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This could not be happening.
As if ending up in hell -not that he shouldn't be there, of course he should- wasn't enough of a punishment for his crimes while he was alive, murdering all those not-so-innocent people, no. Nor losing his soul to a despicable being whose name he shall not say aloud. Or ending up working in the hotel to rehabilitate sinner, not even falling for the freaking King of Hell, the Devil himself. Well, he doesn't consider that last one being a bad thing, just a nuisance when he first started to develop feelings for the shorter man and he didn't know how to react to them.
No.
Now, standing in the bathroom of his own room while staring at the plastic stick in his hands that in no time would finally mark the rest of his afterlife that Alastor couldn't believe that his punishment would ever be over.
Sighing, Alastor left the test over the sink and went towards the door, opening it and stepping out of the bathroom and into his room, where Husk was waiting for him, leaning against the tall mahogany bed post.
Alastor had sent Husk to go and buy more tests after the first one because everyone know that one wasn't enough. The first one is almost always wrong, right? But now, waiting for the fourth one after the others had the same result, Alastor was really starting to question his luck.
"So?"
"Patience is a virtue, my dear Husker. I think the first one was defective. The plus sign looked more like a division symbol, so I remain unconvinced."
Husk just stared at the red haired demon, totally unconvinced of the former's words. Whatever. They both knew the results and the truth.
Alastor kept pacing around his room, trying to act as poised and controlled as he always appeared, but right now there was a complete chaos inside his head and chest, not really caring that his pet was watching him trying to get a hold of himself.
That's why he sent Husker in the first place. He was one of the two people in the hotel that he knew for a long time and could really trust, the other one being Niffty. But that little gal wouldn't be able to keep her mouth shut and would be spluttering about how the King Roach was 'preggo'.
Which reminds him...
Stopping his nonsense pacing, Alastor makes his way back into the bathroom, this time not bothering with closing the door, and walking towards where that annoying plastic stick was waiting for him.
Taking a deep breath, the demon grabbed the stick and held it high so he could see the result clearly. And clearly it was:
Positive.
That little pink plus sign that was so unholy... Walking back out of the bathroom with the test in hand, the expression on Alastor's face was all what Husk needed to know that the result had not changed at all. Well, fuck.
Frustrated, the red haired demon starts to shake the damned test in his hand.
"That ain't no Etch-A-Sketch, Boss. Sorry but this is one doodle that can't be undone."
Ugh! Alastor hated it when others were right, especially if it was about him. There was no way to deny it now, not even to himself.
The powerful and feared Overlord known as the Radio Demon was having a baby, courtesy of the big boss of Hell itself.
After having come to peace with the bizarre reality of the situation and his new status, Alastor found that he should go and find Lucifer and tell him the news, but at the same time there was a little bit of uncertainty surrounding his heart. Part of him knew that his Majesty wasn't cruel, especially if it was about him or his daughter. Since starting this relationship he had been nothing but a gentleman that his mama would be proud to know that had gained the heart of her son. Always respecting Alastor's boundaries and needs, while keeping their usual banter that now that he realizes had been more like flirting between the lines.
But the other part, the one that was always filled with darkness and bad thoughts, kept telling him that Lucifer would be disgusted at the mere idea of a demon, a sinner like himself having his baby, forget the fact that it was actually true. That he would demand of Alastor to not continue with the pregnancy and to end their relationship and leaving Alastor to go back to that loveless and lonely way of existence.
It's even kind of funny that he, the Radio Demon, would want something as silly as comfort from others because of his current status, but here he was, entering the kitchen to find their famous porn star resident resting his long arms over the kitchen counter as he leaned over it.
Angel Dust quickly noticed his presence, and putting down his pink popsicle in a small porcelain plate, he smiled at the demon's direction, "Heya there, Smiles. I saw that Husk came back from some kind of errand you sent him a few minutes ago. Say, do you think you could ask him to buy more of these? I've been really craving for more." he asked while bringing the popsicle back into his mouth.
Talking about cravings, Alastor guessed that he should send Husk for more, and maybe something for him as well. But first, the reason why he was in the kitchen with Angel Dust.
Bringing his arms behind his back, and standing as straight and confident as he could while the other languidly leaned over the counter, he announced,
"I'm pregnant."
