Cain was not born alive. Adam took his body to bury but found he could not bury his son.
Sorrow that seeped into his bones turned to rage seeing his son in that hole. It was a punishment from the heavens for eating the apple. The child was innocent but they punished him anyways. He’d never even had a breath of air before God took him from them.
Something primal tear from his throat and he hoped the heaven could hear his rage.
Sore and tired he crumbled to the ground to sob some more.
He heard the hiss before he saw the snake. Black as night the creature twisted itself up his leg. Adam froze.
Was this to be his punishment for blaming God and screaming at the heavens for Cain’s death? Being bit by a snake not unlike the one Lucifer turned into in Eden? Would his death be slow and painful? Would he have time to say good bye to Eve at least?
Or would she stumble upon his corpse next to that of their stillborn son?
How cruel were the heavens today?
It slithered around and up his thigh under the length of woven fabric Eve made for him to wear. Adam shivered as its head crossed against his cock. ‘Bit me anywhere but there. Please, God. Not there.’
It continued on its way up his hip.
Another hiss and a second snake, identical in breed started up his other leg.
The first made its way up his back, coiling itself around his neck, its flicking tongue licking at his ear.
The second snake took a different path. Its body rubbing itself as it slithered under his ball and up his ass before crossing at his hips to go up his chest. The scales rubbing along a nipple as it went. It entwined itself with the other snake around his neck and hiss in his other ear.
Together they spoke.
“I heard your screams even down here, First of Mankind. What pains you thus?” The snakes slithered around each other, always writing and moving.
“Is that a baby I see?” One head nearly twisting all the way around to look closer as the tongue of the other flicked against Adam’s lips.
“It sleeps to still. Why have you placed it in a hole?” The one licking Adam’s mouth with its tongue asked.
“He’s dead.” Adam muttered out, trying not to open his mouth, but at was nigh impossible and the forked tongue slipped in, tasting him.
It moved on back to his ear, flicking against the rim of his ear and asking, “would you like him back?”
Adam’s heart nearly stopped.
“I still contain the breathe of life in my lungs, my dear sweet apple.” One of the snakes, Adam had lost track of which was which, spoke as it grazed Adam’s throat and the lump within. Where the half eaten bite was contained. “But I’ll need a seed from the bite you took to for it to take root in your boy.”
“Yes, I would do anything to have him back.”
Anything at all.
If it cost him his soul he would pay the price.
“Then open your mouth and let me in.”
Adam did as he was told and the snake entered him easily. The head filled his mouth and pushed down to his throat. He gagged, his body trying to rid itself of the intrusion. His hands flew to his mouth to pull Lucifer’s snake out but the other slithering beast bound his hands and he could only double over onto his hands and knees. His bodied tried to expel the monster from his throat. It contracted around it and he heaved but in further it slid. Tears sprung from his eyes and his lungs demanded air.
At last the snake withdrew and Adam was left gasping. He threw up into the dirt as a hand grabbed him by the hair and jerked his head up painfully.
“Was it as good for you as it was for me, my sweet apple?” Lucifer smiled cruelly down, as naked as Adam had been in Eden. A single seed held between his fingers. “Perhaps once I’m done with your son, you’ll thank me by letting me use that mouth of yours again.”
“Never.” Adam spat the last of the bile in his mouth at Lucifer’s bare hooves.
“Never say never, apple of my eye. I’ll add you to my collection yet.” He let Adam go and the snakes released Adam’s hands.
They slithered up their master’s body until they settled in his hair like a crown, or fallen halo.
“My price for this gift of life is a soul.”
Adam knew that would be the price he paid, it would be worth it he decided that already. He looked at the body of his baby. He would pay any price to have him back. “Anything.”
“The soul of the first human to die.”
Lucifer’s words stole Adam’s breathe away. Cain’s soul? No! Not his son!
Adam looked up from his hands and knees. Desperately he grabbed at Lucifer’s legs. He buried his face into Lucifer’s thighs and wailed, “no, no! Please. Take my soul instead! Not my son’s! Please! Even you can’t be so cruel.”
“Hmm, as much as I like you in this position, who said I would be taking your son’s soul?”
Shaking and still crying, Adam looked up into Lucifer’s yellow and red eyes. “But you said-“
“I said, ‘the soul of the first human to die’, your son never lived. He never drew his first breath. He grew in Eve’s belly but he had no soul yet. You are right, even I am not as cruel as the heavens to damn a babe before it lives. My deal is fair. A breath of life in exchange for whoever’s soul dies first. Keep your children safe until your passing and then you’ll be the one I collect.”
There was hope then.
“Unless you’re going to use that mouth, release me so I might finish my task.”
Adam pushed himself away, suddenly more aware than he wanted to be of how close his face had been to Lucifer’s dick.
Lucifer’s laugh was never this harsh in Eden, Adam hated it. He couldn’t look at the monster that had once been his friend.
A hand grabbed Adam’s face and jerked it up. “Keep those pretty eyes on me.” The thumb slipped into Adam’s mouth and tugged at the corner, ran along the inside to open his mouth further before running along his teeth.
Adam bit down and could taste the damned golden blood of the fallen angel.
Lucifer moaned, “harder, my apple blossom. Maybe later I’ll give you the privilege of getting to taste more than my blood as I spilled into that toothy mouth of yours.”
He did as Lucifer said and dug his teeth into the bone, then tore his mouth away. He spat the blood onto the ground.
“Get it over with you sick freak.”
“Such sweet nothings from my pretty little temptation. Never forget, even if you do make it to heaven, part of you will always belong to me and I’ll have it back one day.”
Lucifer turned from Adam and squatted down by Cain’s stiff body. He twirled the seed between his fingers, holding it to the light, inspecting it. “You kept it save these last few years. I could grow a whole new tree from this. Fill hell with all sorts of monsters. We never did shake on it.” He turned that wicked grin of his onto Adam’s stricken face. “Poor sapling. I’m teasing you.”
With an in take of breath, Lucifer turned back to the seed and Cain’s body. Lucifer held his breath, he held his bleeding hand over the seed and let a single droplet of blood coat the seed, then he exhaled onto the seed. It glowed and turned translucent gold.
“A soul.” Lucifer grinned, then crushed the seed.
Adam’s heart leapt into his throat and he couldn’t scream for the blockage.
Lucifer pulled the crushed seed with his hands into two gloops. He rolled them between his fingertips, one in each hand, then placed one in his mouth and swallowed. “I’ll keep that for later.”
The second he pushed into Cain’s mouth. Closing the mouth with one hand, Lucifer pressed down with two fingers of his other hand onto Cain’s tiny chest. He pinched Cain’s nose closed and his lungs filled with the soul that had been placed in his mouth. Lucifer released the babe and Cain cried out for the first time.
Adam snatched the boy up. He needed to get him to Eve. Their son was alive!
“Don’t forget, Adam. If you don’t want to damn an innocent soul, hurry up and die.”
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