Traitors Embrace, Inhuman Creation

Robin opened her door and put her foot out, Amon watched quietly as Robin shut her eyes and breathed in threw her nose heavily, “they haven’t turned yet” Robin said with a rather pronounced frown. From the back Seth sighed with relief, “the old waiting game” Seth said to Amon, Amon observed the area, the others in Robin’s group were parked close by, waiting for Robin to make a move. Amon was impressed to say the least, she had these peoples complete respect, and even he couldn’t control his fellow witch hunters when on a hunt, that had included Robin. Robin was still staring at the old run down house they had drove to; the frown did not leave but increased. “Hey you smell like food, Robin did you eat” Seth asked with a mock hurt tone, Robin slowly grinned and turned her head to Seth. “It was wonderful” Robin said smugly. Seth huffed and pouted, “ well that sucks, we are going home today right, or at least stop some where for lunch after this” Seth whined.


Robin rolled her eyes, “ Silly monkey and your need of food every day”, Robin said with a laugh, Amon thought it was an odd thing to say, “ three days, no food” Seth finished with another huff. “ baby” Robin teased, “ it’s a queen, no sent of Benicio” Robin said out of the blue, her frown had returned, Seth now carried a similar frown “ Here, with the newbie’s” Seth asked with obvious worry. “ No” Robin said and got out of the car, “ its started”, Robin shut the door softly behind her, Seth and Amon followed behind her as did the others. “how does she know its time, with out any visual” Amon asked Seth as quite as possible, but the question received grins from the man named Chris, and a women he didn’t know the name of yet, Seth leaned in close “she has the sense of smell like a Blood Hound, you have been around the body’s of eaters, so you know that horrible smell. They only smell like that when they change; Robin can smell it the first second they start to change”. Seth stopped talking when he received a very non lady like snort from the women who had grinned earlier “ stop kissing ass Seth” she said with a hiss. Seth hissed back a string of vulgar phrases.


The some what friendly banter was cut short when a very loud scream, followed by many other screams could be heard from inside. The slow paced advanced upon the building turned into a run, Robin flung the door open. In no way was Amon prepared for what he saw when he ran in gun drawn, but one thing was clear; Amon completely believed Robin about the flesh eating monsters. Robin was first to be attacked, one of the eaters dropped the girl he was about to bite and ran at Robin, Amon was fascinated with Robin. She moved with such speed and grace that no human or witch could ever posses, before he could register what had happened Robin had unsheathed her sword and slit the Eaters throat and impaled him threw the heart.

That’s when the smell hit Amon full force; he was dizzy for a second, but recovered quickly. Seth grabbed him “help me bring the girls out side” Seth yelled over the screaming and gun fire. It took a moment for Amon to realize the girls weren’t the only ones screaming, the creatures would howl and grunt before attacking. As he and Seth started to pick up a girl each he saw from the corner of his sight Chris get attacked, he screamed when the eater started to maul his neck, blood was every where. Amon’s years as a witch hunter kicked in with a girl still in his arms he raised his gun and shoot the eater in the head as Chris had instructed. The eater twitched for a moment then slumped over dead.


Chris looked over at Amon and mouthed thanks, but there was no time for a break, the eaters were still attacking the girls. As Amon exited the building Seth in toe he looked back to see Robin get tackled by five of the eaters, she didn’t scream, or fight just let her self be thrown to the floor. Seth saw how horrified Amon looked “don’t worry man; she does this all the time” Seth yelled from behind, “why doesn’t she use her craft”? Amon yelled back while he put the girl on the ground with her friends, “ she cant” that’s all Seth said, it just created more questions. Amon raced back in to help Robin, killing two more eaters on his way; when Amon got back inside Robin was straddling one of the eaters, she was punching him, her shirt was ripped open and all he could see was a series of teeth marks.

Amon was about to shoot the eater in the head but he was tackled first, before he could act the eater had bit him deeply in the neck, almost ripping a piece out. Robin was off the eater she had been beating and quickly stabbed him in the heart, she ran over to Amon and dragged the eater off him, there was a shot from behind robin and the eater fell to the floor dead. From there it went blank for Amon, he knew he was loosing blood, but he couldn’t help him self he was paralyzed.


