Lucky Charm // Sam Winchester ✔️

09 || LUCIFER

In his whole time as King, Crowley had never seen anyone, let alone a human, practically skip into Hell. In fact, in his whole three hundred or so years as a demon he'd never seen anyone this unfazed about going to Hell as Vanessa was, her bright ginger curls bouncing with each step they took down into Limbo.

"It's a little worrying how calm she is." Crowley whispered to Dean who huffed in agreement.

Dean's own Hell experience wouldn't exactly get five stars on TripAdvisor so seeing Vanessa so calm, and even a little excited(?) to go to Hell was unsettling. 

"Are you sure I can't convince you not to do this? I mean it's completely idiotic." Balthazar himself felt uneasy walking into Hell, having been practically dragged into this by Vanessa and threatened by Sam to keep her safe. He may be an angel but that didn't mean he was a miracle worker. Vanessa was a handful, even he couldn't stop her getting into trouble, which he couldn't help but think she would.

Vanessa ignored him as she reached the end of the rather long staircase, if she'd known there'd be this many steps she'd have waited a day or so. She was still sore from her morning... workout.

"Elevators are a wonderful invention, Crowley. You should look into getting one." Vanessa called back to Crowley, who once again just blinked at her and shook his head. She really was unlike anyone he'd ever met before. Maybe that's why he was so fond of her.

The four of them headed down the long, winding corridor. The black brick walls light up by flaming torches, the reddened abyss above them like sky, despite them being miles under the Earth.

"You know I always found this Hell to look a little underwhelming." Vanessa muttered, her finger running along the wall.

Vanessa had expected to feel scared or even sick walking into Hell, but she didn't. Was it because she knew what it looked like from watching the show? Maybe. Or maybe Chuck did something to her to make her less scared, whatever it was she liked as she felt calm and collected. Although that may change when she sees the red eyes of Lucifer staring back at her. That is if she can contain her excitement of meeting him.

"Come again?" Crowley almost choked, even he hated this place so hearing her call it underwhelming came as quite a shock to him.

"Where's the three headed dog guarding the entrance, where's all the fire? I feel like I'm in Draculas castle not Hell."

"I'm retiring after this." Crowley mumbled to himself in disbelief.

"Although I must say, the endless line you made was genius. I can't imagine a worse Hell than having to wait in line." Vanessa replied and Crowley felt a touch of pride building in his chest, his lips rising into a smug smile that made Dean and Balthazar roll their eyes, sharing an annoyed look with each other.

Limbo was exactly as Vanessa remembered it to be. And endless void of nothingness. The dark red emptiness with nothing more than a cage sitting in the middle of a baron wasteland. Crowley had the ingredients ready on a small table in front of the cage, except he didn't know only half of the ingredients were there.

Vanessa may have left out the part about warding the temporary cage so Lucifer couldn't pull anyone into it like he did with Sam in season eleven. She needed to go in with him, to show him what he needed to see in order to get his help, just like Chuck told her.

Obviously she hadn't shared that little fact with anyone else, she knew they'd have locked her in the panic room until they found Gabriel themselves before they let her get close enough to Lucifer that he'd be able to touch her. And she knew she'd be getting an earful from them afterwards, Sam especially, but she didn't care, she was Irish she could take a little yelling.