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“Ha, very funny my dear. Well now that you've met everyone, care for a tour of the hotel?” Alastor spoke charmingly as he held his hand out for his partner to take, to which Lucifer of course obliged as he made his way to head out before being cut off by Angel Dust. “You can't just fucking lore drop on us like that and then leave!”
He… had a good point.
Lucifer brought his free hand to the back of his neck as he chuckled awkwardly, “I suppose that would be rather rude.” Alastor on the other hand did not particularly seem to care about what others thought, much like when he had introduced his daughter the week prior. Still, he sat primly in the sofa beside them knowing Lucifer wanted to stay, his hand still clasped around his partner’s despite not leading him away as planned.
The group watched the pair curiously, even Vaggie, who already knew the story, was rather intrigued. Sure she knew they had been together for almost a century and had had Alithea a good while ago now, but she still didn't quite know why their relationship was a secret. All Charlie had told her was that it “wasn't common information” when she said she didn't know the devil had remarried. She was honestly still wondering if heaven knew or not, Adam had never mentioned it and god knows how much he liked to yap about Lucifer and how unfair it was that after all he did he was living a nice cushy life as King of Hell. If she didn't know better she'd say he acted like a bitter ex.
“I must say, I am quite surprised. I always thought the Queen was simply taking a sabbatical.” Pentious commented innocently.
Another awkward laugh came from Lucifer as he looked around nervously, “Not exactly.” Was his only response.
A wave of silence followed as everyone waited for some kind of explanation. “So what exactly did you want to know then, hmm?” Alastor prompted Angel Dust. Lucifer was here to see the hotel, not sit here awkwardly all day. This lack of discussion was a complete waste of time if you asked Alastor.
“Well I don't know! You guys are the ones keeping all the secrets. First you come in here all casually while revealing you have a whole ass child and now you're just gonna casually mention that you're fucking the King of Hell?”
The Radio Demon simply hummed a moment while Alithea mumbled under her breath that she wasn't a child.
“And when exactly did I say that?” Alastor spoke casually.
“What?”
“When did I say that? I don't recall saying such a thing?”
The sinner let out a choked sort of laugh, “When did ya say that? Really Smiles? Ya prance around all expectantly askin’ where he's at and then take him by the hand after he calls ya handsome, and you expect me to believe you ain't together?"
Everyone else in the room seemed either bored or astounded. It wasn't that the assumption was wrong, it was just such a bold thing to say to the Overlord and most people wouldn't be so brave. It was Husk who intervened though, “You know what, Angel? Maybe you were wrong. It's pretty rude to make such wild assumptions about people after all.” It's not that he didn't also believe it, he just didn't want his friend to be his boss's next meal. You could never be sure with Alastor.
Angel Dust however just doubled down as he continued with even more vigour, “No Husk, I mean just look at his kid!” He grabbed the unsuspecting girl as he spoke, now pointing to each feature as he said them. “Same hair as the king, same eyes, same tail, same wings! You can't tell me this ain’t the product of ‘em two gettin’ it on?”
Husk actively facepalmed as he heard his friend doom himself to what was sure to be an unfortunate end. He really did double down on the Alastor and Lucifer fucking argument, didn't he? Couldn't have just said they were together like a normal person.
Just as Alithea and Alastor both seemed as though they were about to speak, Niffty ran past giggling before stopping dead in her tracks as she saw Lucifer. “Alastor's bad boy!” she exclaimed before spotting a rat and chasing after it, a strange little being she was indeed.
“I've got to agree with our friend here, the evidence is piling up.” Sir Pentious remarked.
Alastor cleared his throat, “While I certainly would've worded it quite differently you are in fact correct, we are indeed a couple.” All poise and spoken like a true gentleman, unlike the Pornstar beside him. Though, the title in and of itself was the answer as to why the other spoke in such a way.
