Cherubplay

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It purred and snuggled into her hands. I stared. "....it does. Is it a vampire cat?"

2015-10-25 08:08:07

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"No...Those don't exist." She held it close to her chest. It...liked her?

2015-10-25 08:08:50

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"That's...strange. Is it because of the pact, perhaps...? I wasn't instinctively scared of you as a bird either, though that may be unrelated."

2015-10-25 08:10:19

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"...Maybe." She looked down at it, and her hair fell in her face to hide it. Tears streamed down her face. Not ones of sadness, but instead happiness. It liked her. It really liked her. Something on this earth wasn't afraid of her. She bit her lip to keep herself from sobbing.

2015-10-25 08:12:03

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".....Ivory?" I reached over and hugged her tightly. "I was never scared of you..."

2015-10-25 08:12:55

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"I-I know." She stuttered as her voice cracked. It just felt nice to do something good for once. Really nice.

2015-10-25 08:14:17

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"You're always nice. You're always sweet. You're always perfect."

2015-10-25 08:14:55

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She rested her forehead on his shoulder, mostly to shield the cat from the rain. "I love you. So much. You know that, right?" she cried.

2015-10-25 08:16:22

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"I do. I love you too. More than anything." I rubbed her back.

2015-10-25 08:20:30

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"Good. Thank you." She sobbed softly.

2015-10-25 08:24:09

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"It's okay. I'm not going anywhere."

2015-10-25 08:24:36

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She silently cried against him for a moment, then heard a meow. A much more desperate sounding, and older one. She pulled away for a second, and saw a bright orange cat looking around. She wiped her eyes, smearing her makeup. "I think that's its mom."

2015-10-25 08:27:14

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"..we should probably give it back, then." I gently took it from her arms and set it on the ground in front of the mother with a faint smile.

2015-10-25 08:29:04

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Sure enough, the kitten quickly trotted towards it, and the orange cat picked it up by its neck with her mouth and hastily walked away. She slipped the shirt back on her from inside her jacket.

2015-10-25 08:30:55

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I took her hand again and sat down under the tree. We stayed there until the rain stopped.

2015-10-25 08:31:27

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At some point in the near future, I walked to the shop with a plastic bag containing my sweater and jacket. I'd washed the sweater since before to clean off the blood, and for lack of either I wore a sweatshirt declaring my status as a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. What can I say? Thrift store options are limited.

2015-10-25 08:35:56

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"Are you done yet?" Ivory asked as Jackson touched up a gaping wound on her chest. For once, she wasn't wearing a jacket, but instead a v-neck t-shirt, leaving most of her chest exposed.

"Almossssst, there!" He set the brush down. Jackson paused and then sensed something. "Seculus is here. Go show off my work." He whispered as he handed her the bloodied fake heart made of gelatin they made the night before when he first arrived.

2015-10-25 08:40:39

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I opened the door and glanced around. There was another angel. She and Lance, or Clarenz, or Kinsley, or...someone must be in the back room. "Hello?" I moved inside.

2015-10-25 08:42:22

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Without a word, Ivory moved down the steps from the living room towards the shop. Once there, she approached Seculus without a word, and made him hold out his hand.

Then gave him the heart, which was slightly warmed. The 'blood' stained his hand as well as hers.

"This is yours now." She commented.

2015-10-25 08:45:51

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He stared blankly at her. He went very pale. Then he slumped to the ground in a dead faint.

2015-10-25 08:46:29

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Wait, SHIT! She caught him before he could ruin the wound.

"How'd it go?" Jackson asked from upstairs.

"A little too well." She called back as she picked him up without messing anything up and took him upstairs before she laid him on the couch.

2015-10-25 08:48:48

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It was a few minutes before he woke up, shaking. He took one look at Ivory standing there with the pretend chest wound and nearly repeated the process.

2015-10-25 08:52:32

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She immediately moved to his side once he woke up. "Woah woah woah. It's fake! It's fake! See?" She brushed her hand against it. Nothing happened.

2015-10-25 08:54:07

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"........oh. /Oh/. Holy fuck, don't /do/ that! I really thought you were hurt!"

2015-10-25 08:55:46

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"Shit! I'm sorry, I thought you could handle it. Are you okay?" She asked.

Jackson's head popped up from behind the kitchen counter. "Does he need water?" He asked.

2015-10-25 08:57:35