▪ Fallen Meets the Seven ▪

Part 2: Who Needs to Fly

"Ah yes, nice to have you on board," He said confidently before I even answered then getting off his bar stool smoothly.

"Quit reading my mind you god dam-" Austin gasped dramatically before I finished my sentence.

"No wonder you got kicked out of the clouds with those blasphemous words," He said then burst into a chuckle as he walked towards the doors of the bar.

I scampered after him not wanting him to leave me behind and I heard him snicker.

"What's so funny to you, demon?" I scowled as I followed.

"I know I'm one of the biggest forms of temptation you guys are supposed to avoid but I never thought you'd be such a lost puppy so soon," He looked over his shoulder at me and threw a huge lusted smirk and for once in my life, I have to admit I was being tempted by sinful things.

What on earth am I thinking, I'm not, I can't be tempted by two of the biggest sins of my belief, homosexuality and promiscuity, no I've been loyal my whole life and I am not having this thorn of a demon ruin my chance of smelling the rose that is my pure afterlife.

"Oh god, can you hear your own thoughts right now, this is one thing I hate about your kind's belief, you think that something you don't understand should be avoided and hated instead of learning about and celebrated," He growled, he was now facing me, scratch that, towering over me glaring down at me.

I gulped, maybe he's right, this was the way I was raised and I didn't think there was a reason to think any differently but just the pure anger I could see in his eyes told me otherwise. This anger wasn't even just present, it held past pain.

"Okay, as my side of this deal, I will keep my mind opened, to avoid misassumptions of things I don't understand and to avoid causing the hurt I can see washing up in your eyes," I informed.

"Agreed," He nodded and went back to walking ahead of me, I still continued to follow close behind just more timidly now, "And if you thought that was scary you better watch your tongue around our Kev,".

"Kev?" I queried.

"Kevin Wrath, One of the roommates you'll meet tonight, Let's just say he's a live wire that's been stripped of its rubber casing and there's more than the suggested voltage running through him," Mr Lust chuckled at his own analogy.

"You could have just said he had a temper," I rolled my eyes at his overdramatic sounding concept.

"Aren't you guys against lying up there?" He asked.

"Of course," I replied dumbly.

"So why are you persuading me to lie, it is not just a temper that man is the humanised embodiment of several live volcanoes, ready to explode over just... a pair of panties on the landing to pull a random scenario that defiantly didn't happen multiple times in the past 24 hours," He snickered, my lord this guy is literally just a sack of smirks and girlish giggles.

THUD! 

Suddenly, Lust, had me pushed me against the wall.

"You can call me many things, girlish however is not one of them,"  raised an eyebrow and cocked his head paired with a smirk as he enjoyed my surprise slowly turn into fear.

"Well maybe you should stay out of my head then," I rallied back.

"Then how could I watch your inner tournament of you fighting your instincts and urges to drop to your knees in front of me," He mused looking me up and down.

He smoothly cupped my crotch then let go and continued walking allowing a low laugh to sound at the back of his throat and I took a deep breath before resuming to walk, this time catching him up so I was by his side, rather than scurrying steps behind him.

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 After we reached halfway up the apartment block the elevator stopped and the doors opened and Austin stepped out so I followed suit. 

During our walk to this building, I had already learnt a lot about these roommates of his, seven of the deadliest temptations known to my faith living under one roof. Apparently, there were demon embodiments of the seven sins on each continent of the world. hearing him talk about the roommates made me a little more excited about this deal, I guess you can't say these guys aren't temptations since I've never wanted to commit each sin as much as I do now. Aside from destroying my entire loyalty to my past life commitment to my lord I'm not seeing a downside to this whole deal.

"I didn't think you guys would only be 20 floors up, I thought you'd be right up in the penthouse suites," I stated.

"Exactly," He replied oddly, I was confused by this answer.

"Exactly?" I echoed.

"You angels along with the humans would assume we would be taking up obvious places like penthouses or mansions, we call this keeping a low profile, unpredictable, this way we aren't easily found and pushed into hands of guardian angels who would tear us away from each other and try to reform our "unforgivable lifestyles"," he explained deeper.

"I'm on your side on this one, the methods of the guardian angels aren't the most morally correct ways of reform, I have never been a fan while up there but they were a higher rank than me so had to be respected" I shrugged.

I glanced at Austin who's expression had changed for once, he wasn't smirking or being smug he seemed to be actually interested in what I was telling him about the upstairs and I was happy we both had mutual wonder about the workings of each other's realms.

"Time to meet the sins," Austin announced as he swung open the door into the apartment and stepped aside allowing me to step inside.

As I took my first step in, this was it, my new life, a life I had to relearn and refine who I really am, not the pure white marble carving I was chiselled by the heavens destined to be perfect and righteous. I could now carve my own person.

Nothing was holding me back accept my clipped wings but who needs to fly when all that's up there is lies.