The Great Escape

The Lycan twitched when she set a bowl in front of him.

Really?

He wasn't going to let her keep doing this. Or, rather, he wasn't going to react like a pet. He had enough dignity to act like a human, even when met with this ridiculous notion that he was her pet.

Coilean picked up the bowl, pressed his lips to the rim and tipped it slightly, drinking down the water.

Bathroom water wasn't as pleasant as the filtered water in the kitchen but it was better than nothing. It had been days since he last drank anything.

Belial really didn't care how he ate from the bowls at the moment, regardless he was eating and drinking from them, so she was getting her way.

A puppy that wouldn't die on her in a few measly years, owning a pet when you could live for ever was simply wrapped in heartache, creatures like that didn't last long.

However if she took care of him, Coilean could live for as long as she did, a pet that wouldn't die.

"Do you need anything else?"

She asked, her head tilting slightly as she looked down at him.

"The use of your bathroom would be nice," he replied, setting the half empty bowl down.

He stank of urine and he really wanted a shower.

He wanted a nice hot shower, to use a toilet, to wash his face and have a nice shave, brush his teeth.

Everything that went along with being able to use a bathroom.

He really hadn't thought his comfort through when he had gone to China. But right now he was in the mansion. He could quite happily do what he needed here. He just hoped that Belial would let him.

"Hmm."

She thought that request over for a moment, that would require letting him out, not something she fancied doing, not after the effort of catching him.

"I'll let you because you smell foul, but if you try to escape I am going to double the time you are going to spend in this cage, understood?"

She asked, looking down at him.
He was going to go back in the cage no matter what he did, his actions simply decided for how long.

He grit his teeth.

"Fine."

His need for a shower far outweighed his need to escape. Right now he would serve his sentence and then go about his life as normal when he was let out of the damned cage.

He could survive sitting around in a cage for the next couple days.

He would get food and water if he behave. She'd let him go to the bathroom for a shower if he asked nicely.

A couple days like that would be difficult to get through but he would get through them.

Good boy.

She praised mentally as she fished the key out of her pocket and unlocked the cage, leading him to the bathroom.

"Everything you'll need is in there already."

Belial would allow him to use all the things that she used while in her male form, plus a few things she had put in there for Zakhar to use, like a razor and shaving gel.

Her hair didn't grow without her physically choosing for it to, as such she had no need for such things, but Zakhar had stayed over a lot during mating season and he had needed them.

"...Thank you."

As soon as she had moved away, he shut and locked the bathroom door.

Now he could get down to business and give himself a proper wash down; do everything that he needed to do.

First thing first was a nice hot...bath. He felt like having a bath rather than a shower. A nice long hot bath.

He was in the bathroom for well over an hour. He took his time making sure he was completely happy with himself. Clean-shaven. Nice hot bath to clean away all the grime. Knot free hair.

He had even taken the time to jerk off while he was in the bath.

And now he was done and he couldn't stall any longer.

He unlocked the door and stepped out into the bedroom with a towel wrapped around his waist.

"You look much nicer all cleaned up."

She murmured softly, the Demon had perched herself on her bed, her large purple eyes peeking up at him over the top of her book.

He had taken a long time in the bathroom, but there were no windows in there, so she didn't worry about him escaping, plus she could hear him.

The wait had been worth it, he was no longer covered in urine, he was clean, the mess of the last few days washed away.

When he looked like this she remembered why she went through all this effort to capture him, he was lovely to look at.

"Mhmm," he hummed in disinterest.

He padded forwards, leaning against the cage as he pulled his hair over one shoulder, fingers running through it.

"Thanks for letting me use the bathroom."

He felt so much better now he was clean.

His fingers began threading through his hair, braiding it loosely as he began humming idly to himself.

Now he was done he was just waiting for Belial to lock him back into the cage for the next however long until he was let out again.

The Demon put down her book and looked up at him, he was already leaning back on the cage, waiting like a good boy to be put back inside.

She rose to her feet, in time she wouldn't need the cage, but for now, it was necessary so that he didn't get any thoughts of escape.

Walking over to him she held the door open and waited for him to hop inside, shutting and locking to door after he had gone inside.

The Demon lay back on her bed, flicking on the television, she had seen this done before, leaving a television on so a dog doesn't get lonely when left at home.

Perhaps it would keep Coilean entertained and behaving.

He rolled his eyes when she opened the cage for him and waited.

With a soft sigh, he knelt and moved to sit inside it again, pressing his back against the back of the cage, resting an arm on one raised knee.

Let the torture begin.

He was glad that she had let him keep the towel. He had something to cover himself, at least.

His eyes flickered up to the TV when she turned it on.

That would most likely be his only source of entertainment for the rest of his time here. He hoped that there would be something decent on.

Belial lay back down on her bed, pretending to read her book.

She had done a lot of moving around today, and teleporting was not the easiest of tasks on a good day, let alone a day that she should still be resting.

Two days was not enough for such exhaustion, and that night had been restless, Coilean's chanting had kept her awake and even after he stopped her head had held the dull ache for hours afterwards.

However she would not reveal her still tired state to him, he neither needed to know, and she highly doubted he would care, it would simply be something to use against her later.

His head lolled back, hitting the back of the cage with a dull thud.

Whatever was showing on TV was absolute shite. He was bored already. How long did he have left of this before he could crawl back to Ciro and spend some time with the human.

