On the Road

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

Day One

We had stopped on the side of the road, knowing better than to try hitchhiking, with my luck we'd end up kidnap-pees of some jerk-off. God, jerk-offs! But here and now is okay, we each take a drink from our water bottles, he rips into a piece of jerky and I munch on a granola bar. Neither of us are bringing up what happened previous, neither of us are going to speak of the reason why my face is stained in tears and why his face is stinging from here my hand had made contact with it.

Both of us are relaxed now. A simple chain of command has been established. He listens to me regardless and I consider his suggestions. He had suggested we stop about two miles back, it wasn't until I realized I felt ready to pass out did I agree. That had been two minutes ago. And now we'll be down for another eight minutes. A ten minute break can't be all too bad for our time for... what?

What exactly am I heading for? Or am I just mindlessly wandering? Where am I leading us?

Shaking my head I clear it and take another swig from my bottle. Doesn't matter, no one is gonna stop us... Nothing is gonna stop me... No reason to turn back now. Nothing worth the pain I always cause.

Glancing to Crymm I sigh.

Sooner or later I'm going to have to dump him somewhere. This journey is for me and me alone...

"Namine," Focusing once more I see him tensing up and I grit my teeth. An earth shatter scream is heard. I can only guess what's going on. Getting to my feet I pull out my knife from my bra, it feels hot in my hands. Eyes closing as the world shifts, drops, and reforms in a sickening lurch. Opening my eyes black locks float past my vision as I twist to met an already charging demon. Next to me Crymm to cutting through them with his claws.

He frowns at me as I emotionlessly shove my knife into another's eye. These little creatures are sand colored and look a lot like lizards. They have jaws full of razor sharp teeth, most aren't bigger than a medium sized dog, their eyes are their weakest points. Although something tells me if I cut off their tails they wouldn't be moving anymore either.

"Eyes, Tails," I say firmly as I duck a flyer, its body slammed to the ground by Crymm. "I'm going to try to sense the activator, keep me safe." My eyes fall closed and I sense little black lights all around me, some almost getting close enough to attack me before an orange, yellow, and grey light knocks them back.

I smirk.

He's effective.

That he is.

Expanding my focus I feel another's presence in my mind, as if someone like me is around. And then... I found it... The momma. Its not much bigger than the others... But if I took it out we could end this crossing effortlessly and have enough energy to keep walking.

I want to get as far away from... that place as possible!

My mind gathers the information needed, demons nearby could be used to spring forward, my steps aren't careful, but rushed as I land on one's head from a small jump. Its mouth opens in a shocked roar. I use this to propel me forward.

Behind me I hear a snarl and a growl as I curl into a ball and tumbled down onto the ground. Uncurling I leap to my feet. Exactly two seconds later my comrade has joined me, enough time to have had to slam my foot into a demon's chest and lose focus.

"What the hell Nami," He growls as I glare at him. "Warn me next time! Otherwise I can't do my--!"

"Shut up! I'm concentrating!" My eyes had fluttered open a moment and now close again. He growls something and I just laugh softly as I gather the information again, it hasn't moved yet, we're doing good. "Their Momma is here, lets take her down~!"

My head jerks in the general direction, "Clear me a path?"

He sighs before nodding. I hold out my knife to him and he shakes his head, reaching under his coat and onto his back. He pulls out a what looks like a small dagger or sword. He utters some words before it glows a bright yellow and grows in size......... and power. In my mind's eye I see its strength and whistle. I can feel arrogance leak from him before I feel his body leave my side.

Quickly I follow, he cuts through most and knocking back only a few when he can't hit them correctly. When needed I toss a knife into a demon blocking my path only to collect it when passing it. A shriek is heard, a human shriek. Frowning I lock eyes with the Momma lizard. Why am I hearing human cries? And then, next to her, a little girl stands. My eyes narrow.

"Crymm!"

"See her!"

"Don't think?"

His voice is dark in response, "I do."

Some part of me bulks at the sureness in his voice. But I push forwards. As we get closer the Momma seems to grow in power and size, I wonder why... Then the girl shrieks again... Oh don't tell me that thing is feeding on her fear!

