Chapter One

❝  If I cannot bend heaven, I will raise hell. ❞

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He was admittedly getting worried. Each passing hour she spent in labor, the chances of her survival dimmed. His hands shook and he paced faster each time a new woman crossed the threshold of their humble home. 

He could hear Nalia breathing and screaming each time someone forced her to push. He could smell the blood and the fear. At times, Selene's gifts were welcomed but not today. Not when his soulmate was loosing her life trying to bring their child into the world.

Hours passed and as Lucifer began loosing hope, he heard the most amazing cry in the world. Like a beacon of hope for the hopeless. A redemption for the condemned. 

He burst through the doors ignoring the shouts of women about the indecency of his wife. As if he had never seen her bare before. She was dripping in sweat. He knelt beside her and kissed her cheeks as their son lay between them. 

The women left them at peace.

⸻ "He's beautiful Nai." He whispered in her ear as he pushed the hairs away from her severely redden face. 

⸻ "Please take care of him Sam." 

Lucifer frowned and as he looked back at her, all the color had been drained from her face. He panicked and called for the women. 

They all burst inside the room at once, shouting above each other as they took one look at Nalia. 

⸻ "What's wrong with her?!" He demanded. 

Nalia nearly dropped their son but Lucifer grabbed him in time, cuddling the baby closer to himself as the women pushed him away from his lover. 

⸻ "She's loosing blood quickly. We will try to stop it but the hemorrhage will most likely kill her. Her uterus has ripped. It has been happening to women around the village."

The baby sobbed loudly craving for a breast that could not feed him. Lucifer tried lulling him to sleep but the latter would not find peace. He cuddled him to his chest and shushed him and yet nothing work. His stomach craved food.

He felt it when Nalia ceased to exist. He could feel the thrumming of pain cursing through his veins. The heart wrenching gut feeling of being utterly alone. He felt the weight of the clouds as they too shed tears for the loss of a life and somehow he knew his father was watching. Outside the rain fell heavy on the roof of their shared home. 

⸻ "Get out." He whispered at first, clutching his son closer to himself. 

When they failed to hear him, he screamed the words louder. They ran outside without a second glance, all except one. A young maiden he had never seen. Nalia's friend. 

⸻ "Lucifer, if you give me the child I will feed him." She mumbled, head hanging low and hands outstretched as a plea. 

He considered it. For a brief second he wanted to deny her the right to touch his child. To feed a human being only meant to be fed by the love of his life. His soulmate. He also knew Ashton needed feeding. 

⸻ "Here." He placed the baby in her lap and she immediately coddled it. She reached for her breast and guided it towards the baby who proceeded to latch onto it with fierce determination and hunger. 

Lucifer turned around, giving her the privacy. He looked at Nalia on the ground, completely wrapped in a white sheet with rope around her neck, arms and feet. The lower half of the sheet completely drenched in blood. 

He fell to his knees, the pain of heartbreak reaching him. At the same time he felt his soul splitting, it also came complete. 

His eyes closed and behind the shadows he saw a small human girl. She couldn't be older than 4. She was dirty and starving. The small loaf of bread she held in her hands was moldy but she ate it as if it was the best meal in the world. The world around her was dark. She was the only thing he could see.

He felt the need to protect her and once he realized what had happened he opened his eyes with a gasp. 

⸻ "Selene!" He shouted as he moved to grab his now sleeping son from the woman who held him. She quickly left, thinking him crazy. 

⸻ "Selene, get your ass down here this fucking instant!" 

The world shook by the power in his voice. The sky darkened and the clouds poured harder. His wings burst through his back as he prepared to meet her. 

⸻ "You called Luci?" 

Lucifer turned around, seething. His wings vibrated from the fury and yet his son slept calmly in his arms. Almost as if the commotion couldn't bother him. 

⸻ "My soulmate, the one you chose for me, is lying dead in my fucking feet and you have the audacity to already have chosen another one? A fucking child at that? Let her body grow cold at least you idiotic moron!" 

Selene stood ahead of him impassively. She had considered several times what her choices would lead to  but essentially she knew Beatrice would be an amazing match for him. 

⸻ "You swore on your wings you would repay the favor of a soulmate with whatever I wanted." She started. "I want you to lead a pack of my children down in the south. Their leader is almost meeting his fate and my children are not to be left alone. You swore Samael. As a proof of my good faith, I made your heart whole."

Lucifer shook and gritted his teeth. He knew the deal at the time would come back to bite him in the ass but he felt lonely. Loneliness could consume you were you not careful. 

⸻ "When?" He asked. 

⸻ "In three years time. You will personally escort him to heaven. I have spoken with your father and he has allowed it. They miss you. Do with that information as you please." 

She shrugged and tried to touch the child but Lucifer pulled him away before she could. 

⸻ "What am I supposed to do with Ashton?" 

⸻ "That's a horrible name Samael." 

⸻ "I wasn't aware I was asking for your opinion. Stick to your place Selene."

⸻ "Do with him as you please, he's yours. Know this though, the gods will come for him. If not today, someday. He's a valuable asset to both heaven and hell. He's the equilibrium so whatever you do Samael, keep him safe." 

Lucifer nodded and Selene vanished with a nod of her head.

When he looked back, Nalia was no longer there. He had known it. 

A woman so pure, he knew she was destined to become an angel. 

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author's note: If you guys are curious about how Selene looks, I chose her faceclaim which is Sharon Alexie. She's so gorgeous!