Dead in Love

Chapter 3: Beast in the Trunk

"How long are we gonna leave him in there?" Mira asked with a raised brow, looking to her father and Lucas, who were getting ready to sleep in the front seats.

"Well, when he calms down and gets a chance to heal, then we'll let him out. That might be a day or two." Jean shrugged and shut his eyes. She sighed and opened the back door, taking her blanket with her. They were in the middle of a dessert road and no one would see her in the moonlight if she slept outside. Lying it out on the still warm sand she took a breath, looking up at the stars with a smile.

As she lied down she felt some sort of calm falling over her for the first time this month almost. Yeah her boyfriend was a murder rapist before he became a servant of Satan, yeah she liked another demon who watched her grow up thousands of feet under ground, and yeah the people who did raise her were dead. But, it, it was like restarting in a way. She badly wanted to talk to Poppy, but her phone had no signal, and her provider probably dropped her too cause the bill hadn't been paid in a while.

Lucas slipped out of the car, maybe twenty minutes later, when her father was asleep. Lying down beside her slyly while pulling her into his arms. "Hey, how are you feeling? With your newly opened eyes and such?" He asked, snuggling up to her. He had become much more touchy lately, instead of his previous pushiness.

"Well, mostly scared, then the rest is, wondering why the hell your cuddling me." She asked with a raised brow as he let go of her, putting his hands up in the air.

"Hey, it's just, once we get to civilization you'll see some fucked up stuff. You know one out of a hundred people have a sinful deformity. For example, cheaters have all the people they've been unfaithful with on their skin." He grinned before grabbing her arm, pointing to the underside and licking his lips. "This, is where my name will be when your eighteen."

"Which is still five months away, I could change my mind about you ya know." She rolled her eyes before looking at him, he just smiled. "No you don't know. God. You really are determined aren't you?"

"Oh Boris isn't gonna do it so long as I'm on earth, he's taken and ruined quite a few of my things, even my sex religion in Asia! So, I'm not gonna let him ruin you." He slowly leant in and planted a kiss on her lips, she hesitated, but kissed him back. Letting him roll atop of her, and not even refusing. His hands cupped her cheeks, and her own wrapped around his waist. "Mmm god I wish I could travel in time..."

"So do I, it'd give better meaning to my title." A voice said from the embraced couple's feet. Mira, with a quick toss of the horny demon found herself looking at a boy who couldn't be older than 14 at most. His hair was a short platinum blond, which the moonlight made almost glow, his eyes nearly a crystal bl-wait, no, they were more so a grey green actually. Lucas laid sprawled out on the sand staring up at the young fellow wide eyed. "Oh, and hello Lucas... and earth keeper of the near future."

"What the f-Why did they send down a time keeper? And how do you know my name?" He asked, adjusting his pants which made the boy sigh and rub his temples.

"I'm Griffith, I don't think you'd remember me from back when you made my job ten times harder for a hundred years." He groaned as Lucas's eyes shot wide open, Mira looked at him slightly confused before realizing something, and looking at the boy with wide eyes too.

"Griffith! You've actually.... Aged...?"

"Yes I've aged, or so, my body has, it symbolizes rank. The older you are, the more respected you are." He gave a confident smile as Lucas snorted, standing up and grabbing the small guy and pulling him into a tight hug. "Let go of me! I don't want your sinfulness rubbing off!" He almost screamed, which probably woke up Jean. Oh well.

"So, were you like the person who told Lucas he was supposed to be, like you?" Mira asked which was responded by a nod and sigh of relief as Lucas freed him from his grip. The boy brushed off his shirt and pants from the nothing left on his clothes, and looked at her extending a hand. Which she took. "Mira Wright."

"I already know, your quite the celebrity up in the offices. But!" He stopped to reach into his pocket, pulling out a tiny silver cross and tossing it at Lucas, who groaned in discomfort flicking it away. "Demon boy here was about to f-I mean, preform coitus with you this night, which would make this dessert your place of ruling!" A rumble came from inside the trunk, making the car shake, yet, not waking Jean. Was he dead? Ah well.

"Oh really? So, Lucas, you were planning on fucking me?!" She stood up, walking towards Lucas slowly, before the boy stepped in between them. "Move kid." She growled at him as he gave a nervous chuckle, running his fingers through his short blonde hair.

"I'm the oldest amongst this group, and I must say that if it is needed, I will stay here to fulfill your destiny Mira." He smiled at her, only to be pushed aside, hitting the car, earning a loud yell from within the truck which made small Griffith jump scared. "W-what's in there??" He asked in a panic, Mira took a deep breath looking back at Griffith unamused.

"My boyfriend, we're keeping him in there until his salt burns heal up." She said blandly as the boy's eyes widened, now trying to open up the trunk. "Stop, please, he's been throwing around death threats."

"Uh... okay..."