Daystar (50 page)

“No.”
 
Bean leaned forward.
 
“I want to kiss you.
 
Then I want you to drop your towel and ravish me like an adult right here on the floor.”

Jegudiel hyperventilated.
 
“You don’t know what you are asking for!
 
Stop using words you do not know the meaning of.
 
Paimon!
 
Furcas!
 
Someone help me!”

Bean grinned and showed off sharp teeth.
 
“No one can hear you.”

Jegudiel gripped her shoulders.
 
“I don’t want to hurt you, but you are going to leave my room now even if I have to make you.”

“No, I am not.”
 
Bean pressed up against him.
 
“You don’t really want me to.”
 
She rubbed against him suggestively.
 
“I can feel you don’t want me to.”

“That is uncontrollable, you’re naked, and I’m a teenager.
 
Oh fuck, I’ve seen you naked like this I am so dead!
 
Please.”
 
Jegudiel shut his eyes.
 
“Just please go away.”

“No.”
 
Bean grabbed his wrists and pinned them to his sides.
 

Jegudiel tried to move, found he could not.
 
He struggled.
 
“Why are you so strong?”

“I am not strong, you are weak.”
 
She grinned.

“I am not.”

Bean snorted just like Paimon.
 
“You are the Archangel of Love and I have you all figured out.
 
You are strong when you fight for it, weak when you fight against it.
 
You have to go with the flow of love, babe.
 
And love thinks this is right on.”

He glared at her.
 
“This is
not
love.”

“Isn’t it?
 
I saw it in your eyes when you first looked at me like this.”

Jegudiel hissed through his teeth.
 
“Fine,
maybe
in a decade when you reach this age
naturally
, fine, maybe.
 
Maybe if you become less sociopathic, maybe.
 
Big
maybe
at this point!”

Bean clicked her teeth together.
 
“You love me right now, Yoshi.
 
Yes you do and it terrifies you.”

“You think that I could love
you?
 
You are depraved, lustful, and violent!
 
You drugged your own parents!
 
I do not love
you!
”
 
He staggered, energy drained.
 
Dark spots appeared in his vision.
 
“No, it’s not true.
 
You are confused.
 
Everything
is confused!
 
I do not want this!”

Bean grinned.
 
“Oh, you say no, but your body says yes!”

Jegudiel looked down at her.
 
“No.”
 
He lost more strength.
 
“Why?
 
Why?
 
Why
you!
”
 
He hit his head against the wall.
 
“Why is it you?
 
You don’t care about anyone else besides yourself!
 
You’re the opposite of everything I stand for!
 
I am supposed to fall in love with a good, pure woman!
 
You are a selfish, mean little girl that likes hurting people!”

“That’s not true.”
 
She looked hurt.
 
“I love Paimon and Furcas.
 
I love
you
.
 
I love many people.
 
I know what love is, Yoshi.”

He tried to escape her grasp and failed.
 
“You drugged your
parents
and as far as I can tell you’re trying to assault me!
 
You have funny ideas about love!”

“So?”
 
She frowned.
 
“They do that shit all the time.
 
What’s the big deal?
 
You know what they also do all the time?
 
They have sex, lots of it, and sometimes it’s bloody violent, but they still love each other.”
 
Bean ripped his towel off.
 
“I want that too.”

Jegudiel stared at the ceiling.
 
“For all that is right and holy in this universe, please get the fuck out of here and we can pretend like this never happened!”

Bean looked him over.
 
“No.
 
You are mine and I will do with you as I see fit.”
 
She grinned.
 
“You are my bitch!”

Jegudiel snapped his teeth at her.
 
“I am not your object!
 
I am not your bitch.
 
I will
not
love you if you do this to me.
 
Do you understand?
 
You force me and I will hate you!”

Bean pressed herself against him.
 
“Maybe at first, but you’ll get over it.”

“No I won’t.
 
You will regret this, Bean!”

“I doubt that very much, Yoshi.”
 
She flicked her tongue across his chest.

“Bean, stop!”
 
Jegudiel breathed in.
 
“Furcas!
 
Paimon!
 
Please wake the fuck up!
 
Someone help me!
 
Someone—”

Bean kissed him.
 
She grinned and wrapped her arms around his neck.
 
Jegudiel had two thoughts in his head.
 
She was a remarkably good kisser for someone that had never done it before, and…if there were some terrible afterlife he was going to go to it and burn for eternity.
 
Bean wrapped a leg around him.

The door was ripped out of the wall.
 
Furcas slammed Jegudiel into the towel rack and held him there, his arm up against his throat.

Paimon grabbed Bean and tossed her into the shower.
 
He tore at the shower curtain and covered her body with it.
 

There was silence in the bathroom.

Paimon took deep breaths to regain his composure, his free hand clenching and unclenching as he fought with his impulse to kill.
 
When he raised his eyes, they were pitch-black.
 
“Jegudiel…you have literally ten seconds to explain yourself.
 
Furcas, let off his throat.”

Furcas eased up, but pressed his knee painfully into Jegudiel’s stomach.
 
Jegudiel gasped for air.
 
“She tried to—”

“
She?
”
 
Furcas broke his ribs with a nudge.
 