"Get the girl outta here when we get close," I say firmly, my emotions dropping once more, being replaced by a fire lacing itself through my bones, through my muscles.

"Bu--!"

"Don't argue!"

He nods and we split off, I follow him with my mind's eye. He grabs something clear and almost none existant, with a slight tinge of pink. This damn demoness is going down.

"Hey! UGLY!" The seemingly now towering demon turns her head towards me as I race towards her. "Say roar!" It does scream at me, words just barely comprehend able as I take the last step, leaping into the air.

Fear the screams in the night

My body soars through the air. I can feel the other two below me, anxious one is the other is dazzled.

Burning white light

The demon's blood on my blade glows white hot and the blade grows in my hands, a blue aura surrounding me that is almost white from the brightness.

Fires burning bright

Flames lick at the tip of my weapon as I swing it. A wave of engery bursting from it and slicing through the demon. My body continues to fall, the large lizard is now small again. Its power sapped and I can feel a hot pink light glowing on the ground. I smirk as my body collides with the demon's.

Feel my might!

And my blade is stabbed deep into her eye, almost out the other side as it shrinks back to the size of a knife. I exhale before snarling out in a language I've only ever heard before, "The Ocean is rising again."

Pulling my blade from her I feel the shift, a gust of wind dragging the remaining demons back, reality shifting. My bangs flutter past my vision. A beautiful blond. And I beam, turning to see the little girl safe in Crymm's arms.

Wiping off my knife I store it before walking over and holding out my hand. She throws herself into my arms and I smile down to her. She relaxes in my arms and Crymm joins us. For a moment its as if we're a family. But of course we aren't. This little girl is too old to be mind and us adults haven't... yeah... yet... Ahem...

Crymm picks her up and I gather our stuff, handing him his pack, "I think we should get her home."

He nods, "I agree."

And we walk together, the tired girl is given my water bottle to sip at and crackers from his pack. She is weak and doesn't seem to be all that healthy... But its better to slowly feed her rather than have her barf back up anything we give her.

After a few minutes of walking I hear Crymm ask her what her name is. Her voice is tiny, but effective, its in our heads and not out loud, 'Sammi...'

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

Day Four - Noon

A couple days ago we hoped on public transport, our tickets being one way to nowhere. Often times we had to change course to throw off a demon or two, seems this little girl is wanted for something, I wonder what... Of course neither of us asked her, she either wouldn't know or would be too scared to talk about it.

Sammi, despite her smallness and lack of psychical voice, is the strongest of us if there was one. She could simply cripple a demon with her mind, her thoughts alone it amazes me. Her sheer power when she isn't weak and scared. Someday she will be an amazing soldier, but for the time being I keep her safe in my arms while Crymm does the heavy lifting. My powers aiding him flawlessly, although a little shaky for me at times, but we're getting better.

We've had two other fights since the one we had on our first day. The first had been an acid demon, lets just say we found out how it worked real well when it toasted the bus we were on along with most of its innocents. This is when we found out about Sammi's extreme power, she gathered their [the now dead's] last thoughts of pain and drove the demon mad. It imploded and we were left dumbstruck.

How can one little girl... Harness such a gift?

Its as mysterious as I had once been been... As my mother had once been...

But Crymm and I are faithful to her, like our own daughter for the time being. I can see that if he were a father he would be a good one, a kind one, not a half way there and listening to the voice of madness most of the time kind... It makes me happy knowing he's traveling with me.

Plus.

Sammi really like him, they're cuddling right now. Both silent in sleep, neither to be woken unless need be. I understand... We've had a hard couple days. Crossing two had been a simple crossing, just a small spell being used. We broke it after a swift seven minutes and all got ice cream afterwards seeing how our bus left us...

Now we're headed to the middle of no where, or a better way of putting it is, we're taking Sammi north and into the forest filled areas. She had something about "north" and "forest" before she had fallen asleep the first night, exhausted. And we don't blame her, I've been there and done that...

