What was the fallout?
Almighty fury, when Jinx gets back
I'm not sure how long I spent sitting on the floor, curled up. I started on the bed, but after some time I couldn't bare to still be there. I could feel the binding on my hands. So I dropped to the floor.
And I didn't have the energy to get up. I don't remember eating. At some point I went to the bathroom, and got back to the floor. It was pretty dusty I realize now. It surprised me Jinx had come in here and decided to have sex with me after seeing the state of the room. It was dirty. I felt a desperate need to clean, but at the same time I didn't have any drive to do it.
I know a couple of days must have come by because Jinx came up. She seemed bothered by something, because she came in through the window.
"I've been calling and you didn't pick up!" She sounded just bothered at first, but seemed to worry more when she saw me on the floor. "What happened!?" She knelt down in front of me, and put her hands in my shoulders. The contact made me flinch. That made her start biting her lip, and I could feel the now familiar thrum of her magic start to intensify.
"Raven, Sh-She...." I recounted the situation. I felt almost disconnected from it
"SHE DID WHAT!?" then she saw me flinch again, and lowered her voice. "can I touch you?" I nodded, and she took me into her arms. Her presence helped me, and her magic seemed to almost welcome me. "I'm gonna make some calls. Do you feel like being alone right now?" I hadn't thought about it, but now that she was here, I couldn't muster the thought of letting her go. The darkness in the room made me tremble.
I shook my head.
"Don't worry then, I'm not going anywhere"
Like she said, she picked up her phone and hit the speed dial
"Mike, prepare for protocol demon hunter" She had a tremble in her voice, but still sounded like a professional
"I know what I've said, but she fucked up. So I'm fucking her up" Jinx furrowed her brow "Just do it Mikron" Her voice sounded tired already "Please. I need to call Mam"
By now I was falling asleep, feeling somewhat safer now, so I was hearing pieces of conversation.
"Baran, I need you to make the buy. No need to negotiate down, we're buying in bulk"
"... Yes, the whole building. Don't worry. Thanks"
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At some point she had raised her voice
"Raven, you fucking bitch! WHAT DID YOU DO!?"
"No I'm not letting you talk to him, are you stupid!? I'm not letting you near him without tying you down!" I can feel the strength Jinx is using to grasp her phone right now "You are a fucking rapist Raven! If you don't cooperate fully, I'm gonna drag you in front of the god damned Justice League! Lets see them deal with you, they already don't like you much" There's a slight muttering from the other side of the line "*Well that's the only way you're ever seeing him again! I'll be waiting for you tomorrow. I'll meet you on the roof, I don't want you hurting him more*"
That's the last I remember before falling asleep on Jinx arms.
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When I awoke, the light in the room hinted that I had slept a long time. I checked the time: 3PM. Well, not like I was missing a lot. Except Jinx. I could tell at a glance that I was currently alone in the room. Suddenly I felt anxious to look at the shadows in the corner. A flash of four red eyes looking at me made me jump. I looked again, nothing there.
I decided to keep myself busy with something before I went mad, so I made myself from coffee, fresh one this time. I was about to think what to do when a loud banging noise started on the wall I shared with my neighbor. It sounded like they were taking a sledgehammer to the wall.
Hm, there goes my peaceful morning. Er... Afternoon. I took my coffee and decided to go meet my neighbors, if just to get out of the apartment right now.
Now, the layout of the apartments is a little weird in this building. It was an old school, stairs only construction, lots of wooden floors and frames, and it seemed the original layout had only one apartment in each floor, but at some point they had been divided to sublease, or just sell. So some floors had 2 or 3 apartments now. In mine, there were one at each side of the stairs, and one in front of it, the last one being bigger than the other 2. And it was this one apartment I shared a wall with.
So then, I was knocking on my next door neighbor's door. I had to give it a couple hard knocks to be overhead over the construction noise. And then Mammoth opened the door.
What?
"Oh hey Tom, I thought you were still sleeping. Jinx told me not to bother you" I think my profound confusion was clear on my face. Also, did he consider this not bothering me?? "Huh. Hey Mam, what did you do with my neighbors?"
He just laughed a bit "Oh, we bought them"
"What do you mean you bought my neighbors??"
"Uh, no no. I mean we bought them out. Jinx decided to buy the whole building" huh, news to me.
"I didn't hear about this at all, when did it happen?" I was pretty sure I'd been contacted about... oh right.
