We Are Not What We Seem

Chapter 2

I go out of my curtained in area. Looks like the guy i was waiting for isn't coming. Even if he is he's so late I don't want to see him anymore anyways. I walk out to the head guard.

"We're leaving." I say.

He nods and makes a motion to his people. "I'll see you back home." He nods again and I turn going back into the curtained area so people don't freak out when I teleport out of here. That happened once the guards said it was a disaster. I made sure never to do that again.

"Ah. Home, sweet, home." I say falling against my bed. "I get to relax until my meeting tonight." I say with a sudden realization. The thought makes me happy, acting all tough and snarky is exhausting. Very few things make me happy but doing nothing is definitely one of them.

"Sorry, but no you don't Lucifer." I turn my head and see a kid demon. He has the mischievous glint in his black eyes that comes with being a cocky youth, blue spiky hair and a dark black suit that oozes sulfur. Magnus. I wrinkle my nose. This stench will be so hard to get rid of. About four hundred years ago, Magnus caught me at a low point in my life. He's lucky too otherwise I would never have took his stupid deal. He thought he was catching me at a near death situation when really I was just severely wounded by acid. It was going to take me a long time to heal and that meant i couldn't finish the curse I was in the middle of so I took his deal. Supply him with all of the herbs and supplies he needs, he heals me. He now thinks he's some sort of super demon because i can't die. Don't ask me how he knows I can't die. In reality I'm Lucifer, Satan, Hades, Ruler of the Underworld, whatever the hell you wanna call me, and I'm immortal. The only reason i made the "deal" was to make the kid heal me. I've grown fond of the kid but he has a thyme addiction matched to no other.

"Hey Magnus. What do you need kid?" I ask.

"I need help cursing this one guy. He keeps figuring out how to undo the curses and i don't know why. No one else would help me." He says pouting. I get up from my spot on the bed and follow him out.

"Who are we cursing, kid?" I ask.

"His name is Jessie Abaddon."

We see an image of Jessie laying on the bed. It's the kid from earlier who basically had a death wish. Hmm. Thata inconvenient.

"We can't curse him, kid." I say.

"What?! Why not Lucy?" Magnus says clearly irritated.

"Because i said so. Go curse someone else."

"But Lucy. he deserves to be cursed. Do you know how many of your people he has killed?"

I cave.

"Fine well curse him but we are going in person." I respond.

"Why?" i'm growing mad with all this questioning and disobedience. I turn to him, the blue in my eyes and horns draining being replaced with red. "Because i said so." I say standing firm. He quickly nods his head and touches my arm teleporting us to jesse's room. No one likes seeing me angry. By the time we get there, which is only a couple of seconds, my eyes and horns have returned to blue.

"Hey what do you think you're doing? You can't just teleport into someone's room unannounced." Jessie rants.

"Im lucifer. I can do who and whatever the hell I want, love." I respond. He lays back down on his bed. Magnus gives me a questioning look that I ignore.

"Who's the kid?" He asks curiously.

"I'm not a kid! I'm older than you'll ever be!" Magnus shouts from next to me.

"Oh really and how old is that little man." Jessie asks looking at us out of the corner of his eye.

"I'll be 525 in human years in a couple months." He says.

"Which means your 8ish in demon years. A kid." I say looking down at him. He sticks his tongue out and I flick him in the forehead.

"Can we get cursing already? You wanted to have down time before you had to go to you had to go to your meeting right?" Magnus asks.

"Yeah." I respond. "But i'm not in the mood for cursing like i said before. So you can do it." i tell Magnus cheerfully.

"You're never in the mood for anything." He grumbles.

"True. I would get cursing if i were you kid. You're gonna have to leave soon." I say

He doesn't have time to respond before there is a knife in his chest. "You two are so annoying." Jessie says. He threw the knife from his bed. I look over at magnus, "thanks for getting rid of him for me. He was really starting to get on my nerves. I would have done it but that would have gotten my clothes all dirty." I say stepping over magnus's body towards the bed. In all honesty Magnus didn't actually die but when someone 'kills' Magnus in the human world he just gets sent back to the demon world. I just didn't want him here right now. "Anytime. Now could you leave i was trying to take a nap." Jessie says clearly irritated.

"Who sleeps over their covers that's just weird, Love." I comment sitting on his bed looking behind me at him.

"Whatever, if you're going to stay I'll just sleep with you here." He says.

"Fine by me."

"Weirdo." He comments as he drifts off to sleep.

As soon as he's asleep i get off the bed and clean up Magnus's dead body. I do it the mundane way so that if he decides to attack me I'm not all worn out. While I'm scrubbing the ground, I start hearing Jessie whimpering. He starts crying and screaming. A nightmare I presume. I go over to him and put my hand on his head. I will away the bad dream. I take my hand away and almost immediately he starts having a nightmare again. I could just let him have the nightmare but it looks like he hasn't slept in a week. I climb into bed next to him so I'm more comfortable while I touch him to get rid of his nightmare. I sit as far away from him as possible and put my hand on his arm. I feel myself slowly start to drift off into a memory filled slumber.

I won. But not with out getting injured. Stupid idiot thought he could kill me by having a tripwire cause a bucket of acid to fall on me. Shoot. I'm not gonna be able to make it home in this condition. I'm not regenerating fast enough. Someones gonna find me.

"Hey mister. Are you alright?" It's a kid. He's short. In human years id place him at 6 maybe. "Let's make a deal. I'm in need of herbs. Always am. So ill heal you if you supply me with all the herbs i need and want."

"I need to be healed like now. So i can get home. I have people waiting for me." I say between painful gasps.

"I'm s demon. I can do that." he says.

"How many deals have you made as a demon?" i ask, hand out not quite ready to shake with this kid yet.

"'Bout twenty sir. I'm still fairly young." he shrugs. "Yeah sure. I'll make the deal." my hands light in purple flames and his lights in red.

"Oh so your a demon too. I'm Magnus."

"The names Lucifer, kid." I say already mostly healed from our deal. "What kind of herbs do you need?"

"Thyme. Lots of thyme. Its so good. I basically live off of it. I want to try this new spell that requires Bay laurel, Borage, chervil and chives." He says. Walking next to me. He continues to ramble about herbs. He follows me all the way to the place that i'm meeting my men to go home. Hes also gripping on to the edge of my shirt so he doesn't lose me. And when I teleport he makes sure he's touching me so he comes with. Looks like i wont be getting rid of the kid.