Robin gasped when she realized what the eater had done, she knew they had the ability to paralyze there victims but it was rather unheard of, * they want him alive for some reason, Benicio wants Amon alive*. Robin grabbed Amon’s wrist and started to drag him out of the building, she knew the fight was over, only a few remained. Robin had great confidence in her team; they would get the job done. Robin knelt down next to Amon, and softly slapped his face a few times to wake him up, she was about to full out bitch slap Amon when he started to blink. “I can’t move, why can’t I move” Amon said panicked, Robin brushed his hair back. “Your alright, the eater paralyzed you, your lousing a lot of blood, I\'m going to close the wound, this is going to hurt like hell Amon, I’m sorry”. Robin spoke softly and calm, she didn’t want Amon to panic.


Amon watched Robin roll up her sleeve, every thing she did he gave his complete attention to, he saw various scars, cuts and bruises up Robins arm. Even threw to pain he was feeling he felt sorry for Robin, * so young and she had been threw so much pain*. About that time Amon could feel his fingers, he raised his arm. Before he knew what hit him, Seth and Chris were holding him down, he started to protest, but robin shoved the side of her hand into his mouth, Amon screamed threw the gag of Robins hand, all he could feel was a white hot burn on his neck, Robin was cauterizing the wound with her craft, the pain got worse, Amon couldn’t help it his jaw fused shut, he tasted blood, Robins blood flooded his mouth as he bit deeply into her hand. He briefly remembered to say sorry before he blacked out.


Amon woke up before he opened his eyes, he let himself get accustomed to his surroundings before fully waking him self, He heard music, and Seth talking to some one. * Where is Robin* was Amon’s first thought. Amon calmed when he realized his head was in some ones lap and a small hand was brushing his hair back and caressing his temple. He knew it was Robin with out opening his eyes, for that reason he continued to Fein sleep. It had been years since Amon had let a women comfort him, the last women being his own mother. Amon didn’t understand how she could comfort him, when her own body was ripped and shredded, not only had he ripped into her flesh but so had the eaters.


Amon listened to the conversation Seth and Robin were having, as they drove. “ Do you really think Benicio is after Amon, and the others, Robin?”, “ yes, why else would he come to Japan, he hates this country as much as I do, he may be a killer, but he still is victim to the memories of the factory. I’m positive he’s going to try and turn them into queens” Robin spoke softly, with slight strain in her voice, the type of voice you make when you’re hiding pain from others. Amon opened his eyes and looked up at Robin, she was still bloody but the bite marks he saw earlier were gone, * she can heal her self*.


Robin hadn’t noticed Amon open his eyes, she had been looking out the window of the speeding car, the hand that Amon had bitten was still bleeding, she wasn’t sure if she should heal it or not, she knew Amon would remember biting her, she just was not sure how he would react when he found that the wound had healed. Robin had not thought about the dilemma she would create when she forced her hand into Amon’s already clenched teeth, but all she was thinking about was stopping him from biting his tongue off. And so she sat with Amon’s head in her lap, stroking his hair and face, watching the trees pass and the blood run down her arm. Deep in thought over what to do with Amon, and the others, * it’s not like they will all agree to come back with me to the house for who knows how long. They have there jobs, and lives, and only Amon knows I’m Phoenix, and he wasn’t very understanding at first, why would the others*. Robin sighed, her hand hurt, and she didn’t know what to do with the people she cared about.


Amon watched the display of different emotions cross Robins face, for the first time in Amon’s adult life he wished he knew how to comfort someone, he wanted almost desperately to comfort Robin, as foreign as the feeling was to him, he let it pass threw him and take hold in his mind. Robin looked down at Amon, she smile when she saw he was looking up at her; Robin didn’t move Amon from her lap, nor did she stop stroking his hair, she just smiled at him and continued to look out the window. A moment passed and she looked back down at him, he was still watching her intently “were going to your place, so I can better deal with your injury” she spoke in that same soft, strained pain filled voice.


