If desires are a flame, then I am a wildfire.

When we are apart, I rage on,

I am uncontrollable.

My wrath is unstoppable.

With you around, I simmer down.

Not destruction,

I focus on care.

What is it you need darling?

I can provide.

I will be the light in darkness.

I will be the warmth in cold times.

I rise-

I fall.

Yet whenever you’re near,

I will burn-

My passions aflame,

For you....

“Damien!”

The voice pricked his attention, the voice he thought abandoned him to his darkness.

“Cass? Is it really you?” He called, hopping off the ruins of the town hall.

The woman instinctively flinched back, her hazel eyes flickering to his blackened hands, where the demons corruption had affected him.

“It’s okay, I have him under control. He can’t hurt you.”

“If it’s okay with you, I’ll stay h...

“Do you think I’d give up?”

I paused at his voice. It had been decades since I heard him. Since we would spend evenings, sharing stories and idle gossip of the village.

Evenings-before I fled. Afraid to tell him about my true nature.

After all- how could a lady of the fae fall for a man? An eternal aspect of nature- tied to someone so fragile.

“Chess.”

“You can’t be-“

Looking back, I couldn’t he...

“You need to stop moving Lieutenant.” I growled as I met his gaze.

“I would love to follow orders Esme, but I’m-“ His words were cut off by a sharp gasp as I continued to try and clean the gash along his thigh.

“Esme!” He caught hold of my hand. “Please.” Glancing back to him, watching those amber eyes gleaming with unshed tears.

“You know it’s just as hard for me too. Your blood…I’m not gonna li...