The Devils Son

11. Labels

"I hate not being able to protect myself" I say as we enter the apartment, Levi locking the door behind us.

"I will protect you" he says walking up to me.

"What if you can't, what if they hurt you" I say looking at him

"Two angels have fought me today and both times I walk out of it unharmed" he starts. "I could sense from your necklace that you where in an unusual spot for a long time and I could feel when they touched it, I can protect you" he says and puts his hand on my cheek.

"What happens if I don't want to be involved with any of this anymore" I ask looking up at him

"Without me they will return you to hell. God won't keep sending angels to their death, eventually we will be ok" he says looking into my eyes.

"You know I was 23 years old.. my life had just barely begun" I say and break away from him and walk to the living room. "I never got to have the chance to have kids or get married, I've done nothing" I say turning to him as he just stares at the ground.

"I've never traveled or even been in love.. I've really done nothing" I say and I feel a tear go down my cheek. Levi is immediately over to me and pulling me into his chest for a hug. I start crying more and he just pets my hair and tells me it's ok.

"Could be worse, you could've been born in hell as the offspring of the devil" he says and I look up at him. "I'm thousands of years old and I've never been in love either...I've never even felt the way I feel about you with anyone"

"never?" I ask looking up at him confused while another tear goes down my cheek. How many other girls has he been with? Millions?

"I've never had..this... what ever this is. It's like the urge to be around.. I have this internal need to protect you with my life and I don't know what that means but if I had to guess it probably would mean..." he says before trailing off unsure. "I don't know yet"

"It just hurts me to see you in pain and it killed me to hurt you in the elevator like that... and when you stabbed yourself, I've never felt that kind of desperation" he paused and stepped back then continued. "Don't ever go off with a guy like you did last night or next time I will kill him" he says serious now.

"Don't go off with other girls in front of me and expect me to just watch you" I jab back quickly.

"This isn't how this is going to work" he says as his demeanour shifts as he clearly didn't like my response. He then moves closer to me and grabs my chin and forces me to look up at him, his attitude completely shifting now. "You must have forgotten or something but I'm the one with the power, I'm the prince of hell for fuck sake. Don't ever try and tell me what I will and won't do again" he says in warning, suddenly I'm scared of him, he changed moods too quickly. I try and move my head out of his grasp but he is to strong and my head doesn't move an inch.

"I care about you" he starts and softens his grip. "You have been raised in a society that revolves around one man and one women. Sex doesn't mean what it means to you for me. If I have sex with other women, and I will, it doesn't mean anything" his jaw clenches and my eyes start to water but I won't let myself cry. "When I fuck you I can feel myself holding back because I know I could hurt you so easily... I don't care about that with other people, it's just easier. I don't want to touch you like that, your different" he says then let's go of my chin and walks to the stairs and up to the bedroom. Wonderful, how considerate of him, I should be thanking him, shouldn't I? I can feel a tear go down my cheek. I don't want to care about what he does with his time but I don't want him being with other girls either, this doesn't seem like I'd be asking too much here. There is something seriously wrong with him. One minute he's telling me he basically might love me and the next he's telling me he's going to have sex with other girls.

It's clear to me he doesn't have any idea how to navigate me either, he doesn't know where the line is anymore then I do.

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"Stay here" he says as he comes back down the stairs wearing his normal clean cut look after an hour or so.

"Where are you going" I ask, looking at him from the couch where I was wrapped up in blankets watching the tv.

"Out" he says and grabs his wallet and keys.

"Where?" I ask again with a sterner voice. I know he's not doing what I think.

"Don't wait up for me" he says and walks to the door.

"Off to fuck some random unsuspecting LA slut" I say quietly but I know he could hear me.

"Don't start with me right now" he says turning quickly to me.

"Have fun" I say under my breath and look back at the tv so he can't see me tear up.

"Don't start getting jealous it's not like that" he says

"Then don't get jealous when I go fuck other guys" I say and face him.

"Royalty doesn't share, honey" he says then walks out and locks the door behind himself.

After he left I raided the wine fridge and drank way too much and watched sappy romcoms on the couch in my pj's. It's starting to feel like I'm a prisoner here and it's exactly how he likes it, I should've expected this. I cried a few times, although I don't really have a reason too considering he saved me from literal hell and I'm forever grateful.

x.X.x

Suddenly I woke from the door opening and whispers and without getting up I look across the room at the automatic clock by the tv and it read 2:04 am. I pull my blankets further over my body as I lay still on the couch. I stay still and closed my eyes pretending to sleep and I could hear a girl whispering to Levi.

"Whose that" she whispered and Levi reply but is too quite for me to make out. I could then hear her start walking to the stairs. I can now feel Levi on the other side of the couch just staring at me sleep in the darkness and my body freezes.

It felt like he stood there for ages looking at me when I suddenly heard the girl come back down a few steps and whisper for him as he finally pulls away.

I started to cry as I could here her giggling and her get on the bed and after a couple minutes I hear her ask quite loudly "what?". A few seconds pass when she suddenly yells "fuck you" and I could hear her grab all her stuff and run down the stairs and out the front door. What happened? Did he just kick her out?

Moments pass as I hear levi start walking down the stairs and I freeze as he steps down onto the floor as I hear him walk towards me. I then feel arms wrap around me and lift me from the couch and I look and Levi has me straddled around his waist and I put my hands on his chest and look at him confused as he holds me against him in the darkness of the living room. I quickly wipe my face of tears hoping he doesn't notice.

He stood there for a moment without a shirt on in the darkness and just looked up at me. He then kissed me and as mad as I was at him I couldn't stop myself from kissing him back, he's like a weakness.

"Stop" I whisper finally collecting my thoughts, pushing away from him. I wanted him to stop because of how he's been making me feel lately but I knew if he didn't stop now I wouldn't have made any more attempts to stop him from going any further.

He pulled away and just looks down at me in the darkness as he places me down on my feet. He then runs his thumb along my lips, he has a frustrated look on his face.

  "Okay" he says with a small nod. He drops his hand from my face and slowly grabs my hand before turning and pulling me along behind him as we walk to the stairs and up to the bed.

  We crawl in without a word and attempt to fall asleep as the energy left in the room is filled with even more questions on where this leaves us.