Beauty and the Beast

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"I can't wait to finally tear that other eye out of her fucking face," ______________________________

"Hey y'all ya bitch did it! Ya, bitch went to therapy! Say hi Dr. Wither!" Voe turns the camera to the doctor
The doctor leans into the camera "Hello,"
"Tell them about our session,"
"Why don't you tell them?"
Voe laughs and says "But I could be lying, if you say it they'll know it's true. So tell them about the session Dr."
"Well Miss Voe the Beau seems very lonely, and talking to people on live does not help! So I suggest she spend more time with the demons in the Hotel!"
Voe looks perplexed and flabbergasted "Uh- she just read me for filth," she looks back at the camera "I did that for y'all, I let this Doctor, read me for filth for y'all! Come on guys come to the hospital, and your business won't be on live but you will know so much more about yourself and who you are. If I can do it, so can you!" she turned off the live without reading the comments, to not see what people were saying.
"Voe,"
"Hmm?" She looks up at the Doctor
"Maybe if you took your visits a lot more seriously, then your audience would as well," she smiles
"I am taking it seriously," she turns her full body to the doctor
Dr. Wither purses her lips "It doesn't seem like it. It seems like you're making it seem more funny than it is, so you don't have to commit to the vulnerability," the doctor folds her hands in front of her
"I-" She doesn't know what to say
"See you at our next session!"
It had been a while since she met with Lucifer, but the visits had not stopped. She was showing now, but no one had mentioned her weight gain. Perhaps they hadn't noticed or maybe it was because she was hiding it under the clothes she wore. Big and baggy.
"Everything seems fine. Are you relaxing like I told you?"
"Yeah, who knew that the secret to feeling refreshed is sleeping more?"
"Everyone,"
She sucks her teeth "Okay,"
"I'm glad you're doing well. Maybe in a week or two, we can find out the gender?"
"I have a question though,"
"Mhmm?"
She lifts her shirt "Is there a reason that I'm this big?"
Lucifer looks around "You're having a baby,"
"Yeah, but I look 8 months when I'm 5 months,"
"This isn't an ordinary pregnancy Voe,"
"Is it still possible that my baby could be a lizard?"
"Mmm, not sure, but everything looks good,"
She lets her shirt fall "Thank you so much for this Lucifer, you are such an amazing being,"
"It's no problem Voe,"
"No, I mean it. You could be a great king,"
"Okay....?"
"What?"
"Uhh, what's happening here? I'm helping you and now I'm not a good King?"
She sits down "You're kind of a nothing king,"
Lucifer seems shocked "Wow okay,"
"That's not meant to be an insult,"
"Uh huh?" he sits down as well.
"I think you're doing better, but not as good as you could be,"
"Okay..."
"I'm sorry, am I upsetting you?"
He taps on his knees "No, I just don't know where this is coming from, but I'll put that in the suggestion box: Not a good king,"
"That's not what I said,"
"Can I say something?"
"Sure,"
"I think before you start helping other sinners, you should help yourself first.
She nods "Okay, it's my turn,"
"Your turn for what?"
"To say something,"
"Okay!"
"I personally think you're doing everyone, especially Charlie a disservice by not stepping up as King," she turns to him "There are people that feel comfortable disrespecting her to her face because you haven't been the King that Hell needs. You told me once that I have a certain power in me. You're the most powerful being in Hell! Act like it!"
"Okay..."
"You understand me?" she smirks at him
"Sure,"
"What?"
"You and Alastor still not talking?"
She cuts her eye "Why?"
"Oh, I'm just asking. Making conversation,"
"Not really no,"
"How do you think he's gonna feel about this?" he points to her belly
"Well, he'll feel really dumb,"
"Or that it's mine,"
"Oh God! No offense,"
He raises an eyebrow "Are you sure keeping this a secret from everyone wasn't a mistake?"
"Of course not! In one more month, you sure be sure it's viable right?"
"Yeah..." he says unsurely
"Wait what?"