"Namine?" I open my eyes which have fluttered closed to see Crymm watching me. His orange gaze not exactly gentle, with something darker behind it. Its happening again... I'm corrupting someone again...

But I just smile at him, its a tired one, but a smile, "Yes?"

He lifts a hand and runs his fingers through my hair, his gaze never leaving mine. Slowly and gradually he relaxes me through these soft touches, "I want to know if its okay to love you...?" His gaze never leaves mine, the little girl in his arms shifts and curls in closer, his one arm holding her securely.

But... What do I... Say... To...

After a moment I begin to giggle, how silly of me for worrying, as long as I don't love him ba--

Oh shit.

"Well... Well... I guess it could be okay," My voice is teasing, playful. "As long as it doesn't make it weird between us."

A corner of his lips twitches up and his eyes glitter, "Its already weird between us, but I do love you, I'll always love you... Even when I shouldn't."

"Uuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm... Shouldn't you now? You're kinda--"

"Forget her," His voice is shaky. "Just... Forget. HER."

There is a long pause in which I frown at him.

"But..."

His eyes close, waiting for what I had to say... as if he knew what I would say.

"...Can you...?"

Early Evening

'Nami! Nami! Wakey, Wakey!' Small fists are curled into my shirt, shaking me slightly and my eyes peak open. I see worried, but beautiful eyes staring down at me. 'We transfer now, c'mon! Crymm already put our stuff on and got the tickets!' Yawning, I nod and stand, Sammi sliding to her feet. A quick stretch later and a couple of disgruntled and unintelligible mutterings later I pick up my purse, take her hand in mine, and we exit.

Lets just say where we're at isn't as busy as it could of been, but it nothing like home... Man, I miss home.

'I know you do.'

My head shakes at the little girl and I pick her up as we cross the street over to where the next bus waits. Until I stop. Freeze. A scent hitting me like a house made of purely bricks. Its burnt into my memory and I call for Crymm. He gives me a worried look and I just snap at him to get Sammi to the hotel we booked. Frowning he nods and takes the little girl from me as I take off down the street. Feet jump onto sidewalk and I moving faster, faster, faster. I may have never been here before, but I felt as if I had, as if I had... met someone here...

But who...?

Its like running with the wind beneath my feet, pounding into the ground with rhythm. Heart pounding at an alarming rate, breathing a just under my control. It feels as if the wind is guiding me. Shortly I reach an old bridge and stare out at the water below me. My eyes widen as I hear a voice reach out to me. This hadn't always been like this, they dammed it, hurt it, made it sad. But it forgave them, all of them, even as they forgot about it, long since forgot about it. I exhale a ragged breath, starring down at the churning waters.

''Tell me, tell me everything!"

It rumbles and chuckles before I calmed. I saw my reflection in it, but next to me is a silver haired man with pretty blue eyes. His smile is soft, gentle, kind. I gasp and almost jump back, but he places a hand on my shoulder, I felt it even up here, not in the water.

//All is well, calm once more.//

My body relaxes and he whispers in my ear, something I've never heard before, but understand none the less:

Bounded by love, he was swept away. And then that lonely, fate filled day. He rose with hatred and rage. He reigned for time, for an age. But one should know. Fear is no way to go...

//That is my story.//

I stare at him and he nods.

//Would you like to hear yours?//

"Mine?"

He nods.

I frown before shaking my head, "I write my own destiny." And with that I blink, breaking eye contact. And when I look again all I see is me. Well... A black haired, dual eye colored me... What the heck is wrong with me?

Sigh.

I turn and head in the direction I can hear Sammi's gentle calling coming from. Apparently she won't go to sleep until I read her a bed time story. The sweet heart...

- - -

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there, day four!

Yes, Maya and Avi will make appearances sooner or later, but since this is told from Nami's POV all of their character development will happen with out the audience knowing, all wells~

Later~

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

Day Seven

"Hey... Nami?" Crymm reaches out to me in an after battled comforting sort of way. His fingers stroke my hair, but I flinch away. He frowns. "What's wrong."

