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She knew he had his heart broken with the news she was not going to be staying for summer. She just needed this time to be alone, even if it upset them all to not be part of it. She had arranged a chance to go out to the mountains and breath, thinking through everything she had been through lately. The Pact’s she had made, lovers she had gained. A dozen life changes that felt to real and to fast for her to keep up with.
Satan watched her pack her suitcase for the time she would be gone, his eyes intense and giving her chills. Hearing the door click behind her she assumed he had left till she heard the bolt slide into place. Whirling around he was already behind her, faster than human. His arms circling her quickly to yank her warmth against him, burying his face in her hair as she clutched his sweater on his back in return. “Satan? What’s wrong? It’s okay. I’m not leaving you and I swear to the stars I will come back.” Her voice soft and calming as she nuzzles into his shoulder.
“ Don’t tell me that. You think I don’t know? But Kitten not having you here each day will be Hell unlike I had before. You came in like sunshine to a world that had been cold and dark before. Is it really so surprising I hate this?” His voice grew gravely towards the end and she froze. Was he crying? The moisture hitting her exposed neck confirming it, she tightened her arms around him and jumped. He scrambled a moment to catch her against him, her curves and voluptuous form so soft against his hard body.
“I have to come back, I can’t imagine a life without you in it. Without your lips whispering softly to me as I fall asleep. Without Beel’s cooking or Levi’s movie nights. I can’t even handle my own nails like Asmo or get to sleep some nights without Belphie. Mammon needs someone to rein him in and love him and Lucifer…” her voice trailed off knowing Lucifer had been upset as hell she was going to. The Prideful Avatar glaring at her over breakfast as if angry she chose to do this had left her sad.
“ I’m coming home.” Her lips captured his and he seemed to lose his strength. Sitting on the edge of her bed with her against him. Her soft fingers sliding over his cheeks capturing the salty rivers and brushing them away. “ Kitten I will be here. Waiting. Every night your going to be what im waiting for.” His lips crashed against hers swallowing her soft whimper, she had told them all no funny business before she left or she would extend the trip. But this was what he needed and she felt his fear and anger in the way he kissed her.
She let his arms hold her a little longer than tapped his back gently. He looked away as she slipped from his arms and grabbed her things. He picked up her suitcase in one arm and walked behind her, eyes shadowed by his hair as they left her room and headed downstairs. Asmo kissed her cheek softly as she passed his room, his finger tips lingering on her chin as she smiled up at him.
Belphie and Beel waited downstairs with a small bag of cookies they had made just for her. The pair smashing her between them and caressing her sides as if she were leaving for good. Why were they all being like this? It was so odd she almost asked but it would be ridiculous to raise stress on the way out the door, right? Her lips pecked Belphie’s forehead and she turned to rub noses with Beel. Slipping from the twins she looked back up the stairs seeing Lucifer, Mammon, and Levi. Why did they look like that?
Their eyes seemed lost, and something about their stances said it all. They were all three upset. “ I love you guys, I will be back before you know it okay? Please text me everyday?” Her smile stayed loving and gentle as she left and entered the circle Solomon had made for her trip. Looking back and waving before whispering the incantation, a flash later she was gone. Solomon could not believe he had just done it, could not come to terms with the absolute betrayal he had just committed. Asmo busting into tears and running to him, clinging to his Pact bond for any kind of support.
The three eldest stood silent, watching the younger fall into anger, loathing, the absolute self hate eating them alive. Satan screamed, his Demon form lashing out in his anguish. It was done, there was nothing any of them could do now. Belphie and Beel leaning into one another crying, the orange haired demon staring at Lucifer for guidance. His voice bore the power of the eldest, “ Brothers we knew what was happening, what was being done. Diavolo made it clear if she kept interfering with our work she would be dispatched in a way we could not retrieve her.” The ice in his voice hiding the rage he felt, the way it twisted and Turned in his stomach as if to remind him of what he had just done.
She had come into their world and bore a flame that gave life to them again. Her smile, her laughter, even the way she snapped at them when she was angry. Everything about her precious, and there was no chance to fix this ordeal now. The 7 felt it all at once. A tug deep inside them that ripped through their core and burned as fire under skin. Their human, their beautifully imperfect lover, was no longer breathing. Her Pact marks rebounding down their power and shattering with her last breath wherever she had been forced to go.
Barbatos was the hand of Diavolo, the one who had been tasked with taking her life not just in this timeline but in them all. Ripping her from every place that she could have been saved or brought back from. Levi fell to his knees shaking, his demon form bursting forth before he shot back down the hall and was gone. Mammon walking slowly back to her room with his head hanging low, the door already ajar and Levi screaming in pain bent over her bed. Mammon walked to her desk and sat with vacant eyes looking at the trinkets and collections of things that she had acquired. Quietly Beel came in cradling Belphie who seemed to traumatized to handle what he had just allowed to happen. The 7th born still in shock he had been put under a curse to keep him from meddling by Barb himself.
Satan was nowhere to be found. He had fled in his rage and it was best this way if they were all being honest. Asmo came in cradling one of her sweater and collapsed next to Levi curling up to him sobbing. Lucifer standing in the door was silent. These are his brothers, these great and powerful demons who struck fear into everyone, reduced to broken hearted men for HER. There was nothing he could do, impotent rage seething in his eyes he stood sentinel to his younger brothers. It was like loosing Lilith again. But this time, he was not alone. They would find a way, somehow to never be put through this again.