Lucifer landed outside the gates of the Silver City, a place he hadn't been in millennia. Amenadiel was waiting for him when he arrived. Lucifer could hardly believe he was about to walk through those gates for the first time in so long. He had mixed emotions about it. A part of him yearned to be here, in the place he'd called home for so long, despite the fact that he'd told himself he hated it for so long. The detective pointed out that he told himself he hated it to cope with being kicked out. Perhaps she was right. However, there was a part of him that didn't want to there, that saw Heaven as Hell, thanks to Adam and Eve, and to a lesser extent, his father. He also wasn't ready to face his father knowing he knew the truth. Then there was the fact that he still questioned whether or not he'd be welcome. Amenadiel and Michael had both assured him he was, but a part of him still expected to be shunned the moment he stepped through the gates.
"It's okay, Luci," Amenadiel assured him, figuring out at least part of what his brother was thinking. "Nothing's going to happen. No one will stop you."
Lucifer took a deep breath and gently pushed the doors open. If he was going to do this, it had to be now, before the part of his brain that told him to run won over. He hesitantly stepped inside and got his first look of the Silver City in eons. He still expected to be rejected by his siblings, but he wasn't, not in the way he was expecting. He saw several of them when he stepped through. They all looked at him, many with contempt, but not a single one of them attempted to stop him, even if they wanted to."
"See? No one's gonna do anything. They've been forbidden to," Amenadiel said. He then led the way through the City. He figured his brother would prefer to walk to their father's quarters instead of flying. It would give him time to prepare himself. He felt kind of bad because he knew his brother wasn't ready for this. He was only doing it because Amenadiel had dropped the danger to humans in his lap.
Lucifer followed his brother until his father's home came into view. Then he stopped. His heart began to race. He was scared. He wasn't afraid of his father exactly, but he was afraid to face him knowing that his father knew everything. He also worried about what his father would expect from him now. For thousands of years, he knew what he was in his father's eyes. He knew what the old man wanted from him, even if Lucifer hadn't given it to him in the last few years. Now, he didn't know what to expect. Would he insist Lucifer return to the Silver City permanently? Or would his welcome back be temporary? Would he be sent back to Hell? The unknown worried him. He just wasn't ready to do this yet
Amenadiel noticed his brother had stopped following him and turned to him. "Luci, you okay? Are you coming?"
Lucifer shook his head. He hated himself for being so insecure and frightened. He felt like a boy again, and he hated that. But he wasn't prepared to face his father just yet. "No, I don't want to go yet. I'm going to walk for a while."
"I'll come with you," Amenadiel offered.
"No, I want to be alone," Lucifer said before walking away before his brother could argue.
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Lucifer wasn't entirely sure why or how he'd gotten to the cells in the Silver City. Somehow he'd just ended up there. He supposed perhaps a part of him needed to see them locked up for what they did to him. It was sort of ironic since all he'd wanted since Eve showed up at Lux was to get as far away from her as he could. Now he was voluntarily going to see both her and Adam.
As Lucifer opened the door that led to the cells, she could hear both Adam and Eve.
"We didn't do anything wrong," Eve whined.
"Shut up! This is your fault. If you hadn't gone down there, no one would know anything!" Adam yelled at her.
Lucifer shut the door, making his presence known. As he walked towards them, he felt a bit of satisfaction seeing them behind bars. Of course, it was followed by nausea at being so close to them, but he could deal with it to see them like this.
"Lucifer! That is you, right?" Eve asked. She wasn't entirely sure it was him because this was Heaven, and Lucifer's twin resided here, but there were subtle differences in the two men. This man was dressed just like Lucifer dressed when he was on Earth. The way he looked at her also seemed similar, even though she didn't understand why he'd look at her with such contempt.
Lucifer merely nodded in response.
Adam, meanwhile, sent Lucifer a sick smile. "Hello, Samael. It's been such a long time, hasn't it. I can honestly say I've missed you."
Lucifer stomach turned even further if that was possible.
"Lucifer, you have to get us out of here. You have to tell your father we didn't do anything wrong. You know what happened was what we all wanted. You have to tell him…"
"Shut up, Eve. I am tired of listening to your bloody stupidity! The fact that you're an idiot doesn't make what you did to me anything other than what it was. You raped me! I will not lift a finger to help you. No, I will enjoy seeing what my father does with you. It will probably be the first time in thousands of years that I will actually be grateful to him," Lucifer snarled.
"What about you?" Adam asked with an evil smirk. "Your father may be angry at us now, but it won't be long until he turns on you. He'll realize how weak you were. How you did nothing to stop it. In fact, you kept coming back."
"You threatened me!" Lucifer yelled.
"Oh, but I'm just a weak human. You could've stopped me if you wanted. You know you wanted it deep down. Your father will see that. That's why you kept your mouth shut for so long. Of course, you never should've opened it to begin with. You had us banished from the Garden. Don't worry though, I had my revenge for that," Adam said smugly.
