Our date was going pretty good, most of her questions I could answer, but the rest of them I opted out on answering since she didn’t need to know about them and have her innocence ruined on her first time here. We had fun for most of our time, but it wasn’t until we got the central part of town that things got bad and then worse.

“Where is it? I’ll teach those Humans a thing or two about killing life so easily, and there’s no other reason besides the fact that they are… They are! Ooooh, I wish I knew what the word was!” I chuckled, even her brain was hot wired to make her forget or just not say curse words.

“Assholes. Probably the word you’re looking for, but you should leave that word play to me. Just keep getting angry, it’s kind of cute on you.” She didn’t hear that as she pushed me off with some extra strength I didn’t think she had and she crossed her arms.

“I won’t be happy until you take me to where that video was taken!” I stood up with her.

“How in the world am I supposed to do that? Those videos are just taken by random people, I can’t locate them when there’s thousands of those factories like that just in this area alone.” She crossed her arms and her eyes started to water a bit.

“I just want to tell them how wrong they are for killing such innocent creatures. Small animals who’ll just be taken and eaten out soon after… It’s so wrong!” I saw her eyes watering. As people walked by they gave me strange looks. So like the boyfriend I’m suppose to be, I tried to comfort her.

“Cassie, just calm down… I’ll try and find them, but it’ll take going through a few people.” She immediately perked up and a smiled. She kissed my cheek giggling a bit.

“Aww, thank you so much Akuma!” I could feel my eye twitch.

“Did you just trick me?” She nods.

“Yes, I always do that, but only when I really need some help or really want something.” I smirked to her.

“You’re good… Because if you were anyone else I would have just left.” I started to walk off and she panicked following behind me.

“I’m sorry! Don’t leave me!”

…

And this is what I meant by her innocence ruined. Likely she thought Humans treated animals with respect when they were cattle, but thanks to a video bradcast of a comapany being outed for their torture tatics of chickens, she was hurt by what she saw and wanted to do something about it. We wasted most of the time going to the station we saw the news report on, the head anchor directed us to their sources, after some persuasion, and we found the factory in question. Cassie stared at it, gripping my hand tighter and tighter as the smoke in the air filled her nose. I sighed and gave her my jacket to wrap around her mouth and nose. I was fine with the smog in the air, it smelled like home. She thanked me before speaking.

“So… This is the place?” I nodded to her.

“Yeah, unless that senile old man gave us the wrong adress. I should kill him for that if he did.” Cassie touched my shoulder stopping my rant.

“Please don’t, he isn’t supposed to die for a while. Besides he’s going up, so even if you kill him he’ll still be in the good.” I looked to her.

“You can see when people are going to die?” She nods.

“My mother can too, but only when it’s within twenty years of their death, so it can happen at any point in time within twenty years of their future life.” He nods.

“Does that mean…” She nods closing her eyes.

“Yes. Children are especially diffcult to handle seeing when their young. It makes me feel bad they they're going to die within twenty years of their life.” I didn’t know what to say, I just touched her shoulder and pushed her towards the door.

“I’ll remember that the next time I tell you about having kids.” She giggled to my forced joke and we walked inside the factory. Almost immediately I felt like I was back in Hell, although that place seemed better than this. Chickens clucked loudly in my ears and I’m sure it was even worse for Cassie since she wasn’t used to sounds of torture. They ran from our feet when we walked inside and the ones dead or near dead, stayed where they were with feces and remains all around them. I started feeling some violent shaking next to me, I put my hands over Cassie’s ears and walked behind her. I spoke near her ear. “Just keep walking, I’ll keep your ears covered.” She nodded and smiled a bit trying to be brave for me. We walked past the scrambling birds, the room only seemed to get darker as we got further inside. We found a man who worked inside, seeing us he stopped his ‘work’ on the chicken in his hand. Cassie yelped seeing him smack the head of the chicken violently with a metal rod. The man then spoke to us.

“What are you two doing in here? You don’t work here!” I chuckled.