He doesn't understand. That last fight... It had been so simple... So easy... so... effortless. I am an Otherborn not a demon like...

I can't think his name, not after I managed to finally calm down. Sammi is curled up on Crymm's lap, exhausted. We all are. Well they are... Somehow I feel lively and it scares me. Really scares me.

Could the real reason be that I broke away from -- be the same reason he constantly tried to pull from me... Am I even human? Could I possibly be... Something else? Something more? Or... Maybe something less...?

Crymm holds out a piece of paper and pen. I blink at him and he just smiles, "Write down a new ability every time you get one... Cross it off when it becomes inactive... That's how I convince myself I'm just some monster, I have power to protect people... I just haven't needed to use it since following you Alpha." I frown at the nickname, yet some part of me is thrilled by it, loves the power I have over him... My Beta and maybe someday... My mate...

Shaking my head I glare down at my lap. Don't think like that, demons think like that. And I sure as hell ain't one of those, I am an Otherborn, pure bred and perfect... Or at least I thought I was...

But I have holes in my memory. I almost completely bound myself to a demon... And now... Its as if I am turning into one myself... My mother prides herself on being pure Otherborn as does my father... Could it be something else? Am I cursed?

Or was it that dammed -- !

My eyes narrow, but Crymm shakes his head and places a hand on my shoulder, "Write them down... it'll help... You are still human, Namine." Sighing I listen to him. My hand writing down abilities as they come to mind, some I've used and others I just know I have. I add details next to the ones I know. My list ends up being long and strangely I place a line between the two sets...

Ability Set

1. Enhancement
2. Healing during enhancement
3. Memory sharing [one way] while enhancement
4. Scan
______________________________
5. Changing Appearance: Happens when emotional imbalance takes place as of recent, before the trigger could of been anything.
6. Light's Skill - Dragon's Fang: A knife of mine is enhanced by spilled demon's blood, preferably a dragon's, but any will do. It grows in size, power, reach, ect.
7. Light's Skill - Ocean's Vengeance: A skill in which my power is transferred to my weapon before slicing through a demon's power source, used mainly for releasing humans and halfers from a demon's control... The more demonic the used is the harder to release them [huh, how do I know that? Or is it just a hunch?]
8. Light's Skill - Speed Scan: Drawing my own blood on top of the demon's blood on my enhanced weapon. Flinging it out and using that as a way to view a wider range of the area while using very little of my power.
9. Light's Skill - Absorb: ??? [Probably something obvious]
10. Light's Skill - Transformation: ??? [Do I even wanna know?]

Frowning at the length I show Crymm and he whistles before shaking his head, "Some of them can go under the same category, don't you think? Such as two and five and one and ten and six and seven, maybe? Eight and four definitely... And nine and three... That makes three, right?" I nod, giving him a weird look and he just ruffles his hair. "Then that's all okay... Three isn't as nearly as bad as ten, right?"

I smile at him, "Yeah... it is... C'mon... we gotta check the cabin down the road... That's where her parents were last seen."

He nods and we stand, beginning our journey once more...

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Sorry about all that info dump... But Nami just wanted to get that out. And like I said [somewhere] before this is a loose journal. Don't expect constant updates nor ones that make sense...

Avi and Maya are far from Nami and Ang right now... Sammi will be heading home soon enough... And then... Then "Crymm" and Namine will be all alone once more~

*coughs*

Also, please note that most of these abilities will be cut once Nami gets number ten down.

That is all~

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

Day Seventeen

"Crymm?" My friend roll over towards me, our little angel is nestled between our two bodies, but I can see his loving gaze in dark as he must see mine. "You'll have to do most of the disarming, can you?" His gaze flicks in the direction of the complex we're going to have to invade to save our little girl's real parents. Then he gazes down at her as she curls in closer to him, his tail laying over her to keep her warmer.

