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Your morning had started off like any other in the House of Lamentation. The alarm on your D.D.D woke you up, you debated actually getting up, before remembering the chance of Lucifer’s wrath was worse than any history lesson. After one more minute of self pity you dragged yourself from the warmth of your covers and out of bed. This time however, as you began to pull your uniform on over your head, you found yourself swaying on the balls of your feet. You rested a hand gently on your head as you let out a disgruntled noise. Your body forced you to lean against your dresser to keep your eyes from spinning wildly. Weird, you thought as you finally regained your normal composure.
You chalked it down to standing up too fast and gave it no more of your thoughts, getting back into your usual morning groove. You finished dressing yourself and took a moment to look in your personal bathroom’s mirror so you could try (and fail) to style your hair before finally heading out of your room to start the day. The walk towards the kitchen felt longer than usual as you practically dragged your legs with each step. They felt significantly heavier than you were used to. You weren’t sure why you felt so tired, but assumed it was caused by the game night you’d had the day before with Levi. The two of you had found a game online where you just couldn’t put it down until you reached the conclusion (it had be so worth it!)
As you entered the dining room you immediately squinted your eyes at the lights. Had it always been so bright? You felt the beginnings of a headache as you slugged your way to your usual spot between Mammon and Beel, who were already munching away at their breakfast (more like Beel was munching at both plates while Mammon tried to fight him off). As breakfast moved on you didn’t even realize Satan, who sat across the table from you, had said your name until his hand was reaching out and snapping in your face.
“Did you hear me? I asked if you could pass the pepper.” Satan seemed to repeat with a perked and curious brow. You had to blink a few times to clear the fog in your brain as you scrambled to pick up the pepper shaker.
“Right, right..sorry Satan. Guess I’m still stuck in my dreams.” You tried to joke. Levi, who was busy playing a game on his D.D.D glanced up and wrinkled his nose as he gave a once over.
“Status update. The exchange student looks TOTALLY gross this morning. I don’t even think they’ve bathed LMFAOOO.” He cringed. Asmodeus, who was sat to Satan's left, had leaned forward onto the table and gently twirled a lock of your hair around his slender fingers.
“~Darling, you seem to be having an awful hair day too. You know you can always come to me for these things! I promise I don’t bite too hard ~~” he purred, yet there was still a twinge of concern in his voice with his usual flirting. You gave the brothers a look as you swatted Asmodeus’s hand away, not appreciating being called gross so early in the morning.
“Way to make someone feel special.” You responded dryly. You felt your plate shift below you as Beel scooted it closer towards you, craning his head slightly to get a better look at you.
“You haven’t even touched your meal yet. It’ll get cold if you don’t hurry.” He spoke worriedly with those dreadful (adorable) puppy eyes. Mammon leaned forward to take your vision up more as he held up his own plate.
“Here, ya weirdo! Take MY plate. A weak human like you can’t possibly handle cold food. Mines’ still warm and stuff!” Mammon declared. You winced at how his voice seemed to bounce painfully in your skull. Mammon hadn’t always been so loud, had he?
As all this was unfolding Lucifer had taken his spot directly across from Levi at the other end of the table, raising a brow at the commotion.
“Stop being pests so early in the morning, the whole lot of you. Go ahead and eat your breakfast. Pay these demons no mind.” He spoke your name gently towards you as the brothers leaned back into their seats at Lucifer’s command. Your eyes felt droopy as you grabbed your fork and stuck it through a piece of scrambled eggs. Well, whatever the equivalent of scrambled eggs were in the Devildom. They looked likeeggs, anyway. As you raised the piece to your lips you realized your hand was unsteady and shaky, forcing yourself to take a bite.
You regretted that decision the moment you swallowed the egg, dropping your fork to your plate with a loud clank! and covering your mouth with a hand. Somewhere Lucifer was saying your name again with more concern while the other brothers joined in, but you had no time to think about them. You shot up and felt your chair tumble to the ground as you took off towards the hallway. Your vision was swirling as you felt bile rising and burning your throat. Fuck, I’m not going to make it! Your running was wobbly and you kept tripping over your own feet, but you kept your mind focused on not puking all over the floor in front of everyone.
As you neared the bathroom you bumped Belphegor’s shoulder, but didn’t have time to say sorry. You slammed your body against the door and shot into the bathroom like a torpedo, landing heavily to your knees in front of the toilet bowl.There was a single second of blissful peace before all hell broke loose and you began to retch everything in your stomach into the toilet. You clutched it’s sides as if it were a porcelain life preserver and you were a desperate drowning fool as you felt hands gently push your hair back and away from your face. You glanced back enough to see Belphie kneeling beside you with a worried expression.
