Raven
A Monster
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“Demons aren’t supposed to feel the virtues. We can feel the Deadly Sins. My favorite has
been lust. Sex is something in of itself. When I was warned to stay away from
the Angel, of course I didn’t. I started going to the bar and talking with her.
Flirting with her. When she moved and became a cadet at the police academy, I would
make sure to run into her when she came to work random shifts at the bar. Or
even when she came to the diner or bar to talk to Morgan and Jo. When I first
realized my lust had skidded into the unmentionable virtue and I was going into
a downward spiral of appreciation and… affection, I started to sleep with
anybody and everybody. I was running from the feelings, of course, I am a Demon!
I don’t… love… I went home with a different mortal each night, had se, made a
deal, and then did t again to keep my thoughts off the Angel. And I did this
until it didn’t work, and I started calling her name no matter the body I was
with at the time. So, I started causing battles with her instead… Sometimes
fighting could be just as good as sex…”
Raven sat upon the bar stool at
Jo’s, he had no real idea why he was here. I stopped picking up random mortals,
the high just wasn’t there anymore. The Angel had destroyed him. He went from the
model Demon to… to this excuse for an immortal Earl of Hell. If his minions saw him now, they would revolt,
rebel, they would re-something anyways. The Angel. That was why he sat at the
bar with a beer and was depressed. He
sat watching her bring out her wings, it was past closing time and no mortals
were in the bar. They were almost all gold, meaning she still tried to be a
good little Angel. Sinning only when needed, a lie here, a lie there, about her
past. Or stealing to live. There are grey’s too. Her sins she had chosen.
Cursing is what she told Jo, but Raven wondered if any of them were lust. If
she had given into any of the Deadly Sins. He got up and made his way towards
the girls. Drunk enough now to be stupid enough to ask the question. Frank and Lucas grabbed his arm. “Let me go.”
He slurred out as he tried to continue that way. He had to ask HIS Angel a
question.
“You are drunk,” Lucas drawled. “Sit
down.”
“I gotta ask the angel a
question!”
“Why?” Frank didn’t really care,
he was just trying to delay him from going over there and embarrassing himself.
Anybody with even a half of brain can figure out the Demon fell once more, this
time for a Fallen Angel that had the power to say no to Satan.
“Because she makes me a worse demon
than the one in the book she has fallen in love with!”
“Which one is that?” Lucas sat
back with his hands behind his head and smirked.
“That one! Where the angel, who
really revels in the deadly sins, and the demon hid the fact that he reveled in
the virtues. The pair she calls the ineffable
husbands! That demon is a disgrace to demons!
Cares about kids, kind regards of what he says, in love with a blood
sinning angel! And I gotta ask MY Angel a question! While I am drunk! Or I won’t
be able to ask her!”
Lucas let go, “well, go on, I am
curious what question could make a demon nervous!” He laughed as he drained the
rest of his beer.
Frank looked like he wanted to
protest, but he let Raven go; it would at least give them some entertainment
while his mother and Bo were out spoiling his daughter.
Raven stumbled over there. “Angel!
Angel!”
Alyssa looked at Raven and
tilted her head. “What is it, Raum?” She still insisted on calling him by his
real name.
He smirked, “You want to keep
calling me by my name, perhaps I should call you by yours, after all your
signal is still branded upon the back of your neck.”
“What is it you want, Raum?” Alyssa
sighed, it wasn’t like anybody couldn’t look up who she was, it was obvious
after all, her signal, as she kept her hair short.
“Well, Anael,
I was wondering, if any of your grey feathers are because you have had sex?”
Alyssa spit out her drink. “What?
No! And the feathers would be a deep rich royal blue if I gave into lust. Even
if there is love behind it.
Alyssa was growing flustered at
the questions. She knew he was just picking another fight, and she didn’t feel
like fixing up the bar, again. “Leave me alone, Raum.”
Raven sneered and then jumped. “Come
one, Anael, you think you are so much better than me! We are both FALLEN! We
are both the same!” He threw here against the wall, it buckled under the force
and broke the frames that were upon it.
“WE ARE NOT THE SAME!” Alyssa
screamed as she used her wings to push herself from the wall and push him back.
Before she took to the air and used gravity to come down upon him with her full
strength, pushing him through the floor.
The fight was destroying the
bar, Jo was a bit peeved, but it wasn’t anything that hadn’t happened before.
Raven moved and finally got an amulet around her neck. And with that it gave him the boost he needed,
along with his connection to hell, to get her on the ground.
“It is the eleventh hour, what
will you do dear Angel?” Raven smirked as he held her throat in his fist.
“Let me go, Raum!” She struggled
to be let go. “Where did you get this amulet?”
“At my eleventh hour, I had implemented
plans A thru Z on how to get over you, I had gone into apocalypse mode and put
all my avoidance skills to the test. But I can’t get you out of my mind or heart.
If I can’t have you in a romantic way, I will have you thinking I am the enemy.
After all, fighting can be as good as sex, when one wins dominance.”
Alyssa used what strength she
had, though it was being contained by the blood stone forged in hell, a blood
stone that was once the soul of an angel made diamond, corrupted by hell,
around her neck. It was just enough to
push him back, and his back hit window busting it, but not going through it.
