How to get to Sesame Street?

[the_rebel_son]

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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[guitar_voodoo]

"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."

[the_rebel_son]

"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'."

[guitar_voodoo]

"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.

[the_rebel_son]

"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.

[guitar_voodoo]

"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."

[the_rebel_son]

"I was there during the Flood but it was not the whole world as the Bible claims." Lucifer, as usual and probably expected, was not impressed with the Bible.

"I would hate to melt your eyes out of your skull. Ziggy would be angry and never make out with me again." Lucifer grinned and winked at Mick. "I have. It was an ex of mine that introduced me to Ziggy for that reason. Perhaps, I should apologize for kissing your girlfriend in the dressing room when I met him?"

[guitar_voodoo]

"It must have been bloody soaking for you to be there, mate. I always did wonder how the whole world flooded back then. Most of it is made up I bet but not sure about the animals."

Mick shrugged. He didn't really care but it was more he was made to read the Bible at school just like everyone else. Music was his real passion and probably the only class he'd really paid attention in.

"I'd rather not have my eyes melted. Bloody hell---you kissed Ziggy? Oh. Well, he's a likeable girl and he's friendly like that."

The guitarist wasn't sure what to say or how to act since this wasn't just some bloke. This was the Devil. It would be wise not to start a jealousy war with such a powerful creature, so instead, Mick just offered a sheepish smile and ducked his eyes down a little.

[the_rebel_son]

Lucifer shook his wings and the feathers. He didn't need to be on the ground. "When man did not travel as much, what man considered the whole world was only a small part of the actual world."

"I know the angel that created the animals on Earth." Lucifer tells the human then wonders if it is a good idea to have Rota among Rockstars.

"Your partner is very beautiful and rebellious. He is my kind of person." Lucifer hadn't been serious about anything with Ziggy, more that it was just some drunken kissing.

[guitar_voodoo]

"You do? It was an angel that created the animals on the Earth? Bloody hell! That's pretty amazing. I always thought it was that Genesis thing or something went bang and lots of light and there were animals suddenly. At least that's what the Bible says to you."

Mick scratched the back of his head. He wasn't sure about the whole creation thing since he dropped off in a lot of his religious classes. Music was more his thing.

"Ziggy? He's so wonderful, mate. I could talk for days about how sexy, lovely and everything he is to me. An alien too. Your kind of person? I suppose he touches everyone's hearts, even the Devil's. In a good way though. Sort of caring, like."

[the_rebel_son]

"The writing of Genesis compressed many eons into a time that could be perceived by humans." Lucifer smiled because he knew it was an attempt at understanding, that compression. "I am the light at the beginning of Genesis. Rota and the other angels responsible for the animals of Earth came several billion years later."

"I assure you that I have been known to do the same about my own partner." Lucifer shrugs with a definitely not innocent look., "Rebellious and androgynous, though I must admit he is a good kisser too."

[guitar_voodoo]

"No bloody clue about it all, mate. The whole Genesis thing went right over my head."

Mick shrugged and didn't really care for all the deep religious stuff anyway since he was an open-minded man even if he could come across as ignorant. That was more down to his simple upbringing and the fact he was a working class lad from another time. Playing guitar was all he knew and loved.

"Who is your partner if you don't mind me asking?"

He swallowed down some more cookie then frowned when he mentioned about Ziggy and kissing him. Oh. This must have been before the train. Before Mick entered the Nexus himself. Clearly. The blond just averted his green gaze for a moment or two not knowing what to think but feeling a pang of jealousy rise up.

"You kissed him? Uh----yeah he is a good kisser. The rebellious part is what makes him such a beautiful and unique person."

[the_rebel_son]

"I would not be surprised to learn that was the intention when the Bible was written."

Lucifer shrugged it off too because he isn't particularly interested in thinking about, nor being part of, a religion.

"I have two; an angel and a human." Ziggy and Lucifer had some things in common and that hadn't passed the angel's notice on any occasion where they had met. However, he can see the jealousy and smiles gently. Lucifer is many things and has done many things, but breaking up a happy romance is not something he wishes to do... except Adam.. he didn't deserve Eve, that was different.

"Do not worry. It was but once, experimental when we first met. We spent the night sitting together talking about the nature of humanity." Lucifer nodded in agreement. "It is that beauty that lead me to seek him out and several other reasons, but mostly his internal beauty. You are a blessed man to have such a lady at your side."

[guitar_voodoo]

"No idea, mate. Like I say I don't have a bloody clue what those blokes wrote 2,000 years ago in the desert."

Mick shrugged, not really caring about it either since all he cared about was music. That was his religion. Listening once more he nodded, smiling at the fact the angel had two partners too. Nothing wrong with that since Ziggy had multiple partners too some platonic like Minoru and others more a casual acquaintance. Mick didn't like talking about that though since he was naturally a jealous man.

"I love him with everything I have. Ziggy is special to me in a way that no other girlfriend could be."

He often thought about spending his whole life with the Anthean but didn't want to think about him getting old and leaving Ziggy behind. That part stung the most.

[the_rebel_son]

"I understand." Lucifer smiled at Mick and nodded. "I may be an eternal being but my heart is more like that of a man than that of my siblings. I adore both of my partners, and will until the end of time if they see fit to keep me that long."

The last bit was spoken with humor rather than a seriousness. An admission of his own annoyance at times but the he had now adored those things that others found undesirable.