“..Thank..you..” you mumbled when your stomach finally rested enough to let you breathe. Tears were prickling at your eyes from the exertion, causing you to lazily lean your head against the coolness of the toilet rim. You couldn’t even care that your face was on a toilet. Your whole body felt like it was on fire as you panted and gasped. By that point Lucifer was striding to your other side as the remaining brothers huddled around the door to look inside. Belphie backed away and allowed Lucifer to take his spot beside you, the tip of his gloved index finger in his mouth as he tugged the fabric away. Lucifer rested the back of his newly exposed palm against your forehead and immediately pulled a very Lucifer face at the results he seemed to get.
“A fever...it seems you won’t be going to school today.” He mused, though it was obvious that was his last concern. Mammon was now pushing his way to the front of the door posse, shouting in his usual way.
“Oi! I can’t go now either! The human obviously needs my help nursing them back to good health. My job IS to take care of em;, you know.” You winced again at the new wave of head pounding, Lucifer leveling Mammon with an icy glare.
“ Lower your voice.” He hissed silently. Mammon gulped and immediately shut his mouth just as Beel spoke up next.
“I have to stay and make sure they get plenty of food. It isn’t good to be sick in an empty stomach. Trust me, I know.”
“Oh, you know I have to stay and make sure they stay clean and stylish~ it would be criminal to leave our dear human all filthy like this!” Asmodeus waved dramatically.
“I have to make sure they like, don’t have their brains rot from boredom.” Levi continued. Satan nodded his head in agreement as he crossed his arms.
“It would be wise if I stayed as well. Anyone else wouldn’t know how to keep them comfortable. I should stay and let them have my bed.”
“Oi Oi Oi! The human is gonna sleep in MY BED!” Mammon argued.
Lucifer stood tall and glanced back at Belphie. “Watch over them for a moment.” Belphie just nodded and kept any of his own comments to himself as his hands returned to your hair as you began to puke once more. Lucifer turned sharply on his heels and stalked towards the remaining brothers, causing them all to fumble out of the doorway and into the hallway. As he followed he made sure to close the bathroom door all the way to give you a bit more privacy.
“Shut your filthy mouths at once.” Lucifer seethed authoritatively. “This isn’t a time to try and steal the human for your own personal goals. They are sick, and they do not need this much commotion.” He continued. Each brother stood with their backs straight as they watched Lucifer, refusing to look away or speak. They barely even wanted to breathe wrong.
Lucifer tugged his gloved back on and adjusted his clothing to be neat again. “We cannot all stay home at the same time to watch them. As members of the Student Council we must make the school think nothing is wrong, lest we reflect poorly on Diavlo. Which is out of the question. So we will do it like this.”
“Mammon will be the first to watch over the human for half of the day. Beel will come home for the second half and trade off with Mammon to watch the human until we all can return home. If this continues for multiple days, the next two to trade off will be Leviathan and Asemodeous, then Satan and Belphegor. If the human is still sick I will come home early to nurse them as well. Any questions?”
When no hands rose and no mouths talked back Lucifer gave a satisfied smile. Even if they did want to argue on why Lucifer could have a whole day with you, they had already pissed him off enough. “Now come along the rest of you, we must be timely for school. Mammon, I will help you move the human to their room before we leave you.”
At this Mammon eagerly stepped into the bathroom and Lucifer herded Belphie and the others away from the room, each looking reluctant to leave.
“I’ll see you later today.” Beel spoke gently as he gave you a wave. You managed to smile and raise your hand up enough to give him a wave as the other brothers waved as well. Lucifer and Mammon eached hooked an arm around your waist and carefully hoisted you up. They guided you all the way back to your room and helped tuck you back into bed, Lucifer letting out a troubled sigh.
“Alright. I must take my leave now. Mammon, I’m counting on you to keep them comfortable. Do not disappoint me.” Lucifer sighed out as he tapped a finger on his hand. “I will try to find Solomon and ask him what a human would need to feel better.” He mused more to himself.
Mammon gave a salute as a toothy grin spread across his face. “You don’t even have to worry! The Great Mammon can easily take care of them!” He assured Lucifer. Lucifer just pulled his face into a skeptical look and glanced over at you.
“If anything happens, you know my number.” With that Lucifer spun on his heels, and drifted out of the room. Mammon closed the door after him with his foot before turning back to look at you.
“Don’t ya worry your little human head. This is gonna be great!”
You were for sure it wasn’t.