CHAPTER ONE

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Warnings and disclaimer are in the first chapter

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In the dead of the night, when any normal people would be sleeping, a young man was perching on the edge of the roof of a building. From the information he had gotten from one of his ravens, his target was in the building next to the one he was balanced on. His target was the owner of a small corporation that had made a deal with a demon to become a successful businessman. The difference of this deal was he did not need to give his soul after ten years, the man only needed to give the demon a human sacrifice every month as a payment.

If the businessman's deal with the demon was similar with the other deals, which was sending to Hell after ten years, he would not be needed here. However, because it was not similar with the other deals, it was time for him to step in. With that in his mind, he rose up from his crouched position and teleported directly into the target's office. His aim was slightly off, instead of landing in front of the desk as he intended to do so; he landed on top of it. This made the man to fall back in his chair with a cry of surprise.

"Who are you?" he shouted. "H-How did you get here?"

"I hardly think that matter," he said to the man. "All you need to know is that I will be the one who is going to send you to Hell for the unthinkable sins that you have committed."

"Unthinkable sins?" the man looked at him. "I've committed no sins." He looked at him with a smug look on his face.

The young man narrowed his eyes at the smug look on the man's face. "Really now?" he rested his right hand on the hip. "So, you do not think gaining success through a deal with a demon and sacrificing innocents' lives to pay the deal is not a sin?"

Outside the office, someone began pounding on the locked door. Apparently someone outside had heard the businessman's scream and when they realized the door was locked along with no one answering, they assumed the worse.

"Y-you can't do anything to me!" the man glared at him. "If you try to do something, my securities will find out and you'll never be able to get away."

The young man waved his hand to the side, summoning a pair of ravens who then shot across the room to the door. There, they transformed into Celtic runes that would make sure no one could open the door as if being locked tight.

The man gasped and scrambled back in his seat when he saw the effortless display of unknown power. Any hope the businessman had in his heart now gone like the wind from the young man's display in the office.

The emerald-eyed young man stared indifferently at the man for a moment before leaping back and crossing around it to stand before him. The CEO covered against the wall when he drew blood from his own hand. After that, he started chanting a short spell before throwing out his bloodied hand. The blood shot forward, forming lances in the mid-air, and impaled into the man.

"... Enjoy Hell," he whispered coldly. "I hope the demons tear you from limb to limb..."

Blood dribbled from the man's limp body as he landed a stunned gaze to the young man. Like the girl who had set an Inugami to her tormentors, black tattoos were spreading across his body, marking him as another idiot who had decided to make a deal with a demon.

Once the man had truly dead, the young man teleported into the alleyway besides the building he had just vacated and casually walked out into the street. When he was several buildings away from the crime scene, his phone rang, a quick glance at the caller ID revealed that it was his lover who calling him.

"Hello, Jimmy," he said, bringing the phone to his ear.

"Hello, Harrison," said Jimmy over the phone. "How's work?"

"Things are going a bit slowly actually, no life saving surgeries tonight. I am actually on a break right now..." the young man lied effortlessly to his lover.

"Have you eaten since breakfast?"

Harrison felt a brief pang of guilt when he heard his lover's worried tone. "No," he replied truthfully.

"Harrison," Jimmy sighed in exasperation a Harrison's answer.

"I know," he cut him before he started lecturing him. "I am sorry; I will grab something to eat right now."

There was a brief moment of silence after Harrison said those words. "Promise?"

"I promise," he assured the older male.

"All right, I trust you. I'll talk to you later. I love you..."

"Love you too..." he replied before shutting his phone.

It had been almost a year since Jimmy asked him on a date and he could honestly say that he enjoyed the man's presence. The man was kind, incredibly charming in a gruff sort of way, and funny without really meaning to be. At first Harrison had been hesitant to agree when Jimmy had first asked him out on a date, but looking back on that day now, he was glad he accepted it.

-Flashback-

Harrison exited the hospital with a small tired frown on his face. Today had been an incredibly busy day; a cafeteria worker in the local elementary school had fed the students spoiled meats, resulting in a good amount of them being rushed to the hospital with severe food poisoning. The young doctor had spent most of the day comforting sick children and hysterical parents alike, hurriedly passing sick buckets to the violently vomiting children, and weaving around puddles of vomit when the children were not given buckets in time.

After the last child had been put to bed or sent home, and parents had been placated, Harrison was able to take a lunch break. Usually he just took it in his office, but he wanted to get away from the commotion, so he walked across the street to the park.

He had only just settled down on one of the park benches when a familiar voice calling out his name.

"Dr. Baskerville!"

Harrison turned in his seat and smiled a little when he recognized the man as the one who he had run to in the hospital a few days ago. "Good afternoon, mister Novak..." he greeted the man.

"What brings you here in this fine day?" Jimmy asked, sitting down on the bench next to the young man. "Shouldn't you be at the hospital right now?"

"Lunch break..." Harrison said, holding up his unwrapped sandwich as a proof. "The hospital is a bit busy today so I decide to eat my lunch here."

"The sick children, right?"

He did not feel surprise that Jimmy knew what was going on. They lived in a small town, news tended to travel fast here.

"I do not pity the woman who fed them the faulty meat..." Harrison said. "Accident or not, she will never work in a school cafeteria again."

