The Beautiful and the Damned
Sharing demons

BETHEL:

I had woken up few minutes ago and the first thing I saw was a worried looking Cyrus and a passed out Rina.

Presently I was in my living room of my apartment, and yh if you're wondering my apartment was quite big if I do say so myself. I wasn't the one that paid the rent, it was my dad. He always hated the idea of me paying my rent by myself saying he made more than enough money for the both of us combined. He made a pretty decent income from his line of work, he was a consultant, a pretty bad ass one at that.

"Argh" the mumbling of a groan drew my attention.

I looked at Rina who was apparently the source of the noise. She was soundly sleeping on my couch, I really don't know how she got here but all I knew was that I was happy that she wasn't hurt.

Definitely I really wanted to ask her a shit load of questions at the moment, but I didn't want to disturb her as she slept, when she wakes up then I can bombard her with all my questions.

"Where the fuck is Cyrus, he has been gone for an hour now" I muttered to myself.

When I first woke up like I said the first person I saw was Cyrus, he looked extremely worried for some reason. He didn't even waste anytime, immediately he saw I was awake he hastily said he would be back soon and disappeared into thin air. Apparently soon now has turned to an hour. Where was he?

"Mi amor"a voice suddenly whispers, incredibly close to my ear. I jumped a little and tried to throw a punch at the culprit but I was sadly blocked.

"For goodness sake Seker, what the actual hell?" I turned around and glared at the smirking god.

"What?" He asked acting clueless.

"Don't sneak up on me ever again, I could have killed you" I huffed.

"Over exaggeration much Amica mea?" Giving a playful smile he walks closer to me.

"The punch you threw at me probably couldn't even hurt a fly" he teased releasing a chuckle. "Could too" I replied childish.

"Yeah right" he gave me a look. I chuckled but stopped as I spotted something odd on his cheeks.

"What's that?" I pointed out stepping closer to him not knowing when my hands moved on their own and touched he's cheeks. He stiffened as I made contact with him, I tried as much to ignore the Sparks I felt on doing so. "What is what?" He asked

"This" I said showing him the black sticky-like liquid I got from his skin on my hand.

His eyes widened a fraction upon seeing what I showed him if I wasn't close enough to him I wouldn't have noticed the slight enlargement of his eyes. Although he tired as much to keep a straight and a cool facade I saw through it. "Oh that's just my black hair gel" he said.

"But you aren't putting on any gel" I pointed out giving him a look.

Apparently he had changed his clothes before coming -he was now putting on casual wears- probably because his suit got torn in Rina's house.

"I'm not?" He was trying to play dumb.

"No you're not" I deadpanned "So what is this" I asked once more. Was I being to curious and pricky?

"Amica mea its probably nothing, no need to dig too deep into it" he looked slightly annoyed now. It was just a question.

"Fine I'll drop it" I huffed, now a little annoyed myself.

"How are you feeling" he asked out of nowhere. Bipolar much?

I looked at him wondering why he was asking. I mean I wasn't sick or anything.

"I'm fine?" It sounded a lot more like a question than an answer.

"You're sure?" I nodded my head still trying to wrap my head around why he was asking.

I then realized and remembered something and proceeded to glare at the tall hunk of a male standing no less than one feet away from me. "Youuu!" I drawled out.

"Me?" He was now the one confused.

"Yes you!" I confirmed.

"What did I do?" Twisting his head slightly to the side he asked. He looked somewhat like a puppy in doing so. Though he looked madly cute I was still pissed.

"You bloody fucker! What the hell did you fuckin do to me?" I fiercely asked.

"What are you talking about?" He asked "And also damn woman Cyrus was right, you do curse a lot, dare I say even worst than a sailor" he muttered shaking his head slightly.

I gave him a more intensified glare.

"At Rina's house remember? you used your weird shitty god powers on me didn't you? You made me fall asleep" I accused him.

"Oh right. that" he scratched the back of his neck awkwardly. I must admit seeing the oh soo infamous Angel of death nervous was quite a sight.

"Yeah that" I mimicked the deep tone of his voice.

"I had to Amica mea, it was to protect you" he sighed.

"Protect me? From what exactly" I raised an eyebrow.

"Not from what Amica mea, more like from who" he said.

"Okay then, from who?" I rolled my eyes briefly.

"Wait" I said "Is it from that weird oddly pale red eyed looking guy from before? If it was from him I could have easily whopped his ass one time" I sassed.

"No not him, I'm pretty sure you could have handled yourself quite well Regiña meüm" he chuckled a smirk playing on his lips.

"I mean.... that is not exactly a lie" I huffed in a playful arrogant manner then smiled.

"But wait, if it's not from him then who where you trying to protect me from?" I asked blatantly curious.

"Me Amica mea, I was trying to protect you from me" I stared at him, like really stared at him. I just couldn't understand the man one bit, what on Earth was he saying. Protect me from him? I mean I know I haven't known the guy for the longest of times but the one thing I knew in my heart was that he could never actually hurt me. Don't ask me how I knew that, even I couldn't answer that. Maybe it was related to us being soulmates and all, who knows.

"That doesn't make any sense Seker" I voiced out my impending thoughts.

"Something's are better left unexplained love" he said, his eye glazing over like he was remembering something. What is going through your head Seker.

"Bu.." I started but stopped almost immediately knowing he was probably going to tell me to drop it or avoid answering my question all together.

He always did that, it was like taking three steps forward with him and then a million steps backwards in return.

I sighed.

"Okay" I said with a shrug.

"Okay?" He scrunched his nose a little not believing I let it go that easily. I mean I know I argue a lot blame it on my line of work would you.

"What else did you want me to say, not like you were going to answer my question if I had asked "I shrugged once more.

He himself heaved a sigh, he looked apologetic towards me.

"When the right time comes Amica Mae I promise I will explain everything to you, you should know I'm not a good man Bethel, I'm very far from that. I have a shit ton of a demons I'm dealing with, and I am not too sure they will ever leave me" this is probably the first time that Seker had ever said anything relating to himself on a personal level, though it was quite vague It was still something.

"Then let me share those demons with you Seker" it came out of my mouth so naturally even I was shocked by my words.

"Unfortunately Amica mea you can't share them with me" he said giving me what looked like a grateful smile. "Why?" I asked in a low voice.

With enough emotions in his voice he responded with a sad smile "Because they are too big, even for me to handle".