@Fraust
"Don't touch me!" Cas growled, jerking his head out of Ethal's grasp. "Believe me, I'm far too malnourished to actually taste good or whatever. Piss off, weirdo."
"Don't touch me!" Cas growled, jerking his head out of Ethal's grasp. "Believe me, I'm far too malnourished to actually taste good or whatever. Piss off, weirdo."
Ethal let her hand slip to get side.
"Not until Halm chooses. So? You keeping him or not?" She turned to Halm, looking at him expectantly.
"Cause if not you might as well hand him over. I'm getting tired of all this stalling."
"I'll let you know," Halm snapped. He didn't want Cas to die, but it was obvious he didn't want any of this. It was putting to much strain on him.
"What if I just leave and pretend this never happened, hmm? Not be owned by anyone? Because I'd really rather not." Cas crossed his arms and huffed indignantly.
Ethal scowled, grabbing Cas's neck and trying to pull him away from Halm.
"Because you have no say in this," she spat. "You either go with him or die with me." Halm's grip slipped, but he tried to pull Cas away from the danger.
Cas glared at Ethal and started kicking at her while he clutched his throat. "Let go of me!" He choked and coughed a bit.
Ethal want faxed by Cas's kicking, tossing him to the ground.
"Choose Halm, before I just take it!" She yelled at him. She put her foot on Cas's chest, grinding him into the dirt. Halm watched, shoving what away from Cas.
"That's enough!" He yelled.
"Then is he your's?!" She screamed back.
"If it means you stopping this, yes!" At that moment, there was a fish if light and the image of two horns started to appear on Cas's wrist.
Cas was winded and dazed from being thrown, but he was still aware of what was going on. "What the hell does that even mean?!" He struggled a bit more, trying to push Ethal away to no avail. "And I'm not an 'it', dammit!"
Ethal took her foot off of Cas, huffing.
"Whatever," she mumbled, uninterested now. "If you grow bored of it let me know." With that, she left. Halm knelt down next to Cas.
"How are you doing?" He asked, concerned. How would he explain this?
Cas eyed Halm warily and curled up into a ball, hugging his chest tightly. "Care to explain what the hell is going on?" He asked, his voice still weak from having the wind knocked out of him.
"Well," Halm said slowly. "There's a lot to go over. What is your name?" Halm hasn't seemed too interested in finding out Cas's name before, but now it seemed very important to him.
"… My name is Cas. Well, Casper technically, but I don't go by that…" Cas forced himself to sit up and winced, running his fingers through his hair.
"Well, Cas," Halm said softly.
"I don't think you're going to like what I'm about to explain, but… It was either this or dying…"
Cas eyed Halm warily, his hand pausing in his hair. "What? What is it?" He asked hesitantly.
"Well… Look at your wrist." He pointed to the symbol there, trying to stall.
"You see, um… Well… T-that means that… Uh…"
Cas turned his attention to the mark, where his expression changed to one of confusion. He rubbed at it a few times, but it didn't come off. "What is this??"
"It's… My symbol," Halm said softly. "I claimed you." Claiming; a god stealing a human away from this world to use however they please.
"You 'claimed' me?? What the hell does that even mean?? Am I your property now??" Cas seemed bewildered and more than a little frustrated with the situation.
"I- well, you see-" Halm stopped, taking a deep breath. "I'm sorry," her said worry, "but… Yes."
Cas groaned and buried his face in his hands. "Where are you gonna take me? Do I have to go anywhere or do I just continue my life on earth as your property?"
"You'll have to come with me," Halm said. "It's the only way others won't try to attack you."
"Attack me?? Where am I going? The spooky soul hole??" Cas sighed and drew his knees up to his chest to bury his face in.
Halm hesitated, but he put this hand lightly on Cas's shoulder.
"It's not that scary," he said quietly. "I truly am sorry about this."
Cas flinched a bit when Halm touched him without warning. "Why do you guys want me, anyways? Like I said earlier, I don't really have any special skills or redeeming qualities or anything…"
Halm took his hand away when Cas flinched.
"Ethal didn't care. She does that to anyone she comes across alone. And I… I didn't want to see you die. Not like that. You would have been destroyed."
Cas sighed. "Probably wouldn't even taste that good… I'm poor as hell, so it's not like I'm eating much. I'm skin and bones at this point and I've probably got all sorts of deficiencies in my blood that would make it taste bad."
Halm at back on his knees, watching Cas carefully.
"Even so," he said softly. What Cas said concerned him. He would have to help with that. The sun was beginning to lower, which meant it was almost time to leave.
"Is there anything you need to grab before we leave?" He said softly.
"Um… if I'm moving permanently, I'll probably need clothes and stuff… and Nix." Cas looked up to see the black cat creeping back over to him, though he made a wide arc around Halm.
Halm nodded softly, watching the cat make it's way around him to Cas.
"Where is your home?" He asked softly.
Cas picked up the cat when it got to him and held him close. "Um… not too far. It's just a cheap apartment near here."
Halm nodded.
"Then we'd best be going there." He loved up again. "It won't be safe for you here after nightfall." He stood, offering his hand to help Cas up.
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