Angel's eyes comically widen as he forgets about his popsicle and loudly gasps "You're gonna get fat!"
Ignoring the comment and with a twitch in his eye, Alastor simply stared at the other sinner as he seemed to take in the news.
"I- I- But ho- How can you be sure?"
"Because, my effeminate friend, I've taken four pregnancy tests and even though I am no doctor, I have an extensive knowledge of the human body, very efficient while hunting for my victims. I know the chances and the signs."
"Wait, four- How did you manage to generate enough pee for four tests?! That's amazing."
"I drank, like Charlie would say, like 10 tons of SunnyD, anyway..." he didn't know what else to say. Should he ask for what? Congratulations? Comforting words? Jokes about his current status? He really didn't think this through, huh?
Angel, apparently noting his slight discomfort, quickly spoke "I think it would be an insult to both you and our short king to even ask if the baby was his, right?"
"You are correct."
"Damn. Way to secure your position in the royal family and within the king's good grace, Smiles!" he joked in an attempt to lighten the mood.
It did not work. Alastor's eyes turned into radio dials and the lights flickered for a moment.
Holding his hands up in a sign of surrender, Angel continued "Okay, okay! Sorry! I mean, okay, it's great!" he genuinely smiled at Alastor, "It's great! You're pregnant! That's great! Congratulations!" he ran towards the Radio Demon to engulf him in a four-armed embrace, "Wow!"
The Radio Demon found himself returning the hug, although not as enthusiastically as the other. But still, it was somehow nice.
"Damn, our short king sure knows how to use the tools God gave him!"
And enough of hugging.
After the scene in the kitchen with Angel Dust, and both of them agreeing to send Husk for more popsicles, "And another box for you, Smiles! Don't think I didn't notice you ogling at my popsicle." the two found themselves waiting in the lobby for Husk to come back.
Alastor was sitting by himself in the loveseat, reading the book that he had chosen for that week while Angel Dust lay down on his back on the couch, completely taking over the furniture with his long body. Everything was nice and calm until they heard steps entering the lobby, followed by Charlie's voice.
"Um, guys? Can I talk to you about something that I found?"
"Toots, if you found a sex toy lying somewhere around the hotel I can assure you that it's not mine. All my sex toys are used only in my bedroom and are accounted for. Seriously, I can tell you the exact order-"
Whatever funny comment he was gonna make about how they were ordered in levels of pleasure they brought him and then in color died on his lips as soon as he saw what Charlie was talking about.
Both Alastor and Angel Dust saw Charlie standing a few steps away from them, holding in her hand a pregnancy test while staring at them.
Fuck.
Alastor didn't thought that this would be how he would tell dear Charlie about the pregnancy, the same day he found out and not even having told Lucifer yet but nothing's been going his way lately, so he decides to just say it.
"Charlie, dear, I can explain-"
But before he was able to, Angel Dust beat him to it.
"It's mine." he casually says as he sits up, and then quickly places a hand over his flat belly.
"What?!" "What?" came two different exclamations, the first one coming from Charlie and the other one from Alastor.
"Yeah, I, uh, it's mine. Sorry you had to find it, toots."
Charlie stares at him before looking at the stick in her hand, "It's... yours. So that means..." her eyes widen, "It's not... Please, please tell me it's not from that disgusting moth man."
"Ow, fuck NO! No, eww, can you imagine that? You know what, don't! Eugh, I'm getting sick just thinking about it... I mean, sicker than I already am. Because I'm pregnant." he rubs his belly once more and Alastor can't even with this conversation that he's not even part of!
"Okay, okay! Good! Phew!" she wipes her forehead with genuine relief, "Okay. Um, is it someone from work? You know, err, co-star or friend, even?"
Before he could open his mouth to answer the princess's question with whatever bizarre thing he could come up with, the hotel's main door opened and in came Husk carrying a bag full of snacks -including the popsicles- that he had been sent to collect, not expecting all the eyes suddenly on him as he closed the door. Once he raised his head and met their eyes, he felt on the spotlight for no good reason.
Charlie looked over as soon as Angel turned his head towards the door when he heard it opening, and couldn't help but to smile at the bag and the obvious extra box of popsicles that Husk hadn't been told to buy.
