"Well where do you want me to start?" Arthur asks trying to gather his thoughts. He won't tell them everything at least unless they ask and even then he might not.

After a moment Alfred speaks if only to break the silence around them, "Where are we and don't say hell cause unless you're God himself I doubt it is."

"Shouldn't I be Satan then?" Arthur smiles slightly, "Or perhaps the better term would be Lucifer instead."

"So you're a fallen angel?"

"Huh, I'm surprised you got that reference so quickly Lad." The jade eyed man watches both men as they stare back at him. He can tell both are smart men with enough skill between them to hopefully make it out alive but he can't let the others know that. "I didn't think a wanker like you-"

"Really asshole?" Romano groans already tired of whatever game Arthur is playing, "Stop beating around the fucking bush and tell us already."

Sitting back Alfred can't help but be intrigued, "So you fell from grace?" The brunette turns around slightly confused, "Romano he is telling us…I think anyway."

"So you believe he's a demon?" Romano hopes the other is just playing along otherwise he's the last sane one among them.

"Nope…scientist right, Art?"

Art? It catches the Britalian slightly off guard, "It's Arthur unless you're making fun of me, Orion."

"Not at all Dude just…it's what I do so back to your story and am I right?" He gives him a warm smile hoping it's enough to get more information.

"A life time agaon yes I was. I was one of the best and brightest." Arthur starts as Romano mutters under his breath.

"And the most modest I see…"

He either doesn't hear it or ignores it, "I was in charge of a project to…" He stops trying to think of a way to explain yet he's not sure if he wants to tell them the truth or not. "Open up the mind to a world beyond ours. Or so I was told…" he stops looking above them at the stairs twinkling beyond the window. "Some of it was successful while others…" He trials off, "You know that story of Orion yesterday truly wasn't that far off."

While Romano's about to say something Alfred raises his hand to stop the other, "So were you shot or stung?"

"Does that really matter in the end?" Arthur lets out a sigh, "Either way I'm trapped here but…I'm doing all I can to set you two free."

"Why now?" Arthur looks over at the man that said it, "Why not when Lily was alive!?" His eyes darken as he clenches his fists, "You sick bastard just watched them die!" Slowly he rises to his feet, "You-"

"Enough!"

"No…he's right I'm a blood wanker but that doesn't mean I'm heartless." Sighing he looks down at his hands, "I…cared about them and all the others before them but tell me…how do you fight a creature that doesn't exist in the same realm as yours?"

"With willpower."

Chuckling the Britalian shakes his head, "So faith then?"

"Yeah, something like that." Although he smiles the look on the Britalian's face doesn't falter, "No faith?"

"Faith is something the hopeless cling to in assurance of some divine intervention. So far there's been no divine intervention as far as I can see…and Louis loves the faithful most of all…it's what he lives on, lusts for so he can rip it away from them."

Now Romano speaks up, "So you lost your faith then, because my crew had theirs until the very end." While he rarely speaks of his own race or religions the brunette will this time. It's the way his elders had taught him. And while the young Romanite might be as brash as they come even he hasn't lost his way. "They're…in a better place or at least I hope they are."

"Then you don't know?"

"Bastard don't fucking question it."

"Okay enough you two we got so off subject here. Can we get our way back to the original topic, please?" Alfred all but feels a headache coming on and he knows their time is running short for the day. "How do we get out of here? Or at least defeat Pierre?"

Arthur sighs as the lights suddenly dim and the other two sink back into their beds unable to fight the oncoming nightmares, "God I don't know…"