Queen
I picked up the folder Lucifer set down and looked through the first page. On the left side column was the phone number, next was the date, followed by the duration of the call.
As my eyes skimmed the paper I didn't see anything crazy until I flipped to the next page. There was a specific number that kept popping up. It continued as I moved on to the other pages and I shook my head.
"There are so many calls from this one number," I said.
"I saw," Lucifer said. "Do you recognize it?"
"No."
"Let's just call it," Hades suggested. When everyone turned to him he shrugged and shrunk into his seat slightly. "What? Isn't that the best way to see who it is?"
"He's right," Cleo said with a stuffed mouth.
"Can I use someone's phone?" I asked.
Cain handed me his phone and I opened it and went to the dial pad. I typed in the number but before I could click call, Hades stopped me.
"Wait! Don't call first, text them."
"Why?" I asked.
"They'll hang up as soon as you call. Text them pretending you're Dimitri, and tell them to call you but you can't talk because...I don't know make-up something.
"Okay."
I typed up a text message to the number and when I was done I read it out loud. "Hey, it's Dimitri. I'm locked up but I snuck a phone in. I need your help. Call me please, I can't talk so tell me what to do and I'll do it."
"What if it's not someone who wants to help him?" Genesis asked.
"You wouldn't call someone that consistently if you didn't have some sort of bond," Caspian answered.
"So send it?" I asked.
"Yes," Hades said. I looked around at the sporadic nods and I clicked the send button.
With a sigh, I set the phone down on the table and sat back in my seat. "Now we-"
The phone began ringing and everyone around the room looked at each other hesitantly. I looked down at the phone and groaned when I saw a contact flash across the screen. Cain looked from beside me and winced as he declined the call.
"Sorry...that was one of my-"
"We know," everyone said together in almost synchronization. When we realized what we did, we laughed and Cain covered his face in embarrassment.
We got lost in a random conversation about Hades but it came to an abrupt stop when the phone rang again.
I sat up in my seat and looked down at it. I took a shaky breath and looked up at everyone.
"It's the number."
"Answer it," Lucifer urged.
"Everyone stay quiet," I said. They nodded and I answered the call and quickly put it on speaker.
"Sebastian! How dare you reach out after what you did to my daughter you fucking sicko?! The deal was for you to be with her, not hurt her."
Everyone in the room froze at the voice's words but tears moved to my eyes as I recognized the voice on the other side of the call.
"I don't know if Eve will help you but I'm done! If I see you I will murder you," she threatened. "No matter whose body you go into next, I'll find you."
The phone hung up with a loud beep that echoed throughout the room and I looked down at the phone dumbfounded.
"Those bitches!" Lucifer yelled as he kicked an empty chair and gripped his hair.
"That was Lilith, right?" Xavier groaned.
"Yes," I whispered.
"Why did she mention Sebastian?" Genesis asked. "She called us Sebastian. Isn't he dead?"
I shook my head slowly as my eyes stayed on the phone. "His body was never found."
"She called Dimitri's number almost every day. We literally sent her a text saying that it was Dimitri. Why the hell would she call us Sebastian?" Mia asked.
I felt bile rose in my throat as I tried to make any sort of connection between Dimitri and Sebastian. Sebastian was my childhood friend, he wouldn't be involved in anything that would hurt me, right? I knew he could be angry at times...but to go as far as to do what they were saying, it was insane.
"I don't know your Sebastian but I do have a confession," Hades said. We all turned to him and he looked deep in thought as looked far off at the table.
"A few years ago, maybe five...I guess. Dimitri and I kissed," he started and my mouth dropped. "Let me explain."
We remained quiet and he took a deep breath and shook his head. "He and I worked together for years before I made any sort of move on him. He wasn't doing the best mentally and he wasn't gay so I remained friends with him."
"He told me about a few centuries ago, he was possessed by a man named Vladimir Rousette-"
"The serial rapist?!" Cleo asked.