Charlie gasps louder than Angel did in the kitchen as her brain connects the dots -or so she thinks- and looks from Angel to Husk, back and forth, hand covering her mouth in total surprise.
Angel, having come to the same conclusion as Alastor about Charlie's reaction, quickly stands up from the couch, "Whiskers! There's something I need to tell you!"
"What? I got your stupid popsicles, won't even let me finish crossing the fucking door-"
"YOU KNEW?!" Charlie yelled at him.
Husker turned confused at the princess, then at Angel Dust at his side, and finally at Alastor over the loveseat, painfully rigid and with a face that screamed 'uncomfortable'. He looked at their faces again, then at the bag he was carrying and the little plastic stick that Charlie was holding in her hand and then it hit him.
"Ow, fuck."
But before he could be barreled with an insane amount of questions by Charlie, Angel grabbed him by the arm and quickly made them go towards the stairs, not allowing the princess to even move from here position as they soon were up in the stairs and out of sight.
Charlie let out a deep and exhausted sigh and sat on the same couch that Angel Dust had been not even a few minutes ago.
"Can you believe it, Alastor?"
"N-No, my dear. I find it as unbelievable and bizarre as you do." and with that he grabbed his book once more to mark his point of not continuing with that conversation.
Luckily Charlie was too immersed in her own thoughts and theories to even notice that Alastor was holding the book upside-down.
It had been a couple of hours after the awkward if to not say embarrassing moment in the lobby with Charlie, and Husk and Angel had yet to be seen. Probably hiding in the spider's room as he explained everything to the cat and they both decided that it was best to avoid the princess as long as they could. Smart move.
But while those two were locked in their self-made exile, Alastor found himself moving around the hotel, making sure that his other pregnancy tests were no way near to leaving his room. The one that Charlie found must be the first one he took, not in his bathroom, and foolishly discarded in the nearest bin he could throw it before searching for Husk.
Apparently, it didn't even land inside the bin, since Charlie said she found it on the floor and not because she had been rummaging through the trash.
And so, after making sure that the tests were locked away, not really sure why he didn't just threw them in his trashcan to dispose later, or even use his power to disintegrate them in a smoke, Alastor closed his bedroom door and made his way down the stairs and towards the bar.
While he could definitely not drink in his current status, that didn't mean that he couldn't lounge in the bar until it was late enough and eventually go back to his room and wait until tomorrow to tell the king the news. He could perfectly do that in his room, but oddly found the idea of being alone in his room disenchanting. So the bar it is.
Since Husk was still locked in Angel's room, and with no intentions of coming out and risk being grabbed by the princess of hell for some questioning, Alastor wasn't exactly expecting anyone being at the bar to keep him company but still made his way there.
What he wasn't expecting was finding that the bar wasn't actually empty, and not only that, but that the person occupying a seat at the bar was actually Charlie, apparently nursing a drink that from what he could tell, was to appease her evening. Cheers, darling.
"Oh, hey, Al." she said once she saw him, taking a seat beside her and offering her a small smile.
"Hello, Charlie, dear."
Charlie smiled back, although a little tired, and took a sip from her drink. She blinked twice before she remembered her manners and soon was pouring a drink for Alastor as well, sliding it towards the tall demon.
Alastor was not going to take it, obviously, but that didn't mean that he would be rude to his princess. He could at least pretend that he was interested in the drink, so he pulled it closer to himself.
They both stayed silent, Charlie apparently too deep inside her head and lost in her thoughts to really make a conversation, and Alastor simply enjoying the quiet evening with the sweet and charming girl that he came to appreciate and care as if she were his own.
"I can't believe it."
Alastor blinks a few times before he realizes that Charlie was speaking to him.
"Angel and Husk. I can't believe they are... They are going to be parents. I mean, good for them! If that's what they wanted, or were aiming for, or...! I don't know. But if they are happy, I'm happy!"
Alastor nodded.
"It's just... I totally support them but... I want them to know how hard raising a baby will be. You know? There's a lot to think about! I mean, how are they gonna handle this? How is Angel gonna be able to do his job and manage a baby? And raising a baby in hell is not an easy task! You're gonna be worried the double, careful the double, and I mean, at least they have each other," Alastor gulps, "but raising a baby? An actual baby? Wow." she takes another sip from her drink, "It's not an easy task."
