Incubus

Incubus

Flora Winters

I do not own Torchwood.

Summary: The team discovers that there are more things in heaven and earth, but does this creature belong in either? This story will contain male/male relationships, lots of vulgar language (just because I love using it), and a couple of original characters thrown in here and there just to spice things up. Have fun and enjoy the story, ya’ll.

Chapter One

Kain’s veins felt as though they were humming with fiery vigor. That man’s blood had been unlike any other he had ever tasted. He was so high and he didn’t know if he would ever come back down. He was floating in a web of visible darkness, glowing like a great ivory star. The darkness was warm and it was cooing to him with distant whispers from the past, future, nowhere, and everywhere.

His blue eyes snapped open, filled with molten fire. A voice had called out to him. It had been his voice, crying out for him to stop.

Glistening tears made of liquid fire bled from his eyes, trailing down his glowing white cheeks. His heart was suddenly aching in unknowable agony. It was like someone taking a razor and shaving away layers of his heart.

“Shut up!” He screamed, holding his talons to his pointy ears, folding his onyx black wings around himself in a protective cocoon. His voice echoed throughout the moving darkness.

“Why?” The voice whispered in painful distress. “I loved you…”

“I didn’t know!” Kain cried, flapping his wings in thunderous rage. “I couldn’t control it!”

“I trusted you, my brother,” the voice whispered in sadness. “My lover…”

Kain flapped his wings, causing thunder to boom and acid green lightning to hiss in the deeper darkness. This always happened when he stayed in the dark for too long. His mommy was going to have to wash her hair. There were just too many voices clinging to her silky dark strands.

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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the world. He created a man and a woman of incredible beauty. He named the man, Adam, and the woman, Lilith.

Lilith was wild and full of unbridled spirit. She was like a great burning flame that filled the Garden with beauty and light.

She would refuse to sleep with Adam because he would not allow her to be on top. Finally, Adam had had enough of her antics, and forced himself onto her. In that moment of unwanted passion, hatred filled her heart with bitter darkness, and her avenger was planted deep inside her womb. She would pay him back.

She fled the Garden on wings of wrath, filling the sky with thunder. Her heart had become cold as ice and her amber eyes became like flame. She flew to the Blood Sea and began to sleep with the Fallen Ones, but, she was always on top. They didn’t have a problem with it, for she was beautiful.

God sent an angel to spirit her firstborn away from the Hell she was creating. He cursed her, saying that a thousand of her children would be slaughtered daily if she did not return to Adam at once. Her hatred only intensified. She seethed and hissed in darkness, clawing for power, until she became the Queen of the Fallen.

So, God had a thousand of her children killed each day, and decided to try and make another woman, only this time he made her out of Adam’s rib. That way she would be a part of him and submissive. He gave them Kain to care for and to love. He was beautiful in the eyes of God, but, there was darkness crawling in him. The angels envied and would not associate with him.

Why did God not punish Adam for forcing himself on Lilith? Well, the answer is quite simple really. A woman’s place is under her man.

“Um, Jack,” Gwen said, raising her hand, wanting to claw his face. “This tale is starting to piss me off.”

“I know,” Jack smiled, looking at her. “It’s supposed to.”

Eve gave birth to Abel and Kain was his keeper. He looked out for his little brother, making sure that he did not get himself into any kind of trouble. Sometimes the angels liked to play tricks. They did not like him for some reason, and would not come around Abel when he was near.

Kain loved flowers. He would decorate his hair with the fragrant petals and wrap vines up and around his legs and arms. His beauty was just like his mothers and Adam shunned him for this reason. It was like looking at her. She was dark to where he was light filled with dark.

“Pretty,” Abel would say, touching his older brother’s long sunny locks, running his hands down his legs where the green vines curled.

“Come on,” Kain smiled. “I’ll fix yours, too.”

Lilith had grown cruel and calculative. She wanted to destroy Adam utterly for the way he had treated her and was treating her glorious child.

“My husband,” she smiled some years later with seductive charm. “Why not help me in teaching those vermin a lesson they shall never forget?”

The Prince of the Fallen Ones, the Bright and Beautiful Morningstar gave her his ears. He fell in lust with the plan to get them kicked out of Paradise.

Kain followed along side his handsome brother who was riding on the back of a full grown lion. Abel was laughing and telling Kain how pretty he always was. Abel was tall and muscular, golden as the sun with his mother’s red hair.

The two of them began playing near the Tree of Good and Evil. It was the most beautiful tree in the Garden, even more so than the Tree of Life. That was why it was so seductive.

“Hello, Beautiful One,” a silky voice said. “Your mother sends you her love.”

Kain turned from his brother who was sleeping with his head in his lap. He was stringing flowers through his fiery locks. There was a rainbow serpent with colorful plumed wings, slithering around in the limbs of the tree.

“My mother?” Kain asked, carefully getting to his feet so to not disturb his brother’s rest, and began walking towards the snake. “What about her?”

