“What’s that like? Having Satan for a brother?” She laughed, only for it to catch in her throat and make her cough. After that, she listened to the best of her ability, which wasn’t much considering there was a piercing whistle in her ears and vision that was tragically out of focus. She kept her hands flat on the counter in an attempt to grab onto some balance. “Well,” she breathed out, smiling a little. “I appreciate the honesty.” And she did, Aria always prefered blunt people to those who danced around how they really felt. She was under no illusion this woman wanted to help her, she was only trying to pay up her debt to William. “Like I said, his sister wants the cure, I don’t. If you want to pay up then you should go to her and then go on your way–” she spoke, but felt absent with her own words as her body twisted in the direction of a voice and figure in the doorway. “Lottie?” Aria frowned, growling and gripping her head, some part of her knew it wasn’t real but the distress her mind and body were in couldn’t help but cave and fall under the spell of the hallucination. “Riri, you must help me.” The sister pleaded, pulling Aria from her stool. “Anything, what do you need?” Wavering steps, trying to reach the petite sister that wasn’t even there. “Him.” Her vision of Lottie pointed towards Evie, only when Aria looked towards her, she didn’t see the woman, she saw her ex, stood tall and proud with a dagger in his grasp. “He killed me once, Riri, don’t let him do it again.” Lottie was pleading and when Aria started to stumble and lose her breath, it was the sight of her sisters’ tears and pull on her arm that made her feel so fiercely protective, she scooted the younger Hale behind her and stared at her ex with veiny eyes and fangs on full display. Naturally, reality had completely eluded her to the point where she couldn’t hear or see anything but him and her sister, her baby sister who she needed to protect. In a flash, she reached him(evie) swinging a fist at his jaw, a kick to his gut and finally, fangs sinking deep into his(her) neck. Aria didn’t stop till he was drained and once he was, she dropped the body and looked up to see her sister, only to find an empty doorway. “Lottie?” She whispered, stepping forward just to trip over Evie’s body. Aria twisted around, seeing Evie as herself and not her ex, her jaw swung open, the reality of what she’d just done crashed back and she looked at her arm that was already knitting together and healing. “Oh.. fuck.” She murmured, eyes blinking, losing focus until the cure that was now in her blood rendered her unconscious.
“He wasn’t… wrong to fall. Our father wasn’t as right as he could have been. That’s why I escaped Heaven to be a human which.. didn’t entirely work out for me.” She referenced herself becoming the cure and being eternal. Possibly a fate worse than death. “That’s his and her decision to make, not mine.” She told the other. Will hadn’t asked her to come in here to try and make her take the cure, she’d be very honest about that but he hadn’t mentioned anything about his sister and she wasn’t going to force his sister to take the cure either. It wasn’t her decision to make. When she said a different name, she narrowed her eyes for a second before clicking that it was a hallucination. However, the second her eyes turned back to Evie, Evie knew what was going to happen. She didn’t try to fight her off when she came at her. It was easier to just let it happen because in the end, it was almost bound to happen anyway. She’d just be wasting energy by trying to fight it. Shortly after, everything went black and now she began her path to find Death to return back to the land of the living.