"Stay in the car, Lexie... We can handle it, Lexie... I'm not a damn 12 year old!"
Sitting in the back of a black Challenger Hellcat was a young girl, pouting at the fact that for the third week in a row all she did was get told to sit in the vehicle and not interfere with the investigations. All Lexie wanted was to at least know what Phil and Starr got up to when they entered the homes of the people they were investigating, but even asking them proved difficult with Phil often returning with several blood stains on his clothes and Starr refusing to say anything more than indecisive "yeah/nah" answers.
Leaning as far forward as possible from the back seat, Lexie tapped the LCD screen on the dash and pressed play on the music player in an effort of both curiosity and complete and utter boredom. Instantly the speakers awoke to the sound of Korn's Freak on a Leash and the volume caught her off by surprise. As she fumbled around the controls trying to work out which one was the volume, she giggled at how coincidental it was that this song would be the first track to play. It was only 3 weeks ago that she had learnt about these so-called demons and their apparent infiltration into the human world. At first, like any normal human, she didn't believe it and called the ones in charge insane... while using more colourful words of course. She told them it was a disgustingly horrible joke and an insult to her years of training and hard work, but that all changed when they took her down to the holing cells and introduced her to a human and demon captive.
All that didn't matter though because even a few weeks after her first encounter she still wound up being babysitter for a car that was probably worth more than her yearly pay check. Lexie sat back down in her seat and tilted her head back onto the headrest. She looked up to the ceiling an ran her fingers along the fabric stitching, counting each stitch in order to pass time until the other two returned.
Apartment 3A
The sounds of a man's fist belting into raw flesh resonated throughout the cold, dark living room while a younger male over to the side begged him to stop his beating, but deep inside Phil was actually enjoying this. Here was Phil, sitting there with his knees on the chest and left arm of Jin with his left hand holding her other arm on the ground. He pulled up his right and whacked it into the nose of the young looking demon.
"Stop it, please!!!" Jeremy called out, feeling the pain of his demon's injury surge through his skull, "She saved my life, you don't understand!"
Starr pressed her shoe down on the back of Jeremy's neck even harder causing the heel to begin to break the skin. A trickle of blood began to seep out and seared the base of the shoe, causing a bit of steam to rise up around her foot. All Jeremy could do was wince at the pain and try to wiggle his way from under her foot, but with his hands in cuffs and his face eating the dirty carpet, there wasn't much that he could really do.
The woman leaned down, keeping her Glock pistol still held on the back of his head. Carefully she spoke to him in what felt like a monotone, unemotional voice, "You're saying that parasite saved you? That, 'thing'? You can't even go to heaven nor hell now, because of her." She looked up at Phil, noting that he had stopped and was glancing at them over at his shoulder. "Show them babe. Show them what will happen if they don't co-operate."
Seeing Starr smile those words Phil knew that it was time to perhaps take his moves up a notch. He reached over to the side for a duffel bag that the duo had bought along and lifted out a large red hand cannon. Ensuring that he had a firm grasp Phil then moved the gun over Jin's face and pulled the trigger. Jin laid there in complete horror as three large barbs shot out of the end and pierced various points of her skull. Both her and Jeremy screamed in pain with Jin thrashing about in an effort to escape from under the weight of her predator. With the movement she was creating Jin managed to break her left arm free and grabbed a hold of Phil's face attempting to push him away but all she could see in front of her face was the oversized grinding plates inside the cannon begin to wind up into motion.
"WE'LL DO IT!" Jeremy screamed causing Phil to let go of the trigger and allow the device to begin shutting down, "We'll hunt the other demons for you."
Starr carefully lifted her foot off Jeremy and left him laying there as she walked over to her partner and watched him ease his weight off the girl and push himself up into a standing position. She reached down and pulled the Soul Sucker out of Jin's head, giving little thought to the pain that it just caused before lobbing it on top of the duffel bag it once emerged from. Starr glanced over at Jeremy to see him worm his way over towards Jin's side. Laughing to herself at how pathetic it looked to see a human concerned about a demon's well being, Starr turned towards the doorway and followed Phil with the bag in hand out of what now, thanks to them, appeared like a third world apartment before closing the door behind themselves.
Jeremy finally reached his contractor as she laid there grasping for breath and staring at the ceiling. He could see the deep wounds cuts on her body begin to scab up in their attempts to restore her back to normal, but the events that they had just participated in had really shook her up. Jeremy placed his chin on her chest somehow trying to use it as a way comfort her, which was quickly followed by her holding his head in some kind of hug. He laid there wondering about Jin and how much strength she must have lost through the creation of her contract. She had been teaching him all about his newly earned abilities and how much of a skilled fighter she was in the underworld, but when talk came to action against the two strangers that showed up at their front door, she was a mere cat against two panthers.