“Not Eve, child,” he said, slithering down to face him. “Your real mother. Your true mother.”

Kain leaned back from that golden face. “What?”

The Morningstar told him what the man he called Father had done and the seed of darkness began to sprout within his heart. Now he knew why his father would not touch him, nor have anything to do with him.

“Don’t you want to help your mother?” Morningstar asked.

Kain looked back at his sleeping brother. They were not brothers at all, not really.

He looked back at the snake. “What do you want me to do?”

“Don’t you want to taste this yummy looking fruit, Kain?” Morningstar asked, flicking his ruby red tongue at one, licking the glossy surface. “It is so yummy.”

Kain watched in fascination as the snake gobbled one down. Amber like juice dripped from the snake’s mouth and that ruby red tongue lapped it up.

“My father told me to never eat of this tree,” Kain said. “He says that it will kill me.”

“Lies,” the serpent hissed in anger. “I’m not dead am I? I eat this fruit all the time. He just does not want you to have any. He is not kind to you, is he, Kain?”

Kain blinked. He felt like running away. His feelings were hurt.

“Kain!” Abel called out, rising up off the ground. “Where are you?”

Kain spun around and the serpent hissed. “Take it, Kain. Share it with your brother.”

He looked back at the shimmering serpent and smiled with white teeth. He reached up with a pale white hand and plucked the succulent fruit from the limb.

The serpent smiled. “Taste it, child. See how yummy it is.”

“I will,” Kain said. “But, tell me what my mother’s name is.”

“Kain!” Abel shouted.

“Lilith,” the serpent said. “Your beautiful mother’s name is Lilith, child.”

He could hear his brother coming closer to the massive tree and he shouted out, “I’ll be there in a second, Abel! Just hold on, okay?”

“This is definitely different than Sunday School,” Owen said, sipping his tea.

Ianto snorted. “I don’t believe in school on Sundays. It goes against my religion.”

“Anyway,” Jack said, continuing the story.

A voice inside Kain’s head told him to not eat the fruit. It told him that it was not meant for him. For some reason, he heeded the kind voice, and refused to give it to his brother, too. He loved his brother and did not want harm to come to him if the serpent turned out to be a liar. But, he had little love for his father and the woman who pretended to be his mother. He put it in with the rest of the food, making sure that Abel’s hands did not fall on it.

At meal time Eve ate the fruit and loved the taste so much she offered some to her husband and they suddenly realized that something was terribly wrong. They were naked and filled with shame. Adam suddenly knew he had wronged his first wife and was filled with pain. He knew he had wronged his son, too. Why was he feeling this way?

“Quick,” Eve said, grabbing her husband by the hand. “We must cover ourselves before God comes and sees us like this.”

Kain and Abel looked at each other. Their parents quickly told them to follow after them. They needed to clothe themselves immediately.

Kain looked at them. “Why are we doing this?”

Adam froze, looking at the fruit in his hand. Where had he seen it before? His eyes widened in horror. “Where did this come from?”

Kain looked away and Adam saw. He grabbed his son by the hair, yelling into his face. “Where did you get this?”

“The tree,’ he said, pointing into the depths of the Garden. “The beautiful one.”

Adam’s eyes filled with anger and he struck his son across the face, knocking him to the ground, causing Abel to cry out in alarm.

“You little fool!” Adam roared, speaking words and feeling things he had never felt before. “You’ve killed us!”

The dark seed in Kain’s heart began to grow more and more in the darkness. He was hurt and confused. He wrapped his arms around Abel who came to help him up.

“The serpent told me it was all right,” he sobbed.

Just then, the voice of God filled the Garden. “What is this?”

Cruel laughter followed. “Indeed, my Lord. What is this?”

It was Lilith. She was clothed in nothing but her own beauty. It made Eve pink with shame for her. Had she no shame? The Queen of Demon’s beauty was wilder than the wind and scorched like a devouring flame.

“You!” Adam hissed, pointing with a shaking finger, losing all sympathy for the woman. “You did this! This is all your fault, woman!”

Lilith put a flawless hand to her mouth and giggled. “Whatever do you mean?”

“Silence!” God thundered, quaking the ground. “I know all.”

“Then tell us,” Lilith smiled. “Oh, Great One.”

“No,” God said, ignoring the demoness. “I want confession.”

Lilith knew in that moment that God was just as ignorant. He needed to learn a lesson, too.

DON’T CREATE WHAT YOU CAN’T CONTROL!

Kain remained silent as his father blamed him and the woman who was his real mother. He then blamed Eve for handing the fruit to him. She should have noticed that it was not something that had ever eaten before.

Kain could not stop looking at his birth mother and she could not stop looking at him while the argument raged. It was like looking into a reflective pool of water.

“Lucifer!” God bellowed above, below, within, and beyond the world. “Come to me now!”

