Part 5 (1/2)
”Your sister?” Leah asks, instantly realizing why I'm actually here. ”You came here to get her not me.”
”I was sent here to get both of you,” I tell her. ”How I came to be here is irrelevant. We've been looking for you, Leah. If I hadn't followed Faison here, we would have never found you.”
”We?”
”You're the fourth archangel vessel I've found. We saw you in a vision earlier tonight. You were burning down a Watcher owned building. In the vision you heard sirens and ran down a street to get away from them. Honestly, I think you're the whole reason I was brought here.”
”Then G.o.d did send you?”
”Yes, he opened the Tear so only Mason and I could go through. He'll open the Tear again when it's time for us all to go home.”
”Then we need to find your sister,” Leah says with conviction. ”If He only meant for you to find me, the Tear would be opening. He must want you to find her too.”
”I hope you're right,” I say, wondering to myself how hard it will be to get Faison to agree to come home with me.
”Well, well, well, who do we have here?”
I look over Leah's shoulder and see Lucifer standing a short distance behind her. I know it's him because he looks just the same here as he does in my reality.
Instinctively, I draw my sword and place myself between Lucifer and Leah.
I hear the sound of running behind us and know Mason and Brand are heading to our location. Lucifer looks over my shoulder and smiles. Almost instantly the running stops and I hear cries of pain.
I point my sword towards Lucifer.
”Stop torturing them,” I tell him. I feel like a mother telling her son to stop using a magnifying gla.s.s to burn ants with the sun's rays just to see what will happen to them.
”Who are you?” Lucifer asks, completely ignoring what I said.
”No one you need to know,” I tell him. ”Now... let... them...go.”
”No, I don't believe I will. Not until you at least tell me your name.”
I feel like just stabbing Lucifer in the chest with my sword but have no idea if it will even faze him. Odds are it will just p.i.s.s him off.
”Jess.”
”Jess what?”
”Jessica Mich.e.l.le Riley. Need to know anything else?” I ask not hiding my growing irritation.
Lucifer smiles and I know that's not a good sign.
”Why aren't you cowering in my presence?” He asks, eyeing me up and down. ”Most human's do, unless I'm working my charms on them, though I mostly only do that to the females I want in my bed.”
I realize I'm having the same conversation with this Lucifer as I did with the one on my Earth once upon a time.
”Listen, I really don't feel like having this conversation twice in my life. I've already had it with the Lucifer on my Earth. It's getting kind of old.”
”So you are the agent Malcolm had in custody. He said he wasn't sure how you escaped.” Lucifer smiles. ”I'm not sure why he thought he could lie to me, but I think I made it crystal clear to him before I left his apartment this evening that it's never a good idea.”
”What did you do to him?”
”I don't believe that's any of your concern, Jessica. Though, I did get some interesting information from him before he blacked out from the pain. He mentioned a sister...”
I remain silent. Do I admit I have a sister or not? He seems to be baiting me. I decide to not say anything and see where he leads this conversation.
”Faison isn't it?” Lucifer says.
c.r.a.p. He does know about her.
”She doesn't seem to like it here much,” he comments dryly. ”I a.s.sume you followed her here to take her back home?”
I try to remain calm.
”What do you want?” I ask him.
”A simple conversation in private, nothing more.”
”And after this simple conversation?”
”I promise to let you go.”
”Do you keep your promises?”
”Sometimes,” Lucifer says, smiling grimly.
”Don't trust him,” Leah advises me.
”I never have,” I tell her, lowering my sword. ”Fine. We can talk if that's what you want. Then I want my sister back.”
”We'll see,” Lucifer says. ”It all depends on you, Jessica.”
”Stop torturing them first,” I say, chancing a glance in Mason and Brand's direction.
Both men are knelt on the sidewalk holding their heads in their hands. Almost instantly it appears their pain stops. Slowly, they get to their feet.
”Go to them,” I tell Leah.
She runs over to Brand and Mason without asking any questions. Yep, smart girl. Unlike me because I'm about to put a little faith into a Lucifer I don't even know.
Lucifer holds his hand out to me.
”I guess you want to go somewhere private for this talk of ours?” I ask.
Lucifer grins. ”You a.s.sume correctly.”
”Jess no!” I hear Mason scream, but it's too late.
I've already put my hand in Lucifer's.