Lucifer felt the boy the very second he tried. It wasn't even hard to find him. Lucifer hadn't been able to feel an angel that wasn't directly in front of him since he cut out his corrupted Grace. But he felt the boy from across the country. Amenadiel couldn't feel, but Lucifer could. That meant the boy was explicitly connected to him, connected to his Grace. He could almost convince himself that it was just because his creation sired the boy, but Lucifer could feel his Grace. It wasn't corrupted. It was pure, and much like his own before the mark was forced on him.

"You can feel him, can't you, brother?" Amenadiel asked.

"Can you? Where is he? Where is Jack?" Castiel demanded to know.

"Maryland," Lucifer said.

Maze laughed. "Well, should we go out for a drink and cigar to celebrate the new father.

Lucifer was too shocked, and also a bit horrified, to even react to Maze's mocking. The boy was his. He could feel it as he sensed the young Nephilim. It wasn't even just the fact that the kid had similar Grace or the fact that Lucifer could sense him from so far away. It was something Lucifer could just feel as his small amount of Grace reached the boy.

"Can you admit it now, Luci?" Amenadiel asked.

"Yes," Lucifer replied quietly. He could admit, but he wasn't happy. He'd never, ever planned to become a father, and not just because it was forbidden. He didn't do well with children. He didn't even like the limited contact he had with Chloe Decker's child. Now he was a father to a child he hadn't actually conceived himself. That just wasn't right.

"No, you're lying. You aren't Jack's father. You weren't even with his mother," Casitel said. Not even angels could have children without being with the child's mother first. Lucifer, if that was truly him, had to be lying.

Lucifer glared at the seraph. "What part of 'I do not lie' is hard for you grasp, brother? And if I was going to lie, why would I lie about this. I don't like children. Why in the world would I want my own? Plus, you just witnessed attempt an argument against being the kid's father. Use your brain."

"This is freaking crazy. Now people can have kids without having sex?" Dean asked.

"You've just read my mind," Lucifer said as he continued to try to wrap his head around it.

"Luci, we need to find the boy," Amenadiel said.

"No freaking way. You assholes aren't going anywhere near that kid!" Dean said.

Maze snorted. "I'd like to see stop them. Seriously, I'd like to see it."

"Would everybody shut it and let a chap come to terms with finding out he's father?" Lucifer asked annoyed.

"Lucifer, I know you're shocked, but we really need to get to this boy. Everything in the world is likely after him. The other angels certainly are," Amenadiel said.

Lucifer didn't want to go after the kid. He wanted to go back to LA and forget this ever happened, but he couldn't. He might not want to be a father, but he was one. He would not be like his own father was. He would not abandon his own child. "Yes, you're probably right."

Amenadiel turned to Maze. "Maze, you should stay here. I don't know how a Nephilim would react to a demon."

"Fine by me. I don't do family drama. But have a good reunion," Maze said with a smile. The last part was directed to Lucifer.

"Hey! I said none of you are getting near Jack!" Dean yelled.

"Dean," Castiel warned. While he didn't want them near Jack either, he did not think it was a good idea to provoke these people. Amenadiel was just as powerful as Michael, and Lucifer, depleted Grace or not, was not someone to anger.

Lucifer stood up and walked over to Dean. "Listen, I don't make a habit of harming humans who don't deserve it, but I'll make an exception if you continue to try my patience. Then again, you let two things out of their cages when they should've been left alone, so maybe you do deserve it."

"I let him out, not Dean," Castiel said.

Lucifer ignored his youngest brother. Well, actually he just stored the information away to use later, but he nevertheless disregarded Castiel for his human friend. "You may not like it, and I certainly don't, but I am Jack's father."

"That doesn't mean you should be around him," Sam said distrustfully.

"Perhaps not. There are certainly parents all around that shouldn't have been allowed to have them, and I have no doubt that I qualify. Nevertheless, the child is mine. Only I can locate him, and only I can teach him to use control the immense power he has in order to not use it to destroy all of creation. Oh, and there is also the fact that you can't stop me," Lucifer said.

"Wanna bet," Dean said before taking a step forward.

Sam grabbed his brother and held him back. "Don't."

"Right, let's get this over with," Lucifer said before going over to Amenadiel.

