The last thing she wanted to do while still hopped up on James Juice is to see the Prince, his aura permeated every fiber of her being.
"We heard your report, but, I'd like the rest of the story," Lucifer is standing behind a bar making himself and Lily a drink, he pulls up a third glass, pours, and pushes it her way, he's never offered her a drink before.
Megera told him every detail, the licking, her plan to figure out how much she can use that to her advantage, everything. His smile never wavered and she felt relieved to tell him, when he stepped around the bar and said to keep staring into his eyes she became concerned and when he pushed his will upon her she was even more concerned, she couldn't think of anything she left out, even her plans to exploit were detailed and exact, but he kept pushing and she finally asked what he wanted so she could tell him, he backed away and laughed.
"That is incredible, I want you to keep going, your plan is good and your goals are, lofty, this is why I asked for you to begin with, you can go now." He takes her hand, walking her to the door.
Turning back into the room he stopped and just stared off into space.
"I'm not sure I followed much of that Sire?" Lily asks.
"Megera lasted almost a full minute against my compulsion, it's the only weapon fathers' children know how to wield, without it, she could cut through hundreds before they could flee, they'd be no more a threat than, humans."
"Is there nobody better served to use it?" Lily asked, she'd never liked how Megera had the looks and battle prowess, where she was far superior in the looks, but had no fierce fightability within her.
"There is nobody better, that's why I sent her originally, in case a new prophet needed to be cut down, she was a hammer-shaped nuke for a nail of a problem, just in case, and now she's a nuke with no shutdown codes. We have two new pawns on the board that never existed previously."
The two angels stood in the middle of the street, why was Megera watching this human, at first it was just a report she breached, the alarms went off immediately when they detected her presence, angels were in chaos as she kept coming back, and her stunt at the school had to be cleaned up, the entire administration had to be wiped after Megera left, the Principal and Secretary found naked with the second period teacher, all pointing to the boy that lives here. All of those interviewed had James Letreau as her target.
When she suddenly appeared again, in the home behind them, they jumped and both sides were shocked that the other was there. The angels with two-to-one odds, felt they 'might' be equal, but losing one for the other to have a chance would never be a strategy for fact-finding missions, and she did just validate she was interested in this boy, watching her in the second story window, nodded, and returned home.
"Why are they watching James and being all jumpy?" Megera sat and waited for them to get home in a few minutes. Two inquisitors AND an ArchAngel watching over him is insane. Do they know the effect he has on us, she thought of all the places he could survive, but not be found and could see a few working if needed, she'd have to talk to him about that. Why he would believe her over angels would be the hard part, he was calm and collected with her, but she'd never witnessed how he treated them. It won't take long to find out what they are doing, Megera returns to the headquarters and digs into what those two are up to.
I'd gone to pick up Nick and Cass, brought them home, and started dinner, a favorite of Anitta's was shredded chicken and noodles, we pressure cook the chicken, carrots, and tiny duo potatoes with onion and celery added to some nice pasta side for the ladies that do pasta. Cassidy helped me do the prep work while Nicky and Emma got a big salad going, Vicky was on her way over and Mom should get off work soon and was asking for the details in text or what's happening even before we got home.
We chatted and everything seemed fine until I see Vicky crying in the living room, all of them are consoling at different times or in groups. I watch out of the corner of my eye and am shocked Anitta doesn't have me sitting with her, she lives at home more than with her boyfriend, the story never changes, works from 9-7, he gets home around 8:30pm, eats, games, goes to bed, rinse/repeat.
"I need some air," I hear her say after Mom walks in and immediately asks her what's wrong.
'Walk with her, show her the new home,' Anitta says, so I scoot through the door as she opens it and slide out with her before she realizes it's me.
"What are you doing, they are all here for you?" She says looking at me with puffy eyes.
"We'll be quick, let's walk over to the new house, I've never seen it in person," I ask and she nods.
"He's not an asshole, it's as much traffic as it is anything else," She starts and I don't say anything. I take her hand and as we round the corner she squeezes it hard, "I hate his gaming, and I know it's his stress reliever, but there's only so much time at night to use."
"Jesus, does that take up the entire block?" Vicky asks as we finally get to the house, I don't have a key yet, so we can only walk around it.
'I'm not telling you to DO, anything, but I'm moving Mom in here, haven't told her yet.
"Wow, she's going to fight it at first, but she'll love it in there."
"Haven't told you yet either," I say and Anita chuckles.
"Nah, that'd be crazy," she says squeezing again.
"What's the difference between this and Mom's house?" I ask and she doesn't say anything, "And we could use someone to make it look lived in while we're in the dorms."
"In the dorms a whole 20 minutes away," she laughs, "IF you need someone to watch it, I do have the time. Whew, he is going to hate that though, he says I'm way too close to my family, like I never left."
"Ditching fam shall never be talked about as a 'good' thing," I answer and hip-check her.
"I tease you about being; you know, and it's only because I love you, and everything you've done for Mom, me, and Em."
"Yah, and I tease you because it's fun, good talk, kid." I say in dads voice and she laughs. I get a hug at the door, she straightens herself up and walks through the door. We get to eating and they use the Roku to pull up their favorite series.
They get to me and I laugh, "It's a tough call but none of you would watch them, I mention Longmire, Firefly, and the Badlands.
"What? Longmire is great, that deputy is badass," Vicky says as she's sat with me watching it a few times, "Totally worth watching that one, Badlands should remove the lands." She says and everyone laughs.
"Better?" Mom asks Vicky in the kitchen as it was getting late.
"Yeah, staying here tonight." Vicky answers, "James asked if I could watch the house for him, have you seen it?"
"No, watch the house?" Mom asks.
"While they are in the dorms," Vicky pauses, "Hey, can I decorate?" She yells to the living room.
"Have you seen my room? Yes, that's a chat question." I answer.
"Can you help?" Vicky asks her Mom who nods vigorously at that request.
"Of course," Mom replies, "What's the address?" She looks down as her phone starts pinging and she sees she was added to the chat group from the girls. "Oh, okay, wow, this is big."
"That's what I said," Cassidy says in the living room, Nicky bursts out laughing and Em shakes her head.
