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How to get to Sesame Street?

Lucifer had a promise to keep and it was a labor of some strange love. Perhaps, it was his love of children and connection to the child-like or just his desire to do the unexpected. Who knew what moved the devil to his more bizarre behaviors.

Whatever the reason, one afternoon an over-sized Lucifer, 70 foot tall, starts rolling a 150 foot diameter chocolate chip cookie into the plaza like a wheel. The cookie wrapped in tin foil on the bottom and blue cellophane on the top. It takes a deft hands to lay the 50,000 pound cookie down without breaking it. The effort of baking it with his hellfire all the previous day and moving the gigantic mass has left even the devil tired.

His illusions shrunk down to his usual six and a half foot tall height once the labor of moving the enormous cookie was done. A huge sword is strapped across his back in the eventual need to slice this cookie in some effective manner. Sighing, he walks out into the center of the cookie about to unwrap it when he looks to the person at the edge of the cookie and calls out to them.

“Have you seen the gluttonous, blue monster that lives here?” He stands up to look at whomever has stopped. “I am in dire need of speaking with him.”

Leave it to the angel of sin to make a cookie so large it breaks the Guinness Book, not that this institution exists in the Nexus.

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The bloke was as tall as Ziggy and Mick realised this as soon as he stepped over. The likeness though---it was uncanny. But that massive biscuit drew the guitarist's attention even more. He just couldn't get his head around it all. What sort of massive oven could cook such a huge biscuit? Mind blown. Again.

"You must have some kind of monster oven, mate. To cook a biscuit this bloody huge. I just---can't get my head around it all."

Walking around the cookie, Mick frowned and then frowned even more. It had to be magic or some sort of illusion maybe. Was the angel a magician? It wouldn't surprise him at all. The angel though---he looked like Tom and Ziggy. That couldn't be explained either.

"Is this even real? Not like a magic trick or something like that? Also--uh I know this sounds daft but you look like Tom and Ziggy. Just your face shape and things."

"Being an angel has its advantages."

Lucifer couldn't help but chuckle. It had been some time since he ran into someone in the Nexus with little or no experience with the supernatural. It is endearing and something he has always appreciated about the humans in general.

"You may try it. It is not a magic trick though the way I cooked it may be considered magic by a human." He admits freely. He hasn't met Tom yet because of Ziggy's concerns over how his father might respond. "Ziggy Stardust? I have met him because a mutual... acquaintance saw the same and again on request of a mutual friend."

"I'm sure it does. To be honest I had no idea you winged blokes could bake such large---items."

It's a huge cookie, Mick. Real too. He will now be gently touching it with a fingertip, half expecting it to disappear as soon as he placed his finger on it. Nope. It didn't move. The guitarist's eyebrows shot up and then he started to smile in surprise. The angel wasn't playing a trick after all. Did he say he could try it?

"Yeah, back home if I showed my mates this they'd think they were high or drunk. It's amazing---so big and looks tasty."

Breaking off a tiny piece no bigger than a fingernail, Mick tried some. It tasted like a real biscuit and he wasn't expecting that. Not really. Now, he was feeling a little foolish for calling the angel's biscuit a fake.

"Ziggy, he's my girlfriend. I'm Mick Ronno, the lead guitarist in Ziggy's band. The Spiders from Mars. Pleased to meet you, mate."

Mick thrust out a hand hoping it wasn't too presumptuous to shake hands with these angels.

"This was a dare." Lucifer comments while looking at the enormous cookie. He lets the human explore the cookie and try a piece.

"You have a eccetric and beautiful girlfriend." Lucifer admits and takes the guitarist's hand for a firm but friendly shake. "Lucifer Morningstar."

"Lucifer?---you're the devil?"

Mick shook the hand equally as firm and just found himself slightly gaping at the form of the angel. He was the devil? No horns or trident. He also wasn't red all over but instead looked more like an angel from heaven. It was mind blowing though. He didn't know what to say.