"Yesterday. She told me not to bother you though, you can keep this floor she said. I was just gonna knock down the walls a bit to make a bigger place. Don't worry, I was starting with the other wall" I don't think Baran was getting what he was saying.
"Hey Mam, you know you were hitin' my wall right?" His eyebrows jumped up. He started scratching the back of his head.
"Oops. I think I got confused man. Sorry" He smiled at me and said "I think Jinx is on the roof, she was screaming at Raven. Weird she's here right? You can move to any of the apartments upstairs for now if you want, all of them are empty and are ours. They are the last one's we are modifying." This was too much information in such a little time.
So I took my coffee and just started going up the stairs. I didn't care enough about my bed to move it from against the wall, of to even try to protect anything against the dust that was gonna cover it soon enough. I just went up until there were no more stairs, and found the door to the roof. It was an old school, wooden door with chipped , light blue paint. It was barely ajar, and you could see the glare of the sun come through. I pushed it open with a shoulder and I started hearing the fight.
The first thing that I saw was Jinx slapping Raven with all her force. A sharp crack resounded in the insulated floor - roof? - Raven didn't seem to be fighting back, she just stood there with her head hung.
"If I didn't know they'd come looking for you, I'd find a way to imprison you in another dimension, only because I know killing you would be harder! " The pink haired girl looked at the point of tearing up. Raven just kept looking down. "What do you have to say for yourself!?"
Raven, without looking up, started saying "I-I couldn't stop thinking about him. I started following the both of you around, and you were with him. I got so angry. And then she took over, and when I got control back it was already too late. I-I'm so sorry, I didn't want to hurt him." A tear run down her cheek. I this state, I almost felt sorry for her.
"So you weren't in control of your emotions after all!?" Jinx had clenched her fists, and was fuming "I know we weren't the best of friends, but I hoped that at least you had enough respect for me to not lie to me to my face Rae" She spat the last word with venom.
"I thought I d-did" It was hard seeing the mysterious and always composed Raven in this state "But after I met him..." She covered her face "I'm scared I'm loosing control, that my father may not be as gone as I thought after all. Or that his power is corrupting me" She grabbed Jinx's hands in her "Please, you have to believe me. I don't want to hurt anyone again. I need you to do whatever you have to do" The titaness looked pleadingly at Jinx "I gave you the tools for it"
*"*I will, and you will serve me with him at my side" Jinx started. That seemed to be a huge mistake. From this far away I could see the change in Raven, her four eyes materialized and she quickly stood tall, towering above her presumed mistress.
"You will not insult me this way. If I am to serve, it will only be him!" Even I could feel the magical aura emanating from the angry woman. "I am to serve penance for my sins, but it will be by his hand, and at his feet only" I had to confess, those words were giving me a hard on. Metaphorical one, my fear was also present. I was still too fragile for knocking shoulders with this level of hero. The fear in Jinx eyes was also evident, as well as the slight tremble in her hands.
"fair enough. We are to bind your human side with a magical Geas, as well as your demon side with a contract. I have everything ready. We only need the anchor" She turned to the door I was peaking through. "It seems I don't need to fetch him. Come here, Tommy" Caught in my snooping, I just pushed the door open all the way and walked to them.
Raven didn't seem too surprised to see me either. I forget super-humans have super-senses. She slowly fell to kneeling on the floor. Jinx coughed to get my attention. "So... Awkward bit. I'm gonna bind Raven's demonic side to you by a contract. Don't worry about the specifics, we have already set the terms of it. You just gotta cosign."
To be honest, most of the stuff we were talking about was going over my head. It was better for me right now anyway. So I signed were they pointed, and I held my hand when they said, and I stood there as told.
My bare understanding, coming from the - Geas? It looked just like Raven was casting a regular spell, but it seems the language was what was particular about it - was that Raven plead to never lie to me - the spell's anchor, and the contracts cosigner - To obey any instruction I gave, and to do the best she could to keep me safe, physically and mentally. There was some better formulating than I'm relaying, but I can't be bothered to transcribe that much text. I would almost believe it to be a normal, formal ceremony if it weren't that the contract caught fire after I signed last, and the purplish dark aura that surrounded me when Raven cast the spe... the Geas. At the end, she just knelt down again and looked directly up at me. "I'm now at your service, Master"
"Master, is that necessary?" She smiled mirthlessly. "Yes, is part of the contract" Shit, I should have read that better then.
