Bleeding Demons: The Dark Bloods - Book III ✓

Extra: What if? Gahn x Reyna

A/N: I originally wasn't going to have Dante survive, but it turned out that he was needed to help ground Reyna during all the craziness. I kinda wondered what would have happened had he not lived. Reyna would've been very different and broken, I think. I also knew she would hook up with Gahn because NEEDS. I also admit I have this guilty pleasure of liking them together, so I ended up writing this. Yup. Haha. This is also taken from that one-shot book I took down. :p

"We're gonna try this again, okay, cutie?"

Reyna nodded at Gahn's words despite her screaming muscles. They had been training for hours now, but she was the one that had asked for it. She wanted to be able to keep up with at least some fraction of Gahn's speed. If she could do that, then she could keep up with almost anyone. She could keep up with Mundus. The thought of him made her scowl and suddenly the pain of her sore muscles disappeared.

So did Gahn.

Shit.

Reyna saw the flash of a silver blade gleam towards her right, but by then she knew it was too late. A slight sting went across her cheek, and Reyna felt the wound heal before it even had time to bleed.

"What was that?" she asked with a confused look.

Gahn sighed. "I don't like hurting ya so much. Ya all cut up and bleeding."

She rolled her eyes. "I'm okay. I want to train, and we both know it means me getting beat up."

He paused before caressing the cheek he had cut. "Will ya at least heal yaself a bit?"

She scowled. "Stop babying me, Gahn."

"Cutie, I stabbed ya in the stomach twice and ya back four times. Ya chest about six times, and I also sliced ya throat a bit. I'm not exactly going that easy on ya."

"I just want to get stronger. I need to get stronger!" Reyna felt her aches returning.

He grinned. "Ya are, cutie. Trust me. Now please heal yaself up, okay?"

"Okay," she said with reluctance and sat down on the grass. Reyna concentrated on healing, allowing her magika to flow through her in soothing, green waves.

"See? Ya look prettier already." Gahn winked at her.

She stuck her tongue out at him and, quick as lightning, he was in front of her licking it.

"Gahn, we're supposed to be training," Reyna said.

His grin was slyer than usual. "I don't wanna train anymore."

He pinned her down by her wrists and kissed her, slipping his tongue in her mouth. Reyna couldn't find the ability to protest anymore. She met his kiss, her own tongue grazing his fangs. His hands slipped down her arms and traced her waist. Reyna heard the soft clinking of his piercings and felt his ponytail tickle her neck when it slipped over his shoulder.

"Ya always taste so good, cutie. And have I mentioned how hot you are?" he said, grasping her hips, fingers slipping into her shorts.

Seeing his beaming golden eyes and tight neck muscles made Reyna's face heat up.

He grinned. "Ya know I can't resist ya when ya blush, cutie."

Reyna felt his hands on her stomach, claws grazing, as he tugged on her shirt. Riddled with tears and holes from the training, Gahn only had to pull on it once to rip it off of her, taking her bra along with it. His warm lips descended down her neck and collar bone. She enjoyed the tiny bites he gave her, his fangs adding an extra sense of excitement to it. Reyna giggled as his lips grazed her ribs.

Gahn pulled away from her, chuckling as well as he sat up and pulled off his shirt. Reyna stared at his toned chest. He was slimmer than most of the demons, but his muscles weren't any less defined.

"Ya look pretty good without ya shirt too," he said.

"Come here." Reyna drew him back down from the waist of his jeans, enjoying the scent and taste of sweat on him.

-*-*-

Reyna cuddled against Gahn, his fingers stroking her hair. They were silent for a few minutes until Gahn chuckled.

"I really like ya, Reyna," he said.

She hugged him tighter. "I really like you too."

"That's why I'm worried."

"About what?"

"You."

Reyna blinked. That was the first time she had ever heard Gahn properly pronounce that word. She perched up on an arm and looked down at him. His sandy blond hair was loose and framed his face in a way that would've had her kissing him again if not for his weird statement.

"Me? What do you mean?" she asked.

He caressed her cheek. "Ya always pushing yaself so hard. Nothing ya do seems good enough to ya."

"That's because it's not. I need to get stronger. If I can't beat you, how can I even beat a Dark Blood?"

Gahn's eyes darkened. "Mundus."

"Yes." She scowled and felt her blood boil.

"Saying ya wanna kill someone is a big thing, cutie."

She pulled away, sitting up. "I want to kill all of them."

He sat up with her, running his hand through his hair. "That's what I'm worried about, cutie. All that animosity ya have. It's not good."

"He killed Dante! And so many other people!" Reyna felt herself shaking. "He left me."

Gahn's warm arms wrapped around her and she rested her head on his shoulder, calming down at the soft jingle of his piercings by her ear. She smiled, realizing how soothing that sound was. "Gahn." She threw her arms around his neck. "I just don't want to feel so empty anymore. And the only time I don't feel like that is when there is only anger."

He kissed her forehead. "I know, cutie."

She bit her lip, chewing on the words that she was afraid to ask. Reyna decided it was best to question it now before she got too close again. "Gahn, you won't leave me, right?" she asked, keeping her head on his shoulder to prevent seeing him.

He chuckled, the sound vibrating through her. "Not with the amazing sex ya give me."

She hit him. "Gahn!"

"Reyna."

Her stomach tightened, as it always did, whenever he called her by her name.

Gahn tugged on her so she had to straddle him, face him. He kissed her on her forehead, her cheeks, her eyelids, her nose, her lips, her chin. Everywhere. His palms felt hot pressed against her back.

"No, Reyna," he whispered, lips by her jawline. "I won't leave ya. I know the pain ya have and because of that, I will never leave ya."

She hugged him, enjoying the heat between their bare bodies. "Thank you."

"Feeling better, my little cutie?" he asked after a silent minute.

She rolled her eyes, not wishing to show how much she liked that nickname in particular, but she was sure he knew anyway. "Yeah."

"So," he said and bit her neck, "ya ready for another round?"

Reyna felt him between her legs. "Again already?"

"I did say ya gave amazing sex. And have I mentioned how hot I think ya are?" Gahn grinned at her.

"You make it so hard to say no to you."

He laughed again. "My little cutie."

They kissed, and Reyna relished the gentle clink his piercings made with their every move.