[Final Day] Endgame

[arsgoetia]

And just as suddenly as everything had began, the demons are gone—all of them. Not a single crow feather remains. As if being sucked backwards out of a vacuum, sound and light flood into the room and the hallway, crashing down on you. You are back in the real world, with noise and physics and sunlight streaming in through the window.

You are also left with two bereft Bellcourt children, the older of which is suddenly doubling over in his wheelchair and shouting in anguish.

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[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

You said you would tell me everything. Before we're taken back and don't remember any of this . . . I need to hear it from you.

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[looks around the room]

In here?

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

You can't say it here?

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

Only if you don't mind.

Ask and I'll answer.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

I want to know everything.

What happened while you were at the hospital?

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

I woke with Anise. She and I were separated, then she returned with Rita. There wasn't much to it, but David's... shadow... warned us to leave.

We tried, but Isobel discovered us and forced us to Lucia's home.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

Where does Tristan come into this?

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

We may want to step out for this. Kazuki has a crow's eye and ear.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

He--what?

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

In order to gain audience with the crows and argue for Lucia and David, he traded an eye and ear to the demons. It's a pact. They hear and see what he hears and sees.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

Kazuki . . .

Let--let's go out into the hallway then.

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[To the hallway.]

...Isobel is a succubus and Tristan is an incubus. She was suspicious of Tristan, but left us with him in one of the rooms. There was a sigil on the door that Rita and Anise broke through with magic.

However, Tristan had been assisting us as you may be aware. Isobel would know he had been helping the others if we all escaped and left him unharmed, so his idea was Anise and Rita could leave if I stayed as an excuse—a distraction as they broke free.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

[Just . . . trying to absorb.]

And then what happened?

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[a pause]

We've met before on a previous summoning. I learned that, like a Pureblood, he has the power to bend people to his will. He can convince people that they want what he wanted. Charm them. At that time we had... kissed.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

You're saying--he forced you to?!

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[IT WAS A SHADY GRAY ZONE, not correcting or verifying her]

I can recall thinking it might have been a good idea, that he could assist us in the investigation if I gave in... Dean Winchester interrupted us before it could go further. Those thoughts cleared up soon after.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

He--he laughed when I told him your name . . . he didn't tell me anything when I asked how you knew each other . . .

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

He is very powerful and has been doing this for a very long time. He's a demon - it's his nature and what he was made to do, just as vampires are made to desire blood.

But today, he did not need to influence me as much as he had before.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

He--he didn't?

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

Our task was to convince Isobel that I meant to sleep with Tristan, and being a succubus she would know if it was a lie.

And even if it hadn't been our task... I suspected he would try anyway, as he did before. [tone is annoyed] I did not want him to convince me that I desired him. So I made a decision to skip that, and we did have every intention of going further until Isobel interrupted us.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

[This is a lot of information and FEELINGS to process at once. Stepping back leaning heavily against the nearest wall.]

. . . you weren't . . . pretending. I'm an idiot.

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[PROCESS AWAY]

He had the nerve to tell me you were looking for me, after.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

. . . I told him to give you that message if he saw you. I thought . . . that he was doing me a favor.

You bit him.

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[stands here without moving and continues]

He agreed to it. In a way, it may have been like a trade. It was quite different from any other, filled with a power... [actually, it tasted pretty damn good]

Through it, I gained some information.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

[SUPER NOT INTERESTED IN HEARING HOW ANOTHER PERSON'S BLOOD TASTED TO YOU :(]

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