“Obviously.” I spoke to Cassie once more. “Can you hear him?” If she could then I wasn’t doing my job right, but she nodded yelling as she spoke.

“I can read lips!” I nodded and went back to the man who was about ready to drop the injured, if not dead, chicken in his hands to report us.

“Look, we’re not here to get in the way or anything, we just wanna talk to your boss.” He scoffed.

“Like hell you are, there’s no way she’d be wasting her time with a couple of kids-”

“We’re not kids!” He looked to Cassie as she yelled out to him, he looked to her.

“You’re not? Then what are you adults? Because if you are then I’d have to treat you like one.” I knew what he was getting at, “Angel Face.” I really knew what he was getting at!

“Okay, first you bastard, call her Angel Face again and you’ll regret living!” He didn’t take me seriously. He laughed, but Cassie just sighed and moved her hand up placing her cold touch near his heart. The man panicked at first, but stopped when her touch went away The ice remained on his chest, but I guess he couldn’t see it. Cassie spoke in a lower voice than her yelling one.

“Please… Don’t fight with us.” He seemed to just obey her and moved out of the way, pointing to a bloody door a small distance away from us.

“... My boss… She’s though there.” Cassie smiled thanking him, and started to walk off. I chuckled seeing the man unmoving from his original spot.

“How’d you do that? That ass is still just stuck there?”

“My ice does that, it’s like my mom’s. I can freeze people temporarily in a better state of their life, one that’s not where they are now, one where they were happier.” She had went back to yelling.

“So I assume that your whole family is also like this?” I dropped my hands as the area quieted down once we reached the door, she rubbed her slightly red ears and nodded to me.

“Yeah, long explanation short, my dad burns Impures and Demons and completely rids of them, thus purifying, and Ren has to fight the Impures. They’ll keep coming back, but his Light becomes stronger against the ones he fought previously.” She explained. I nod to her.

“Ah, so that explains why his fists hurt more and more when we got into it.” Cassie gasped.

“How many times have you two fought?” She paused. “Maybe that’s why he’d sometimes come home with bruised knuckles…” I chuckled.

“Yeah that was back when he was cool, now he won’t even try and fight me head on, he just uses weapons to defend against me and then runs off.” Cassie huffs.

“Good, you’re not supposed to be fighting in the first place.” I chuckled and moved her out of the way to open the door. We went in and up some stairs where I put my arms around her as went up, I wasn’t about to let her touch those bloody, dirty hand rails. We got up to the top and once more I opened the door for her, I have never wanted to wash my hands more than right now as animal blood always felt the worst. Cassie stepped inside first and I followed close behind. The woman in question is attractive, but what she’s condoning somewhat ruins it… As well as the fact that I’m kind of taken does as well. She looked up to us, her hair in a bun that didn’t seem like she was trying to impress anyone one with. Her eyes were covered with make-up and her lips matched as they moved to speak to us.

“Who let a bunch of kids in here?” Cassie was about to correct her, but I stepped in front keeping her calm.

“That asshole downstairs, but after we convinced him, he let us up easy.” She didn’t speak. “Now, my lovely partner in fighting revolutions, is here to tell you something.” The woman sighed.

“If you have a complaint you should-”

“Please be quiet.” The woman growled hearing Cassie’s command.

“Missy, did you hear what you said?” Cassie nodded.

“I did. I might not be able to breathe very well right now, but I can sure hear with his hands off of my ears.” The woman looked very confused while Cassie spoke, but she got up and started walking toward Cassie.

“Well… I don’t know how that makes any sense or how that was supposed to change the meaning of what you just said, but in the end I’m going to have to ask you two to get. Out. Of. My. Office.” With every word she spoke she poked a body part on Cassie. It sort of made me angry to the point where my hands started to feel like they were on fire, yet Cassie went on.

