RAVIA

Entry 24: Life Mates

It was a couple hours to midnight and everyone had had their dinner, traded stories, gave jokes and now everyone was off to their bed, except a few of course. The servants had long cleared away the empty dishes and had cleaned up. Lucifer had went off to The Witch's Cauldron for a meeting with the witches whilst Sebastien, Beel and Samael, the "little" demons they were, went off to stir up mischief throughout the night. That left Sergei and Ravia. They were now seated on a porch swing that hung on the library balcony that had a clear view of the estate on which the mansion stood. They sat cuddled together, whispering sweet nothings in each other as they gaze up into the star dazzled night sky.

Sergei turned to face Ravia, a little smile appeared on his face as he listened to Ravia rambling about some Japanese animation called Black Butler. Honestly, he had no clue what she was talking about but Sergei loved listening to the soft lilt of her voice whenever Ravia spoke. What did he do to deserve such a lovely woman? He constantly ask himself. He was so grateful for her. At least there's one thing he could say that Lucifer had done right throughout the millennium of his existence. As if sensing his stare, Ravia turned and look at Sergei.

"What?" She asked, looking a bit puzzled by his scrutiny.

Sergei shook his head.

"Nothing."

Sergei turned to gazing at the stars. The moon peeped out from behind a cluster of trees as if winking. He patted his pants pocket and felt the small box that held a beautiful ring that was custom made for Ravia by the best jeweller one could find in hell. The best gems were always found there than on earth. Inside the box rested a a silver band that was encrusted with small diamond shaped sapphires and blue diamonds and in the centre of all those fine gems stood an oval shaped diamond that was neatly cut. This was no better time than any.

"Ravia."

"Yes?"

I cant believe I'm going to get all mushy. At least I'm doing it for some one I love. Sergei turned and faced her. "What do you see us doing years from now?"

Ravia smiled. I thought I was going to be the one to ask that question. Oh well, I might as well answer. Ravia rested her head on his chest and replied," Well...there's a possibility that father will retire and let you take over hell..."

Sergei pinched her.

"...or not. Just kidding. I see us living together in the future. In this sane mansion of course. You know Father wouldn't let us live anywhere else. By then the war would be ended and you would get down on your knees and ask for my hand in marriage. We'll elope..."

Sergei pinched Ravia again.

"Okay, no elopement. But we'll get married in Vegas or in Hell. Right after that we'll have two mini Sergei juniors or mini me. I'll even stop dancing at the club. I'll only do so on special occasions." Ravia smiled up at Sergei. "Like our anniversary or your birthday. Or Valentine's Day or just for the fun of it."

Sergei grinned. "I love what you see. But let me add a few things. No, getting down on the knees when I'm proposing cause frankly, that shit hurts. We're going to elope or maybe a shotgun wedding in Vegas or Monte Carlo. I want one kid-"

"Just one?" Ravia asked.

" If you want more than one kid, you better pray for twins."

Ravia laughed.

Sergei gave her a stern look. "I'm serious."

"Yea...we're gonna still discuss that."

"No we're not going to."

"See you and I are already acting like married couples. You just need to propose and we are one step to getting married."

"Okay. Will you marry me?"

"Yes. Sure. Where's the ring?"

Sergei stood up and took the suede box out of his pocket then took out the ring. Ravia was still blabbering as she stared st the stars. He then lifted her left hand and slipped on the ring. Ravia felt the cool silver of the ring and stared down at it. "Wow. Cool ring. This is for me?"

Sergei rolled his eyes. "No it's for my secret girlfriend."

"It's not nice to be sarcastic you know. What did I do to deserve this?"

Sergei smile and leaned down and gave her a kiss. A very passionate kiss.

"You just said you wanted to marry me. I proposed. You said yes. I'm happy. You're happy. All that's left is for us to elope."

Ravia smiled. Holy Hell! He proposed! I did not expect that. I can't recall him proposing...wait. Let's rewind my memory a bit...oh. Oh...shit! How did I missed that. He didn't go down on his knees!

Ravia pouted.

"You just realised a propose didn't you?"

Sergei silently laughed.

"You didn't even go on your knees."

"I told you I wouldn't do that."

"But I wasn't listening when you said that!"

Sergei pulled Ravia to her feet and wrapped his arms around her. "That is not my fault. Be happy that I actually said the words "would you marry me" cause I could've went caveman and demanded that you marry me."

Ravia rolled her eyes as she hugged him. "I love you."

"I know you do."

Ravia kicked him in the shin.

"Ouch!,"

She kicked him again.

"Fuck! I love you too."

Ravia smiled and kissed him. "That's better. Let's go to my room so we can have my marriage proposal sex."

Sergei raised a brow. "I like the sound of that."

Ravia grinned. "I know you do." She tugged at his hand and proceeded yo drag Sergei inside. Sergei pulled her against him instead. "Let's take a short cut."

"What short cut?"

Sergei shook his head then wrapped their bodies in a shroud if shadow and and teleported off to her room.

** ** **

A portal opened and Lucifer, Samael, Beel and Sebastien stepped out.

"That was the worst marriage proposal I've ever seen," said Lucifer.

Beel scoffed. "I second that."

"And I here I thought he knew how to be romantic," said Sebastien.

Samuel laughed. "At least Ravia's happy. That's all that matters."

"Yea," agreed everyone.

"Should I go interrupt them?" asked Beel.

"No," replied Lucifer. "Let them enjoy themselves. They have a fight coming. The witches said the rogues were going to strike tomorrow."

"Well," replied Samael. "We better be prepared then.