Slowly Falling With You

Comfort in a Demon

Marco sighed as he sat on his bed looking down at his dimensional scissors. Its hard not to want to go on adventures like he used to. Jackie was his adventure now though. Wasn't she? How did this happen? Marco Diaz the "safe kid" who used to avoid danger like the plague has now undeniably been in deadly situations. Fighting monster villains, being kidnapped by monsters, exedra. It seemed like so long ago that earth was so dangerous and exiting but now its too predictable and boring. The tan boy let out a sigh as he gripped the scissors tightly. Why wasn't anything like how it was supposed to be? Why did Star leave? Why did Jackie break up with him? Why didn't anything make sense any more? Tears filled Markos eyes as he trembled before shutting his eyes trying not to let himself give into the pain in his chest. Suddenly a warm gust of air filled his room and being startled he jumped back onto his bed. In the middle of his room a human sized ball of fire had appeared suddenly before Tom walked out of it causing the fire portal to close.

"Hey." The three eyed demon prince of the underworld greeted nonchalantly. Marco rubbed the tears from his eyes quickly before responding coldly, "what do you want?" Tom put his hands on his hips and looked at Marco coldly. They eyed each other before Tom pointed to the tan boy, "dude, were you crying?" "What?! N-no." Marco said defensively as he turned his head away looking down at his scissors."I was just thinking about how awesome I look in Heckapoo's dimension, and how I miss my Dragon cycle." Tom chuckled and rolled his eyes, "you look awesome and have a dragon cycle? I highly doubt it." Marco stood up and took toms hand roughly, "oh I am awesome and Natchos is defiantly mine and I can prove it." Tom pulled his hand away and gestured for him to do so before crossing his arms with a smug smile on his lips. Marco scrunched up his face in defiance and cut open a portal to Heckapoo's dimension. The human gestured for the demon Prince to enter before him with a casual smirk. Tom rolled his eyes as he stepped into the yellow and orange portal.

The demon took a few steps deeper into the baron land of Heckapoo's world before turning to face the portal. Tom's smile was smug and he was absolutely sure that Marco was probably exaggerating like most of his kind did. When Marco stepped into the portal however toms smile went from confident to dumbstruck. A man stood where Marco would have been. He was tall and tan with a scar over his left eye and five o'clock shadow. "M-Marco?" Tom asked as he looked over the obviously muscular man. Adult Marco smiled at the small prince and in a smooth voice answered back, "yes, Tom, its me. Now that you can see me this way I know you believe me now. Let's go see my Dragon cycle, Natchos. She is with Heckapoo." Tom's eyes followed but his legs didn't. He was frozen in shock but couldn't for the life of him get his legs to move. Marco looked back and waved his hand in Toms face, "uh, dude? You alright?" The human askef in hid smooth adult voice. waiting for a moment to no response Marco lifted the thin small deamon prince in his masculine arms holding him gently.

Tom swooned at how handsome the human was for less than a moment before shaking his head, "put me down!" The pail gray prince said sternly. Adult Marco chuckled, "but you're so light its like I'm holding a feather." To prove his point the human tossed tom up in his arms with ease causing the royal to loose his cool, "I SAID PUT ME DOWN, NOW!" His eyed glowed and his clenched fists bursts into flames before Marco gently put him down. The prince composed himself and looked to the adult, "you already proved your point. Let's get out of here." Marco crossed his arms and eyed the demon kid with a knowing smile, "Jealous?" He asked flexing his muscles making tom blush. "N-no! Gah! What ever I'm going home." The demon said with frustration and with that he was gone in a burst of flames.

Marco chuckled and cut a portal to Tom's universe just outside the front door to his creepy looking castle. The human boy knocked politely and waited for an answer. A giant red demon woman answered and Marco nervously waved, "oh, hi. I'm Marco Diaz, I'm Tom's, uh, acquaintance. Can I please talk with him?" The large demon looked down at him with her three eyes before nodding and escorting him inside and upstairs to Tom's room. She knocked and Tom answered looking up at the red demon with three eyes, "Hey, mom. What's up?" Marco gawked for a moment before shaking his head as she gestured to the human. Tom grumbled under his breath before turning back to his mom, "Okay, thanks, mom. Marco..." The human nodded, "right, um, thank you Misses Lucitor." Marco waved at her as she walked away before Tom pulled him into his room and flung him farther in and slammed the door shut. "What do you want Marco?"

"Well you just stormed off without an explanation. So, I can here to say sorry." The young Diaz mumbled shoving his hands in his hoodie pockets. Tom was caught off guard by the humans words, "wait, you're apologizing to me? Why?" Marko looked down, "well, to tell you the truth..." The tan boy sighed, "I was upset before. Jackie broke up with me and Star left and took her room with her. Honestly seeing you today flipped the mood and I just wanted to make you admit you were jealous so I could have something to be happy about. I shouldn't have done that and I'm sorry." Tom moved to Marco whom flinched expecting to be punched or kicked or set on fire, but Tom just gently placed a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry to hear about your breakup, and yes you shouldn't have tried to use me to make yourself feel better. I understand breakups are hard and all but if you need to talk to someone, hey I have been there, dude." The tan boy looked up at the demon prince and his eyes started to water. He found himself hugging the demon and sobbing softly into his chest. "Uh, wh- I..." Tom stuttered out with his arms up at his sides before patting Marco on the back as gently as he could.