"You say that as if it's a bad thing," Jimmy looked at Harrison. "Being a cafeteria worker isn't a glamorous job."

Harrison laughed long and hard at that. It was not near as funny as he was making out to be, but he was tired, he had a long day and even that little joke sounded hilarious for him.

When he finally calmed down, it was to find Jimmy staring at him intently with an odd expression on his face.

"What is it?" Harrison asked.

"You're stunning when you laugh. Would you like to go out with me tomorrow night?"

Harrison blinked his eyes in shock. "W-what? You want to go out with me?"

"Tomorrow night, yes."

"But we have only just met; you do not know anything about me." He did not understand why Jimmy asked him on a date when they were strangers. Usually, when someone asked someone else on a date, they knew each other for some time.

"Isn't that exciting?" Jimmy asked eagerly. "We know nothing about each other, no preconceived nothings of what kind of people we are or should be. We can get to know each other, which we really are and not what people expected us to be."

Harrison was speechless for a moment. He had not expected an impassioned, eloquent answer, but I would not be lying if I said that I did not like the chance Jimmy presented me with, to get to know a person without any outside influences.

"... All right..." Harrison said. "Pick me up from the hospital at seven..."

The smile that spread across Jimmy's face was blinding.

-End Flashback-

The young man smiled softly at the memory. His heart always fluttered with happiness whenever he remembered that particular day and all of the days following it. Jimmy had done as he said he would and they both had gotten to know each other in a way he had never been able to before.

The only thing that could dampen his mood whenever he was thinking about his lover was the thought of what would happen to the man if people from his past life came looking for him. Heaven forbid if they found out about the older male, his lover was his only weakness and he would do anything to make sure he was safe from harm, even it meant giving himself to the people who had made his life a living hell.

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Harrison glared at his reflection; his face was only an inch away from the mirror as he intently scrutinized his face or more specifically his eyes. They had changed, it was barely noticeable, but it still there, rings of icy blue encircled his pupils. It had not been there yesterday.

After several minutes of staring, he finally decided that as long the subtle change did not affect his health or his work, he would leave it be. With that decision made, Harrison exited the bathroom and crossed the room but the moment he opened his office door, he was assaulted by a bouquet of red and white roses.

"Happy one year anniversary, darling," greeted the familiar voice.

"Jimmy?" Harrison whispered in confusion when he found his lover standing in front of him with a bouquet of roses in his hands. "How... when..." he was speechless.

"I got off work sooner than I'd expected, so I thought I'd surprise you," after the older male said that, a wide smile appeared across his face. "Judging from the look on your face, I'm going to assume that I surprised you..."

Harrison looked down at the flowers in his arms. He was touched beyond words; he understood what the meaning of these flowers; red roses and white roses were a declaration of love. Jimmy was telling him that he would never hurt him, not intentionally, and that he would protect him from anyone and anything that wanted to do him harm.

"Harrison?" Jimmy asked nervously. "Do you dislike the flowers?"

The young doctor shook his head vigorously, hugging the bouquet tightly into his chest and hid his face into the blooms as tears trickled down his cheeks. "Of course not, silly, I love it..." he whispered. "Thank you."

Jimmy pulled Harrison into a hug and pressed a kiss to the top of his head. "You're welcome."

Harrison laughed and brushed the tears from his face. "Sorry, look at me, crying over a bouquet of flowers."

"You have nothing to apologize for."

He beamed up at Jimmy before changing the subject. "So, what will we do for our anniversary?" he asked the older male.

Jimmy smiled teasingly. "If I told you I'd ruin the surprise..."

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"Jimmy~" Harrison whined several hours later. "Where are we going?"

The moment Harrison had gotten off work; Jimmy had come and gave him a bouquet of roses. Not only that, the man then blindfolded and led him to where the car was, after giving him a firm instruction to never touch the blindfold, and then drove off to an unknown location.

"Be patient, darling," said Jimmy as he helped Harrison out of the car and began leading the younger male away. "All right," said the man, bringing the both of them to a halt. "I'm going to take the blindfold off but I want you to keep your eyes closed until I tell you to, all right?"

Harrison nodded and when the blindfold was removed, he kept his eyes closed as instructed.

"Okay, open your eyes now."

Slowly Harrison opened his eyes and looked around. They were in the middle of a meadow; they were standing on a large, soft looking blanket that had a picnic basket that no doubt held all sorts of foods sitting on the side.

"You always said that you wanted to go stargazing, so I figured what better time to do than now, with me."

Harrison launched himself into Jimmy's arms. "I love it! Thank you so much!" he was happy.

Jimmy smiled and hugged Harrison closer. "I'm glad that you like it," he said, kissing Harrison's forehead.

"How could I not, I love you."

"And I love you too, but the surprise isn't over yet."

Harrison pulled away from Jimmy, confusion evident on his face. "What do you mean by that?" he asked the older male.

As if the question had been their cue, fireworks erupted in the sky, lightning the meadow with dazzling colours, Jimmy tugged Harrison down onto the blanket where he laid down on their backs, watching the fireworks.

Harrison smiled when a large hand wrapped around his much smaller one and squeezed it gently. Silently Harrison promised himself to always remember this particular memory.

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Tbc...

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