Amon touched his neck where the burned over wound was, he still had the taste of blood in his mouth “I’m sorry about your hand”, Amon said sincerely, Robin’s eyes softened “don’t be, I would do it again if it was needed, better my hand then your tongue, I will heal, but your tongue won’t grow back, I’m just glad I only received a bite from you and not the eaters.” Robin lied. Had Amon not seen for himself that robin had several bite wounds on her earlier he would have believed that she hadn’t been injured? Amon frowned, * please don’t lie to me robin, please* Amon silently begged her.

Robin smiled down the guilt she felt, robin really didn’t have a problem lying to the people that surrounded her every day, the less they knew the safer she and they were. But lying to Amon was horrible, true it wasn’t the first time she had ever told him a lie, but that was before, this was now; and robin knew he deserved better. * But how am I suppose to break into that conversation, guess what Amon, my craft has become so strong that I can heal myself*. Robin laughed under her breath * I can see the look on his face*


Robin looked down at Amon “ how are you feeling, can you move all your parts”?, Amon wiggled around, flexing and moving his toes and up to his neck, robin smiled “ good, question Amon, other than hunting phoenix, and Benicio, is there any other pressing work being done” robin ended by grinning hopefully. Amon blinked once, the way she went from topic to topic surprised him. “No, Father Juliano…” Amon stopped, he had been looking at robin’s eyes, when he said her Grandfathers name pure rage filled her beautiful green eyes, robin lips twitched in an awkward smile. “ You were saying”? Robin said. Amon continued “he gave us orders to only deal with Benicio, and Phoenix. Top priority”. Amon finished, not really sure what else to say. He didn’t understand her reaction to Juliano being mentioned, the last he had known they had a loving relationship, or at least as loving as they could.


Seth parked the car when they reached Amon’s Apartment, Seth looked out the window to Amon’s forth floor apartment, and sighed “why do they always have to be so high up” Seth whined and got out of the car, he went to the trunk to retrieved a medical bag. Robin helped Amon raise his body up, “if you don’t feel up to walking don’t try, Seth is stronger then he looks as am I” robin said mater of fact. She opened her door and waited on the street for Amon. Amon managed to make it to his buildings elevator with out assistance. Seth had started a new strand of complaint “ what is it with you loner types exactly, no cant have a flat on the first floor, have to be on the top” robin just turned to Seth, one eyebrow hitched up “ are you referring to me or to Amon” robin said with such a sweetness it was venom.


Seth grinned “ well both of you, your all the way up on the six floor, not even Mina is up there with you, we worry robin, and you “ Seth turned to Amon grinning, robin just walked out of the elevator and headed in the direction of Amon’s apartment, Seth and Amon followed but the new movement did nothing to stifle Seth. “ the bottom floor is more logical, closer to the parking lot, in case of emergency you can walk out, no chance of jumping out a window….” Seth was cut short, robin had grabbed Seth from behind and covered his mouth “Please Seth, as much as we enjoy your voice, there is such a thing as to much, god why do I put up with you” robin said sarcastically, and let Seth go. Seth put his hand to his heart “ you wound me deep fire witch, and you put up with me because I’m a helpless kid you saved from the nightmare man” Seth said with a flourish of hand gestures, robin answered with a hand gesture of her own.


Seth handed the medical bag to robin before he plopped down on Amon’s couch, he stood right back up, “I’m starving”, and with out another word he went out the door, leaving Amon and robin alone. Amon sat down on the bed, robin just stood not wanting to get his bed bloody, she looked at his neck, “ its going to leave a scar, but you should take a shower before I even start patching you up” robin left him alone to undress and shower. Amon was great full for the opportunity, as he let the almost to hot water caress his nude skin he couldn’t help but think that robin hadn’t been able to bathe since she had came back into his life just the other night, she had been drenched with blood, among other things since then, her supply of clean clothes had long run out, she was still wearing the same pants from the night before.


