Thanks for the reviews. I hope I don't fck up.
Samyo: It's great to hear from one my favorite authors and reviewers. I hope this will be to your liking.
ChiaraStorm: I'm happy that you're happy, the decision to have Ange and John already through with a failed romance came cause I'm not sure how to handle it, Angela may still make the cut. Though it will be getting very crowded soon with John, Eudemon, Ellie, Gabriel and Azrael... as well as some characters that will be introduced soon.
Eudaemon and Ellie sat on his couch as John starred aimlessly into space, taking long drags of smoke, there it was, eleven months of abstinence from smoking has just went down the drain.
"Damn it John, say something!" said Ellie.
"It's safe to say that the shit has hit the fan." said John blankly as he put out the dying cigarette.
"That's a given." said Eudaemon.
"Just to make one thing clear, you're having a baby, Together?"
"Yeah." said Ellie bitterly.
"Okay." said John as he got up and closed the curtains, then sat on a chair facing the odd couple.
"So how exactly does an Angel end up shakin' up with one of the devil's own?"
"It's my doing," said Ellie guiltily, "When I got aligned with Mammon and the Snob, I knew I was against the Devil. Then when you blew them out the water he started sending his acolytes after us, we could run, but we couldn't hide, luckily I managed to find a shaman in Cape Town who managed to use some of his heavy magic to shield me from the eyes of Satan. It wouldn't last for long though; A year at most, then it would start to fade away he told me.
"I had to seize the opportunity, make great use of the time I had, so I had this bright Idea to prove I'm still worth a damn. No succubus has ever managed to get in an Angel's pants, doing the undoable would not only get me on the dark prince's good side, it would improve my status as well."
"You were desperate," said John, "I know the feeling."
"So I found my mark, Eudaemon is still young and hasn't been in here for long. So I did my best. I showed off a little cleavage, I shined the bedroom eyes. It worked like if it was meant by god." said Ellie.
"Only one thing went wrong." said Eudaemon.
"We fell in love." said Ellie.
Ellie smiled faintly, a smile of somber joy, her hand found it's way into Eudaemon's, their fingers wrapped tightly around each other's, John couldn't help but sense the pure love the two shared, what were the odds? An Angel and a Demon sharing true and pure love, when human's rarely could find it. John was envious.
"I sensed purity in him, he was green, he hasn't been tainted by the wickedness of this world yet, how could I ravage his soul?" Ellie said.
"I never felt this way about anyone before, we Angels' aren't supposed to be with anyone. But she was impossible to resist, she seemed so luscious and innocent, beauty incarnate; the type you'd only see in Heaven." said Eudaemon.
"Spare me the chick flick monologue." said John sardonically then went and got a beer out of the fridge, "So you both did what you were not supposed to do, you forgot about eons of conflict and war and did what you felt like. 'That's about right?"
"I guess so, Ellie was able to temp me, but couldn't hurt Me." said Eudaemon.
"And you turned Lust into love." said Ellie.
The two couldn't help but kiss briefly, unable to remember all the trouble they were in and all the reasons they shouldn't be in this situation.
"And now you're shopping for nursery furniture," said John as he lit another cigarette, "Tell me something, Kids. Have you ever heard of birth control?"
The pair was silent, John then got up and started pacing around, "Tell me about the nipper, have you went to a hospital?"
"Yes, they told us we had a healthy child." said Ellie.
"Is it human?" asked John.
"Half human, quarter angel and a quarter demon. Angels and Demons don't show up on sonograms." said Eudaemon.
"I can see your problem; I imagine that neither of your sides are going to have any of it. Sooner or later the scavengers of hell are going to find you Ellie, that mystical shield is coming down, right?"
"Right."
"And when they do, they'll tear you apart and take him away."
They knew that very well, yet his words caused a cloud of depression to descend upon them.
"Have you considered an abortion?" asked John.
Eudaemon was angered at his question, but managed to contain his wrath. And as John looked at Ellie he knew exactly what she was thinking, she must have tried it but couldn't do it; a Demon in love with an Angel is still a Demon and is capable of anything.
"I don't think you can, all things that come when they aren't supposed to, come anyway and there is nothing anyone can do about it."
John took a lungful of smoke and muttered to himself, "It's like I've been thrust into some sappy French nineteen-sixties movie."
John was reluctant to help, "Why would I want to help you? I'm on heaven's short list for the first time since... ever. Why would I want to risk it all, and out of all people, why would I wan to risk it for a horny angel and a backstabbing demon?"
"You're our only choice, Constantine. You're the only one with the mind and balls to help us out." said Ellie.
Ellie knew John very well, she knew how to appeal to him; it was her job after all. And with John Constantine, she knew Flattery will get her everywhere.
"I'll do it."
The tires of a yellow '89 Chevy Taxi screeched to a halt and a strapping man of John's age poked his head out the driver's window.
"'ello John, hop in." the cabbie said with a thick Cockney accent.
"Thanks Frank."
John sat at the front as Eudaemon helped Ellie to the back.
"Club Midnite," said John, "And step on it."
Frank Chandler(1) was one of John's oldest friends, the two had met in their early twenties when John was traveling through Europe, which was swarming with all one could imagine of bohemian occultists and seasoned Exorcists. And when John was in London and looking for a place to crash, Frank put him up in exchange for dealing with certain ominous parties whom Frank owed money. Frank drove John around London for all the times he spent there, as he has been doing since Frank came to work in the states seven months ago.
