He who makes a beast of himself...

The sound of groaning and shoes scuffing on the ground filled the room. Johnny pulled his heavy limbs off the ground and struggled to maintain his balance, keeping a hand on the blood-stained walls for a support.

"Oh fuck, he's up."

Johnny grunted and stared off in the direction the voice came from. He was groggy and still mentally unaware of his surroundings.

"What'd you see in there?" Amanda asked, cautiously. She's seen this before once or twice; the last thing she wanted was to send him right back into his unconscious state.

"Damn, dude." Zacky said, bewildered.

It was nothing him, or Johnny, had ever seen anything like this before. Sure, every demon had their mental break before reaching their full potential; but this was something way more than just actually experiencing your powers for the first time. This was straight up scrutinizing, agonizing, incredulous mental torture.

Lucifer had Jacqueline by the balls, metaphorically speaking of course, and he wanted them all to know it. Amanda was stumped, being her best friend's only chance for redemption, it was very bad she had no idea what to do.

"Fuck." Johnny muttered. "It was a whole new level of fucked up, you don't even know. Mikey is trying to show us how easily he can take JT right out from under us."

Brian cringed slightly and cussed under is breath. Just thinking about that made him want to put Mikey 6-feet under.

"There is one way to help her." Jade spoke up from behind the cluster of worried people.

Everyone turned and looked at her expectantly, she cleared her throat.

"I know a guy, helped him out a couple years back. I could call in a favor. The thing is though," She trailed off, "he'd give us the spell to exorcise her."

"But how would that affect her powers?" Matt asked.

"Honestly? No clue. But it's our best bet right now; and it'd keep that little fuck out of her head."

Jimmy rubbed his eyes and exhaled deeply.

"Alright, call him."

~

A large iron bowl sat two feet in front of Jacqueline, inside it; ground up cat's skull, sage, and some sort of ancient oil. Jimmy stood behind the bowl, alongside Jade, reciting the words that had been given to them.

"Ejice hanc creaturam puram animam ponam eam in regeneratione desponderit eam regenerationem sanctissimi domini nostri." He said loudly. Jade lit the contents ablaze.

Brian felt uneasy as he watched the two stand over Jacqueline, who was now rousing from her sleep, groaning uncontrollably. He was afraid of this would turn out.

Exorcims were for those who were possessed, not natural-born demons. This quite quite possibly send her into a catatonic state, if not death.

Jimmy poured Holy Water into the pure white flames, shouting, "Cessare faciam eum ad infernum, ubi vere est creatura huius impuri!"

Jacqueline shot up, screaming wildly and fighting against the iron-clad, salt-coated chains keeping her on the ground. She could feel herself fight against the evil being, that was clinging to her energy, and her vision blurred. Her head pounded furiously, leaving her to do nothing but cry and shout for help. And finally, after five whole minutes of thrashing about and her insides feeling ripped apart, Jacqueline felt normal again. Tired, but normal. She shut her eyes and took deep, shaky breaths.

"I need a fucking drink." She whined.

The fear and uneasiness immediately left the room, and everyone felt normal again. Zayn walked past the make-shift altar, opened the heavy duty padlock that was keeping the two ends of the chain together, and helped Jacqueline to her feet. She looked around and scrunched her nose, and eyebrows.

"Fuck. Zayn is this your house?"

He nodded, confusion lacing across his face.

"It literally smells like straight up death in here."

"I know. Maybe one day, I'll show you what I do for a living." He chuckled.

Of course, that was a lie. He never wanted to show her what he did. He didn't want Jade to know either, but she was way smarter than she puts herself out to be. She put the two and two together and the rest came with Zayn's forced explanation, where he undeniably spilled every downright disgusting detail that could've been spared for the sake of keeping your lunch. But no, he never wanted Jacqueline to know. And he never would let her know. But for now, he lied straight through his teeth, to ease her concerns over what this room was used for; rest assured, she was smarter than thought as well, and would find out in her own time. That time hadn't come yet, but it was surely soon and the aftermath would not be pretty.

Jacqueline smiled slightly, "Oh joy! I pray for the man who willingly stays to see what you do in your spare time."

Everyone laughed. Not that gut-clenching, breath taking type of laugh; but that type of laugh where nobody, not even Jacqueline, accepted Zayn's skittish response as an acceptable answer. Zacky was already having his suspicions, whereas Jimmy was already scheming a way to find out just exactly what he did. And Matt knew right off the bat that he would surely lie to JT. But no, like said before that time has yet to come, and everyone just laughed nervously and hoped nothing else awkward would be said.

"Honestly, right now, I just want to go to bed." And before anyone could say anything. "And this time, it'll just be Amanda and I. I'm not up with sleeping with a group of grown men for another night."

Brian whined and huffed like a child. "What if Mikey or something comes to kill you?"

"Then I'll kick his ass in the afterlife. Let's go Mandy."

Amanda couldn't help but laugh, and said her goodbyes, as did Jacqueline. Assuring that everything will be okay, she went back home with her best friend. And finally, for the first time in a long time, it was.

Notes

Hello loves!
Given the state I left this story in, this was the best I could do!
It's only a, bride I guess, to help me 'pave the way' to a better written story lol.
I promise, more is coming! And soon!
Thank you all for being so patient with me and dealing with my year-and-a-half hiatus.
Anyways, they've gotten rid of Jacqueline's demon side.
Good or bad? Who knows!
Well I do, but that doesn't matter.
Thanks for reading and stay tuned!<3
Much love,
-a7x_deathbats6661