Tales of Two brothers II ( life after death)

The best and worst day /Lady Cordelia

Dizmal outlined his idea to use the land lord if they need too ..... " It's always a good idea to have several options, and this cretin maybe useful should we need to move in a hurry, and that's another reason not to get too attached to Lily "
now Raskal nodded in agreement with using the landlord if need be but Dizmal didn't miss Razzy stiffen when he mentioned Lily.
" I take it you went to visit lily again last night?!? .... you really are using poor judgement here , you really mustn't mate with her , this isn't one of those stupid human fairytales like in that stupid book I read you as a youngster ". Dizmal watched as his brothers happy enthusiasm turned to a more sulky demeanour .... he went on to explain that in rare circumstances a progeny could result , an abomination, a cambion ,a child that didn't belong in either world , it couldn't exist in the human world ( especially as the church hunted anything unusual or different ) as they would both be hunted and burned at the stake and she couldn't exist in hell with her bastard child .....Raskal was staring into the flames 🔥 from his sulky position in the armchair .
"Is that what you want for Lily , ..... what you want to lead her into ?!?!. ..... a life of exile should she even accept the fact she fucked a demon and bore his child , do you think she could love you Raskal when she saw your true face ??! "
A sulky Raskal responded , knowing full well Dizmal spoke the truth , no I haven't fucked her yet ,not that it's your business ... I don't ask you what you do when you feed or ..... cry all over the place or lose your shit from anger I trust your judgment to do what 'floats your boat' without messing up"
"There is however a community where these relationships can exist.... anyway I don't think this will be a scenario YOU have to worry about , there is much lust in her that draws me yes but there is something else there , something for Edgar ..... I don't understand it "
" they are all human emotions , we are demons , pure and simple , by instinct and by our very nature , those are emotions and experiences that aren't natural or nurtured with in US". "Plus now that you mention it Razzy , Edgar has a 'thing' for lily as well . It's sad he is dying". ( and he meant this , Edgar was intelligent and spent of many hours of intellectual amusement to Dizmal ), it's the irony that they found each other too late , this is a scenario Dizmal secretly finds delicious .... tho truth is Dizmal doesn't enjoy this aspect of his nature , he is aware of it , accepts it, uses it but also despises it ,now since Cordelia , he is cautious to try not to apply it to an innocent .( his personal choice , tho many demons just enjoy the thrill of the feed, the deliciousness of the destruction of a humans heart and soul. Tho when the opportunity to destroy a wrongdoer arises Dizmal has no qualms in destroying them...........he is after all a demon)
"While we are talking of these things (demon / human relations ), you asked about my behaviour on occasion, concerning a certain human " 
"I just want to know  why you are so against Lily".
Dizmal sighed .." I told you Raskal , IAm NOT against Lily in herself , it's the whole demon /human friendship thing "
Dizmal began to explain his reasons against such things , he doesn't like to think about it , much less explain this or himself to anyone , it's irritating quite frankly he thinks to himself. As young Raskal seems besotted with the lovely Lily even given the fact he's noticed a connection between lily and Edgar, it seems appropriate to finally tell Raskal about the lady Cordelia story, even tho it is a sore point , and causes Dizmal such inner conflict ( as it was the most deliriously exquisite experience as per his hunger and desire , but also the most devastating and painful loss in his life so far ).

