"What the fuck are you talking about?" Shepherd angrily demanded. "What do you mean, my son was the price for...a prophecy? Do you think I'm stupid?"
Demie looked at her. "No, just uninformed. You can believe it or not, but given that you came alone and without a SWAT team, I expect that your co-workers didn't believe either?"
Shepherd continued to look frustrated. "Nobody remembered that I had even been pregnant! All records of Seth were erased. That's absolutely impossible, and yet it happened. It's almost like..."
"Magic?"
We all looked at Kate, who had spoken. She continued, "Not impossible, but a really difficult spell. Those with strong ties to the child like you will remember him, which is why Cassandra wanted you dead, but brief, incidental connections or hearsay would just be hidden away in people's minds, unreachable. Computer records are another thing, but it's not unheard of for magic users to hire a hacker to get full erasure."
"Oh, come on!" Shepherd yelled as she stood up, wincing and holding her side where her patched knife wound was. "Magic? Ridiculous."
"How do you explain your bullets turning to air, then?" That was Other Tom.
"I...must have forgotten to load the gun."
Now I spoke up. "Magic aside, why was Cassandra interested in your son? Well, my son too."
"MY son," she retorted. "You were a sperm donor, however that happened. And I don't know. That Cassandra woman said that Seth was special somehow." She paused. "And while we're on the subject, how did you manage to get me pregnant?"
Demie stood up and looked down at the blonde detective. "That was me, Dianna. When Tom came, I redirected his sperm all the way inside you."
"But...he came inside you..."
"Mm hmm..." Demie extended her tongue...and kept extending it. When it reached seven inches and the end opened up like a tube, Shepherd scrambled backwards.
"Wha--what the fuck are you?!"
In Arnold Schwartzenegger's voice, Demie responded, "Da Sperminator."
Other Tom laughed. I didn't.
Shepherd saw her pistol, still on the kitchen table, and rushed for it. Nobody tried to stop her, since it was empty. Nevertheless, she held it out toward Demie as if it would offer her some kind of protection. "You are going to help me find Seth!"
"Nope," the demon responded.
We all looked at Demie. She looked back at us.
"A deal's a deal," the demon explained, and then turned back to Dianna. "I didn't know your kid would be the price, but I agreed and I got my prophecy. It's done."