Lucifer

Chapter 1

*Unedited*

*Years later*

Fuck. I had been banished. I was dismembered, de-badged, dishonoured...with no route of redemption. Was there even a way to go back? After years of trying to find my way back, of trying to get through to God, I had finally concluded that it was useless. And that had only made my bitterness grow.

I tried everything. I provoked his people, interfered with his plans, converted his chosen ones to evil-doers and nothing. My whole life and purpose had changed. No one would pray to me or need me to do anything good and so I was left to drown in self-pity. And worst of all, I had lost my wings.

The only company I had was that of the fallen angels and misguided souls that gave in to my temptation and neither party was interesting. Nobody stopped for a moment of silence in my presence, instead they continued with their lives like I didn't exist. Which was practically true now that I was a nobody.

Smart. Move from being an honourable angel to a nobody. My name was spat on by the fucking humans now. In fact, no one called me by my name much anymore. They had much more descriptive and original names for me. Most referred to me as the devil and Satan. Other daring humans described me as a 'demon from the pit of hell,' which makes no sense seeing as I'm a fallen angel; fallen from heaven. Not that anybody cared.

Oh, what have you done Lucifer? But that was just it. I didn't know what I was doing but I guess it was too late for that. My pride had defeated me and now I had to suffer through the consequences. I shook my head in disappointment and walked through the crowd of people who were busy going about their business.

A bar across the street caught my eyes and I made my way towards it. I was met with loud music when I entered, followed by the drunken slurs of men going through mid-life crises. Perfect place for trouble. The two men arguing by the bar didn't go unnoticed by me but one of the men, blondie, seemed to have enough and turned away from the other. I quickly ran over before the man could walk away and slapped the back of his head. This caused him to turn around abruptly and attack the other man and a fight broke out.

I smirked, pleased with my work but my self-dissatisfaction was extra high today and I needed more chaos to make me feel better about my pitiful life. I was out for blood and blondie's temper was enough to give me what I wanted. Discovering he had no pocket knife, I decided a broken bottle would have to work. I lifted his hand, aiming to slam it down on the other guy's head-

"Hey, stop it! Leave him alone!"

Fucking hell! The outburst made me let go of the man's hand immediately, despite knowing the person couldn't be talking to me. But the voice was enough to make me lose my senses. Low and sexy, the voice was enough to drive any man crazy and to make even me, a fallen angel lose focus and fall weak to my knees. By then, everyone had gathered around and with me no longer controlling blondie, he stormed off. I looked over to the source of the voice angry that the person had ruined everything. It was a woman.

And she was fucking beautiful. She was possibly the most beautiful human I had ever seen since my falling. She had dark brown hair that fell beyond her shoulders and down her back. She had the most beautiful eyes. I didn't know if they were green, blue or grey, maybe they were all at the same time but I could feel myself drowning in them as they glared at me...almost as if she were staring at me, except that couldn't be true.

Everybody else had returned to their drinking and dancing but she was still standing and looking in my direction, a frown etched on her beautiful lips. I studied her a while longer before scowling and leaving the bar.

"Hey! I was talking to you back there! What you were about to do was wrong and you should be on your way to the police station right now!" the voice followed me outside the bar and I stopped walking and turned to face her once more, convinced that this girl was trying to talk to me but confused as to how that could be possible. I had to be mistaken.