After the mix up last week, I went back to check the remaining chapters.
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Jane wished there was a clock in the interrogation room. Though she didn't have anywhere else to be, she would have wished to be elsewhere. She was stuck there, handcuffed to the table. Everything had finally caught up to her.
Finally the door opened and Chloe entered. She slammed a decent side folder on the table. "You have no idea how long it took me to do a background check on you. Your birth name is Thalia Sinclair. But you also go by Jane Doyle, and Ann Twictiee and Diana Keene, and Katherine Hutchinson, and Eleanor Shaw, and Marian Barnes and Yvonne Carson. Any other names I should know about?"
"Helen Walton." Jane said.
"Of course. The only thing you didn't lie about were the degrees you have, all twenty of them. I do have to admit, they are impressive."
"Thanks." People were always impressed.
"So exactly what are you?"
"An Indiana Jones Librarian warrior person." Jane answered, summing all of her jobs up into a few words.
"Seriously?"
"That's the best way to describe my job. I am constantly studying, I travel all the time and I try to keep the world safe."
"Are you special?"
"No, I am just human. I belong to an organization that keep the world safe from legendary and divine beings."
"You hear yourself? There are no legendary or divine beings trying to end us all. Those are just stories we tell kids or sometimes ourselves to escape from reality." Chloe was getting annoyed.
"Two possibilities exist: either we are along in the universe or we aren't. Both are equally terrifying." Jane said, quoting something she had seen long ago.
"You might not be a great savior. You lied about your snake phobia, you just described an Indiana Jones movie. What did you really see? And what did Lucifer mean by saying you aren't as innocent as we thought?"
At that, Jane shut down, guilt flashed across her face.
Chloe rapped on the table. "Hey, earth to whoever you are. You knew it was Shawn? You saw him during your drug drawing session? Do you two have history I should know about?"
Jane remained silent.
The door flew open and Lucifer entered the room. "Detective, maybe I should try to get answers from her. You did say she trusts me more than you."
"Fine, she might open up more to you." Chloe stood up and left the room.
This left Jane alone with the Devil. He sat down across from her. For the first time, she did not want to be in the same room as him, much less trapped under his gaze. Fear was already steeping into her.
"I just had a nice long interesting chat with Shawn. Seems like a nice guy apart from the murders. I'll figure out his punishment later. Right now, it's all about you. Don't you feel special? According to your former partner, he never wanted to wipe out the world, that was all you." He actually growled the last word.
Jane couldn't lie now, it wasn't possible. There also wasn't a point anymore. He would find out the truth no matter what.
"You wanted to wipe out the world, is it really that messed up that you wanted to become Dad and start fresh? You might not know this, but He hates when people try to be Him!"
"I didn't do it!" She suddenly yelled, needing to say something.
"What, had a change of heart? Thought better of your life choices?"
"Yes, I had all that power in my hands and I didn't use it. That has to count for something!"
"Believe me, it's doesn't! Even thinking about doing something wrong and there's a black mark in your book."
"How is that fair?" Nothing made sense anymore. Were they really getting into a screaming match about right and wrong?
"It's not fair, nothing is fair! You are preaching to the choir!"
"Yes, I almost choose to wipe out the world, clean slate it, because at the time I thought it was right. The way people are consuming resources and treating each other, it's disgraceful. Taking everything from them and starting over would make them see the error of their ways. And in time, the Earth would heal itself."
"And you would be a hero? Be looked at as the savior?"
"I never thought that far ahead. I had the Spear in my hands and I felt the power steeping into me but somehow I saw through it all. Saw the pain, the loss, the destruction and I couldn't bear to be the cause of that. I privately reaffirmed my loyalty to the Eye, I would protect the world and all its relics. Protect them but never use them for selfish gain. Giving into would betray everything I was believed in, that wasn't me. I saved the world from myself. I looked power in the eye and said no."
"Any guilt in there?" Lucifer asked after listening to her speech.
"That was instant. It made me place all the blame on Shawn to save my name. It was the wrong thing to do and for that I am sorry."
"If you resisted, where is the Spear now?"
"Where civilization began, the Tigris and the Euphrates."
"You threw it into the sea?"
"There are some things mankind cannot be trusted with. I learned that lesson that day."
"You sound almost proud of yourself." He commented.
"In the end, I did the right thing. That should count for something." Now she was almost pleading.
"In a perfect world, yes. It would count for something. And this is nowhere near a perfect world. But you try to make it that way, don't you?" Lucifer asked.
"I try. That's all people can do. Try and try until you get it goes right. I cleared my soul."
"You need to face him, be honest."
"Is that my punishment?"
"Yes."
"I guess I can't say no to you."
"Never could."
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"Jane" has so many names, no wonder she can't keep everything straight.