{omniscient}

Ryan smirked when he watched Delilah walk into her room and sit down on the bed. She sighed and mutter to herself, "Looks like I fucked up this time! The bad part is, I can't even make it right so why bother? This is exactly why I didn't want Frank to meet Victoria or Jaxon or Jenny! Fuck!"

Ryan snickered silently to himself, "This is going to be waaaay too easy! I swear I think some humans are demons in disguise."

He took out a bag from his pocket and took out a brooch that looked like a spider. The brooch was actually a human soul who had done wicked deeds while they were alive such as mass murder. A human soul has to be so wicked to the point where it can be manipulated for such purposes as changing into a spider to do a demon's bidding.

This type of spider can search through someone's memories and use that to slowly drive someone insane. Especially if the memory has something that the person feels guilty for in it.

Ryan put the brooch down on the ground and it turned a live spider. "Search Delilah."

With that one simple command the spider grew and scuttled up to the bed and it crawled on Delilah's hand and sunk into her skin.

There was a particular memory that Ryan was searching for and when he found it, it was what humans would call disturbing. A demon on other hand wouldn't be too phased by it as a matter of fact, a demon would be excited as it would give them a way into possessing a human's body.

The memory was the day that Delilah first laid a hand on Victoria. Delilah hated Victoria ever since the day she was born. As Victoria grew Delilah hated her even more. She was mostly jealous of Victoria because of her beauty and how she was slowly starting to be the favorite in the family. Victoria wasn't Delilah's favorite but everyone else in the family adored her.

Victoria was only three years old the first time Delilah hit her. Actually Victoria didn't really do anything wrong, she just somehow got on Delilah's nerves. Victoria had been outside Delilah's room crying for her attention.

Delilah came out of her room and looked at her daughter with contempt. "Shut the hell up!"

When Victoria didn't stop crying Delilah picked Victoria up and sat her at the top of the stairs. She narrowed her eyes. "If you don't stop crying I'll give you something to cry about!"

That threat didn't stop Victoria from crying. It just made her cry harder. Delilah, thoroughly annoyed with her daughter, pushed Victoria down the steps. Delilah came to her senses when Victoria landed at the bottom of the stairs unconscious and she panicked because she thought she killed her daughter.

Delilah called for her husband who was Victoria's father at the time his name was Isaac. Isaac came out of his room to see Delilah panicking. "What's wrong Delilah?"

"Um, Victoria fell down the stairs!" Delilah shouted.

"What the hell?" Isaac said. Delilah pointed to where Victoria was lying and he panicked. "Call 9-1-1 now!"

Thankfully, Victoria didn't die from that fall and Delilah tried to kill her at least one more time after that. But Delilah didn't know that because Victoria isn't human that Victoria will survive no matter how many times Delilah tried to kill her. It wasn't time for Victoria to return to her true home as a Princess of Hell yet.

Delilah did give up on trying to kill Victoria after the second time she tried to kill her. But she started to emotionally and verbally abuse Victoria instead.

That was the memory that Ryan knew he could use against Delilah. He had a feeling that Satan would want a demon to possess Delilah at some point. But for now Ryan was going to have fun torturing Delilah. Especially since it seems that her actions are having consequences she's feeling guilty about what she's done.

The guilt Delilah's feeling now is only because she's having to face her reality. That guilt Ryan could now use to slowly drive Delilah insane.

Ryan looked where the spider went and commanded. "Return."

The spider came up out from under Delilah's skin and scuttled back over to Ryan. Ryan picked the spider up and said, "Change into child."

At that command the spider changed into a small girl. Ryan nodded in approval. He put a finger on the little girl's forehead and he focused on the memory of Victoria when she was three years old.

Ryan grinned at his creation. "This is going to be so much fun! Delilah your guilt and your crimes are coming back to haunt you. And they will haunt you until you breathe your very last breath."

Ryan used his magic to transform the child to look like Victoria when she was three years old. Ryan couldn't stop grinning like a child opening their birthday present as he started to put his plan in action.

***

{Delilah}

It's been at least a week since the dinner that Victoria, Jenny and Jaxon were invited to and the rather explosive argument that Frank and I had. I told him that I didn't love him and that was the case and it still remains true. I just married him for money and I'm fine with that because I actually started cheating on him a couple of weeks before we had the argument. It just seems to be a pattern for me. I get married and two years into the relationship I find myself cheating on my partner.

That's okay because I'm pretty certain that after that argument Frank has been cheating on me. But now that Victoria's in the picture and he's found out what I did to her he's been hell bent on making my life miserable. I guess that's what I get for trying to kill my daughter a couple of times when she was younger.

Maybe that's why I feel sort of guilty now?

Tonight I was in my room listening to music because I was bored. Frank did say we weren't going to have sex anymore and he made good on his word with that and I can't go anywhere without notifying him first. So sleeping with the guy that I'm cheating on Frank with is out. It's because then he would know about my affair and I don't feel like having any more problems coming my way.

As I was listening to music the song that was playing paused to show someone was calling. It was from an unknown number. I picked it up. "Hello?"

