ˋ❖ Sincubus

@✞ yunho j。 /the goings on in the club mean nothing to me, the me that you know, the moment that my attention is on you, my body slowly returning to its normal state, attempting to conserve what little power I have left rather than exhausting myself completely before I see that you're safe and well; when you chuckle I grimace, my eyes returning to their usual warmth as the sclera whitens again and my irises grow a syrupy brown while I bring a hand to your face, that sixth claw almost completely having disappeared and in the blink of an eye, gold gone in favor of your sweater clinging to my figure thanks to a sheen of sickly sweat on my skin and my skinny jeans once more fitting to my legs/
My Yunho...
/speaking softly, I help you to your feet the best that I can, the fury of a demon gone in favor of gentility and grace as I try to offer you my shoulders and my body to lean against, my hand at your hip for fear of further injuring you with a broken bone unaccounted for and my only concern what further damage could be done if left unattended for too long; the power in your voice is one I don't expect, but as we move to leave the club I'm thankful for it as I fear my own voice might be lost to me for now save for one sentiment I need to voice/
I love you.
/so lost in that I fail to notice anything, save for the odor that seems to grow at our backs as I push open one of the doors, the bouncer posted there seeming not to know whether to stop us or to let us pass until the last instant and I'm all too thankful for the feeling of cool evening air on our faces compared to the fetid air of the club behind us but a single step now as I turn what's left in me in terms of energy to getting you to safety even as I whisper my apologies, my feet almost dragging against the concrete/
I'm sorry...

@✞ eunki h。 /your cry makes my heart ache and i almost regret asking you to stop for me, my lips trembling before i look back up at you and find the strength to open my eyes
i'm sorry... i'm sorry, my love
/whispers softly, more to myself than anything as i look at you, my head bowing against your hip whilst i focus on breathing and keeping myself conscious
/the way your body recedes back into the man i know more but love no more than even in your true form, i sigh in relief as i know i've reached you in some manner or another
the hospital sounds good enough right about now...
/nods gently in agreement, my free hand reaching up to gently grip onto you, forcing myself to find my footing even if i don't think i'll be able to stand for long, at least not without some support
it h-hurts more than i thought it would
/chuckles a little, the sound pained though and i rasp for breath in a moment, feeling my broken rib wriggling around inside my cold body, making me lean into you a bit more heavily than i intend on doing
/pressing my eyelids closed hard for a moment before they open again, filled with darkness though my iris is flecked with gold as i speak, my voice carrying out louder than what should be possible, a calmness to it that shouldn't be there considering my state at the moment
move aside. now
/warns the people left in the club surrounding us, party goers and bouncers alike shuffling out the way to give us room towards the exit
/nodding to you i slowly begin to walk out with you, limping as we go before i hear the man who harmed mei beginning to mouth off again
/sighing i pause with you, not even looking back at him before my shadow at my feet seems to stretch, running among the other shadows before forming itself into a spear, ramming into the man's head from beneath his jaw and impaling him, silencing him forever
let's go
/murmurs to you gently, beginning our exit as we leave the smell of death behind us, knowing the man will never harm anyone again let alone mei

@✞ yunho j。 /the moment your hand comes to rest on my arm I tense, the human me, your spring, small and distant and yet just beneath the surface of the demon standing before you with burning coal for eyes and hands marred by blood and only just clean of viscera from what little restraint remains; my chains recede at the sight of you, weak, injured, your pain the source of my fire in this moment, though they become no more menacing than thin jewelry ornamenting my pale skin; breathing out, my fingers slowly curl into my palms, nails still uncommonly long and jewel-like when they scrape at my skin/
Too quick...
/muttering quietly, I only just catch a glimpse of the sight of the tears in your eyes and a sudden, hoarse cry leaves my lips as I only just become aware of the damage I've done; two men still lying on the floor, my hand about another's throat, another scrabbling across the floor feeling his way blindly toward us; slowly, I withdraw my hand, sixth claws receding to minor nuisances and infernal strength slowly waning as it's clear you need me more than either of us need vengeance/
My Yunho... we need to get you to the hospital.
/my voice is soft, no more self-harmonization, no chorus of damnation as I look upon you and I offer you my hands, not wanting to see you on your knees even as my own strength wanes, my power used, my body fueled by adrenaline alone as my chains dull, hanging limp against my skin while a much more humanly conscious stutter returns/
C-can you walk?

