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When he came to pick you up, he was expecting rage, or anger, or any of the other typical emotions that he's come to expect from family functions blowing up.
What Satan didn't expect was to find you in tears.
He'd followed your directions to the letter; Reach the end of the street from your house and text you that he was there. You arrived, huddled in your jacket, hands shoved into your pockets bare, clutching your phone to yourself as you just needed to get out of that house.
The tears that burned your skin in the cold were nothing compared to seeing the way he looked at you. He tugged you in close and murmured that you were safe now, and you were allowed to cry as long as you needed to. What you didn't see was how he stared down the darkness of the road leading to your house, and how he silently cursed those who would ever cause you this much grief.
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Arriving at the House of Lamentation, you're more.. shellshocked. You told Satan everything on the way home. How your family reminded you with every little notion that you were hard to love. How you tried to salvage your relationships with your siblings, only to get that same burning sting as they repeated your parent's words back at you. How you were afraid of what this would mean for the future of your family.
How you were afraid that your nieces and nephews would learn that same hatred from the people who were supposed to have your back.
Would your family ever accept you? Would they ever just.. learn how to respect you as an equal?
You didn't know.
Which is why it hurt so badly.
Lost in your thoughts, you don't even really hear Mammon as he addresses you. When he doesn't get a response, he spits a gripe in your direction, only for Satan to shut him down immediately as a way of showing him you're in pain. When Mammon realizes you're in pain, he drops everything - Much to Asmodeus' chagrin. The two were working on dinner when Mammon comes to protectively hold you and get loud, practically becoming a live beacon that summons all the other brothers to your side as they start to wonder what's going on.
Beelzebub and Belphegor feel a familiar sting in your eyes, the way you gloss over at the mention of your own family, it reminds them of something so eerily similar.. And because of that, they both can't help but to bring you as much comfort as they can. Beelzebub brings you your favorite snacks and drinks from the kitchen as Belphegor starts building a sadness nest in the living room.
Leviathan came out of his room to yell at Mammon for being so loud, but upon seeing you in so much pain, immediately comes to distract you with merch from the shows and games you both share a love for. He'd bought you some gifts because of the human realm connections between wintertimes and gift-giving, so he starts showering you with the comfort of gifts as he attempts to soothe you.
Asmodeus even stops his work in the kitchen to find out what all the fuss is, and when he finds your eyes puffy with tears, he immediately begins to coo and carefully tend to you. He takes you from Satan to address your physical needs and help you find comfort. You might not be able to take care of yourself right now, but he'll take care of all of that for you. He and Levi take you upstairs to draw you a bath, followed in tow by Beelzebub who is absolutely certain that you need to eat and drink good food right now.
Mammon actually quiets down as his brothers pour in to help you. It seems he got loud on purpose so the others could take care of you. He turns to Satan. "What the fuck happened?"
".. Their family rejected them. Said they were too hard to love."
The demon looks bewildered in shock. "Why the fuck would they do that?!"
"Something about a difference of opinions in human beliefs. I'll be honest, seeing them like that, it's been taking everything inside of me not to run back to that house and give them an earful of my opinion on their fucking beliefs." Satan's façade of calm starts to crack now that you're gone, and Mammon sighs, racking his head for a way to solve this. His human is in pain, and there's gotta be a way to solve that, right?
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Lucifer catches a glimpse of you in the hall, huddled by his brothers all comforting you in their own ways. He realizes that you're being tended to, so he gives you just a passing stare as you and the huddle of his brothers disappear into Asmodeus' room. Belphegor is lagging behind with some pillows, which Lucifer stops to ask what's going on. Belphegor says Satan knows more, and disappears into the room after you all.
Lucifer heads downstairs.
He had hoped to never see that look on your face.
The look of someone who'd just been rejected by their home, rejected by their family...
The look of someone who'd just been cast out.
Having seen every one of his brothers in a similar state after The Fall, he hoped he'd never see another person he loved in this much pain.
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"Humans really are stupid." Mammon openly gripes, scritching his head. Him and Satan can't figure a way to help you outside of going to your house and beating the crap out of anyone that made you cry, so when Lucifer arrives, he breathes a sigh of relief. Finally, someone who might be able to keep a cool head through this and help you.
"I want answers." Lucifer glares at Mammon and Satan scoffs;
"Ask ___'s family. Seems they think they're purposefully creating a rift in their own family by just being themselves."
Lucifer's heart sinks. His gut was right.
By every sense of the word, you'd been cast out too.
"..."
All three men stand in a small triangle, unsure of what to do.
Mammon looks up to Lucifer; "Can we help 'em fix the rift? Like they did ours?"
"Not likely." Satan again scoffs. "Ours were from a lack of communication. ___'s tried communicating from every angle with those ingrates. In every sense of the word, they've been patient in ways that even I struggle with. Anything else would just be forcing them through more suffering, and for what? For their family to reject them all over again? Fuck that."
"..." Mammon's brow knits together in thought.
Lucifer, however, already has a solution. "We've been through this before, Mammon. ___ is hurting and has just been cast out. We'll let them find their own methods for soothing, and do our bests to help them grieve the pain."
"... Sure is similar to that, huh." Mammon's eyes get soft, remembering their own fall from the graces of their own family.
".. Yes, I'd say so."
"They got a room to stay in, they got clothes, they got good- AH FUCK THE FOOD" Mammon rushes towards the kitchen to make sure you have good food tonight. Lucifer and Satan both go over the other possible needs you might have, which actually gives Satan a glimpse into what it was like for Lucifer to tend to all the other 5 after the fall.
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All seven demons find themselves fiercely protective of you, doing their bests to make sure that you're comfortable. They listen as you talk about your family, oftentimes giving their own snarky gripes as you tell your side of the story, never once letting you think that telling them the story causes their love for you to falter in any way.
They know what it means to be cast out from your home and your family, and they won't leave your side until they know that you're on the path to healing.
After all, you helped them overcome so much..
You're family to them,
And they'd fight the three realms to keep you safe if it ever came to it.