"Who are the two?" asked Frank as the cab zipped through the streets of L.A.
"Two kids who didn't know any better."
They finally reached the club, and went to the back where they descended by a long flight of stairs, at the bottom was a locked the door which John opened with the use of three keys, but as they went to enter they were blocked by a mystical barrier.
"What's wrong?" asked Eudaemon.
"Nothing." said John, "Numquam leadatur a morsu."
The air seemed to ripple and John tried to enter again and was successful, Eudaemon and Ellie followed. After passing through a dark corridor they walked into Midnite's office, John crossed it and opened a door that led to a Moroccan style bedroom.
"Park yourselves over there," said John, "I'll be gone for a while, make yourselves comfortable, but not too comfortable. And whatever happens, don't step out of the office."
John went to leave the office, and just as he was leaving he turned around
"Meanwhile think about names, can I suggest John for a boy and Constance for a girl, not too shabby isn't it?" he said smugly before he shut the door behind him.
"Hello John." said Jack Moriarty: Owner of 'Moriarty's Rare Books', a skinny man of his late thirties. He was another one of John's friends; a rare book dealer specializing on those of the occult, he was a black market trader as well and was in fact Beeman's business partner.
"Hello Jack. Where's your Quadrants of Nostradamus(2)?"
"Whoa! You know not everyone gets their hands on my goods. Why should I let you?"
"I'll owe you one."
"Where have I heard that before? What the heck, they're in my office at the back, right between the first edition of 'The Art of War' and the Kama Sutra."
John went to the back and tossed a half-dozen of ancient books on to a table, some dust rose as they hit the wooden surface, and for the next couple of hours he flipped through every volume searching for any clue, any prophecy about a child of a demon and an angel. But there was none, not even the most recognized seer did not manage to find about the child that shouldn't have come.
"What are you looking for?" asked Jack as he came in with a styrophome cup of coffee in hand.
"Don't burden yourself with the stark raving lunacy that is my life, Jackie boy."
"Too late for that. What is it? Obituary? Birth? Declarations?"
"Door Number Two."
Jack went to the shelve and picked up a volume and handed it John, after scheming through that as well John handed it back with disappointment.
"Looks like its either not meant to be or it's not too significant." said Jack as he placed the volume back in place.
"I need some merchandise." said John as he lit a cigarette.
"Do you have the cash?"
"Put it on my tab."
"Someday I'll make you pay that tab. What do you need?"
"Thaught screening amulet, something to keep my thoughts a secret without letting anyone know I'm hiding anything."
Jack took an amulet out of his desk that was a cupper bracelet and tossed it to John.
"Anything else?"
"Any sort of heavy hitting blade."
"How heavy hitting? Are we talking about wounding-"
"I'm talking about the stuff that'll cut a demon open."
"I have nothing like that, but Maybe I can put something together, like a Holy Chainsaw or something'."
"I also need you to get me some sort of demonic prison, a box preferably."
"I'll see what I can do."
John got up and lit another cigarette and put on his trench coat, Jack called after him saying, "Hey John, what are all these for?"
"I'm throwing a friend a baby shower."
The Devil was particularly furious as he walked through the pits of Hell where the queen of the succubae resided, just a few scores of feet below his throne.
"LILITH(3)." he screamed with anger, letting flames explode around him as he looked foe the queen.
Lilith stood in her domain and watched proudly as demonizes taunted men that were being tortured for their lust that could not be contained when they were on alive on earth. Lilith's face which was a combination of long faded beauty and the epitome of cruelty twitched with joy, this was the only heaven for her.
As Lucifer found them, she hunched over herself in respect of her lord, her brood cowered in fear and crawled away.
"Master, you should have told me before you came." she said, crawling away as he approached.
"Why? Would you have straitened up the place?"
Lilith chuckled manically while Lucifer circled her and said, "You're slacking, it seems that your joys have kept you from upholding your duties. I've told you to find that miscreant daughter of yours. And you're yet to deliver."
"My lord, my dear prince; she is just an insignificant whore of mine, one of endless legions. She can do us no harm."
"She can do us no harm, but she still has to pay for her actions, no Demon of hell has the right to make a boost that to have betrayed LUCIFER MORNINGSTAR and lived to gloat about it."
Lilith lowered her head in silence, "Besides, she's the one that knows John Constantine better than all others. She alone can help me to get him back, that bastard will not go to heaven, I'd only hate to bow to Adam than to have him go to Heaven..."
"You will have him, M'Lord. My daughter had used black magic to shield her from us, but the magus who did it is dying, he'll be here soon, and when he does he'll tell us where to find her."
"For your sake that better happen, John Constantine will slip into my grasp once again, and I'll be there to see him slip, and I'll savor every minute of it, my laughs are going to echo through eternity."
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Note: The Devil's comment on bowing to Adam is a reference to how he become the deivl. When god created Adam he ordered all his creations to bow to the new being that possesed free will. Lucifer refused and a third of the heavenly ghost joined him, they subsequently were cast out of heaven and thus the demons came to prominance.
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(1) Frank Chandler is a character from the Hellblazar comics, he was John's origianl cabbie friend, not the movie's Chas Kramer.
(2) Nostradamus was supposedly a precognetic that predicted several events throughout history, and was wrong some of the time as well. It is rumored that he sold his soul to the devil in exchange of knowledge of future events.
(3) Lilith in Jewish lore was Adam's first wife, whom he refued for her disobediance to her husband. And subsequently became a succubus and a vampire and a mother to slews of demons.