Please Lucas… a voice echoed in my head
My eyes slowly opened to find everything a blur. I looked around and waited for my eyes to adjust. When they did I found that I was in the infirmary….how did I get in here? What happened?
“Oh good you’re awake.” A nurse said as she walked over towards me
Her skin was pale and her dark black hair was in a tight bun. She wore red lipstick and dark makeup. It was kind of funny because she looked like a Goth dressed up as a nurse. You don’t see that every day.
“What happened?” I asked the nurse as I sat up
“No one knows really,” she replied “the archangel Michael and his pure blood just showed up out of nowhere with you on the ground…you can’t remember anything?”
I tried to think back to what happened before and it came back very quickly. I was outside of the Society boarders. Lucifer was trying to get me agree to his deal again, except this time he wouldn’t go away until I did. Then…I saw somebody, which must had been Eve and everything after that was a blur. I couldn’t tell the nurse that though. I would be signing my death warrant if I did.
“Uh…no, it’s all a blur.” I half lied
The nurse watched me with sympathy but then smiled “Well what’s important is that you’re ok.”
“Uh…yah.”
“I’m nurse Carmen by the way.” She smiled
“Yah aren’t you the one who takes care of my sister from time to time?”
“Yes….” She smiled sadly “A poor shame to see what that girl is going through…at such a young age to.”
I was silent for a few moments….I could save her…all I had to do was agree to Lucifer’s deal and set him free. Just shed a little of my blood to save a life. She’d hate me but I’d rather have her hate me and be alive then love me and be dead. All I had to do was get out of here, find Lucifer, shed some blood, set him free, and the he would heal my sister. It sounded easy but I knew it would be a pain in the ass. I don’t know what to do! I’m running out of options very quickly.
The doors barged open and two men walked in. One of them being Zoe’s dad Richard.
“Richard,” I smirked “Come to give me flowers or something?”
He just glared at me of course “Something like that.”
“I thought I told everyone to leave him alone until tomorrow?” Carmen asked getting irritated
“We don’t have until tomorrow,” the other guard replied “now if you would excuse us he’ll be coming with us.”
“What for?” I asked getting off the bed
Richard smiled “For questioning of course.”
“And you can question him tomorrow like I told the others,” Carmen snapped “Now get out of here and get back to your own business.”
“He’s dangerous Carmen,” the other guard said calmly “A threat to us all.”
I laughed “Yah and how so?”
“By being Lucifer’s pure blood of course.”
My insides froze. They know. I tried to hide my surprise and shock. How did they find out?
“Why do you need him exactly?” Carmen growled
“For questioning of course. He’s Lucifer’s pure blood.” Richard said as he pushed her to the side
She fell on the ground and I balled up my fist. When he came to grab me I punched that asshole in the face and dodged to the side. I tried to run out of the room but the other guard grabbed me and pushed me down to the floor where he actually handcuffed me. He pulled me up and pushed me forward.
“Now you can go.” He growled as we walked out the doors and into the hall
When the doors opened a crowd of people stood there watching us. They all either wore faces of fear or disgust.
“Luke!” I heard a voice yell and turned to find it was Zoe
“Zoe get back!” her father snapped at her “He’s dangerous.”
“No he isn’t!” she yelled back at him
“I’m as much of a threat as you are to her.” I muttered and Richard hit me in the back of the head
Some of the people chuckled at this and my temper flared.
“Dad…he’s my friend.” I heard Zoe say to her father
“He’s your enemy. A danger to your people. A traitor.”
“You speak as if he is Lucifer’s pure blood,” she replied “You don’t have enough proof.”
“I don’t need proof to know what he is.” He replied
Now….let me ask this again. Are you sure you don’t want help? You ‘re in pretty deep right now. Lucifer’s voice said in my head
And again I have to reply no I snapped at him
He just laughed.
When we passed the crowd Zoe followed us down to the hall and to the throne room. We stopped and Richard came forward in front of me and made me look at his ugly face.
“Why don’t you just admit it now?” he asked “So then we don’t waste all this time with questioning hmm? Just get this over with and you can die quickly.”
