When the morning sunlight shown though the window and Lena woke up she looked around and found that she was completely alone in her bed.
As she looked around the room she started to belive that the events of last night were nothing more then stess and her overactive imagination. Once look at her clock said that she was up early for a chance, so after a moment of stretching her mysteriously sore body she made her way to her shower where she found that there were some faint bruises on her hips and a rather large red mark on her neck.
Recalling supposed dream she looked to her hand but found relive when she didn't see the red spider mark.
"This case is starting to get to you Lena. Got you thinking you summoned a demon. A demon that dominatned you in bed. Really gald that it was just a dream."
As she towled off and made her way to her living room she caught the scent of something delicious. Which made her curious as she lived alone.
Growing curious she opened the door and saw by far the strangest thing she's ever seen. Where her plain living room once stood was now a polished black marble cave filled with elborate furniture and torches on the walls. In the middle of the room where her couch was now stood a black throne. After a quick look she found that at least her tv was still there which helped ease her mind somewhat.
"So you finally woke up. And here I thought I'd get everything ready for you."
He mind raced as she remembered that voice. Already horrifed by the sudden transformantion of her living room she followed the sound to her kitchen where she saw a very familer and very naked purple skinned demon putting food down on the table.
"If you'd taken any longer getting up I would have had to drag you out myself."
Her mind quickly reaching overload she asked the best question she could. "How, why?" she said gesturing around the room.
By Amelie just smiled as she walked toward her. "Did you really expect a queen to live someplace so plain? With my powers it was all to east to transfrom this dull place into something more worthy."
"And what happaned to my things?"
"Oh don't worry about those. Now eat up we have a whole day planned and you humans need energy." Despite how confused and angrey she was she still sat down and devoured the freshly prepared panacaks and bacon.
These are so goood! No don't get distracted. Remember you summoned a demon last night! A demon that transfromed you home into a dark cave and is currently watching tv.
Don't forget that I cooked you breakfast after I our night of passion.
... And she can also hear your thoughts. As if things couldn't get any weirder.
She ate as quick as she could so she could have the energy to face Amelie and hopefully get her home back to the way it was before she went off to work. When she was done she put her plate away and marched over to where Amelie was sitting in her thone.
"Alright Ameile it's time we set some ground rules."
"Awww is my human upset?" she didn't ever bother to look away from the tv as she spoke.
"I'm not your human! My name is Lena and this is my home. Now turn it back to the way it was this instant!"
This time Amile turned toward her and for a brief moment Lena worried that Amelie would kill her.
"No."
"No? You can't say no. I summoned you so you should do as I say."
"Yes you did summon me, but summoning somthing and controlling it is another thing entirely. Now I like you Lena I really do. But you don't give me orders, I give you orders. Disobey my ordrs and I'll have to punish you." her hands went to Lena's chin as she got up. "Or maybe you want me to punish you. Is that what you want Lena? For your new mistress to punish you like the bad girl that you are?" the longer she held her there the more she started remembering what her hands could do.
She slapped her hand away and instatnly felt the sting in her own hand. "What I want is to wake up and not find my home is a cave. What I want is to not have to deal with an actual demon this early in the morning. I have to got to work and deal with a madman who killed half a dozen people trying to summon something like you. Now I'm going to work and when I get back I expect this place to be back to the way it was. If it's not I'm calling a preist to have you excorised."
Having put her foot down and leaving Amelie looking both suprised and amused she got dressed and headed to work. Once she got there she saw McCree talking to one of the lab guys.
"Alright thanks for the info." he turned to meet her as she walked by.
"Well don't you look riled up this morning. What's the matter?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Alright I get it. We've all had nights when we've had to much fun with someone."
Instantly she pushed against the wall her face starting to burn. "How did you know?!"
"For starters you look like someone either trying to forget or remember what happaned last night. Oh that and you have a rather sizable mark on your neck."
Hearing this she tried to adjust her clothes to hide it. " Ah don't beat yourself up over it. We've all had mornings like that. Now come one we may have a lead on our case."
"And what would that be?"
"After word leaked out on some of the deatails we got a call from a costume shop. Apparently someone had specially ordered those robes and picked them up a few days before the murder. Best if we go and have a chat with them before someone decides to shut them up."
"Sounds like a plan to me."
Anything to get my mind away from that demon.
