Written for: aquamala
Prompt: Det. Shay, conversion
Spoilers: Takes place immediately after the events of the series finale. Beyond that, everything we learned in these 10 episodes is up for grabs.
Warnings: No standard warnings apply.
A/N: I really wasn't sure what was going to happen with this prompt. And yet, I'm digging it big time. Now that I have a few more details on Det. Shay and his family for my headcanon, I can flesh them out a little further.
Dedication: This is part of a series of stories to thank the phenomenal creative team of Damien, both in front of and behind the camera.
Series: Part 8 of the #666foryou series
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It's not supposed to be like this. This isn't how I was raised.
Okay, so I'm a relapsed Catholic married to a not strictly observant Jewish man. Our son was circumcised and baptized. Patrick is teaching Jacob some of his ways, but we're not pushing any one religion on him. If he's curious, we'll help him look into whatever belief system it is, and he'll decide when he's ready. End of story.
But now, here I am, knees aching as I kneel in a church pew. My eyes are trained on the crucifix, and I can't help but wonder what I'm supposed to be doing right now. Thorn's followers have set up camp outside the church. They just keep coming. No one can get in or out of this place without his approval, and he's nowhere to be found.
I don't know what to do. I came into the sanctuary to find a measure of peace. But my body and my brain can't seem to slow down enough to let it happen. How can I possibly reconcile what happened tonight with anything rational? I'm no sharpshooter, but I don't miss that badly on a shot. And I certainly have never witnessed anyone being brought back from the dead like that. I mean, that was straight out of the Bible, Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead right there.
But Damien Thorn is not Jesus, and resurrections don't happen every day…