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it's all about that journey to pleasure town

Summary:

When Asmodeus receives a text from his favourite (and only niece) telling him about what happened in Valentino's porn studio, the Sin cannot let that stand and decides to take matters into his own hands (and maybe he fix his increasingly fractured family in the meantime).

FizzaRolli meanwhile just wants to have a nice break in the aftermath of Mammon's Showcase, and to survive meeting his boyfriend's family.

Chapter 1

Notes:

So the Hellaverse has me by the horns and won't let me go. I'm a bit out of practice with fanfiction (and writing in general) so apologies in advance for any mistakes! I'll also probably be adding tags as they become relevant because I'm flying by the seat of my pants for this one!!

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Asmodeus leaned back in his office chair, staring out onto the Lust Ring. The distant neon lights below were distorted through the rain slicked glass, bleeding into brightly coloured smudges. It had been a fucking long day. There had been far too much paperwork and a distinct of a certain beloved imp of his. Ever since he’d halted production of Robo Fizz’s, the pressure had been on to find a new big earner. Work in the factory had been going less than smoothly (the vibrators were still exploding) which meant long days on the production floor and even longer nights pouring over prototype proposals.

Normally he had Fizz to keep him company on evenings like this, but the imp had been spending some time crashing in Pride with Blitzø with surprising regularity. Apparently they were catching up on ten years of bonding, or something like that. His Fizzie-frog had been telling him the other evening that he was apparently an uncle to a snarky hellhound. Fizz had been so delighted at the idea of an extended family that Ozzie had resolved right then to introduce the imp to his own niece sometime soon.

Charlie might not strictly be his niece by blood, but that hardly mattered. After the Fall, Lucifer, Lilith and the newly dubbed Sins had drawn close, united by the pain of Heaven’s betrayal. Family was more than blood, and while they might have their differences, they were family, without a doubt. Even fucking Mammon, bastard jester wannabe though he might be.

When Lucifer and Lilith had announced they were having a baby, the Sins had all rallied to spoil Charlie rotten in their own unique fashions. None of the Sins had children, and despite their differences they’d all adored the new addition to their family. It had been the one thing they’d all been able to agree on in a long time...

Beneath the piles of paperwork on his desk, Asmodeus’ phone buzzed with an incoming text. The vibrations caused a precariously stacked pile to sway. Swearing, the Sin hastily stabilised it before it could topple, wishing the Fizz was hear to lend a helping hand. That or maybe he should hire Stolas to deal with it – the goetia had certainly seemed to love paperwork an unhealthy amount.

Stack stabilised, he riffled through the loose papers until he located his phone, swiping absently at the screen. When he saw the notification on the screen though, he let out a low whistle.

“Speak of the devil and she shall appear,” he muttered with a smile, at the notification of message from none other than Charlie herself.

Opening up his messages, he saw the message from Charlie was short, but contained her usual abuse of exclamation marks -

Charlie:Hey Uncle Ozzie!!!!

Charlie:...

What was unusual however was the pulsating dots that indicated she was typing. When Charlie sent a text, it was never just one message but a barrage of texts, one after the other at high speed. He couldn’t recall the last time that she’d sent a message and just paused like that.

Brows furrowed, he sent off a quick reply.

Ozzie:Hey Char-bear! It’s good to hear from you sweetheart. What can I do for ya?

The dots continued to pulse and he frowned, swiping back through their previous messages for a clue. The last time he’d heard from her was a few weeks back when the story had broken about him and Fizz after the clusterfuck in Greed. She’d asked if he was okay, told him that she’d love to meet Fizz and that maybe he could meet her girlfriend. He winced – he’d meant to reply but he left her on read with all the chaos that had been going on.

Flicking back even further, he realised with increasingly guilt how intermittent their messages had been over the last few years. Ever since Lucifer and Lilith had spilt (and he’d seen the writing on the wall in regards to that particular development for a long time) Charlie had been distant from the family, obsessed with that passion project of hers about redeeming Sinners.

It was an absolute pipe dream, but he couldn’t blame her for needing a distraction. She’d posed the idea of a hotel to redeem at a family dinner a couple of years back, but none of them had really paid it much mind. However now he vaguely remembered liking a Sinstagram post of her posed in front of Lucy’s old hotel a few months back alongside a gray-haired girl (the girlfriend?).

His phone buzzed, and then buzzed several more times in rapid succession.

Charlie:so you know how I told you I was starting that hotel for sinners? To redeem them so they could go to heaven and then the angels would stop the Exterminations and everyone could be happy??

Charlie: well it’s been going really well!!! Vaggie and I have a sponsor who has been helping out so much and he brought staff with him and we even have two guests now!!
Charlie: I bet you’ve heard of one of them – he’s Angel Dust, you know the porn star? I think you’d really like him

Charlie: and it’s been a bit rough with heaven moving the extermination up six months but we’d been beginning to make progress, we really had
Charlie: but
Charlie:I think I really messed up yesterday and I don’t know what to do and I thought that maybe you would because your whole thing is Lust and I know how big you are on consent and I just don’t know if I’m imagining things or if the situation really is bad as I think it and Vaggie keeps telling me to calm down but he was so upset and even if he’s said its okay I keep thinking about it all and I feel so guilty

Asmodeus stared at the wall of text, blinking as he tried to take in the barrage of information on the small screen.