"Sorry, I'm just---not used to shaking hands with the devil."

Was than an expression? As for what he said about Ziggy, Mick blushed a little. He loved talking about the Anthean and now it seemed Lucifer knew about his infatuation to his lover.

"Humans use the term Lucifer, Devil, and Satan interchangeably but among my people they are different angels. We are three brothers." Lucifer clarifies politely.

"It is understandable for many reasons." He lets go of the human's hand unperturbed by the confusion or whatever other emotions might be welling up. "It is not everyday a human meets a mythical figure, except here. Here it happens quite often. You will adjust."

"You're three brothers? Oh. Well---I don't mean to be rude or disrespectable, like. It's just back home you're sort of not liked much. I say fuck that and you are who you are. The wings are---different. Can you fly?"

Mick had so many questions and he wondered if he wasn't being rude asking so many things about the poor angel. The biscuit though? That was bloody huge and the blond couldn't help but break some more off, this time the size of a hand and begin nibbling on it. The taste was good too.

"I've been here for a month or two now and I'm still trying to adjust. The angel called Songbird, I've met them too. Beautiful creatures you angels are."

He brushed a few crumbs from his mouth.

"I am not offended by humans believing human mythology. It is an unfortunate legacy of any of us who are found in the old stories." He is glad to hear that the human is open minded but then, give this human's girlfriend, it would probably be a necessity. "Yes, I can fly."

Lucifer doesn't mind sharing the cookie. There was plenty for everyone to have a piece.

"Phenex is my court artisan and our historian." Lucifer feels that it is a good angel to meet first if the goal is to relax a human around the supernatural. "Angels are as diverse as humans in appearance and personality. Not all are friendly to humans, though I do my best to keep those out of the Nexus, at least from my own creation."

"I'm not really a religious man but we did learn about you at school and things. Being with Ziggy---it's really changed my outlook on life. I didn't even believe in aliens before Ziggy told me he was one. Blew my bloody mind it did."

Mick ate another piece of the cookie, nodding because it was good. Really good. Just the right sweetness and texture. This devil could bake. He raised both eyebrows when Lucifer said he could fly. The wings weren't just for show then it seemed.

"How high can you fly with those, mate? I bet you can do aerial displays and the like."

He nodded as he finished and emptied his mouth. Phenex? Songbird. She was the angel in charge of the music and art institute. Mick liked them already because they were opening up doors to him and Ziggy.

"Phenex? Songbird---they're a lovely person. Before coming here I just thought angels were something that went on the tops of Christmas trees. No offence, mate."

"Humans often need a large change in order to see the world differently." It wasn't a bad thing in the angel's mind. There were some angels that never changed. "You handle change well if you are still here and have accepted him."

"Here, we do not fly very high. The sky is variable and shifts unexpectedly. We do not want to be caught in it." That was an honest warning about the Nexus as a whole. "In my own creation I can fly anywhere in the universe."

Lucifer laughs at the commentary about the tree. "I have heard worse. Phenex is naturally attracted to artists. It is their sphere of influence in our creation. Even here, among people of other creations, we find we are still attracted to the same conditions."

"I guess I have. For a few days after the time I kissed Ziggy---I thought I was living in a dream because it didn't feel real. It was like expecting wake up because it was too good to be true but it was real. Now, I'm never letting go ever again."

Mick wanted to make up all those lost months and years where he could have been Ziggy's partner and hadn't. All due to social norms and other bullshit his country had created for the population to live by. At least here in the Nexus none of that existed.

"Anywhere in the universe? That's really amazing, mate. Can you fly to the moon and walk on it like an astronaut?"

Because Mick's world was very small compared to the infinite one of Lucifer's. The human mind closed and craving information to learn and expand. Mick's being one thriving on creativity and input from outside sources.

Lucifer sighs and smiles. "I may be infinite by comparison but I have had moments in my existence when I have felt the same, perhaps this is too right to be real."