He nods, "You are my girls. I will lay my life down for you if I have too." I smile to him, our identical yellow eyes shining with warmth. He then, being care to nor disturb nor harm her, leans over Sammi. He places a gentle kiss to my lips, one that tells of more to come, a ghost of the ones we had shared the night we had to fight to get out little one back. That night we had learned that kisses empower us both, light a fire in our souls. So we do it now not just as comfort, but as preparation. He smiles as we pull away, lazily and burning inside. "Just say the word, love, and I'll take the world for you."

My eyes light with a burning fire as they sparkle with a return answer. One hand lightly running through his hair before returning up to scratch behind one of his ears. Soft purring is heard in our small, safe, haven, "I'll hold you to that, my angel..."

10:52 PM

"Don't let go of my hand, Sammi, is this clear?" The girl nods as we race down yet another pure white hall, ahead is Crymm, his sword taking down guard after guard. His body moving effortlessly as his blade cuts through fragile human flesh. Another set of stairs, I pass off Sammi to him as we rush up to the fourth floor. One of the heavy armor guys comes rushing down, they only get down the third step before I feel the shift, our little girl is smart.

A short span, short lived crossing has been activated as we thought that device we found on the second floor would. It hangs around Sammi's neck like a precious stone. Out of the three of us she's the only one who figured out how to work it, smart little duckling she is. So I mutter under my breath yet another skill I have learned in the past ten days, "Light's Skill... Time Shift." And one moment the guard is going to pull his trigger, the next his neck is snapped and he's falling to the first floor. Time catches up as I slam my body into the wall, two more guards coming down onto my step as I do. Centering my weight onto my hands for a moment I kick them over the edge.

The crossing closes and Crymm races past me, dropping Sammi off in my arms. We keep running, not being able to stop quite yet, her parents are on this floor. Once we have them we'll have to fight our way back out. As soon as the door to the floor opens us girls are shoved back. I turn and cover Sammi's body with my own as bullets zip through the wall and door. I hear gasps, groans, a blade cutting through flesh and bone, finally the thunking of bodies. Then a chuckle, "Alright, come on... This hall is secure." Nodding to myself I lead Sammi in, her eyes widening before I pick her up in my arms and Crymm is at my side, running fingers through her hair.

At the same moment we whisper to her, "Its alright darling, they are going to a better place now, they didn't understand what they were doing." And then we whisk her away from the dead, from the brutally killed. She whimpers in my arms, burying her face into my shoulder. I soothe her tears as I mouth to Crymm:

"Kill silently, don't let our baby feel anymore guilt."

He nods and I slide down in our corner as he slips off. I can feel his emotions perfectly. Every smug kill, every guilt filled swing, every near laugh that tickles my mind with joy. And then Sammi, I can feel her guilt and fear. Gently I rock her and whisper to her in my native tongue stories of happier times. Slowly she relaxes in my arms.

After a couple minutes Crymm returns. After helping me up he says to the darling, "Just close your eyes, love, don't look." And he slips a pair of headphones over her ears, its playing some sort of gentle but loud music... Linkin Park it sounds like. I smile to him as he leads us through the grim area, my eyes taking count... About sixty something we've offed today, five knocked out, three disabled... Not a bad count for an army of two...

He smirks at me, obviously feel my satisfaction at out work. We come to a metal door with a key pad. We smile to each other before typing in the same password we had found next to the small crossing generator. The door clicks open and we slip in before is shuts behind us.

"Okay," I whisper. "You can open you eyes." Crymm finds a light switch and Sammi opens her eyes. At the same time as we scream...

11:54 PM

We had just made it through the tangled mess of demons, halfers, otherborn... All... Being kept inside tanks, some awake and others just barely alive. Some ignored us, some could hardly move. A couple of lessers attacked their glass and then we crossed into a new room, this one holding one glass tank. In it is a woman who looks like an older Sammi and the other I assume is her father. Our little girl jumps from my arms and races for the tank, her hands pressing to it and she gasps out. Her mental voice crying out to her parents. Her mother manages to glance her way and press a... clawed... hand... to... the...

I glance to Crymm, "They're experimenting on them?" He nods, tossing a file into my hands and I swear as I read the first paragraph I find in there. Its a test for how close Otherborn and Demonic genes really are... They're mutating each into the other! Sick, sick, sick! I drop the papers like they're on fire and then follow Crymm when he calls out to me.