"It could be? Maybe not,"
"Whatever, I'm planning on telling them once there's a higher chance of it being viable,"
"Great! Well, that's all! Thanks for coming in for your...baby...lizard,"
Voe scoffs and chuckles "It's not funny,"
"It's hilarious actually,"
"Yeah, whatever," she says in a fake Italian accent
She stands and goes to exit the room, closing the door behind her. She looks up and is startled to see Alastor standing right outside the door waiting.
"Had a good talk with Lucifer?"
Her eyes dart around "Yes,"
"Good,"
She nods and goes to walk around him.
"You know, you wanted to marry me,"
Voe spins back around "What?"
"You wanted to marry me. Did you do that to play some sick game?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I just wanted to let you know,"
"Know what?"
"Not to hurt people if you don't want to hurt them so much,"
She is confused "How am I hurting you?"
"You are deliberately keeping something from me, and you are lying about it. You're the one that was going on about 'will I ever trust you?' How can I trust you when you're keeping things from me?"
"Alastor I can't talk about this,"
"Be with Lucifer because I know you want to be,"
"What? I do not want to be with Lucifer,"
"Right. Then what is going on?"
Voe starts walking down the hall and Alastor follows her, his footsteps angrily hitting the carpet "Can we talk about this later?"
"We don't have to talk about it at all. Or anything else for that matter, since you wish to hide things from me,"
"Alastor don't be like this. I want to be with you. I need to be with you,"
"Strange, you said you needed Lucifer!"
"Yes, but in a different way," she bounces down the stairs
"In what way?" he questions
"He's helping me,"
"With what?"
She groans "Maybe Lucifer was right, maybe this was a mistake,"
"What was a mistake?"
"Keeping this a secret,"
Alastor's anger slowly increases "Keeping what a secret?"
"Alastor, when you find out I'm sure you'll laugh and realize all of this was for nothing!" she smiles a bit
They are in the parlor now "My dear, this sick little guessing game of yours is growing old and tiring, very fast,"
"It's not a game!"
Others gather in the parlor to see what the commotion and screaming are about.
"Then what do you call it?"
"I don't call it anything, I'm not doing this to hurt you! I'm doing it for you. For us!"
"If this is 'for us' then you need to tell me what it is,"
Voe looks around and notices that they've gathered an audience.
"Can we do this in private please?" She reaches for him but he pulls away
"No," he sounds stern "Tell me right here and right now,"
Voe looks around and then drops her eyes and her voice
"I'm pregnant,"
Alastor stands before her with an open mouth, aghast. He tries to speak, but the words won't come out at first "What?"
"I'm pregnant, okay Alastor? I'm pregnant!"
Charlie happens to be walking past and hears her "What???" she rushes up to Voe "You're pregnant? But how??"
"If you are pregnant, why were you spending so much time with Lucifer?" Alastor counters
Voe throws her hands up "Because sinners don't normally reproduce! So I went to the most powerful being in Hell to help me with that." She gestures to Alastor "I mean, you said that if it were possible, you'd love to have a baby with me,"
"I-"
"Dad??!!" Charlie rushes to her father who just entered the room. He looks confused "You helped Voe get pregnant? That's so nice!!"
Lucifer looks at Voe, he isn't sure whether to confirm or not.
"They know now!" she crosses her arms
Lucifer exhales and nods, Charlie hugs him for his good deed.
"If that's true, why keep it a secret?" Alastor questioned
"Because Lucifer said he's never done this before, so he wasn't sure if the baby would last the whole gestation period. So I didn't want to tell you all and then I have a miscarriage. He was keeping an eye on me until he knew for sure the baby would make it,"
"When would he know for sure?"
"About 6 months,"
"How many months are ya?"
She smiles a bit "5,"
"Voe!! We should have a party! Wouldn't you love that?" Charlie asked
Voe frowns "No, I don't want anything,"
Charlie is shocked "What? Why not?"
