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|dates= ???? - – 2019 (killed by [[Jack Kline]])|location= Longton, Kansas

[[Lucifer]] chooses to use Nick as a so-called "Plan B" [[vessel]] when [[Sam]] refused to consent to him.<ref name="five01" /><ref name="five03">[[5.03 Free to Be You and Me]]</ref> However, because he isn't the "true" vessel, over time Nick’s body slowly became more and more degraded. The longer he continued to be occupied by Lucifer the more his body burned out, due to his [[meatsuit]]'s inability to contain Lucifer's essence. [[Castiel]] tells Sam that Nick would be drinking gallons of [[demon blood]] in order to continue to host Lucifer.<ref name="five21">[[5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight]]</ref> Nick is dispossessed when Lucifer gains consent from Sam, his body left behind in a an apartment in Detroit.<ref name="five22">[[5.22 Swan Song]]</ref>

Despite no longer using Nick as a vessel, Nick appeared to be Lucifer's favored form to manifest visually in.<ref name="eleven09">[[11.09 O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]</ref><ref name="eleven10">[[11.10 The Devil in the Details]]</ref><ref name="eleven18">[[11.18 Hell's Angel]]</ref> Additionally, when Lucifer was expelled from Castiel by [[the Darkness]], an image of Nick briefly overlaid Castiel.<ref name="eleven22">[[11.22 We Happy Few]]</ref> Several years after Lucifer first possessed Nick, It's later revealed that his body was found by [[Crowley]]'s demons, where it was after Lucifer dispossessed Nick. They repaired, improved, and warded so that Nick's body so it could be a suitable permanent vessel and prison for Lucifer.<ref name="twelve13">[[12.13 Family Feud]]</ref><ref name="fourteen01">[[14.01 Stranger in a Strange Land]]</ref> Following Lucifer's defeat,<ref name="twelve08">[[12.08 LOTUS]]</ref> he was returned to Nick's unconscious body when Crowley altered [[Rowena]]'s spell, causing Nick to once more become Lucifer's vessel.<ref name="twelve13" /> Nick remained Lucifer's permanent vessel for the next year and a half until Dean killed Lucifer with an [[archangel blade]] while powered and possessed by the [[Apocalypse World]] version of [[Michael (Apocalypse World)|Michael]].<ref name="thirteen23">[[13.23 Let the Good Times Roll]]</ref>

When Nick survived Lucifer's death, Sam theorized it was because the archangel blade was designed to kill the possessing [[archangel]] while leaving the vessel unharmed. Nick takes up residence in a makeshift bedroom in the dungeon of [[the Bunker]] 's dungeon to recuperate from his ordeal.<ref name="fourteen01" /> His subsequent aggressiveness and Lucifer-like mannerisms when angered caused Castiel to believe that Lucifer did more damage to Nick's psyche than had been previously realized.<ref name="fourteen02">[[14.02 Gods and Monsters]]</ref>

After getting his revenge upon Abraxas,<ref name="fourteen11">[[14.11 Damaged Goods]]</ref> Nick escaped police custody and began a search for Lucifer.<ref name="fourteen12">[[14.12 Prophet and Loss]]</ref> Working with [[demons]], Nick contacted Lucifer in [[the Empty]] and learned of a way to [[resurrection|resurrect him]]. Using Jack's blood, Nick succeeded in bringing Lucifer back from the Empty, but was foiled by Jack, who imprisoned Lucifer and killed Nick to stop him from trying again.<ref name="fourteen17">[[14.17 Game Night]]</ref> Because of his rampage, Nick's soul likely went to [[Hell]]. When Lucifer is resurrected by God, he returns in the form of Nick, although it appears that God gave Lucifer his own body instead of restoring Nick as his vessel. This resurrection is short-lived for Lucifer as he is killed once again by Michael and turns to ashes, leaving behind nothing of him.<ref name="fifteen19">[[15.19 Inherit the Earth]]</ref>

A few years after Lucifer abandoned Nick's body as a vessel, [[Crowley]] revealed that he and his demons find him and found Nick's body following his dispossession. They have his body repaired and improved to act as a suitable permanent [[vessel]] for [[Lucifer]]. After Crowley corrupts [[Rowena]]'s [[spell]] to send Lucifer back to [[the Cage]], he is instead sent into Nick's unconscious body where Lucifer is restrained with chainsmade from the same material used to construct the Cage. Due to Crowley's improvements upon Nick's body, he shows no signs of degrading from the possession like he did previously or like Lucifer's other vessels aside from [[Castiel]] and [[President Jefferson Rooney]].

After inspecting the surveillance photos [[Sam]] had taken from [[Dr. Hess]] from the [[British Men of Letters]], Sam confirms to [[Dean]] and [[Mary]] that Lucifer is back and that he returned to , having recognized his old vessel.