In love with Lucifer

~"Ashes and flames, love is a blaze."~

Raven sat up from the old chair she had just managed to make warm. Actually, it was far too warm now. Sniffing the air, she smelled smoke. Smoke. There was smoke. Where was it coming from?

And one thought crossed her mind.

Where were the kids?

She had to get them out of here.

Crawling on her hands and knees, Raven made her way to the door and reached up to grab the handle. It made a hissing sound as the sweat coming off her hand dripped on it. Nope, I need a cloth, thought Raven.

She hurriedly grabbed a coat on the hanger and twisted the doorknob. She flung the door open as billows of black smoke paraded into the room she was trying to get out of. Crawling, gagging while doing so, she looked around for the kids' bedroom. She heard them screaming in the room down the hall, but the ceiling was falling apart in the hallway!

Pushing herself, Raven struggled while trying to crawl foreword, the sirens outside making her ears ring. The cries of the children were being choked by the black killer smoke. She laid down, unable to move, the heat and smoke exhausting her instantly. Just before she closed her eyes, she saw him.

He came to save her. He must have known something was wrong. Fire protruded from his body, smoke billowing from his mouth as he breathed, a faint yellow glow glistening from his eyes.

"Lucifer," said Raven feebly, staring up at her new classmate in awe, "please, save the kids."