CHAPTER VII : JUST LIKE A SEDATIVE

Jack sighs before starting to open the voice facing the Duke and the king of the nation. "That girl, your⸻ coming soon⸻fiancé where did you meet her?"

Lucas appeared to be thinking for a moment then leaned back on Eve's favorite green velvet sofa. Jack who saw his best friend's reaction instantly found out this guy had just hidden something from him. His best friend was emotionless and often did everything just to try new things. But Jack felt that what Lucas was doing was quite over the limit, suddenly announced he was getting engaged to a cousin from Lorraine. And his fiancée is an ordinary human being.

Again Jack sighs the umpteenth time trying to compose words not to make him meet death sooner and leave his wives behind.

"What happened to the girl was caused by a trauma that made her unable to escape the shadows as well as the negative feelings inside."

"I just gave him a sedative injection, a very deep trauma and it had an impact on her mental and physical condition."

Lucas immediately looks at Jack quite surprised because his jerky best friend just mentioned trauma and sedation. She did know something was wrong with her, but she didn't know Van Alen would give her a major trauma.

"She would feel nauseous, claustrophobic, and her heart as if driven like a racehorse. Cold sweats, heavy head even fainting or vomiting. This girl is having a hard time Luc." Jack gives Lucas another understanding, however, that he is a doctor. It seems to have become the main food and daily life so the desire to save a girl is his instinct.

"What to do?" A question got out of Lucas' mouth eventually. Jack now leans over his body, letting his hands rest on the arm of the sofa.

"Let her tell the story and get everything out of her heart. Give her a sense of security as well as comfort so that your fiancé will get peace. At least that's for now."

"It's easy," Lucas blurted out said lightly as the man stood about to leave the room but his steps stopped when Jack's magic almost hit his handsome face.

"Human is very fragile, they will slip, fall and then be crushed to pieces. Just like Eve, she's not an Asmodia or Elf. The girl is human, I don't know what your cunning plan is."

"But since you brought the 'broken' girl to this death circle, you must be responsible Castiello."

"Oh, once more don't let her meet the trigger that will bring the trauma back."

"Trigger? What do-" Not yet had time to finish his sentence, Jack had left the Duke's residence with a small note to contact him if Lucas agreed to give Eve a therapy session. Lucas snorts and burns the paper.

"You fucking Incubus, I know that, idiot."

***

Eve blinks her eyes trying to adjust the light that infiltrates the entrance. The first thing she sees is Lucas' happy face welcoming her, Eve immediately drops herself into Lucas' arms and cries out loud. Shedding all the wounds and pain, wailing and screaming to cause her to be a jerk. Lucas pats Eve's back slowly calming the hysterical girl with a soothing speech.

"It's okay, everything's going to be okay. You're fine." Over and over Lucas uttered this sentence and whispered it gently in Eve's ear.

Now that the girl appears much calmer, Lucas pulls himself up and examines Eve's tearful face and a small smile. Eve's fingers play the tip of Lucas' black pajamas and occasionally pull her snot made Lucas stifle his laughter because it feels funny. Eve who heard Lucas' loudness immediately stabbed the cold man in the stomach.

"You're feeling better?" Eve just nodded in answer to Lucas's question. The two fell silent long enough for Lucas to pull Eve's left hand and reveal the sleeves of her nightgown. Eve was shocked when Lucas' ruby bead covered the scar on her wrist, bringing shame because she often hurt herself quite often.

"Does it hurt?" Ask Lucas while gently wiping the scars that appear to have been scarred on the white porcelain of the girl. Eve smiled and shook her head.

"Not at all I feel relieved when I do all this." Eve's curled fingers go down the scar as if feeling every taste left there, so hollow, sad, heartbreaking but also relieving.

"When the blade slices the skin and opens the wound, then the blood will flow. Instead of being afraid, I was relieved."

"Ah, it turns out I'm still alive. Even though I feel all the great emptiness beyond this, I am still alive and this blood is the proof." Lucas listens with a little strange feeling because somehow he just wants Eve to stop everything she does.

Eve wiped away traces of tears on her side, trying to hold her tears down more rapidly. She was startled when Lucas kissed the scar on her hand very slowly. Eve can feel the stinging sensation and the red blushed whacking her face.

"You live Eve. Now that I'm here everything's going to be fine, you don't have to cut every end of your skin, I'm going to prove that you're alive." Lucas smiles and grabs Eve's face staring at the Emerald bead that looks like a lake, soothing as well as breezing.

"I-I'm scared. I'm afraid the shadows are back, they're back. I'm a curse Lucas, I'm even an unwanted existence. I made a lot of mistakes-" Eve's words were cut off as she felt a chewy, soft object landing on her lips. Lucas had just silenced her with a long kiss, causing thousands of butterflies to fly around him. Lucas has opened his eyes and found Eve's face completely flushed, a novelty that turns out to have become his favorite sight now.

"I'm not going to get tired of telling you this Eve. I'm your new home, I'll take care of you and be your place to go home."

"Don't joke about curses because I'm the king of all curses you know, taking you by my side is no hard thing for me. So if they call me back, I'll find you, and save you."

Eve smiled broadly, her tears back down. Again and again, she felt that all her burdens were reduced one by one, she could pick up pieces of herself again. And feel the beauty of being loved also loving.

"Yes, but don't expect more if the one who saves you is a creepy demon and not a white riding prince." Lucas laughed crisply by wiping the girl's tears, they warmed up to each other as well as leaning back that night. Eve had just let go of a chain that shackled her and reiterated her determination that from this moment on she swore to love the Duke of darkness no matter what.

[1] Evil demon spirits like to visit women at night to have sex with them.