Demons || Jaythan

I'm A Mess

Oh, I'm a mess right now

Inside out

Searching for a sweet surrender

But this is not the end

- I'm A Mess; Ed Sheeran.

Chapter Five:

Jay hadn't stopped apologising to me since he flew off the handle a few hours ago, I always reminded him that it was fine and I accepted his apology. We were lay on our bed, my head on his chest and he had his arms around me cuddling me. I almost forgot about what I had just done before how I brutally took a man's life.

"I'm really sorry Nathan, I really am." I could tell how sincere he was.

I sighed, I was slowly getting fed up with Jay's constant apology. "It's fine Jay. I've told you a million times don't worry about it, it is all water under the bridge now."

"Sorry - again - babe, I'll stop apologising now." He kissed the top of my head.

I smiled and closed my eyes, I just wanted to go to sleep and escape from everything; The guilt from killing the guy and the demon. But I couldn't. I would never be able to escape all of this - unless I was no longer alive. I couldn't do that to Jay though, I don't think I would be able to leave him either and of course there was Max, Tom and Siva. I couldn't leave them just like I can't leave Jay.

I just want all this to go away.

I've had enough of all the games the demon was playing with me. It was just the same thing over and over and again, this was the first person I killed today and I was afraid that there would be many more tasks yet to come. Hearing a thud I tensed and slowly opened my eyes.

There stood the demon staring right into my eyes, into my soul, with his own soulless eyes that where black a smirk on his face. My body started to shake at the sight of him, whimpers escaped my lips I just wanted him to leave me alone.

"Hello young one." He spoke with his raspy twang in his voice that I had become familiar with - not like I really wanted too. "I came to you to thank you on the great work you did with that guy, oh what was his name again? Nick? No-- Rick, that was it. Since you did a great job I have another job for you."

"No!" I screamed out making both myself and Jay jump.

Jay was still confused as to why I had started crying and whimpering, he questioned me repeatedly but his questions were drowned out by the demon's voice. Jay had then started shaking me as I carried on screaming out obscenities at the demon who seemed unaffected with a smirk on his face.

"Nathan?" Jay had started to panic. "What's going on? Nathan who are you shouting at? Nathan!"

I took in a deep breath and ignored the demon for the time being and turned to Jay. "Him!" I yelled pointing in the general direction of the demon. "The demon, don't you see him?"

"Nathan... What demon? Seriously Nath, there's no one there and especially no demon." Jay began carefully. I stared at him confused, my eyebrows furrowed. I wasn't seeing things was I?

I turned back and the demon was no longer there.

I then began to question if he really was there but his voice that had possessed my mind spoke up. He was there. I wondered then if I was the only one who could see him, I must be as Jay was still looking at me worriedly. I then began to question my sanity; clearly I don't have much if I'm seeing demons and I am also the only one seeing the demon that haunted my dreams.

"C'mon Nath, I think you need to sleep. You're clearly getting confused plus you had hardly any sleep last night so that's obviously why your mind is playing tricks on you."

And once again I was pinned down and drugged up with a sleep serum that sent me - to what felt like - the seventh circle of Hell. It was my nightmares.

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"Ready for your riddles, young one?"

Not really.

"Yes."

"Alright, here we go." The demon paused for a minute, stalling. "You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?"

I licked my dry my lips, stalling myself. This was quite difficult but I remember hearing once before from a christmas cracker a couple of years ago. "A bell."

"Correct. Right, ready for the next one? If you get this wrong I'm sorry but you'll have to do this next task I have for you to do." I could tell he was being sarcastic with this, it was evident in his voice and I feared that I would fail and get the answer wrong.

"And if I get it right?"

He just laughed and I braced myself for what was about to come.