Lyan
Dad?
As the smoke cleared up a figure could be seen. Standing still in the middle of my room was my dad, looking at my guys as if he wanted to murder them. We were utterly fucked.
The high from the alcohol and the sex disappeared in a second as my face got pale. I pulled away from Mark and Jack and quickly covered my body with the sheets, my face on fire.
" What do you think you're doing?" Dad's voice was dark and deep as he closed the distance between us, his hands sparking with unshed power.
The whole air around him rippled with his power, the room shaking all around us.
" It isn't what you think" It didn't even take me a second to step between my guys and my dad. I knew he wouldn't hurt me, but I couldn't say the same about my guys.
Fear rippled through my body as dad's expression got even darker. From behind me I could hear Mark swearing and Orus and Jack shivering in fear. They were ready to fight, weapons and claws ready, but they were shaking.
No one could have expected dad to appear, and much less for him to appear after making Fluffy disappear, I was so surprised, how had he come here without going through the breach? Oh, right,Ruan and me broke that. I swore internally.
The moment I really thought about what had happened fear and panic rose inside me. Where was Fluffy? What had dad done to him? He was part of my family, along with Orus, Jack and Mark. If he had hurt him I was going to be very mad. I would never forgive him if he hurt those I loved.
" It isn't what I think?"
I flinched hearing the hatred in dad's words.
" I think you were having sex with those little corpses, and I caught you midway "
My blood ran cold the moment he spoke.
I spun around as fast as I could to check on my guys, the edge on his voice telling me he had done something bad. When I turned I saw Mark choking himself, his face getting blue as the oxigen didn't reach him. His hands were sorrounding his neck with all his strength, the skin where his hands were getting dark and blotched.
Jack and Orus were looking ahead without really looking, blood pouring out of their ears and eyes as they stood still, not moving a muscle as the red blood pooled underneath them.
" What are you doing? Stop!" I ran to my guys and cast the highest level of healing magic I was capable of.
My magic didn't do anything. I panicked even more as they were still dying, the blood still flowing out and Mark's hands still around his neck, killing himself.
" I'm doing what needs to be done to those filthy humans"
Dad stood beside me looking at my guys with a devious grin.
" Stop it!" I gathered my shadows and all my power and hit dad in the chest, hoping he would let go of my guys.
Instead of letting go or even looking hurt dad smiled and chuckled while he shook his body, as if my strongest attack was nothing more than a little nuisance to him.
" That's my little bunny" His smile was proud as he looked at me.
Tears were streaming down my face as I looked at him, the person I had learned to love like a father, killing the people I cared about most in the world.
I felt powerless as I watched, unable to stop it and save the people I cared most about.
I fell to the floor while clutching my legs, the sheet I was covering myself with falling to the floor, not that I cared. All I could see through my tears were my guys, dying little by little in front of my eyes.
" Do you really love them so much?" Dad's voice had an edge to it as he asked, sitting on the floor to be at eye level with me.
" Yes, could you please don't do this?" My voice was desperate as I begged one last time, the stupid ember of hope remaining inside me whispering he would stop if I begged enough.
" But they touched my little girl, they deserve to die"
" Then what?" Anger rose inside of me as I heard dad's stupid excuses. " Am I supposed to live alone forever?"
" Yes, with me" Dad's eyes were unhinged as he looked at me.
" Am I supposed to live without love?"
" I love you"
" But you're my dad!" The tears kept coming as I screamed, all the anger and sorrow finally coming out.
" I still love you"
" He's feeling guilty that he never got to be with you when you were little, so now he wants to protect you from everything and everyone and keep you safe to himself"
Out of nowhere Ruan appeared, looking smug as he exposed dad.
I stared at him, not moving a finger to help my guys, and I exploded. Did he think I would care about his reasons? Or about the fact that he was lonely? All I cared about was that he was hurting the people I loved the most. I was never going to let that go.
" That isn't a reason to kill the only people I love!"
Dad's face fell as he looked at me.
" Don't you love me?"