Recently he had been wanting to stick around Ciro a lot. He was the only thing he had that wasn't part of the whole supernatural deal that he wanted to escape.

His fingers began tapping against his knee idly.

Bored.

He was very, very bored.

Belial didn't hear the dull thud, nor did she pay attention to the tapping on his knee, the Demon had fallen asleep rather quickly.

Now that she didn't have to worry about Coilean escaping or throwing something unsavory at her, the dog wasn't smart, but neither was he suicidal, he had made it through one night, he should be able to handle a few more without too much bother.

After all, she was being kind enough to let him eat, drink and use the bathroom, she was still being lenient, but she wanted to milk his obedience for as long as possible.

He sat still playing obedient for well over an hour before he finally got too bored to even do that.

He needed something interesting to do.

Coilean pursed his lips, fingers now tapping against the metal bars of the cage.

He tried imitating some well known tunes through tapping the bars.

But after four songs he got bored again. What could he do now? Bug Belial maybe? It'd prove amusing for a while, he guessed.

"Oi, Belial," he called out to the sleeping Demon.

Belial roused from her dozing rather easily, her eyes fluttering open as she rolled over to look at the man.

"What?"

She asked simply, she was tired, easily irritable and knowing Coilean he was all too eager to irritate her even if it can as a personal loss to him.

After all that what had ended him up in the cage in the first place, he had annoyed her and his situation got progressively worse from there.

"I'm bored, entertain me."

Right now even pissing off Belial, no matter what happened because of it, would be more interesting than what he had been doing.

He had tried to dose off like she had but he hadn't been able to.

So his last ditch effort to find himself something interesting to do laid with Belial and how well she wanted to co-operate with him.

He really hoped she did something to entertain him.

"I don't think you realize that you are being punished for trying to kill me.
You have no right to make such demands, why should I entertain you when you haven't shown me such kindness?"

She muttered as she rubbed her eyes, yawning gently.

The Lycan had been nothing but trouble and at no point as he shown even an ounce of kindness, regardless of how kind she acted towards him.

No, she would not be his entertainment.

Coilean gave a heavy sigh that turned into a low hiss.

Great. Belial wasn't going to be co-operative. So what was he going to do now?

God, he wished he had elemental control again. He could probably do some interesting things with that to keep him amused. But with his Lycanthropy, he had lost that ability.

He began bashing his head back against the bars of the cage again; a loud thump sounding with each movement.

"Booooooooooored."

The Demon's brows furrowed as he pounded his head back against the bars, the Lycan was going to be as annoying as possible.

Belial rose to her feet and wondered over to his cage, reaching through the bars she gripped onto a lock of his hair and pulled him forward.

A smile spread across her lips, such and annoying little pup.

Gently she pulled him forward and kissed him, perhaps that would shut him up, or at least give him something to complain about instead of repeating the same word over and over.

Coilean was going to be as annoying as he possibly could until he got the attention he wanted.

And right now he wasn't getting that attention.

He was bored and he had nothing to do so he wanted Belial to give him something to do. Anything.

He struggled against her a little when she gripped his hair and pulled him forwards, glaring at her a little. He didn't want her particularly. She could have tossed a book at him or something.

The Lycan didn't return the kiss. He just sat staring at her silently for a few moments.

Did she really think that a kiss would stop him from being bored?

Was he going to sit silently and jerk off to the thought of her lips against his own now? Not a chance.

She chuckled softly and pulled away from him, well at least she got something in return for being woken up.

"You know, you can earn the right to be let out of the cage, I'd gladly let you roam around my room freely but at the moment I don't trust you enough not to run away."

Her ultimate goal was to have him free in the room, an obediant little pup for her to care for.

He'd sleep at the foot of her bed, be there to greet her when she returns home.

Perhaps she would even take him for walks, an if he behaved himself she would let him go outside to play instead of keeping him cooped up inside while she was away for long periods of time.

"Uh-huh," he hummed softly.

"What do I have to do to earn the right to be let out of the cage?"

Probably something that was completely impossible for him. Something he refused to do for her. He was almost certain of it now he stopped to think.

But was there much point? He was only being allowed to walk around her room. He'd have free access of her bathroom and the bookcase but that was about it. How many of those books were in a language he knew?

He'd be on his best behaviour, get let out, go to the bookcase and find out his good behaviour was all for naught because he couldn't read any of the books that he wanted to read to keep himself amused.

Was it even worth the effort?

"Just behave yourself, no more throwing fits like last night, I refuse to clean up your messes again, next time you'll be licking it off the floor.

If you can not act civilly towards me then I will not be letting you out."

She wanted him to be an obedient little pup, but that wouldn't be a possibility until he could stand being around her.

The more he hated her, the less chance there was of her getting what she wanted.

She had to win the Lycan over, not an easy task since he was hellbent of resenting her existence.

He wrinkled his nose in disgust.

"If you let me use the bathroom, I won't need to use the floor like a bad dog." He snorted the last two words, arching a brow up at her.

She wanted to treat him like a dog? He could play along. No in a way that she wanted him to play along, but he'd play along nonetheless.

He crossed his arms over his bare chest, trying to be mindful of the patch of healing skin. He still had a long way to go before that healed up properly. He needed to stop knocking it and rubbing against it if he had any chance of healing properly.