ENTICEMENT

Chapter 2

Jungkook was still gaping at Seokjin when they walked out of his shop ten minutes later. "I don't get it," he said, for probably the millionth time, trying to force himself not to feel uncomfortable in the outfit Seokjin had crafted for him out of thin air.

Jungkook had never worn black before, it was forbidden upstairs, and now he was covered in it from lace-up dress shoes to the new collar around his neck.

The collar was actually a surprisingly nice detail, something Jungkook would have never expected from a demon. Seokjin had dug it out from a drawer in the back of his shop, and he fastened the circle of leather and gold around Jungkook's neck as he explained that it had once been his own. That it would help the angel during his transition, so he could get used to being without heaven's influence while still having the comfortable feeling of wearing something. It too was warded, the demon said, it would aid in controlling his new impulses .

"Wait just a moment longer, pet, and I'll explain," Seokjin replied distractedly, staring at the shop's door and making small, sharp movements with his left hand.

"And why can't I wear something like you?" The demon looked like a normal upper-class human man on his way to a business meeting, while Jungkook looked... like something else.

A ripple passed through the air, originating from tips of one of Seokjin's fingers. He must have been setting wards, most likely for security purposes. "Because, I think you look sexy in that. Now, would you like me to explain?" Seokjin asked, looping his arm through the younger's as they set off down the street.

Jungkook nodded, taking a perverse sort of pleasure from the warmth of the demon at his side and scanning the faces of passing humans as they walked. He didn't know why he was doing it, some new instinct forced him to, keeping an eye out for things that may threaten himself or Seokjin.

"Where to begin? I guess creation would be the first bit. I don't know if you knew this, I don't actually know if they are still telling people this upstairs, but Adam did not really spring into being from nothing. You-know-who asked one of the archangels to be the sort of... the base, I guess you would call it. When Adam came to life, the archangel would temporarily die, and then he would be returned to his original position after his human death. That's the one thing those latter-day humans got correct."

"You mean those people with the church in America?" the younger asked, and then promptly closed his mouth at the glance Seokjin gave him.

"So, Adam, being all shiny and new and formed from angel stock, was expected to... procreate. That was the whole point of him, to make more humans. But he needed lessons, I guess would be the delicate way to phrase it, and I was selected to provide them. Being the good and holy angel that I was at the time, I agreed, but only on the condition that we were married so there would be no sin involved. And so, we were. We began practicing, and it was the first time I had inhabited a human body, and I fell more and more in love with him every day."

"But the part I don't get is, the demon Lilith is a woman, and you are most certainly not a woman," Jungkook said a bit loudly, earning a few weird glances from passing humans.

"Look at him," the demon sighed, addressing no one in particular, "He keeps on interrupting." Jungkook snapped his mouth shut again, turning his face away to stare out at the street. He didn't apologize though, and that felt like progress.

"Anyway," Seokjin continued, squeezing his arm a little to make sure the younger was paying attention, "I was stupid and naïve and too pure for my own good, and I hadn't thought through what our arrangement actually meant. He needed to make little human babies, and I didn't possess the correct anatomy for that. By the time I realized what was going to happen, he was already making plans to leave me for that bitch , and it was way too late.