“Are you implying she did this!?”

“No, but—”

Furcas throttled him.
 
“Did she ask for it?
 
You sound a lot like
Uriel
.”

“No—,” Jegudiel choked as Furcas squeezed his throat.

Bean fought with Paimon.
 
“Don’t hurt him!”

“Be quiet, Bean.”
 
Paimon held her tight.
 

“No!”
 
She hissed at her fathers.
 
“Don’t hurt him please!”
 
Furcas punched Jegudiel across the face, knocking teeth out.
 
Bean pleaded with Paimon, “Daddy, make him stop!
 
Please!
”

Paimon nodded at Furcas.
 
Furcas let off him.
 

Jegudiel took a deep, pained breath.
 
“I, I…”
 
He looked at Bean’s tear streaked face.
 
She was terrified.
 
He cringed.
 
“I am sorry.
 
This was my fault,
all
of it…I’m the adult.
 
She didn’t know what she was doing or what she asked for.”

Furcas slammed Jegudiel’s head into the countertop, splintering the tile.
 
He let him go and Jegudiel fell to the floor dazed and bleeding.
 
He put his foot on Jegudiel’s neck and looked to Paimon.
 
“What do we do?
 
If we kill him, Selaphiel will throw a bitch fit.”

Paimon’s eye ticked.
 
“I really do not care at the moment.”
 
He stared at Jegudiel.
 
“Maybe we just hurt him a bit and throw him outside the shield.
 
That won’t kill him and if say Michael came along and impaled him, that wouldn’t
really
be our fault.”

Bean lashed out and kicked Paimon in the ribs.
 
“Shut the fuck up!
 
You hit him again and I will gut the both of you and make you eat shit for weeks!
 
He is mine and I say what happens to him so you can go fuck yourselves right to Hell!”

Furcas and Paimon gaped at her.
 
Furcas pointed.
 
“What did you just say to us, young lady?”

“You heard me, Daddy!”

Paimon held his side.
 
“Children do
not
talk to their parents like that!”

“I am not a fucking child!”
 
Her eyes glowed pink.
 
She broke out in hives.
 
“I’m not a simpleton!
 
I’m not!”

Furcas touched her arm.
 
“Bean, just calm down—”

“No!”
 
She flung his arm off her.

Paimon grabbed her by her waist and lifted her off her feet.
 
He hugged her.
 
“Bean, you need to listen to us.
 
We know you’re—”

“No!
 
No!
 
No!
 
How many times do I have to tell you?
 
I am not a child!”
 
Tears ran down her cheeks.
 
“Are you
that fucking stupid?
 
I thought you were both geniuses!
 
Are you brain damaged when it comes to me?”

Jegudiel spoke as blood dribbled out of his mouth, “She is not totally a child.”

Furcas raised his foot threateningly.
 
Jegudiel cringed.
 
“I am not defending her or myself!
 
It’s the truth!
 
Why do you think she knows so much!
 
Learned so quickly!
 
Furcas, she has your handwriting.
 
Paimon, she cooks for herself already, she has your recipes memorized.
 
She can play your videogames without having to learn.
 
She probably made the drugs she used on you.
 
Don’t you get it?”

Paimon grimaced.
 
“Look just spit it out, kid.”

Jegudiel tried to sit up.
 
Furcas kicked him back down.
 
Jegudiel winced.
 
“She
is
you, the combination of the both of you.
 
She’s not a normal child.”

Furcas and Paimon looked at Bean.
 
Bean sobbed.
 
She hit at Paimon’s wrists breaking them.
 
“Let me go, Daddy!”

Paimon dropped her.

Bean clutched at the shower curtain around her and wiped her eyes.
 
“I thought you both knew!”

Furcas’ voice was a whisper, “What are we supposed to know, Bean?”

Bean hugged herself.
 
“I have all of your combined knowledge, ever since I was born.
 
I know how to give the perfect blowjob and how to remove almost any stain from fabric.
 
Thanks, Daddy.”
 
She looked from Furcas to Paimon.
 
“I can synthesize every kind of chemical you can, and yes, I was the one that drugged you, not Yoshi.
 
I know your code with Gabriel.
 
I know you beat the holy living shit out of Daddy the first time you two fooled around.
 
I know neither one of you has ever been with anyone else but the other.
 
You love each other very much.
 
I want that too!
 
I want that with
Yoshi!
 
I want love and everything that comes with it!”

Paimon stared at his hands.
 
“You’re refined and condensed us?
 
That’s…”

Bean grabbed at him.
 
“I am Bean!
 
I am your baby!”
 
She looked to Furcas.
 
“Daddy, why are you looking at me like that?”

Furcas stepped over Jegudiel and gave her a once over.
 
“I…I thought you were a kid.”

Bean’s sobs renewed.
 
“I
am!
 
This doesn’t change that, does it?
 
Does it?”
 
She looked between them frantically.
 
“No, I am!
 
I
am!
 
Please!”
 
She clutched at them.
 
“Mommy-daddy, say something!
 
I am Bean!
 
I am
your baby!
 
I am!
 
Please say something to me, Mommy-daddy!”
 
Her voice trailed off into tears.