." (Same principle behind iodine and peroxide has to hurt to help) "So I would appreciate it greatly if you would hold him down so he won't move. And you," he directed this next comment at Eclipse, "I would really love it if you don't attack me since I am trying to help you. Ready? Here goes."
As soon as the spell hit the open wound, Eclipse drew a breath through his teeth, and was obviously trying not to scream. Without thinking about it he reached his hand upwards and grasped at the small trembling one holding his shoulder firmly to the ground and squeezed it. The small hand squeezed back and held tightly to his own. Then just as suddenly as the pain had come, it disappeared. Yet still the two hands held to each other.
"Well," said Chris, "you're fixed." Those three words successfully broke the moment. "We should probably get Eclipse to a better bed than the garden floor, then get ourselves to bed."
Eclipse, who had let go of Raenef's hand as though it had burned him when Chris first spoke, placed both of his own hands below him and tried to climb to his feet. Seeing him struggling, Raenef hastily stood and allowed the older demon to lean against him. Eclipse looked at him in silent thanks.
"Do you want me to take you back to your room, Chris?" Raenef asked half-heartedly.
"Nah, take care of Eclipse, I hate teleporting anyway, makes me queasy," Chris said.
"Alright, see you in the morning." and with that he disappeared.
Ya' know, Chris thought to himself, I'm glad that I helped Eclipse. Maybe this will help his temper. And, at the very least, Rae is happy again.
I just hope you don't regret your decision, the Dark Chris said ominously. Chris just ignored it and started the walk back to his no-longer-warm bed.