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doing it for you.  I wanna save myself!”
                  “That’s fine.  As long as we stop some demons along the way, I’m happy.”  And that was that.  He turned around and started walking toward the direction of his car.
                  This will never work.  All he cares about is destroying demons.  He’ll betray you if he has to.  Your life means nothing to him.  Our partnership was most uneasy.  What if I couldn’t bring myself to be the great hunter he needed me to be?  Would he ditch me and let me fend for myself?  Then what if I somehow lost my soul?  Would he execute me without trying to find some way to make me normal again? 
                  He’s not interested in saving you.  He has a vendetta.  He’ll end up killing you, Michelle.  It’s best to get him out of your hair now.   I should have never trusted Julian.  If I didn’t need him to help me take my body back, I wouldn’t have even been talking to him.
                  You don’t need him.  He doesn’t even know how to get rid of the demon.  He still has his.  You don’t even know if you can truly trust him.  What was I hanging around Julian for?  I didn’t want to be a warrior.  I just wanted to have my body to myself!  “You know, you really didn’t give me a lot of help.”
                  “I gave you quite enough.  Let’s see how many of my rules you can actually follow.  If you can manage, the results will be evident.”
                  “And what if I fail?  Will you hunt me too?”
                  He stopped walking and turned around, eyeing me suspiciously.  “Let’s not think about things like that.”
                  “But that’s what you want, right?  You want me to kill every human who has been completely possessed?”
                  “Demons living in shells are hardly human.  Don’t even worry about that right now.  You won’t be able to do any hunting until you can decipher yourself from the demon.”  He turned his back on me and began walking toward his car again.
                  He’s going to kill you, Michelle.  It’s inevitable.  The only way to save you is to kill him now.  My eyes magically flew down to the left of me and I saw an abandoned tire iron conveniently placed for my use.  It was terrible to think of killing Julian, but it made so much sense.
                  But I wasn’t a killer.  Why was it acceptable to kill Julian?  I couldn’t do something like that!  Sure you can.  It’s as easy as picking up that tire iron.
                  Before I knew it, it was in my hand.  It was freezing and coated in mud.  I kept breathing in and out slowly, heavy, but quietly.  The more I looked at it, the more it made sense.  I didn’t think about it, but it just started to feel right.  I wasn’t angry at him anymore.  It was just something that needed to be done.
                  I gripped the tire iron and raised it up and began to slam it down toward his head as fast and hard as I could without making a sound. It amazed me that he turned around so quickly and caught the tire iron in his hand.  I was overcome with an incredible fury and I tried to pull it away so I could try to kill him again, but he pulled me closer until I was trapped inside of his eyes.
                  “You had best think twice before you try killing me.”  What kind of man was he?  Where did he come from?  How could a man so sure of himself commit suicide?  He completely destroyed all of my will and focused me in on his own.  I was stripped away from the demonic thoughts and left abandoned in the flame of his convicting eyes.
                  “I’m sorry.”  I let go of the tire iron and began wiping the mud on my pants.  “I am so sorry!  I can’t believe I