Possessed...

[Julia Lilith Potter]

…
The moon whispers words of unreal affection…
The sky is way too dazzling… even if the sun’s long gone…
And it’s snowing with glitter…
A window is opened widely…
The street in front of the hospital’s empty…

A bizarre silhouette is seen near the window… seeming to be getting ready to jump…
A man barely bleeding from his left arm…
“OK…I think it’s safe…” he whispered.
He looked back one more time…
The hospital ward…
Flowers…
The shut door…
And without even thinking about it again, he jumped…safely…
He wasn’t that high to get injured…
He got up…
And ran…

“Hey…”a familiar voice said from behind a building.
The familiar voice of a familiar person…
A man who once screamed “This woman’s innocent”…
He stopped for a moment…
“Over here, Luke…”
“How dare you show your face?”
“Hmm…let’s just say the prison walls see me as a ghost – I went right through them…Undetected…”
“And why did you come here?”
“To have a small chat with you …before you leave…”
Luke raised his eyebrows…
“I was in court today… again…obviously, I was sentenced to prison for 10 years… momentarily...”
“So Alicia was found…”
“Yes… they were convinced I was the one who did it, so I guess I tricked them…”
“Hopefully prison will at least prevent you from finding me anymore…”
“Guess again…I told you I escaped now… I can do it again if I want to…”
He turned his gaze to the ground…
“Doesn’t that…make you jealous?”
“Shut up…worm…”
“Now, be grateful … to the one who brought you back from that grave…”
Luke gasped…
“How do I know it was you?...”
“Well…I had help, of course… Angels can’t really bring people back to life… that’s a thing only one person can do…”
“Now, don’t start speaking of that unreal God of yours again… I’m not in the mood to listen to your nonsense…”
“The only person saying nonsense here is you, Luke…”
“Huh?...You’re saying that God of yours…”
“Don’t call Him my God, ‘cause He’s not only mine… He’s your God, too…”
“Not anymore…”
“…?”
“I realise now I was a total fool back then… when I still thought there is someone up there, looking upon us humans…
But now I can clearly see we’re all alone…
You should resign to this thought, too…for your own good…
Raven…”
The man looked deeply into Luke’s eyes at the sound of his name…
All of a sudden, he started walking calmly in the opposite direction, without noticing Luke’s stare…
“What the…?!”
Luke stood and watched him go for a short period of time…
“Raven…Raven, where do you think you’re going?...”
The man…kept walking…
“RAVEN, STOP IT! DON’T…”
So peacefully, he didn’t even bother to answer the screams…
But he could hear…
Silent sobs…
“Don’t…turn your back on me… I won’t be ignored…” Luke said one more time with a trembling voice. “And you’re going to listen to me…right now…”
“You fool…”
He stopped and turned around slowly…
“Heh…look at you, Luke…”
“?!”
“Your eyes are all red and you’re still weeping… how…childish…”
“SHUT UP ALREADY!”
“…Is this what he turned you into?...That…treacherous snake you have inside…”
“Stop…”
“What? Don’t tell me you’re protecting him…”
Raven shook his head a bit… then he put his hands on Luke’s neck violently…
“You foul creature… can’t even run a battle on your own…
Have to use someone else to accomplish your miserable plans…”
Luke’s pupils started shrinking alarmingly as Raven was about to choke him…
But he didn’t even notice…
“I’ve got a small present for you, Luke…”
Raven gave him a rectangular package after letting him go…
He was confused…
“Open it once you feel you’re safe...
And something tells me you should get going by now… I will, too…”
“Will I ever get to see you again?...”
“Be sure of that… consider this a promise…
Eh… angels keep their promises, I assure you…”
Raven’s blue eyes smiled in the odd light the moon spreaded all around…
And left without another word…
Luke stared for a moment or two at his package…
“I wonder…”
The temptation to open it was so big…
His hand trembled upon the wrapping…
“…Where the subway is…” Luke said completing his phrase.
The street seemed so warm watching it from the distance…
And…bizarrely safe…
Like being in the arms of the one you love…
“You don’t need love anymore…”
Luke smirked sadly while walking away…
“Hmm… I probably don’t…”