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Lucifer woke up and after a few moments of just laying in bed he tried to get up but found himself wrapped tightly in Alastor’s arms. Lucifer rolled over to his best ability to look at the clock. The date was December 31 on a Wednesday. Otherwise knows as New Year’s Eve.
It was around 6 in the morning which was unusual for the King because he either didn’t go to sleep at all or slept in until the afternoon. Maybe he woke up early because he had finally gotten a good nights rest for the first time since Lilith left. Oh how he wished he could at least know why she left. What he did wrong to make her leave. He and Lilith always decorated the castle on New Year’s Eve with decorations of Charlie’s choice which was always a mix of pink and maybe some red and yellow. God he was getting tired of the red.
Lucifer is pulled back from his train of thought when he feels Alastor shift against his back. Alastor had let out a low hum, taking in his majesty’s scent. He smelled faintly of the shampoo he washed him with the night before and a faint hint of apples. Lucifer had always smelt better (when he actually showered) than most sinners which was probably because he didn’t live in the same horrible conditions most demons suffered with day by day, but that’s beside the point. The point was that he was starting to crave Lucifer’s scent. It was like he was being lured in my a sirens voice instead it was that he was being lured in by the sweet scent of the man that owned his soul.
Lucifer blushed when he felt Alastor taking in his scent as if he was trying to memorize it. After yesterday and the whole asthma attack situation he started getting a weird feeling in his chest every time he was near Alastor, hell, even the mere thought of Alastor made his heart clench like he was about to have a heart attack. The blonde was starting to get irritated. Why was he getting this feeling around Alastor, he was married! Or at least he thought he was still married.
Alastor smiled, a genuine smile, when he saw Lucifer blush. The shorter man always looked cute when he blushed because he would get this pouty look like a bratty child trying to hide the blush but it never worked and it just made himself look more stupid. Alastor’s mind wandered to the first time he got to see Lucifer work on the rubber ducks he liked to make. It was fascinating. The way Lucifer’s hands worked with the material, the amount of live he puts into his projects despite him always throwing them off to the side after seeming them ‘Not good enough’ or some stupid blabber that comes out of that man’s mouth.
Lucifer decided to test Alastor’s limits, stretching his limbs as wide as he could to see if Alastor would throw him off. Alastor ended up holding Lucifer tighter in his grip. The king immediately regrets his amazing plan because now he’s stuck in a starfish pose and his arms are starting to fall asleep from being in the air. In the moment, Lucifer, the king of hell, looked pathetic. Black colored hands high in the air that fade back to white around his elbow. Lucifer decides to use his tail to wrap around Alastor’s leg like a snake suffocating its prey.
“Alastor, let me go this instant! My arms and falling asleep and it feels weird!” Lucifer said in a Tired, but whiny voice.
”Now, now! Say the manic word,” Alastor said in a singsong voice, clearly doing this to ragebait Lucifer into getting unbelievably angry. It was hilarious how easy it was to irritate Lucifer.
”Please,” Lucifer said in a voice barely above a whisper.
”Pardon? I couldn’t catch what you said over the pathetic tone you’re using!, Alastor was clearly just being an asshole by this point because he clearly heard what Lucifer said, though, he didn’t want to give that level of satisfaction to the king just yet.
”I’m not repeating myself!” Lucifer was starting to get pissed at Alastor. The shorter male was glaring daggers at Alastor the best he could due to the position, but from what he could see what Alastor’s permanent, shit eating grin that damned deer always had on his stupidly handsome face.
”Then I’m not letting you go!” Alastor got comfortable and watched Lucifer struggle against his grip. The was all the entertainment he needed for the next few hours or so.
Lucifer knew he could get out of Alastor’s grip if he wanted to, but with the chance of accidentally hurting alastor immediately shut down the thought from his mind so he accepted his fate and relaxed against Alastor. The deer restraining Lucifer was kind enough to let go of Lucifer’s arms since he could tell they were starting to actually discomfort Lucifer. The king, with his arms finally loose shook them as an attempt at waking them up. It worked, but it left him with a tingling sensation in his arms which he didn’t mind, but it was in the corner of his mind until the sensation finally went away. He forced himself to roll around until he had his face pressed against Alastor’s chest before cuddling up to alastor and his arms not being able to reach over the top of the taller man’s waist because of the giant size difference. Alastor found it amusing, reciprocating the action which left Lucifer completely enveloped in Alastor’s grip.
