Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Nick/Lucifer (For Paula)
Pairing type: Platonic? (What do vessels count as?)
Prompt: Winter
It was early summer when Nick allowed the devil to share his skin. From the moment he said "Yes" the world turned on its head, which was to be expected, but just how strange they got was surprising.
If you had asked Nick where he'd be in his life at this point, locked up with Satan in some abandoned recess of his own consciousness would not have been high on his list of answers. Here they were, however, and there was nothing to do but get to know each other better.
Lucifer was a violent man, that was no surprise, but his motives were startlingly honest. He told Nick the story of how he fell from Heaven, and Nick couldn't help but feel sorry the guy. He was also honest about what his plans were now. Everything was put on the table – Sam Winchester, the apocalypse, the likely casualties and the inevitable destruction. But Nick didn't believe for a second that Lucifer wanted this. The guy was no saint, but he spoke of his family like he still mourned the loss, and well, Nick understood that feeling.
When autumn turned to winter and they were no closer to Sam, Nick expected Lucifer to grow angry. He braced himself for it. The slow burn of Lucifer's grace against the walls of his skin was excruciatingly painful, but he knew it couldn't be helped. As the days grew shorter and the devil's frustrations grew longer, Nick expected some intentional torture to be thrown his way. Funnily enough, as time went on Lucifer only grew more gentle. If winter made most humans depressed, it had the opposite effect on the archangel. He seemed to thrive in the cold, and his spirits were in a constant upswing. He was sure they were going to win, sure things were going to go his way. Patience and perseverance, that was all it was going to take. Nick wasn't about to tell him differently.
In the end, Sam said yes. Lucifer had done it honestly, Sam had even come to him, and Nick couldn't help but be impressed. There was a sadness too. In the time of his greatest loneliness, Nick had found companionship in the last person he would ever have expected. He knew he was just a tool, a means to an end, but as he felt Lucifer leave his body, he couldn't help feeling the loss of the last friend he'd had, and realize now there was nothing left but to die.