Part 8

"Well, its like this," Spike said moving a little on the couch. If Xander didn't know better he would have thought that Spike was uncomfortable talking about it. "I got to know last night, and I must say that I never saw it coming. At least not when I was face to face with Acathla again."

"Acathla?"

Xander turned towards the person who had spoken, he should have known that bringing up a former enemy would wake the watcher up from his coma like state. Giles was a watcher after all and if there was any mentioning of any kind of demon he just had to know more or research.

"My brother Gideon is a very good Shapeshifter," Xander pointed over at his youngest older brother who was sound asleep at their father's feet not even all the commotion that the group made was able to wake him up. "There is no Acathla. Gideon played that part, my brothers were just doing what devils usually do creating trouble. I just got to know this little piece of information. Gideon has promised never to do it again though, since my dad don't want to be stuck with Angel's brooding ones more."

It was a good thing that Gideon had fallen asleep or else he would be babbling about all the things that he had done to please his brothers. Xander did not think that the mortals would like many of the stories that his brothers had to tell. Spike would probably be very exited about the stories.

Xander did not really know what more to say though his father cut in which suited him fine. "My sons all have very special gifts though none of them are perfect. While Gideon can change into anything that he pleases, Algernon can control fire as it was a part of him and Thaddeus is a very strong empath." Lucifer glanced at each son as he spoke.

"What about Xander?" Willow asked. She seemed a little nervous though who would not be nervous when they were talking to Lucifer? "I mean you told me that your sons have special powers though you did not mention Xander's power."

Lucifer looked over at his youngest son, who did not seem to really like the attention that he was getting and then back at the rest of the people in the room. "Alexander is very special." Lucifer started, he could see Xander staring to pay closer attention, as his youngest son had never heard his father speak of him with that tone in his voice before.

"Not only the fact that he is my youngest son who I never should have had. My seventh wife, Celia was a fallen angel, one of the angels that rebelled against God and was sent down to hell as a punishment. She was Alexander's true mother though when Celia was pregnant something terrible happened." Lucifer looked over at his son seeing Xander's surprise when he mentioned his mother. Xander had never heard anything about her, and it seemed to be a hard subject for his father to talk about, which it was.

"To carry a devil to term is never easy especially when you are not a devil yourself. Celia's body could not handle it and I did not notice until it was to late, she just never woke up one morning and I knew at ones that she had went on to a better place. It was a great pain for me that I had lost the only wife that I really cared about and the baby that should have been my pride and joy. Death came to me as he had done many times before; we stood there not saying anything for what felt like days. Until Death told me that he could not take the body of my wife before the living child inside of her was removed." Lucifer saw the shocked faces all around him, though he continued his story since he was not interrupted. Who really wanted to try and interrupt the Devil anyway?

"Alexander had survived inside his dead mother, which was a great miracle. I did not want Alexander to stay inside Celia, in case something would happen and he would be gone forever. The big problem was that I had no opportunity to remove Alexander from his mother without hurting him in some way. So I made a deal with someone, but to a great prize." Lucifer stopped speaking hoping that what he had told them would be enough for now. He knew that his youngest son had a lot more questions for him though.

"What prize dad?" Xander asked, not really sure if he wanted the answer.

Lucifer looked up at his son, wondering if he was ready to hear this. "Wait until tomorrow with the questions son, I will answer them when we are gathered as a family."

Xander was not the person to give up lightly though. "I am surrounded with family at this moment," he said gesturing around him at the gang and his brothers. "You didn't think that I would stay in this hell hole without adopting a family did you? It was not like I heard much from you either."

Lucifer sighed knowing that Xander was right; they had not been good at keeping in touch these last couple of years. "Very well," he said. "I will tell you the prize I needed to pay."

TBC