When she didn't hear a mental response she felt relielf and thought that there must be a certin range in order to share thougts.
As McCree drove them there Lena went to work going over the various details that they had gathered.
Six victems found poisoned and one found sacrificed. Amelie said that the spell from the book was a poor one so It's unlikely that they summoned something like I did. But on the off chacne that they did how would I handle that. Would a gun even work on a demon?
And speaking of demons what do I do about the one in my home. I can't hurt her physically. I said I'd get a preist but would that even work on someone so powerful.
When they finally arrived at the store Lena had come to the conculsion that there probably wasn't anything she could do but she'd still try.
Inside the stoor they found the owner an old man with white hair and big glasses struggling to set up stuff for the holidays. "Oh hello officers. Just getting ready for the holidays."
"Right, but we're here to disscuss the robes that you sold to someone a few days ago."
"Yes, yes I know. Now let's see where did I put that order book." he reached under his desk and pulled out a large file. After a minute his shakey hands pulled it out. "Yes here we go. One order for six custom made black cotton robes. He was very specific about the number. Paid for them all in cash and all at once. I didn't think much of it at the time but there was something off about him."
"What was odd about him?"
"Well when he came to pay he was jumpy, kept looking over her shoulder. I can always tell if someone was up to something just by looking at them. So when I heard about what happaned I went through my security camras and mananged to find the day he came in."
"Can you show us?"
"Of course, follow me to the back."
Getting hopeful for the first them they followed him to the back room where he showed the recording of a jumpy looking man comming into the sotre and getting the robes. They got a good look at his face when he payed.
"Did he leave a name for the order?"
"Jon smith. But those are two extremly common names so it was probably fake."
"Well at least we got a face that we can go on. I'll send it to the others and see if they can match his face to a record."
She nodded and reached for the tape. As she did so they heard the sound of the opening door. The owner excused himself. A few seconds later Lena happaned to glane at the camras and saw to her hoor the man they were looking for had not only walked in. But was currently holding a gun at the owner.
Lena was already heading toward the front by the time McCree took notice.
She reached the main room just in time to hear the sound of a gunshot and see the old man falling the floor clutching his chest.
"Freeze!" she said raising her gun.
Instead of obeying he smiled wickedly and fired two shots. Each one missed by just a hair. She dove under the counter and tried to fire off a round but he was weaving in and out of the aisles.
"You are no match for me!" he said unloading a few more shots.
After a failed shot that went through a santa suit she heard the unmistankble shot of McCress gun. His shot went through the aisles and hit him in the arm.
"Told you my gun has stopping power."
More shots were heard before the isles toppoled over and the room filled the the sound of breaking glass as he went out a window.
"You okay?"
"My damn legs pinned. You go after him I'll look after the old man." he said but by the rapidly spreading redness they both knew that he didn't have much time. So she took off into the streets following the trail of blood to a nearby ally were he was leaning against a wall clutching his arm. He was trapped by a chain fece with nowhere to go.
"Freeze! You're under arrest for murder, attempted murder and resisting arrest."
He turned to face her and dropped his gun. Slowly she walked towards him as she reached for his cuffs. When she was close enough her instincts kicked in and she jumped back as he swung his arm. She was fast but he was faster. The blow knocked her into a dumpster and she looked up just in time to see his skin change from pale to red for a few seconds.
"Mortal bodies are much to frail. I'll have to find something stronger if I want to continue my fun."
As he started walking away he stopped and sniffed the air before turning toward her his eyes wide with fury. "Why do you have her scent!"
Her heart pounding and her body aching she couldn't move or speak. The sounds of sirens filled the air and he snarled and quickly jumped over the fence. "I'll be sure to finish you off next time." he said before running off.
She barely managed to get up as her partner came running into the alley.
"What happaned?"
"He's much stronger then he looks. Got me good while I was cuffing him. Took off that way."
"We'll get him later, right now we'd best have a look at you." With the ach in her body she wasn't about to argue and headed over tohe ambulance to get looked at. No dobut she'd get an earful when she got him seeing as her pain was now someone elses but right now she was going to worry about herself and what she'd just seen.
So they did summon something. But it wasn't like how I did it. From what I just saw it looked like the demon was possessing him. And what he said "I'll have to find something stronger" does that mean he's just going to find a new body?
To many questions and not enough answers.