"Think I found the release button," He purrs contently and I smile to him. Then nod at him, motioning for him to push the button. Smirking he does, confident in himself. That's when I hear footsteps and shouts.

"Namine! You can't just rush in! They need to do this too!"

That sort of sounds like Cry--

"Shove it, Angel! You just don't want me to find anything out!"

"Th-that's not tru--!"

A beeping registers in my back of my mind as something clicks, a word I've been saying effortlessly makes my head spin. I cripple in on myself and Crymm's arms wrap around my waist to catch me, neither of us can react as a light bursts forth and catches us both...


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A/N: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Was going to post this on day 13, but I accidentally erased my post and couldn't get it back... So here it is... Later peeps~!

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

The Unknown Days

My head is killing me and the hard floor isn't doing much to help with the ache in my bones. A soft hissing is heard next to me and I open one eye, frowning at the angry cat person next to me. Crymm - or maybe his name is Angel? - is glaring at the guard just outside the glass of our tank. Great, we're in with the experiments, wonderful.

Sigh.

One white cat ear twitches my way way before a soft, orange gaze turns my way and I feel my stomach drop. Something dark exists in those eyes, something I haven't seen in them before... Or maybe I have...

Something in me wishes they were blue or better yet... green...

But he pulls me into his arms and I feel comfort pulling me under once more. My throbbing head soothing from gentle butterfly kisses and sore muscles being relaxed from a loving touch. Soon I have drifted from one time to another. A clatter is heard as food is dropped down on a metal tray, rattling as it meets the floor. I jump, but he just pulls the food over, smiling at the large cup of water.

He holds out the cup, "Sip... Your stomach won't be able to handle food yet." Then his hands run through my hair, nails catching the split ends and snagging at knots. He smiles as he presses his lips to my forehead, he feels ice cold against my skin and I gasp. "You have a fever, love."

A frown finds its way onto my face as I lift the cup to my lips, sipping a little in before coughing and spluttering at it. His nose wrinkles in worry and I give a small smile, "Its hot." He frowns and tests the temperature with a tip of one finger, frowning deeper.

"No its not, that's the fever... Just try to sip at it, love." A slow nod I give before sipping again. This time I withstand the heat that is just my mind playing tricks on me. It must be really cold then.

Once I finish half the glass I hold it out to him and he drinks what is left, holding out a half eaten chunk of bread. The meat on the tray is left untouched for the time being, but what looks like mostly extra moldy cheese is lumping unpleasantly. My nose wrinkles in disgust but he frowns at me, his expression telling me it doesn't get much better than this. He then begins to gnaw at the meat, chewing the tougher parts off and handing me the more tender parts.

With food in my system, my body a little cooled off from the water, and a bit of hydration I can ask, "How long was I out?"

"Two and a half days," He says softly before chuckling darkly to himself. "They wanted us both awake before they started trying to experiment on us."

"Oh... Sorry..."

"Don't be."

"Mmm."

We look away from each other before our hands move towards each other and they slip together. Holding hands our hearts beat as one as we wait for only the insane know what to happen...

- - -

"This one looks near death," They kick at our tank, whispering to each other and I growl under my breath. Jerk offs. Crymm next to me moves in front of me as we hear a click and then the sound of glass parting. He hisses fiercely at them, but I do nothing more than glare, not being able to move much more than this.

My eyes closes as they bring something heavy down onto my protector's head. His body goes limp in front of me and then my body is lifted from the floor, the fever has long since spread through my body, like a disease that can't be stopped by any normal means. I wonder if I caught something otherworldly? Probably.

"We should take her to the vet, no?" The one carrying me says as my my head hangs limp from off his arm, not having the strength to hold my own body up. My feet drag along the floor before I'm hoisted up further into his arms. His buddy peers at me and then nods.

"She's a sickie..."

"Good point."

