Disclaimer: See Chapter 1

Luc knew something was wrong the moment he woke up, well it wasn't exactly hard to figure out he was handcuffed to something, felt like a radiator, he was also topless and had a bandage on his shoulder and several angry people were walking towards him and some had weapons, very sharp, very pointy weapons.

"Oh shit"


Xander heard the man swear under his breath and had to suppress a grin, at least the guy wasn't an idiot although he had just jumped into a house full of slayers who hadn't had any action it what seemed like weeks so him supposed that was debatable. When he arrived to stand over the guy he saw that both Giles and Faith had also come back, he decided to keep his mouth shut and let the G-man take the lead.


Luc saw the three leaders of the group standing over him but was careful not to ignore the other girls who were sitting around nonchalantly which when your holding a sword is quite an achievement. There was the old bloke looking quite the bookish type, there was the black haired, well saying she wasn't bad looking was a laughable understatement and finally there was a one-eyed guy that he was fairly certain he'd seen when he'd jumped through the window. It was book guy who spoke first, "I have as you must expect many questions the first being Who are you and Why are you here?".

Well that is fairly to the point and Luc barely paused before answering "My name is Luc, as to why I am here I wanted to speak to whoever is in charge of the branch of the Watchers Council that operates in this area, only me and my friends got a little sidetracked by the funky lizard dudes". At this one-eye spoke up "What friends and how do you know about the Watchers?"

"Little by product of the sidetrack my friends couldn't make it, as to the Watchers me and mine of always known of your kind though you did take us and everyone else by surprise by changing the rules, that was a pretty good move by the way" at that Luc began to smile "If you knew how much that messed with the guy downstairs plans you'd go all tingly with satisfaction".

At this the three looked a bit taken aback and it was again one-eye who spoke "You don't seem all that broken up about your friends"

"They should be okay as long as nothing untoward happens to them on the trip back home though Gabriel gonna be smarting for a while".

This caused the girl to speak for the first time "Okay you've lost me 'back home' what's that all about?"

"Yeah, they should be back in heaven by now although they won't be able to get back onto this plane for a while not until they get their strength back anyway, that kinda sucks as it means I'm without backup"

"I'm sorry heaven"

"Oh yeah didn't I mention I'm an Angel"

At this the old guy started polishing his glasses and the other two went jaw to the floor, it was the old fogey who composed himself first, "I've never read of an Angel called Luc"

At this Luc smiled broadly "Oh you wouldn't it's just my nickname, my full name is Lucifer".

This time they all went jaw to the floor.


Xander was speechless and his only thoughts were "this is new". It was Giles who broke the silence first "So you are claiming to be Lucifer, the Morningstar, the fallen angel, Satan and of course last but not least The Devil" by the end Giles's voice had risen an octave and he was speaking through clenched teeth. In response the guy just smiled back and said "Yes to the first three but the last two they are something else entirely" he paused for a moment and then continued "What you know of the Devil is severely limited, you understand how the world works the balance between good and evil. Therefore for everything on one side there must be an equal on the other, such is Satan he is the Antithesis of God unbelievably powerful and unbelievably foul. You have faced the First Evil, that was simply a facet of him created by a force that was called into existence by this creature".

At this Giles appeared slightly mollified but still looked like he was trying to figure something out, Faith looked pissed and Xander looked confused but his brain had moved on now, he was thinking "Shit, shit, shit we are so fucked,". In time Giles spoke again "You said before you were fallen if you are then what was your crime if it was not betraying God?"

The man, Lucifer Xander reminded himself seemed to rest back and smiled slightly "I was wondering if you'd remember that, the reason I was cast out now there's a story" at that he seemed to smile even more before launching into it, "You see as angels we are supposed to be above all the things that make humans tick we are supposed to be pure, but there was a girl and what a girl she was hot I'll tell you that a real fittie, prime piece of ass, God's gift to man, I mean seriously she had a nice…" "Ok we understand she was good looking move on" an exasperated Faith broke in, this caused the guy( Angel angel not guy) to smile even more, "Any way so one day I finally gave into my urgings and I fly on down to the garden and make with the sinful act, now I'm not quite sure how but the Lord found out I suppose being an omniscient being has to count for something, and so he cast me out of heaven and doomed me to walk the Earth forever or at least till I die, then I go to hell and let me tell you I am not going to like being the first ever Angel they had as a inmate" he shivered a little and then rested back against the radiator.

Everyone was silent for a moment and then Giles muttered something to himself under his breath it sounded like "garden" to Xander which didn't really make sense, then the G-man smiled and spoke "When you said Gods gift to man you weren't speaking figuratively were you," At that Lucifer smiled and shook his head "You pillock you mean you actually slept with Eve!" and at that he smiled a little more and nodded his head. And Xander Felt his jaw drop again.