Show me your smile [Beelzemon x Reader]

24: Bad memories

After driving for half an hour, you start recognising the surroundings. It's a continuous dark red tile floor you remember seeing somewhere but don't remember where. There's a red tower in the distance .

He stops Behemoth in front of the tower, getting off. "This... used to be my tower... I've got a lot of spares here. We can tailor them so that they'll fit you better." He looks a little bit reluctant with being here so your hand reaches out to him, holding his hand. "Don't worry. Let's be quick so we can leave this place." He walks in with you, only to stumble on a broken glass bottle, falling on the floor. "This place is a mess though... ugh.." You help him back up and watch him brush off the most of the mess. "We could stay and clean it, right? It would help you get rid of some of the bad memories though." He shakes his head. "Just... Let's get you changed and get moving."

He leads you to the floor before the highest floor, revealing a room that smells a lot like old booze and has dirty clothes on the floor. You shrug and look at him. "Oh god..." he says under his breath, looking terrified. "Let me see your backpack" he says with a sudden change in his voice. You nod and turn around. He opens it and grabs a bottle of booze there, removes his respirator before opening it and taking a sip. You look at him with a worried look in your eyes. He sighs and smiles at you. "It's okay. Let's continue."

It's definitely not okay so you want to help him with getting changed as fast as you can. He leans against the door harsh and observes you, taking a sip every now and then. You grab a white crop top with a turtle neck, a long leather jacket, a pair of leather and metal heels, a short leather skirt and a pair of black stockings that change to fishnets where the skirt ends and leave the jacket open. You dress up.

You watch yourself in the mirror. "How is it, Baalmon?" There's no answer. You climb to the top and find him drinking on the sofa there. "I'm done. Are you?" you ask. He leans back. "I'll finish this bottle. You can do whatever you feel like doing." You smile and nod, getting a sudden spurt to clean up.

You grab a bag, starting to gather all the bottles in. The another is a trashbag and a huge basket where you will gather laundry. In 15 minutes everyhting's sorted out, in another 5 the table and surfaces are clean and in 20 more minutes the floor is clean. You roll the carpet and take another glance at him. "Would you help me carry this outside so I could whack the dust out of it?" He looks at you. "Sure, give me a moment." He sighs and gets up, takes the carpet and starts walking downstairs. The bottle he just had is now empty. He left it on the floor so you pick it up and put it away. You sigh, being worried about his well-being. After cleaning up the mess the carpet left behind, you leave him another bottle, thinking it might help him relax before going out to whack the carpet.

After a bit you're done with the carpet and you head down to the dressing room while he carries it back where it was. You gather the dirty clothes and rearrange the ones on the rack and shelves before going to the floor right under the dressing room. There's the bathroom. It reeks. You back away, thinking the best thing to do would be cleansing it would be with Baalmon's powers. The floor right under that one seems to be a cleaner one. There's a huge machine with hangers and a rack with a silicon wheel going through it. You turn it on and start putting the dirty clothes on the hangers. They come through to the other side in two minutes and after you've put all the dirty clothes on the other side, you go to the staircase and walk to the top floor. It's suddenly dark outside even if it was midday just an hour ago.

You see he's still sitting on the couch and drinking and smile at him. He shows no reaction so you start worrying more. You put the carpet back to where it was and stretch, yawning. You sit next to him, snuggling up to him. He smiles a little at you but his eyes don't match his smile. They look like he's about to start crying. "The bathroom here is clean except that it's stained and smells awful. I though you could do something about it?" He looks at you for a moment. "...Sure. Let's check it out." He's had five bottles by now but he doesn't seem to be in a festive mood.

He accompanies you to the bathroom and examines before taking a handful of talismans and throwing them around to different sections of the bathroom and chanting a spell. The bathroom cleanses and starts smelling clean.

As you stand in awe, he walks out of the room. "I'll go for a walk" he says before disappearing to the staircase. You hum as you go and do the rest of the laundry, putting them on their places before realizing he went out. You run after him.

By the time you're outside, he's nowhere to be found. The Behemoth is left untouched. Your worry grows and the digivice on your wrist opens up a map, indicating that your target is already a few miles away. As you nearly start crying, energy flows to your back, forming wings. Youcalm down a bit before flying high into the sky and starting to look for him in the direction the digivice informed.