Author note: Nothing to say though at the bottom I have a question for you all.

Clockworkapprentice: I'm glad you re enjoying it so far. Heres hoping it keeps being a good read.

Rose14799: I wonder what would happen if I let her die so soon... revolt? I'm probably ten times worse at names than you! Enjoy the chappie.

Germandelight: Same here. But it is an interesting thought. What if everything we do really is controlled by something like a reaper? Scary... I'm half scared if I make her go mean she'll end up like Lucia though! Enjoy the chapter. Glad I made the last one readable lol

Guest: I'm putting you two together. Dimitri as of now is more wild carded temptation. If that makes any sense... I'll let you guys have says in him very soon, believe me.

Mainnaise: You're back! Glad you had a nice time. Wait... for now? What about later? ... oh well. hope you enjoy!

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THE RESULTS!

Choice A- 4

Choice B- 1

Chapter start

Nettie couldn't even whimper as somehow the cold seemed to increase. Through blurry vision she saw that the area around her had frozen as well, becoming crystallized. Each breath was a sluggish battle of pain for her and she knew soon her heart would really cease. She would be nothing but a puppet for eternity because really what was the chance Dimitri would find and contract her again in another life?

She was merely a meal after all. Nettie had through sheer luck of circumstance bested the reapers who controlled fate for a glorious millisecond before they proved they would always be the true master of her fate, never her, and certainly not Dimitri. She was going to be consigned to agonizing deaths one after the other for eternity. It was a lonely feeling but she tried to draw comfort that she wouldn't remember them at least…

It all went black. Her stopped heart began to pump violently again, air was forced into unmoving lungs. It caused her to shift and hack, the cold was still there but it was not numbing her anymore and she shivered violently again.

Her eyes were still too blurry to see from when she parted them to see nothing but blackness before her that shifted and condensed.

Redolphus drew himself to full height and manifested his scythe as he felt the familiar ping of an opponent, saw the shadows gather and writhe. He noted the fact Nettie was coughing and shivering.

The air around her was still such she breathed in clouds of puffing smoke and the area was still frozen but it wasn't affecting her as it had been. Thanks to the darkness covering her in an almost purple haze, her guardian 'angel' come to protect its meal.

Dimitri was outwardly calm as he materialized before Nettie. He had felt the bound tighten and had been receiving little threads of anger, of need. Since Nettie hadn't directly summoned him he had ignored them as he was prone to do. No need to be more involved with her and other humans more than strictly necessary to make the contract a success after all.

It hadn't been until he had felt the bond weakening, had heard the desperate cry she wasn't even aware of making that he had let the connection open before him. He had been momentarily besieged by the arctic winds that didn't bother him yet he knew to human flesh they were deadly.

Dimitri had come the moment he realized what was happening. His dear former lover was trying to play rough with his food.

Without missing a beat he stripped from his coat and dropped it on the shivering Nettie's head, ignoring Redolphus but he was aware of any move the reaper might have made.

Nettie was shivering so badly his heightened hearing could hear her teeth clacking at an alarming rate. It seemed a miracle they didn't shatter with the force. Her movements were halted and stuttering as she shifted into a sitting position with difficulty, wrapping the coat around her. It dwarfed her and Dimitri knelt down, making her put her arms through the sleeves. His fingers traced her cheek softly before dropping to feel the pulse at her neck. She was frigid to the touch, like touching dry ice.

Nettie couldn't even speak but she was channeling her needs and wants to him, unknowingly probably because he hadn't bothered to explain much of anything to her. Her need for warmth, for him to hold her so she could feel his manufactured heat was there at the forefront but also was the need for him to make her happy. She had chosen him rather than allow the reaper to claim her soul again. One brief life of happiness, of not worrying about death… he had two years to fulfill all her wants to satisfaction.

"Dear girl," He chuckled softly. "You'll be one of those difficult masters won't you?"

Nettie gasped when darkly tinged warmth flooded her entire body from the spot his fingers touched. Her body was hers to control again and didn't that feel marvelous?

She found she could speak without stuttering and she wondered how much else this demon she was siding with could do.

"Dimitri he tried to-"

"I'm aware of it," the demon shushed her with a finger to her lips. "This won't take more than a moment then we'll get you sorted."

Dimitri rose after she nodded rather obediently and he looked at Redolphus finally. "You didn't flee. How uncharacteristically brave of you."