As if Alastor hadn't thought of that. As if he weren't already worried enough about Lucifer not wanting the baby, not he's picturing going through this alone, like he had been for almost all of his human life and for all of his afterlife.
Alastor sighs deeply and unconsciously grabs the glass over the bar and takes a sip from the drink, but stops himself from swallowing after realizing what he's done; he turns his upper body to the side and tries to discreetly spit out the liquid in his mouth back into the glass.
The key word being 'tries'.
Charlie frowns, "What was that?"
"What was what, dear?"
"Don't play dumb, I just saw you! What was that?"
Alastor puts the glass down, trying to come up with something, "Um, that's- that's actually how the French drink it, dear." and he pushes away the drink, far so he won't accidentally drink it again.
Charlie stares at the glass, then at him and continues to stare at him until she notices how nervous he seems even with his ever-present smile. She thinks of today and Angel, and then Husk with the supplies, then at the glass again and her eyes widen as she stares at Alastor.
Alastor just wanted to get up and leave this conversation but that would only make him look more guilty. Not that he wasn't. And that Charlie wasn't too far from understanding what was going on, her brain connecting the dots once more and apparently this time making the right supposition.
"Oh, unholy hell, Al... Is... you... Is it... true?"
What else did he have to lose at this point? Besides, Charlie deserved to know. Hell, this baby was going to be her baby brother or sister.
So, with much tranquility he could manage, Alastor gave her a comforting smile while nodding, "Yes, dear. I'm pregnant."
How can it be that Charlie's eyes widen even more than before after hearing the news? Also, her whole face illuminates after a moment, a wide smile taking over her face.
"I don't even care if it's fitting in here but OH MY GOD! OHMYGOD, OHMYGOD! AL!" she turns her body so she's fully facing him, drink forgotten, excitement and happiness glowing in those beautiful eyes. "What did my dad said?!"
"I haven't told him yet, dear."
"Whu-what?! Why?"
"I worry, dear, that he's going to think this is not such great news."
Charlie seemed baffled by that response, "WHAT?! Al, that's ridiculous! My dad, sure, isn't the best with feelings and dealing with them and can be a klutz but I assure you he won't be an ass! He'll be happy, that I'm sure of!"
Alastor wanted to tell her that yes, he does think the same of his beloved king, but at the same time he can't help the nauseating feeling crawling from deep inside. Fear. Abandonment. Heartbreak. Hope? He didn't know, so he didn't say anything. Looking at the girl he could see her squirming in her place, almost as if she was holding herself from doing or asking something, which was actually true.
"Can I hug you?"
Alastor loved it when she, even after he told her that he didn't mind her touch, still asked for permission to touch him instead of just plain assault him. Just like Lucifer did. The apple really doesn't fall far, huh?
So, with a sincere smile, he opened his arms and soon the warmth of the princess of Hell was enveloping him with so much love and care Alastor was afraid he would crack.
He started imagining what he would feel with his baby.
Vaggie opened the door of the hotel to let Lucifer in, closing it and wondering why he had used the door and not just portal his way in. Maybe he didn't want to be rude by just appearing in the middle of the room. Or maybe it was because that one time he decided to appear unannounced into his daughter's office and found her and Charlie in a heavy make-out session was still present in his head. No, do not flush right now! Get a hold of yourself, chica!
"Sir, good evening. I hope it wasn't too much trouble to ask you to come."
Lucifer smiled at her, just like Charlie did, "Not at all! It's not trouble at all if it comes from my Char-Char! Speaking of, where is she? Is she busy right now? Because I can come back tomorrow-"
As he was saying that, Charlie appeared over the stairs as if summoned by the mention of her name, apparently too immersed in the book in her hands to notice that she had company. It was only when she was making her way to her office that she raised her head to meet Vaggie that she stopped in her tracks as she realized her dad was there too.
"DAD! Whu- what are you doing here?!" she practically yelled in a high-pitch voice.
Lucifer gave his daughter a funny look, "Charlie, you asked me to come to help you with some new ideas for the hotel, remember?"
