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Alastor often wondered if his creation was a mistake. The one true stain on gods perfect record. Or maybe it didn't matter if he was created with intention only that he followed what was right and made up for any wrong.
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Alastor was in the file room looking in the confidential papers inside the large metal cabinets. The cabinets creaked with age while others slid open so fast they could have fallen out. So far he had found a lot of Lucifer's old destines for animals on earth, some little trinkets from the man as well and a lot of notes about making Eve and how she should be as submissive as possible so as to get along better with Adam. That really did blow up in there faces.
He was deep in one of the more forbidden passage and had to brush off a lot of dust just to see the words underneath. It was about the creation of the exterminator army and Alastor was learning a lot of things he hadn't known before.
"Altruist what do you think your doing" Alastor's head whips up to see {REDACTED}. The elder angel looking down at him with a sickly smile that made Alastor's wings flutter slightly.
Instantly chains wrapped themselves around Alastor's arms and tightened till it felt like his bones would break. They snaked there way around his torso till there was no hope of moving. {REDACTED} came closer and forced a cloth into Alastor's mouth ignoring the panic easily showing in Alastor's body. He couldn't help the shaking. He knew what was to come. The pain he had just let Lucifer experience.
"There there naughty little angel, there is no use struggling"
His mind stung as he was dragged by {REDACTED}, he tried not to let those memory's resurface but the screams were to loud to ignore.
"Lucifer, Lilith you are convicted guilty of intentionally bringing sin to the world. For this crime you shall be forced out of heaven only to see the evil you have created" {REDACTED} Said looking down at Lucifer with no love that was once there. They were family, equals and yet there was an indescribable harshness in his voice.
Alastor just stood there watching paralyzed as his friends clung to each other looking terrified. He watched as they begged, he did nothing to help.
"No- you cant- you cant!" Lucifer yelled his eyes frantically moving to all of the Elder angels faces before landing on Alastor's. He looked scared. It didn't work well for Lucifer's face. Everything was wrong.
"Yes we can. Father had allowed us to find a fitting punishment for your sin" {REDACTED} said. It seemed that all of the elder angels were in agreement.
Lucifer's face fell as he tightened his grip on Lilith readying himself himself for whatever was to come.
Sera walked forward all her eyes glaring at the two who move backwards only pausing when there feet were just at the ledge.
"Sera please don't do this" Lilith said through tears that fell like fountains from her face.
"You made your choice. I am sorry" Sera raised her hands and pushed, a cold expression on her face.
Then they all left like nothing ever happened. They left like they couldn't hear the screams as the two fallen crashed into hell. Like the crying sobs and apologist weren't loud enough to shake the very foundations of heaven.
And it was all Alastor's fault. There were so many things he could have done. What if he said something different or if he were more vigilant maybe he would have learned of there plan to get Eve to eat the apple and he could have stopped them.
This was karma. Karma for not helping more when Lucifer and Lilith fell. This was him making up for the wrong he had once commited.
His body felt weak under the tight chains and his vision felt blurry. Whether it were from salty tears he could not tell but his eyes burned. Forcing his eyes open, ignoring how it felt and looked around himself only to see {REDACTED} standing before him.
"I've wanted to do this for a long time Altruist" He grin sharply putting one of his hands in Alastor's hair and yanking it upwards. {REDACTED} just smiled more at the fearful look on Alastor's face not bothering to take out the cloth that stopped him screaming.
He laughed as Alastor struggled against the chains that only tightened as he moved. His words came out as muffled screams that were ultimately just entertainment for the elder angel.
"Your protests wont do anything. The day you were created was Gods only mistake. I am going to fix it for him" Alastor watched with wide eyes as the angelic weapon materialized in the elder angels hands, the metal gleamed bright in heavenly light. Why a weapon should look so heavenly Alastor never knew.
"You see this" He paused putting the knife need Alastor's eye before pulling it back "this has killed angels before. Remember all those exterminators who began to question what they were doing. This sliced there necks" The elder angel brought the weapon closer to Alastor's leg cutting into his trousers and bringing the cold metal to his skin. Alastor knew he should be panicking, worrying for his life but his mind was focused on something else. {REDACTED} had killed angels. He had killed angels with a metal that the people at the hotel could obtain from Carmilla.
This was what he was looking for and now he was going to die before he could tell his friends. He was just as useless to his friends as he always was.