And with that my world becomes a blur as I'm whisked away. When I am returned to my glass tank I'm much better, bright and spunky. Crymm nuzzles me and we cuddle all... night? day? doesn't matter, we cuddle.

- - -

The night is heavy upon us and the guards have long since gone off to do their own thing. My body is warm again, but not in a feverish way, no, this one is a bit more pleasant and I smile at my cuddle buddy. He smiles back at me, nuzzling out noses together a short moment before his lips move.

“Look, I have an idea,” He says softly and my gaze meets his. Slowly our hands find each others, eyes still locked, something that feels perfectly right even if oh so wrong all the same. Our communications can be words or simple touches, expressions, gestures. Complex thought not needed as we stay close to one another for heat and for sanity. And I can see in his eyes a quiestion he has been burning to ask for the past three days. Finally he does, braking our spell by turning his head to the side. “... I mean... its just a test... to see if we're more compatible then, ya know, the way we are right now.”

I know he can feel my gaze weighing on him, its calculating and wondering. But after one long moment I whisper one soft word, “Okay.” And then my fingers dance over to the side of his face not facing me, and turn it so we're locking eyes again. Staring deep into his, I can feel something stir in him, almost animal in nature. It thrums with hunger as we press our lips to one another. Its meant to be short and sweet, but even I admit something is happening between us. Both our hearts thundering and pulses are heard in at least my head, I can image he hears the same.

Soon he's bracing the back of my head as it tilts back, his tilting forward. our mouths attacking and being attacked equally, hot breath leaving us between our battle of tongues. Finally, we part, and I whine softly as he closes his eyes. His eyes close tightly and his breathing is taken a sharp control of. After a moment he opens his eyes to see me leaning over him still panting for air, I feel as if I'm flushed all over. He smiles up at me as I collapses against him. A moment of silence passes before I can feel something click and he runs fingers through my hair as he softly hums. A tune I know perfectly well...

“... You're him... You're the man from my dreams...” I whisper into his shirt as he rolls us over, him still humming. “...You... You're the man I... I love.”

Orange eyes flicker yellow a moment before he laughs softly, “No... I highly doubt that. We've never met before Veil.” Although he cocks his head to the side, curious, my words seem to have caused him pain, for this I should be sorry, but don't have it in my heart right now. “But... I do love you, Namine.”

She smiles to him and pecks his nose lightly, “You're an angel, Crymm.”

He makes a face at me, nose scrunching up, “You have no idea... Hey... Nami... Do you want to remember? Remember everything?" After a moment I nod and he hums once more. "I promise I won't hurt you, not now, not anymore." Before I can respond his lips are on mine again and I loose rational thought. I know is he is the man I've had dreams about, he's the angel I once knew...

- - -

I wake up in his arms like I have the past couple of days, neither of us really caring one way or another. But I check my attire, please with it I reach for our new food tray, the water there I sip down a little before shaking Crymm awake, "Wake up, they brought breakfast."

He groans, but gets up none the less. I've been having the honor of being allowed to use him as a pillow and sometimes as a bed. Last night my head has rested on his arm.

And now we share out meal, me letting him have the last of the water since I drank some before he woke up. Cuddling up into each other's arms we don't expect to be bothered today. Let alone the loud shouts that have began on what sounds like the first floor.

We glance to one another and Crymm sniffs the arm before frowning, "Blood... Crossing... No demons beyond this room." I frown and then nod, curling into him, scared. A minute or so later people are rushing into the room, swearing up a storm. Something about three psycho otherborns or halfers attacking the place.

Oh boy.

But then a voice touches my brain and I jump as it speaks, 'Nami? Nami why you two places?' And I swear.

Sammi! Don't tell the other me, nor the other Crymm that we're here! Understand darling? Stay quiet if you must, perfectly quiet!

'Oh... Okay...'

"Crymm! Its... Its us!"

"Wha... What?"

"They've gotten past the first floor, far south stairs!" Comes our handlers voices. "We gotta get these creatures outta here! Or at least the ones we can!"

