Jack's POV
After we finished eating, we paid our bill and got out of the restaurant as quickly as we could without drawing too much attention to ourselves. I hadn't opened my mouth about the waitress yet, and Alex knew why; I had told her wolf through our mind link while we were eating, and informed her that I would explain it to Jake before we fused again to meet up with her. She agreed and gave Jake a kiss on the cheek before she made her way to her truck, going the opposite direction that we were going so that if anyone decided to try and tail us they'd have to make a decision: Split up to get both parties or all-in on one party. As we got in the truck, Jake sighed as if there was a metric ton of shit he wanted to say but knew he couldn't say it until I got my info out there, he needed to hear this as much as he may not want to.
"Alright, Jakey boy, let's get going," I said as I started the truck, and headed down towards the I-35, "The thing about the waitress that we couldn't tell you earlier, is that she's an Archdemon too. She may actually be stronger than us fused, which should scare you. Her name is Gloria, but her name changes as frequently as her personality does, so don't expect her to answer to that name."
"If she's an Archdemon, then what's her realm of power? And follow up, if she's as strong as you say, then why were you so nice to her?"
"Okay, so first of all, her realm of influence, not power, is the sphere of love. Think of her like Aphrodite from the Greek Pantheon, if she wants two beings to be together, they end up together. If she doesn't, the two beings would have to fight each other, lose to each other, and then team up to fight her to prove that they belong together; and no, I'm not suggesting you fight Alex, because knowing her she would win and take it as her opportunity to claim you. Secondly, I was nice to her at the restaurant because I wanted to show goodwill, I meant no harm to anyone there and so I showed that so we could eat in peace. If I had known she was there, we would've left before we even got inside, trust."
"Okay then, why do you care if she's happy or not with us if you think you may be stronger than her?"
"Well, asides from not wanting to ruin your relationship with Alex? I've got a buddy somewhere, his name's Milo, and he has yet to find his mate. I was hoping that maybe by displaying common courtesy, and showing that neither I nor Alex had any ill intentions towards you, she might turn her gaze towards him for a bit and help him find his love, or better yet, grant the wish he made a couple of years ago."
"Who's Milo? And why haven't I heard of him if you know him?"
"He's a really young demon, but he's drowning within his emotions, and as such has no idea how to use his gifts. I'm trying to get some goodwill sent his way so that I can help you as much as possible with Alex because knowing your oblivious ass, Alex could whip out a condom and you wouldn't know what she meant until she had already turned you into a whimpering mess," I said, and turned to see the brightest blush on Jake's face yet, he knew I was right. He was mostly innocent, and the only reason he couldn't say he was a virgin was because of a 6-foot shithead we had trapped in a pool of thermite in our realm, "Speaking of which, we haven't seen Jameson in a while, you wanna go home for a bit? Let me get some target practice on General Gonnorhea?"
"Yeah, sure, I've been meaning to stop by and play with Jamie for a bit," Jake said, and I opened a portal to home in front of us, stopping the truck just shy of our Apartment in hell.
"Jameson! Daddy's home!!"
And just like that, the 2-ton hellhound came bounding through the door, and straight towards Jack nearly tackling him to the ground. Jake laughed as the "Almighty prince of destruction" was taken down by a slobbering puppy dog.
"Come here, Jamie," Jake said and waved a bone in front of him, getting the beast's attention long enough to let Jack get back up. Jake had Jameson do some tricks, while Jack wandered over to the pit of thermite to see that Jake's ex almost got out...keyword almost. A swift kick to the nose sent the rapist back down into the pit with some colorful language, to say the least.
"Damn dude, you kiss your mother with that mouth?" I said, before snapping my fingers and letting three Jack 'O Lanterns fall into the pit, igniting the pile of thermite, "Who wants grilled rapist?!"
I said that as a joke to Jake, but funnily enough I got not one, but two courses of laughter.
"Ah, hello father."
"Hello, Jack, it's good to see you still breathing. I see you haven't let poor Jakey boy down yet," Lucifer said as he walked up to shake hands with Jack, You'd think that this kind of interaction would send shivers down Jakes's spine, but he'd seen it happen so many times he would be more surprised if Lucifer's words weren't laced with sarcasm.