Voe looks away, trying and failing to stop the tears from flowing "Because I-" a sob is caught in her throat
Lucifer sighs "She had this whole plan. She was gonna have her own party, and then tell you all there that she was pregnant,"
"And now it's ruined!" She covers her eyes with her hands. Charlie goes to comfort her, but Voe waves her hands in front of herself "No no, in fact, just treat me like I'm not here!" she runs off crying as Alastor remains in his spot, speechless
Voe ended up in her room of course, and that's exactly where Alastor found her, appearing on the bed next to her as she cries. Before Alastor can open his mouth, Voe speaks
"I know I know! I GET IT!" she snaps "I know it's my own fault, but I really wanted to do this my way and...now I don't even know if I want to do it anymore,"
"Well, might as well try something else. Your way is already ruined! It was not a good idea, my dear,"
Voe's sobs get louder "Why did you even marry me? How can we raise a baby when you don't trust me? Or love me?"
"I-"
She wipes her eyes "Yeah I know, I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that. I know you can love your kid. Can you go though? I just wanna lay down and cry,"
Two days passed when there came mail at the hotel. Voe had just come from checking in on the theater and was planning on going straight back to her bedroom.
"Miss there's mail for you,"
She sighs "Follow me to my room Casper,"
"So, I guess congratulations are in order then,"
Voe shoots daggers into him with her eyes
"Or...not,"
"Just follow me,"
He comes with her into her room and she closes the door.
"Casper," her tone is sad
"Yes ma'am?"
"Tell me how the hospital is doing,"
"We've had a huge influx of patients in the past few days, plus your soul count went up!"
"Up to what?"
He looks through his clipboard "About ...oh! 5,600"
Voe's eyes dart up "What?"
"Yep! 5,600,"
"Casper you know I will murder you if you're lying,"
"What? No! Look!" he shows the paper to her
Voe blinks in disbelief "Casper open that letter!"
He rips the envelope open and unfolds the paper "Dear Voe, we are writing this to wish you congratulations, for you have officially passed the soul count to be considered one of us, an Overlord,"
Voe's eyes widen as he reads "Keep reading!"
"Okay okay! Um, we will be holding a ball in your honor that the other Overlords and their plus ones will attend and you will be allowed a plus one as well,"
"Well, obviously you'll come with me, Casper,"
He blushes "W-what? No, what about your husband?"
"He's also an Overlord, he's already been invited. Come with me, I'd like to have a friendly face there with me,"
"No, bring a friend with you"
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah,"
Voe sat and thought about it. Who could she bring with her? There was one person, but she wasn't sure he even wanted to see her.
Angel Dust sat in his room scrolling. Voe approached the door, noticing that he still had her picture up on his door "THIS BITCH!!!!!" it read. She smiled and knocked on the door lightly, hoping he wouldn't answer.
He opens the door, towering over her "What?"
Voe rocks back and forth on her feet "Hi,"
"What do you want?
"Can I talk to you?"
"I am not in the mood for one of your little lectures,"
She smiles "Great, 'cuz I'm not in the mood to give one,"
"What do you want?"
"To apologize,"
"Mhmm?"
"I'm sorry I pushed or tried to push you into something that you weren't ready for. I know I push a lot, and sometimes it's charming, sometimes it's not,"
"Mhmm,"
"I don't ever want to be not your friend. I will do anything to make it up to you,"
He sucks his teeth "Well, I guess I forgive you,"
"You guess?"
"Fine, I forgive you. Since it's your first offense. I'm sorry for lashing out,"
She stands on her tiptoes making happy noises "Oh! I also wanted to give you something," she hands him the ticket to the ball
"What's this?" he looks it over "Oh wow, thanks!"
"You're happy!" she says
"Whatever!" he tries to hide his smile
"And thanks,"
"For?"
"Not taking my picture down,"
"Oh, that? Ya lucky you came on time, I was about to take it down,"
She smirks "Mhmm, I'll see you tomorrow at 8,"
Arriving at the ball with Angel in tow was as awkward as possible when Alastor insisted on leaving with them instead of before them. Alastor had chosen Niffty as his plus-one who wore her normal dress without the apron. Alastor wore his usual with his coat freshly pressed. She and Angel were the ones who showed out. Angel wore something similar to his usual clothes, but his pants were longer with some added flow to them, making them look a bit like a dress. As the guest of honor, Voe was the most extravagant in her clothing. She wore a large gown, hot pink in hue, covered in jewels, and strapless with a shoulder piece and a trailing train. Angel was kind enough to walk behind her and carry it as Niffty climbed in and out underneath the gown.
