I, Devil (a love story)

Chapter 53: Meresin

I did not expect Azazel's full and complete cooperation, that was until I was informed that the true angel of death, Azrael, acted as an oracle and my brother was and informed of his own demise. Information between us often travels quickly. We Devils are not unlike the gods and goddesses of old, petty, gossipy, and shallow.

I could not follow through with my plan without perfecting the "virus." It is not truly a virus, but rather a spell. This was not made with the intention to destroy. I did not know what would happen once I implement the Love molecule Wendy and I created. As Azazel said, angels were still falling so it seems that something happened, something changed. I still felt I was going to do something that affected all of the angels above and below.

Azazel had "things he wanted to take care of" before we executed the plan. I myself wanted to finish creating a vehicle to transport the Love molecule. I was not sure how I was going to do it. I often refer to it as a virus-- but it is not. I just wasn't sure how, exactly, I was going to implement it. Viruses were just my talent. I didn't want to make us sick-- I wanted to do the opposite. I wanted to lift us out. I wanted to be with Wendy.

It was then I received a message from Adramelech. He wanted to speak with me. I was hesitant to reply, but I felt compelled. I had no plans to aid him.

I was pulled to near-reality. We were in a thin place just beyond the Veil. Like before, Adramelech was himself, just spread out across Wendy's property. He wore a large human suit and did not look particularly healthy. In fact, he appeared to be very very strange.

He was shining. His human suit bore cracks along the edges, such as his knees, jaw, and elbows. In the cracks, white light burst through, as if a light-bulb had been shoved beneath his skin. Additionally, he had a large bucket under his arm. He periodically turned to vomit black goo into it.

I was not sure why he appeared this way. His energy was reading as chaotic. He was oscillating between higher vibrations and lower vibrations. I wondered if this was what having a 'fever' looked like in angels. I wondered if this was in connection to what I was about to do with the Love molecule. Was Adramelech "infected?"

This gave me the idea that perhaps Azazel was right again. Sachiel was still my "patient zero" and to distribute the Love molecule-- or virus, I still needed to infect him. Since time isn't always linear, sometimes I need a clue from the future to decide how to act in the past.

"I summoned you here, brother," Adramelech said, finally speaking. He mopped his brow with a rag. "to call a truce. Something is wrong with me. I feel sick. And it's you, I know it's you. You're the virus guy. Fix me. If you can do something one way you can also do the opposite. I get it. You want Wendy all to yourself so you're going to kill me. I'm officially pleading with you to stop. Make your illness stop and fix me, like a doctor would."

"I've not attacked you directly, brother," I said as I mimicked a somewhat human shape for his benefit. "I see that you are ill but I do not yet have the answers."

"Can... can you at least examine me? I'll give you access to my personal files if you will just... diagnose what's wrong," said Adramelech. This was perhaps the most he had ever said to me in centuries without threats of consumption. I felt he was truly desperate, unless, of course, this was also a trick. Hesitantly, I came forward. Adramelech turned to the side to spew strange, vile, black liquid into a bucket.

I scanned him as best I could manage. I did not want to be so close to him that he grabs my energies in an attempt to eat me. I did not want to be the rabbit that was tricked into the jaws of the crocodile. I put nothing past my Devil brothers. I examined him and scanned every bit of information he allowed me access. I myself am opportunistic and knew he had knowledge that I did not. I also scanned his ... excrement. I read through the vomit to see if I could understand anything a little better.