A Ghost And A Demon Talk About The Hot Vampire They Like

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Selene had got to actually speak to the ghost the other day, she had been in a mood since then thanks to sex with Laura and lots of trauma. However, she was feeling better now and realized she hadn't actually talked to her vampire's beloved. That could be platonic or romantic regardless, it was clear they had love for one another.

The woman saw the ghost lurking where no one else could, she asked what would seem like blank space to anyone watching "Colby, I want to talk, would you follow me to an empty room?"

“What, me?” Colby asked, clearly surprised. He wasn’t used to people noticing him—even when he didn’t spend most of his time invisible. That was how he liked it.

They looked down at Selene. Something about her expression told Colby it would be better to do what she wanted.

“Uh, yeah, sure. Done with Rhys?”

Selene giggled, of course they would assume she just finished up with Rhys. The succubus would have expected Colby to keep better tabs on the vampire boy but it was good to know he didn’t follow them everywhere. Selene walked towards an empty bed room waiting to reply when Colby was in private with her.

Colby followed easily, floating through the door as Selene closed it behind her. It always surprised him just how many rooms there seemed to be at Hellfire. They were so conveniently located.

They half floated, half walked to the bed before sitting on the edge, eyebrow raised.

“What’s up?” they asked, arms crossed. What did Selene want with *them?* Was it about the party?

Selene took a seat on a bed and answered the question that Colby asked, a playful tone to her words “I wanted to talk to you, your Rhys’s best friend and they are important to you. You don’t talk to many people but I can see you, just all the time, I figure, we should get to know each other, talk about stuff, Rhys, ya know.”

Selene was willing to forgive the party now that she had some more context on Colby, it was just drinks, her favorite drinks but it wasn’t like the ghost could get a job, although, Colby could just steal her a bottle, that was something to keep in mind for later.

“Yeah, best friends,” Colby said, staring off to the distance as he trailed off. Once he would have been confident saying that, but now? Not so much.

They’d only recently gotten back in touch, and however quickly Rhys fell back into it…. something seemed different to Colby. They couldn’t quite put a finger on it though.

“Right, um. Get to know me.” Colby tried to give a smile, but it ended up looking more forced than he intended. He searches desperately for something that they could talk about together.

“I uh, fuck around on guitar sometimes?” Selene’s a musician. That’s… something to talk about. Right?

Selene could see Colby turning away, it seemed to be more going on there with him then they were letting on but she wouldn’t dig, directly, of course she would try and get the answer but in a smarter way then just asking.

She yelled opening the door “PYRRHA GET DOWN HERE WITH A GUITAR! ROOM A4!”

The girl closed the door and took a seat again. “Sorry about that, i’m getting you a guitar to play, I want to hear what you got.”  Quickly adding the question  “When did you start playing?”

“Right now?” Shit. They feel out of practice; hard to play when you’re dead. And it’s not like they were serious about it, or really knew more than a handful of chords.

“Uh, since I was like, thirteen I guess? I wouldn’t say I’m any good.”

Pyrrha walked in annoyed holding up an acoustic guitar "I'm grabbing samples for the Salsa remix but I guess this is more important."

Selene grabbed the guitar and made a motion to leave "thank you and then get back to it, you could have made someone else do it."

Pyrrha rolled her eyes "and let them into our music room, fuck that plus they would pick out the wrong guitar."

Selene giggled "it's true, you're irreplaceable, so thank you."

With the scene done she closed the door again and assured Colby "Good doesn't matter when it comes to music for fun. I wanna hear your musical voice."

Colby took the guitar. It was a little weird to have to think about physically reaching out and touching it--remembering to be solid took a surprising amount of effort. They strummed a few chords before softly, hesitantly, launching into a song Selene hadn’t heard before. It was quiet and melancholy. Listening closely, you could hear Colby humming softly.

Everything felt faint, but as they played more, the sound got more confident, more solid sounding. They almost looked more *real.* And they were pretty good, actually. It was clear they’d spent a lot of time playing, what felt like a lifetime ago.

“Satisfied?” Colby asked, dryly, once they’d finished, handing the guitar back to Selene. It wasn’t hard to see them almost immediately closing off what few cracks they allowed to show.

Selene was engaged, her focus was on nothing else but Colby watching his performance and she was impressed. There was a lot there that maybe Colby didn’t even understand but Selene was serious about music. The girl loved music, always did, it’s one major reason why she chose to become a pop star instead of just living the life of a demon heiress or whatever her mothers actually wanted for her.

Selene clapped for Colby just a little before she grabbed the guitar. She smirked at Colby and said “You told me so many things, thank you.”

For now the hellfire sorority leader was done with the guitar putting it aside. “So, why do you stick around here? Is it for Rhys, are you trying to sell feet pics of me, or is just in general wherever Rhys is just the most fun place on campus at the time for a gloomy ghost? ”

Colby shrugged. “I don’t really, uh. Know anyone else. And my family….” they trail off, gazing back into the middle distance. Whatever, it’s not time to dwell on *them*. Or how they’re the pathetic failure who’s big claim to fame is that they died… Tragically taken away from the world before they could really become something. That bullshit.

“You know Rhys. He’s incapable of saying no to someone, or defending himself. He’s always needed a guardian angel.” Colby gave Selene a wry smile. “And looks like I’m the best they’ve got.”

Selene lays down and groans “Ugh, family, the worst, can’t live with them or undead with um either.”

