[ WP ] A demon who is really bad at his job keeps accidentally making the person he is possessing 's life better

“ Susanna! ” 
 
 The apartment door knocked hard three times. 
 
 “ Susanna! ” 
 
 Calgurios, arch-demon of the sludge gate watchers straightened his new dress and walked from the kitchen to the hallway. 
 
 The door knocked again. “ Susanna! Open up! ” 
 
 Calgurios turned the lock and pushed down the handle. The door snapped inward making the demon step back. 
 
 “ Wow, ” the man gasped. 
 
 Calgurios studied the face of the man standing in front of him. He felt something stir in Susanna ’ s suppressed psyche but he refused to let her come up from the mind-water she was submerged in. 
 
 “ You ’ ve…changed. ” 
 
 Calgurios put his hand on the door and started to close it. The man shoved past and forced his way into the apartment. 
 
 “ You can ’ t just close the door on me Susanna! ” He shouted. “ God dammit, why haven ’ t you called? Four months you ’ ve been missing. ” 
 
 Calgurios attempted to understand the situation. He couldn ’ t though and his instinct urged him to kill. The desire was like a pulse that swelled and grew the longer you inhabited a body. When provoked the urge felt like a tidal wave pushing and pulling at his desire to squeeze life from its tenuous grip on the human body. 
 
 “ Are you listening to me? ” The man shouted. “ Say something god dammit! ” 
 
 Calgurios was fond of this possession. Of course he knew nothing of Susanna for she was drowning in her own mind. What he liked was this penthouse apartment. 
 
 It looked out over the Hudson River. In the mornings he would drag the comfortable armchair across to the large window and watch the little boats pass here and there. What made it even better was a nice cup of English tea. The rest of his day he spent exercising. Calgurios replaced his desire to kill with the glorious chemical reaction the body produced when pushed to its physical limit. And he pushed it hard. 
 
 A hand gripped his jaw. “ How dare you ignore me you stupid bitch. ” 
 
 Calgurios smiled. 
 
 “ What the fuck is going on? ” The man yelled, throwing Calgurios back against a wall. The man lifted the hand crafted ceramic mug Calgurios had ordered from Germany and threw it across the living room. The cup smashed into pieces against the apartment window. The window cracked. 
 
 “ Susanna! Susanna! ” A call came from outside the apartment. “ Are you alright? ” 
 
 Calgurios looked to the door and a portly older woman came rushing in. 
 
 “ Oh my god ” the woman exclaimed. “ Get up Susanna, come with me. ” 
 
 Calgurios stood up, without the aid of the lady. 
 
 The man ran to the kitchen and lifted a large knife. 
 
 The killing desire in Calgurios was sloshing against the sides of the mental cup he contained it in. He was struggling to stay under control. 
 
 That ’ s when Susanna came up for air. 
 
 “ Mum! ” Susanna embraced her mother. 
 
 “ We need to run Susanna, come on! ” 
 
 “ You ’ re going nowhere. ” Richard replied, cutting them off and closing the apartment door. He held the knife low. 
 
 Calgurios watched from the back of Susanna ’ s mind. He consumed the piercing fear she now felt. It tasted sweet. 
 
 “ Tell me why and I ’ ll make it quick. ” 
 
 Susanna backed away from Richard, huddled tight to her mother. “ Mum, what ’ s happening? ” She sobbed. “ How long was I asleep? ” 
 
 Richard snapped at them. “ What are you talking about you dumb bitch? You left the house in the middle of the night four months ago! Who ’ ve you been fucking? Is he here? ” 
 
 Susanna ’ s stomach lurched. She felt like she ’ d awoken from a long, drowning nightmare. “ Richard, please. I don ’ t know what ’ s happening. ” 
 
 “ Liar! ” The knife was getting closer. 
 
 Mother and daughter kept backing away from Richard and were cornered in the small kitchen. Susanna ’ s mother lifted a rolling pin from the worktop. 
 
 “ Why did you leave me Susanna? ” Richard demanded. He spoke those words with a coldness that reminded Susanna of all the beatings he gave her over the years. 
 
