Crimson

The fighter's

"James? Are you okay?"

"You're saying that your mother, the fucking moon goddess is controlling the devil? This is not happening! She was tortured by him!" he shouts at me, I put my hands out in front of me for protection but he grabs them pulling me closer to his face as he glares at me.

"You, are lying" he says to me pushing me back, I stumble for a moment before gaining my balance, he looks at me his eyes fighting for him to stay calm.

"What's happening?" I say pushing aside the urge to punch him in his perfect face. I get up and hesitantly put a hand on his arm as he snaps his head towards me his teeth sharp and eyes electric blue.

"Get away from me!" he shouts at me pushing me back as he grabs his hair and tugs on it. It hurts watching him like this fighting to stay calm; I grab his arm again and cup his cheeks forcing him to look at me.

"It's okay! Just calm down okay?" I say sweetly to him hoping that it'll do something, he growls and closes his eyes for a moment his breathing calming down, he wraps his arms around me and pulls me into his chest as he puts his face into the crook of my neck taking in deep breaths like the smell of me calms him.

"Thank you," he whispers, I smile and hug him wrapping a hand to the back of his head and kissing his temple.

"You're okay" I say as I close my eyes, it scared me to see him like this, though I have no feelings for him like I do with Conner I can't help it but make sure that he's okay. The mate bond between us is useless as I begin to believe that it was a mistake, this I was supposed to be mated to Conner not James.

"What now?" he says his face still in my neck I blink and take a moment to assess our next move.

"We've got to find out where she is, your kind worship her so you guys must have like temples or something right?" I say to him, he lets me go as he goes to put on a shirt.

"We do worship her, but we don't have temples dedicated to her, we've got more like . . . Shrines for her"

"So you're with us in taking her down?" I ask him, he looks at me with a raised eyebrow.

"If you trust that this is right, then I'm with you" he says, I show a small smile to him as we grab anything that can help us, papers and small objects that we've seen Justin and Emma use to create potions we shove into a bag as we walk outside. James sticks his hand into his pocket and points a key at a car, the lights flash as I stare at it wide eyed.

"That's your car?" I say to him, he smiles as he throws the bags into the back and gets in. A black Camaro thunders to life as we drive off towards Beth's, I give him directions as he stares straight not taking his eyes off of the road.

"There!" I say as he pulls into the long driveway, we get out of the car and I run to the front gates opening the doors seeing Lucifer, Beth and everyone else.

"I got James," I say to Beth as she hugs me tightly.

"Good, we have Griffen and Sam"

"Where's Conner?" I ask as I walk into the room seeing everyone speak to each other, I smile and laugh a little when I see Lucifer talk to Griffen as I see his face. He's scared shitless of Lucifer and it brings tears to my eyes as I try to hold in my laugh.