Janice shivered slightly and turned the thermometer up 2 degrees, she could hear the wind howling outside and see the snow falling fast, a few months ago she would have just put on a coat to save money but everything in her life had changed after she had her baby Kathrine,
she walked into to the small room where her baby was sleeping, she didn't have to worry about her noisy footsteps on the old wooden floor waking her child up as her baby was both blind and deaf.
She looked down into the crib at her only child, the small baby barely a month old was sleeping soundly, she turned and walked to the closet to get another blanket for her.

She was not rich by any means and could barely afford the rent on her small apartment and being a single mom her child would never have the type of things in life she should,
she wanted more than anything else in life for her child to have the things in life that she never had when she was young but her job at the factory was just barely enough to let her make ends meet and the cost of having a baby sitter when she was at work was almost too much for her.
She reached up to the top of the closet to get the small blue fleece blanket , it felt soft and comforting, she turned to look at the crib that she had been given to her by her neighbor after Katherine had been born and worried about what she would do ever do if the plant closed down, business had been slow lately and they had been reduced to less than 40 people after after the lay offs a month ago.
She could feel the warm tears flowing down her face as she wondered what she had ever done in her life for her baby to be punished in such a harsh and cruel way, how could any merciful god do this to an innocent child.
She lowered her head and closed her eyes and prayed that her child would be healed and spoke out loud "Please lord, I would do anything for her to be healed."

"ANYTHING?"

Janice looked up in shock and disbelief to see a demon standing over the crib, he was over 7 seven feet tall and had red scaled skin with yellow serpentine eyes, his long tail swayed back and forth as he leered at her.

Her eyes widened and her heart slammed in her chest as she stared at the thing standing over the crib, unable to even think of what to say or do.

The demon was unclothed and easily visible as a male "I will heal your child if you agree to 3 terms" the demon said with a malicious smile.

Slowly , she came to her senses as the fear ebbed from her and she realized that the demon was real and that her baby actually had a chance to be healed , she looked from the demon to her baby and back again and asked meekly ,"What do you want?".

"The first term is, that you will become my bedroom servant every night, you will adhere to my every wanting desire without refusal",
a broad smile crawled over his face as he saw the disgust in her eyes at what he wanted,
as he looked Janice up and down he told her the second term.
"the second term is, that you will bear me a child every year for the rest of your life".
Janice could only stare at the demon in horror at he wanted.
"The third term of the agreement you will not be told of until you agree to the three terms, it may be anything that I desire , weather I demand that you will never be able to see your child again or that I demand your life in exchange for the baby to be healed."

As emotions flooded through her, she stared down at her feet and then to her baby and realized that this was her babies only chance and whispered the words "I agree".

The demon waved his hand over the crib and said "SO LET THE BARGAIN BE SEALED"

Janice looked from at the demon and in a shakey voice asked, "What is the third term?".

The demon looked her in the eyes and said " The third term of the agreement, is that you are absolved of the first two terms" and as he said it the horns disappeared from his head and the red skin started pealing off revealing the smooth flawless skin beneath as his white feathery wings spread out behind him.

He then spoke to Janice with a soft caring voice " Janice your love and prayers for your child have been heard " and with soft flash of light the angel vanished .

The baby woken by the flash of light opened her eyes and for the first time saw her mom.

Interesting write.