 Calgurios probed Susanna ’ s mind. She had met Richard in high school and they had been lovers since the age of seventeen. The demon scanned her memories and saw the love turn to hate over time, as the man Richard gave in to a dark side and took it out on his wife with repeated and increasing violence. 
 
 Susanna ’ s mother attacked Richard with the rolling pin. Richard stopped her attack and yanked the pin out of her hand. He punched Susanna ’ s mother in the face. 
 
 “ No! ” Susanna screamed. 
 Richard kept punching Susanna ’ s mother until she was unconscious on the kitchen floor. 
 
 “ Stop it! ” Susanna pleaded. “ I ’ ll do whatever you want! Please stop! ” The tears were flowing down Susanna ’ s cheeks now. 
 
 Richard stood up, pointing the knife at Susanna. “ Take off your dress. ” 
 
 Susanna nodded feebly and began to undress. She fumbled for the zip at the back, only just realising that this was not her dress. 
 
 “ Hurry up! ” Richard snapped. 
 
 Susanna unzipped the dress and it dropped to the floor. She stood in her underwear, breasts exposed. 
 
 “ Wow, you ’ ve really changed. ” Richard stared at her breasts. “ You ’ ve lost thirty pounds at least. ” 
 
 Susanna folded her arms underneath her chest. She had learned to use sex to control Richard ’ s temper over the twelve years they were together. 
 
 “ Richard, just put the knife down and we can talk. ” 
 
 “ Pants off too, ” he used the knife to point at her crotch. 
 
 Susanna obliged, lowering her pants to the ground and stepping out of them as seductively as she could given the circumstances. 
 
 “ Jesus you are tasty. If you ’ d have told me you were taking a break to get hot I would have been happy enough to let you go dear. ” 
 
 “ Richard put the knife down and let ’ s talk. Let me help Mum. ” 
 
 Calgurios was getting bored. He drowned Susanna once more. 
 
 “ Bend over your mother, ” Richard commanded, lowering the zip on his pants. “ I ’ m gon na teach you both a lesson. ” 
 
 Calgurios looked Richard in the eye. The demon felt no empathy for Susanna and her hardship, but the exchange in the kitchen had fuelled his desire to kill to the point it now had to be satisfied. He especially loved to kill those who confided in their own power, limited as it may be. 
 
 Richard was one of those humans. Calgurios had known men like Richard from even his earliest possessions in Babylon. Always they exhibited the same behaviour. They entered human relations only with those who they could dominate in the future, whether knowingly or not. But when Richards are faced with a power greater than their own, they cower like mice, more afraid even than the people they inflicted fear on in the first instance. 
 
 “ Bend over bitch. ” 
 
 Calgurios took a step toward Richard. Richard held out the knife. 
 
 Calgurios looked deep into Richard ’ s eyes as he placed his small female hand on Richard ’ s knife hand. 
 
 The grip tightened. Richard ’ s eyes flickered. Did he sense something amiss? 
 
 Calgurios slowly pulled the knife toward his stomach. 
 
 “ What are you doing? ” Richard exclaimed. 
 
 The knife point slid into belly flesh and blood flowed down into Susanna ’ s pubic hair. Calgurios kept his eyes locked to Richard ’ s. The man was trying to pull the knife away now but the demon ’ s grip was unshakeable. 
 
 Calgurios slid the full length of the blade into his stomach. Blood gushed now. He reached into Richard ’ s mind and used the man ’ s own fears to manufacture a voice that would terrify him. 
 
 Calgurios used his other hand to rub the blood into his pubic hair. He smeared this blood on his face. 
 
 “ You want this? ” He spoke in Richard ’ s mind. 
 
 Richard panicked. Calgurios felt proud about the fear in the man ’ s eyes. 
 
 “ I will enjoy torturing you, slowly, ” Calgurios whispered to Richard. 
 
 As he slid out of Susanna ’ s bleeding body he knew it was the end of another era. After he had his fun with Richard he ’ d be back to hell for another four cycles of duty. 
 
 “ Ah well, ” he thought. “ Better make the last one good. ” 
 
 Calgurios entered Richard and sent his feeble mind to a darkened room. 
 
 Richard couldn ’ t see the hungry giant spider lurking in the corner. 
 
 Calgurios smiled.
