Acrasia

Pawn.

Sera wobbled out, Axar hanging across her shoulder, into the bright mid day sun. The sun's rays creating dimension in her jewel colored maneuver as it captures the light with her movement. After I had disposed of the unbearable Barima, I ransacked her room for a blouse I wanted for Sera. I discarded Seraphine's bloody sweater afterwards. It took quite a bit of coercion to get Sera into the now dead woman's clothes. The idea of it making her more remorseful.

As she donned her cloak of shame, and her new pouty demeanor, I worked on Axar in his dream world. Twisting thoughts and snipping things to fit just right. I need his outburst and tantrum to be perfect when he wakes. I want Sera helpless, isolated and weak. I need to break her down just enough to relent to me. I want her to want me again, to depend on me. I have to regain her trust.

She lays Axar softly onto the backseat, teetering a little as his body messes with the balance of hers. I lean across her back playfully and wrap my arms around her, pinning hers to her side. I bury my face in her neck and sigh.

"Nox. We need to ho home now. Let go." She tries to shimmy out of my hold, but instead creates an exhilarating friction between us. I walk with her still in my hold to the hood and push her over. She scrapes my shin with her boot. "Stop it! I'm on the nerve of a nervous breakdown. I'm some sort of fucking creature that just killed and ate a woman, infront of a kid who is sleeping in the back. I'm not banging the demon man who manipulated me into giving him the thing on the birthday I was cheated on. Can you think of nothing else but feeding and sex?" She rambles as she throws elbows behind her trying to break herself loose.

"No. It's what I was created to do. It's what I am, what you are part. I never manipulated you. You..." I turn her to face me. "Manipulated yourself. You can't control what you are, and though we remember things differently, I remember seeing you dark eyed and slinging yourself at me. Completely out of control. Embarrassing. Pardon me for taking you up on it." She shoves me away and bolts into the car locking the doors. It's then I realized she had snatched my keys.

She backs out and floors it, leaving me behind as I curse and fume. Well that fucking backfired. I take a few moments to calm myself before I will transport into the car. I picture the passenger seat in my mind and curse a out the energy I'm going to lose. I can't believe she ditched me. She knew I would catch up, but the fact that she left me is infuriating. I focus again and within moments I am sitting in my car, Seraphine driving white knuckled on the steering wheel. I raise my hand to pat her thigh and she draws back a fist.

"Anything that touches me gets lopped off. I'm not fucking with you."

"Literally or figuratively?" I mock.

"Both. I'm sick of your little mind games. I was thinking, you watched me kill that woman and you could've helped me. She stabbed me and tried to hurt Axar. You really were being honest when you called me a pet. That is exactly how you think of me. Like a mother fucking goldfish! Expendable! You allowed us both to be in danger. In fact I think it was your plan all along. That woman was jealous from the moment she laid eyes on me. Why? Why was she jealous? What did you do to that woman?" She grits through her teeth. Refusing to even look at me. She has me on the ropes, while she might not understand how to read minds and energies yet her intuition is viscious.

"Pull off. It's my car. Shut up and switch me seats. I'll drive my car and you can sit here and think about the disrespect you give to the one who is trying to help your unstable self learn not to be a serial killer. I can't believe I ever found you interesting enough to follow. I should have let you alone. You'd have been back with your cheating boyfriend, getting shit on at work, and starving daily until you get hone to scarf your twenty five cent ramen garbage." I mean none of this, but I need to rattle her. Sera isn't a confident woman, she's an avid overthink with anxious ticks. I want to exploit her lowest moments.