“Miss… Please stop this torture of these innocent chickens. They’re already going to die, at least treat them kindly. Feed them, take care of them and when it’s their time, put them to sleep and then take their life.” I didn’t think her words were going to reach that resting bitch face, so I tried to pull Cassie out of the way, but she just shook her head continuing her stare down at the woman. I was a bit worried that maybe she had just made things worse, I did like solving her problems, but getting us wanted by the Chicken Police was not one thing I wanted Cassie to remember about her first time in the Human world. Then almost as out of nowhere, the woman lowered her head and I could see her crying, it shocked me, I was lost to say the least. Then the woman, just nodded.

…

We left together. The entire time Cassie had a grin on her face. I wanted to ask her what it was there for, but she asked my question for me.

“I bet you’re wondering how I changed her mind!” Her voice was cheerful, I closed my eyes.

“Not really. I’m just upset that you made me waste the entire day on some damn chickens!” Cassie giggled.

“You’re not really upset with me are you?” I looked over at her.

“Well I might not be… If you explain what you did back there.” She smiled and nodded.

“I did the same thing I did with the man from before, it’s just with her I couldn’t find any happy moments in her life. So I went to people and I made her think of something. She had a cat who was a stray, she raised it for a while until it died. She had no chance of saving it unless she took it to a vet. She was too young to know. I made her think of that and she remembered how she felt and understood my emotions. I’m not sure if she’s going to stop or not, but I do know that she is going to think about that every time she hears a animal being mistreated.” I chuckled to her.

“How is it that your powers are more torturous than mine and you’re supposed to be helping people.” She shakes her head.

“I am helping people. I’m letting them see the things that they’ve shut off that’s preventing them from achieving true happiness.” She put her hands together. “That’s the job of Angels like me. Of course we’re all assigned things dependent upon our powers, but it’s more common to be born with light or fire. So we ice have to work through any and everything to try and help as many people as we can.” I nodded to her.

“If you were fire do you think your touches would hurt less?” She shakes her head.

“You can just form fire, but I’ve never seen you actually take fire as a direct hit. Your body can probably just create a protective shield of some kind, but when it’s thrown at you it’ll probably still hurt.” I chuckled and grabbed hold of her hand.

“Well you’re not wrong. I’m just wondering how you know that… Have you been reading up?” She blushed when I said that, I knew I was right no matter how much she denied it. I leaned down and pecked her cheek as she kept talking about how she didn’t know anything and just guessed. Each day we were together I found out about her. I grabbed the shape of her head and felt her hair through my fingers. I broke into a breathy release and spoke to her. “Do your parents expect you home?” Cassie’s eyes opened hearing ‘parents’. She nodded.

“Yeah, but they think that I’m in my room studying, they normally don’t bother me.” I didn’t want to take the chance of her getting in trouble, or worse them coming looking for her and finding her in the Human world or in Hell. That's when i questioned: when did I start to concern for anything involving other people? I shook off the thought and smirked to her.

“You better hope that they don’t come looking for you.” Cassie grunts before gripping onto my shirt.

“W-well… After a certain time they don’t come in my room at all and Ren is usually asleep at this time because he wakes up early to go jogging with his lover… My parents are usually asleep until about eleven or twelve and they don’t come in my room until I wake up, so.” I got what she was trying to do here, but I didn’t want her thinking I was going in soft.

“We’re going to my place, you might actually like it there.” I could she was a bit worried, but I started to walk off pulling her behind me.

“B-but, I can’t pass over to, uh, down there... can I?” Hotwired. I nodded to her.

“Yes you can, passing to Hell is fine as long as you’re with me, no one will ever detect you’re there and I can get you in and out without ever once having to get through some manhandling gatekeepers.” Cassie still looked worried. I smirked to her and took her face in my hands once more, she grunted trying not to fall for what she called my ‘spell’, so I broke contact. “Will you just trust me?” She grunts and eventually nods to me.

