CHAPTER 6

'Gods.'

'Things just get weirder and weirder around her.'

'Why am I still here, anyway?'

'I know it won't do any good to just stand here. Before I know it, I'm going to be in a horrible predicament of which there is no es-'

"Rowan dear?"

The reaper took a deep breath. "Y-yeah, Eden?" 'Here it comes. I'm not going to get a wink of sleep for the rest of the night.'

"I think William wants you."

"... Huh?" Rowan couldn't believe it. Never - NEVER - in their entire time as partners did Eden EVER dismiss him. Not once! He was always sort of chained to her, doing her bidding, bowing to her every will... At least, at times, that's how he saw it. "You mean, I can go?"

"For work reasons, yes," Eden sighed daintily as she gently stroked through the doll's - Drocell's - red hair.

"... Okay...," Rowan said slowly, before starting out of the tower. Now, of course, he was fond of Eden (though he'd never admit it to anyone), but after what he saw her do only moments earlier he was feeling rather skittish. He'd never heard Eden speak with such an intense voice, no matter what the situation, and perhaps it was just because he awoke from a nap, but he was feeling particularly 'mortal' today.

"Redbridge! What took you so long?" came a very familiar stern voice. Rowan groaned. So it wasn't a random act of kindness. William really DID want him it seemed.

"Yes, sir?" Rowan promptly replied. "I'm sorry for being late sir."

"Hmph. Well, I need you to do me a favor. Sutcliff has been out all night, and I want you to go find him."

"Aw, man...," Rowan sighed. It always seemed to be him going to fetch the red-haired reaper and bringing him back to work. "Again?"

"Mm," William hummed in response.

"Well, I just saw him not too long ago... I was sure he was coming back to work! If he's not here then I have no idea where he could be..."

"You better start looking, then," the ravenette answered simply.

William turned around and walked off and Rowan groaned before taking out his death scythe and starting to run through the field from the tower. He hoped he didn't run into any demons on his way, seeing as the beasts had a tendency to prowl around on the streets at night time in search of prey.

Disgusting things.

Almost the moment that thought had crossed Rowan's mind the young reaper recalled the male demon that he and Eden had spotted earlier on and he blushed scarlet. All right, perhaps not all of them were bad. At least not bad looking.

Rowan jumped up onto a tall building, holding on to the pointed roof as he muttered to himself, "Finding Grell in London is like trying to find a needle in a haystack... this is so impossible..."

"... Rowan-senpai?" came an awkward and slightly nasally voice. It made the multi-colored male jump in surprise.

Rowan turned around to find none other than Irwin Velvet standing awkwardly on a section of the roof looking at him with a small smile on his pale face. Rowan was confused as to what Irwin was doing here.

"Hey Irwin, what's up?" he asked in a casual way. The messy haired young man fumbled around for a second before standing up straight and clearing his throat and saying,

"Spears-senpai wanted me to tell you that when you find Sutcliff-senpai and he's been reaping any mortals who aren't on the To-Die-List that he wants you to send word to him immediately. He said that he won't tolerate such blatant disrespect from his subordinates. Especially not a second time."

Rowan tensed up ever so slightly at hearing that, but thankfully Irwin missed it, and said in the same casual tone from earlier, "Sure Irwin, I'll make sure Grell-senpai is behaving."

Irwin nodded and smiled at his friend before waving goodbye to him and making his way back to the Academy for more training and lessons.

After Irwin left Rowan went back to searching for the Dispatches own wayward red reaper. He chewed his bottom lip but perked up when he saw a flash of red in his peripheral.

Quickly, Rowan ran towards the small spot of red, and leapt down, a wave of relief crashing over him when he saw the red-haired male. "S-Sutcliff-senpai!" he called.

"For the umpteeth time... it's Miss Sutcliff!" protested the sinewy red-haired reaper as he turned on his pointed heel. "What do you want? I'm busy right now."

"It...didn't really look like you were doing anything... but William wanted me to tell you to come back to the office."

"Well then, you tell that chillingly cold hunk of a man that I'm busy!" Grell replied. "I'm chasing after Sebas-chan!"

"... Sebas-chan?"

"Yes! Ugh, but a kid like you wouldn't understand...," Grell muttered in response, stubbornly clicking his heel against the floor in irritation.

Rowan quirked an eyebrow in response to Grell's short temper but figured since he was chasing after a man then he must not be killing any mortals without clearance so there was really no point in him staying here any longer.

"Well it looks like you're busy so I'll just let you get back to looking for Sebas-" he stopped short when he spotted the same ruby eyed, ebony haired temptation from that morning. The demon hadn't spotted them yet and was sporting a small curved smile and currently walking behind his 'Master'.