It had hit him sometimes, especially with Balthazar and leaving behind the idea that the people he loved, all human in the past, would die. He would still lose but not everything, for once.

"I am not bound by the limits of a mortal body. I can do many things that humans cannot." He was still stuck on the nostalgia of the humans he had loved and shrugged. "A few humans have been loved enough that I bring them along. They have seen things no other human has."

"Yeah, it just felt surreal for me too after so long of not being able to have what I really wanted. That being Ziggy and being his boyfriend. I suppose most of it was down to my nerves and the fact being with him might cause bad things to happen. Two blokes dating---we'd get bottles and insults thrown at us."

It was a whole mix of Mick's emotions and social norms. The fact that where they both came from was a time of social unrest and things were not easy for two men to show their love for one another. Even someone like Ziggy, who was a hybrid, let alone the fact he was an alien. Nodding to Lucifer, Mick sighed softly.

"I'm afraid of losing Ziggy due to old age but Aletayria is hoping to heal Tom of his heart problem and also extend his life hopefully. If it works then I really hope to try it too---just so I can be with Ziggy that much longer."

Even if it were a few days, Mick was happy to stay with his alien until he was in slippers and old and grey. Love knew no bounds.

"What sort of things have you shown them?"

"You are in good company." Lucifer smiles, broad and devious as a school boy. "My partner is an angel still in the service of God and I have endured the equivalent of thugs throwing bottles. Doing what is right for the world and your heart is never an easy path but it is always the right one."

In his own creation he had seen times like Mick spoke of where there was a danger to love. He is glad that his own creation may slowly be moving past it but it is a good reminder that other places are still on that journey.

"It is a difficulty of immortality. The heart does not limit who it falls in love with to other immortals." Lucifer had tried that and if he was honest, most other immortals clashed with him. "I have sat at the bedside of many who passed from this world but if he stays, then always remember that he thinks your presence here with him is worth anything he might endure after old age runs its course."

Lucifer didn't speak to the idea of extending human life. That has had mostly negative effects in the past, but this is the Nexus and it is aliens, not gods, working on it.

"Some, everything." Lucifer can feel his own sadness welling up. Eve was always there in the back of his mind and no one softened that loss. "Every human is different. I show them what will be most beautiful to them." Lucifer sighs and smiles wistfully. "One was a musician like yourself. I let him hear the sound of creation and it inspired his music."

"An angel? Oh right. Yeah, we're breaking down the boundaries block by block. It will take time but Ziggy and the band, we're doing our best to say fuck off to the righteous bastards who are narrow-minded beyond belief."

This is how Mick saw it anyway. Thugs, morons and idiot interviewers. The bane of the rock star world and Ziggy's world. The whole thing about dying though? That was a hard pill to swallow when your partner was an immortal alien. Mick had chosen that path and now didn't want to veer off it now that he had Ziggy so close to his heart. Where he had wanted him at the very start.

"You do? It sounds wonderful, mate. To be able to show them such things as that. What was this musician bloke like?"

The blond now rapt with attention whilst nibbling on a piece of cookie.

"It is a slow process but there are benefits and they will come." Lucifer knew social change was difficult, even among angels there were difficulties. "People will see that your way is not as offensive as they once thought. If angels ingrained in their ways for billions of years can change, humans will find their way as well, with time."

Lucifer has hope for change and for humanity. It doesn't mean it will be easy or without heartache along the way.

"The musician I allowed to hear the sound of creation is one you are likely familiar with already. Ludwig van Beethoven." There's affection in the tone of the angel's voice. He, or at the time she, had loved the man dearly for his rebellious, adventurous and rather surly ways.

Mick nodded, understand Lucifer's words about it being a slow process. Hopefully, societal change would happen in the guitarist's life, if not, then at least Ziggy would reap the benefits of it. The angels living for billions of years still blew Mick's mind and he was still learning his way around the Nexus.

"You met Beethoven? Bloody hell, mate! That's amazing. Really. To meet a real life composer like that---just fantastic. What was he like?"