Charlie's eyes widened. Shit! She did ask her dad to come and help, but that was before she knew what she now did, and then she totally forgot to cancel. Uggh!! Damn it, Charlie, you had one job!
"Uh, yeah, I mean, yes, sure! Ha-ha, silly me! Of course I asked you! Hahaha!"
Now both Lucifer and Vaggie were looking at her like she suddenly had sprung wings. This would be a great moment for that to happen if only to distract them for her awkward behavior.
"Soooooo... Yeah! The ideas! Just give me a moment to..." she looks down at the book in her hands and quickly hides it behind her back, "Haha, why don't you go to my office and wait for me! I'll be right with you!"
"Umm..."
"Please, dad!"
And Lucifer could never resist his daughter, "Okay, my sweet duckling. I'll wait for you." and he made his way towards the office, watching as Charlie continued to hold that book behind her back and widely smiling at him.
Charlie followed her dad with her eyes the whole time as he walked past her, and until he crossed the door that led to her office and he was out of her line of sight, the door closing and allowing her to breathe once more.
"Umm, sweetie?"
Charlie turned to Vaggie to tell her that she would be talking to her dad in her office and that she could join them if she wanted, or she could go to their room, but before she could say anything, she realized that since it was Vaggie, she had lowered her guard and brought her arms back to the front, book still in hand and now painfully plain on sight.
'What To Expect When You're Expecting'
The two stared at each other with now words being said. Oh, Charlie fucked up again. In the same day. In the same hour! The apple really does not fall far from the tree, huh?
Vaggie, on the other hand, was still rigid as she had been when Lucifer had found them both in their make-out session and why that doesn't go away?!
Okay, okay. Let's be practical here. Let's be logical. The book is painfully obviously not for Charlie, nor her, thank you very much. Could it be for someone at the hotel? That would be the logical explanation as to why her girlfriend had that kind of lecture in her hand. But if it was for one of the residents, then...
Why had Charlie acted the way she acted, then? Why had she been so awkward when her father-
Wait.
Wait.
No way.
You didn't have to be a fucking genius to connect the dots. Charlie with that book. Charlie being nervous to be caught with that book. By her father. Her father, Lucifer, who was currently involved with Alastor. Alastor, who she hasn't seen in all day and Charlie had suddenly decided to spent the afternoon with him in his room -not that it was weird, sometimes she would do that. Alastor, who now that she's thinking about it, she had noticed that he had been feeling a little sick in the mornings-
"PUTA MADRE! ME CAGO EN DIOS!" she yelled, eye wide in surprise and then, without any kind of warning, a visual picture of how Alastor got himself into this mess with the king popped up in her head, and suddenly that was all she could picture, "OH, MY EYES! MY EYES!!"
"VAGGIE!"
"OWW!! CHARLIE-"
"I KNOW!"
"No, Charlie, you don't-"
Charlie grabbed her girlfriend by the arms, book still in one of her hands, "I know! Vaggie!"
"WHAT?!"
"I know!" she accentuates the last word.
"You-"
"Yes, I know! And Angel and Husk know but my dad doesn't so you HAVE TO STOP SCREAMING!!"
"Hey, Char-Char, what's going-"
"AAHH!!" Charlie suddenly screamed in apparent joy, jumping up and down like her usual self while turning to face her dad who had come out of the office after hearing too much noise. "DAD! I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE NEW IDEAS! YOU HAVE NO IDEA!"
Confused, Lucifer turned to Vaggie for some coherent response but then the other girl suddenly matched her girlfriend's energy and soon they both were jumping with stretched smiles on their faces, squealing in joy. She understood the assignment.
Lucifer didn't know what to do so he simply didn't question the couple's antics and decided to join them, jumping towards them with an excited scream of his own.
Whatever it takes to keep his daughter happy.
Nightfall had covered the hotel, and to be honest? Alastor had never felt so much relief for a day to come to an end as he did right now. Apparently by what Charlie told him not so long ago, everyone but Lucifer and Niffty knew about his pregnancy. And she's pretty sure Angel Dust told Cherri Bomb by the way she saw him grab her by the arm when she was standing outside his door and pull her into his room, then she never came out, just like with Husk.
Then she told him about Vaggie knowing and how Lucifer was currently in the hotel.