"Yes, apparently he was the test subject of some sick possession study and they let an asylum patient into his mind to test the fragility of human morality."
"Why have I never heard about this?" I asked.
"After Vladimir died in Dimitri's body, Dimitri came back and he was found innocent of all crimes. The leaders of the realms apologized to him and he was relinquished of all the crimes Vladimir did."
"And then what?" Lucifer asked.
"He was still used as a test subject but those times it wasn't by people as bad," he answered. "When I met him, he was Dimitri. No one was possessing him and he was dealing with the aftermath in his mind that the souls left behind."
"Oh fuck," Cain whispered.
"But as I said, he was the sweetest guy in the world. When I was going through something, he took care of me as a friend until I was better. One day, after years of friendship, I kissed him. He kissed me back and we fell asleep together. When I woke up he was gone."
"What do you mean gone?"
"Just gone. He left a note saying that he went to get me breakfast but he never came back. I called him a bunch of times but he didn't answer."
"What the fuck?" I whispered. "Are you sure that maybe you thought you knew him but didn't? I thought I knew him."
"Years, Queen. I spent years as his friend."
"But what happened when he returned?" I asked.
"Well, three or four days passed by and he popped up at some ball in the underworld. I tried to talk to him but he acted like he didn't know me. I was in love with him so I remember being so hurt that he just-"
Gen rubbed his shoulder to comfort him and he took a shaky breath. "I tried talking to him so many times but he always ignored me until I completely reintroduced myself to him. That's when I found out he became a vampire and I was shocked all over again. The Dimitri I knew, wanted to die. The last thing he would've wanted was immortality. But every time I asked him why he turned, he shut it down."
"Sebastian was a vampire..." Mia added. I shook my head in her direction not wanting to believe it and she shrugged.
"I avoided him for the most part over the past couple of years, but I came back when you became Queen. I wasn't shocked that he liked you since being bi is a possibility but he was always so jealous when I was with you. He knew me better than anyone and me being gay was something he knew."
"That's why you asked me if he knew at the ball," I pointed out.
"Yeah, I never asked him myself and I was curious. When you insinuated that he didn't, I did research. I believed over the years that he was somehow possessed but besides his personality, there wasn't much indication. All the previous souls that inhabited him lived by their own name.
But yes, I did research and found nothing at all. The fact that it's being brought up again with your Sebastian is confirming my theory."
"You think Sebastian is possessing Dimitri?" I asked.
"Doesn't it make sense?" Lucifer questioned.
"Sebastian disappeared and we never found a body. Plus the other day on the news, Dimitri pinned Sebastian's death on Syn. It would make sense, actually..."
"Sebastian wouldn't go that far..." I countered lowly. Would he?
"Well, remember that Sebastian did work with Lilith in the past. She was the reason the both of you met," Lucifer spoke.
"Oh fucking hell," I cursed. Everything they were saying began to make sense. It was incredibly crazy but seeing the luck Syn and I had, it made sense.
"I'm so confused," Cain said.
"The whole thing is confusing," Hades said.
"So if this is true, Dimitri is innocent?" Mia asked.
"Well Dimitri is, but Sebastian wouldn't be. Dimitri wasn't the type to hurt anyone I should've tried harder to figure it out," Hades said as he buried his face in his hands.
"You had no idea," I said.
"But I did. Dimitri wasn't a—he would've never hurt a fly."
"How do we know this is true for sure?" Caspian asked. "For all we know he could've been this way the whole time."
"Then explain that phone call. Lilith said Sebastian," I countered. He nodded in defeat and I took a deep breath. "I need to find out if it's true that Dimitri is innocent. I'm not going to let an innocent man rot for someone else's crimes."
"What are you going to do?" Hades asked.
"I need to go see him."
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Author's Note
Girl...IDK abt that
Hades story just made me sadder than I already was😭. Ugh I'm team Hades now. Before it was team Charlie but I've switched. How about y'all😭
What do you think think will happen if Queen visits him?👀
Lmk your thoughts ✨