The Devil and I.

Betrayal.

When I woke I wasn't in my home, I was in an dark, empty warehouse tied to a chair. It smelt like oil and dust. Newt and Dolly were not there. I panicked and started pulling at the ropes that kept me attached to the chair causing immense pain in my wrists. From behind me I heard David chuckling at me,
"That won't do you any good."
"David please, please let me go!"
"I can't do that Emily."
I looked around and saw David propped against some railings.
"Where are Newt and Dolly?"
He pushed himself off the railing and sat in front of me putting his hands on my legs even though they were soaked through he didn't respond to it,
"Don't worry they will be out to play soon."
I didn't want to cry but after all this I thought I would be safe, I thought my baby would be safe. Morgan would never be able to find us, he wouldn't be able to bury us. We were lost to him.
"Oh don't cry Emily."
He brought his hand to my face and wiped the tears away even when new ones replaced the previous ones. His face softened and he slightly patted my thighs. I was scared and embarrassed, I had wet myself when I was hiding and now David was touching it. He started laughing and shook his head.
"Emily you didn't wet yourself, you went into labour."
"What?"
"Your baby is on the way."
I was shocked surely I would have felt something other than wetting myself. I would have felt a pain or something, David shook his head again and took my face in his hands.
"You want pain? Wait till it gets in full swing."
He started laughing. His eyes wandered to look over my shoulder to what sounded like approaching footsteps but he held his hand up and the noise stopped. He examined my face and lowered himself to make eye contact. He licked his lips and closed his eyes,
"I'm going to ask you a question, please answer honestly. Did you trust your friends?"
"What?"
"Did you, Emily, trust your friends?"
I nodded and he opened his eyes, his black ones burning into my brown eyes,
"You shouldn't have."
"What do you mean."
He welcomed the thing behind me, before I could see what it was he covered my eyes and whispered in my ear,
"Surprise!"
He removed his hand and I saw my two friends standing before me. Newt looked blank but Dolly was smiling and throwing her hair about. David walked over to them and he and Dolly put their arms on Newt's shoulder, they looked like a group photo, but there was something off with Newt like he wasn't there at all.
"What is this?"
"This Emily is how I kept an eye on you when I was banished and forced from your house."
I gasped. My friends.
"Well only one of them, I was just toying with you. Newt had nothing to do with it but he looked to pretty to leave behind."
"Dolly? How could you? I was your friend!"
She looked at me with a slight flirtation about her green eyes,
"You were my friend yes, but David is my lover."
She shoved Newt to the floor and reached to kiss David but he moved out of the way, she looked put out.
"Doll tie him to a chair, now Emily what will happen is you will have this baby, my nephew, then you will die and I shall leave taking what I came for."
Dolly struggled to lift Newt up, she was huffing and swearing and looking at the back of David's head as if she was asking for help but he just rolled his eyes. He snapped his fingers and Newt put himself in the chair. He turned to face Dolly.
"Do you think you can handle tying him up or do I have to do that as well?"
She put her hands on her hips and pointed to me,
"Well I knocked her out didn't I?"
He looked at me and then back at Dolly,
"Just tie this bastard up you useless whore."
She didn't even look offended she looked excited, it dawned on me that maybe the Dolly I knew wasn't real maybe it had all been an act from day one. David concentrated on me,
"You just can't get the help can you."
I completely ignored him,
"Why Dolly?"
She didn't stop tying Newt up when she answered me,
"Because Emily, I love him and he loves me, he is so much better for me than Newt. He is exciting and better in the sheets."
"But why do this to me?"
She finished tying Newt up and walked over to me,
"Emily what you don't understand is I can't be a mother, never. David has promised me this one. You don't deserve this baby or Morgan. What makes you so special?"
"Shut up Dolly your voice is annoying me."
David pushed her away, again she looked put out but didn't say anything back to him.
"Dolly he doesn't love you, he has been using you!"
"Who fucks the Devil anyway?"
David looked more annoyed and it looked like it was building every time Dolly breathed. He looked at her and smiled, but it was so sinister. He called her over and they went to where Newt was sitting, David snapped his fingers again and Newt was back in the room.
"Dolly what's going on?"
David pulled a knife out of thin air and handed it to Dolly,
"Dolly! Don't please don't!"
"Oh I'm so sorry Newt but I don't give a fuck about your pleading! You make my skin crawl!"
She stabbed him in the leg, his screams wounded me, I closed my eyes until I felt David's hand on my bump,
"Shhh Emily, just let her have a bit of fun before the climax."
He winked at me and stood next to Newt's chair while staring at me.
"If it wasn't for me Newt you would have ended up with her!"
She jabbed the knife in my direction,
"It's my gift you see, I can make people believe what I want them to. I've been doing it for years now."
She stabbed him again in the same leg. This time instead of screaming he clamped down on his lip making that bleed but he was looking at me shaking his head.
"Oh come off it Newt you've loved her since day one!"
She went to stab him again but David grabbed her wrist.
"Dolly come here."
They stood in front of Newt and kissed with passion but he opened his eyes and winked at me, in one swift movement he stepped away from Dolly but something wasn't right. Dolly touched her neck and saw blood on her hand, David had slit her throat. He stood watching and licked her blood off the blade. Dolly fell to her knees and tears filled her eyes.
"Why?"
She croaked out but David tilted his head and said,
"You had served your purpose, see you in hell, Dorothy."
She fell on the floor trying to grab David but she looked at me and mouthed "sorry". The light left her green eyes and she was gone. I was in complete shock, everything stopped, I felt deaf to the surrounding noises until Newt screamed. He screamed for Dolly, David looked annoyed once more
"Oh shut up won't you."
And he snapped his fingers making Newt's head fall limp.
"What did you do!"
"Put him back to sleep."
He kicked Dolly's body and continued walking over to me,
"I don't know why she insisted on bringing him."
"Why are you doing this? This has nothing to do with Morgan does it?"
"Oh you figured that out did you?"
He kneeled in front of me and put his hand on my bump. I felt a horrible pain and screamed out, he looked surprised.
"Told you it would hurt when it started properly."
I puffed for air, I started crying again,
"David why are you doing this to me?"
He tilted his head like a puppy and said,
"You really don't know do you?"
"Know what?"
He laughed and it made my skin crawl I wanted to push myself away from him but I couldn't,
"Emily, you are Elizabeth."
I leaned forward in pain, screaming,
"No I'm not David! Elizabeth is dead!"
He pushed me back a bit so he could look in my eyes,
"You haven't changed much, different eye colour, freckles but you are her."
"How is that even possible?"
He stood up and paced a bit in front of me as if considering what to say or how to say it. He kneeled back in front of me,
"Emily I will show you what Morgan didn't know."
He leaned to reach my hands behind me and I couldn't fight him, I was forced to see.

