~ D A Y D R E A M ~

Chapter 7

Once the incubus in the doorway recovered, he swished his tail. "They are in the wrong place for prayers if they're down here. That won't save them." Lex gave an evil smile and both Damien and the bunny shook their heads casually with grins on their faces. "So, I'm guessing y'all are headed out soon?" Lex went on, obviously prying for information. "Yeah... you already knew that." Damien responded matter-of-factly, the look on his face clearly showing the other incubus that he wasn't getting much else out of him. "Well, I just wanted to give Landry a heads up if you haven't already that fans may approach y'all and ask questions. Paparazzi may be around now that the band is getting more popular, that kinda thing." Damien studies Lex for a bit who he realized was actually being rather helpful for once.

"Oh. I guess we hadn't considered that paparazzi may be around taking photos..." Landry trailed off and had an almost panicky look on his face now, which the larger incubus holding him internally kicked himself for. Ugh, even just doing simple things is going to be a pain in the ass. What if Valentino saw photos of them together? What would he do to Landry? They almost already made a grave error.

"I just wanted to warn y'all in case that makes things difficult for either of you." Lex said cautiously, not wanting to outright say the elephant in the room that started with V and ended in O. Damien was grateful for his ambiguity since he wasn't sure it was even okay for the other incubus to already know that Val was Landry's pimp. "Honestly, thanks man. We hadn't really thought about it. Our fans can also be a bit..." Damien trailed off, trying to come up with the most appropriate word. "Unhinged?" Lex offered with his usual smirk back on his face, hand on his hip and tail swishing. "Yeah. That." Damien agreed with a chuckle.

"Well, I'll let you two love birds go. I'm actually heading out myself to go see some old buddies I grew up with. Y'all be careful, now!" Lex gave a wink and peace sign as he headed out of his best friend's doorway. "Later man!" Damien called out as Landry said bye as well. Once they heard the entrance to the penthouse door shut, the larger demon looked intently at the smaller demon in his lap.

"Well, what do you think?" The incubus studied the bunny demon's face closely, wanting to leave the decision of going out up to him. Landry looked into Damien's eyes for a bit, seeming to weigh the pros and cons. "It's not like he owns my soul and he's never explicitly said I can't date anyone." The bunny demon seemed to be leaning more towards risking it. The incubus was shocked and pleasantly surprised to hear that Val didn't own Landry's soul. "Wait. He doesn't own your soul?" Landry shook his head. "He has offered me contracts before, but Angel would always pull me aside or text me to never do it. So, I haven't. Plus, you should already know that I still own my soul. Neither of my eyes are black." Damien chuckled a bit at the demon bunny's words, mostly just because he was thrilled to learn that there was no soul contract between Landry and that psychopath.

"So, why do anything he says then if he doesn't own your soul?" Damien couldn't help but question since it seemed the moth still pulled all of Landry's strings. "He is still an overlord. And just because I'm not on his soul chain, doesn't mean he won't come after me or people I care about. I tried running away before when he wanted me to work like sixteen hour days for several days in a row... I lasted maybe two hours before his henchmen found me and dragged me back to V Tower. He chained me to my bed and didn't let me eat for a week after that..." Damien audibly growled and blissfully imagined the purple moth being tiny and squishing him under his boot.

"What a fucking dick!" Damien said, letting all his anger pour out of him as he hugged Landry tightly to his chest for several minutes. The incubus then leaned back on the bed so he was laying on his back with the bunny demon now sitting up on top of him. Damien ran his hands up and down Landry's hips and thighs currently straddling his waist with a pained expression on his face. "I want to fucking kill him." The incubus said it so sincerely that Landry could only nod in response.