||Devil's Advocate||Betelgeuse x Adam x Barbara

(𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝗼𝐮𝐫) It's a Demon Thing

"Hey, Betelgeuse?"

At the sound of Barbara's voice, Betelgeuse looked up from where he was in the attic and over in one corner, spotting Adam and Barbara standing in the doorway of the attic and looking towards him. As they began to make their way over towards him, a full on pinkish shade flashed across his hair and became lighter as the Maitlands both got up onto the same bed that they and Betelgeuse had last used two weeks ago - shifting closer to and curling up against him.

He relaxed at that, draping his arms around the Maitlands' shoulder as some yellow showed up in his hair. "Talk or cuddle first?"

Barbara looked up at Betelgeuse at the same time as Adam did. "How about we do both? It's easier that way, isn't it?"

Betelgeuse looked from Barbara to Adam and then turned back towards Barbara as he, and Adam, nodded. It seemed like a better idea. Some green filtered through Betelgeuse's hair as he leaned backwards - the Maitlands once again moving towards and curling up next to him. This time laying on their sides and putting their hands on his stomach.

They stayed like that for at least a little while longer. After a few minutes, Adam and Barbara removed their hands from Betelgeuse's stomach and sat up - looking down towards him. And it seemed he had taken the cue - also sitting up.

"So, what're we talkin' bout?"

"Whatever we want," Adam said, his voice a little soft.

Betelgeuse nodded slowly. "Like if we should take this threesome relationship one step further?"

"Anything other than that, Betelgeuse," Barbara was quick to say. "We're still taking things slowly, remember?"

"How sexy Adam is?"

"Let's not go there. At least not quite yet and not right now." Adam let out a small and quiet sounding sigh, shaking his head. Barbara tried to contain her laughter but couldn't exactly help herself when just one little giggle let itself out.

"Why the sky is black?"

"Betelgeuse, the sky is not-." Barbara turned her head and glanced off to the side, looking out a nearby window and noting that it was now nighttime.

"I'm tired of talking," Betelgeuse whined, going right back to laying down in the center of the bed. "I want to cuddle. Can we go back to cuddling?"

"But we barely had a chance to have a conversation," Barbara said, before trailing off and glancing over towards Adam.

"Please?"

Barbara sighed, rolling her eyes as she and Adam moved to again lay down on either side of Betelgeuse and putting their hands back on the demon's stomach. At that, Betelgeuse's hair turned pink again and he put his hands on the Maitlands' backs. They stayed like that for a while longer - not even bothering to notice the sky going from night to dawn before becoming day. At least until they heard Lydia calling out to them that she was headed to school for the day and that she was coming up to the attic once she got home.

"Kay!" Barbara and Adam shouted back to her, Barbara shifting a little closer to Betelgeuse.

Then she sat up and looked over towards her male partners. "Do you think maybe we should stop?"

"No, continue," Betelgeuse said. "Keep cuddling."

"But time moves differently for the dead, right?"

"Yeah!" Betelgeuse affirmed.

"And Lydia should be coming home from school any time now?"

"Looks like it." Adam sat up and glanced over towards the window, seeing that it was now the late afternoon. And, as if by magic, the sound of knocking and Lydia's voice were heard from the other side of the door.

"Adam, Barbara, I'm home! Can I come in? I need help with my homework."

"Sure!" Barbara said, her and Adam standing up at once as Betelgeuse snapped his fingers and turned the bed back into a couch. This one far different than the usual couch.

Soon Adam and Barbara, followed behind by by Lydia, all came back over towards where Betelgeuse was. An amused look crossed Adam and Barbara's faces as they folded their arms and eyed the demon.

"Bj, what'd you do to the couch?" Barbara's tone was stern, though she was also curious and still amused. So it sounded like she was pretending to be stern.

"Nothin'," lied Betelgeuse, leaning backwards on the couch and resting his hands behind his head.

"You know what, it doesn't matter," Barbara eventually said, letting out a sigh and shaking her head slowly and a few times. "It's still a couch, we're fine with it. Now, can you get up please? Adam and I need to help Lydia with her homework."

Betelgeuse, on the other hand, took that as meaning something completely different. "Do you not want me around?"

Barbara turned to Adam then back towards Betelgeuse. "No, we still want you around and that's not what I meant when I said that at all. I just wanted you to get up from the couch and move off to the side so we could use the couch to help Lydia with her homework."

"Right, then I'll just leave and go bother Chuck and Debra instead." Betelgeuse prepared to snap his fingers and leave the attic for now, but Barbara speaking up stopped the demon in his tracks and caused him to turn towards her with a sort of incredulous expression crossing his face.

"I'm pretty sure they're at work right now."

"No, they're home. I can hear their voices downstairs."

"How do you-?" Barbara questioned, sounding stumped.

"It's a demon thing." Betelgeuse winked at Barbara and Adam before snapping his fingers and teleporting out of the attic and downstairs.

"He said that he could hear Charles and Delia downstairs." Barbara turned her head and focused her attention towards Adam and Lydia - both of whom were equally just as stumped as she was. "Can we do that too, Adam, or?"

"I don't think so," Adam was quick to say. "Since Betelgeuse did tell us that that was a demon thing. But it's still pretty interesting to know. Maybe we can ask him more about it later when we finish helping Lydia with her homework and he gets bored of bothering Lydia's dad and Delia."

Barbara nodded in agreement. "Yeah, you're right. I wonder just how much we don't know about Betelgeuse... or about ourselves..."