Forbidden

Chapter 38

-NINFA'S P.O.V-

   I lightly kiss her cheek. I'm worried. Scared. Hurt. Terrified. All because of the events that took place.
   After what seems like forever, she stands and begins to undress. I stand and hover to her level. Her arms wrap around me.
"I'm sorry I'm a failure, Ninfa."
"You did the best you could, Valerie. You're doing the best you can to save this world."
"We are. Not just me."
"But without you I would have been dead a long time ago."
"I know you wouldn't have. You and I have a lot in common. You're not going to die so easily."
"How do you know?"
"Do you trust me?"
"Yes."
    A small moment of pain and my heart is beating before my eyes.
"You look pretty alive to me."
    She places my heart again and returns in the embrace.
"How did you know?"
"I was actually guessing."
"You're kidding?"
"No, no. I knew. You could be stronger than me. Father being God and mother being an arch angel. You're more stronger than you think."
   I notice more blood dripping down the drain but it's not from me because I healed without a drop. Her hand was cleaned from my blood in an instant...
   I search around for a source because I know I'm not bleeding. And I'm not...
   Her hip. Her stomach. Her thigh. All contain large and deep bite marks. So hidden under the blood of the others that I didn't notice.
"Val.."
"I'm fine."
"Let me help you. I've watched you stitch enough. I can help."
   After a moment she nods. The shower was cut short and I finally got her in bed. Dried and I stopped the bleeding. I begin to stitch her.
"Why do you love me?"
"Because I do. Over a thousand years of feeling nothing but tiny amounts of joy from healing sick children and helping th poor with their needs, after all that time... came you. A ruby eyed demon who stole my heart from the first look. Someone I tried my hardest to hate but I always felt drawn to. You give me feelings and urges I never thought I would hold. I use to think of sex as only a human thing that they would do to reproduce. That there was no feelings involved. Now I find it ..fun.. And I feel all the passion for it.. I feel love. And any other time when you look at me, I see love shine in your eyes. I never thought of love as something I would come across and feel but I do and I love every second I am able to be here. To say that I love you is the smallest way I can explain how much I do love you."
   Her hand lightly squeezes mine.
"Oh. I remember now. I had something to show you."
   She reaches in the nightstands drawer. In a split second the angel blade is forced into my heart but it doesn't hurt. I pull it out in confusion.
"No angel blade will ever hurt you again."
"You guessed on that one trying to kill me?"  I pull down my shirt enough and see no marks of the blade.
"No. After the time I thought you were scared of me.. I slowed time and cut you with it. It didn't even leave a mark."
"You're insane."
   She shrugs. "I'm trying."
   I sigh. I trust her with my life, dying isn't so bad if I get to go out with her by my side. She uses her magic on me a lot though.
   I wrap her in bandages.
"I'm a mummy. Good job, babe."
   She closes her eyes and sighs. "Will you please hold me? Please never let go."
   I climb into bed after cleaning up the mess. I wrap my arms around her tightly and she does the same for me.
"I know I'm a pain. I'm know I'm a demon. I know this. But Ninfa, please stay with me? Even if I fail you. Even if I fail this world. Will you.."
   My heart starts to race quickly. Would she...
"..promise me forever?"
    It's not what I .. It's okay. It is pretty close, honestly.
"Yes. We can have forever, Val."
"I love you so much. I just want you to know."
   I kiss her cheek and attempt to draw some of her pain away but I can't. Something is blocking me.
"It's the hounds venom. I will survive. Not my first bite. Just give me a few days."
"You take the time you need. It will be okay. I will be here. I'm never leaving you."
"I love you."
   I hear her fall asleep.. But I return the words. "I love you too."
   I know we haven't really been together long so I shouldn't have expected her to ask me that question. It would have been sweet if she had though. I wouldn't mind a wedding. I wouldn't mind a legal forever.
   I wouldn't mind. But that may come with time, it may not. We do have forever and I will wait for whenever I either have the guts or whenever she wishes to.
   With forever on our side, I know she will always be mine and I hers. I do not need a marriage to prove so. I do not need a ring to prove so.
   Her in my arms. Her in my life, that's all I need. If it's forever, I'm honored enough as is.
   If I can sleep like this forever, I will. Because falling asleep to this... is perfect.

   She hasn't woken up in almost a week. She's healing well but hasn't woken. I feel like I'm lost without her.
   I think maybe she's not waking is because she's trapped. It happened a few times before... And each time I've come out the other side worried.
   I miss her but there is nothing I can do for her. Not yet at least. The venom isn't all gone for me to heal her. It still blocks me.
   I've taken out at least a hundred or two monsters and demons on my own. I mean, I had the Elder and Joel helping from the sidelines. It's not so bad... But I miss her.
   Each night I leave and return. And I hold her as close as I can as I sleep. I even tell her I love her before I sleep in holds she wakes.
   If she's trapped. If. Maybe I can help her. Maybe I can help. Somehow. Someway.
   I'm here. After a hot shower. I'm here and ready to sleep.
   There is this way I speak to kids when they sleep. Maybe I can try doing this for her. In hopes it works.
   I take a deep breath and hold her tightly to me. I press my lips to her temple... in hopes.

   The shackles. Chains. The iron spikes and rods driven through her body.
   Lucifer stand over her. He only laughs to her pain... But she does not cry when a new spike or rod or spear is slowly pushed into her skin.
   Demon blades poking out from her chest, Sekia stabbed through her heart...
"Happy birthday, mutt."
   He walks off. I stand in front of her, trying to gain some attention but I can't...
"Valerie.. this isn't your place anymore. Your home is in my arms and I need you to come back to me."
    She looks around for the voice.. for me.. before her eyes find mine.
"Come home with me. It's just a dream, this is not real. I am real and I am waiting for you to come back to me."
"N..Nin?"
"Come home with me, Val. You no longer belong here. Your home is with me. Your home is in my arms."
"My home is in your arms."
    She repeats it a few times and things slowly disappear. The last things to go are the weapons and she's free. She falls into my arms.
"My home is in your arms."
"It is. And you asked for it to be forever. It will be. But you have to come back to me. You have to wake up."
"My home is in your arms.."

"My home is in your arms."
   I feel a pull of my energy and she's healed. She nuzzles close to me and I hold her tightly.
"My home is in your arms."
"Your home is with me. Your home is in my arms."
"I didn't want you to see me like that."
"I needed you. I miss you. I miss you, Valerie. I needed you to wake up. Just for the few moments we have here before I know you'll fall asleep again. If you have another dream, Val... remind yourself where you belong."
"My home is in your arms."
"Forever."
"I hope so."
"It is. I promised, didn't I?"
   I lean down and lightly kiss her cheek. "You are my love. The only one for me. I will never want anyone other than you. I will always be here. I will forever be yours."
"I hope."