I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. (3.2.512) - Henry VIII - William Shakespeare

Lucifer reclined back on the bed against pillows with a grin that was downright evil. Sam was getting too found of that grin for his liking. Especially now there a seductive glint in his eyes that has never accompanied it before.

'Tell me about Lilith,' Sam asked turning onto his side to face Lucifer. Lucifer's grin vanished and was replaced by a look far more quizzical.

'What do you want to know?' Lucifer asked

'What was she like, how did you turn her?' Sam shrugged. 'I did kinda shaft the bitch, it would be nice to know a little about her.'

'Story time is it?' Lucifer mocked.

'Yes, I'm curious.'

'Lilith was the one human I didn't despise. I feel bad sometimes for what happened to her, especially since leaving the pit. But mark my words Sam, I was not the one who truly turned her, I was just the one who pointed her in the right direction.'

Sam scoffed. He gave Lucifer a lot of benefit of the doubt, like believing he didn't mean Sam harm for one. This was a stretch too far.

'You trying to tell me she made herself into a demon?' Sam shook his head. 'I doubt she would've been your final seal if she wasn't your pet project.'

Lucifer's smile dropped off his face, 'Sammy, Sammy, Sammy. I made her into a demon alright, which was actually an accident I might as well state at this point. But I didn't start it. I wasn't the one who turned her strength into hatred, I just showed her what to do with it.'

Sam wasn't sure he wanted to know anymore now. He had a feeling it wasn't going to end well for his mental health. But hell what else was he going to do? Go back to staring at the pill he found in the Lawyer's flat?

'Go on, you know you want to,' Sam shrugged. Well as much as anyone can shrug when lying on their side.

'Lilith was made at the same time as Adam, made from the same earth, the same stardust. Adam was the one I despised, he was a prideful arrogant waste of space. He knew God loved him the most and he paraded round like a strutting peacock.'

'Bit like you then,' Sam remarked without thinking. There was a crash of thunder outside, but Lucifer's expression didn't change. One of these days he was going to say something and Lucifer was just going to smite him and be done with it.

'Lilith on the other hand didn't care all that much about god. She spent her time exploring plants, animals, she wanted to know everything.'

'I thought that was Eve.'

'Really? You've met Eve so I'm going to ignore that comment. Lilith was wide-eyed with wonder over the earth and God's creation. I suppose she was what God wanted us angels to be about humans. Anyway, Adam didn't like her, she was competition for God's affection. He liked fucking her, but that was about it. Adam was God's pride and joy, but so was Lilith and Adam didn't like it. He started complaining, to any angel that would listen. Lilith doesn't love God he'd say, she never tries to talk to him, she doesn't care about him. She wishes she was an animal, she doesn't appreciate being human. He'd go on and on and on. God had never stated they had to have sex, so they stopped. She didn't want to have sex with someone who hated her and he could never find her to force her. She was very adept at finding hiding places. He complained about this to God also. How are we to carry on your great race when she hides herself in your trees?

'So God caring more about continuing on his art than of how awful Adam was, snapped Lilith back to the centre of the garden of Eden where Adam was waiting for her. God had also heard all these things about Lilith and so was not inclined to listen to her when she asked him to spare her and leave her in the trees. Are you not grateful for all I have given you? He asked her. I love you, I have given you paradise and you can't even be bothered to love me. So Adam raped her, though that wasn't the term then, there wasn't a term for it then, it had never been done before. Angels didn't know lust, didn't know violation, didn't know the despair and grief it would cause the curious Lilith. I told Father to look at what he'd done. To look at how evil and despicable Adam was that he would cause such misery to his companion. But God told me this was one incident, that humans would be wonderful once there were many. Don't get me wrong, I didn't care about Lilith, not like I know you are now. I just saw her as the means to prove my point.

'She fell pregnant and gave birth, but she was never the woman she once was, and she never stopped Adam trying to sleep with her anymore. She was dead inside.'

'Why did God argue that humans were good if that was what Adam was like?'

