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We said goodbye to Will and went to a shinigami lounge room where we started talking. The room was all white with gold accents and marble. We sat in plush, tan armchairs across from one another. Grell was in an absolute tizzy. But, he painted on a mask for me and we talked about everything except my predicament until Grell exploded.
"This world! For heaven's sake! I want Michaelis and can't have him! You don't want to have anything to do with him and get him forever! Plus Will is too infatuated with you to even consider playing for my team…"
This stopped all of my brain function.
"What?" I said rather dumbly, completely lost. How could Grell possibly know?
He started over, taking my "what" too literally. "This world! For heaven's sake! I want-"
"No, no. I got that part. Go back to the part about me and Will…"
"Oh, you know. Will is absolutely in love with you! Has been, ever since I introduced you two… Surely you knew…" He looked at me questioningly, seeming to analyze my IQ level.
"Oh, I knew." I told him, thinking back to what I was doing just a little while ago. "But, how did you know?"
"Lankana," He gave me a "you're stoooopid" look and continued. "I've known and worked next to him for eons. I can tell when something's up. When he sees you or hears you're coming, he does this little preparation routine. It's kind of cute! He does special things for you, cleans off his glasses, clears his schedule, and gets a little anxious. Now, he's not at all obvious about these things, in fact, he goes to great lengths to be subtle. But, I see through it all." He sighed. "Why do you get all the good men?"
"Well…" I started, not really listening. I was still processing everything he had said. "I'm a girl for starters. Second, instead of finding a guy who is already playing for your team, you look for straight ones and try to convert them. I think you need to switch up your battle plan. Why don't you go out with Ronald?"
"Ronald? As in, Ronald Knox? He's not gay!"
I laughed. "The hell he isn't! He's just not so flamboyant about it, Grell. Don't get me wrong, Grell, I love your flamboyancy. Just, not all homosexuals employ theirs. I don't think you quite get that yet." He sighed.
"Maybe you're right." He looked at his pocket watch. "Damn, girl. Time flies when you're ranting and gossiping. You've got five minutes! We gots to go! No time for secretaries!" He stood up and grabbed my arm and led me, running, back to Will's office.
"We'll get Will to take us the short way out. You can't use the orb he gave you from here, it won't work!" We arrived there moments later. I was seriously running late! Grell didn't even bother to knock on the door that led to Will's immaculate office, Will just opened it, as if expecting us.
"I will escort Ms. Lankana out. Sutcliffe, you may escort us to the transport, but not past there." Grell nodded, grudgingly, and we all ran off to the transport, gracefully. Grell hugged me tight and waved goodbye as Will and I entered the transport.
We got on and turned around. The nasally woman stated "pass, please."
Will cleared his throat and said "Administrator William T. Spears and guest, code Lankana Pi 29." The transporter dinged. Grell had already left around the corner, so Will smiled at me and said "Hold on."
I grabbed on to him in a fierce hug as the transporter began hurling upwards. It just kept going up and up. After about ten seconds, we smashed through the ceiling of the place and found ourselves in a meadow. The hole underneath the elevator that we had created, sealed itself. How were we in a meadow…? So, was the whole place underground then? It was all very confounding.
"This is the shinigami sanctuary. For administrators and guests only. A lovely place to spend time, but, unfortunately, there is no time." He said, answering my unspoken questions. I nodded and pulled out the orb, giving it a quick squeeze to take me back to the meadow in the human world. The hole opened in reality and Will hugged me goodbye and said "See you in a couple of days."
I nodded, it was all part of the plan. I exited this dimension, into the Earthly realm. Lucifer was waiting for me. The portal closed behind me and I took the orb.
"How punctual of you, my dear. It has been exactly 23 hours, 59 minutes and 30 seconds." He smiled a little. "I hope you are better prepared now, for it is time to go." Lucifer ordered. Damn. I had never wanted to NOT do something so badly in my life.