Amon dressed quickly, and then picked out a shirt and a pair of black pajama bottoms for robin, he would at least offer his shower and washer and dryer to her. Robin was just standing in the living room, her arms folded behind her back her head tilted down. Robins shirt had been ripped open in the back, the night before he had only seen what she looked like in front, there were a few light scars but nothing like what was one her back, long white scars slashed her back, Amon tore his gaze from her partially exposed back. Robin turned on her heal, her arms still folded behind her, her face was blank. Amon cleared his thought, “ I picked theses out for you, the shower is all yours if you want, or you can take a bath, just give me your clothes and I will wash them”, Amon said blankly, then added “ if you so desire that is”.


Robin just looked at the bundle of clothes under Amon’s arm, “yes, thank you, a bath sounds wonderful” robin said as she glided over to Amon, “if you start to bleed to death, don’t hesitate to call”, robin said with an almost evil grin, she took the offered clothes and disappeared into Amon’s bedroom. Amon sat down heavily on the couch, he listened to the water start, Amon tried not to think about the fact that the first women to be in his apartment was robin, or that the first women to sleep in his bed was robin, and now in his bath room taking a bath, and when she would get out she would be wearing his clothes, all firsts for Amon. When the water stopped he realized he would have to go in there and retrieve her clothes.


The bathroom door was open just a few inches; Amon could hear the sounds of robin cleaning her self in the bath. The temptation was almost too strong to just open the door and watch. Amon lightly knocked on the door, “your clothes”, “there by the sink”, robin answered, no shyness in her voice. Amon opened the door, expecting robin to hide in the water, but she didn’t. robins hair was wet and slicked back exposing her shoulders, and the wound that had brought her to harries door, unconscious, most of the purple veins that had nearly covered her last night had receded to just around to wound, the hand Amon had bit hung over the edge of the tub the bleeding had mostly stopped.

Amon retrieved the dirty clothes, but didn’t leave “I know the eaters bit you, and those are healed, if you can heal your self then heal your hand”, Amon said with a tone that would still any argument, his eyes were fixed on her hand. Robin said nothing, Amon watched and bright orange flame bleed out of the wound, as quick as it was there it was gone, leaving milky white skin. “You really have no idea how lucky you are to have your own bathroom, I have to share with 15 odd people” robin said, but she held her hand out “like magic, if only I could get rid of this” robin pointed to the wound in her shoulder. Once again Amon noticed the turn in conversation, he wondered if she did it on purpose. “ you and I have a lot to discuss later, all of this, the healing, the eaters, what the hell you have to do with Benicio, that old pervert nightmare, and why can you hear my phone conversations.” Amon ended when he was out of breath. Robin chuckled softly and grabbed her towel and stood, before Amon could look away.


Amon saw every thing, neck, breasts, stomach, hips, pubic hair, and thighs. It wasn’t like robin stood there naked letting Amon see everything that she was, robin got out of the bath with the towel already wrapped around her, it just seemed like she stood there for an hour waiting for Amon to make a move, at least that’s how it felt for Amon. Amon was grateful he didn’t blush, he quickly hid behind a wall of anger “what the hell was that for”, Amon hissed, robin was looking in the mirror, examining the wound in her shoulder, robin rolled her eyes “I told you, I have been sharing a bathroom with a ton of people, modestly long since dead, and I can only stand freezing water for so long, and most important, you are in here with me Amon, not the other way around.” Robin turned holding her towel around her chest, with mock anger “ what the hell was that for”, Amon did his best to ignore what she had said, and the fact he was still in the very small bathroom, with a naked women, * no a naked robin*.


Amon looked at the mirror, there was no condensation on it “ I didn’t realize I used all the hot water”, Amon said with a slight tone of apology, robin looked at him, her face blank, her eyes void of any emotion, Amon would never admit it but it scared the hell out of him. “You didn’t; cold water by choice. Now if you don’t mind I would like to dress, or are you going to be watching that as well” robin grinned as she said it, Amon quickly left the bathroom shutting the door behind him, Amon heard robin laugh threw the door, her laugh was cheerful, and filled with what only could be described as sex. The sound coated Amon, making a shiver run up his spine and a jolt of heat stir in his gut, Amon tried to move out of his bedroom, if he could make it to the couch every thing would be alright, one foot moved, then the other * thank god* Amon thought when he was safely sitting on the couch.


