The god complex (Book one of The Devil's Daughter trilogy)

Chapter twenty-eight.

My throat burns with the need for water, I moan out to Night or anyone to get me a cup of water. Someone hands me a glass of water and tips the cups to my mouth replenishing my thirst, I sigh with happiness and try to open my eyes to see the person who gave me the water but they stay shut.

"Sleep Fire," I want to open my eyes even more since I can't place the voice to a face and I just lay there in the hospital bed helpless.

"Who are you?" My voice is rough and the door opens letting me know that Night is back but not before the voice answers me.

"I am a friend or foe, I have not yet decided." My eyes instantly open as the pressure in the room lifts and the voice is nowhere to be found only Night who sits next to me asleep.

"Night, wake up." I shake him awake and he yawns as he stretches and then he stands.

"What is it? Did something happen?" His hair is a mess but somehow he still manages to make it seem effortlessly cool. He smiles once and catches me looking at him and I smirk, he knows how handsome he is and he knows how to work it.

"I'm not sure. I could have been dreaming." I rub at my head with my good arm and wince at the slight movement of my bad shoulder. "Why does this still hurt so bad, I should be healed by now?" Night shakes his head at me and my ignorance, he's told me about twenty times already why it hurts so bad and I still won't listen to him. "I know, I know. I just hate being here stuck in the hospital and not being able to do a damn thing."

"Shh. Just sleep some more." He sits back down in the chair yawning and closing his eyes leaving me awake and bored.

"Thanks." I throw back the thin flimsy blanket carefully, watching out for my bad shoulder. My feet touch the cold tiles making me shiver and curse quietly, I don't want to wake Night because he'll just gripe at me about staying in bed. I grab the iv stand and pull it beside me and exit the room leaving Night behind. The hospital is quiet but also very loud at the same time, there is no talking but the sound of the machines follow behind me like a silent giant.

I slightly pull the iv beside me as I stroll down the hall silently watching everyone there. A nurse looks up from her station and nods at me with a glimmer in her eye. She was there when I was dying, she must see me as a miracle, if only she knew who I was. She turns away from me and I feel my stomach churn and she is walking toward me as I am falling. I latch onto her arm and I feel the pull almost instantly. My eyes darken and I know my demon is unleashed, it howls inside of me with hunger and strikes out. The cameras hum with electricity making me roar in anger and exploding them in an instant, the woman cries in my hold. I tilt my head slightly at her and smile.

"Please, oh God. Please don't do this." I smile as I pull her and myself up from the ground and hoist her into the air.

"I am your God." I squeeze her arm until it starts to blister and see my flames flicker in her eyes, and they slowly consume her from the inside. This is my power and it is building because of Apollo's power too.

"FIRE!" I turn to face him but I decide not to, he will only be disappointed. This isn't me, the poison is fueling my darkness and I can't stop it.

"Night." I raise the nurse higher up until her eyes begin to water with tears and my stomach churns again this time with hunger. I close my eyes I no longer want to be this monster but this is who I am. I drop her before she can pass out and I tear into her throat. She screams but no one wakes, my power is growing stronger. He pulls on me but I throw him away and he goes spiraling, I rip out her windpipe to stop the screaming and slice into her. Her blood covers the walls as it splatters and I just laugh. I eat everything, slurping up her blood and devouring her entrails leaving only her bones and hair. The demon subsides leaving me at the feet of its destruction.