"What?" Lucifer asked confused.
Adam laughed. "The world had to hear about the Devil from someone, right?"
Lucifer shook his head. "No. That rumor didn't start getting around until at least a century after I arrived in Hell. You were dead by then."
"True, but all I had to do was start spreading it. I told my children, who continued to pass it down our line. The stories just kept growing until it became the norm," Adam said.
Lucifer was in shock. He'd always thought his father was responsible for that, or at the very least, some of his siblings had done it with his father's permission. He didn't think humans could've vilified them completely on their own. He figured someone had to tell them something. But he hadn't been taking Adam and Eve into consideration. "You told humans that I was responsible for their sins?"
Adam smirked in response. "It's your own fault. If you'd kept your mouth shut, everything could've been different. None of us would've been banished, and the three of us could've kept having our fun."
"You bastard!" Lucifer fumed. He realized now that everything that happened to him was because of Adam and Eve. He certainly didn't absolve his father for sending him to Hell, but at the end of the day, none of it would've happened if not for what Adam and Eve did to him.
"Oh, don't blame me, you were the one that ruined things. And why? Deep down you know you loved it," Adam said. He then reached through the bars and took ahold of Lucifer's arm.
Lucifer went stiff as he found this sick bastard's hands on him once more. "Let go!"
"Oh, it's been so long since I've felt body. Your touch is as lovely as ever. How about you show me those wings again?" Adam asked.
Lucifer flashed back to the Garden. He recalled himself being held down by Adam while the human ran his hands down his entire body. At this moment, Lucifer felt like he was back there. That's what he felt as Adam had his hands on him and spoke to him the same way he had back then. And just like then, he felt powerless to stop it.
Now, however, Lucifer realized that he wasn't powerless. He could fight against Adam, and he did. He yanked his arm back forcefully and took a few steps back "Get off of me!"
What happened next happened quick and caught Lucifer off guard. He saw Adam go flying into the wall just before feeling more hands on his person. This caused more anxiety and fear. He couldn't even register that it couldn't be either Adam or Eve touching him. It didn't matter who had their hands on him. He needed them off. "Get off."
Lucifer struggled but the arms on him didn't let up. They pulled him away from Adam and Eve and away from Heaven's cells. He tried to struggle, but whoever had him was stronger than Adam, and he still hadn't registered who it was, too trapped in his anxiety. "Let me go! Get off of me!"
The hands finally let go once Lucifer was away from the cells. He immediately took several steps back from whoever it was. "Don't touch me!"
"Alright, I'm sorry. I just wanted to get you out of there. I did not mean to make things worse."
Lucifer finally calmed down enough to open his eyes and see who was in front of him. He found himself staring at his father, who had his hands up in surrender. "Dad?"
"It's okay, son. No one's going to hurt you anymore. Can you take some deep breaths for me? It'll help you calm down a little. Sit down too. There's a bench right behind you,' God told him.
Lucifer did as his father suggested. He sat down and took a couple of deep breaths. Once he did, he felt kind of foolish for losing it so badly. Yes, it was horrible to have Adam touch him, but Eve had touched him without causing that kind of reaction. Maybe it was because Adam was more brutal than Eve.
"That's it. Are you doing a little better, son?" God asked gently.
Lucifer looked around to find that they had an audience. Five of his siblings were standing a few feet away watching them. They had to have seen Lucifer's meltdown. "Oh, bloody hell!"
God followed his son's eyes to his other children. He immediately shooed them away with a hand gesture before turning back to Samael. "Why did you come here, Samael? You should not be here."
"Michael and Amenadiel said it was okay," Lucifer said without looking at his father. He hated that he felt so insecure when talking to his father. He hated that he felt hurt that his father apparently didn't want him there after all. He should be telling his father he hated him. He should be punching him, not sitting there dejectedly, like a child.
"No, I'm not talking about the Silver City. You are more than welcome here. I am talking here at the cells. You should not be anywhere near them, especially right now. Why did you come?" God asked again.
"I don't know. I guess I just had to," Lucifer said. He looked around again, worried more of his siblings would show up and see him as he was.
God could see his son's distress. "Why don't you come back with me to my quarters? I think you need some rest, and then we should talk."
"Do I have a choice?" Lucifer asked almost bitterly. He doubted it. His father didn't give choices.
"Yes, of course. You may go where you please. Well, almost anywhere. I don't want you going to Adam and Eve's cell again, at least not alone, but you may go anywhere else. However, as I said, I think you need to rest. I can see you haven't gotten much of that. You can do so in my quarters. Will you come with me?" God asked.
"I guess," Lucifer said before standing up. He decided he might as well. He did come back to speak to his father.
God smiled slightly and led the way to his quarters.