Title: the star of mourning
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for season 5
Pairings: mentions of canon het
Rating: PG
Wordcount:205
Point of view: third
Prompt: Lucifer/Nick, pity
Nick is a nice enough fellow. He pays his taxes, loves his wife, adores his daughter, and obeys traffic laws. He has no idea of all the horrible things in store for him.
He can be excused for that, though, since honestly, no one does.
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Nick used to be a nice enough fellow. Now he's bitter and angry and just wants to die, so that he can be with his family again. He would kill himself, except his wife spent hours sobbing in his arms after her father took his own life.
Nick is not Lucifer's first choice, or second, or third. He's not even on the third-string of options. No one important knows his name.
And in all the world, with billions of people to study, Lucifer settles on him for just that reason.
Sam Winchester is the one he really wants. But everyone knows about Sam. Nick is out of left field. Nobody will see Lucifer in Nick.
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Nicholas, Lucifer whispers, wrapping his wings around the man's fragile soul. Sleep, my dear. You are with your wife and daughter, and the sun is warm, and everything is perfect.
Lucifer is not merciless. Nick is damned, but he need not suffer until Lucifer burns him out.