"You're going to have a wonderful time Angel,"
"Ehh I don't know, I might not fit in very well,"
She looks over her shoulder "But you're here with me! Everyone will love you! And if they don't then they can fuck off!"
Alastor walked beside his wife, intent on having his presence noticed, though he chose not to speak.
Angel catches up to the doe "Hey, what's going on with you and Smiles? He seems creepier than usual,"
Voe rolls her eyes "He's just being petty, that's why he wanted to leave with us, just to annoy me and ruin my grand entrance!"
"So ya'll still aren't talking?"
She shakes her head "Nope,"
"Don't ya think maybe ya should?"
Voe shrugs and starts clapping when they arrive at the venue. "Okay everyone go in before me!"
They heed her words, Alastor included. Voe is surprised that he went in, and didn't insist upon entering alongside her. No matter, this was her moment and nothing was going to ruin it for her. She enters the hall and all eyes are on her. She had taken to doing things for the good that it would bring to Hell, but she never got over the feeling of being the center of attention. It was brilliant how they all clapped as she descended the stairs and took Angel's arm instead of Alastor's and let him lead her to the dance floor.
"You sure you don't wanna dance with Smiles?" Angel asks as they turn to the music
She shakes her head "I'm dancing with who I want to dance with Angel?"
"Aww, ya miss me?"
Voe just smiles at him and lets him twirl her "If you don't like Husk maybe you could find a cute Overlord to date? You know, unless you like Husk,"
"No, I don't,"
Voe raises an eyebrow "Really?"
"Really, we're just friends,"
"But is that all you want to be?"
"Right now, yeah,"
"Aww, how noble of you,"
And off they were when it was time to switch partners. Angel ended up with Zeezi and Voe ended up in the arms of Rosie.
"Rosie! How are you?"
"Hi! How's the marriage going?"
"We're doing just fine!"
Rosie purses her lips "Is that why you both came in separately, and you haven't danced with him yet? Why you not dancing with your husband?"
Voe sighs "We are in a bit of a spat,"
"Oh, already? Marriage ain't easy huh? I hope you're not thinking about divorce or anything,"
Voe shakes her head "No no no, well I'm not,"
She raises an eyebrow "But he might be?"
"I don't know what he's thinking,"
"Oh my goodness, you want me to talk to him?"
She shakes her head "No he's a grown man,"
"It's that bad huh? Divorce is hard, that's why I ate my husband before he could file for divorce," she laughs heartily
Voe laughs "Oh Rosie, you're so funny,"
"People always say that but I never tell jokes," she thinks "Oop! Now I'm off! Good luck!" she called out before switching partners.
Voe looked up and saw that she was dancing with her former boss.
"Hello Velvette," she says with a straight face
"Well well well, if it isn't the manipulative bitch who promised us the world and is giving us nothing!"
She raised her brow "I'm sorry?"
"You should be! All you do is break people's hearts and tear families apart, and the world needs to know!"
"To what are you referring exactly?"
"You keep your promises with everyone else, but with us, you don't. You say you'll kill us again and then you don't. You're sick!"
Voe tilts her head "You want to be killed too?"
"You're a sick woman Voe, you need help!" She pulls her hands away "Don't touch me,"
Voe stands in confusion when Vox slips into Velvette's place "Hello, my dear," he smiles at her
"Hi, Vox," she rolls her eyes
"Look at you breaking people's hearts again,"
"Look, I don't know what you're deal is. Why do you want to be killed again?"
"Probably because you gave us an experience we can never forget, and now you're cheapening out on us! You're a cheap bitch!"
She widens her eyes "Do not call me a bitch,"
"You're a bitch,"
"So you want things to get violent?"
He smirks "Yeah,"
"At a ball Vox?"
"You're the only one glitzy about these things, we've been to millions of these! Now fulfill your promise and do something about it!"
"What? Do you want me to punch you?"
"You know what I want, don't act like you don't! You bitch!"
Voe stares at Vox before kicking him in the crotch.
"Ahh Yes!!" he cries out
"In fact," she walks up to Vel and Val, slapping Velvette and punching Val in the gut.
