The Pretender: a Sara Lance / Batwoman fanfiction

Pt. 10 / Kate / Sword of Damocles

My whole world was turned upside down.

Just one day ago I was preparing the opening party in my bar Genesis and now I found myself in... Hell?

It almost looked like Mordor from Lord of the Rings trilogy. A wasteland with random fires, no plants, no animals, all dead. Even the air smelled like death.

Sara was standing next to me and she looked pale. Too pale considering it was so hot in here. Yes, a Hell from a text book. We both had confused looks on. Only Lucifer was aware of the situation we got ourselves into.

"Can someone explain to me what just happened?" the assassin in Sara was fully awake.
She turned towards Lucifer and used her ninja move to bring him to knees, then I helped her and put my hands on his neck.

- "Talk!"

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"Where did you disappear last night?"
- "Ugh.. Mary... I'm still asleep, can you just slow down."
"Here, coffee. Now talk. Were you with that bombshell? What was her name? Nyx?"
- "Umm.. thanks for the coffee."

I was woken up by my sister Mary too early to be functioning well. And the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was Nyx leaving. Obviously I wasn't even worth having a breakfast with. Cool, bad mood since the morning. And I didn't even manage to get out of the bed with the wrong foot yet.

She was gone after Mary left, but she couldn't leave through the door. Did she find an escape route through one of the bedroom windows? What are we, teenagers? No, I refuse to weighten my mind with additional shit, I'm too busy for that. Although... Nyx left her jacket on the bathroom floor. Fuck. Garbage. That's where it belongs.

The night with her was amazing tho. Usually I'm the giver but Nyx gave me twice as much as received. And the things she could do with her hands... My mouth became dry and my core clenched with memory of the past night...

No use for trying to get my mind of her during the whole day because somehow everything reminded me of Nyx. For example the coffee shop with new offer for 'A shot from Hell', then vinyl shop with limited edition of 'Hellraiser' EP, then two billboards for new bike model from Ducati. Seemed like whole world was working against me. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Time to surrender to my destiny? Ray Palmer called me on my Batphone. They needed one last spare part for their ship to fix it completely. I decided to come over and utilize the chance to talk to Sara Lance.

And you already know how did that go...

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- "Talk!" I increased the pressure on Lucifer's neck.
This is the ruller of Hell? This man, kneeling in front of us, with fear in his eyes?

"Ladies, all right, all right. No need to be harsch. Just don't ruin my suit, it's custom!!"
Now he was laughing, what the... he can't be right in his head, can he?

"Lucifer, spill it."
"If you just let me..."
- "No. Talk." my grip was still tight.

"Whatever, duh... Miss Lance, my intentions were simple. Send Nyx to get your soul. She had clear objective. Get to Earth and trick you into giving soul willingly. Of course I could take your soul violently, break it, but that would decrease the value and power of it."

"Trick me? How?"

"She has her ways. I'm sure that Batwoman already knows."
Oh snap, his grin was disgusting.

He continued: "Your soul is precious, Sara Lance. In addition, it already was in the Underworld once so technically it's mine. I have a collection which I may show you later. Well, then, when Nyx reported the Bat crossing her way... I admit, I was greedy and wanted your soul too, miss Bat."