Sid : the Devil's secretary

17. Chicago

17. Chicago

After a trip over to the human world, Lucifer finally met up with his contact in the windy city of Chicago, Illinois. The stage was set for the meeting at the Lakeside Deep-dish Pizzeria, where a man in a blue suit was seated at a table outside overlooking lake Michigan. This bearded wonder was Dan, a former private investigator turned Purgatorian savior of the universe turned king of Heaven. To him, Lucifer was his closest ally and friend in any of the realms. Lucifer arrived in his red suit sometime later.

"glad you made it" Lucifer saw Dan.

"good to be here. I got your letter" Dan looked up.

"great, so about Jack?" Lucifer put his hands on the table beside a glass of ice water.

"breaking a curse never hurt anyone" Dan tilted his head.

"glad to hear" Lucifer felt satisfied.

"should you take him or should I?" Dan pointed to one another.

"I'm not sure you really want an alcoholic pig in your realm, and he did come to me first, so of course I'll take him" Lucifer elaborated.

"if we are going to break his curse, I need you to bring him to me" Dan affirmed.

"of course. We can work out the details later, but for now what's on the menu?" Lucifer looked down onto the lunch card to see what was in store. It turned out both Lucifer and Dan were big fans of Chicago style pizza. After the meeting, Lucifer zipped back across country to the earthly convent of Our Ladies of Spiritual Damnation, opening the front doors to find Lilith and the other nuns partying in an indoor pool.

"hey sisters and Lilith" Lucifer walked through into the polished marble interior. Simple redecorating.

"hey there, lover boy. Come on in, the water's great" Lilith swam over to Lucifer's feet at the poolside.

"not now girls. i need to know something. Has Stingy Jack tried to use the Hell portal while I was out?" Lucifer set his sights on the circle in the backyard that could take him back to Hell as he was on business.

"I think he did earlier before we got here, but it was a little more like a drunk dial if you ask me" Lilith remembered.

"did you get a look at where he was?" Lucifer asked as sunlight seamed into the room.

"maybe" Lilith spoke.

"what do you mean maybe?" Lucifer became frustrated.

"I mean we know where he is, but if you want to know that information, you'll have to earn it" Lilith gave an order and got out of the pool dripping wet.

"Lilith, I don't have time for this. I need to get going" Lucifer continued.

"if you must know, he's at some pub in western Ireland. The Clifford I think it said. You can take it from there" Lilith spilled the beans.

"finally, just what I needed. I should get going. Sid might be worried about me. need to check on the little guy" Lucifer made his way for the back door.

"not so fast Luci. I said you had to earn it" Lilith smooth talked.

"what? -" Lucifer fell to the ground, knocked out by a lowly pan. He woke up wearing only his red boxer shorts and chained with double proof security locks to a rack in a pink lit room, surrounded by mantled objects of the obscenest nature. As his eyes opened wider, he found he had been gagged with a red ball while Lilith giggled in front of him in a black leather suit holding a furled up whip.

"consider this our payment for helping you out" Lilith cracked the whip as Lucifer whimpered behind the mouth gag, while the nuns started filing in from upstairs for what the night would bring.