“Alright, but only because you helped me save someone… I bet someone already knows about my accomplishment up in Heaven!” I chuckled as if I was interested in those people. I took her behind the factory, a large field rested there and the sun was already set. The moon had taken its place high in the sky. I made sure no one could see us and I outstretched my hand forming a void in my palm, I set it in front of me and pulled it apart with both of my hands. It felt strange somehow, but I ignored it when it came open easily and was about my height. She stared at my ability in awe, I snapped my fingers in her face causing her to jump a bit.

“No need for that, it’s nothing special, anyone can do this. It’s kind of like helping people, but for us Demons.” Cassie pouted a bit at my joke, I then bowed to her gesturing toward the red and black swirling void in front of us. “Ladies first?” She turned her head hating that phrase. I chuckled as she stepped inside, she seemed curious of its empty contents. I walked in behind her and closed it as I got fully inside. Cassie had suddenly tripped, guess she didn’t expect this to be a room and fell over a pile of old weapons that no longer held any juice. She stayed on the floor.

“... Is this your bedroom?” I came behind her and whispered.

“What’d you expect?” She shivered at my voice and got from me.

“I didn’t think it would have just been a bedroom… I was thinking more like a house or something. Not just some junky room.” I laughed moving to float over to my bed, I plopped down on the velvet sheets I’d never change since I don’t normally sleep here. I patted a space next to me. Cassie blushed but got up and past the weapons and sat on the bed as if it were disease ridden somehow. I grunted unable to keep my urages any longer. I pulled on her by her waist bring her down to the bed and over me. She yelped and supported herself. “W-what are you doing?” I buried my nose in her shirt.

“Why do I have to keep saying this? What makes you think I brought you here just to sleep?” She shook her head when I lifted her shirt with my teeth and kissed her navel. She pulled it down in struggle as she tried to keep me off of her.

“B-but I’m pure and I-I have t-t-to…” I stopped.

“Do what? This with some other Angel?” I didn’t know what she was thinking, but by her expression I could tell it’s not what I said.

“No, of course not! You’re the first person I’ve met, Angel or not, that likes me and wants to talk to me. Even if I’m not powerful or am filled with potential of some kind!” She paused. “You just like me… and it hurts me to think that you’d even think that I’d ever want anyone else but you!” I sat up and scratched behind my head.

“Look, you know it’s something more than that…” She glanced over to me.

“Though you’ll never say it?” I nod.

“Yeah, not unless I’m reborn again as some stupid babbling human, I doubt I’ll ever be able to actually say it.” I paused. “But, you know that and you know that I’m still just as concerned as any Human boyfriend would be if their lover wanted no part in them doing anything together like this.” She got closer. “It’s normal for me and you to be this way, but what’s not normal is to have no sexual urges towards the one you like.” She blushed and closed her eyes. We waited as silence took over before she went to speak for it.

“I-I never said that I don’t have…” I chuckled.

“Sexual urges?” She nodded.

“Yeah… Those for you. I just never said it, but I’ve never denied it either.” I stared at her.

“Then what was that just a second ago?” She scoffed.

“You attacked me! You have to ask for my consent first!” I rolled my eyes falling back on the slippery pillow.

“You know, that can kill the mood. There’s this little thing called being spontaneous.” Cassie giggled a bit.

“Well sounds like it might be a bit hard for you to get up now.” I smirked and snatched her arm pulling it down to where she rested on my chest again.

“May I kiss you, Angel Face?” She blushed and her eyes shut, but her lips came out full force. I smiled seeing how ridiculous she looked, but I went ahead anyways. “Guess I’ll take that as a yes.”

…

We hadn’t gotten very far as Cassie really enjoyed her hands in whatever hair I actually had on my head, most of it was shaved off anyways so she was really just grabbing at a thick bang. She pulled that hair back moving up a bit more into this kiss that escalated into something way more. I pulled her head away and kissed her neck, her arms bent back grabbing a hold of my neck while her other hand stayed on my body gripping it and freezing whatever she could. Her ice wasn’t much anymore, as feeling it in worse places was nothing now. I kissed her cheek tilting her head back to get into another kiss. I caressed her inward folding stomach as she tried to run from my hand.