Looking at her at my feet like this, I could feel something I hadn't felt all this time after she did what she did. I felt anger. Anger at her for doing what she did, for being weak enough to fall to her desires. I wanted to punish her, make her feel the helplessness I felt. I failed to hear the smaller, better part of me telling me nothing good comes of this. I felt a snarl materialize in my face. A dark feeling clouding my mind. Jinx seemed to feel the change, and reacted to it by stepping closer to me. Almost clinging to my arm.
"So, Raven. Tell me the truth. What does it mean to be half demon?" I wanted to understand all the stuff they were talking about for so long, leaving me in the dark about the magical aspects of the world.
"I-I.. There's nothing complicated. I just have aspects of a demon and a human. My demonic aspects react with the normal plane forming my soul-self, that I can use to interact with this plane in some ways"
"And are there different types of demons?" ,
"All demons are different. If you mean difference in power, then yes. There's a lot of levels. You have demons like Etrigan, that are powerful enough to match Wonder Woman in some aspects. Then there is my father, Trigon, who is a demon lord, powerful enough to destroy planets" I was now worried about what I had just gotten myself into.
"So could your father get angry enough at me about this to destroy me and the planet I stand on?"
"I would doubt it, given I defeated him and adsorbed his powers" Thing were getting scarier.
"As in, world destroying powers?" Raven seemed almost offended at this
"Yes, if I were so inclined. As you can see, I'm no so" She seemed to feel my unease, because she continued
"Even if I hadn't just bound myself to you, I wouldn't want to hurt you or anyone around you. I'm not my father or anything like it. Or at least, I don't want to be." My face softened a bit. She seemed to be profoundly remorseful for what she did.
"You seem to be dangerous though, if what happened is a pattern" Her face fell even more. I was still totally not ready to let go. I wanted my pound of flesh it seemed.
"And that's why I made the bows and signed the contract. Magical contracts are foolproof then demons are involved. Even Trigon would be bound by one if he ever was to sign one"
"You keep said that Trigon is dead, but you talk about him in present tense, why is that?"
"Demons don't die in the traditional sense, I hold his power and a part of his essence, but I'm not fully certain that he could one day reform, even though it would take him a lot of time to regain his past powers" That alone made a shiver run through my body. Fuck were demons scary.
"So what are some of your powers?" I was for now mostly curious about Raven.
"I'm a sorceress, so I can wield magic. I am also stronger than most humans, and I have control over my soul-self, that allows me somewhat limited telekinetic abilities" Was Raven more of a powerhouse than anyone figured?
"I can also fly, and I have empathic abilities. I can feel people's emotions " So that's how she read my mood changes, spooky. She looked down, almost ashamed to be peeking.
"And I can also heal in a limited capacity"
"So you are a one-man army? What about what you said, you have your father's power?" I couldn't avoid my worry to cloud my voice.
"I have the ability to wield it, but demonic powers have the ability to alter space-time, so it would need to be a very pressing situation to have to use them" Raven herself seemed respectful if not afraid of those powers "Most of the time me having those powers if enough to out-intimidate any enemy these days"
"Seems the best option is to bind you then " I held my breath for a second, feeling the darkness take grasp again
"I want to punish you for what you did. What would you feel is the best way to do so?" It felt poetic to make her device her own punishment. It looked to be the right idea, as she blushed profusely and looked away, stammering an answer "I-I'm not really experienced with sex, what we.. - what I did the other day was my first time with intimacy" She seemed to be fighting her mortification, but she continued talking "And I can't stop thinking about it. Th-The pleasure, the power. The best way to punish me right now would be to dangle all that in front of me and deny me it for a long time" I was silent for a second, because the image in front of me was exciting. A girl was telling me she wanted to be denied, and was visibly excited by it. I could see a bead of pleasure coming down her leg. Jinx next to me was almost panting, and clenching her legs.
"Does the idea excite you, you disgusting rapist?" I couldn't help the words that came out of my mouth.
Raven's eyes were almost filled with tears "YES! I love it. I don't know why. I just ... "
"Then that's your punishment. For now, until I say it's no longer so, you are not allowed to orgasm. You can touch yourself, but you'll never finish." I also remembered her strong reaction to Jinx trying to dominate her "And also, for the next month you'll answer to Jinx as you would me" for a second, I saw Raven's eyes turn red, but then they went back to her usual coloring . I'd have to be careful to poke a literal demon. Or maybe not. I couldn't help how good wielding so much power felt. Maybe I should have been concerned. Just a bit.
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A/N: Exams are killing me, so its taking a bit. The chapter was beginning to be too long, so I cut it here. See you in another one, next month maybe.
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