“Nah that’d be too easy now would it?” I smirked “Then you can always hit Zoe more huh?”
He hit me in the stomach, I coughed but then laughed.
“That the best you got old man?” I replied as I stood up
Before he could reply the doors opened and he pushed me into the throne room. I looked at all the people who were there. All three archangels stood there with their pure bloods. My eyes locked with Eve’s for a second until I was pushed down into a chair that appeared in the middle of the room.
“I thought Angels rested on Sundays?” I questioned
“This was an exception.” Michael replied as the one other guard un cuffed me.
“Was that really necessary?” The queen asked as she sat in her throne as she noticed the handcuffs
“He wasn’t coming willingly.”
“I wasn’t going to come at all.” I muttered
“I suppose you know why you’re here Mr. Reed?”
“No,” I said sarcastically leaning forward “Would you like to fill me in?”
“Do not talk to the queen like that!” one of her guards snapped at me
“Or what? You going to kill me? I’m already facing that sentence if you guys can prove this shit.”
“Mr. Reed.” Ann snapped “One will not talk in here like that.”
“Yah, yah, now can we get to the questioning already? I have places to go and people to see.”
“Like Lucifer?” Raphael questioned
“Maybe,” I replied “and maybe not. I wouldn’t tell you either way.”
I sighed as I leaned back. They weren’t going to get anything out of me like this. They probably knew that as well. They couldn’t torture me though….not yet at least.
“Ok I see where this is going,” Michael replied “What were you doing out of Society boundaries then?”
“That’s easy, I needed to get away from everybody.”
“To talk to him?” he questioned
“No, I just needed a break from everyone talking about those two,” I sighed and gestured to Eve and Clement “You know how annoying it gets to listen about someone as though they’re the fricken whole world?”
“Do you know about the other demons?” I looked over to see Malcolm
“Why would I know about that know?”
He shrugged “Maybe he told you about them.”
“Yah maybe he would have if I was his pure blood.”
I could tell that they knew this wasn’t going to be easy. I was a pretty good liar when I needed to be. I sat there as they tried to figure up more questions.
“How much sleep have you been getting?” Raphael asked
“Uh….I don’t really know to be sure. I’ve been worried about my sister lately so I haven’t been able to sleep much.”
“What’s wrong with Gemma?” Eve asked looking at me
I looked over at her but looked away. I didn’t want to answer.
“Would you like to answer that Lucas?” Michael asked
I sighed and looked over at Eve and then at Zoe. I never told her about this either. Only the nurses and I knew about her sickness.
“If you have to know my sister has Leukemia,” I replied looked straight at Eve “Happy now?”
They bombarded me with question after question. I had also came up with a lie after lie though to counteract them.
“What color of eyes do you have Lucas?” Gabriel asked out of nowhere
That was the first question that caught me by surprise. “Uh…hazel…what does that have to do with anything?”
“You see our brother Lucifer…” the lights flickered again for the hundredth time this hour “He has a very distinct color of eyes. A color that Eve described you having earlier. How can you explain this?”
“Possession?” I asked “That doesn’t exactly mean that I’m his pure blood though.”
“No it doesn’t,” Gabriel said “But another thing is that Lucifer doesn’t have enough power to do so at this time….unless he has a bond.”
Damn. I didn’t know how to reply to that. “I don’t know, maybe he’s getting stronger since there might be someone else? Maybe he already half free by now and you’re wasting time by trying to prove that he’s my angel, when you should be at his base protecting it from these so called mysterious demons.”
Everyone sighed knowing I actually had a point in that ramble of mine. The queen leaned on her elbow and stared at me. Raphael’s pure blood seemed to be dosing off but trying not to show it. Zoe stood a few feet behind me but I was guess she was probably thinking the same thing like everyone in this room; this was all a waste of time.
“Luke why don’t you just tell the truth?” Zoe asked when she came forward and stood in front of me
I looked at her “You think I’m lying?”
“It would be a good reason to since you’ll be killed if they can prove all this.”
“Do you think I’m Lucifer’s pure blood?” I asked standing up but her father pushed me down. Seeing how she was silent hurt me. Even though I was lying I would expect my one friend to be on my side on this.
