We'll Let The Fires Just Bathe Us

My breath visibly fanned out in a cloud of ice and a shiver rose up my spine. I didn’t think it’d be this cold and I regretted not bringing a second sweater.

I’d been keeping track of how far I was from a town, if my calculations were right, I could walk half a mile to the right and be in town. I shivered again, but this time in fear. I was taking a huge risk by going into town but it was worth it. I could charge my phone so I’d be able to keep a sense of time as well as using it as an alarm to tell me when to get moving, and also I might be able to swipe a few needed supplies. I took a deep breath and lifted my head, I noticed the stars.

All those angels.

They almost felt like my family. Watching them gave me a sense of comfort because even though I didn’t have my grace, I was still an angel. Just one without wings. Those stars felt like home and it gave me the courage I needed to start taking the steps counting down to the town.
I sucked my lips in when I finally came to the edge of the forrest which met the road. Across it were shops and restaurants but most of them were closed and there was hardly anyone outside, just a few women who didn’t concern me too much. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, I know it’s sexist, but statistically, women rape less then men so I’d honestly rather be met by a group of women than men.

I exhaled and walked straight for the back of one of the shops, knowing there’d be an outlet somewhere and I was right.

I positioned a trashcan in front of my phone and the wires to hide it. Then, I walked around to the dumpster behind one of the restaurants. I gave a pained look to the poor slaves in the pen and I pulled out a trash bag full of food and jogged over to the pen.

“Do you want me to let you out?” I whispered.

The six of them shook their heads and I wasn’t surprised. Where could they go? There is literally no where on earth that’s safe from demons. Besides, having a master was better then not. No matter how horrible your master is to you, they will usually protect you from others, put a roof over your head, and at the least, give you enough food to stay alive. Defiantly not ideal, but better then what I had at the moment.

“Don’t blame you.” I let out a laugh, opening the bag and searching through it.

I took the six, least eaten things I could find and passed it through the fence.

“Thank you.” One of the men said in a raspy voice.
“No problem. Do you need anything else? Because if not, I need to get out of-“ The back door opened.

The slaves in the pen quickly hid the food I gave them and I ducked into an ally.

The two demons walked right past the pen, apparently they hadn’t left anybody there. I hadn’t planned on paying attention to the demon’s conversation but a name caught my attention.

“Jack said that if we hurt a hair on his head he’d do a lot more than kill us.” One said to the other.
“I know but Alex is so… Delicious.” The other nearly moaned making me wrinkle my nose.

The first pushed the second against the wall roughly.

“I agree. But Jack isn’t. He will kill you. When we find Alex and drag his ass back to Jack, don’t you think he’ll reward us?”
“I guess but we’ve got some competition. He’s got every single employee searching for the fucker.”
“Which is why you need to stop talking about how ‘delicious’ he is and help me track him.”
“Fine.” The other sighed.

Fuck. Oh this is bad. Oh this is very, very bad.

Damn it Jack. Why did he have to be so difficult? He couldn’t just let me run away could he?

Well what did you expect? Did you really not conceive the fact that he’d have everyone searching for you?

I sighed, I’d hoped he’d just get so mad that I ran that he’d let me go.

I quickly walked over to grab my phone and dart back into the woods. My battery which had been at 19% was now at a good 86% so I knew I’d be good for a while as long as I didn’t use it too much.

I dug through the trash and pulled out the least disgusting looking things and quickly ate seeing as it was almost dawn and I was absolutely exhausted.

Notes

title cred: Don't You Go - All Time Low

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