"Are you shitting me?" The other one says as our door is opened. A rope is tossed around us, yanked tight. Crymm keeps his arms around me and whispers to me to not struggle, but that's just NOT IN MY NATURE! Hello! Tied up here, not cool!

I am Namine effing LeBe--

Wait that's right, I am...

How dare they treat me like an animal! How dare they treat us like experiments! HOW DARE THEY TREAT US CREATURES OF OTHERWORLDLY BLOOD LIKE THIS!

The laseo tightens and I snarl, I can feel my body heating up, "Try to stay cool, Crymm." And then my body flicks and I grab the part dragging up my teeth. I play a game of tug of war, glaring as I feel a burning something erupt from my back, down my spine. Its not painful, just hot. And then the rope snaps.

I lung for the person who had tried to drag me, aiming for their throat...!

- - -

When I awake I'm completely cooled off, images flash past my eyes and I hear voices coming from outside the metal door. Rolling I hide in the shadows, my black hair hiding itself perfectly and dual colored eyes tinting themselves so they don't glow so bright.

A few shadowy corners over I see the limp body of Cr--

Stay away from me! Don't touch me!

Now, now, Little Miss, that's no way to treat your lover *smirk*

No, no! I don't want this! Stop! I SAID STOP!

*Yellow eyes smirk down at me...*

... They had once been a lazy orange, dancing with playfulness. Why hadn't I realized this until now...

He isn't Crymm... He's..

"An Angel my ass."

His ear flicks my way and his eyes open, yellow as the day I had cowered below him. How dare he! The demon! He is no---

No, no... He was an angel...

You don't... remember...?

I do, I remember everything!

*His gaze was so far at that moment, lost in a pain...*

... I had hidden away to protect him...

What have I done?

I set you free...

No, I'm setting you free, Nami...

WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Let me show you everything...

Those yellow eyes fade to orange and I hear that word, that lie coming from the other room and I'm on my feet.

"Namine! You can't just rush in! They need to do this too!"

That sort of sounds like Cry--

"Shove it, Angel! You just don't want me to find anything out!"

"Th-that's not true! Namine wait!"

I race into the room just as we get sucked through and I whirl on Angel.

"YOU! HOW DARE YOU LIE TO ME!"

"Please, calm down... Think about Sam--"

"You demon! Its always been you! Always been your fault!"

He stops his movements and gazes at me before his eyes turn to ice. His words are cutting and filled with malice, "No... No... Its not my fault you ruined your relationship Namine... You did that before I even showed up... own up to it."

"I did na.... na...."

So many flash backs, working together, sewing themselves. My brain feels like its on fire. Everything up to my transformation. Yes, my final form.

"No... I... Its... No... I... I... I..."

"Don't you see, Namine? I wasn't the one who did this... It was you, its been you since I left... Always you."

"But... But... Why?"

He flinches.

"I... I came back to protect Maya... I had a job."

A file name flashes past my vision...

*A grimacing Angel - back when we were both young and seemingly uncorrupted - ruffles my hair*

Don't worry... Avi promised we won't do this... Its a bit too cruel for me...

*He placed it in his bag*

*A few years pass and I manage to get my hands on the contents, it would be another year before I understand what it meant*

".... You.... You promised!"

"Maya... I had to protect her, she... she's my everything, Namine..."

"n-NO!"

He grimaces and I see the years fall from him, I feel as if I'm that little girl again, "I'm sorry..."

"You... You... I HATE YOU!" And with that I'm racing from the building, the same building I've been in for months... But no more than seventeen days have pasted since I left...

I HATE YOU!

I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!

I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!

I HATE - HATE - HATE....

".................... I hate...." The forest has already taken me into its embrace. My knees give out and I'm crying. "I... Hate.... Myself...."

You are so stupid.

Yes I am.

We are stupid.

That we are.

And I lay there crying.

Crying.

Hating.

I am so selfish, so stupid...

"I'm sorry.. so sorry..."

Something inside me burns and I embrace it, grasping onto it like its a safety blanket. Shortly I am racing along the huge forest floor, tears streaming down my muzzle...

So very sorry.

We both are.