𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬

Chapter One

   It had been a while since the duo had done anything; forced to be locked up in their territory, "training" to their grave. The boss had ordered them to be kept on the downlow, as Jay had more recently come out as trans, and while on a mission had a seemingly random panic attack. No one but Brooke, Jay, and Ashton knew what happened to his brain, to make him completely shut down on one of the more important missions. 

   Since then, the two had been kept back at their "home" base, having to deal with backlash, discrimination, and just overall cruelty. But that was to be expected, the two lived in one of the most notoriously worse gangs in the area- their main priority was demon and angel hunting, but to keep that on the more downlow, the gang also did drug deals, traded with other gangs, and did most of everything to keep Salvation at the top. 

   Tiredly, Jay groaned and sat up from the bed in his purposely darkened room, stretching before leaning over to his phone to see a text from Brooke; not atypical anymore. Since the incident, Brooke has been keeping tabs on Jay more often- they came to this hell hole together and they sure as hell are going to leave together, so Brooke makes sure Jay didn't leave without her. Yawning, he responds as usual and gets up to put his hoodie on and make his way to the cafeteria.  With a sigh, he plops himself in the seat infront of Brooke.

   "Good morning to you too," Brooke says sarcastically.

   "Oh hush, you know as well as I that I don't sleep well," Brooke just nods and takes a bite of her cereal. 

   She looked up at the slightly dazed face of her friend before speaking. "You not going to eat anything again today?"

   He picked at his thumbs a little and eventually shook his head, trying to shake off any negative feeling he has. "No.. not today, I don't think," Once again, Brooke nods in understandment and continues eating. 

   After a minute of the two mindlessly scrolling on their phones in the caf, a sharp noise of someone clearing their throat interrupts them. Almost hesitantly, the duo look up at the direction of the noise, to see none other than Ashton. Jay felt like the world beneath him dropped all of a sudden, and he gripped at his phone like it was the only thing anchoring him to reality. Ashton smirked at how visibly pale Jay got before speaking. "Hare, Ghost, meet me in my office in ten," and with that he walked away.

   After he was sure he was gone, Jay let out a strained breath that he didn't realize he was holding. Brooke cleared her throat and put her stuff away, and the duo immidiately bee-lined it to the brunet's room.

--

   Ashton was sitting in his office, working though some paperwork the boss had given him. He was going to be promoted as the new boss soon, as Jaziah was losing his health. He huffed slightly, as the papers started to pile on, but before he could give himself a break, the Boss walked in. 

   "Ashton," he spoke, making said person jump slightly, not realizing he was there. "We have a new mission that needs to be dealt with, and I think I know who I want to have be the bait,"

--

   Jay was sitting on Brooke's bed, silently panicking. Had he done something wrong again? What was his punishment going to be this time? Had he somehow gotten Brooke into it and now she was going to get punished? He hoped not.. but before the kid could spiral anymore, Brooke snapped him out of it.

   "Hey! Jay, are you still with me?" He jumped slightly, eyes snapping to Brooke's.

   "Ah- yeah, s-sorry, how much longer do we have?" He asked, hoping to keep the topic off of him specifically for as long as possible.

   "Its almost time. Catch your breath and calm your tics, we don't know how long we'll be there or what he wants of us. The less nervous you seem, the better."

   The male chuckled slightly. "Alright, mom, I'll be sure to do that," Brooke rolled her eyes playfully, and turned to put a better hoodie on.

   Jay took a deep breath and closed his eyes, this time relaxing a little, not thinking as to prevent his mind from spiraling, and once he opened his eyes again he nodded at Brooke, and the two went on their way to the Second In Command's office.

--

   "Congratulations, you two, a mission has just opened up! We do believe that you two will be able to fit perfectly for this opportunity." Ashton said with fake enthusiasm, probably to impress the Boss who was sitting five feet away from him. 

   Nervously, Brooke looked at Jay then back at Ash. "May I ask sir, what is this mission?"

--End--

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