underground government operation in order to free Luke's son, Jessie.
Jessie was a small, weak looking boy but he possessed an unnatural power that made the small hairs on the back of her neck stand to attention whenever she thought about it. When he dreamt, his dreams became reality. Some of his dream manifestations were living creatures which had helped them escape from the facility last year with horrifying consequences.
The government scientists studying him had no clue that his powers came from a sacred ritual performed during his conception a decade earlier. They just thought he was weird and scary and spent countless hours attempting to exploit his abilities. But in the end, his abilities baffled them. They couldn't know the true magnitude of the big picture.
Luke was Jessie's real dad but he didn't even know Jessie existed until he was brought into the government facility to help study the child's strange powers (he'd been tricked by Jessie's birth mother during a one night stand a decade earlier and then left in the dark about the birth).
What only a select few people were aware of was that Jessie's powers had been borne of hell. It was all by design, to aide in Lucifer's escape from his hellish prison. Those involved with helping Jessie were all aware of the endgame and they were eager to release Lucifer. Lucifer wasn't the bad guy; he was a misunderstood angel who only wanted to undo the horrific shit God had inflicted upon mankind; that was all.
Lucifer would overthrow the status quo and set himself up as a new, caring, compassionate God who actually gave a damn about mankind. That was the plan.
It was Luke's job to release Lucifer from his bonds. Luke was a late arrival to the whole situation but he caught up quickly and performed his duties admirably.
She remembered the details from a year ago like t hey had just happened yesterday:
All of their planning had come to a focal point and it was time for Luke to finally release Lucifer.
He'd opened the portal to hell with a red death ball that came from Jessie's dreams (that also killed on contact). The ball had become two dimensional as it floated above the ground.
Time ceased for Melanie at that point so she didn't see what happened next, but Luke told her it became a hole between realms and Lucifer was on the other side of it, looking back at him.
He spoke to Lucifer for a long time but in the end he rejected his advances and locked him back up in hell for eternity. It was a turn of events no one had foreseen. Lucifer was denied entry. A decade of planning was thwarted by Luke's inability to pull the trigger.
Melanie was secretly overjoyed by the outcome though. She'd fallen in love with the man and the thought of an angels soul residing within his body kind of freaked her out.
That's when things went sideways. E verything got really boring in a hurry.
They'd adopted aliases, although hers and Jessie's didn't stick the same way Luke's had (his real name was Jack). They drove from hotel to motel a lot those first few months.
Then out of the blue, Luke got religious and started his own weird little cult. After that, money was no object. One of his followers even gave them the house they now lived in.
The church Luke presided over was once an old school house, converted to an antique store, and then eagerly bequeathed to him by the owners.
Luke spent a ton of time and money tricking the building out until it was more church-like. His following was rabid and growing by the day.
So Luke's life seemed to have a purpose , but what of hers?
She was a bright ex-soldier with ambitions of her own, but it seemed like that all took a back seat to Luke's wants.
He probably wouldn't even give her children of her own since they hadn't been intimate in a very long time, for reasons she just couldn't put her finger on.
And what of poor Jessie? She'd mentioned enrolling him in school but Luke rightly pointed out that if he dozed of f in class and one of the
Jessie was a small, weak looking boy but he possessed an unnatural power that made the small hairs on the back of her neck stand to attention whenever she thought about it. When he dreamt, his dreams became reality. Some of his dream manifestations were living creatures which had helped them escape from the facility last year with horrifying consequences.
The government scientists studying him had no clue that his powers came from a sacred ritual performed during his conception a decade earlier. They just thought he was weird and scary and spent countless hours attempting to exploit his abilities. But in the end, his abilities baffled them. They couldn't know the true magnitude of the big picture.
Luke was Jessie's real dad but he didn't even know Jessie existed until he was brought into the government facility to help study the child's strange powers (he'd been tricked by Jessie's birth mother during a one night stand a decade earlier and then left in the dark about the birth).
What only a select few people were aware of was that Jessie's powers had been borne of hell. It was all by design, to aide in Lucifer's escape from his hellish prison. Those involved with helping Jessie were all aware of the endgame and they were eager to release Lucifer. Lucifer wasn't the bad guy; he was a misunderstood angel who only wanted to undo the horrific shit God had inflicted upon mankind; that was all.
Lucifer would overthrow the status quo and set himself up as a new, caring, compassionate God who actually gave a damn about mankind. That was the plan.
It was Luke's job to release Lucifer from his bonds. Luke was a late arrival to the whole situation but he caught up quickly and performed his duties admirably.
She remembered the details from a year ago like t hey had just happened yesterday:
All of their planning had come to a focal point and it was time for Luke to finally release Lucifer.
He'd opened the portal to hell with a red death ball that came from Jessie's dreams (that also killed on contact). The ball had become two dimensional as it floated above the ground.
Time ceased for Melanie at that point so she didn't see what happened next, but Luke told her it became a hole between realms and Lucifer was on the other side of it, looking back at him.
He spoke to Lucifer for a long time but in the end he rejected his advances and locked him back up in hell for eternity. It was a turn of events no one had foreseen. Lucifer was denied entry. A decade of planning was thwarted by Luke's inability to pull the trigger.
Melanie was secretly overjoyed by the outcome though. She'd fallen in love with the man and the thought of an angels soul residing within his body kind of freaked her out.
That's when things went sideways. E verything got really boring in a hurry.
They'd adopted aliases, although hers and Jessie's didn't stick the same way Luke's had (his real name was Jack). They drove from hotel to motel a lot those first few months.
Then out of the blue, Luke got religious and started his own weird little cult. After that, money was no object. One of his followers even gave them the house they now lived in.
The church Luke presided over was once an old school house, converted to an antique store, and then eagerly bequeathed to him by the owners.
Luke spent a ton of time and money tricking the building out until it was more church-like. His following was rabid and growing by the day.
So Luke's life seemed to have a purpose , but what of hers?
She was a bright ex-soldier with ambitions of her own, but it seemed like that all took a back seat to Luke's wants.
He probably wouldn't even give her children of her own since they hadn't been intimate in a very long time, for reasons she just couldn't put her finger on.
And what of poor Jessie? She'd mentioned enrolling him in school but Luke rightly pointed out that if he dozed of f in class and one of the
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