"Are you sure you want to do this?" asked Stefan for the third time, shuddering as he kept drawing the circles while she wrote the incantations with her blood. "Would it not be better if you would summon him here rather than going to hell. It is not a place where a body could survive."
He had just started enjoying his life on earth. He did not want to turn into a wisp again or worse disappear this time.
"You know i have a date with Carl this sunday." he whined when she blinked.
"I thought you were a man!" Was that even important? He tsked but closed his eyes and soon his body changed into an appealing woman with a lot of curves and volume.
"I am a lower level demon. I do not have any gender!" he shrugged but then frowned. "You did it intentionally! To distract me so that you can complete the incantation without my nagging." he gritted his teeth when he saw her chuckling, confirming his thoughts.
"Rafael looked upset. He is even reluctant to believe that he would be able to see our kids." she took a deep breath, "but i know that he could do it. If he was able to turn a human into a witch, why could he not take the corruption of Rafael. After all, all evil things are part of him."
Stefan's lips turned into a thin line as he shook his head.
"Of course, masters have powers. He can take away the corruption but you must know that nothing in the underworld is free. Even if you are his daughter, he would not be able to break the law.
It would be better to summon him then going there." he warned when she pursued her lips.
"If you summon him, only he would be able to ask for a wish, but if you go there, a stronger devil might try to crack a contract with you first. You will not be able to differentiate and lose your wits if they look into your eyes." he warned again when she sighed.
"Alright! Then summon him. I am ready to pay any price." though relieved, he still looked worried. The girl might be the daughter of the darkness but she had no idea about what exactly darkness was!
The cost would not be easy but he knew he had already done his best and she was not going to listen to him anymore.
"Very well, if you have decided." he disappeared from there and she frowned and looked at Stefan whose face was so pale as if he was going to die.
She frowned but before she could ask him, she heard a shriek coming from the room of Rafael and her eyes widened.
Filled with dread, she ran to his room only to see her father standing there with his hands under the chest of Rafael who was groaning and shirking with pain.
"What are you doing?" she bellowed but the demon only snorted and increased the pressure. His pearly white hands started to cover with dark veins and slowly the shrieking and grunting of Rafael started to subside and his body started to lose all the colors.
"Did you not ask me to take corruption from his heart?" asked his father, finally taking his hands out from his body. There was a small black sphere in his hands that his body was absorbing slowly.
The moment he let Rafael go, he felt on the ground limp and unconscious.
"But you never told me that he would..."
"He is alive. So don't create a fuss! You have faced death so many times but you are still so weak when it comes to him." he chided her, not liking that she was throwing a tantrum like a little child when she pressed her lips.
"He would take a few days or maybe weeks to wake up. Depending on how much deeper the corruption had spread. But when he would wake up, he would be fine and did not even remember what had happened to him all these months. So, it is up to you whether you want to share it with him or not." she took a breath of relief and nodded her head as she crouched on the ground and helped him.
She took him to his bed and laid him there. Covering him with the duvet, she turned to look at her father, the demon who was waiting for his payment.
"About the price..." she took a deep breath and stared at him, waiting to announce what he wanted. It could not be money, she was sure of it.
"I will come to take it in twenty days. Be prepared, Hazel, since I am sure that you are going to regret it."