Because now Mick was interested in how the meeting went with Beethoven and Lucifer. It was hard to comprehend from a mortal's perspective but he was trying at least. Just to hear that music up close first hand....it was almost magical.

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"He taught me to play several instruments." Lucifer speaks with open fondness when speaking of Beethoven. He loved the composer dearly. "Wild, manic, demanding, rude, romantic, creative, passionate. The man was like the music he wrote; too much and too loud for the people around him but he was a man of great beauty and spirit."

Lucifer had a fondness for many humans over time. Some, like the composer, he truly loved and would never forget. "I have befriended many artists and musicians in the millennia since the beginning of your kind."

"He did? That's brilliant, mate. To meet Beethoven like that---it must have blown your mind. Well, it would mine but....yeah."

Mick just couldn't comprehend what it would be like to meet a real life classical composer like that. One of the greats too. A once in a lifetime experience for sure. Just the rush of emotion anyone would feel by stepping in the room to meet the man himself. Then there was his music.

"Before I became a rock star I worked with an orchestra group. I can play the Harmonium and was classically trained as a boy at music school. Guitar is my real love so I sort of went into the glam rock scene when I could."

It was Mick's dream to become a famous rock star and musician and meeting Ziggy offered him that break.

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"I am ancient but art still moves me as if it is something new. What is thought of him now was not his reception in his own time. Unfortunately, this is true of many artists."

And Lucifer missed the musician. He missed many humans who had died through the long space of time since they were created.

"I do not play the harmonium but I have played the guitar for many years. I am fond of the music played on it, though I have never lost my love of classical music."

"Ancient, eh? How old are we talking, mate? Ziggy is 90 and you wouldn't believe it by looking at him since he looks around mid twenties like me."

The whole Anthean age thing blew Mick's mind once Ziggy told him how old he and Jack were. The guitarist could hardly believe it but it had sunk in now slowly. It seemed the devil played the guitar and this was a very good thing indeed. Anyone who could play guitar immediately gained respect from Mick because guitar was his love.

"I like classical too but rock and guitar is my love. Without my baby I'm not sure where I'd be."

"I was created before the universe existed." Lucifer raised his shoulders in a barely there shrug. "Time did not exist then but if human estimations of time are correct, perhaps 16 billions years."

Lucifer appreciates music, and the arts, for the very reason the human mentions. "Music has saved many from uncertainty. I have a fondness for rock. After all, it is the 'devil's music'."

"Before the universe existed? Bloody hell! That's mind blowing."

Mick just couldn't comprehend anything before the big bang. Was it all just black emptiness and gas? From what he knew the universe was infinite and massive. So much humans didn't know. Having an alien girlfriend help open the guitarist's mind up so much more.

"16 billion? I can't even imagine that, mate. You don't look bad for such an age. I'd peg you for around mid thirties."

Was Mick subtly flirting with the Devil? Perhaps. In his own cute, platonic way.

"I am the first light, the Morningstar." Lucifer comments. "In the beginning God said let there be light and light came into the darkness to make day and night. I was that light."

Lucifer disliked the bible but in this situation it wasn't a bad way to get a human to understand the situation.

"Unfortunately, I have to hide most of my beauty from you. It would be a shame to blind you with it." Lucifer picks up on it and finds no issue with a playful flirt. He did it with Ziggy too.

"Oh I remember that from school learning religious studies. We had to learn the Bible and I remember that part. Is it to do with Genesis? I always get that part confused with when Noah had his arc full of animals. I loved reading about them."

Mick liked animals in general and even though he wasn't a religious man he enjoyed reading about Noah and his impressive arc of animals when it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. They must have all got bloody soaked though.

"Hide it, eh? What's wrong? Think flashing yourself naked will make me blind?"

That got a small giggle out of the blond who knew he was being a bit silly. Why not? This was the Devil after all.

"I know this is a bit odd but you sort of look like Ziggy and Tom. People might have told you this already."

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