Amon wasn’t sure if he wanted that to happen again or not, just a laugh and he nearly lost control of his body. Amon looked down, he still had robin’s dirty laundry with him, Amon quickly got up and started the wash. Robin was sitting on the couch, the medic bag open, she looked up when Amon was a few feet from the couch “shirt off”, robin watched as Amon took his shirt off, she didn’t blush, and in fact it didn’t seem to affect her at all. Amon couldn’t help but feel disappointed. Robin drew out a bottle and a needle as well as a couple of bandages. Amon sat next to robin on the couch, robin stabbed the top of the clear bottle with the syringe “ eaters have a lot of infectious bacteria, its quick, if I don’t give you this shot, in an hour your have a fever and be delirious amongst other things”, robin said not really looking at him, but at the burn on his neck, “ does it hurt, I cant remember what being burned feels like” ?, Amon felt the burn, it felt hot when he touched it there was pain but it wasn’t to bad “ its bearable, what is that anyway” Amon nodded towered the bottle.


Robin picked up the bottle “antidote, one of the people I work with, he’s kind of a mad scientist, I tell him what I want he makes it, it’s completely safe, we all use it after getting a bite.” Robin raised up onto her knees to better position herself, “ this is going to sting” robin plunged the syringe into the wound on Amon’s neck, it did sting, Amon could feel it travel threw his body. “What did it feel like” robin asked curiously, Amon had the feeling robin had never taken the antidote. “I could feel it go threw my veins” Amon said not sure if that was the right thing to say. Robin smiled “ good, that’s how it should feel” robin finished cleaning the burn and put the bandage on “ all fixed up, you are a far better patient then Seth, he cries, a doctor who cant be a patient how sad” robin said sarcastically. Amon hid his grin as he put his shirt back on.


Robin leaned back against the couch, as did Amon; even thought the couch was big he stayed right next to robin, they stayed in the comfortable silence for several minutes both lost in thought. Robin was the first to break the silence “it’s been awhile since I had absolutely nothing to do, well that’s not true, I have plenty to do now, but it all can wait for a minute. Seth is a very good second in command, he can deal with most of it.”. “How did you and Seth cross paths”? robin frowned “nightmare, when nightmare was trying to break me he would get so tired that he would need to feed, Seth and gabby were his food, he would make me watch as he would drain them, I promised I would save them, and I did, since then I seem to be picking up a lot of people needing to be saved.”.


Amon didn’t say anything, and for good reason. Amon felt the beginning of a rant, * robin is far to young to have the world upon her shoulders, why cant these people just help themselves, instead they trail behind robin like dogs. This is why I wanted to protect you robin.*, Amon was about to say something, but robin silenced him “ I already know what your going to say, all those who care have said it, I know I’m young, its too much responsibility for one person, I cant save the world, why cant the strays just help them selves. Truth is I never had a choice, this whole thing was long ago decided. As much as I wish I found you Amon, instead of Benicio, this all would have happened it just would have took longer, and I don’t think I would have survived it had I been with you,” By the end of robins admission she was standing up and pacing a three foot area in front of the couch.

Once again Amon wished he knew how to comfort her, what she had said wasn’t lost on him, she had wanted to be with him, she wanted to find him after the factory, but Benicio got to her first. “why would you have not had survived it, and what is it you keep speaking about”, Robin just looked at him like she had never seen him before “you really care don’t you,” Amon had honestly not expected that, “I thought that since I haven’t killed you the multiple times I was ordered to, would tell you that I thought we were friends” Amon said it sincerely, but he knew the joke would not be lost on robin. And it wasn’t, robin laughed, it wasn’t as intense as before but it still got the job done. Once again the sex filled laugh coated Amon’s skin, it penetrated every pore. Amon thanked what ever god was listing that he was already sitting. Robin sat back down, this time a tiny bit away from Amon, “ well you are certainly a very strange friend, but a good one, that I personally hope will last” she looked at Amon, her eyes pleading “it will robin, just don’t disappear again”.