"Oh don't worry Altruist i wont kill you but you will die. The fall shall be your end, the only thing i shall morn is the fact i will not be able to enjoy the look on Lucifer's face as he sees his friend die before him" {REDACTED} pushed the knife into Alastor's skin dragging it in to semi circles making an S. Then an I. Then two N's. Then an E and a R spelling out SINNER.
Alastor's screams where audible even with the cloth stuffed into his mouth making it harder to breath every second, he felt dizzy and sick and so fucking tired but he had to hold on even as {REDACTED} dug the angelic metal into the skin of his legs and arms leaving deep long oozing wounds underneath cut up scraps of his once white clothing.
{REDACTED} continued to slice his skin with that horrifying smile only growing wider as Alastor screamed behind the cloth. Some how the elder angel missed any artery that would have killed him to soon but the cuts hurt no matter how deep they were mad. At some point salt water may have even been pored onto the deeper wounds to help them heal faster so Alastor didn't die of blood loss.
The chains around him tightened as they lifted into the air just above the caverns hole Lucifer and Lilith were once sent down.
"Any last words" {REDACTED} sneered using his power to pull away the cloth so Alastor could speak.
"Your- m- more of a sinner then i am" He pushed the words out his mouth, immediately the chain rapped around Alastor's neck and round his mouth like he was some feral animal.
"WHAT I DO IS HEAVENLY. I GET RID OF SCUM LIKE YOU WHO THINK THEY CAN CHANGE THE ORDER WE HAVE CREATED. YOU ARE DIRT THAT NEEDS TO BE CLEAN, WIPED FROM EXISTENCE" {REDACTED} screeched his angelic form growing as he called his tyrannical control good "I am great. A force of god"
"Maybe one day you shall be good" Alastor said from behind his binds watching the rage build contorting the elder angels face to show the evil underneath. The blind hatred.
"I hope your fall is agonizing" Alastor felt the chains loosen from his torso and instead wrap around his wings before meting themselves down burning the beautiful feathers and solidifying again so the melt was continuously forced into his delicate wings burning away and making the skin underneath blister.
He fell downwards, speed picking up as he huddled into himself hoping by any saving grace he had left that he would live long enough to tell one of his friends what he knew.
His could hear the fast wind in his ears as he fell.
Faster
FASTER
FASTER
Then a sickening crunch.
He felt it as his body slammed into the ground braking bone and making gold blood stain the floor outside the hotel. The pain was blinding and felt like electric was making its way threw his body. His vision was blurred and he could hear a constant loud pitched noise. Wait... hotel?
He was outside the hotel.
Right he was supposed to die in his friends arms.
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Lucifer was in the hotel lobby hoping tabbing his fingers rhythmically on his legs. To anyone else he would seem worried about the upcoming war against heaven which yes he was, of course he was because there was every chance that his daughters dream would be destroyed, but the real issue was that Alastor had came to him a day ago about going up to heaven to try and find a weakness to the angelic army.
Lucifer had not liked the idea at all, he had refused to stand by and let Alastor risk his life again and again just because he felt guilty for a debt he didnt have to repay. Alastor didnt just let Lucifer and Lilith fall that day. Alastor had helped him and Lilith sneak round on dates. Alastor had warned him of the risks giving Eve the apple would have but he didnt listen.
That didnt mean he regretted his decision. No he was happy here in hell even if his wife wasn't able to be there with him. It was nice here, it was free here. He was free here.
He was still deep in his worry about Alastor and how safe he was up in heaven when there was a large bang outside. Lucifer had known a few demons had tried to attack the hotel before and had even been there for one of them so his first reaction was on focused on protection.
Rushing out the door ready for a fight he was shocked by what he saw. A smoking crater in front of the hotel. It also seemed the others had had the same idea as him as they all came out with weapons or there guards up high.
"Dad do you know what it is?" Charlie asked as her dad looked at it with wide eyes. Something about it felt familiar in a daunting way that mad him sick.
Something moved. Something he recognized. He felt the blood leave his face.
"ALASTOR!" He yelled rushing forwards down into the hole as fast as his little legs would take him not even thinking about what he had just said.
"Hey, hey Alastor can you hear me" Lucifer said pulling Alastor closer to his body and wrapping his arms around the thin man. Blood was gushing from so many paces as the man in his arms cried out in agony. His flesh looked burnt and most of it was cut up or pealed away leaving a fleshy redness behind.
The mans wings where forced together with melted metal that obviously once resembled a chain and the feathers surrounding the ropes of metal were charred.
There was nowhere on the man that wasn't hurt in some way, even the mans eyes seemed foggy and distant.
