Burning Desire (Alastor X Reader)

Part 2/ Chapter 2: The awakening

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The radio demon was not satisfied. He understood that he had to be patient with your condition. However, your recovery was slow... so slow that it was almost torture, especially when he saw no signs of improvement in a week.

During that first week you would sometimes wake up screaming in pain, when this happened, the whole hotel couldn't fail to be aware of it. Your fever and pain were so intense that in your delirium, your powers went out of control. Once you blew the fuses in the hotel and burned out many light bulbs with your electricity.

Another time in another delirium, you even attacked Boris and Charlie with a light wolf similar to the one you used to repel Alastor on the day of the extermination while they were changing your bandages. Luckily, no one was hurt and you were easily overpowered.

Fortunately, by the middle of the second week your seizures were becoming less and less frequent, but you were still screaming in agony and shouting things, which were incomprehensible at times.

There were a few times when your sentences made sense. Once you called your mother and father, a doctor and your child.

At times he heard your voice calling him, and each time he could not help but smile with pride. He would often respond to your desperate calls with a caress on your cheek while whispering encouraging words. He was truly delighted to have a place in your dreams, whether it was good or bad. Just knowing that he had made a place for himself in your mind was enough to fill him with happiness.

Other times, times he wished he wasn't there, your boyfriend's name would slip from your lips, causing an unpleasant feeling on his back. How could you continue to call this angelic junk? This angel was, let's be honest, quite different from what he had imagined, considering your difficult relationship with men in general, he would hardly have imagined him being able to put you in such a state.

On the other hand, a part of him was almost... "satisfied" that things had turned out this way. At least this ghost will leave your mind oneday or another. He had to be very patient once again.

There was still a name that came out of your mouth from time to time. Usually when you said it, your face was twisted in pure terror. Often you opened your eyes and shouted incomprehensible things in Russian. Once he seemed to hear Nikolai's name in tyour delirium and then again this name: "Gurvan".

The same name by which you had called him when he had tried to prevent you from leaving the hotel during the extermination. He had some doubts about the owner of this name. Nevertheless, his first theory was that it must be your boss.

Alastor put his coffee cup on the nightstand with a sigh, and closed the book he had finished reading. It was the fourth one he had read to you in the past three long weeks. His bags under his eyes were clearly much more visible and his once properly combed hair, looking slightly more unkempt as the days passed.

He was also eating a lot less, which deeply worried Niffty, the little one-eyed demoness couldn't help but come and visit him when he was in your room, offering him something to eat, or a coffee from time to time. She kept him company from time to time to his great happiness, it was always better than Vaggie or Boris.

Rosie had also come to see you two days after the extermination, she had brought some flowers for you. It was a very nice mix of bright colors, there were yellow roses, a beautiful lily of pure white that sat beautifully in the center of the bunch and Lisianthus with various shades. The foliage chosen only embellished the bunch of flowers with this mixture of ferns, aspidistra and pandanus.

There was nothing to say, Rosie knew exactly what flowers to offer in any situation.

Alastor had noted her slightly saddened look when the female overlord had first seen you since the extermination. Of course, she remained true to herself, and did her best not to break any of her codes of conduct. She kept her smile in place on her face, but it was clearly noticeable that the businesswoman was troubled by your condition. Soon after seeing your condition, she called and came to the hotel regularly to check on you. She also came to bring you drinks made with various herbs from hell to help you recover your strength faster and ease your pain.