Lilith looked down, seeing a golden snake slithering up her gorgeous left leg. She smiled. “Hello, lover.”

Morningstar bit her, making her cackle with wicked laughter. He was such a dirty tease.

“Jack,” Tosh said, snapping her fingers. “Focus.”

“Right,” Jack said, smiling at Ianto. “Lord knows I love me some snake.”

Gwen snorted when Ianto nearly choked on his tea.

“What have you done?” God commanded. “Tell me now.”

“I only did what was in my nature, my Creator,” Morningstar smiled, appearing before them all as a tall golden angel of unmatched beauty. “The child did the rest.”

“Well done, my son,” Lilith grinned, fighting not to smack Eve for being so submissive.

A scorching hard wind began to blast the world. God spoke and the garden began to die with every syllable. The exotic plants began to wilt and fade into crumbling brown dust. Roars and cries of animals filled the air.

“No!” Lilith suddenly cried. “You can’t do that! My son is innocent. He only fell into the trap. He knew no better!”

“Ah, but, he touched the fruit.” God spoke. “What did I say? Even if you so much as touch it, you will surely die.”

Kain looked at his hands.

“No!” Lilith screamed, clawing at the glowing white light.

“Take the fruit, Kain,” God said in a voice that was not to be trifled with. “And feed it to your brother whom you love so much.”

The fruit was suddenly in Kain’s hand. He looked at it and then at his brother.

“No,” he said, throwing it down. “I won’t do that.”

“Now wait just a damn minute here,” Owen said. “You’re making God sound like a prick.”

“Well, yeah duh,” Jack said, getting tired of the interruptions. “He kinda is. He’s all powerful. All powerful beings can do what they want to. Now, shut up.”

Owen rolled his eyes. “Fine.”

“Fine,” Jack said, continuing on.

“Feed it to your brother, Kain,” God said. “Or you shall die right here and now.”

Lilith screamed in outrage, trying to move, but couldn’t. The Morningstar just floated there in a halo of rainbow light.

“No!” Kain yelled, backing away from the fallen fruit. “I won’t hurt my brother.”

“Oh,” God said, sounding as if he were laughing. “But you will.”

Abel ran forward and scooped up the fruit.

Kain screamed, jumping at him, but it was too late. He had bitten into the fruit.

God laughed in pleasure and a bright flash filled the Garden. Lilith’s screams echoed throughout space and time.

“What?” Gwen asked. “Is that it?”

Jack nodded. “That’s all I can remember.”

“You’ve got to be shitting me,” Owen said, looking up at him. “What happened? Didn’t Kain kill his brother?”

“I don’t know,” Jack said. “All I do know is that Lilith is the mother of Incubi and Succubi.”

“So, what you’re saying,” Tosh said. “Is that we are dealing with a biblical character here who possesses a lot of power.”

“Pretty much,” Jack smiled. “His mother is worshipped as a Goddess nowadays. I don’t even know if we can kill him.”

Gwen shook her head. “Wasn’t his name Kain?”

Jack nodded. “That’s what he said. Whether he is the one from the copy of your alls Bible, I don’t know.”

Gwen cocked a brow. “What does that mean?’

Ianto snorted.

“What?” She asked, looking at him.

“Nothing,” Jack said, not mentioning the time machine and all that.

“I thought his name was spelled with a C,” Owen said. “Not with a K.”

“Maybe he updated with the times,” Ianto said. “Like Microsoft.”

Owen threw a pencil at him. “Don’t try and be funny. It’s spooky.”

“Well, we need to find him, again,” Gwen said, getting to her feet. “How do we go about doing that?”

Jack looked down at his feet. “He didn’t finish with me. He’ll be coming back for more.”

Everyone looked at him.

“What? Is that so hard to believe?” He asked, feeling his pride bruise. “I’m really hot, you know.”

Ianto nodded. “You really, really are.”

Everyone turned to look at him.

“Oh, I need to go sharpen those stakes,” he said, jumping to his feet, walking to the door. “And give Buffy a ring while I’m at it.”

“Why didn’t one of you all tag him?” Tosh asked.

Gwen just looked at her. “We were kinda busy, Tosh.”

“Yeah,” Owen said. “Jack was down and we were panicking. You didn’t see him, Tosh. He was scary.”

“Oh, he was more than that,” Jack said, closing his eyes, smiling. “He made me feel things in my body I’ve never felt before.”

Gwen rolled her eyes. “I can only imagine.”

“Exactly!” Jack said, opening his eyes. “I’m more than happy to be bait again.”

“Uh huh,” Owen said, getting to his feet, too. “I just bet you are.”

“What?” Jack asked. “I’m irresistible.”

“You really are,” Ianto said over the loud speakers.

Everyone looked up.

“Shall I bring more tea?” Ianto asked in a pleasant voice.

TBC…

Please review and tell me what you think. Thank you all so much for the reviews. I love them.

Flora.