Ozzie:slow down sweetheart, take a deep breath for me and tell me what’s wrong?
Charlie:alright
Charlie:so I went to see Angel’s boss yesterday because Angel has been doing so well!!! but I thought if he could just spend more time at the hell he might make even more progress
Charlie:and Vaggie was saying that I needed to use my authority as the princess of hell more
Charlie: and I hate hate hate being mean but I thought maybe if I was aggressively kind to Valentino he’d would listen to me and give angel time off
Charlie:only that wasn’t how things went...

The Sin winced. He’d never met Valentino, but he’d heard things. He might not pay much attention to sinners, but the moth sinner had certainly made a name for himself peddling porn in the Pride Ring. As the embodiment of Lust it was his job to keep an eye on these types of things. The productions that came out of V Porn Studio were of excellent quality, but the lust they showed had an acrid tinge of coercion that had made his stomach churn when he’d watched them. That sinner Angel Dust was talented, but he’d bet anything that the overlord had him on a leash.

Charlie:I tried to talk to Valentino but I messed up

Charlie:I may have set the studio on fire just a little bit???
Charlie:and then he took Angel into a back room and when they both came back out Angel looked scared and upset and angry and he told me to leave, and then when he came back to the hotel later he was still upset
Charlie:I think his boss might have hit him
Charlie:and we’ve made up now and I’m trying to respect Angel’s boundaries
Charlie:but I want to help him but I don’t know what to do

Ozzie groaned. Of all the things his niece could have done...

Ozzie:Charlie sweetheart, I know you meant well

Ozzie:but to clarify, you went into an overlord’s territory while this Angel Dust was trying to work, and tried to tell his boss what to do, probably in front of all his employees?
Ozzie:I love you, but that was a terrible plan and I’m honestly amazed that it didn’t go worse for both of you
Charlie:I knowwww, it was so stupid but I was just trying to do the right thing and Valentino was super creepy to be, and you know how I get when I get angry...

The Sin paused. Charlie might seem naive on the surface, but she’d grown up in Hell and had a surprisingly thick skin. Creepy was the default setting for basically every demon in this place. For Charlie to say that the overlord was creepy, he must have pulled something especially heinous.

Ozzie:creepy how exactly??
Charlie:sooooooooooooo
Charlie:he may have.....licked my arm?
Charlie:and then offered me a job
Charlie:it was really unpleasant but also not that important compared to what happened with Angel

The phone clattered to the desk as Asmodeus’ flames suddenly flared in pure rage. That rancid overlord had LICKED Charlie?! The fucking NERVE of the flea bitten moth sinner. There was technically nothing wrong with offering Charlie sex work (though it was in poor taste), but to fucking lick his niece? Absolutely NOT. A growl echoed through the room as he seethed.

“Ozzie, babe? You alright?” called a voice from the door. He blinked, the rage subsiding a bit as he recognised Fizz’s voice. Then he glanced down at his desk and swore as he noticed some of the papers had begun to smoulder at edges. He patted at them frantically until all that remained with a wisp of smoke curling from the edges.

“Oh hey Fizzy-frog, didn’t expect to see ya back from Pride this soon,” he called, and a moment later Fizz was curled around his shoulders, forehead pressed to his.

“Catching up with Blitzø, but the guy is so deep in denial over the bird boy of his, it’s honestly tragic,” the imp replied, snuggling into the Sun’s fluff. “Now tell me what’s got you all worked up. Is it Mammon?”

The Sin took a deep breath, sighing. “Nah, I just lost my temper for a moment. I was talking to Charlie and she was telling me about some problems she’s been having and an encounter she had with that porn moth overlord up in Pride,” he said, gesturing to his phone.

“Yeesh,” the imp replied, even as one robotic snaked down to the phone and he proceeded to rapidly scroll back through the conversation. As Ozzie watched, Fizz’s eyes widened and a look of disgust appeared on his face.

“Satan’s ball Oz, this is messed up. You gonna do anything?”

“I don’t know what to do Fizz. I don’t like anything happening to Charlie but it’s Pride. It’s not my domain.”

“Sure, but sounds like this sinner is giving Lust a bad name, and it sounds like your niece could do with some family support right now. Doesn’t seem like her dear old dad is going to swoop in to save the day from what you’ve told me,” Fizz replied.

Ozzie considered this. Fizz was right. Lucy had been doing a shit job of parenting Charlie for decades, and out of everyone in the family Charlie had come to him for help. Just because there were limits of what he could do outside Lust didn’t mean he was entirely powerless...

Picking up his phone, he typed out a reply with Fizz reading over his shoulder, and received an almost instant reply.

Ozzie:it sounds like you’re having a hard time. How about Fizz and I pay you a visit and we can talk things over?
Charlie:oh my gosh that would be amazing!!!! I can make you up a room and you can meet Vaggie and Alastor and Angel and Husk and Nifty and Sir Pentious!!!!

A smile tugged at the Sin’s mouth as he turned to look at Fizz.

“Looks like we’re making a trip to Pride.”

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