The one who fallen || Hazbin Hotel

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He saw her from afar sitting on the top of the countdown clock all alone, looking at the sky once again. With a worried face, he appeared instantly behind her, moving slowly towards her. "Is everything alright?" he asked before he placed himself by her side. Shocked, she looked at him. She tried to stay calm and nodded.

"Everything's good, Luci." she glanced at him before getting lost at the sky again.

"You know, I've known this face of yours for years now. I think I know when you are not okay." he calmly said. "I also know when you are lying to me." he looked at the sky. It seemed darker than usual. The extermination had just happened. He looked down towards the city. Red blood everywhere. Fires that hadn't been taken care of were in every corner of this realm. Sinners screaming, others not moving on the cold concrete. His people had been slaughtered once again.

"I still don't get why you of all people let  this happen." she said in a sad tone. She couldn't move her eyes from the sky. She wasn't ready to see all of this again. Lucifer felt a sharp pain in his chest when he heard her words. After all those years, that was the first  time she had ever sayed something like that to him.

"That's why you are here?" he tried to avoid  responding. He felt guilt knowing he might be the one who caused her to feel like that. He hated this feeling. He looked at her. Her eyes started to fill with tears. He tried to speak, but no words would come out of his mouth.

"I just didn't feel like being alone tonight was a good thing to do." she said and wiped her tears quickly. She smiled at him, and he tried to smile back. He felt guilt looking at her being so miserable with his choice.

"Then you made the right choice you came." he smiled, trying to comfort both of them. "That's what friends are for, right?" he asked her. He couldn't stop looking at her. He could feel her pain somehow. She smiled back at him and nodded.

"Thank you." she stared into his eyes. She could feel how bad he felt but decided not to do anything. " I'm really glad you are here." she sat down. Her legs felt like they couldn't hold her anymore. He sat down next to her, placing his hands backward to still be able to see the sky at least.

He looked at her better. She seemed like she had gone through a lot that day. "You should have stayed inside with me in my mansion like I asked you to." he said, worried. "Why do you insist that you won't every year?" he asked, irritated. He saw some red stains at the bottom of her umbrella that she always had with her. "Did you got hurt?!" his voice sounded so loud. He kneed in front of her and took her hands to inspect her. No holes or blood on her gloves or clothes. No visible injuries.

She froze for a moment. "I'm okay, don't worry." she said with a smile on her face, looking at him. His face seemed worried. She could see sadness take over his eyes. "I'm alright, really. It's not my blood." she said with a smile, trying to calm him down. She knew that he was the one responsible for the extermination. She knew he was the one agreeing with that, but she couldn't stand  seeing him like that. They had grown close these past few years after all.

"Then whose blood is that." he asked and backed a little to give her more space while still being on his knees.

"I don't know them, but it's someone's I saved. They got injured but were still alive. I couldn't just stand and watch from afar when they still had a chance to live." her words made his heart melt and feel heavy like stone at the same time. 'How could she be more brave than I'll ever be. These are my people.' he thought. He pitted himself. He saw in her everything he wished he had. He wanted to be more like her.

"You are amazing, you know that?" he admired her, smiling. He was proud to hear that but also terrified at the same time. 'What if something bad had happened to her?' his heart dropped to the floor just thinking about it."Either way, please don't sacrifice yourself for others. It could have ended really badly." he told her, worried.

"But it didn't." she said. "If that person had died when I knew I could do something to save them, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself." she looked at him once again, waiting for something, anything.

"And I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if something bad had happened to you today, you know that?" he said not so calmly. He sighed before he sat next to her again. "Please, next time, stay inside with me. It's the only way I can keep you safe from this." his heart started pounding more than it did before.

"What if you talk to heaven. Ending this madness sound way more efficient than trying to keep me inside." she trew her bomb. He knew her opinion about that topic. Each year since they met, she would ask the same thing. Each year, she got no response. Silence once again filled the air. His heart felt like it had dropped down to the cold floor. He didn't know what to respond.

"I can't, you know." That was the first time he tried explaining himself. "Some things are bigger than me. Heaven never listens." she knew he was right, but she really hopped he had some sort of power over that. 'So there isn't any hope?' her heart dropped, thinking that. 'Was everything really meaningless?' she felt like she was drowning.

"Hell is still your kingdom. You really can't do anything?" she knew she was pushing so many boundaries asking that. She knew how sensitive Lucifer was about those things, but she still hoped.

"The best I could do was that. It was either the extermination once a year with my family protected or a war against heaven. Do you think we could win over this?" she froze. She didn't know any of this. She only knew that heaven suggested the extermination, and Lucifer just accepted it and went with it. She was speechless. "I only did what I had to do in order to save my family and as many of my people I could save."  she felt bad hearing him saying that. He laid down and looked at the sky. She moved her body  towards him.

"I'm sorry.  I really didn't know that." her heart was bitting so fast. She was devastated. She couldn't help to stop the extermination. For so many years, she thought that if she could convince Lucifer, things would change, but that was far from the truth. He didn't want any of this. He was hurting as much as she did. Another thing she had misunderstood about him. "You know, I can see the angelic side of you." she smiled at him, trying to comfort him. She tried to calm her heart. He smiled.

"You are far more angelic than I'll ever be." he responded and turned his head to look at her. She laughed, hearing him saying that. "I mean it." he continued and looked into her eyes. They stayed there like the time had just frozen. He smiled. "A sinner like you that does everything in her power to save another soul even though you know it could end up badly for you. What's more angelic than that?" she froze. She didn't know he viewed her that way.

"I-." she got interrupted from a loud sound. They both looked at the huge flying like machine. It was far away on the west side of the pedagram city. He instantly grabbed her hand without even realizing it and teleported them both outside his mansion.

"This could have ended badly." he said, still holding her hand without realizing it. They both looked at their hands and glanced at each other's eyes before they both pulled away. "Are you hungry? Cause for sure I am." he said, heading inside. She smiled before following him inside.

"I could eat something." She said before she reached him. She went in front of him, walking backward. "As long as you are the one preparing it." she said playfully before she started running  to the door.

"You little -" he yelled playfully before opening his wings flying after her in an attempt to reach the door first.

"Hey, that's cheating!" she yelled while laughing.

She was waiting for him in the living room. She sat upside down on the sofa. Her head hanging from the seat while she playfully moved her legs upside down. She found the TV remote and decided to search for something for both of them to see. She was zapping when she saw something that caught her eye. It was Lucifer's daughter on a show. She sat up straight out of curiosity. She was singing about something. It caught her attention.

"Happy hotel?" she said softly, almost whispering like. Everyone had started laughing at her when she heard Lucifer coming. She turned off the TV instantly. She didn't want him to see his own daughter made fun of. One was for sure. Something sparked in her again after hearing his daughter. There was still hope.

"Who is ready for some of my delicious pancakes? " he said playfully while smiling as he entered the room holding two plates, each one filled with golden fluffy pancakes.