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Chapter Three

   Hates tolerated the otherwise good people who in a moment of weakness committed some sin to keep them from their own personal paradise in his realm, leaving them to spend the rest of their afterlives as they were. But Lucifer wouldn’t stand for it, hence the torture. It was meant as a way to wipe all the goodness left in a person, an act Lucifer took great pleasure in knowing there was nothing God could do to stop him.

   God had set the rules and even he couldn’t break them lest he be no better than his brother. He rejected them, so that meant Lucifer could do whatever he chose with the souls sent to him. Though the truly wicked were always more appreciated in hell, nothing like having someone in your home that can appreciate your point of view.  

   Oh and what a resurgence they’ve had in those modern times on earth, made a demon wish for an excuse to visit. Not that Gage really needed one, but it was like those earthen amusement parks. They’re all excitement and fun at first, but go there enough and it loses its magic, it’s not enjoyable anymore. Gage didn’t want to lose that novelty so he tried his best to ration his time. It was fun, but he had never found a reason to stick around once any given job was over.

   But man, it had to be a little disappointing for God to see so many of his beloved creations- quite literally- going to hell. Again though, it was his own fault, if he wasn’t so damn picky about who he took and who he didn’t then he’d have a lot more company there on his side.

   Of course Gage did have an excuse, another errand Lucifer wanted run, one he was just biding his time till Lucifer gave him to go ahead to complete. Guess someone was giving one of the more powerful of the future damned a hard time on earth. And as he had done so well to ensure that his corruption spread through the masses- meaning he was just adding to the soul count headed for hell- Gage was supposed to take care of his problem as a favor to him.

    And it was a good thing he was headed back to earth too, looking down at the women again, he couldn’t help but think that at least there was a variety to the women there if not a challenge. Not like these concubines kept at the ready to serve him or any other soldier here. Always ready, always up for anything even a mind as twisted as those who reside in hell could imagine. They had no boundaries, no line they wouldn’t cross to make their given partner happy, whether they or the asking party was male or female.

   How unappealing was that?

   And though it was a burden more often than not that they couldn’t reproduce in hell, when it came to the concubines it was for the best that they were all sterile. Otherwise they’d be with child almost as soon as one was born.

   It was out of boredom he took these two to his bed, stealing them out from under the noses of two different comrades of his. That part was entertaining, watching the angered gazes on Pain and Deception’s faces when he stole the females’ attentions. But of course, that too was only a fleeting pleasure. Because once they realized their females couldn’t be wooed back, they just moved on to more willing prospects, leaving Gage with no other choice to satisfy the two females himself.

   They were addicts in life the concubines, men and women who at one time in their human lives had sold their bodies for money or drugs. The one on the left, Ann, had even sold her own child. Not that she would have been much of a mother but the act itself sent her here. The one on the right, Laura, earned her ticket to hell when she murdered her pimp and drug dealer when he tried to cut her off. And for their sins they were both sentenced to an eternity of addiction of another kind. It might not seem too harsh of a punishment, making them sex addicts when they were so uncaring of their bodies in life, but the torture came in knowing there was no way to relieve themselves.