Chapter 7
Things had gotten weird.
After the boys had left, Katherine went back into the church. She didn't remember from which hallway she had come so she just followed the rumbling noise. At first sight, it looked the same as before. Then she noticed some small differences, like a blinding light coming from the cracks in the wooden door at the end. And the people that had been standing neatly in a row toward the wall before, were now kneeling on the floor.
Some muttering things under their breath. Once again ignoring them, Katherine approached the door. More slowly this time.
She was about to put her hand against it to push it open when the light and the noise faded. Katherine hesitated and looked back.
The people had stopped muttering and some sat up straight to stare at the door.
Closest to her, a man was looking at her. The others hadn't even seemed to notice her, but he had. He was handsome. In a mature way.
He looked to be in his late forties and was wearing a cheap suit. He might've pulled off the rich-lawyer act if it wasn't for that suit and the light stubble on his chin. He had dark brown hair and equally dark brown eyes.
'Are you sure you want to go in there, dear?' He said. She had expected him to sound sweet or even...dad-like. The voice that came out was neither. It had a cruel undertone and it sounded like he wanted her to open the door and something awful would happen. Katherine was wondering why he'd sounded so harsh, when the lawyer's beautiful dark brown eyes turned black and ice cold. Katherine flinched. He was a demon.
She looked at the row of people behind him and realized she was standing in a hallway full of demons. Why hadn't they done anything to her? They weren't even paying attention to her, except for the man formerly known as brown-eyes. He smiled. Eyes black as onyx gems, piercing into the back of her skull. Without thinking about it, Katherine put her hand behind her on the door. She just wanted to get out of there and not have to look into those eyes. The door creaked shortly and swung open. She would've fallen backwards if it wasn't for her fast reflexes.
What came next, was confusing to say the least. Katherine turned round and came face to face with…with what?
There was a woman standing in front of her but there was something…off about her. She was small, had long brown hair. She looked familiar. It was like her image was shifting. Not like a hologram but more like something was inside her. Trying not to burst out. There was a giant hole in the floor where that light had come from earlier. The light was gone but the hole was still there. Huge and gaping. Katherine was thinking about how, if she threw a stone in there it might sound like throwing it into a really deep well, when the woman spoke.
'I was expecting more people to be here. Maybe a banner? No? Still. Could've been worse I suppose.' She said. The woman hadn't moved a muscle. Like she didn't know how.
'Erm…sorry? There are some people outside if that makes you feel better?' Kathy blurted out. She always pulled out the sarcasm in weird and/or dangerous situations. She thought it was just to make more time to think of a plan but mostly it was just because she was scared out of her mind. Which was ridiculous because she couldn't die. Katherine started doubting that last part. She didn't know why but that tiny woman seemed so unbelievably powerful all of a sudden.
'My apologies for this body. It was…at hand.' She smiled. She looked at something on her left and then started moving al her fingers. Then her hands and after that her legs. Like she was testing them out.
'Yeah. No problem…I guess.' Katherine hadn't noticed it before. There was a body in the corner of the room. It was bent in strange ways as if something had blasted it against the wall. She probably knew what that 'something' was.
The woman looked up from her newly acquired limbs. 'So, are you the one?'
'The one? Erm… I don't know but my first thought would be..no?' Katherine's brain was doing overtime. What the hell was going on around here?
'Hmm..' The woman looked at her pensively. 'No… You're right. You're not the one. You're not it.'
'It? Excuse me…person. Would you mind telling me what the hell is going on and who the fuck you are?' Katherine said with a slight hint of mania in her voice.
'Oh silly me. I'm Lucifer.' She smiled.
'Lucifer?' Katherine unwillingly took a step back.
'Yes. Satan. The devil. Beelzebub. I go by a lot of names but I like Lucifer the most.' She walked toward the body in the corner of the room and rolled it over with a push of her foot. Katherine recognized it. Her. It. Pretty, blonde, thin and a giant cunt of a demon.
'Lilith.'
'Yes. My first you know.' Lucifer said, not looking up from the body.
Katherine didn't even try to make a run for it while Lucifer wasn't looking. She knew she'd be dead if she made the wrong move.
'Yes. I've been told.' She said absently while scanning the room for anything useful to talk about. Her eyes wandered over the floor and came across something very peculiar. A knife. It looked like nothing special. It was carved on one side and the wooden hilt seemed centuries old. The blade had the familiar Kurdish symbols on it. Dean's knife. No. It wasn't Dean's… Lucifer's body… It's
'Ruby!'
Lucifer turned toward her.
'Ahh yes!' She squeaked with delight. 'Temporarily stole her human body. It's not like she'll be needing it anymore.' Lucifer joked.
'Sam Winchester made sure of that.'
'Sam killed Ruby?' She had missed out on a lot, apparently.
'Seems so. Speaking of. Do you happen to know where that little rascal is hanging out? I would sure like to thank him for releasing me out of my cage. I was getting a bit claustrophobic after so many millennia stuck in there.'
'Sam..released you?' Now she understood why Sam had had the I did a horrible horrible thing and so on-look on his face.
'I presume. That was the plan.'
'Aaand…who's plan was it exactly?' Katherine asked, slowly heading towards the door.
'Well, let's just say that it was a team effort.' Ruby smiled.