@✞ eunki h。 /holding myself up onto my feet i shake my head gently, looking at you for a brief moment and then to your hands, the blood dripping from them and to the man collapsed at your feet
eunki...
/whispers as softly as i see what you've done to the man, frowning to myself as i wish it had never come to this, hesitant to touch you as i'm unsure if you're even thinking straight
/seeing you turn on the man i came here for originally, i wince as my chest aches once more, my fingers curling into my shirt slightly as i wipe the blood from the corner of my mouth
no-
/not denying that it's the man as you grasp him by his throat, i come closer to you, close enough to reach one of my hands out towards you, resting it on your arm as it shakes on its own
he doesn't deserve death. its too quick- to swift
/looks over at the man, my eyes still burning and cold as i look at him before i feel my jaw tense up once more, eyelids falling shut as i sigh to myself
he should suffer but yes. that's... that's h-him
/squeezes your arm gently in an attempt to get you to listen to me, reaching my other hand out from my side to touch your cheek, tears in my eyes
don't do this
eunki please. i need y-you
/eyes shaking with fresh tears i plead with you quietly, gasping and bending in on myself a little bit as the pain from my wounds is getting a little too much for me, already having felt close to passing out
i know his face, his name, i won't let him get away with it
please-
/cut off from even being able to say your name i find myself drop to my knees in front of you, a reaper, messenger of death at your feet, looking oddly religious and important all the same

@✞ yunho j。 /the crack is a sound that deafens, even beneath the sloppy, heavy bass, and as you’re dropped to the ground what restraint I had over this body is gone just as quickly; without you under threat by this brute, I gather his face in my hands and stare into his eyes while a tongue as forked as the serpent’s which my chains so easily mimic unfurls from my lips/
Make amends with your God. Quickly now.
/those sixth claws are poised just beneath his jaw as he tries to grab for me, my body arching away smoothly and the claws that adorn my thumbs as every other nail pierce just alongside his eyes within their sockets; the blood that runs down my hands feels cold in comparison and the yellowish fluid, so much like pus, that drains from unguarded eyes mingles with it on my palms, a fact for which I’m disgusted as I pull myself back/
I should kill you all—
/my chest heaves with an all too human breath and the blood and ocular fluids drip from my nails, clouding the gems I treasure most in this form until I’m left to look to you, eyes still burning with an inner fire as I see you struggle to stand; what my humanity can cry out it does, making me want to come to your side first and foremost, but with your initial target still breathing on the floor, I’m less lover’s mercy and more compelled by my wrath; my feet barely touch the ground, impelled by the balls of my feet and my toes, those same extra claws at my ankles well above the ground as I approach him at the first sign of proactive movement/
I should send you to hell myself.
/my hand comes to clasp at his throat and I turn my head, looking back to you when at last, above the scattered cries and panic to which I’ve grown deaf, the voice you know leaves my wide lips almost as you know it/
Did this man do those terrible things to Mei... ?

