Rogue Reaper

Chapter 3- A match made in hell

        

"We don't condone such behavior from our reapers, you both are expected to work together, so please refrain from killing each other." Iris said fixing her hard glare on both of us.

"I didn't even do anything to her! But look what she has done to me?" Blake complained, pointing one long finger at his handsome face, now marred with bruises.

Oh well, he was telling the truth.

Flashback (15 minutes ago)

He took a threatening step towards me, his aura changing. His eyes held deep anger and something else that I couldn't quite pinpoint. He was cornering me, just like a predator would. But I refuse to cower, even though he is quite intimidating, I can't let him treat me like I am inferior to him.

Before he could take one more step towards me I attacked him, to say that he was shocked would be an understatement of the millennium. I ran towards him with all my might and tried to tackle him down, when my body made an impact with his, I felt as if I slammed into a mountain. Damn that was painful, I was surprised by how strong he really was. He was still startled by my sudden attack and taking advantage of this, I charged towards him, my anger and frustration fueling me, snapping out of his daze, he quickly raised his arms to block the punch that I was aiming at his face. I tried to side-kick him but he blocked my attack. He was defending himself and not attacking me which made me angrier. Does he think that I am so weak that he can't even put in some effort to actually fight me? I will show you what I can do.

He was irritating me now. It was getting increasingly difficult to punch him in the face because he was so tall, so I resorted to my signature move, I moved three steps back and with all my force and agility I jumped as high as I could and went in for a roundhouse kick but a second before my kick could land on his beautiful face, he got a hold of my ankle. He lost his balance and unfortunately so did I, I was falling on my back but before I could hit the ground, he twisted our body mid air so that I landed on his hard chest. I ended up straddling him.

Surprised by his action, my only reaction was to lash out at him, raining punches down at him, few of them actually hitting the target. He gave out a frustrated groan, I could feel his muscles shift beneath me as he swiftly changed our position, entrapping me beneath him and grasping both of my arms in his one hand, holding them above my head. I was catching my breath as I looked at his face. His eyes no longer held any anger but had a look of wonder and amusement. What is wrong with me? I am never so aggressive, did I hit my head, when I passed out earlier? Slowly all my anger suddenly faded away and I felt extremely tired and drained.

He leaned closer to my face, I could see that I had busted his lips and he had a bruise right below his left eye.

"Are you done now?", He asked, his face only a few centimeters away from mine. I looked into his green eyes, captured by its uniqueness. I nodded, feeling drained. "Good", he whispered, his lips grazing the sensitive skin underneath my ear.

"Mmmm very good, I like my woman strong" I thought I heard him say but I couldn't be sure because at the same time I heard Iris shouting our names asking us to stop fighting and go to her office.

End of Flashback

Iris gave us a warning and let us go. I was given the responsibility to make sure that Blake settled comfortable in his new home. We took the elevator back to my- sorry our apartment in silence. I was drained and hungry. I stole a glance at Blake to see him already staring at me.

"What?" I asked him, irritated by his unbashful stare.

"You are something aren't you? You are like a kitten when you are angry, harmless and cute". Did he just call me cute? Was I cute when I busted his lips. I gave him a disturbed looked and then I noticed something very weird, he no longer had any bruises on his face. His lips were healed and perfect again. Ideally it should take a reaper more than a few hours to completely recover. The ding of the elevator made me realize that I was staring at him.

"Listen I will stay out of your way and you stay out of mine, we can work this out and be happy". I said with a blank face, not letting his earlier comment bother me. Cute, I will show him cute.

"But Kitten, I want to work with you. I would have agreed with you before. But the stunt that you pulled on me earlier has intrigued me ", He said moving closer to me.

"Call me a Kitten one more and I will kill you in your sleep", my threat didn't faze him, he gave me a sly smile and winked at me. How can anyone be so gorgeous and annoying at the same time.

"I am sure we will gel fine together" He said walking out of the elevator, I don't understand why is he being so cordial with me all of a sudden.

"I am sure we will gel just fine like fire and gasoline" I mocked him walking into the apartment.

We entered the apartment, all my flat mates were home, great. They were waiting for us in the living room. As soon as we entered the room, Blake was surrounded by my friends, I took this opportunity to go to my room and catch some Z's. I am sure someone will show him to his room, there is just one spare room in our apartment, the one next to mine. My biggest concern is that the two rooms share a bathroom. I don't want to deal with him right now, it was already 4pm and my shift starts at 8pm, so I have few hours to rest.

I heard the opening of the door in my room and some shuffling noise. Mac must be looking for something. I didn't have the energy to open my eyes and see.  I had already fallen asleep and therefore didn't feel my bed dip or the strong arms that pulled me against a warm and muscular body.