In Charlie’s room:
Charlie drifted out of her slumber, rubbing her eyes viciously to wipe away the last remains on sleep left. The little girl jumped up on top of her bed, jumping up and down as a way to let out excitement when she realizes what day it is. She had always loved New Years, it’s a shame her Mother isn’t here to celebrate it with her, but she didn’t care because her mom had always disliked the way Charlie wanted to decorate things even though both parents agreed that Charlie gets to pick how they decorate the castle every New Years.
Charlie looked at the time and it was 9:43 in the morning. Her father almost never got up at that time so she decided to play with the dolls she had all around her room. She jumps off her bed and walks over to a dragon plush that was a light shade of red with a black suit and yellow eyes she called Razzle. She then walks over to another dragon plush that was the same as Razzle except it was a darker shade of red she called Dazzle. Charlie held both dragons in the air, acting out a scene where Razzle and Dazzle were flying in the air protecting her from the scary exterminators.
Charlie tries to voice a dragon getting hurt by an exterminator as she uses her finger to poke into the chest of Dazzle to act as one of the spears the angels carry. After Dazzle got killed she grabs a few more dolls to act as demons getting sad that Dazzle died and making “waah!” Sounds to imitate the sinners crying.
Charlie soon got bored so she decided to pull out a box of crayons and some paper so she could color. She starts off with periwinkle purple as the background of her drawing, then following with drawing a rainbow over who looked to be her dad, Charlie herself, and Alastor all standing in the middle of the paper with a rainbow directly over them. Charlie smiled as she ran out of her room and straight to her dad’s to show him the amazing drawing she had made. Unfortunately, Charlie couldn’t reach the doorknob to her dad’s bedroom. So instead she knocks on the door viciously until somebody either opened it from inside or opened it for her from the outside.
One of the IMP maids Lucifer hired to keep the palace tidy was walking by and decided to help Charlie open the door before scurrying away to act like she didn’t just invade the kings privacy. Charlie yelled a big “THANK YOU!!” to the maid before running into the room and jumping up and down on her dads bed. “Daddy! Daddy! Look what I made you!!!” Charlie exclaimed, but when she opened her eyes she stopped jumping when she saw her dad cuddled up into Alastor’s arms to which Alastor was staring right at her with a polite smile.
Lucifer, who was practically not seeable except for a few blonde strands poking out from the top of Alastor’s arms. “Charlie?” The king squirmed around until he was facing his daughter. When he saw the drawing he immediately sat up, or tried to, with a big smile on his face “Did you make me another amazing drawing, sweetie? Can I see what masterpiece your creative mind made today?”Charlie sheepishly turned the drawing around to show what looked like unicorn throw up to anyone besides Charlie since she was the one that made it. Lucifer was lost, he was trying his absolute best to be a good dad and figure out what the drawing was supposed to be. Then it clicked, he saw the jumble of colors that looked to be Charlie and him, and to the left of Charlie looked like a big glob of blood so he went with the safe answer “Aww! Is that a picture of us!” A giant smile formed on Charlie’s face as she hugged her dad, happy that he knew what her drawing was.
Alastor was enjoying the sight of the father-daughter moment that was taking place. The deer always had a soft spot for Charlie’s smile, even when he was dead set of no for something potentially dangerous Charlie wanted to do, but if she pulled out the puppy dog look or her smile he couldn’t say no if he wanted to, and Charlie knew that so it was her secret weapon to use on both her father and Alastor, sometimes even the Maids if everyone was busy.
“Can we decorate the castle now? pleaseeee!” Charlie said while making the ‘please’ overly exaggerated. Lucifer looked back at Alastor, getting that same feeling, but ignoring it this time as he waits for Alastor to agree or disagree, either way Lucifer didn’t care because he was decorating the palace with his daughter no matter what.