He grabbed me gently by the arm and ripped a hole in the fabric of this dimension with his other hand, something only higher demons can do. We stepped through into the burning fires of Hell. Just kidding, no fires. We stepped through to the clearing before Lucifer's dwelling place, his home, in the demonic realm. The sky was a dark purple color, as it usually was on this side of the hell domain. Glowing red flowers surrounded the towering mansion before me. He led me up the path, to the door and inside, where he began his inspection of me.
"Oh, dear. This won't do at all. Hold on, this is my daughter's area of expertise. Caitlyn!" He called upstairs. Caitlyn was one of only three full-demon children that Lucifer had. Of course, she had a demon name, but she preferred her human name, Caitlyn. It was much easier to pronounce. She was powerful, but harmless. She was somber and smart and would never hurt anything. She was such a strange little demon. She ran to me and hugged me.
"Aunt Lankana!" she giggled. She had taken her typical human female form, five-foot nothing and curvy. Curly blonde hair accented her glowing orange eyes and pale pink lips. To a human, she'd appear to be 17, or so.
"My dear Auntie, what are you doing?!" she began. She was entering her fashion-police mode. "That is a wonderful dress, but it would be shameful to see Michaelis while wearing such clothing! You must present yourself in a way that will have him doing anything to return to your good graces! You must meet him in a way that shows him he made the worst possible choice by leaving you in the first place! You must make him your slave…" She ended on a darker pitch. It all made me laugh.
"If that's what you think I should do, I'll just meet him in my true form! That always used to do the trick…"
A truly hideous thing to humans, but a strong aphrodisiac for us, one rarely showed off their true demon form. One would only shows their true form to the one they truly love. Michaelis was the only one I showed it to, that ass. And he turned out just to be another typical demon male, sex driven without any true brains.
Caitlyn giggled at my sarcastic idea. "That would definitely work, not that I've seen that side of you, and I'm not sure I'd want to. But, considering the way you used to control his life just by threatening to not take that form for 100 years, I would have to say that it's probably damn sexy. But that is out of the question due to his current contract. He is stuck in human form while his master is with him." She paused and giggled creepily. "Except, of course, for when you finalize the Pairing. He gets to turn then…"
I knitted my eyebrows together. "Don't remind me. By the way, which human form has he taken?" I hadn't actually been able to see what he looked like yet.
"The same one from when he was Andalus when you two served together in the BC years. He now goes by Sebastian." Oh I remembered that one.
"I always liked that form. Too bad I don't like him anymore."
"You'll have to learn how." Lucifer called from the other room. "Literally, you're changing as we speak."
I pondered his words. I had felt my social and romantic ties in my body rearranging, it's true. But, I doubted I would have any feelings other than hatred for Sebastian for years.
"Father," Caitlyn started. "That could take decades or even centuries. You speak of the great Lankana! The most stubborn she-demon ever! She could drag the bonding process out for years…"
"Touché." he replied. Also true, I get what I want through perseverance. I am a stubborn girl.
"Now, what to dress her in…" Caitlyn mumbled to herself. "Aha! Be right back!"
She ran upstairs and returned moments later empty handed. I gave her a puzzled gaze, but she simply ignored me, ran behind me, and began pushing me up the stairs. I was rushed upstairs and into her large, parlor-sized, dressing room that was connected to her bedroom. The current style in the human world for women was large based dresses, corsets and other ridiculous things that made it extremely difficult to function. But, I refused to would wear such things.
She began circling around me, like a tiger does its prey. She was muttering to herself about size and color and material and such. My mind felt a little dizzy. It had started as a simple dull ache in the back of my mind a few hours ago, but demons didn't feel pain. I assumed it had to do with the bonding, but it had gotten drastically worse. I felt a physical pull, pulling me downwards suddenly, to the floor. It was like a child was pulling at the hem of my dress. Suddenly, it increased, ten-fold!