@✞ eunki h。 /flashes of your true form come to me as i see you from the corner of my eye, men going flying across the room and crying out for help, others scrambling to get away in the chaos to make sure they won't be next
eunki no-
/calls your name gently as i'm held, grunting as my hands try push at the man's shoulders, trying to get him to loosen me even just a little bit
/cries out when the man jerks me in his arms, my spine aching and i swear it might snap in the next moment, leaving my eyes watering as i choke on another sob
go... g-go before they get to you and keep you here
/whispers as i look at you, seeing you pulling on him and demanding he let me go, the world blurring into nothing for me for a second before i end up coming close to passing out
i-
/unable to say more i hear something like a crack come from inside of me, one of my ribs breaking i'm sure of it and the man drops me to the floor afterwards
/gasping as i wrap one of my arms around my waist i try and push myself up to stand, nothing working for now as the pain i feel is immeasurable right now
/turns my head and spies the man from before i've beat into silence, narrowing my eyes at him before the pain in my torso reminds me we need to leave whilst we still can
eunki... enough- enough please
/calls out to you, even reaching out one of my hands as well before i end up sighing to myself, managing to sit up this time though not for long, making myself stand too
/finding my feet i reach one of my hands out towards you, wanting nothing more than to go home and leave as soon as possible

@✞ yunho j。 /with long, hard, sharp nails in the man's collar, threads snapping as I pull him back and away from you, ignoring your words not willfully so but perhaps because in this moment they're too far from me, I look into the face of the brute with inhumanly wide lips pulled into a malicious grin/
You've made a grave mistake.
/my eyes, the sclera burned black and the normally syrupy brown irises a lurid shade of gem-like red, leave the man as a long, pale limb arcs away from my body, tossing the brute off his feet and into a nearby table, letting him fall to the ground with the tinkling sound of gold hitting gold as my chains rattle over the splintering of cheap, broken wood/
Yunho--
/the echoing of my voice, a sound you know well, but dragged out like a chorus harmonizing a single lament with itself in this form, leaves me the moment I watch you approach the man that is seemingly the target of all this unknown frustration and anger within you; for a moment I'm distracted, but it's another of the brutes that comes toward me this time without you in his grasp and a single loop of gold slithers from my wrist, the slim links released just to toss them about the man's neck like a choke chain, tugging him toward me and bringing a clawed hand, to his cheek, a long thumb nail poised beneath his eye and the sixth claw at the inside of my wrist pressed against his blubbery lip, dragging it down as I stare into his eyes/
Hell comes to the wicked, and you--
/it's only when I hear your voice, a stammered plea, the content of which I can't be certain in that moment, that I'm shaken for a moment from my goal and after giving a tug of the gold, its pattern seared into the thug's flesh as a reminder, I release him, his eyes wide when that extra claw splits the corner of his mouth and my other palm presses square to his chest, sending him backward and off balance if not all the way to the floor; I rush to your side on the balls of my feet, legs bearing an almost animal shape as I charge forth on bare soles with my heels lifted; one of my hands, inner-fire warmer than ever before even at skin level, ghosts across your back as my other reaches for the man's arms, delicate golden chains seemingly possessed of a mind of their own and sliding from me to loop around the sleaze's arm, yanking my elbow back and the chain pulling with as I shout a coarse, unnaturally guttural cry in an attempt to see you freed through brute force, claws, or fire itself/
Let him go!

@✞ eunki h。 /shoved down to my knees, a boot at the back of my head pushing my face towards the floor, i have my arms pulled back behind me, painful considering how far forward the rest of me is positioned
/annoyed and disgruntled, i can hardly hear over the clatter of bottles, heels on the floor and the bass of the speakers still pumping out ill-timed and placed music
she was just-
/receiving a kick to the jaw for my words, i find myself spitting blood to one side before trying hard to lift my head once again and try looking the man in the eyes
you can beat me as much as you like
but i'm getting you by the end of this
/pointedly staring at the man who harmed mei, i earn myself another punch, this one hard enough it sends me collapsing down to the ground and close to passing out
/a voice, familiar but full of panic fills my ears and i open my aching eyelids from where i lay, finding a familiar figure at the skirt of the circle formed around the commotion going on
eunki-
/murmurs your name among my own blood laced lips and teeth, one of my hands curling into the ground and dragging my nails over it as a shoe is pressed atop my cheek, pressing me hard into the ground
/it feels like just a moment has gone before i'm suddenly seeing a side to you i do not recognise, one that makes me wish you'd never come here in the first place
/lets out a guttural groan when the shoe pressed down even harder, managing to shove the man off balance as i lay there in my brief moment of respite
eunki no.... no go h-home
/managing to get myself up onto my feet i sway a little bit, disorientated from the blows taken and leaving me a little shaken on my feet - understandably
/the laughter of the dirtbag behind me reminds me of why i'm here, the word 'you' snarled as i turn on the man and even in his sorry, punched state i wish to do more to him
you-
you piece of-
/hissing, snarling, sounding more like a feral creature than the ma you know i grapple to keep my hold on him as i'm lifted up into the air, held in a crushing hug that has me squirming to break free, gasping for air as i swear i can fell my rib cage squeezing together and threatening to break
/turning my head i see you there, tears in my eyes as i give a soft shake of my head to you, pleading for you to go on home and leave me
p-please
/comes the plead before i'm tipping my head back and crying out as i'm held even tighter, so much so i feel as if i might pass out for real this time