She turned to the ghost and attempted to assure Colby “We’ll you’ve done a good job, I mean other than letting him get wrapped up in me. ”

The demon left her human form turning into her true succubus nature, wings, tail, pink skin,dark eyes. She looked at Colby more seriously “I have no idea if the people who hurt you are the same as this anti magic cult but I am looking into them. I am doing what I can but I appreciate you keeping an eye on Rhys.”

They shrugged again. “He’s had a crush on you for like, forever, so.” They rolled their eyes. Clearly Selene’s music and the validity of Rhys’s crush had been a point of relatively lighthearted arguments. They had nothing against Selene, really, it was just more of the everything that came in addition to that. It was all so pink and cheerful. “I gotta let him make his own mistakes sometime.” That, and well, how were they supposed to know anything supernatural was real.

“Anti….magic…. cult?” Colby asked, slowly. “I don’t know what they’d want to do with me, and I don’t know who killed me either. I don’t remember much.” Colby said, no need for them to mince words. They were dead. A fucking ghost. Invisible to everyone else, except apparently Queen fucking Selene. Because she was a demon. And now she *looked* it too, all sultry and winged. Colby ran his hands through his messy hair, somehow making it even more unkempt.

“The most I know is that there was a vampire involved. Probably.” It made the most sense, if that’s what Rhys was now. Fucking *vampires.* But if Colby’s being honest, most things from that night are a complete blank spot. Just the briefest flashes of *something.* Which made it absolutely fucking useless.

Selene giggled a bit, so Rhys was a full on fan before all this, that was adorable. Obviously she was aware of the desire but it was one thing to think a celebrity was hot and another thing to have a long term crush. The girl enjoyed the sarcastic ghost, bluntness was something she could appreciate so long as it wasn’t pointed at attacking her.

The demon nodded her head to the conversation about Colby’s death “I figured as much, it’s likely unrelated but I won’t bother you with theories, only with answers if I get any.”

Selene asked another question “So you plan on spending unlife as a guardian angel, do you like not being seen?”

So Selene was chatty. Another thing she shared with Rhys, except Rhys rarely got so personal, and so quickly.

“It’s not much different than it was,” Colby said, shrugging. And if they weren’t doing their best to be invisible at their height, they were pushing everyone away.

They were used to the isolation. It’s the dead part that bothered them.

“What about you?” Colby asked, trying to turn the tables. “Demon masquerading as a pop sensation? What’s *your* deal?”

Colby didn’t have a lot of words, they reminded Selene a lot of Quinn, not full of words, protective of the people he loves, doesn’t mind blending in, she missed him. That said she had no intention to project her former best friend onto Colby, just maybe her and Rhys had even more in common then she thought.

Selene explained quickly making a stroking motion with stoking motion with her hands “The short version, people think pop stars are hot, tasty lust all for me.”

Then she asked “Do you want the long version, or I could play you a song see if you have an ear for hidden meaning or I can move on, dealers choice.”

“Eh, short one’s fine.” They really don’t *care* all of that much. Just as long as Rhys… well. Safe is probably the best word.

“And Rhys?” they ask, voice a little cold, a little sharp. The air temperature dropped just a few degrees. “Just planning on using him too?”

Selene glared at Colby insulted at the accusation “I’m not using Rhys, if I wanted someone for sex I could have anyone, I like Rhys, not sure how or in what way or what it means or whatever, but I want Rhys in my life, I want to protect Rhys, I want to see Rhys embrace themself.”

Selene wanted to see Rhys grow past the shy little ball of lonely anxiety. She wanted to see him thriving and happy. It was possible that it was because she was projecting onto them or maybe it was that she wanted to date them? Selene really couldn’t explain it fully, maybe she just needed more time to explore those feelings.

“Right.”

So they wanted…. the same thing then? They couldn’t be more different. No, maybe that wasn’t what Colby wanted. Maybe they were doing all this protecting, watching over, to—

Atone. Repent. To say they were sorry in the only way they knew how. Not that they dare admit that to Selene of all people.

Colby ground their teeth, shaking the thoughts out of their head. It wasn’t quite as satisfying in death. They didn’t need to be thinking of the ways they fucked up right now.

“Be careful, then. They might surprise you.”

They always ended up surprising him. Always.

Selene smirked “I like surprises, their exciting, I wouldn’t be fucking Lavish if I didn’t enjoy someone I couldn’t predict.”

The girl looked confident, although it wasn’t totally true, she liked surprises she could handle, she liked when something came up and she looked smart handling it like it was nothing, she wasn’t ready for Rhys to surprise her in some negative way really, they seemed like such a nice person, what was there to be worried about?

Selene returned to her human form and offered “If you ever want someone to talk to or hang out with, you know where I live, probably where I go and how I spend my time, just say hi whenever but knock if you want me and I’m in my room.”

Colby rolled his eyes and scoffed. Like they’d ever want to go back into Selene’s room. If they thought the amount of pink in the sorority was bad…

“Yeah,” they muttered. “I’ll keep that in mind.”

They paused for a moment, seemingly deep in thought. Before they spoke again. “Be careful with him.”

But before Selene could reply, they’d already floated through the wall, out into the depths of the sorority house.

Selene took a second, she held the guitar and thought about Rhys and started to play a song. It was soft, sweet, it was a song she wrote before Queen Selene. It was about possibilities and who we might become.

Then she stood up, took a breath and muttered to herself "time for the show" before going back out ready to her best self.