"Delilah is that you?" My eyes went wide because I recognized the voice. It was the voice of my first husband Isaac.

I gulped. "I-Isaac?"

"Delilah! What are you doing just standing there? Call 9-1-1! Victoria's hurt!" Isaac shouted.

I felt my mouth go dry at that statement because I knew what this voice who was pretending to be Isaac was referring to. He was referring to the time that I tried to kill Victoria when she was three years old.

"Where's Victoria at Isaac?" I asked.

"She's at the bottom of the stairs! Oh god! She's barely breathing!" Isaac shouted.

Soon, Isaac's voice turned from his voice to dark and sadistic laughter.

"Who are you?" I said.

"You'll know who I am soon enough my dear," the evil voice said. "You think your husband is the only one keeping a close eye on you? My dear, you have more enemies than you think. And all because you were out to destroy a woman that you should've been taking care of. Now your guilt will literally eat you alive at this point."

"What do you want from me?" I asked.

"You'll find out soon enough and if you go to Frank about this I'll kill Ben. It seems that you like cheating on your husbands with a guy that has a name that starts with a B," the evil voice laughed. "Let's see you cheated on Isaac with Brain and he's dead by the way so he won't be much of a problem anymore. That should be a relief for you considering he blackmailed you in order to keep the affair going. You cheated with him again two years after you were married Howard didn't you?"

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The evil voice continued taunting me, "And now there's Ben. Tsk, tsk I think this time you really lost a keeper. Oh well, but as I just said you'll find out what I want from you soon enough. Until then, have fun with your guilty conscience! You'll receive another call from me in two weeks time. Goodbye!"

With that, they hung up the phone leaving me sitting on my bed speechless. I thought about going to Frank but then my affair would be exposed and Ben would be killed. If that person killed Brain and he's not bluffing then he or she could very well kill Ben.

"Fuck!" I cursed.

I tried my best to calm myself down. But after a moment or two I went to the mini bar that was in my room and pulled out a bottle of vodka. I poured a glass and downed it in one go.

At that moment I knew I was in big trouble. I have no idea who found out about what I did to Victoria when she was younger but what I did know was that if this information got out I was screwed.

***

{Satan}

I laughed as I overheard Alastor calling Delilah just to taunt her. The first guy that she cheated on her first marriage with was a guy named Brain and yes he's dead. In hell a person of royalty can take what we like to call pets. These pets are human souls that come to hell because they did bad things while they were alive. The human's that become pets can be changed into animals or any form that their owners deem fit for them.

Sometimes the human just winds up staying in human form and does their masters bidding. Just as Ryan does for me and Jezebel and Gray do for Alastor. Jezebel and Gray are humans that did really bad things before they died.

I don't even think about what bad things they did because they're rather disturbing and I'm the King of Hell. So if I'm disturbed about it, that's saying something.

At the moment Alastor has Jezebel and Gray watching Victoria's house and are slowly appearing to her. So far from what they've reported Victoria can see them and hear them. Walter on the other hand can hear them.

Which is interesting because Walter just came into the picture although he was going to come into the picture soon anyway. That's because Walter was always supposed to be with Victoria. I'm hoping that they will naturally fall in love with each other and this arrangement will work out fine. Most of the time when demons are fated to be mates they don't really fall in love with each other right off the bat. As a matter of fact it's natural for them to want to dominate each other and be at each other's throats at first.

That's what happened with my wife and I. We hated each other the first time we felt the pull notifying that we were mates. Usually demon mates hate each other and although they hate each other they can't stay away from each other at the same time. My wife and I were at each other's throats the first few weeks we found out were mates. Now we're in love and we've been married for twenty-nine years. Victoria was stolen from her crib at the age of two.

What made things even worse was that Victoria grew up being raised by a woman like Delilah. I have an evil plan for Delilah.

As I laughed while watching Alastor place that call to Delilah, Ryan reported back to me saying that there was another demon following Delilah. When I found out that it was Alastor keeping tabs on Delilah I thought about backing off with my plan for her but Alastor wants Ryan in on the plan.

I have no idea what he's planning for Delilah but it's bound to be good.

"A penny for your thoughts?" I looked up when I heard Alastor speak.

"What do you have planned for Delilah?" I asked.

Alastor gave me a sinister smile. "Oh I have plenty of things planned for Delilah. Just sit back, grab some popcorn and watch the fun take place." He laughed, "This is going to be good!"

I shrugged. "Alright then, if you say so."

He nodded and snapped his fingers and disappeared.

***

{Walter}

Ever since I found out about what happened to Victoria at that Sunday dinner I've been on edge since then. I don't know why and my urge to protect her has increased. I try to hold back on that because I don't want to seem clingy. So I'll ask how she feels every once and a while but I usually just rely on Cody to tell me if something's going on.

"So what movie do you want to watch?" Victoria asked as she sat down on the couch beside me.

I had already gotten a bowl of popcorn and we decided to watch a movie and hang out for the night. I didn't mind not one little bit and neither did Victoria. Which is a good thing considering at the moment we're talking about the possibility of dating. I had talked to my boss about this and for whatever the reason he's all for it.