@✞ yunho j。 /by the time I had arrived in the club, and that I would even be reluctant to call it with so many mostly bodies in the room and the smell of sweat growing stale tingling in my nose, I had expected not to find you; the further I walk into the club, making my way toward one side, eyes wide open and gaze cast around to look for some sign, the less comfortable I become, and yet without a returned text or a message to let me know you're safe I press on; then hell itself seems to break loose and I whip my head, the other side of the club erupting with what I would almost swear is the sound of your voice if not for the anger in it; pushing my way past a man whose gaze was left leering over my figure, only half of my shape exposed in slim fitting jeans, I try to move toward the other side, a set of hands on me making me push someone off of me, otherwise unseen/
Yunho!
/shouting your name, my voice lost somewhere under the sound of the DJ announcing the next dancer for the center stage, I scramble past a few half- dancers wearing sequined tassels and skirts that look more like a tenth of an apron as costumes, and the sight of a flying table only just manages to make the tide turn in my favor, people separating in front of me and yet pushing back the way I came as if to get away from a fight that might be out of the ordinary and yet not entirely foreign/
Please, I'm trying--
/one of the clients grabs me about the arm and I have to tug my way free, the fabric of my own clothes rubbing raw against my skin and leaving me aching from the sensation; it's all the more imperative to get to you the moment I manage to catch sight of your profile, but when I finally get close enough, it's in time to watch you get pulled aside by two burly men, both much larger than either of us, and it's the sight of a handful of blows that sends a white hot flood of emotions through me all at once/
No!
/the single word is practically a shriek, had it not been so breathless that the sound itself is lost somewhere inside of me and I tumble forward, stumbling over suddenly clumsy feet to reach to one of the goons who has you down on the ground/
Stop it-- stop! Let him go--
/my pleas for the action to cease receive an elbow to my side, one man drawn off of you for but a split second and my eyes flare as I feel the connection of the joint with my ribs; beneath that blow my skin grows hot, not out of pain, but rather like a fissure left within the human facade through which my true nature might come free in a moment of panic; my eyes fall to you as one of the brutes shoves at your shoulder as if to push you to the floor, and for a moment I wonder if you've heard or seen me at all, but that's a worry for moments before as I feel my skin erupt as one large itch, hot and uncomfortable/
Everybody stop--
/and before I can force myself to be calm, take a deep breath, push it aside, a borrowed sweater and slim fitting jeans form coils of gold links draped from throat, shoulders, wrists and ankles and I roll my head on my shoulders as far as I might before feeling the scrape of keratinous horns against my otherwise bare skin where they curve back from my brow and frame my ears; a chuckle, low, and not at all like my own voice leaves my lips as I curl long, glittering, garnet-colored talons within the collar of the man who had elbowed me moments before as I yank him back and away from you to stumble on his feet/
That's not wise.

