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Lucifer walked into the hotel carrying tons of shopping bags in his arms, he wouldn't have even been able to get the door open if it weren't for his tail. He had a big grin on his face, how couldn't he, he was finally able to help after his whole kidnapping from the vees (and do more than that stupid radio guy hehe).
“Chaaarlie~ I'm baaaack” he called out while closing the door only to notice something strange.
The entire hotel lobby was empty, Charlie's girlfriend wasn't at the front desk, the pink guy and the cat weren't at the bar, no sinner was walking around the lobby like they usually were.
It was a complete ghost town.
“Uh, Charlie, anyone…here?” Lucifer hesitantly called out again. “Vavnu! Red guy! Twink! Cat boy! Some other guy I'm surely forgetting! Anyone?”
He put the bags down on the coffee table in the small living room and walked around everywhere in the hotel inorder to find any semblance of life.
He found none, every room was empty, every key was placed back at the front desk, the bar had no alcohol, there were roaches running around. It was as if no one had ever been here.
He started to panic, what if the TV head had come and kidnapped everyone, what if the Angels went back on their deal, what if Charlie was hurt?!
Oh god, was Charlie hurt!?
He immediately darted up to Charlie's room, moving faster than he ever has. Fuck he should have never left! He practically busted down the door to her room only to be greeted with charlie sitting on her window seat staring off through the window. But she looked different from when he left.
Her hair was messy, he could see her horns peaking out, he tail was behind her but was completely motionless and he could almost hear her… sniffling?
He walked up to her, being careful to not startle her before putting a hand on her shoulder(which admittedly wasn't a smart move)
“Char-Char, are you-”
“DONT TOUCH ME! EVERYONE LEFT, THEY'RE ALL GONE BECAUSE OF ME, I DERSERVE IT, IT WAS ALL MY FAULT!”
Charlie screamed, her entire body whipping around which startled lucifer. Now that he could see her face she looked so much worse than he thought. Mascara was running down her face, her eyes were red and puffy which lucifer assumed was from crying, she almost looked like a frightened animal.
“woah! Hey, hey, calm down, it's just me” Lucifer tried to comfort her. “Do you need anything, I can leave if you want to”
It was like Charlie became even more fearful at that.
“No, no! Just… can you just stay here for a bit… please” her voice got quieter as she continued her sentence
“Okay, whatever you need, my little apple.” lucifer stated softly, he got up to shuffle through Charlie's extensive collection of musicals before he found one that seemed interesting. “here we can watch one of those musicals you like, or i guess listen to, haha”
He inserted the DVD into their TV and scooted next to Charlie, trying not to initiate physical contact unless Charlie stated she wanted him to, he didn't want to scare her again. He got a blanket for her and she draped it loosely over her shoulders
They silently watched the musical, or more so he watched it, Charlie seemed to more so just be staring at it. She had leaned her head over onto his shoulder. The whole thing was weirdly comforting.
Once the musical was over Lucifer took a shaky breath and tried to hype himself up in order to comfort Charlie.
“Charlie, i know- well may not know exactly what exactly is on your mind but i understand how you feel” Lucifer started after managing to muster the courage.
“i know how it feels to feel hopeless after something happens and especially after losing something. But I can't help you if you don't tell me what happened. So can you do that for me?”
Charlie looked up back at him, her eyes seemed dead inside and yet her eyes glistened with unshed tears. Lucifer panicked momentarily before Charlie took a breath and started talking.
“everyone left, dad”
“I'M GONNA KILL THOSE STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS!” Lucifer shouted, his demon form showing as rage consumed him when he heard just how they had broken his little girl's heart
“Dad, no, you can't kill them, physically can't.” Charlie reminded him, yet she sounded scared that he would almost find a way to kill them. “and besides they weren't wrong, i was selfish and i deserved everything that came to me”
Lucifer's heart shattered, how could his daughter say that about herself, hell, even think it! She was his daughter, the reason he even continued life, the light of his eyes. Fuck, could he have made her think that, maybe he passed down his self loathing tendencies. Whatever it was he had to put a stop to this idea before it fully manifested.
“Charlie, don't ever say that about yourself, no one deserves to experience that” Lucifer tried reassuring her but he could see it wasn't getting through, yet he continued “Sure you made some mistakes but who down here hasn't, i could point to someone and the street and they would probably have done far worse shit!”
“They weren't just mistakes, dad.” Charlie argued, and Lucifer could just feel his heart ache as Charlie continued “I stomped on Angel's boundaries, didn't notice Alastor quiting and getting himself kidnapped, annoyed husk to the point he almost quit, and i hurt you and Vaggi.”
“But you feel sorry about all of that, don't you” Lucifer argued back, taking a different approach in order to get it through Charlie's head. “And didn't you say something about sorry being the start of redemption-”
“Sorry, doesn't cut it anymore dad, i ruined my relationships with my friends and girlfriend no amount of sorries can fix that” Charlie said, now starting to actually cry.
“Charlie…”
“Can you please leave, i just need more time to process everything” Charlie asked, quickly wiping her eyes in an attempt to hide the fact she was crying.
“Okay, just remember I'm here for anything you need, just call me, okay” He said, waiting for Charlie to nod before leaving
Once he had closed the door he all but tore his own hair out. Why couldn't she see what he saw, an optimistic, slightly naive but amazingly kind demon. Why couldn't she just listen to reason and stop blaming herself for something that wasn't her fault.
Oh…
Well I guess that kinda makes him a hypocrite, he had almost done the same when he and Lilith got kicked out of heaven. But this time he would be different.
He'll support his daughter and make sure she gets through this and stops blaming herself. And if that starts with leaving her alone for a bit than so be it, we all start somewhere.
He had suddenly remembered the shopping bags and decided to try and take his mind off the anger he went to sort them out.
He could throw out everything associated with those fuckers tomorrow.