Devour Page #4

Some folks want

what God ain't giving them:

Money. Power.

Me? I wanted to get laid.

There's more p*ssy at a Black Mass

than there is at a Metallica concert.

What happens at a Black Mass?

People get naked.

Then they sacrifice something.

A cat or a dog.

Satan rewards you for killing a dog?

The more you give, the more you get.

What happens if you kill a human?

My group was more bankers

and housewives...

looking for a different kind of picnic.

Do you know any people

that are more devoted?

You don't cross people

who are willing to give up their souls.

Walt, please.

Yeah, I know a guy.

Just do me a favor.

Don't tell him I sent you.

Coming. Sammy.

Mr. Reisz, I'm Jake Gray.

I called about an hour ago,

said I was coming by.

Yeah.

I get $50 an hour for consultations.

Right.

I should charge more.

The guy who fixes my car gets $80.

Barely knows where the sparkplugs are,

much less how to conjure up Beelzebub.

I ever sell books to you before?

No.

You say it's called the "Pathway"?

Yes. Why?

Because that's what we call the connection

between the Devil and the possessed.

So how did I resist?

We're often unaware of our strength

until we're tested.

Why does the Devil need to use

computers or games?

Think about it.

It's a very effective way

to spread a message.

I mean, imagine if Hitler had

had the Internet.

Maybe Satan's found someone

to do his bidding again.

I've seen this man...

in my head.

So have I.

What makes you think

this guy can conjure Satan?

Because I taught him to.

When Aidan Kater came to me

to learn the black arts...

he was a geek

living out of the back of his van.

I stopped teaching a few years later...

but by then he was very skilled.

Why did you stop?

I was going to be a father.

Was?

Anne Kilton was a student of mine

before we were married.

The pregnancy was hard on her.

She had a bad premonition...

and asked me to perform a sacrifice

for the health of the baby.

A human sacrifice.

I refused.

So Kater took your place.

I came home one night

and found a pentagram in my yard.

There was blood everywhere.

I thought at first:

"Anne must have sacrificed

some kind of animal here. "

But Anne was gone, too.

When they found her bloody clothes

in a ditch two days later, I knew...

Aidan Kater had sacrificed

my wife and unborn child.

I'm sorry.

What did the police say?

The police were very helpful.

They made me their prime suspect.

I spent the next five years

trying to prove that I didn't do it.

And that's what I have left

to remember them by.

An empty grave.

The Devil uses the Pathway

to possess people.

And then forces them to kill...

and commit suicide?

She seduces them.

The Devil's a woman?

I don't know.

It can be whatever it needs to be.

Or what you want it to be?

I didn't want it to be a woman.

You think Conrad and Dakota wanted

to die like that?

Some part of them did.

You didn't even know them!

I'm not saying it's your fault.

I think that you're angry because...

Yes, I'm angry.

My friends are dead! I'm angry!

But I'm not crazy.

This Kater guy is behind this...

and I gotta do something.

I can't just stand here.

What are you gonna do? Throw holy water

on him? Burn him at the stake?

You believed me

when I said I saw something.

I did. I believed that you had a vision,

maybe, or an apparition.

The b*tch was in my basement!

Okay. You know what?

This is getting a little bit too heavy

for me right now.

I adore you,

but this is getting to be too much.

I guess I shouldn't have come here.

I'm sorry.

F***ing sh*t.

We're not going to be able to save you now.

You are dust, and to dust you shall return.

He's gone to hell.

Where you going with those, Jake?

To your mother and father?

You can't do that, man.

You'll ruin everything.

Jake.

I didn't have a choice.

Neither of us do.

Are we in hell?

No.

But hell ain't so bad.

You'll see.

You know, you remind me of myself

when I was your age.

Smart.

Angry.

Trying desperately to pretend

that I was something good...

but somehow deep down inside

knowing you're not.

I'm nothing like you. I don't kill people.

No, you just dream about it.

Is this how you got to Conrad and Dakota?

You mess with their minds

until they do what you tell them?

It was a test.

They failed. You passed.

You stared the Devil directly in the face...

and you never looked away.

But when you finally did...

we knew that we'd found you.

You used the Pathway to find me?

Why?

Because you were stolen from us...

and we needed a way to get you back.

Stolen?

By who?

Those people you call your parents.

They found your mother where

she was hiding on the night you were born.

She was too weak to fight them.

You're insane.

You were taken from your real mother

on the night you were born.

My real mother?

Anne Kilton.

Bullshit.

Anne never had a child.

You made sure of that.

Every son wants to believe his father...

but faking Anne's death

kept Ivan from the truth.

You belong to us.

You always have.

Anne had a plan...

but when Paul and Kathy interfered...

you went from being a Prince of Darkness...

to just another f***ed up kid.

Look.

Your whole life is a lie.

Why are you doing this to me?

Why?

Don't be afraid.

She'll explain everything.

Where is she?

I know who you are now.

Why?

No!

There's a higher power looking out for you.

I had to make sure

my son still belonged to me.

Oh, God.

You had to kill

before I could show myself to you.

They took you from me...

but I'm sorry I had to do this to you.

That isn't your blood.

Drink this.

Accept who you were born to be...

or go back to the life that you hate.

Will you be with me?

I'll be whatever you need me to be.

You're a monster.

My God, they think I killed them?

The Devil couldn't kill her child,

so this is how she makes me pay...

for wanting to be human.

But maybe they're right.

Maybe there is no Pathway.

And this is all a fantasy I've created

to live with the horrible things I'd done.

Wake me from this nightmare.

Please. Help me.

-=The End=-

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