My ass is still grounded. I am so sorry if this chapter is much shorter than the previous ones.
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Have this funny radioapple picture as an apology.
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"I feel like I am terrible." Lucifer mumbled. Alastor turned his head 180 degrees before turning his body as well. "I am sorry my dear. I think I misheard you. Could you repeat that?" he said, looking at the King of Hell with a raised eyebrow. "I feel ugly and terrible." the Devil said from under the covers. "Love, come out. Let me see your face." Alastor said. "No, don't look at my ugly face." Lucifer said. Alastor let out a sigh. "You are not ugly, love. You are the most beautiful in existence. Now c'mon." Alastor said.
Lucifer peeked out of the covered with a tear-stained. Alastor slowly cupped his face. "Why are you crying, my love?" he asked softly, his eyes filled with concern. Smiling was always the hardest for Alastor whenever he saw Lucifer cry. His smile was tight and sad as he looked at his husband. "I feel like I am failing our children." Lucifer said with a sigh. Alastor's eyebrows furrowed in concern and he sat besides Lucifer. "What makes you say that, love?"
Lucifer let out a sigh. "For one, I have no idea what is going on with Charlie. She doesn't even want to talk with me. She ignores me half the time. She is only 14. Crazy about some stupid narcisstic boy. And yesterday she was smoking." He said, his eyes filled with tears. He did not want to lose his children. He didn't want them to drift away from him. Alastor let out a sigh and carressed Lucifer's face. "Love. She is just growing up. She will outgrow this phase, I promise. She is our little sunshine. She is the rainbow in Hell. It will be okay. I promise."
Lucifer let out a sigh. "You are not failing them." Lucifer said. "But I am. Yesterday, Aloise got kidnapped. I don't even want to think about what that stupid pimp would have done to our baby if she did not escape." Lucifer said, his heart beating fast in his chest. Alastor's smile tightened. He was mad about that too. But right now, he had to calm Lucifer. "My love. That bastard will pay for trying to harm our little one. But you need to understand. You did not know. You didn't fail her-" Alastor was cut off by Lucifer's phone ringing.
Lucifer reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone while wiping tears with his sleeves. "Hello." he said in a more mature like tone as he picked up the call. This made Alastor raise an amused eyebrow. It felt surreal whenever Lucifer tried to act unlike himself. But his amusement was replaced by concern when he saw Lucifer's face pale and tears again filling in his eyes. Lucifer slowly put the phone down and looked at Alastor, his face had a look of horror and pain.
"We both failed...." was all he whispered. Alastor cupped Lucifer's face in concern. "What happened?" he asked, his voice struggling to stay steady. He knew it was something about the kids. And he desperately hoped that Lucifer was wrong. That they hadn't failed either of their children. "I- I got a call from the girls' principal." Lucifer said in a shaky voice. Lucifer gently patted Lucifer's head and rubbed his back. He was panicking as well but he needed to stay calm for Lucifer's sake.
Alastor could feel his heart clench more and more by every second of silence. School usually never called for Aloise or Charlie. Because who would invite the King of Hell and the Radio Demon to come visit their office. So this must be serious. "Aloise- She- Her teacher caught her friend and her friend on the school terrace... I- They-" Lucifer struggled to form words. Alastor was already starting to get very worried. "They were what?" Alastor asked but there was no reply.
"Okay, first. Please tell me our 11 year old daughter was not kissing a boy on the rooftop. Because I swear I will find that boy-" Alastor was cut off by Lucifer just blinking at him. "Al, no one is kissing our 11 year old.... Also, the friend was a girl.... Anyways.... I- just... umm.... I don't know how to say it..." Lucifer looked away. Alastor gulped. "Please tell me, love." he pleaded.
Lucifer let out a sigh. "The teacher found them both with a knife. They had made cuts on their own wrists. And not like a cult or pact or something... I- The teacher saw them crying. She didn't hear what they were talking about but they were hurting themselves." Lucifer said, his eyes filling up with tears. Alastor felt his smile falter more than it ever had. Why would his daughter try to hurt herself. "We need to go to the school." Lucifer said wiping his tears. Alastor nodded and kissed Lucifer on the forehead before getting off the bed with him.
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Aloise sat in silence in the principal's office. The principal, a tall demon from somewhere in the Envy Ring, looked at her with genuine worry. Stacy wasn't there, no. Her parents came and took her away. They didn't really care that she hurt herself. Aloise's switchblade was still in her pocket. The teacher had only seen Stacy's knife and Aloise would prefer to keep it that way.
She knew her fathers were on the way and she was formulating a million answers in her head but she knew none would work. But she wouldn't tell the truth, no. The half truth would suffice. She let out a sigh and looked up as the principal got up from her desk. "I am going to leave the office while your parents come in and talk to you, ok?" he asked and she nodded slowly. She stared at her feet as she heard the office door open and the principal leave.
After just a minute the door opened again and she looked up to see the looks of utmost panics. "Aloise?" Lucifer breathed out as he rushed in and immediately raced to his daughter and cupped her face, tears threatening to spill from the eyes of the King of Hell. Alastor closed the door before rushing to their side as well. "My little fawn." he said as he gently grabbed her arm. There was a wide and deep cut on the left hand of the young princess. A sight that made the Radio Demon almost stop smiling.
"My baby, why did you do this?" Lucifer asked, cupping her face gently. "Did something happen, little one? Please talk to me." Lucifer said in a pleading voice. "I- I just.... I was-" but she couldn't bring herself to explain the truth. "You know we love you, little one. We would give you anything you ask for. Please tell us. Did we do anything wrong? Is someone at school bothering you? What caused you so much pain that you felt the need to hurt yourself, my little deer?" Alastor asked, looking down at her with concern filled eyes.
That's when Aloise went with the half-truth. "My friend was really upset about something in her family. And she hurt herself. And she got upset after the episode. And said that she now had an ugly scar. I wasn't thinking much. And so I just gave myself a similar one. That's all that happened. I am really sorry." she replied. Lucifer still looked worried but nodded softly. Alastor patted her head although he didn't believe her. "Let's get you home, apple pie." Lucifer said picking her up as they all teleported away
"Please don't ever do it again, my sweet." Lucifer said in a pained tone. He slowly carried her to her bedroom, Alastor following. "If something is bothering you, please come to me. You know, I would do anything for you." Lucifer said as he set her down on the bed. Alastor had suddenly disappeared but Lucifer decided to pay attention to Aloise right now and go look for him in a moment.
Aloise smiled lightly at her father and nodded. But something in Lucifer's gut told him, she wouldn't listen. "What did you cut yourself with?" he asked. He needed to make sure she didn't still have any harmful weapons. "My friend's knife." she lied. Lucifer could send something was amiss but didn't push it for now. "Rest, I am going to go talk to Papa." he said, kisisng her forehead as she nodded with a smile.
Lucifer teleported off to his & Alastor's bedroom. He walked to the balcony where Alastor was standing, deep in thought. They both looked at each other for a moment. Alastor then took a deep breath & spoke. "She is lying, Luce. There is no way that cut was so bad that it was a thing to just help a friend. There is more too the story." He said and Lucifer nodded with a sigh. "I have a gut feeling about something bad." he admitted.
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Sorry for the short chapter. Ilysm <33 Tc! Bye! ♡♡♡♡♡