" If you do this, I won't ever love you"
Dad's eyes shone with anger as he eyed me, sadness underneath the hatred.
" I think that maybe you should let them go " Ruan's voice was calm as he told dad what to do.
Dad snapped his head towards Ruan and smiled in that creepy way that told me someone was going to die.
" Do you want to die too?" Ruan shivered" Then get lost"
Ruan did get lost. He didn't even wait a second before teleporting away, casting one last apologetic look my way. He was useless, but at least he had tried helped me.
" Do you really love them?" Dad's gaze was sad as he looked at me.
For the first time since he had appeared hope ignited inside me. Maybe I could keep them alive after all.
I cast one glance at them, blood all over the floor and Mark's barely breathing body as his face got blue and then at my dad. This was my last chance to stop him and I wasn't going to waste it.
" With all my heart, so please let them go"
Dad's face contorted with an emotion I couldn't quite describe as he snapped his fingers.
The sound of someone taking a big gulp of air sounded behind me. I got up and ran up to them, hugging Orus and Jack with both my arms as I took us all down to the bed with my momentum. Once in the bed I hugged Oscar, who was glaring at dad with murder in his eyes as he hugged me tightly.
" Are you okay?" Orus hugged me tightly too as Jack took my face with relief, his whole body shaking in fear.
" I'm fine" I answered Oscar's question with a faint smile, the tears still streaming down my face.
I was so relieved that they were fine that I could've screamed and jumped up and down. My emotions were a mess as I looked at my dad, who was staring at us with a sad expression from the front of the room.
" Thanks" I whispered the words as I looked at him.
Dad smiled tightly as he looked at us, something quite like hatred in his eyes, but he didn't try anything as he stood there looking at us.
" Where's Fluffy?" The question escaped from my mouth the moment the relief dissipated a little and my reason returned. My whole head was throbbing in pain from the hangover, but I had more important things to do than being hangover, like finding out where was Fluffy.
" I was him"
" What?"
I stared at Dad, still hugging my guys as he smiled sadly.
" I was him all along. I possessed a rabbit and followed you"
Dad had been Fluffy all along. Looking back everything made sense. When I was dead Fluffy had fought like a beast and when I had died dad had immediately known I was dead, because he had been there with me when I had died.
I kept replaying all the moments I had shared with Fluffy all this time. I replayed the way he had eyed my guys as if he wanted to murder them and that I had ignored, the way Ruan had begged to not be left alone with him. I had really been clueless.
" Why?" That was the only question that stayed in my mind. Why had he done that? Why had he possessed a rabbit to look at me? To spy me, or because he loved me?
" I wanted to keep you safe" Keep me safe? I snorted, as if. If he had really wanted me to be safe he would've protected me earlier, he would've stood up for me all this time, gone against the bad people, but not once had he done it.
The cracks in my heart widened. He claimed he loved me, but he never showed it, all he did was attack the people I loved, he never did anything I wanted at all. That wasn't love, that was control.
" If you really loved me you wouldn't have done the things I hated. You would've spoken to me before trying to murder the people I loved, you would have done what I wanted, but you didn't"
Even more tears were falling down as I spoke, my heart breaking. I had trusted him, I shouldn't have done that.
" You love us?" Orus's soft voice asked in my ear. Only then did I realized that I almost lost them and never once had I told then how I felt about them.
" I do" I whispered into all of their ears so that they knew it was true. I did, I loved them with all my heart and I regretted that they had thought even for a single second that I didn't.
" I did it to protect you!"
Dad was screaming now, tears falling down his face as he looked at me with his green, sad eyes. Good, he deserved to cry and to feel even a fraction of what I'd felt.
" You don't lie to protect, you don't scheme to protect. You did it because you wanted the power, not to protect me"
" So you think lying is bad?" The tears in dad's eyes had left room for something else, something very close to dark amusement.
I tensed up, waiting for an attack to my guys that never came. Instead dad just looked at me as he spoke, his voice firm with the confidence that knowing you hold all the cards and that you're right gave you.