“I can’t believe this,” I said “Them I can expect…but not you.”
“We have one last test.” Michael said as everyone started to give up
“What now?” I sighed irritatingly I was already cramping up from sitting so damn long
He looked over at Evelynn and she looked at him “I’m not ready though.” She replied
He smiled at her “Eve you showed me that you were long ago by those dreams. We’ll all leave to give you to some privacy.”
“What?” she asked in alarm
“Oh come on I don’t bite.” I replied
Michael glared at me and whispered something to her that I couldn’t hear. I watched as they all laft but Malcolm and the queen’s son Clement stayed for a moment. Clement left first but Malcolm came towards her.
“You want me to stay?” He asked as he grabbed her shoulders
“No..it’s ok…I’ll be fine. I need to do this.” She replied
I sighed and he came forward so he stopped in front of me “If you hurt her I’ll kill you even if your not Lucifer’s pure blood.”
I smiled “Sounds like a plan to me.”
After he left a chair appeared in front of me but Eve didn’t come to sit down. So I stood up instead. I stretched and popped my back.
“Jeeze I thought I’d be sitting like that forever.”
She didn’t reply
“So what’s this test?” I asked “You do know what to do right? Because if you don’t I’ll just be on my way then….”
“Are you really linked to him?” she asked nervously
“No.” I sighed
She came towards me and I backed up when she touched my arm. A bright glow came from her skin and outlined her own body. Other colors started to appear but the two colors that stood out the most was a bright white and gold.
I heard a hiss come from the back of my head when I saw this. Eve looked at me strangely as if she heard that too. I decided to try something.
Did you hear that? I questioned imagining sending the thoughts to her
Yah…but how can we hear each other’s thoughts?
Because you two are bonded like you are to me and Michael a voice growled
I pulled away when I heard his voice.
“You were lying…” Eve whispered
I looked at the doors in panic. I didn’t know what to do.
“Eve,” I said quickly “You can’t tell them…my sister…I’m all she has. She’s all that I have. I’m no good to her dead. Please Eve don’t tell them that I’m Lucifer’s pure blood.”
“I can’t just lie to them.” She complained
“Even to let a fifteen year old keep her brother even for a little while longer? Eve, I don’t care if you tell them after….my sister dies. I’ll have nothing left after that…Just let me have my sister until then. Then you can tell them the truth. You can say that I threatened to kill you if you told.”
“I can’t Luke….I’m sorry but I can’t keep this a secret. I can’t lie to my friends like that.”
“Eve…I’m begging you. Please.”
“I’m sorry Lucas.”
The doors barged open and the guards stood by me. Michael walked in and went to Eve.
“So?”
She looked at me.
Don’t tell….I thought
She looked away and nodded. The guards took a hold of me.
“You can tell Gemma why they’re going to kill her brother then.” I said to Eve right before they dragged me away and cuffed my hands again.
As they pulled me out of the throne room I saw my sister running towards me.
“Lucas!” she cried running towards me
“Gemma!” I yelled trying to get out of the guard’s grip and run to her
Zoe saw this and grabbed her. I looked at Zoe and hoped that she’d at least let me say goodbye to my sister. I elbowed one of the guards and he let go. I ran towards my sister as she too got out of Zoe’s grip. She ran up to me and hugged me.
“What’s going on?! Why are they doing this?!” she cried as she hugged my tightly
Obviously nobody had told her.
“I don’t know Gem,” I said as I held the sides of her face in my chained hands “I wish they wouldn’t…but everything is going to be fine…I promise. The others will take care of you.”
“I want you to be take care of me though!” she cried
I felt tears fall from my eyes as I looked at her “I know…I want to be there for you to…but I can’t, no matter how much I want to….God I’m going to miss you.”
I kissed her forehead as tears to streamed down her eyes.
“What are they going to do to you though?!”
Before I could reply the guards pulled us apart and dragged me away.
“No! Luke!” My sister cried as Zoe took a hold of her again “LUKE!!!”
I took one last look at Zoe; she was good at hiding her emotions like always. I just hoped she would take care of my sister after all of this was over.X
Sorry the post is so long :)
Sorry the post is so long :)
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