“Hey, don’t be shy now. This won’t be any fun if you are.” Cassie gasped a bit when I went up removing her shirt entirely. Cassie moaned a bit and froze my thigh, I melted it off a bit and stopped looking at her. “What?” She turned us over straddling my body, she touched my face.

“I-I wanna see you… I’ve never seen you while this happens, so I want to know.” I smirked to her.

“Only if I get to see more than just some side boob.” She blushed, but gave in. We removed ourselves and Cassie wanted to undress under the bed, I allowed her to do so but I was quicker.

“Time's up!” I pounced back on her and yanked the sheets down seeing her just barely undressed. “What are you a nun? It shouldn't take this long to undress.” She shuddered at the cold, no matter how ironic that sounded, and pulled me down in an embrace.

“Y-you’re warm.” I smiled and rubbed her head as she wouldn’t let me go.

“I think maybe we should just cut this foreplay.” She let me lift a bit.

“Foreplay?” I sighed.

“You really don’t know anything… Foreplay is what we’re doing: kissing, touching, getting felt up, biting, or anything that’s not just straight up sex.” She nods. “So can I?” She blushed and pulled my hand down between her.

“... H-here?” I nod to her.

“Trust me, I’ll try and make it hurt as little as possible, but you have to trust me.” She grunted, but it turned into a smile and she nodded.

“A-alright, you’re more experienced than me so I’ll leave it up to you!” I chuckled. Really wish she hadn’t have said those words. Her moans turned louder with every touch and I could feel myself ready for whatever it was that I was willing to do with her, it was easy to say that I had to ease her into everything at first, so we’d go bit by bit. I lifted her legs and angled myself. Her hand stayed on the bed gripping onto the sheets trying her best not to freeze them but it only made it worse. The sheets became cold and soaked thanks to her pleasure build. Though despite the cold of the room, my hands felt warm, then my forearm joined and soon my entire arm was enveloped in a feeling of heat. I hoped that Cassie couldn’t feel it, but it only got worse, my movements had stopped and my chest felt like the first time me and Cassie had met. Like it was burning. Cassie stopped panting and looked up to me with her hair stuck to her forehead.

“A-akuma… What’s wrong?” I couldn’t speak. I did want to answer her to tell her I didn’t know what was happening. I felt the heat spreading all over my body, like I couldn’t escape the blaze, but nothing was around me. Cassie, still worried, up and edged her frail palm towards me. Her hand moved slow, almost like I could rewatch it. I tried to reach out to touch her hand, but soon it went away, then it was fast to where I couldn’t see when it had moved. Then I understood. I somehow let out a fireburst like a bomb and Cassie must have been caught in it. I couldn’t see very well, but the fire made some light and I looked around until I saw Cassie in the corner next to the dresser curled up trying to cover her exposed and slightly burnt body. I didn’t move from where I was. Instead I reached my hand out and spoke to her.

“... A-are you alright?” She nodded.

“I-I’m fine, but what’s going on?” I didn’t know what to say to her.

“Cassie I… I need you to leave.” Her eyes went wide, she managed herself up, but stayed away from me as when she got closer I’d back up.

“B-but-” I growled.

“Listen to me! Just get out of here…” She flinched and her hand went back up to her chest where she looked down and didn’t respond. “... Your clothes, they must have gotten burned.” I stared at her naked body, dealing with this or not I wasn’t about to let her leave like that. “That dresser. Take something get out of here. You hear me?” She nodded to me and did as I said quickly, Cassie grabbed anything out of the dresser slipped it on. It was fine just to cover her body until she got home, there had been a door where the portal once was and she went over to it, she turned back to me.

“Akuma will you-”

“I told you to leave!” She bit her lip and turned her head leaving out of the room. I sighed feeling more emotions than I needed to. I didn’t know what was the problem, but I did know where I needed to go to find out.