Incubus

17. Third Eye

"...You can't let them do this! You can't let them take her!" a woman's voice screamed, shadows swirling together, a cacophony of grief and screams.

"Give it to me!" a savage male voice growled. Sounds of struggling ensued, the woman screamed, and the baby...the baby wailed.

"NO!" the woman hollered, her voice raw and aching. The ground cracked and rumbled, the sky parted, and rain poured. "Through my blood she is free," she whispered, her shadow getting down on its knees.

"Don't you dare!" The man ran for her, holding the baby in his arms and the woman plunged a knife through her heart.

I woke, gasping and sweating, clutching at my chest. I've been sleeping on and off for who knows how long, wracked by these impending nightmares. They haunt me and they burn through me like a disease. It's like a fever and I can't shake it. Real doctors have tried everything, Azura and her demon doctors have tried everything, but I can't be cured. If they could figure out what is wrong with me, then maybe they could cure me.

I know what's wrong with you.

Lilith. I forgot she is still with me. I groaned, closing my eyes, being lost in the fever yet again. A dream pulled me but not a nightmare, a dream that someone controls. No. I tugged back, and my insides burned as if I swallowed hot coals. I screamed and then woke once more.

"...it's been three days, Azura, what are we going to do?" a male voice asked, panicked.

"Shh, Collin. I just have to figure out what's wrong with her."

It grew silent and then with deadly precision, Collin said, "If you don't tell me what the fuck is going on, I will murder you and your entire race of demons until the day I die."

It was silent for so long I thought I fell back into the fever. "Lucifer is after her because she's the personification of humanity. We have a plan but now it's on hold for I don't know why she's suffering this way. I thought—"

"You introduced my sister into the clutches of Lucifer...?" Collin sounds pissed off.

Azura gave a dry laugh. "No, that was all you, dude." She laughed again, her laugh becoming hysterical.

"Excuse me?"

"Lucifer came with the face of fucking James!" Yelling, Azura silenced the room. "If you hadn't of let that worm into the lecture hall we wouldn't even be here!" Silent, I heard Collin take a seat near me and Azura blow out a breath in frustration.

"...Are you guys done?" an unfamiliar but tantalizing voice asked with authority. "We can point fingers at one another all we want but it won't help us figure out what is wrong with Jessica."

I slipped back into the fever, groaning, spiraling into a dream that I tugged out of once more, burning my organs, leaving me shuddering. I gasped in air, wanting nothing more than to just die.

"I fear organ failure if she is to do that again," the unfamiliar voice stated.

"Jesus Christ," Collin cursed beneath his breath, his voice cracking at the end.

"What can we do? Get me more books!" Azura ordered.

Jessica.

Hm, I haven't really heard from Lilith until today it seems like. I wonder if she's dying too.

Jessica just focus on my voice please or I'll slip again just like you. Lucifer, he—

The fever swept my forehead and I grunted, trying to focus just like Lilith asked.