Alastor, like the asshole he is, let’s go of Lucifer before getting off the bed, but when the shorter man tries to follow suit he ends up getting hoisted over Alastor’s shoulder. Charlie giggled at the sight of her dad kicking his legs to try and get Alastor to put him down. “Now let’s go decorate dear, longer we wait the less time we have!” Alastor said to Charlie, ignoring the kicking the man was doing over his shoulder.
Charlie ran out of the room and down the stairs to the main entrance. “I want this room to be decorated with black and gold! Oh, and also some balloons!” Charlie had been obsessed with balloons lately, but anything for the little girl. Alastor set Lucifer down so they could get to work. Charlie always hated it when Lucifer used his magic because she deemed it ‘Lazy’ so Lucifer started grabbing some black and gold garland to like the stairs leading up to an indoor balcony that was inside the main room. Charlie continued yelling commands to which room needed to be decorated like what and what needs to be where. By the end Lucifer, Alastor, and the maids that volunteered to help were all exhausted. Lucifer allowed the maids to take a break because he knew his daughter could be a lot when she was in control. The castle looked like they were hosting a grand quinceanera. By the time they actually finished every inch of the castle it was already around five O’ clock, only seven more hours until it was finally New Years.
Charlie decided to go watch cartoons in the living room while Alastor and Lucifer cooked dinner. When the two men got to the kitchen Lucifer got to work on the food he and Lilith used to make. Alastor helped from time to time, but her was preoccupied with the own food he was making. When Lucifer was waiting for some food to get done cooking in the oven, he couldn’t help but stare at Alastor. God, everything about that man was perfect…wait. He shouldn’t be thinking these things about Alastor! Lucifer didn’t even know if Alastor thought the same about him. Ugh! Why are feeling so hard!
Dinner took about another 2 hours to make, plus moving all the dishes to the stupidly big dinner table. Lucifer called for Charlie who came running down the stairs. “This food smells amazing!!” Charlie said practically drooling from her mouth with how good the food looked. The three all sat down at the dinner table, chatting with the occasional laugh at a joke either of them made. Lucifer felt happy Charlie was getting along with Alastor.
When everybody was done eating they made their way to the Living room where the hells version of the ball drop was playing live on the television. Charlie looked up at her dad like she had a question that would kill her if she didn’t say it out loud. “What is it Char Char?” Lucifer said looking down at his daughter. “You know that one tra-dih-tohn? Where you have to kiss someone on the lips on the New Year?” Charlie was looking right at her father when she said that, clearly already having an idea. “W-well, Charlie. Your mother’s on the business trip, remember?” The King was getting a bad feeling about this. Charlie points at Alastor who was reading a book he found on a bookshelf near the corner of the room. “You can kiss mister Alastor!” Charlie had that smile on her face again. Lucifer’s face flushed a deep gold, he was looking at Alastor for help but Alastor just smiled at what was taking place. “Well dear, you’ll have to ask Alastor about that one,” Lucifer was starting to get nervous at the thought of kissing Alastor. Charlie ran over to the redhead and asked him the same question with that same convincing smile she used when she wanted something. Lucifer saw Alastor nod and his hands started to sweat. He could hear Charlie let out a faint “Yay!” from Charlie as she ran back over to her father. “He said yes! He said yes!” Charlie exclaimed. Lucifer looked horrified as he looked over to Alastor who was staring right at him. Alastor stood up and walked over to the blonde. Alastor grabbed Lucifer by the waist and pulled him over to the couch, settling Lucifer on his lap. Lucifer was blushing HARD when Alastor did that, he didn’t know how to act or what to do.
New years came way too fast. Next thing Lucifer knew is that he was looking up at Alastor with Charlie smiling like a kid on Christmas morning. The countdown started. 10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…..2….1! Alastor leaned down and kissed Lucifer. The kiss was long and passionate. Lucifer could feel Alastor bite his lip which made Lucifer open his mouth before he could feel Alastor’s tongue exploring every inch of the wet cavern. When the kiss broke the two hugged and Charlie cheered like she just won the lottery, and in her mind, she did. The newsman from the televisions voice can be heard “We wish everyone a happy New Year, and goodnight.”