After Elizabeth's family home burnt to the ground David carried Elizabeth's body to a cave just before their entrance to hell, he brushed her curls out of her face and looked up to the sky. He screamed, it was heart breaking. A blonde haired angel came from the cave, his name was John. He looked at the scene before him and decided it was his place to help, he knew who David was but it was his duty to help. "My friend I can help." David faced him and growled the last time he saw angels it was when he was being cast out of Heaven. John put his palm on Elizabeth's forehead, "I can bring her back but you shall have to wait." David looked into his eyes, "for how long?" John smiled, "a long time but she shall be back." David agreed, he removed Elizabeth's bracelet and kissed her once last time, "until we meet again my love." The angel John took Elizabeth's body from David and disappeared. Years later David saw John again but John was broken and now a fallen. "Where is Elizabeth?" John looked with pleading eyes, "I made what you wanted happen and it cost me my wings." He paused and looked distraught, "you will sense her when she comes back into the world." David waited and waited until one day in 1995 when something told him to go to the local hospital, he ended up in the maternity section and knew Elizabeth had been brought back into the world. He found me. He followed me. Years passed and he decided it was time to make his move, he burst into my kitchen and grabbed my mother. She cried, she told him where her money was. "I'm not interested in money! I want her!" Mother's face became one of complete terror she knew he wanted me. She denied all knowledge of me and of me even living there, "she is with her father!" He ripped her shirt and called her a liar, stating he would be back for me.

He let go. I was crying and yet again he wiped the tears away from my face.
"I wanted you back but you ended up with my brother. He didn't know what I had done, he didn't know the truth about you. But I did, Elizabeth I always knew. You are mine."
I shook my head, I was not Elizabeth.
"David, please let me go I'm having a baby! Please!"
He growled and stood up,
"I know you are! But don't you see that should be my child! You belong with me!"
"I'm not Elizabeth! I don't love you!"
He kneeled again,
"But you could. Look I kept your bracelet!"
"David, please! It was never mine! I know you love Elizabeth but it's not me!"
"You need to remember!"
I stopped panicking and remembered when I saw David and Morgan kill John.
"You killed John, you and Morgan. Why would Morgan kill an angel that did him no wrong?"
David smiled,
"I told Morgan that John was after your boy, that he would sacrifice him to get his wings back. Morgan wouldn't let that slide, but John had to die because the deal I made went wrong but you ended up with Morgan! He deserved to die!"
"David please I'm in a lot of pain! Please!"
He looked at me sympathetically,
"Why don't you remember?"
"I don't know but please let me out of this chair!"
He did. I got onto my hands and knees and started rocking.
"This labour is extremely sped up. I'm sorry Elizabeth I just need you to understand who you really are."
"I want Morgan!"
He growled again aggressively,
"You don't need Morgan! You have me, you love me somewhere in the back of your brain!"
I growled back, as before he backed off, but as quick as he backed off he was back at my side.
"I know what to do."
He unclasped the bracelet from his own wrist and put it on mine. Suddenly it came back. I remember everything Elizabeth saw, knew and loved. It was true. Oh God it was true.
"David I would have married you, I loved you and now you are making me suffer!"
He smiled and kissed me, I didn't want him to kiss me I didn't want him to touch me I may have been Elizabeth before but now I am Emily and I love his brother, I wanted his brother here not him.
"Please David, please if you ever loved me, get Morgan."
He looked angry again.
"I keep fucking telling you, you don't need him! You don't really love him! You love me!"
I screamed again, the pain was almost unbearable.