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Apparently you can’t have a normal day. One. Normal. Day. Immediately as you awoke from your sweet dreams, you were immediately met with a disgusting mucus feeling in the back of your throat and thundering waves of nausea. It was horrible. You sat up in your bed, thinking about the logistics of it all. It was probably a demon sickness (you are in devildom afterall) but you determined it probably wasn’t life threatening because if it were, you’d feel a whole lot more shitty (at least that's what your delirious brain reasoned). Besides, you had major tests today, and you are a horrible overachiever. You just wanted to get the day done and over with, surely nothing bad could happen from one day. You were satisfied from this reasoning and moved into your morning routine (albeit much slower than usual but that's to be expected).
You walked downstairs taking care to use the handrail to support yourself, you didn’t feel steady enough to walk down without it. As usual breakfast was chaos, loud yelling, slamming the table, etc., etc. As you sat down in your chair mammon stopped his fight with Belphie (temporarily) to greet you. In turn the other brothers also greeted you before returning to their respective fights. You reach for breakfast, you should eat something, so you try oatmeal. Unfortunately even just a couple bites made you want to throw up your guts. Beel looks at you and your untouched food and speaks up.
“Mc? You haven’t eaten anything at all. Are you ok?”
The boys stopped to look at you now, worry painting their faces. You racked your brain for a decent excuse before landing on:
“Oh, don’t worry Beel! I just don’t feel hungry right now, Dinner last night was really big so i’m still kinda full from that. Don’t worry I’ll eat a snack later before class!”
The boys seemed to be satisfied with this answer and continued with the chaos. Beel didn’t seem very convinced, but you slid over your oatmeal and said he could finish it off and he succumbed to his sin (thank god). After breakfast Mammon walked you to your homeroom class. You mainly just listened as he chatted at you because you didn’t feel like talking. He didn’t seem to notice which you were thankful for. Besides, it was cute seeing him light up talking about all types of things.
Once in your homeroom you just felt even worse than before. A headache developed in between your eyes, it was excruciating. You wanted to tap out then and there but…you were already there…might as well not make a fuss. You needed to take your tests, make up work always sucks, it was always better to just bite the bullet. You somehow made it past homeroom and the next period, then the one after that, leaving you in the last period you had before lunch. You had this one with Mammon so it was usually your favorite one in the day. Today however it wasn’t so great because you had to try and hide how much pain you were in from Mammon. It was grueling having to reply, listen, do work, read, concentrate, etc. You were using up so much energy to act normal, to act like you felt fine. It was weighing on you now. Your head was starting to feel too lightheaded and you could feel your balance starting to give. ‘No, not here! And especially not in front of Mammon!’ you thought to yourself. Mammon stopped what he was talking about, and he stared at you for a beat or two before speaking up.
“MC? Are you really ok? You look kinda pale…If you want I can deal with Lucifer and then walk you-”
Before he could finish you felt yourself swaying, the lightheadedness became too much. You fell out of your seat, gravity pulling you down, and the last thing you saw and felt was Mammon grabbing you and a look of horror on his face. ‘Why does he…look so scared…’ you thought before the darkness consumed you.
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You woke up super groggy, mouth dry, in your room (still in your school clothes). In an instant the memory of fainting came back to you. The first thought that came to your mind was ‘ god…that's embarrassing’. You stuck your face in your pillow trying to erase the memory, and when that didn’t work you decided to stop moping around and see if anyone was home. You were still sick, but it was much better than this morning, so you could walk around and feel fairly fine.
As you walked out of your room all you heard was complete silence, which in the house of lamentation was more like a grimm warning if anything.You went downstairs first to see if anyone was there, no one was. You looked at the clock in the kitchen, it was still during the school day but school was going to let out soon. You went upstairs to see if anyone was up in their rooms. You walked past each one trying to hear if there were any noises, finally when you stopped in front of Mammon’s door you heard some shuffling and a muffled cry. You knocked on the door immediately upon hearing this. It took several beats before Mammon eventually opened the door. His eyes were red, but he tried to smile down at you despite his disheveled look.
“Mammon, are you…have you been…are you ok?”
“I…I should be asking you that idiot!”
You were taken aback a bit, there was no malice but there was pain in his voice which you didn’t understand why it was there.
“Mammon I-”
He didn’t let you continue because he scooped you up into a tight hug and began to cry.
“I’m sorry…It's just…When ya’ fainted…I held ya’ in my arms and…It was like when ya’ died. I know you weren't! I could see ya’ breathin’! But..I just..I couldn’t…”
You hurt Mammon, obviously accidentally, but you still hurt him. You realized, if you don’t take better care of yourself, you’ll end up hurting the people around you that care. You don’t want to hurt Mammon like that again, especially because…your death wasn’t very great for you either. You didn’t realize how much that had hurt him, but now you did. You should make sure to take better care of yourself. You entered Mammon’s room and shut the door behind the two of you. Mammon let you go from the hug, confused on what you were doing. You sat on the bed and motioned for him to sit down with you. He complied, and you pushed him down so you were on his chest, you snuggled into his chest and hugged his ribs.
“I’m sorry Mammon. I promise, with all my heart, something like this won’t happen again…I…I don’t want to hurt you.”
Once mammon recovered from his shock he hugged you back smiling.
“Even if ya’ do do it again…just make sure I'm there to protect you…”
You smiled snuggling deeper into his chest. You hugged each other, enjoying each other's presence for so long, you eventually fell asleep, holding onto each other. The brothers snooped, but they all decided you and Mammon both needed the rest (plus it was great black mail for later).