" If you hate lies so much you should look around you"
My heart beated faster in response to his words. What did he mean? I had been so drunk that I had managed to forget, but it was true that one of my guys had been lying and scheming against me all along.
I turned to look at my guys. Oscar was glaring at dad while his hand went up and down my skin, trying to calm me down. Orus was growling and Jack was looking at him with hatred and something else in his blue eyes.
" What do you mean?" I knew what he meant, but I wanted him to say it out loud.
" One of those....things" The disdain on dad's words was patent as he pointed at my guys " has been lying to you. One of them got you killed"
I shivered as I watched how my guys reacted. Orus opened his mouth wide in surprise and immediately turned against Jack and Oscar.
" Is that what you were doing then? Threatening my girl?" Orus's voice was deep and angry as he glared at both of them.
Oscar frowned but stood his ground, looking at Orus as if he was dead meat. Jack paled and slowly backed away.
" Calm down" I placed my hand in Orus's shoulder, trying to calm him down as I turned to face my dad.
Now I didn't need Ruan and his spell to see the past, now all I needed was to listen for a while and the identity of the traitor would be revealed.
My whole body felt weird as I waited, the stupid little girl in me hoping he would say it was all a joke and that it had all been a lie. Even though I knew better I still wanted it.
" Who was it?"
Dad smiled diabolically as he got closer. He grabbed my chin as Orus growled, ready to kill him. I held his hand tightly in a silent order not to do anything.
" Will you forgive me and love me again if I tell you?" Dad's eyes were sad as he asked, as if my answer meant the world to him and I found myself wavering again. The way he looked at me with love, as if a single word from my mouth could change everything made me think I was important. I didn't think that was a lie. Maybe he had just taken a lot of bad choices to protect me, the same way I had to to bring back my family.
I stared into his eyes, so similar to my own and tried to imagine a world where I hated him, where he didn't come evey morning to pet my head and tell me I was his little bunny and I couldn't, didn't want to imagine it.
" Did you really just wanted to protect me?" My voice was shaky as I asked.
Oscar held my hand as I spoke, giving me the courage to speak up.
" I did. Believe me when I say all I ever did was for you"
My heart swelled with love when I looked into his eyes, clear and with no ulterior motives.
" I forgive you"
Dad, the King of all demons, the most feared ruler ever that killed his enemies and then bathed in their blood, the great nemesis of humanity, fell to the floor, tears of relief running down his face.
" Thanks" His smile was weak as he looked at me. " I don't know what I would've done if you had hated me"
" Dad" I got out of bed, untangling my fingers from Orus's and Oscar's as I told Jack everything would be okay and got down to the floor.
I hugged my dad with all my strength, not wanting to ever let go of him. His body shook in my arms, as if he had been so afraid of what I'd say that now that it was out of the way the relief had caught up to him. His tears fell into my shoulder, warm in contact with my cold skin.
Tears fell down my own eyes as I hugged him. In truth I had been afraid he had never loved me, but his words had pushed any kind of doubt I could have about it away.
After ruining dad's shirt, we finally got up, my eyes puffy and red from crying so much, but dad's, who had cried just as much, were perfect. Damned demon abilities.
I smiled as I held dad's hand. Right now everything was great. My dad wouldn't try to kill my guys now and I had finally told them how I felt. Everything had finally fallen in it's place. We could just be happy. I could just let the traitor go and forget all about it, living happily with them for ever and ever, but deep down I knew that if I did that I would never look at my guys the same.
While looking at them I would always doubt, question if they were the one that had betrayed me, question if they loved me. Even though the cracks in my heart had somehow fixed after dad had come out with the truth I knew they weren't still full healed and that I would question evey single one of their actions. I had to know.
" Dad, tell me what you know"
" You don't want to know" Oscar's voice was sad as he begged. My heart bleed when I listened to him. Had he been the one to betray me?
" That's right. You don't want to know" Jack's words also got to me.
I stared at them before turning to dad. I knew what I wanted.
" Who is it?"
Dad cast my guys one last glance filled with hatred as he turned to look at me.
" It is...."