Dealing with Devils

Chapter 10
Leigh’s POV

I stare back at her, I can see she is resisting but decide to ride it out for a while, and then is when I see it. A golden glint goes across her eyes. I take a deep breath and dive into the wolfs world.

I look around, I am greeted with something that surprises and impresses me. The wolf isn’t in the usual place that I see, usually they are stalking things. Hunting I guess but this wolf isn’t it is sitting almost like a dog in front of me in a green grassy field that seems to go on forever. The sky is blue and the sun in warm but not too hot I can see what looks like an oasis a while away to my left. Still the wolf watches me intently.

“Hey… you know me right? Seen me before… know what I am?”

The wolf tilts its head in a pet dog sort of way then nods, now I know its strange… dogs don’t nod right? Well this place isn’t like an ordinary place at all. “The slayer.” The wolf says, it’s voice is male and sort of gravely.

“You can feel it cant you? I can sense your confusion.”

“Your title suggests you wish me harm but I sense you do not.” Okay the wolf is very formal, didn’t see that one coming.

“You are correct, I do not wish you harm unless you harm others. I have come here to get you to trust me somehow, so that Jamie can trust me and then I can help you both.” I say.

“How so? How will you help?” he asks back.

“I do not kill unless there is no other alternative. I want to help you and Jamie come to an understanding, I want to make it so she doesn’t not have to lock herself up in the full moon, I want to make it so she can say when she does not want you to come out, the world has changed since your kind were conceived, people now get scared as if they need the wolf when in fact they do not, they can feel what you expect to be need for you when they do not need you… we need to sort this out.” I pause for a while to give the wolf some time to think on that. “But also I want to make things better for you, if you both can come to an agreement then you could come out more often, in a safe place a place like this maybe where you can run in the sun or swim in a lake. We need to find balance.”

The wolf again looks thoughtful.

“I shall give you time to think on this, and I am not saying it will be easy… well easier for you because you already seem to be a little integrated but it will still need some work.” With that I withdraw and find myself sitting on the ground behind the smoking shelter.

“What the hell was that? You did hypnotise me!” Jamie exclaims.

I laugh at her.

“Don’t laugh at me, I don’t go poking around in your psyche without asking!”

“Jamie, look at me…” She reluctantly does. “…What do you feel?”

I smile as she tilts her head much as her wolf counterpart had done not long ago.

Jamie’s POV

“Yeah so how do you feel?” My eyes shoot up to see Jo coming round the corner with her arms folded over her chest. Oh now she’s jealous. Now. Not when I was fearing for my life, now when I’m not even sure what’s going on.

“Oh shit.” I say more to myself than anyone else. I have a vague idea what this looks like.

“What are you two doing?” Is Eddie smiling at me? Why is everyone doing that today?

I look over at Leigh for some help. Not like I can say she was just poking round in my psyche and there’s nothing going on can I? To be quite honest I’m not so sure what went on there. She’s just laughing at me. No help there then.

“Well.” I start but where the fuck, do I go from there? Ok think fast. Just say something embarrassing. “Leigh thinks she’s pregnant.” Where the fuck did that come from?

Aha that stopped her laughing. She’s looking at me like I’ve just grown another head. I look up to the sky and in my chest I can feel the sun starting to set. It’s another full moon tonight. I need to get to my cage and soon. She follows my eyes to the sky and seems to understand.

“Yeah…” She drags out the word. I’m not sure that she believes I said that yet. She turns back to he intruders I don’t really want to talk about it. I’ve got a test in my bag and need moral support. Oh look Jamie’s going to come with me bye.”

I’m pulled to my feet and away before in know it. I think she’s going to pull my arm right out of its socket. Hold on are we actually going to the toilet? “Hey. The sun is going down we don’t have time for a piss break.”

“Just trust me.” I’m beginning to hate that sentence.

I roll my eyes, as I’m literally dragged into the public bathroom. “Again going to turn into murderous animal. I don’t really think that this place...” I gesture around at the tiled walls and flimsy stalls. “…Is going to be sturdy enough to hold me.” If I could just leak a little more sarcasm into my voice I recon I could taste it.

“Just…” She struggles to find the right wording. “Shut up.” Direct to the point. I like it. Wow what the fuck? She just pushed me into a cubical and non to lightly I might add.

She then steps in with me. Now what kind of person would I be if I didn’t make a comment here? A nice one you say. Na this is much more fun. “What happened to dinner and a movie first?”

“You wish sweet heart.” She says taking a quick look around before shutting the door in the small space. “Take my hands.” She says holding her hands out to me.

“What?” I ask, this girl is a fucking weirdo.

“Take my hands!” She says again.

“What?” I say a little louder, I then hear the door to the bathroom open and Leigh decides that time to say one of the most inappropriate things I think I have ever heard.

“Just fucking touch me!” I hear someone gasp from outside the cubicle and then the door opens and closes again… I guess they went away.

“Touch you where?” I ask still confused.

With that she lets out a frustrated scream and grabs my wrists. As she does the world disappears and is replaced by a mass of swirling blue lights. I finally manage to yank my wrists out of her hands as I feel my feet touch solid ground. As then I hit the floor.

“Wow that was fucking weird.” I say from my position on the floor. Which happens to be lying face down on it. Ohh wooden floor it’s all shiny.

“Language.” I hear from another room. I’m being told off for my language and I just… teleported here.

I get up onto my knees and take a look around. I have to let out an impressed whistle. This place is huge.

“No time to look at the architecture.” Lot’s of big words come out of this girl. Leigh pulls my to my feet and then pulls me though like 3 or 4 rooms till we reach the kitchen. Someone is standing at the island in the middle. Yes there is an island. This place is huge. “Hey Izzy.” She says this without stopping. And drags me through a small door to my left. I have enough time to wave before I’m dragged thought the door.

I get pushed down the stairs then pushed away from Leigh… into a huge cage. I hear the door close with a long drawn out creak and the padlock put in place. “This is not helping the trust issue.” I turn with a smile on my face and gesture around me.

“Oh I don’t know little bit of kink can do wonders for trust issues.” Is she flirting with me? Are we flirting with each other?

I don’t have time to ponder this as the pain rips through my stomach telling me I’m changing. Time to get serious. “That’s not going to hold me.” This thing looks really flimsy.

“You’d be surprised.” Well she did just teleport me here so I just take her word for it.

I nod at this. “Get out.”

“Why you can’t get to me through this.” I see her put another padlock on for good measure.

“I don’t want you to see me change.” So I’m a little embarrassed. Sue me.

She nods and turns to leave and I start to quickly pull my clothing off me. I manage to get off my shirt and bra off before the pain rips though me again throwing me onto my knees. I’m going to need another new pair of jeans.

I feel my throat going horse from my screaming and everything goes black.