"ACK!" I collapsed to the floor as I felt a burning sensation all over my body. I struggled to support myself on hands and knees. I had felt this kind of burning before, never as intense though, and I knew Sebastian's demon symbol was being engraved upon me, for I would now be bound to any contract he was. What a pain this will be, was all I could think.
"Poor friend." Caitlyn whispered, then continued ransacking through her closet. The force slowly began to relinquish its grasp on me, until I was finally able to stand. I pulled up my dress a little and saw that high up on my right thigh the first symbol was glowing and still dripping blood. I also had one on the outside of my left breast. They stung and began fading. They were different colors, like color-coding. The one on my thigh was purple for Sebastian's contract with the Phantomhive child, who I would also be obligated to serve now. The one on my breast was light blue, for the Pairing contract. That one would never leave.
The soul I had recently consumed returned my body to full strength quickly. And if you're wondering where Will's presents were, I had them with me. I had set them down on a chair in the main hall.
Caitlyn then looked over her shoulder at me and giggled, "I found it!" She pulled something out that was simply perfect. A top and skirt, shoes and tights. And ensemble that wouldn't inhibit my movement, yet would look like I just walked out of the greatest fashion shops in Paris.
It was a short sleeved, black top with a sewed on mini-shawl, also black. It had white silk cord accenting the split showing off the attached black under shirt. It also had a white silk belt that gave a little flair right above my waist.
Caitlyn carefully removed all of my current garments and wiped up the blood from my thigh and chest. She threw my pretty blue dress in the corner. I assumed I would never get it back, Caitlyn thought of clothes as one-time-use items. She threw my bra and panties into the fire that was burning in her in-bedroom fireplace. I didn't expect any different.
She then placed a very lacy lingerie-ish black bra on me, then slipped the black top over my head and arms. Then some lacy carpets to match the drapes… If you know what I mean. She then put soft, skin-tight, off-white leggings on me that covered all of my legs and feet from the waist down, yet somehow made my legs look even more elegant and toned. They weren't connected, each an individual, like a pair of very long socks.
Next came a skirt much like the ones the humans wore at the time. What were they called? Hoop skirts? Anyways, it was large in diameter and circular, but didn't even come close to reaching the floor like the typical ones. It didn't drag or sag, but instead stayed straight, as if ironed. The black, smooth, folded, skirt almost reached my knees and finished with lacy white ruffles. The outfit was nearly completed with boots that were cloth with 2-inch heels. By turning the top portion of the boot inside out and folding it neatly against the shoe portion, I gave off an elegant yet strong look.
Finally, Caitlyn finished my look with a black silk choker necklace. I hated all of this. All I wanted was wanted was to leave to my domain, to be near water, but literally, physically, couldn't.
I was dragged downstairs by Caitlyn to say "au revoir" to Lucifer for a very long time. He stood and watched me descend the stairs. When I reached the bottom, he could only smile and hand me a perfectly matching mid-length jacket for my journey. My wavy, light-brown, hair flowed down to my mid-back. Lucifer kissed the top of my head and prepared for me to leave.
Caitlyn ran back upstairs and returned with a small black trunk. I was sure there were more gorgeous outfits inside, for every occasion, and probably a picture of her and Lucifer. I took it from her and placed my presents from Will inside of it.
"It has a magic seal, Aunty. Only you can open it now. If anyone else tries, it'll just seem that the lock is jammed. Oh, and its indestructible."
"Thanks, love." I hugged her tightly. "Goodbye, Caitlyn. Write me, keep in contact, alright?" I said sadly.
"Of course, have you ever known me not to?" She told me with feigned hurt. I gave a weak laugh and sighed.
"The paper seals, Lucifer?" I asked.
"Yes, here." He handed me a small black hand bag that contained the required documents. I would study them on my journey. I clutched the hand bag tightly. Lucifer reached past me and tore another hole into the dimensional barrier's fabric. I hugged Caitlyn one more time and I stepped through…
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