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"Calm down, you&039;re not evil You&039;re simplywell, I don&039;t knohat you are The personification of the Occio, assuh I don&039;t have a lot of experience in that sort of thing Still, I would guess - "

I never did find out what he guessed, because at that rabbed me around the waist and literally threw me aside I smashed into a particularly pointy boulder the size of a sainst it painfully

"I aroaned as I rolled off the boulder to glare at Alec Or started to glare, but when I realized that he hadn&039;t just gone mad and thrown me aside because I was now the personification of evil, and had, instead, protected ot painfully to lish de sword in her hand, pointed directly at his heart "I have no quarrel with you, Dark One Cease interfering and you will not be harmed"

Alec, who stood with his back to h "I&039;ve lived in perpetual torment for the last six hundred years I have no soul, my Beloved was killed almost before my eyes, I tried to destroy my best friend, was banished to the Akasha by my own people, and the wo at her There is nothing you can do that will make my existence any more miserable than it already is, demon"

I make you hard when you look at me?

Now is not the time for this discussion

The woman smiled a particularly creepy smile I moved closer to Alec

Stay back, querida

You&039;re unar sword

It&039;s not me she wishes to harm Stay behind me

"Move, Dark One," the woman coet a little inner squeal for the "hard" co to protect me, but I&039;m not some delicate little floho can&039;t protect herself

"Give it up, de a wrath demon This woman is second-in-command to Bael She wieldsto fight her unarmed?

I have no choice

"Do you knoho I am?" she snarled

"I don&039;t particularly care," Alec said, shifting his weight as if he were bored with the conversation "You&039;re wasting your time Go back to Bael and tell him he will not have this woht the de its strength to focus his attention on the woman, his intentions quite clear even toto protect o walked away from me, not to mention so callously killed others in the past, would risk his own life to protect er; I just accepted that he felt that way, and started frantically looking around for so withdown Satan&039;s BFF, but I&039; people like that woman than I do

"She is your Beloved? " the demon asked, speculation rife in her eyes as she tried to look around him to see , "Yes Bael will not have her"

I held es of his

"That she is bound to you will make your destruction that much sweeter, but it means little else to Lord Bael If you wish to amuse e you"

Her blade flashed, causing Alec to leap back I felt the sting of pain in his mind, and knew the demon&039;s sword had slashed him How bad did she hurt you?

Not badly Stay back

Alec, you can&039;t fight her You don&039;t have a weapon She&039;ll just carve you up like a rotisserie chicken

I would thank you for your faith in my abilities to protect you, but I&039;m a little busy at thethat he could use for fighting her I&039;hed as her sword danced around Alec He ed the worst of the sword cuts, shielding me with his body I could feel the pain each ti h

I don&039;t need rocks Just stay behind , the wo clean through his body, popping out his back

"No!" I screa my handful of rocks at her head as I ju to catchmyself on the wo away soony, and as Alec&039;s hands closed around my waist, reality see sound like that of a thousand hissing voices filling rew louder and louder until it burst out of h the air, followed by thein ainst Alec, staring in stupefaction at the sword lying on the rocky ground before us

The wo around itself the only indicator of her presence

"Whatwhat happened? " I asked, instinctively clinging to Alec as he bent to pick up the sword He looked at it curiously for a moment, then turned his head to consider me

"I believe we just received confirmation of our suspicions You destroyed Bael&039;s wrath de here - "

"I thinkI think I used you" He looked back at the sword in his hand "Just as if you were a Tool of Bael, I used the power you harness to destroy the demon&039;s forot some sort of demonic powers ? Because Ito definitely sendto the nearest priest"

"No, you don&039;t have the power itself," he said, now exa his stomach

"Aieee!" I screamed at the blood that soaked the lower half of his shirt "Oh et aa" I spun around, searching for so I could use to stanch the flow of blood "Good lord, what sort of place is this that they don&039;t have a first aid kit?"

"I&039; has stopped"

"Don&039;t be ridiculous," I said, coently but firht rock "You were skewered clean through Those sorts of wounds sio find so in his heelsbetween incredulity and annoyance "You don&039;t want to listen to me, do you?"

"It&039;s not that I don&039;t want to," I said, tugging on hiently as I could "You&039;re in shock You don&039;t knohat you&039;re saying I&039; what&039;s best for you"

A little ripple of surprise clai me?

If you want to call it that

No one has ever done that No one has cared

Well, sheesh, you&039;re hurt, badly hurt, and although I h I can feel your interest in h I ain, I&039;m not so callous that I&039;ll let you die here Or coain

Why not? You think I&039;m a murderer and abuser of women

"I never said you abused a woman I just said you killed one"

"One day ill discuss why you had a vision of my past, but for now, allowyou this" He pulled open his shirt

Instinctively I flinched at the blood on his belly, but then I realized that, rather than looking at a great big gaping hole, I was seeing blood and nothing more

"YouI saw the sword What?" I touched the spot on his stoly red line there, hot to the touch, with dried blood flaking off around it, but no open wound

"Dark Ones have regenerative powers"

I spread htened a little in color froain"

"I lost blood That happens"

"You should feed - "

"No You&039;ve given me toomy arms around in the air as if that proved my point

Querida, as you found out, to a Dark One, the act of feeding can be highly arousing Do you really wish for ain?

The words, spoken with such intio up in flao ahead; then the good part of my brain, the smart part, shoved the inner devil aside and took over "I&039;ive you more blood if you need it, but there will be noplenty He just didn&039;t letbeside hiain to the north "So, about this Tool thing I don&039;t like being evil How do I make it stop?"

"You&039;re not evil; you&039;re sith That&039;s all the Tools are - they have no abilities of their own; they simply allow others to tap into his power"

"So you used lish dude&039;s power to destroy his own dely so, considering that he had just defeated so to make mincemeat of us both "Yes"

"Why aren&039;t you happy about this?" I asked, nudging hi nored, for the ainst hi, isn&039;t it? I&039;h why she wanted to hurtshe wanted to hurt me Maybe she wanted to take ht hand I can assure you that for whatever reason Bael desires your presence - and I assuether, and realizes what happened to the Tools - it is not going to be soes in his head "That doesn&039;t explain why you&039;re not happy about taking down his evil hench a lot of that

"I can&039;t help it My life has suddenly becorip around"I&039;m not happy because if you are now effectively the Occio di Lucifer, itto want you"

I stopped and glared at him "Just because we had sex half an hour after I first saw you doesn&039;tnymphomaniac!"

"Want you to use you, Cora," he interrupted, pulling ainst him "Or, more properly, to use Bael&039;s power"

Horror skittered along my flesh as I understood what it was heup to usethe world with innumerable cruelties "Oh, shit"

"And lucky rim as his expression "It appears you have chosen me to protect you from them all"