Robin smiled, “I wont, but as one friend to another” robin got up off the couch and went into Amon’s bedroom, she came back out a few seconds later, with a bright red and blue long sleeve over her arm, she didn’t miss a beat “it is my responsibility to tell you, that you would look completely horrid in thisss… lovely item”. Amon looked at the shirt, it had been a gift from Touko, he hated it, he didn’t even accept it Touko forced it into his arms; he put it into the back of his closet and forgot about it. Amon really didn’t like anything about Touko, including her taste in men’s clothing. His affair with Touko had been an opportunity to piss off Zaizen, when he got tired of it he didn’t even know how to break it off with her, he had tried but after robin arrived, Touko had made it her business to be part of his life again, he never figured out why, now he had a pretty good idea. * She must have thought robin was competition*. Amon smiled, as robin when back into his bedroom to put the shirt back. * After everything that has happened I guess robin was worth of Touko\'s jealousy*.


Robin sat back down on the couch “ Touko gave it to me as a gift, I agree it is horrid, I hid it in the closet and forgot about it”, Amon said it all with an air of disgust, robin smiled “ so you and Touko huh?, that explains a lot”, robin looked like some great mystery had been solved “ actually I dated Touko to piss Zaizen off, I hated him, and I was young, she clung to me I couldn’t get rid of her. And what do you mean it explains a lot”? Robin shrugged, it could have meant every thing or nothing “she didn’t like me at all; I’m use to people not liking me because I’m a witch, but it was more it was jealously. I guess because we were partners, she kept reminding me you were a grown up and I was a young nun. I don’t know where she got the Nun thing from though.” Robin laughed softly.

There was a knock on the door, and the washer beeped, “its Seth” robin said and got up to let him in, and Amon went to put the clothes in the dryer. Seth was smiling, a very rude smile “hope I didn’t interrupt, please say I interrupted I would love to go piss of Marcus, after Adrian reads my mind when we get home” Amon had the feeling Seth was some what of a gossip. Robin gave her most innocent look to Seth, “what type of girl do you think I am” robin said with a frown, Seth pouted “can I at least fabricate something juicy”, “knock your self out, but make sure it’s good, I love pissing of the twins as much as you do”.


Amon sat down, he had heard the conversation between the two, it made him feel strange, and he didn’t know why. Robin sat on the opposite end of the couch “ well human worm baby did you fill the endless void” robin asked sarcastically, Seth just shook his head in amusement “ you are an odd duck you know that, has she always been this damn odd” Seth asked Amon, Amon just shrugged. Seth put his arms up, exasperated “yes I went and got something to eat also made a few calls, gabby is still at the hospital, and Linda won’t let him leave until she can. Babies are fine, still no names. Chris is patched up, Jessica made a retrieval of all the rounds, and the girls are safe with the police. Michael said there were no signs of the baddies at ravens flat but there still there waiting your next orders.” Seth smiled then added “and you’re the worm baby” he stuck out his tongue.

Amon’s phone rang, and a few seconds later Seth and robins phone rang, robin frowned “this cant be good” Amon answered as the other two did. “Amon, on robin’s old terminal, there’s a message from Benicio; I think she should come see it”. Amon looked at robin, she frowned, and she looked pissed. She hung up “what is he playing at now”, Robin asked the air, Seth hung up “you get the same we got” Seth said his head slightly tilted towerds Amon. Robin turned to Amon “I have to see it”, “I know, I just don’t want to put you in danger, they would have made the connection that your phoenix.” Amon spoke sincerely, but was also direct “don’t worry, I can take care of my self, I have been avoiding witch hunters for years”.


Amon looked at robin “ your clothes are still wet”, robin didn’t seem worried, but Seth started to giggle, robin rolled her eyes “ keep it in your pants”, Seth giggled louder “ oh this is going to be better then sex”, robin just looked at him astonished “ your impossible”, “ and you love me” Seth said with a grin. “As I was about to say, just get me the clothes I can dry them my self”. Amon did as he was told, remembering how her clothes had dried last night. Once robin was changed in her personally dried clothes they were all in the car heading to ravens flat.

A/N What does every one think, how do you like the story’s progress, I think this one may have quite a number of chapters to it so stay tuned.