The Demon Trapping Society

"Theon..." Nevia frowned, getting to her feet and stepping over the energy, looking into the backroom and taking a step inside. "Calm down, Theo, sweetheart, your strong enough.. I believe in you."

Theon was curled into a tight ball on the sofa, the blanket thrown to the floor. The energy was coming from cracks in his skin, his essence leaking out.

She walked to him hesitantly and sat herself on the edge of the sofa. Gulping at the cracks of his skin and whispering, "If you can't calm down soon I'm going to hug you, sweetheart, because if you still have emotions and if you still feel the way you did about me when I touched you before than that's all can think of to calm you down and that'll only go one way or the other, right? Might make you worse... I'd like it if I didn't have to though, your strong enough not to make me resort to that risk, strong enough to pull yourself back together."

There was a loud crackle and everything suddenly went very still. Quietly, and painstakingly slow, he muttered, "Don't touch him..." it was obviously Luci speaking through him.

"I'm sorry Luci..." She whispered, voice trembling violently then as she lifted her hand to cover her eyes. "This is terrifying, I don't know what to do.. I don't know what I'm expected to do. Please just make him okay.."

"Leave!" His voice was slightly raised as if a shout. "Just shut the damn door and when the noise stops you can come back, just leave..."

Nevia hesitated before taking to her feet and heading out of the room and closing the door behind herself. Sitting herself down in the corner of the shop and pulling her knees to her chest, trembling.

For the next few hours there was unearthly shrieking and howling from the back room before, as suddenly as it had started, it stopped.

Nevia remained as she was for a few minutes, eventually getting to her feet and, after staring at the door for another three minutes, reluctantly reached over and opened the door just slightly to peek in.

Theon was already on the other side of the door ,ready to open it. As soon as he saw her he dragged her fiercely into a tight hug, face shoved into her hair.

Nevia let out a shaky sigh of relief and wrapped her arms around him as tightly as her could, lowering her face to bury into the side of his neck as she dissolved into sobs. Continuously and frantically apologising whenever she had enough breath to, though a few times she judged it wrongly and choked on her words.

"Thought I'd killed you, thought I fucking killed you and then you opened the goddamn door." Theon's arms were almost painfully tight around her and he physically lifted her off the floor to hold her closer.

She wrapped her legs around his torso when he lifted her up, trembling violently as she cried. "Y-You're okay...I-I'm okay... I-I'm so s-sorry..." She hicupped, moving her hand to knot in his hair after a moment and whispering, "Oh T-Theo."

"Don't you fucking dare do that to me again."

She slowly lifted her head from his neck, lifting her hand from his hair and rested it on the side of his face. Opening her mouth to say something and just shaking her head when she couldn't muster up any words and just buried her face in his neck once again. Seeking the closeness for comfort. "I'm so, so sorry Theon, sweetheart, my handsome Theon. You need to stop scaring me, disappearing for months and then saying you don't want me there when I spend months searching everywhere for you in case you were hurt, then showing up hurt and then that and... It's not funny, I know you like getting a reaction and scaring people but it's not... funny." she breathed. Lifting her head once again, and resting her hand on the side of his face once again, brushing her thumb against his cheek bone so delicately it was like she was scared she would break him. Tracing the line where a crack used to be.

"I can't live in one place." Theon hissed angrily, though at her or himself it was hard to tell. "I can't stay constantly that's why I go. The natural energy that gathers in a place like this is poison. You think I go because I like causing trouble for you here and there? So much fucking faith in me." Theon's voice turned bitter and sarcastic at the end.

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