Devils Roses 05 - Death

laugh. She looks psychotic. Her clothes are torn and a large chunk of hair is missing. Sam and Shane fight themselves not to attack her. Lorri slaps Shane and brings him back around. We surround them. Lillith is gone.
    Jonathan realizes he's surrounded and winks but he doesn’t move.
    He looks up snarling. "Something is wrong with your Siren, Lorri." His eyes are ablaze.
    I laugh. It's slightly nervously. I don’t know what he can do. We've waited so long to catch him. Lorri has been setting traps and baiting him to no end. He is always one step ahead of us or so well armed we don’t stand a chance.
    "Yeah, she's broken." Lorri winks a creepy red eye at Hanna. She chuckles her monster laugh.
    Jonathan scowls at her.
    Henry holds his hands out, no doubt he is the reason Jonathan isn't winking out.
    Jonathan shakes his head, "Always the last to know eh Lorri? If you do this now she wins. I was always the only thing stopping her."
    Lorri looks at me, "Do it."
    I swallow hard. The spark is filling me. I step forward, reaching out for him. His hand swings at me. His nails cut into my throat. I feel the warmth of my black blood dripping down my neck and chest.
    "Aimee, if you kill me she wins." His eyes grow desperate.
    A low growl escapes my lips.
    His eyes sparkle, "I've always been trying to help you Lorri. It was always you."
    "Cut that liars tongue for me Aimes."
    He looks at me with daggers but it doesn’t matter. Lorri hasn’t called me Aimes before.
    He swings again but I catch his hand. I rip as hard and fast as I can when my skin touches his. I don't savor it. Black blood shoots across the room. I drop to my knees as I do it.
    The Hanna monster clasps the bracelet. The guys stop acting like savages. Lorri walks forward to me. A single tear leaves her eye. "He was lying. You did the right thing."
    I shake my head, "It felt wrong. In the end it felt wrong." I wink to Marcus's.
    He's pacing outside his lab. The thing inside is slamming and bashing the door. His stormy mood is savage and evil. He sees me and leaps. I catch him and hold back the suck. He slams me into a wall and screams at the same time I do. He starts to laugh a bitter and twisted laugh. It's scary and hideous. His robe is disheveled and stinky. He shoves me and walks back to the lab door. He points, "Fix this. You fix this." He sounds like he is at his breaking point. I'm out of breath and still healing slowly. I know I can't take watching something as strong as him lose it and cry.
    "You fix this Aimee. God damned you. It was designed to keep your kind out." His hand trembles where he points. I walk to him. He flinches but I pull him in. I wrap myself around him and hold him.
    He sobs. It fills me with dread and terror. If he can cry and be broken then the rest of us are doomed.
    His huge body almost crushes me. I slam into the wall. He winces with me. I'm holding up his trembling body.
    "I killed him. It was me. It was my fault. He was my brother." He spits on my neck when he says brother. "He was my best friend in the whole world once."
    I can't imagine how it all feels. How painful it all is to have it slammed like that into you.
    He straightens up and sniffs. He wipes his eyes and looks back at the door, "Please kill that thing before it destroys my lab."
    I nod, "We need to maybe be prepared that it has destroyed the lab." I wince when I say it and hope we don’t have to fight anymore.
    He shakes his head, "I am going to kick your ass one day when it doesn’t hurt me quite so much."
    "Deal." I wink into the room and peek. I wink back out, "It's ruined."
    He inhales sharply and exhales like he is yoga breathing.
    Sam and the others are in the hall.
    "I put the witch in there." I say.
    They frown. Lorri asks, "Witch?"
    "The witch that Jonathan was telling to stay at the house. The plan was for her to shield the bad guys while we were blown up on the third floor. She was working for him."
    Lorri looks at the lab and winces, "Is, is that the, lab?"
    Marcus's jaw tightens.
    Lorri nods "Wow. Aimee that was an intense move. How bad is it in there?"
    Marcus nods, "Done. Gone."
    Hanna walks to him and puts her hand on his arm, "You okay?"
    He shakes his head and looks at Henry who is sporting a severe expression.
    Marcus walks away from Hanna and past them all. We all look at Henry. He laughs. "You all not feel for him when he was killing people and making this one evil." He points to Shane.
    Shane shakes his head, "He had no soul, it was gone.