Rowan could feel his face heat slightly at the sight of the devastatingly handsome demon. Grell wondered why Rowan stopped talking and waved a hand in front of his face to try and snap him back into focus.

A little dumbly Rowan lifted a finger and pointed to the demon. Grell followed the direction the finger was pointing before squealing loudly. "THERE he is~! Ta-ta!" he said before running off.

Rowan watched for a few moments then turned to leave before immediately whirling back and starting towards the demon. Who was he kidding? He loved men, especially incredibly attractive ones, and this was no chance to be passed up.

Unfortunately for him Grell immediately noticed he was being followed and shoved him back. "Ohhh hold on now. You just run back to your little angel okay? Sebby is mine, you hear me?"

Rowan frowned and said rather hotly, "She's busy with her new toy, and I wanna go meet that handsome demon." and just as Grell was going to snap back a witty retort a musical voice spoke right behind them.

"You know it's rude to speak of a lady like she isn't right beside you." Grell and Rowan both leapt back like they were just burned and screamed in shock. "AHHHHHHH!"

Both of the shinigami turned and saw the ebony haired angel they were just speaking of and right behind her was Drocell, dutifully holding a lace umbrella above her so her delicate ivory skin would remain in the shade.

Rowan frowned. "Eden! You had your time alone, why can't I have mine?" he whined, missing when Grell immediately took the chance to slip away unnoticed to run down the street.

Eden folded her arms. "You could've had your time alone if you were just following William's orders, but as it turns out you were about to go after someone sexy without me!" The angel sounded genuinely hurt, though it was probably just good acting.

Rowan blushed. "Who says anything would have come from it? I doubt Grell-senpai ever gets a piece of the demon... I doubt I'd be able to!"

Eden smiled a catty smile and lifted a hand to cover her mouth as she giggled and said, "Yes he seems like the uppity sort doesn't he~ But maybe we can BOTH persuade him to let loose a little."

Rowan blushed even harder at the angels risky suggestion before he noticed Grell had disappeared from next to him. "Oh! Grell-senpai got away. Well at least I know he'll probably never get a piece of that demon." he said with a sigh.

He turned back around and saw Eden looking to her left into the crowd. She had a blush dusting her cheeks and was lightly biting her dark pink lips. Rowan quirked a brow at her odd behavior before following her line of sight. He gasped when he saw another devastatingly handsome man in a butler suit. He had the same air about him as the red eyed butler, and while there were similarities, there were also major differences.

This man's hair was styled different and while the red eyed butler had pitch black hair this one had a slight purple sheen to his. And instead of a black tie around his neck, he wore a black ribbon. He also had a pair of silver framed glasses elegantly perched on the bridge of his nose, which partially hid a pair of entrancing golden eyes. All in all~ He was gorgeous~!

Rowan sighed. "Man. I thought we were going to keep things innocent tonight...," he mumbled, blushing. "You know, I do still have a scrap of innocence left! I mean... you know how we reapers are about demons."

"If you don't want to have a go at him then I could simply go after him myself," Eden announced with a smile. "Though, it's about time you lost your demon-virginity."

Rowan flushed darker. "Eden! Remember our run-in with that succubus? I ran away crying!"

"That's because she lacked that specific part of anatomy you crave (since you're so incredibly homosexual) and she, like me, had the amazing ability to suffocate you with her breasts," the angel giggled, to which Rowan simply turned crimson.

"I told you not to talk about that!"

Drocell looked back and forth between the two like he was watching a tennis match. Though it was unable to be told whether he was amused or confused.

Eden laughed daintily and said in a salacious tone, "But Rowan my sweet, you're the one who mentioned it first. And besides, had it been an incubus and not a succubus you'd have devoured that demon in a flash~"

Rowan blushed but rolled his eyes at Eden's jaunty taunting. He sighed and was about to return to the Library but Eden said in a low seductive voice, "I don't know about you Rowan darling, but I myself am going over to introduce myself to that handsome demon and his little blonde master~"

"I- I really couldn't... it's okay when we play with mortals... but demons... the other reapers would be able to detect that...!"

Eden smiled mysteriously and leaned in to whisper, "Not if we have a mortal right after. The mortal pheromones would cancel out the demons more subtle ones."

Rowan looked thoughtful before giving the angel an even stare and saying, "I'm more concerned with how you know that."

Eden giggled impishly before linking her arm with his and strutting off in the handsome bespeckled demons direction. Intent on getting her a taste~

TBC!

A/N: OH MY FREAKING GAWD! Been forever since I updated this thing. Thought it was about time. Sorry it's so short my lovelies~ But please make do! Read and review please! ~Love, The Mistress~!