“I fucking knew it!” Angel exclaimed with a fist pump as the demon beside him simply crossed her arms and rolled her eyes while still shaking her feathers about slightly, having them just being tugged around by Angel as he pointed out the similarities between her and her father.
Husk on the other hand just sighed, “Yeah Angel, we all knew it, doesn't mean we have to cheer and poke around their business. Do you really wanna get on the wrong side of Alastor?”
The overlord in question chuckled, “While I appreciate your confidentiality Husker, my good man, I will not in fact be taking your boyfriend here as my next victim for simply stating facts.”
Husk turned red as he started defensively denying the accusation under his breath while Angel was glowing with pride. He had called their relationship and he wasn't even in trouble with the Overlord!
“Now, if you'll excuse us, I think it's about time for us to take that tour we talked about. After all, our majesty here hasn't seen the rest of the hotel yet.” Making his way with Lucifer in hand towards the stairs he turned his head back to Alithea, “Are you coming, dear?”
She looked up towards her parents, acting too casually lovey dovey as usual. Yeah she'd definitely pass for now, besides she had a grumpy Vee with a few ignored texts to respond to. Of course she didn't say that though, she simply replied with “It's alright, I'll catch up with you two in a bit.”
“Very well then” Alastor replied as Lucifer waved goodbye affectionately. It seemed he was quite quiet today, perhaps a bit too much socialisation already. It would make sense, he often got a bit drained after talking to new people too much, usually reverting to a much more closed off and affectionate version of himself afterwards.
The princess simply made her way back to the bar to continue her drink as she focused on her phone and responding to the messages she had missed while talking to Angel. Though there were now a few more from afterwards, apparently Val and Vox had run off to god knows where and left Vel to run the tower on her own. Again.
“So, Velvette, ey?”
“Fucking Hell, you ever thought about not sneaking up on someone?” Alithea cursed out as she jumped at the Pornstar speaking right in her ear.
He chuckled in response, “Y’know, I thought you'd be used to it with the way smiles always sneaks around the hotel. He not the same at home?” The demon simply turned towards him with an exaggerated look, no longer bothering to hide her phone since no one else was nearby. Charlie followed closely behind her dads, apparently having wanted to be the one to give Lucifer a tour and everyone else had dispersed to do whatever they wanted. “What, can't a guy ask his new bestie about their... girlfriend?” He said the title inquisitively.
“What do you want to know?”
“God you are so much like your Dad.” Anthony spoke exhaustingly. “...But she is your girlfriend, no?”
Alithea shrugged, “I suppose that wouldn't be incorrect. Why do you ask?”
What was it with these damn demons and being so illusive, couldn't just get a straight answer outta them, could he? Though speaking of straight answers, were any of the Morningstars straight? He'd have to find a way to ask about Lillith, though it did seem to be a bit of a touchy subject with Charlie. What? These are important questions!
“Well it’s just, ya know, I was living in Vee tower for a good while and I heard quite a lot of gossip from Val, but I never heard anything about Velvette having a partner. Though she did always seem the most private one outta the three.” Angel spoke as he leaned casually back against the bar. “Kinda ironic right? Given she's the one who live streams every other minute of the day.”
Alithea just shrugged “As you said, she is actually an overall pretty private person, don't get me wrong, she loves to show off. But she is still pretty human.” She trailed off with a smile, one that Angel certainly noticed came right after speaking about Velvette. “Also, if you hadn't noticed, most people don't really know about me as a whole.”
“Yeah, why is that? Smiles seemed awfully chill about me catching onto their relationship considering he's never mentioned it before.” Angel queried, genuinely interested to hear the answer.
“It's not exactly like it's a secret, most people just don't really notice. Dad doesn't speak to many sinners and it's not like the sins don't have better things to gossip about, whereas Pa just doesn't like to talk about his personal life much in general, something about public image and all that.” For a subject that included no one in Hell knowing who she was despite being one of their literal Princesses, she was speaking rather casually about the subject. “And ‘cause I know you're gonna ask, no, my existence isn't some big secret people are gonna start conspiracy theories about. Most of the hellborn know about me, I go to enough social gatherings people don't get shocked any time I'm there. My birth wasn't a huge announcement on the front page of every newspaper in Hell, neither of my dads would've wanted that, the only reason it was that way with Char was because of Lillith.”