Val is bent over in pain "I can't believe this, you're even sicker than I thought, you're a sick woman and you need to be put away for a long time,"
Voe groans and turns away to be met by the chest of her husband, before she can speak or move he grabs her and leads her back to the dance floor, twirling her elegantly and classy-like. Voe tries to pull back but gets shocked when he holds her waist tightly.
"Good evening, my dear," Voe doesn't answer and looks away from him "What's the matter with you?" She raises her eyebrow at him "You know if you don't tell me what's wrong with you I can't fix it. Didn't your mommy ever teach you that?"
She scowls "You know what's wrong,"
"I do not,"
"You ruined my announcement,"
He scoffs "That? My dear, it is just a baby,"
She is flabbergasted "What??"
"What? Is it not a baby? Is it a lizard?"
"That's not funny,"
"I think it's hilarious," his grin gets wider
She leans in and whispers "A baby is a big deal in Hell,"
"Okay?"
"Okay? What do you mean, okay?"
"Vera, I think you're making this a bigger deal than it is. Congrats on the baby, the announcement thing I don't see what the big deal is,"
"Of course you don't,"
He raises a brow "What is that supposed to mean?"
"It means that you don't care about other people's feelings,"
"I just think you're focusing on the wrong things, you're having a baby and that's special enough. Who cares about a silly announcement?"
"It wasn't silly to me! And I think you need to understand that some people find different things important,"
He sighs "So you want me to apologize?"
"If you have to ask then no,"
"So what do you want?"
"I was doing just fine before you grabbed me,"
"So you want to not talk to me forever? If that's the case, why marry me? Why waste someone's time?"
She laughs in disbelief "I was asking you that same question, and you never answered!"
"What question?"
"Why marry me?"
"Because you wanted me to. You were the one who brought it up,"
"Once!"
"And couldn't stop talking about it,"
She burrows her brows "And you're the maniac who said," she mocks his voice "Let's get married next week!"
"Okay? What does this have to do with the baby? Is the baby not mine?"
Voe squints "How dare you? I should slap you right now,"
"Oooh,"
"How dare you insinuate that I was unfaithful? All I went through to have this baby?"
"Oh come now, it was a joke. And also you couldn't have had a baby if you had been unfaithful,"
"Are you here to insult me?"
"I came to talk to my wife and see why she's ignoring me. Now I see it's because of some announcement you cared about so much,"
He twirls her "So you're not even sorry,"
"Well I am sorry, but you told me you didn't want me to say sorry, so I'm not,"
"If you're sorry, then say sorry,"
"You told me not to say sorry. Some people don't want that, my dear,"
"Leave that up to the person you're apologizing to,"
He rolls his eyes "I don't want to be thinking about how I'm wasting my time,"
"You're wasting your time saying all this!"
"Fine! I'm sorry!"
Voe relaxes her shoulders and then looks at her husband "Thank you,"
"You're very welcome, I don't know why we had to go through all of this for me to say so,"
Vow groans "You drive me crazy!"
"I drive everyone crazy!" his grin gets even wider
She shakes her head, knowing that no one gets her like this but him. "What am I going to do with you?"
"I don't know, maybe you should slap me one good time, maybe that will do it,"
Voe tries not to laugh "I can't stand you,"
"Hmm, what are you going to do about it? Hmm?" He leans in and she leans back blushing
"Stop! Don't make me laugh!"
"Aw, you know I'm funny,"
"Are you really?"
"Yes. I am,"
She puts up her index finger and thumb "Maybe a little bit,"
"Ha ha, maybe a lot,"
"Don't let it go to your head,"
He chuckles "Too late, my dear,"
Voe sighs and leans on his chest "I missed you,"
"As did I, darling. Congratulations by the way,"
She looks up at him "For which thing?"
"For becoming a mother and an Overlord,"
"Congratulations are in order for you as well,"
"For what?" Voe takes his hand and puts it on her stomach while staring up at him with bright eyes "I suppose this is quite a wonderful day,"
She closes her eyes "I'm sorry,"
"Whatever for?"
"Keeping it a secret and making you worry,"
"Oh well, that's quite all right,"
Voe chuckles and smiles "I love you,"
Alastor leans down and kisses his wife on the forehead.

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