Demons

Chapter 9 Emma

Emma slowly opened her eyes as she took in a deep breath, her head rested on Azazel's chest. She moved her head up to take a peek at him but his expressionistic eyes were already staring back at her, making the hint of a smile form on her lips. She propped herself up on her elbow and used her other hand to run through his long grey hair, taking in every little detail of his face. "Shall I ask the servants to transfer your items here? I assume you won't be sleeping alone anymore" He asked her, still not being able to stop grinning at her like an idiot. She laughed softly at his words before nodding, "Sounds good." She answered. "Please try not to get attached to the human Emma" "He isn't one anymore thanks to me" Emma told him, looking away from him and letting herself fall on her back. "In my order, it's not like I gave you a choice" Azazel spoke, before sitting upright in the soft bed. Emma took a deep breath before placing her hand on the large burn scar on his back, her soft fingers taking in the rough texture. He turned his head to look down in her eyes and sighed to himself, causing Emma to sit up too. "I love you Emma" He softly spoke, his fingers brushing under her chin to lift her face to his. She didn't know what to answer him but he thankfully leaned in to kiss her, moving her hand up in his thick hair before softly pulling on it, making a small moan escape his lips. He pushed her on her back again before lowering his body on top of hers, one of his hands holding the back of her neck to disable her from looking away from him.
"Do you need help?" Azazel asked when Emma pulled her blouse over her head, causing her to shake her head in response. "I'm not gonna wear anything more than necessary" She sighed as she pulled her boots up her legs, the leather fabric of her pants making it even more difficult. "Retrieve him, we'll put him up for trial today" Azazel spoke when they entered the throne room, Emma joining the seven sins on the steps leading up to it before Azazel sat down in the throne. Two of the servants forced Jack down on his knees in front of the steps, making him groan softly in pain. "You still aren't planning to tell me anything about what you were doing here are you?" Azazel asked, spreading his legs and letting his elbows rest on them, his hands folded together between his legs. Jack didn't answer and Lexus balled his hand into a fist and hit Jack square in the jaw, making him fall on his side. He coughed before spitting out some blood, the servants pulling him back upright again. Dracul's incredibly soft hand wrapped around Emma's wrist, setting soft pressure as their eyes met for not more than a second. "Who bandaged your wounds last night?" Azazel asked before standing up, walking halfway down the stairs. Emma noticed Jack clenching his jaw again before Lexus hit him again, kicking him in his stomach twice afterwards. Lexus took a knife from his belt and handed it to Azazel, who pulled Jack back to his knees again before digging his hand in Jack's brown hair. Azazel pulled on it hard so that Jack was looking up at him now, before suddenly thrusting the knife in his eye. Emma wanted to run over to Azazel but Dracul wouldn't let go of her wrist, the look on his face already telling her enough. "You clearly didn't understand how serious I was about this Jack, what a disappointment, I would've even let you out of the dungeons if only you just told me this one thing.." Azazel spoke, letting the knife drop on the floor before returning to his throne. A sudden breaking of all the windows suddenly sounded which put everyone on high alert, everyone's eyes scanning the windows as they had already pulled their weapons out, Jack's heavy breathing being the only sound in the room. The gates suddenly flew open as the dead bodies of the guards slid over the ground, Emma's eyes staring at the hunters walking in. "Protect Emma with your lives and bring him back to the dungeon.. NOW LEXUS!" Azazel yelled when no one reacted, "Oh but I don't think that's gonna happen" One of the hunters spoke, lifting his crossbow before shooting Lexus in the middle of his forehead, the demon screaming before turning to ashes. Emma got pulled to a pillar by Dracul who had shifted back into his original form, large black horns poking through his white hair. "Stay with me" He spoke before handing her his second sword, making Emma nod in response. The demons turned themselves into smoke before apparating behind the hunters and attacking them from behind. One of the hunters sprinted over to Jack and undid his bounds, making Dracul run over the the hunter to stop her but five of her arrows struck his chest, making Emma run over to her before chopping the hunter's head off in one clean swipe. Emma dropped her sword to turn Dracul on his back, quickly pulling the arrows out. She saw Jack grabbing the sword from the corner of her eye and cursed at herself for having been so careless, preparing herself to have the sword driven through her chest. The body of another hunter fell down next to her before Jack's hand wrapped around her arm to pull her up to her feet, pulling her against him when another hunter walked over to them. "Take us with you, I need to tell Sawyer and Gideon about this and I'm not leaving her here" Jack spoke, his arm secured tightly around her waist. "I'm not taking either of you with me" The hunter laughed before lifting his crossbow, causing Jack to pull Emma behind him but a sword came through the hunter's chest, his body falling to the floor to reveal Dante standing there. "Those were the last of them." Alvah spoke, Emma's eyes falling on Azazel's large frame. He shifted back into human form and wrapped his hand around Jack's neck before pushing him against the wall, "What the fuck are your people doing in my castle?!" "I don't know" "Tell me goddammit!" "I don't know! Your men saw that they wanted to kill me too!" Jack yelled in response, making the room go completely quiet. The two men breathed heavily as they looked at each other, blood still dripping from Jack's right eye. Azazel was the first to look away and let go of him, the other demons kneeled down next to Dracul. Emma looked down at his white hair which was now drowned in his black blood, before she turned her head to look at Jack who let himself slide down the wall, moving his hand against his eye in an attempt to stop the bleeding. Emma ran over to him which made Azazel look at her, Emma helping Jack up to his feet before wrapping his arm around her shoulders. "I'm taking him upstairs to take care of his wounds" Emma told Azazel with teared up eyes, before opening the door to the stairwell. They walked over to her old chambers and she told Jack to sit down on the bed, grabbing one of Azazel's blouses which he left there in a hurry before throwing it on bed, searching the cabinets for bandages. She finally found them and walked back over to the bed to sit down next to Jack, ripping some of the bandages off before handing them to him. "We shouldn't put anything on your eye since it needs oxygen but you can wipe away the blood with that." Emma spoke before starting on the newly added wounds. "You're quite knowledgable" "I was a med student" She answered, tying the bandages around his shoulder. She stood up again and handed him the blouse which Jack pulled over his head, "You can sleep here for a while, I need to go back to see how Dracul's doing" Emma spoke while looking at the ground. She turned to walk away but Jack grabbed her hand to stop her, his fingers loosely holding hers. "Thank you.. for everything you risked for me" Jack told her, Emma's eyes still downcast to the floor. "Of course.." She said before pulling her hand out of his and quickly exiting the room.