"As long as it's not a chick flick or something like that, it's fine," I said.

"What about a horror movie?" She said.

gave her a wary look. "I don't think that's a good idea."

She rolled her eyes. "Because of my mental health issues? Look, I'm fine. Okay fine then what about an action movie?"

I was getting ready to answer her when I heard Jenny walk into the room and say, "Hi guys!"

I bit the inside of my cheek and tried to keep myself from groaning in annoyance. Victoria on the other hand didn't bother to hide her annoyance. She looked up and rolled her eyes. "Seriously Jenny?"

"What? I just thought I'd pop in and say hi," Jenny said. She paused and smiled. "Am I interrupting something?"

"Yes, yes you are," Victoria said. "We were just getting ready to watch a movie."

"Oh cool, have you picked one out yet?" Jenny asked.

"Not yet and no you can't choose!" Victoria growled.

She stood up from the couch and picked out a movie. It was an action movie called: The Boys are in Town. I rolled my eyes at the title. But on the bright side at least it's not a chick flick.

When Victoria walked back to the couch she grabbed Jenny who was trying to sit in between us as if she were a chaperone.

"I'm a grown ass adult I don't need a chaperone," Victoria hissed.

Jenny pouted. "Okay fine then, you're sitting next to me and Walter can sit next to you."

Victoria groaned, "Seriously?"

"Aw come on! Cuddle with me? Please?" Jenny said while giving Victoria puppy dog eyes.

Victoria groaned again. "Fine."

When we got settled on the couch Jenny pulled Victoria into her arms and hugged her tightly. I saw her give me a look that said 'I won' and I have no idea why. I just shrugged it off as we sat down and watched the movie.

***

We finished watching the movie and Jenny went home for the night. Victoria had fallen asleep on the couch so I picked her up and carried her to her room with Cody following closely behind me.

I left the room after Cody got on the bed with Victoria and was surprised to see the door of my room opened.

"Strange," I said to myself. "I don't remember leaving my door open."

"That's because… It wasn't open… It was closed…" I heard a voice say. It sounded like it was coming from somebody who woke up in the morning and their throat was scratchy.

That voice had some alarm bells ringing in my head. I called out, "Who's there?"

"Come and say hi… My son…" The voice said.

I looked around and saw Victoria's baseball bat that she keeps in case her little buddies start whispering to themselves again. I grabbed it and walked slowly to my room. When I got to my room I panicked and swung the bat at what looked like an old man sitting on my bed.

"Whoa! Whoa! Calm down!" The old man said.

"No, tell me who you are and why are you in my room?" I asked.

"Now is that anyway to greet your old man?" The old man asked.

I paused. "Huh? What do you mean by that?"

"I mean we're family!" The old man said.

I paused again. "Huh? Is this some sort of joke? Because if it is, it's not funny!"

The old man shook his head. "No, this isn't a joke and if I were you I'd close the door. No, wait I'll close it for you."

The old man snapped his fingers and just like that the door to my room closed and the baseball bat that I was holding was gone. He patted the space next to him on the bed.

"Yeah no thanks, I'm good. I think I'll stand here," I said.

The old man laughed, "You're just like your mother. I wonder if you have her overprotectiveness too?"

"How do you know my mother?" I asked.

"Because I'm your father," the old man responded.

I snorted. "Excuse me? That's a load of crap! I know who my father is and it sure as hell isn't you!"

"Oh no, see that's where you're wrong Walter," He said. He smiled. "Interesting how human names are. Anyway, the people you think are your mother and your father, well they're not. They stole you from your crib when you were three years old. But that's okay because when they die, I'll pay them back in full. Your 'parents' have been hiding a lot of secrets from you just like Victoria's parents, mostly her father, have been hiding secrets from her."

"So is Victoria's father still alive?" I said.

The old man shook his head. "No he's not. And unfortunately, the secrets that he was hiding died along with him. Delilah doesn't know what Victoria is and she won't know just yet. I have plans for her. Oh my! Where are my manners? My name is Alastor, I am Satan's second in command. I'm also the one who assigns humans their punishments when they go to Hell. That's my favorite part of the job. I've said all that I needed to say for now.

"In a moment you'll wake up in your bed and think that this was nothing more than a dream. Don't worry, when you finally return to your true home I'll show you the art of torturing people. Yes, it's an art and it's so much fun."

"You crazy bastard!" I exclaimed.

Alastor laughed, "Yes, yes I am and believe it or not, I've been called worse. I do love the human way of insulting people. You see, humans think they're all that when they're alive. But when they die and step into demon territory, they're at the bottom of the food chain. And I love reminding them of that every single day." He stood up from the bed. "It was nice to finally meet you, my son. Soon you'll be back in Hell and you'll be the Prince that you were meant to be. Until then, goodnight."

Alastor snapped his fingers and disappeared and after he did that I did exactly what he said I'd do. I woke up in a cold sweat as if I had just had one hell of a crazy dream.