Amenadiel took ahold of his brother and disappeared with him.

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Amenadiel appeared with Lucifer in the woods. He looked around and saw no one around. "Where is he?'

"Down this way. I didn't think it was best to appear directly in front of the boy. Riling up a Nephilim hardly seems like the best idea," Lucifer said.

Amenadiel nodded and followed his brother. "Are you alright?"

"Of course not! I have a bloody child! I don't like children," Lucifer said.

"Well, from what I've gathered, physically, he's a teenager," Amenadiel said.

"Worse," Lucifer said with a shudder.

"I don't get this thing against children with you anyway. You don't hate children. You practically raised our brother," Amenadiel said.

Lucifer stiffened at the mention of Gabriel. He'd been trying not to think about him as much as possible. In fact, that was the only upside to finding out he was a father. It allowed him to think of something besides the fact that his brother might dead. "That was different. It was before."

"Before you fell. That's it. It's not children that bother you, it's what comes with them," Amenadiel realized. Children came with emotions. You couldn't be around a child and not feel a plethora of emotions, and Lucifer had made a point not to deal with his feelings since he was exiled to Hell.

"Shut up and keep walking," Lucifer said. Just then, he heard a yell and a loud growl.

Both angels quickened their pace until the reached a young man being held to a tree by a vampire.

"Excuse me!" Lucifer called out. He waited until both beings turned to him before he continued. "Would you kindly take your hands off my offspring?"

"What? What the hell are…"

The vampire's words were cut off as Amenadiel snapped his fingers and destroyed the creature.

Jack, meanwhile, flinched at what he saw. The vampire he had been fighting exploded in blood.

Lucifer turned and glared at his brother. "Why did you do that? You could've let me fight for a few minutes. You're so bloody boring."

"Luci," Amenadiel said before gesturing to the shocked young man a few feet away, indicating that his brother should deal with his son.

"Right, I suppose," Lucifer said before approaching the young man. "Umm, hello there. Jack, yes?"

"You're angels, aren't you?" Jack asked before taking a step back. He knew enough about angels to know they were dangerous, and many times, they could hurt him enough to keep him from using his power. The noise they let out sometimes was terrible.

"Well, he is, and I suppose technically I am, but I don't like to see myself as such. No, I'm the Devil," Lucifer said proudly.

Jack's eyes widened. "You… You're Lucifer? You're my father."

"Yes, I suppose so. I just learned that fact actually," Lucifer said.

Jack stepped back again. "Stay away from me. Sam and Dean say you're evil."

"Yes, well, that was a case of mistaken identity. It's a long story. Perhaps we should discuss it over a drink. Oh, no, you're not legal. Judging from your appearance, you don't seem older than sixteen or seventeen, so that's out. A shame really. Things like this should be discussed over alcohol," Lucifer said.

"Lucifer," Amenadiel chided.

"What? I'm doing the best I can. Deep conversations aren't my specialty," Lucifer said to Amenadiel before turning back to Jack. "Okay, so the clip notes version is this. Yes, I am the Devil. Yes, I am technically your father. However, I am not the thing that bedded your mother, nor am I the thing the Winchester's informed you of."

"I don't understand." Jack said. He wasn't following anything this man was saying. He appeared to be rambling at first, and now he was saying things that made no sense to Jack at all. What did he mean he wasn't the man everyone knew? How was that possible?

"I don't think the clip notes version is going to do, Luci. Plus, we should get out of here before something worse than a vampire finds him," Amenadiel said. He could take on whatever came their way, but there was no need to wait for more danger to follow.

"Yes, alright. Perhaps this conversation should be had elsewhere."

"I'm not going with you," Jack said firmly.

If Jack were any other being, Amenadiel would probably have just grabbed him and forced him with them, but as a Nephilim, Jack was more powerful than almost any other being in the world. He didn't want to test the kid. "You don't have to. Our only intention was go back to the Winchesters. We'd just follow you."

"You know how to get to Sam, Dean, and Castiel?" Jack asked alarmed. If they could get to them, they might hurt them. He couldn't let his friends be hurt.

"Oh, yes, we just left them," Lucifer said.

"You better not have hurt them," Jack said before flying away.

Lucifer went back to Amenadiel and they followed.