Few weeks after confronting Varian and Lin, I went back to normal.
My hair and eyes changed back to normal, but I didn't want to go back to being Xander since those were the only two things that made me feel that way, I dyed my hair with some permanent black hair dye and wore contact lens.
( Don't worry, Xander's hair doesn't stay black forever).
I enjoyed my life as Alouis, going around with Varian and Lin on different quests, finding people, helping others and my new found love for weapons, guns, daggers, swords, whatnot I loved it all as long as it was a weapon, guns especially.
I also picked an interest in technological devices and wanted to set up my own little lab.
(Which he did set up in the future, that was where he made those his glasses).
Working to earn my own money thrilled me, since previously everything was handed to me on a platter of gold. Even though what we did wasn't all that just, but I tried not to have those kind of thoughts.
Xavier stopped sending people after me for reasons best known to him, while I placed an informant within the Cain family. I needed to figure out what happened to Linda, Max and the orphanage since that wasn't made public.
But I was sure they all died in that explosion since the Museum across the research facility suffered from the fire as well, I believed that the children didn't make it which tormented me for quite some while.
I also learnt hacking which turned out to be surprisingly easy. I found a way to retrieve everything I wanted from my previous phone and also the money my mom. We spent it going on a trip abroad for two weeks where I picked an interest in games, music and sometimes movies.
Everything was going alright. I hacked into the research facility database which was surprisingly still functioning even though the lab had blown up. I figured out everything I needed to know about the experiment, demon vessels, their plans on turning people into one and also the fact that dad's benefactors were still alive and well, making me think that they wanted to start another experiment.
I also figured out that I hadn't mutated into a demon just a vessel, but also that there was a demon living in me.
It spoke to me around the seventh month after waking up, it was the reason why I had even managed to survive in the first place.
I didn't know how it was possible since I didn't go through any rituals, but still I thought it was cool to have a demon living in me.
But I was dead wrong, it was anything but cool, it was the devil's incarnate filling my head with bad things driving me insane.
It was a demon who found pleasure in turning it's host into an evil person or just simply tormenting them.
It told me that it was present that day at the research facility and had entered into me without any kind of contract or fight, meaning we had just simply paired and couldn't be separated. This was one of the rarest cases of pairing.
And it wasn't as simple as a demon living in me, this one had control over my body just as I had control over some of it's powers.
It was a ' I can use you, you can use me' kinda contract which was horrible.
So horrible it almost killed Everling.
It was two week into December and we had gotten into an argument while Varian wasn't at home.
That day it took control of me and lashed at Everling strangling her while I couldn't move a muscle forced to watch her suffer by my hands.
Luckily Varian came in right on time and with the help of magic they were able to subjugate it. It was very intense.
Since we were bound together, subjugation was the only possible thing, they weren't able to get rid of it. They were able to subjugate it for five years meaning during that time it was merely just a presence and had no control over me.
Varian and Everling decided we should keep the whole magic and demon stuff a secret and that was exactly what we did. No one else not even the future members of ELX were told.
And thus, the flashback was over.