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As You Were (II.5)
Captain Jack Sparrow: Rogue Demon Hunter



Dying shrieks filled the air as one by one, they stepped back to watch the thing breathe its last.

“So,” said Jack, his chest heaving and his bite-wound aching sharply. “That was a demon.”

Skin tinted slightly grayish, Aiden mopped his brow with a handkerchief and nodded. Claire canted her head to the side as she watched the demon’s final throes.

“Bigger than we thought,” she remarked.

“At least it’s raining,” said Jack as he followed her out of the tiny hovel in which Nuts and his demon had made their nest. “Can get this filth off easy enough.” He plucked distastefully at his shirt, which was sprayed with dark green blood. Finding his sword likewise sullied, he wiped it as best he could and imagined what a swoon Will would go into at seeing his blade like this. The wet, cool air outside was a welcome relief after the scent of old blood and unwashed man, not to mention the stink the demon had let off when they pierced its innards.

He realized that Claire had stopped to stare up at the sky, blinking against the raindrops lashing into her eyes.

Aiden put a hand on her elbow. “Claire?”

“It’s nothing,” she said quietly, still peering at the gloom. “For a moment I thought I felt...” She shook her head, braid whipping damply over her shoulder. “But it’s just the storm.”