“If you want me come,” Alyssa
panted out, it had been three hours of none stop battling and it was now the
Devil’s hour. “Come and get me.” She stood but swayed.
Raven paused and smirked, he
rubbed the sweat and blood from his face and kept his hand upon his chin as if
in thought. “Want you in what way, Angel? Don’t get me wrong, both involve
ropes, but it is an important distinction to make before we proceed.”
Alyssa blinked, “what on this
forsaken Earth do you mean?”
“Think about it a moment Angel,
what else could I do while I had you tied down?”
Alyssa’s eyes went wide, and she
sputtered. ‘You think I mean sex?” She dropped the pool cue she had been using.
“I can’t have sex! I am an Angel! It would mean giving in to the Deadly Sins!”
Raven moved closer, “you are a Fallen,
Angel. That means you can give into any sin you want. Including the Deadlies. I
think you would look perfect with Royal Blue Wings. Only sin a deadly can’t
over take is murder. A few black with the Royal Blues, maybe some Violet for
that Pride of yours.” He was right up close to her, his own pool cue, long forgotten.
“Come on Angel, join me in the Sins.” He unleashed his own wings.
Alyssa gasped, she saw the Wrath
Red, Lust Royal Blue, Sloth Sky Blue, Gluttony Orange, Greed Yellow, and Envious
Green. Al of them mixed black. It made
her swallow. They were gorgeous. She
backed up and her back hit the wall.
Raven smirked as he sauntered
towards her and pined her between his arms. “See what they could become? Come
join me, Angel.” He brushed his lips against her skin. “You are a Fallen. You can do what you want.
You are a free agent. You aren’t even bound by Hell, not like I am. So, join
me, join our own side.” He smirked, he could quote her favorite book. “You ruined
me you know.” He placed one hand on her hip. “I can’t even be a good demon. I am
stuck in this look of that unmentionable virtue, a downward spiral of admiration
and affection.” He kissed her neck
again. “Join me…” He kissed up her neck until his lips hovered over hers. “Join
me in our second fall.”
“Raum…” Alyssa bit her lip. He was tempting her, so
tempting to let him lead her down that rabbit hole. “I… I was…” Alyssa swallowed, “I was always
the purist of Angels. I fell for my love of humanity. I fell to save a human, because
I loved them. I love these damned broken souls. If I give in, them that angel I
was is truly gone. And never coming back.”
“That is a good thing!” Raven placed
his other hand on her hip and pulled her towards him. “Do you want to be that angel that followed
orders like a good little girl? Do you want to be the angel that stood by and
watched as the beings you love were hurt, killed, tortured, or destroyed? Do
you want to be her? Because I didn’t like her! I didn’t love her! I fell for
the angel that is becoming a cop. I love the angel that is secretly getting
justice and vengeance for those who hurt kids! The spells and the curses and
leading our monster family towards them! I never in all the eons I have been
alive, as an angel, or as the human that got tricked into making a deal with
the devil, or as a demon, ever let myself feel the virtues. Then you skid into
my life and destroy me! Not because you are an angel, not because you are GOOD,”
he spat the word. “But because you have a set of standards, of rules, you live
by! You FELL, because you couldn’t do it any longer. When I was an angel I fell
because I didn’t want to choose a side! I became human because I didn’t choose
a side, reborn loads of times, before I made a deal with Lucifer, and gave him
my soul. I became a demon and remembered everything. You stand for something, I
fell for anything because I didn’t. That is why when I fell the second time it
was without noticing! It was without resistance! I fell Angel, and it is for
who you are now, not who you were then, for this woman standing in front of me right
now! With her anything but white wings! With wings that will go from this gold
to a deep rich blue, to a deep rich black as you embrace the Fallen Angel of
Justice and Vengeance you are! Don’t be afraid to embrace the change… because
you are leaving the shallow end, you are leaving the sand, join me! Join me in
the ocean of desire, join me on the mountain top of love. Join me Angel in this
fall!” He then kissed her with all the lust, want, affection, appreciation, desire,
and love he felt for her. When his lungs screamed for the air, he didn’t really
need he pulled back. “Join me, Angel. My Earth Angel, join me.”
Alyssa swallowed, she looked up
into his eyes, through her lashes, her hands had found their way into his hair
during the kiss. She took a breath. She never felt anything like she was
feeling now. “Show me.” She straightened and with more confidence stated. “Show
me how to Fall.” She stated as she pulled his head back down so she could run
her lips over his, whispering, “show me how, Raum.”
Raven pulled her closer and
kissed her again and he flapped his wings and used his abilities to disappear
from the bar, he felt her powers repair it.
He internally chuckled, his Angel would always have the streak of having
to do what was right. And he would never change her core being, he just wanted
to bring out who she truly was, and that was HIS Angel.
He fell the first time because
he was a coward who didn’t want to fight. As a human he made a deal he never
should have, and had always regretted, especially after getting his memories
back. He no longer regrets it, for as a
Demon he finally found his completion, in a Fallen Angel who, was just enough
of a saint to hide among the humanity she fell to protect. No, he would never
regret his choices, because this second fall, was worth every pain and moment
of hell he had ever gone through. For he fell to meet his Angel.
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