Lilith sat and watched the sun rise over Lake Lucerne, feeling the warmth on her skin with a soft sigh of bliss, her breath turning to white smoke in the frigid winter air.
Her leathers creaked as she shifted against the railing of the viewing platform, her long black hair hanging down her back.
Slipping a cigarette between her lips, she snapped her fingers, a flame singeing the end and allowing her to take a long, deep draw on it.
Exhaling, she blew out smoke devils that chuckled into the ether. The little demons gave her a thought.
One brother won't bite the bait... maybe another will...
Putting the cigarette between her lips, she dug her nails into her wrist, drawing blood with a soft hiss. As it dripped onto the ancient wood, she knew she had a few seconds before one of the holy idiots came sniffing.
Sure enough, a second or so after her skin sealed, a young male came onto the platform, looking around cautiously.
"Excuse me, young lady, but have you seen..." he trailed off when he saw her eyes, and then the true face beneath. "You!"
Moving fast, she pinned him to the wood. He was young, or he would have overpowered her. She dug her nails into his throat, and spoke in a sibilant whisper.
"Where. Is. Lucifer?"
"I don't know... he's not in Hell or Heaven..." the angel croaked. Lilith dug her claws in deeper, drawing silvery blood.
"Don't lie to me, angel."
"He's in New York... a gym..."
"A gym... what gym?" She snarled. The angel didn't answer.
Putting her free hand to his head, she read his memories and saw flashes of a state of the art building, making her smile.
"So the devil wants to exercise... let's see if I can't oblige him..." she chuckled sinfully, then forced demonic essence into his head, smiting him dead in seconds.
Kicking the body off the platform, she teleported across the world, landing in the building she had seen in the angel's memories.
Looking round at the humans in tight clothing, she altered her appearance to match them then leaned on a door frame, looking for Lucifer. Her eyes were drawn to a tall, muscular blonde male in the corner who was hammering away on a punch bag.
Biting her lip, Lilith watched him. As if aware of her scrutiny, the man turned and met her gaze, his eyes flashing silver. Lilith gulped.
Lucifer...
She blinked, and he was gone. Then a voice whispered from behind her, making Lilith both freeze in horror and clench her fists in sheer arousal.
"Why are you here, demon....?" It asked, sounding somehow both utterly menacing yet undeniably seductive. Lilith turned to face him, his vessel gazing down at her.
The vessel was tall, seemingly chiselled from granite and considerably handsome, his trousers hanging low on sculpted hips, but it was unmistakably Lucifer. The aura of immense angelic power exuded like the ominous buildup to a tropical storm.
Lilith gave him a shy smile, running a fingernail down the ridge that defined his muscles. "I came to speak to you, Lucy..."
"Call me that again, demon, and I'll make sure you cannot speak for a thousand years."
"You don't want me to talk? There are plenty of other things my mouth can do, besides get me into trouble, Lucifer." As she spoke, she placed her hand flat on his chest, the firm muscle below the skin making her desire pulse softly.
"I don't want you, or your mouth, or any part of you for that matter, near me. I see you again, I will smite you where you stand."
"What if I'm not standing..." she purred, meeting his gaze. She was curious how much like his brother Lucifer really was. Michael was too straight laced to be tempted. But Lucifer was a whole different ball game - he was revered by the demons for a reason.
He is temptation... she mused, her eyes studying the vessel he had chosen and wondered how much quicker Eve would have succumbed if he'd used this form instead of the snake. She would have melted like ice in the midday sun... I know I would...
Then again, Eve had been such a goody two shoes she would have probably had no idea what to do with a man like this if she had gotten one. Her and Adam had stumbled into sex by pure accident.
Lilith's first time... that had been entirely on purpose - all five of them. Lucifer didn't budge. And he clearly wasn't amused.
"Answer my question. Why are you here...?"
"I'm here for you. Perhaps we can go somewhere less public and talk." She stuttered, the ever mounting desire for him making her voice tremble. Lucifer snapped his fingers and suddenly the room was empty, the building silent and quiet.
Lilith became very aware that she was now alone with Lucifer, who was clearly not in a mood to play games with her. Licking her lips, she took a deep breath to try and stamp out the urge to pounce on him and shred his trousers - and his chest.
"You have privacy. Now talk, demon."
"I have a name, you know. I'm - "
"I. Don't. Care. And I don't want to talk."