@✞ eunki h。 /having found myself at some place i'd never go, not on my own at least, i pass by people and try to bring as little attention to myself as i can seemingly manage
/my eyes focus on a single man, among the dancing, writhing bodies and i know its him, just as mei depicted him and seeing him in the flesh makes my skin crawl
/anger bubbles inside of me as i'm left looking at a man who isn't even that or worth the dirt beneath my shoes, a man that manages to make me so few do - angry
/making my way over to him i wait for one of the strippers to move out of the way, leaving me to stand in front of the seedy man and his entourage
/ignoring the sneers and jeers for me to move out the way so they can continue watching the show, i stand my ground, jaw tensed as i speak
remember mei?
/that seems to garner a response, the man freezing as i know he's heard me over the music, my eyes narrowing, darkening into something unrecognisable from the kind man i usually am
because she sure as hell remembers you
/slamming my hands down on the low table in front of him, i make the man jerk back and his lackeys lurch up as if to attack me, my eyes never leaving the man in the centre though
she was just a child!
why?!
/bellowing at the man now i'm sure over half the club has heard me but i don't care, my anger gone too far now as my fists shake at my sides, darkness seeming to emanate from me
/when he finds the gall to talk about mei as if she's an adult, some throwaway life too it makes something inside of me snap, the lecherous things he says about a child leaving the darkness inside of me unbridled
/the man seeming to sense this leans back in his seat as i lunge at him, flipping one of the tables at his men and hearing it shatter on contact, another stumbling back when i shove him in an attempt to get at my real target
you-
you're a monster!
/growling the words i grab the man by his shirt and i swear i've never heard anything more satisfying than his nose breaking under my fist when it collides against his flesh
/blow after blow my fists fly in a flurry at his face, angrily roaring about the vile things he has done and how hell will burn him for his deeds and how i wish so badly i could see it
i'll you to hell myself-
/hissing and making grabs for the man as two bigger men pull my back by my arms, i'm tossed to the ground before a rain of feet are stomping at me, my body curling in on itself in some mild attempt at protection
/pulling back up onto my feet i stumble a little bit, blood smeared from the corner of my mouth and my cheek bruised, matching the other bruise at my temple which explains my dizziness
you're all going to ing hell-
/silenced with a punch to the gut i feel like i might throw up, swallowing it back before i'm kicked down to my knees, sobbing but not for myself, for what has happened to the child i'm here for and how none of it will ever change, no matter what i do or how many times i receive a blow to the face or chest or anywhere else

@✞ yunho j。 /being left behind at the front door of the orphanage, a tingle on my forehead, my eyes lingering at your back as you walked away from me, and this feeling of foreboding refusing to leave me, I had entered the door with the feeling that something was off; one of the first children to greet me had been Mei herself, and perhaps it was just my projecting but she seemed just as reticent as you in the moment; after making certain that the most pressing issues were taken care of, including a little light cleaning of some literal spilled milk, I had a thought/
Mei, do you want to help me make dinner?
/my smile was genuine, and there was a fleeting flicker of something similar on her wan features in that moment; and so we stood in the kitchen, speaking, measuring out rice for the cooker and washing the veggies that I would cut up later while I gently probed about the talks that she had been having with you; while she wasn't forthcoming with every detail, she seemed willing to talk about the last couple of conversations that you both had; I had my phone resting on the counter, only just resisting the urge to message you the moment my sense of something wrong grew more pressing until at last I caved... and waited/
Thank you for your help, Mei. Why don't you go and wash up?
/it was without waiting for a proper response that I came here, leaving the teens in charge of the young ones while I went looking for you with dinner finished for them and on the table; eyes peering up at the front of the seedy building, the sign vaunting my kind as a sort of selling point for the sale of flesh inside, my skin was crawling before I even set foot inside; the boosted bass and the slow pulse of lights were an unfriendly greeting as I moved past the bouncer at the door, stopped for a brief instant to show my ID; having little to go off of other than a hunch thanks to a talk with Mei, who was so easily able to identify my kind and certainly not for a good reason, I was left peering about hoping for some hint of your coming or going/

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