Lady Cordelia was the daughter of a greedy wealthy landowner, she was of marriageable age ,  her father had arranged a match between his daughter Cordelia and an old widower ( also a wealthy landowner, not a bad man by the days standard , just wanting the prestige of a young beautiful wife to be admired because he could afford the dowry .)
The day of the first meeting between the prospective spouse and Cordelia was a devastating day , she at least thought she was to be matched to the landowners son only 5 years her senior .... but alas, no , the match was for the father 30 years her senior .
With this Cordelia burst into tears and threw herself at her fathers feet begging for this not to be true . The senior man she was now betrothed too came to her side took her hand , and said "there there dear , I'll not bother you for marriage favours often as I realise this must be abhorrent to you , BUT WE MUST CONSUMATE the union between our houses ."
With that she fled sobbing from the Estate .
She had a secret garden that she went to to think or when she was sad .....this day she was desolate , she flung herself down under her favourite tree wracked with uncontrollable sobs and utter devastation.
That same time frame a much younger Dizmal was being lectured by his father Asmodeous about being 'too soft' for a demon, weak , useless, .....'why can't you be more like your brother Abyzmal."? At that point he realised he was an obvious disappointment to his demon father , who was trying to bring out the bloodlust by tormenting his ( what he saw as his weaknesses)sons love of reading ,and developing love of arcane magic , Asmodeus didn't see a practical use for it ,nor Dizmals emotional outbursts and as his trying to fight his natural demonic hunger and desires. ( it's not natural his father thought , to fight ones dark side , ones natural hungers and desires, Asmodeus was all for embracing ones dark side ....even enhancing it , like he was doing with Abyzmal.)
"That ones not right, he's not like our Abyzmal....now that one has a natural aptitude for creating havoc, disease and pestilence in the humans." The fathers pride and praise of one demon offspring against another (never mind the fact he physically tortured and tormented Abyzmal into the emotionless callous cold killer he was to become) Dizmal needed an escape from demon eyes and judgement to wallow in his sadness , his self loathing that he wasn't good enough and couldn't seem to please his demon father. So he would go wander the human world even when he wasn't feeding .
This day , a spot he frequented when he was sad....or even reading and/or in deep contemplation (better here than in hell, while they had an extensive library of information and darkkkk tomes , he felt it best to keep his love of reading to a minimum around his father) in this moment tho his secret place was filled with emotion that wasn't his , and a delicious amount of anguish and sadness , tho his eyes where red and his face tear streaked , his own sadness was temporarily forgotten by the sounds of wracking sobs coming from under 'HIS' tree. He tried to creep up to take a peek ( forgetting to mask his appearance, or not be seen at all ) but he stepped on a dead dry branch that crunched under foot, he cursed and looked down at the branch under foot , when he noticed a book dropped carelessly on the ground he picked it up as Cordelia looked up and saw Dizmal approach .they just stared at each other , shocked at each other's appearance in 'their' own special place , and under 'their' own special tree.
The silence and frozen shocked gaze between them was broken, by an involuntary snuffled sob from the fraught Cordelia .
She apologised for her appearance as she hurriedly wiped her tear stained face on a sleeve of her overdress , Dizmal spluttered an apology for intruding , horrified realising he can be seen and surprised she wasn't running away in horror as she has seen his real face . She stood smoothing her clothes in an attempt at decency , gasping and the odd sob escaping as she attempted to calm down.
Dizmal composed himself fairly quickly , attempting to offer her a handkerchief and the book he retrieved from the ground .
He asked if she was ok , to which she once again was fraught with wracking sobs as she let her predicament( her betrothal to an old man) spill from her lips to this odd looking stranger .
Dizmal having very little knowledge of human emotions and human customs at that point , assumed that this was most unwelcome a situation so preceded to commiserate with the prone Cordelia. It was around then she noted the look of misery on this strangers face and asked him if he was alright and if there was anything she could do for HIM.
This took Dizmal by surprise , no one had shown an interest in HIS Wellbeing before .... much less a human , at first he saw this as a possible feed ( the delicious emotional misery from this woman drew his hunger ) now he was curious and enjoyed the interaction , the new experience of someone enquiring of his well-being .
After the first initial awkward introduction , they discovered much in common with each other aside from the obvious difference the demon / human thing . It became habit to meet in their shared secret place , to talk or read, or even aloud to each other ..... it seemed Dizmal had met someone who accepted him as he was ( his odd visage and all... at least to humans ) someone who accepted and shared his love of books and reading ( aside from the emotional outbursts about the betrothal , they had formed a lovely comfortable friendship
So back to that first meeting this day turned out to be the best and worst day in Cordelias young life .
...... to be contd .
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* just a reminder this is just fan fic .....not a true representation of the demon brothers lore ( I missed most of the live-streams where he spoke of the brothers history )
**All characters Dizmal , Raskal , Abyzmal , Frenzy?and Desmond and their likeness are and remain the property of @infernumasylum ( a.k.a Ian wolf , the creator and other )
*** some concept for my fan fic is based off cannon created by someone who wished to remain anon ( if this changes I'll be happy to give credit 😊✨❤️)