'Because Adam loved God, and God wanted more humans. He knew what the human race would become and so decided a few faults in Adam was okay if that meant a greater race. I didn't see it. Couldn't see past the prideful, lustful Adam. But God had heard my complaints one too many times, and he booted me out of heaven. So I prowled the earth with a few angels that fell with me. Samael was one of them. Lilith had had her children by then: Cain and Abel. Though obviously the Bible describes them as Eve's, but we both know Eve was busy creating other creatures in purgatory at that time. Adam didn't let Lilith see her children, and told God he needed to make sure they were educated in the way of the light and not influenced by Lilith. Once again none of the angels knew quite what these things really meant, and so Lilith's despair continued to grow while every heavenly creature bowed down to Adam and their sons. Lilith found Samael, they fell in love and left the garden of Eden to be together, she became pregnant again and so the first nephilim was born. God found out and was furious, angels and humans were not supposed to mix and certainly not fallen angels. This messed with his grand design. Which I guess is the problem with free will and all. Anyway he sent Michael to smite Sameal which he did and the baby girl was killed also. Abel was not the first death in the world, Lilith's little nephilim was.'

'You're kidding me,' Sam shock his head. He thought about Castiel talking lovingly about God, searching all over the earth for him. 'That's not who God is.'

'It's not the God you know, this was a God desperate for his creation to work. He couldn't have this half race appear that might have been superior in some way to his humans. He was wrathful in the beginning because he was determined to make you all work. He changed in those moments. Though Father is omniscient so who knows what was going through his head. Maybe he needed Lilith to go through these agonies to make me turn her so that I could be banished and humans could renounce me at baptisms and swear allegiance to him. I don't know, especially not now he has vanished. When Adam had raped her and forbidden her from seeing Cain and Abel it filled her with despair. I think in someway, she thought she deserved it, I think she did love God then, in her own way, and wanted to please him. She believed she failed him by not being like Adam, by not wanting him. But the smiting of Sameal and her baby girl, there was nothing to excuse that in her mind and she was filled with hate for God. That was all I needed. I whispered in her ear as a snake, she would not talk to me as an angel at that point. Told her of how God had caused all her misery, that he created her just to abuse her. I told her if it wasn't for God, if it wasn't for Adam, she would be happy with Sameal and her baby. I showed her visions of her future where she was in his arms and their baby crawled around their feet doing that gurgling giggling thing babies do. I was cruel and I was relentless. I showed everything that could have been so she knew precisely what she had lost. She kept getting angrier and vengeful. It made her beautiful, a creature of pure anger. So she begged me to make her powerful enough to kill Adam. I did. Though, what I didn't realise was that giving her the powers in a deal, to a being of pure anger, would create a new race. Demons. I didn't know what it meant and neither did she. She just went straight to kill Adam. I should've let Lilith have her vengeance, but I was too smug. I went straight to God. Look, I said, look at your creations. Adam has wronged Lilith so much she is willing to kill him, your creation. I thought he would see the evil in them, the evil in Adam that had driven Lilith to such anger. I never really said Lilith was evil cause she wasn't then, she was just the result of someone else's evil, but God saw her as the demon. She was the evil entity and before she had a chance to kill Adam he banished her to hell and sent Michael to deal with me.'

'The Lilith I knew was pure evil, you told me, there is no such thing as a good demon, they are changed all by committing evil,' Sam argued.

'That is true, all except for the one that was created by me. Every other demon has turned themselves into a demon. Lilith was pure evil when you met her. She's had millenia of perfecting her evil, and there was a lot of it. She experienced her fair share of torment in the pit and her anger for God only grew, so did her hatred of humans. Her first human family ignored her, and her second was killed in front of her. There was very good reason why she targeted families when in vessels and why she likes sex to consummate her deals.'

Sam should've known better than to have asked the question. Everytime he found out more about God and heaven, the less he liked, and what was with Michael anyway, always running off to do what God said, couldn't he think for himself?

'I've been asking myself that for eternity,' Lucifer agreed with a smirk. Sam grinned back before sighing and leaning back in his chair. He wasn't really all that surprised by the story, he was a little unnerved by God's lack of compassion. He was supposed to be a loving God, a forgiving God.

'He was all of those things,' Lucifer said. 'He just isn't a very understanding God. He never stopped loving Lilith, he just didn't know what he was doing to her. Or perhaps he did and like I said, needed her to be a demon so that all this could happen. I never really know with Father, he isn't one for explaining his plans unless a handy prophet is around.'

Sam should've known Lucifer wouldn't have been the only one to get screwed over by the grand design, but he didn't think the other one would be Lilith. He hated that bitch, he'd killed that bitch. Stabbed her and broke the seal bringing Lucifer out of his cage.

'Don't feel bad for having killed her Sammy, don't forget all the people she murdered in her child vessel. She was wronged, but she was evil in the end. There was no saving her.'

'Is there saving you?' Sam asked.

Lucifer turned to him, his eyes widening slightly in confusion.

'Can you be saved?' Sam asked again.

'I don't know,' Lucifer replied. 'Can I?'