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The words of Alastor’s song keep repeating in Lucifer’s mind.
“I’m hungry for freedom like never before ! The constraints of my deal surely have a back door !”
Lucifer has never seen Alastor in such a state before. True, they haven’t known each other for long and even then they had mostly been at each other throat, hurtling insults after insults, waiting to see who would leave first.
But when Lucifer saw the Radio Demon in his broken down radio tower with a desperate look in his eyes and a gashing wound across his chest with his cane beside him broken in two pieces, all hateful and jealous thoughts flew right over his head. He wanted to help him but he knew that Alastor, hurt or not, would lash out at him if he realizes that Lucifer has seen him in such a vulnerable state.
So Lucifer wills himself to leave the tower and Alastor alone but swore to himself that he will persuades Alastor to let him heal him.
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After the hotel was rebuilt, everyone went to their new room, completely exhausted. Lucifer was more and more worried about Alastor. The smell of demonic blood was still very much present in the air and he could sense some residue of angelic power. Alastor, to his credit, was hiding his pain pretty well and everyone seem oblivious of his injured state.
Lucifer hasn’t told his daughter about what he saw in the radio tower, knowing that the Deer demon wouldn’t want anyone to know.
When Lucifer wasn’t worrying about that damn wound he was trying to think with who the Hell Alastor had made a deal with.
Lucifer already realized that it must be someone pretty powerful, Alastor wouldn’t make a deal with anyone else.
Steeling himself, Lucifer went to knock on Alastor’s apartment door, which was just in front of his. He heard muffled footsteps and then the door creaked open.
- Your Majesty, snickered Alastor, to what do I owe the pleasure ?
- Can I come in ?, Lucifer askes, it’s important.
- Why of course ! Just please don’t ruin anything with your clumsiness.
- Shut up, I’m no less clumsy than you ! Anyway I didn’t came here to yell insults at you.
- Really ? Why are you here then ?
Lucifer took a deep breath. I can do this.
- I know that you’re hurt, I can smell the demonic blood and the angelic power floating around you, I’m the only one apparently.
- My current state does not concern you at all, Alastor growled threateningly.
- Please, just let me help, I can heal you.
- I repeat, I DO NOT NEED YOUR HELP !
- Alastor God damn it, you’re going to die if you refuse my help !
- That’s my problem, not yours, I don’t want your sympathy.
- It’s not the question, imagine how sad Charlie will be if you die, you don’t want her to go through this kind of grief do you ?, Lucifer knew it was selfish to use his daughter’s feelings to subdue Alastor but he was getting desperate.
Alastor looked conflicted between keeping his pride and not making Charlie sad.
- Fine, he relents, you can heal me, but NO ONE can know about this, do you understand ?
- My mouth is sealed, I smirked while doing the gesture of zipping my mouth shut.
Alastor rolled his eyes and instructed Lucifer to follow him. They went to his room in silence and Alastor sat on his bed. Lucifer went closer until his knees touched Alastor’s.
- I need to take off your jacket and shirt to take a look at the wound.
Alastor made a go ahead gesture and helped him at removing the clothes. Lucifer gasped when he saw the slash and his eyes widened.
- What the Fucking hell Alastor ! You damn fucking stupid idiot ! Why you didn’t keeled over before is beyond my understandings ! This look awfully painful !
- I’m used to dealing with pain, now can you get on with it ?
- Yes yes of course.
Lucifer puts his hands on the wound and focused. A golden glow appeared around his hands and Alastor gasped. The King of Hell was sweating, the wound was much more worse than he thought. He had to also fix the bones that were broken. When he was done, he looked up at Alastor and saw him visibly relaxing.
- One last thing, Lucifer said, if we want it to completely close and heal faster, you need to drink angelic blood.
Alastor’s eyes widened comically when he understood what Lucifer was going to propose. Lucifer put his arm in front of his face and said :
- Here, take mine.
Alastor first look suspiciously at him, probably thinking that it may be a trap or a ruse, but when he saw nothing but sincerity in Lucifer’s eyes, he took the arm offered to him and bit deeply.
Lucifer hissed while Alastor moaned. He had never tasted something so delicious before, Lucifer ‘s blood was golden and sweet like candy and Alastor was quickly becoming addicted. But when he began to hear Lucifer breathing harder, he released the arm.
- Thank you, admitted Alastor, you didn’t have to do all this.
- No problem really, Lucifer smiled, what kind of father would I be if I let one of my daughter’s friend die ?
Alastor laughed and Lucifer smiled wider.
- What do you say ? Should we try again ?
The radio demon looked at him not understanding what he was talking about.
- Hello I’m Lucifer Morningstar, it’s nice to meet you.
Lucifer extended his hand to Alastor, waiting for him to make the next move.
- Alastor, it’s a pleasure, quite a pleasure.
- The pleasure is all mine.
When Alastor gave him a real smile, Lucifer realized that maybe they would become friends after all.
Now he just has to figure out why the Hell there was some residue of Lilith’s power in Alastor’s soul.