HELLFIRE ༄ Tony Stark

TEN

CHAPTER TEN:
CHAPTER SEVEN

Fortunately for everyone involved, the rest of the week went smoothly.

Well, if you call the Devil running around charming mostly everyone smoothly (mostly everyone because Mr. Gail has a personal grudge against Ms. Lucifer and no one knows why, not even him I'd wager).

Clint had taken to sudden 'sneak' attacks from the vents and always faceplanted on the floor with a smug Lucifer looking down at him. Tony was never seen without a glass in his hands --but don't let that fool you, it was just sparkling water-- and Pepper had to be held back by Natasha and Vision to stop her from killing Tony. And Peter had been bugging everyone about the Vampires from chapter seven and no one was safe.

No one, nowhere.

Clint woke up from his very nice nap in the vents, stretched, and then screamed.

"Mr. Barton, did you know Ms. Lucifer knows vampires?" Peter's smiling face asked him, head up in the vents with the rest just hanging.

"WHAT IN THE HOLY NAME OF ENCANTO-- where did you come from!"

Peter innocently pointed down.

"You have to stop doing that or soon there will be no avengers to defend ear-" he squinted suspiciously, "Did you say Lucifer knows real ass vampires?"

After that, there were two people bugging everyone about the vampires from chapter seven.

Lucifer was unbothered, mostly because Peter and Clint were too scared to annoy her directly, and even when the others would come to complain about the aptly named terror twins, she would just shrug and go back to her texting.

Who was she even texting?!

In the end, the earth's mightiest heroes decided to face the devil and fight her with their best recourses.

Bribing and begging.

They failed.

Peter and Clint counted this as a win but we're left crying when Lucifer told them her vampire friends woke up a week ago, forgot their vampires, and opened the curtains.

So no more vampires from chapter seven. For now.

Now with no one to bug, the tower had two very bored children. One could almost be considered an adult by human years but he did summon the devil so no points for him.

On that matter, Doctor Strange contacted them with the most amazing news.

He had run into some very powerful and knowledgeable people and had invited them over to the tower—without Tony's permission of course—to have a chat and if possible, shed some light on their situation.

Tony, predictably, wasn't happy about the invitation without the host's permission part but he had found Lucifer teaching Peter all the ways he could torture someone painfully while keeping them conscious and the boy was taking notes with a serious air around him, raising his hands and asking questions that made Lucifer smile proudly. So you can see how he'd overlook Strange's rude behavior in favor of getting rid of their pest problem.