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The light filling the student council room was headache inducing. The mixed colognes from the other student council members still lingered in the air infusing with the smell of freshly printed paper and ink. The prince’s laugh could be heard bellowing outside of the council room as the brothers got into another argument continuing on from the one from lunch.
Lucifer sighs looking up from the small stock of paper he'd been working on. He closes his eyes for a moment before getting up from the table. “Excuse me _____, could you put these papers over on that table? Seems I have to deal with this myself.”
You nod your head in understandment, to which Lucifer smiled with a short chuckle and walked out of the room before hearing Lucifer’s voice mixing with the others.
As the doors closed behind Lucifer, you grabbed the papers you and Lucifer were working on. Lifting them as you stand up to put them on the other table.
“Busy as ever I see”
Panic flashes throughout your body hearing the new voice making you jolt, you lose your footing and fall down onto the shiny tile floor. But before you could hit the ground, hands caught you.
“My apologies, I thought you heard me enter the room.” you look up at Barbatos glazing down on you as he holds you from falling down, the same could not be said about the papers.
Barbatos pulls you back up swiftly back onto your feet. Cursing yourself in your head looking at the mess on the ground. “Oh my goodness. Sorry Barb, I didn't realize that you came in.” You say crouching down to gather the spread out papers you'd just filled out. “It's quite alright, here let me help” he says with a soft smile on his face joining you in crouching down and helping gather the papers spread about.
The papers are found, put back in order back into a stack of paper like it was before. You sigh as you place the last paper onto the stack on the table. You turned to him and smiled “thank you, Barbtos.”
“Pardon me?” Barbatos' glaze widened, turning his full attention to you. “Um, thank you?” You feel your cheeks start to warm up, finding his eyes as he looks at you. “No, what did you call me?” Barbatos asked, looking into your eyes directly as he got a bit closer then he'd been standing next to you. He smiled as he looked at you. “Your name?” you say unsure of where to look as your eyes darted around feeling the weird pressured frustrating feeling of confusion.
He paused for a moment before giving you back your personal space, backing up. “You didn't call me my name.” He said, still smiling that polite smile that was like a honed knife.
“I didn't..? I'm pretty sure I said Barbtos”
“Barbatos.”
“Who's that?”
Silence. The only thing that could be heard out of the RAD council room was Lucifer
Barbatos closed his eyes as he exhaled. Chuckles escaped his mouth as his hand covered his mouth as his body shook. “___. You're saying Barb-toast, my name is pronounced Bar-buh-tose” he said moving his hand away from his mouth after his small fit of chuckles. He was smiling again but this time it reached his eyes as they opened again.