“So what, you just been chilling in Hell for the last couple of decades and no one noticed?”
She shrugged again, "Pretty much.”
“Ever notice how not many sinners talk about my Dad anymore?” She started up again, taking another sip of her cocktail as the sinner nodded. “Well, it's ‘cause he doesn't do too much that concerns the sinners. Charlie is such big news half the time ‘cause she keeps screwing things up on the tv interviews she keeps begging for, but even she was kind of just forgotten about for a few decades after Lillith stopped publicising her existence when she was little.”
Angel nodded along; he supposed that did make sense. Whether it was killing everyone until rumors started going around about who you were or by blasting your face on every tv screen in Hell, it was all about who could gather the most attention, and with so many people competing for said attention, if you did nothing in particular to put yourself out there then no one really cared.
“Wait, do you not support Charlie?!” Angel backtracked as he belatedly clocked her statement about the news interviews.
“Of course I do, she's my sister.” Alithea replied, “It's just, she kinda has a habit of making a fool of herself on tv. I'm kinda scared it's going to end up a lot worse one day. If there's anything Vel's taught me, it's that public image matters and there are way worse outcomes than just being yelled at by a homophobic news anchor.”
Again, he supposed that was fair; being a Pornstar and all, he himself was in the public eye a lot. He knew what it was like.
Peaceful silence filled the air for a moment as they simply enjoyed each other's company, they really had gotten off to a good start. With all the gossiping about her identity, Alithea was put off at first, but she honestly couldn't blame him. If she wanted everyone to know who she was, she would've made herself known.
“I do have one more question.” Angel asked cheekily, the winged girl simply turning back towards him as she set her empty glass on the counter. “If you being unknown isn't on purpose how come Velvette doesn't post about you or anything? Surely if people just thought you were a normal sinner you two dating wouldn't be a huge deal, right?”
It was another very fair question in Alithea’s opinion, and something she had honestly debated herself before. “We thought about it, I wouldn't mind in general, the only problem is that my dads don't exactly know yet.”
“Ohhhh” he nodded enthusiastically as if he had just cracked a secret code “That's why you were being all secretive with your phone earlier.”
She nodded along with him for a moment “It's not like I don't want them to know, I’m pretty sure that they would love Velvette, it's just, you know my Pa doesn't exactly get along great with Vox.”
“That's one way to put it!”
“Yeah, well, it means he doesn't exactly have the best opinion of the Vees overall. It's not like it's an unfair assumption or anything, they've done some pretty bad things sure, but Vel really hasn't done much wrong.” Angel could tell from the way Alithea spoke about her she really did care for Velvette, it was honestly rather endearing. “I haven't told you this, alright? But she really does see the others as father figures. They may be assholes, but they really did help her a lot when she first arrived in Hell, Valentino especially. I know you probably don't like him, I don't particularly either but he really has done a lot for her.”
She sighed pausing for a moment, “All that just goes to say, as much as I think her and my dads would really get along, if Pa said anything bad about them I don't think it would go well. Like I said, she really does see them like family.”
The princess looked utterly defeated, a definitive contrast to the way she looked while talking about Velvette on the whole; this was clearly something that was bothering her.
“I get it, it's probably not easy. I mean, I'm scared Smiles is gonna kill me as it is, I wouldn't wanna worry about him going all Radio demon on someone else.” Angel joked.
This finally got her to lighten up a little as she genuinely laughed at the spider. “There we go, there's a smile!” he spoke, causing her to laugh a bit more “And way less creepy then you're Pa's!”
The laughter finally subsided as she spoke “You're a good friend, Anthony.”