The jab struck home and Redolphus winced. "The past is the past Dimitri. I'm a different creature now. I won't let you pour this innocent soul into the same darkness you've bathed in for centuries."

Nettie wished that they would stop referring to her as soul… she was Nettie… she was more than just a soul.

"Are you referring to my dear Nettie here? How rude of you to talk of her as though she was only a puppet. You might be a different creature but there isn't any reason to lose your manners."

Dimitri smirked when he felt the rush of gratefulness from his meal and Redolphus narrowed his eyes. Humans were very easy to lead and even easier to deceive. Bluntness and lack of caring were reapers hugest weaknesses when it came to breaking contracts. A demon knew always what their contracts wanted from them and even things the contractor didn't know about themselves. It was a specialty if Dimitri's that he had perfected to be always seducing his contract whether it be by words or actions.

Nettie wanted to be treated human, not as a mere soul. He would give that to her. He would make her selfish eventually, would make her demand him and demand he cater to her but for now he would seduce her by answering every known and secret wish in her heart.

"I think it is beyond time I teach you the rudeness of playing with my things."

Without warning he shifted into action. One second he was there then he was gone. Nettie gasped and glanced around wildly, not understanding. He had called her a thing. His thing, no less. She couldn't really protest since she had said similar words.

Dimitri slit his palm open with a nail and let his blood rain down on Redolphus's head. The reaper was too slow and the droplets landed on his scythe, causing the silver to hiss. His cloak swirled around him as he cursed and brought his weapon to slice through the air. Dimitri moved from range and dropped onto the very tip of the scythe, smirking as Redolphus growled.

"Let's face it darling. You were too weak to best me the moment you-"

"Shut up!"

Redolphus jerked the scythe from under him and managed to shred his arm leg open. Dimitri felt the blood pump, unnaturally darker colored blood than humans, an unholy red that fell to the ground. He felt the bond between Nettie and him to see how she took the sight.

Indifference, cold indifference. She was focused entirely on him making the reaper pay. What a marvelous little toy he had acquired.

A deep chuckle ripped from his tipped back throat as he unleashed the darkness he housed in his body. He wanted to know if he could horrify this girl. Or was she so tainted by her hate for the reaper he couldn't scare her?

There was no reaction when his nails became claws, his skin receded into darkness and his teeth sharpened. Nettie blinked when she realized what was going on, hearing bones cracking as they rearranged themselves to the new form Dimitri was adopting.

Dark shadows lengthened down his arms until they feathered and she felt dumb when all she could think of was the fact he had wings as black as anything she had ever seen. In fact… his whole body was now covered in the sleek black feathers, wings crumpling to rest behind his back. Toes had become talons, hair had become feathers, and ivory had become dark. Lips receded and the face became less refined, only the red eyes an indication of who he really was, that he was Dimitri.

Her heart started up in a fast rhythm but not for fear. The creature turned eyes to her and she read the interest there. He was… beautiful to her like this, more so than when he was looking like a Greek god come to life. It had to be the most mesmerizing thing.

Dimitri was a little disappointed to feel only reverence from the girl. It would have been lovely to hear her scream or to know her pulse quickened from fear.

Still he had work to do. He could try to frighten his little Nettie later.

The battle was horrific and people were taking notice, Nettie knew because the ground was shaking under where the demon and reaper were landing, sending tremors through the earth that shook the school. Screams were erupting as the students panicked.

Nettie watched as Dimitri destroyed the ecosystem around them in his goal to harm Redolphus. She winced when the reaper managed to knock her creature off its trajectory, ramming him… or it… through a tree. Dimitri used his massive wings and caught his balance mid spin, careful not to gain too much height. He was too close to the school to reveal his presence.

Nettie cheered in her head when Dimitri slashed with his claws and pierced the reaper straight through the chest cavity.

Dimitri released him and let loose a roar of triumph. Redolphus stumbled and Nettie was stunned to see nothing but a gaping hole. Didn't he bleed for goodness sake?

Dimitri hissed when the scythe forced him to duck awkwardly. His wing stretched and knocked into the reaper with enough force to hurl him into the air. Taking a chance Dimitri rose after him and managed to wrap his wings around him.

Without his wings they plummeted and Dimitri held tightly to the wriggling prey in his grasp. Nettie watched as they closed onto the pond and she feared they would crash into it. With a flourish Dimitri spread his wings and the reaper spiraled into the pond, his body smacking into it harshly before submerging.