"Alastor please. Please you cant do this to me" Lucifer sobbed out gripping the deer tighter to his own body. He loved Alastor like one would love a son or a brother. He felt like family and he was sure if he asked Lilith she would feel the same.
"PLEASE" He forced out as the lump in this neck mad breathing far to difficult never mind the eyes on his back all wondering what in hell is going on.
Alastor's hand gripped at Lucifer arm alerting him to the angel still being alive.
"Lu- Lucifer" Alastor forced out of his burnt lips "Angelic weapons" He forced out before collapsing into Lucifer's arms from shear effort.
"CHARLIE PLEASE HELP" He yelled up for his daughter before focusing his power on healing the tattered remains of the self sacrificing man in his arms. He focused on broken bones and any extremely dangerous wounds first knowing that Charlie could follow his lead and begin healing the angel she wouldn't even recognize.
And she does. Not even questioning who he was, why they were healing him or why her dad called him Alastor because even with such a large hint no one would be able to tell that The radio demon was a angel in disguise.
Once the wounds were healed to a safe amount the two Morningstars moved him into the hotel with a hurry before laying him down carefully on the sofa letting the wings that were still held together by metal drape off the sofa and onto the floor.
Lucifer decided to start with this as wings were quite sensitive and the burns if not healed and the metal not gone it would be quite hard to get rid of the metal when Alastor wasn't unconscious.
Sadly it seemed the others didnt share Charlie's mindset of healing first, questions later.
"Who is this?" Angel asked apprehensively.
"Altruist- My god its actually him" Everyone but Lucifer looked to Vaggie who was only recently outed as an ex-exterminator.
"You know who that is?" Sir pentious asked holding the S like the snake man always seemed to do.
"Yeah umm he- he was my friend up in heaven. We both agreed on are opinions of the exterminations. He was the one i could talk to" She explained with a hand on her hip and the other at her face.
"That doesn't explain why hes here hurt" Husk said looked at Lucifer who was still trying his best to get the metal out of the random angels wings without doing more damaged.
"I don't think its my place to tell-" Lucifer paused as his daughter came and sat beside him.
"Dad" She pulled his hands into her own letting Niffty take over in removing metal from feather. For some reason she seemed to give it a lot of care her normal cleaning would not have indicated she had "I know it may be privet but we need to know. Please" She pulled Lucifer up and onto a seat.
"Ok. Years ago me and your mother invited Altruist down to hell. We were good friends in heaven. We asked him for help, he was going to help the hotel. Help you" They all looked shocked by this and waited for him to continue.
"It took years of preperation but fianlly he was able to start helping with the hotel. The of course this war comes about and he says hes going to look for anything that could help are victory-" Lucifer pauses as his eyes widen realizing what Alastor had said earlier.
"You crazy bitch" Lucifer looked over to Alastor who was still unconscious but now Niffty was dabbing his wings with a liquid to help burns.
"What ya mean short king?" Angel asked looking back and forward from Lucifer and Alastor.
"He found it. That self sacrificial bastard found out what can give us an advantage. He said it before he passed out. We need Angelic weapons" They all looked surprised.
"This is great news!" Charlie said running up to Vaggie and giving her a tight hug "Oh we need to go find Alastor and tell him the news" Charlie said as she pulled away.
"Erm Charlie thats not needed he knows" Surprised and slightly outraged yells were voiced by this news, it seemed only Husk and Niffty had connected the dots.
"That's Alastor isn't it" Husk said bluntly, pointing at the man who unwillingly owned his soul.
"Yeah umm" Lucifer moved to behind the sofa and looked at the group "It was the plan. Al was going to become a power overlord to be able to protect the hotel without it being questioned along with other things" The king paused breathing in deeply before mostly addressing Husk.
"He didnt want to own you soul. From what i know you were one of the overlords he was going to kill but he saw something in you the others didnt have. Owning you would mean the power you had would not be able to corrupt you while also keeping you safe to be rehabilitated when the time came" Husk blinked slowly before sitting in one of the chairs behind him his eyes not now leaving Alastor's body.
"I know there are a lot of questions to be answers but for now lets focus on the information Alastor got for us" Lucifer offered hoping this would distract everyone "Im going to bring Alastor up to his bedroom, ill be back down soon" Lucifer then used one of his golden portals to get both himself and Alastor into the bone covered bedroom.
Once up there Lucifer moved Alastor's body so that it was laying on its side just in case he was to wake up and be sick.
"Oh Alastor" Lucifer said stroking back the red curls on the mans head "You've done well"