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This is a preview for Pardon My Past, a chapter that will take place quite a bit later but I had in my head. It's not too spoilerish as the events were discussed in Chapter 4 about Xelloss and Rina's contract, this is Lina actually watching it happen with some help by somebody (Won't tell who because THAT'S a secret )


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"You know Rina, we could do this more often, trading information that is." Xelloss offered, his eyes open about halfway as he spoke. "In return I suppose I could exonerate you and your family, make sure the Mazoku do not bring them harm during this time of war. All we have to do is make a contract."

"A contract eh?" I watched Rina's eyebrow raise at that. "And just why would I want to make any pack with a lying sack of shit like you?"

"Because you're in love with me." Xelloss replied with a smirk. "Laila said that you admitted it to her, and Hawke is quite sure of it, add in those positive emotions I've felt from you…"

"That was BEFORE I knew you were Mazoku, bastard." Rina snarled. "She wanted to compare us later with her love triangle with Lei but we don't even come CLOSE."

"Now, now, Rina…" Xelloss smiled, leaning in closer to her. "I could make it as real as you want it to. For a human, you're quite out of the ordinary."

I saw her eye twitch. "Are you making fun of me?"

"That's actually a compliment for my kind." Xelloss chuckled, cupping her chin. "Granted I haven't been around humans for long Rina, but I'm learning fast."

"Can I ask just one question?" she suddenly brought up. "Now that I know you're a damn monster, just how old are you?"

"Well, we don't really keep track of birth but I was created only a few days before I met you." He replied with a shrug.

I watched Rina's eyes widen. "You're only a month old? Geez I feel like an old lady next to you… You're just a baby."

He seemed displeased with her choice of words. "We are born in adult form, Miss Rina. I'm not like a human child."

"Of course, no child could deal with my genius." Rina winked at him.

"So what do you say?" Xelloss asked, his eyes open all the way now. "A contract with me? Lord Zelas approves, I already spoke it over with her. Your family would be safe from our kind and I will do my best to protect them, and perhaps whatever little favors you what like help with your chores from time to time as you tend to do." He laughed.

Rina pulled away from his hand, twisting her mouth. "I'll need a hell of a lot more than that, Xelloss. Granted my sister and brother's lives mean everything to me, but if the Shinzoku find out what I'm doing, I'm as good as dead by them anyway. You gotta make it worth my while." She winked. Ok, that was so me. I could never give in for a simple price.

Xelloss smiled at that, seeming to have expected it. "Fine, perhaps some gold or pretty artifacts? I know how you have a thing for jewels…"

"That sounds good…" Rina tapped her finger on her lips. "But still not enough." She grinned, and I knew this grin – the kind I had when I chose a price so damn high I know the person is going to turn me flat down, like Zelgadis did with the statue years ago. "Since you already know about my 'human affection' towards you as you had called it…" she looked at him straight in the eye. "I'll take you up on that offer to make it as real as I want – You have to be my lover. I help you, you pay me back by pleasuring me whenever the hell I want, and give me whatever the hell I want. Basically you're gonna be treating me like gold in return for helping you." She suddenly burst out laughing. "HAHAHA like a Mazoku would take that! I beat the positive emotions would rip you to pieces, not to mention you guys are asexual…."

"Done." Xelloss said calmly, a wide smile across his face as he grabbed her hand and made it glow.

"W-what?" Rina's eyes were as wide as dinner plates.

Wait… I've seen this done before… No, I DID this to HIM before! … Or rather I will do it to him 1,000 years later, when I tricked him into selling the Demon's Blood Talismans. He kept refusing to sell them and I started out with a really low price, then he just said without meaning it that he'd sell them at some outrageous price… Which I had on me and was able to hold him to it. I can't believe he had used it on ME first!!!