Dimitri sensed the reaper retreating so he landed before Nettie again and she jumped.

Even his smell was different. Not that she had been around him long enough to learn his scent. But he definitely normally didn't carry this scent of smoke and there normally wasn't so much fire in his eyes. She wondered if the smoke was the proof he did come from hell, an environment that had branded him with such a unique odor.

Her hand reached out and she paused when he growled in warning to her.

"I just want to see what you feel like," she murmured.

Dimitri growled again but she wasn't scared. With steady hand she set a palm against his forehead and sifted through the silky and impossibly warm feathers.

"You must be a demon. Only a demon could be so cruel as to be such a handsome man and yet have such a unique and wonderful demonic form just as attractive."

Dimitri blinked at her and barely restrained rolling his lidless eyes. This wasn't his true form at all. It was simply a convenient one. Humans were really so easy to trick. But he hadn't thought they were normally so enraptured by a form he had chosen because it was hideous.

He wasn't sure… it had been far too long since he himself was human so their thought processes and actions mystified him most days. Especially this girl.

He had had more than enough of her studying the form however as her hand was annoyingly steady and gentle, even.

Nettie didn't blink when the creature vanished to be replaced by a man. Until that is she realized he was naked. And she felt distinctly not comfortable at staring at the less… proper parts… but the face was little better, more than enough to make her blush. And she did blush no matter where her eyes landed.

Dimitri was amused greatly by the spectacle. Nettie didn't like the feeling he was making fun of her, mocking her inside his mind. She swallowed and forced herself to listen to the still screaming people she called classmates.

"You really… is he dead?"

"No, unfortunately I can't kill a reaper. They are the only things in this universe truly immortal. Though I did do enough damage he'll be weakened for some time," Dimitri sighed. "Did he harm you in a lasting way?"

Nettie shook her head. "You came in time, just like you promised… when I needed you… you came."

"As I always will, dear girl." Dimitri said and pulled her close.

Nettie blushed and wriggled, not used to being held by any guy, let alone a naked Adonis! She could even feel parts that she was intrigued by even as they made her blush and wriggle all the more valiantly.

"Calm yourself. You still feel chilled. I'm merely going to instill some more warmth in you."

Nettie opened her mouth to protest she was fine but he silenced her by pressing his mouth to her and unleashing that same flood of warmth. It wasn't meant to be a kiss she knew. But she would be lying if she said that in that instant she didn't want him to deepen it, to take advantage of her opened cavern, to run his hands over her suddenly too warm body.

So much for not being a girl to get inflicted by lust, her inner voice mocked her. Just brilliant Nettie, shut up Nettie.

He pulled away but not enough that she couldn't feel his breath against her cheek. "It must be the clothes. We need to get you changed into things that are dry."

"Okay."

He wrapped her tighter and she was startled by the darkness suddenly forming around her. She gasped and suddenly found herself gripping his naked back tightly to her, feeling the smooth skin but not being able to appreciate it as they were devoured by the shadows.

He soothed her with dark humor in his tone. Here was the horror he had craved earlier. "It is just me. Don't be frightened these shadows are mine to control so they shall never hurt you."

Nettie relaxed slightly until she heard something.

"Nettie!"

Through the trees she saw a form coming to her. She couldn't see though as the shadows closed over them both and they vanished from sight.

The figure finally made it to the clearing. He could have sworn Nettie had been there in the arms of a naked man no less!

With a small sigh he turned and went more into the woods. The tremors had worried him so he had went looking for her, rather than remain with the group of students huddling outside as the wondered if the school would collapse.

"Please be safe."

The words were murmured softly by…

End chapter

Choices

Choice A- Lysander went to search for Nettie

Choice B- Castiel went to search for Nettie

Author note: this is a love match moment. Whoever is chosen to have hunted Nettie will gain some affection on her love meter so choose wisely!

Also what do you guys think of this being an 'M' rated story? Not so I could do lemons since I put low key lemons in my T rated stories minus actual penetration but I am liberal with my foreplay as people who read Awakening will know and I make it clear what is going on… I wonder about making it M rated so I can express the darker nature themes and also sex will be part of this since my version of demons are dark and sexual beings. I haven't decided to change it yet so this might just be a useless note…