It was a good thing that Lucifer hadn't noticed the book, either.
So now almost everyone knew but the father himself. Great. At least it won't be for too long. After Charlie had asked him if he had planned to tell her father soon, he told her that he would tell Lucifer tomorrow morning. A little rest at night from this hectic day and he would find the bravery to face the music tomorrow.
They all were in the lobby, apparently trying to act normal so that Lucifer wouldn't suspect a thing. Ha! Like he would. Alastor knew he could be able to keep His Majesty in the dark for as long as he wanted, but unfortunately, he lived in the Hazbin Hotel.
Husk was behind the bar, pouring Angel and Cherri some drinks and actually doing his job, although Alastor is sure that the glass he had been wiping for almost an hour was already clean.
Charlie and Vaggie were sitting in the couch, talking in hushed voices while giggling and holding hands, and more than once Alastor caught Charlie looking at him, only to blush and look away.
Niffty had left minutes ago to chase a bug that had managed to elude her... but not for too long.
And he himself was sitting once again in the loveseat, and once again he was reading the same book, but this time he was actually reading it, no need to pretend like he did with Charlie. He could use the distraction.
Lucifer came out of the office and as soon as she saw him, Charlie quickly got up on her feet and approached her father before he could join the others.
"Dad, listen. I need to tell you something. Well, not actually, it's not mine to share but I do want to kinda give you a warning so you don't put your foot in your mouth like you usually do." at Lucifer's confused face, Charlie continued, "Listen, I really need you to be sensitive about this, okay? There's a person who will give you some news and well, like I said, I can't tell you what it is, but this person in question is very vulnerable right now so you need to be-"
"Be more chill?"
Charlie groaned, "Dad! I'm serious, just promise me that-"
Just then, Niffty came rushing into the lobby with a happy expression on her face, brandishing one of her knives which she apparently used to catch and kill the current bug skewered in it.
"He thought I wouldn't be able to follow but I did, and then he also thought I wouldn't be able to catch him but I did! He thought he would be safe getting inside King Roach's bedroom but I proved him wrong! Hahahahahaha! Also, why were these there? They should go in the trash once used! Nasty!"
And there she was, holding Alastor's pregnancy tests, the ones that he had not thrown away or destroyed but kept. And now there they were, at plain sight for everyone to see, even when everyone already knew about their existence. Well, almost everyone.
Lucifer was staring at the tests.
Everything went silent.
Vaggie gently grabbed Niffty and pulled her from the ground and onto her lap, as the little one stared at everyone and wondering why the sudden silence?
Lucifer blinked once. Twice. His eyes still glued to the tests before they moved to where Alastor was sitting. "Is... Is that true, Alastor?"
This was too much. Too much for one day. Everything happening in the same day, everyone knowing at almost the same time. Everyone being so nice to him. The news itself. Charlie hugging him. The look on Lucifer's face. The look on Lucifer's face in his head, disgusted. He couldn't take it anymore.
Standing up straight from his position on the loveseat and slowly but firmly taking a few steps so he was standing closer to Lucifer, who hadn't said anything else and was just staring, Alastor simply confirmed the truth.
"Yes, it's true, your Majesty. I am pregnant. I found out this morning but didn't know how to tell you, since I didn't know how you would take the news. But judging by your expression right now perhaps I was right all along." his voice starts to get louder, "And if you're too set on your old ways to be happy about this that's fine by me. I can raise it by my own! Really! You don't have to worry, your Majesty!" his eyes turned into dials as he continued, "I'll let you know that I come from a very long line of strong, proud New Orleans women whose husbands are nowhere to be found! My mother raised me by herself, and if I must, I can and I will do the same for this baby!"
After he finishes, Lucifer raises one hand as if asking for permission to talk, "You're done?"
"Yes!"
He takes a step closer towards Alastor, "Can I say something?"
"Go on!"
"That's the greatest news I've heard in a long time."
Complete silence again, not even the static that had been coming from him as he got angrier. Alastor stays still, glancing quickly at the others before looking back at the blonde man, "...It is?"
"I mean, first my daughter wants to see mee after a long time. I get to be involved in my daughter's life for real, I get to meet you, go against Heaven once more. Rebuilt this hotel with everyone and being able to get to know you, to fall in love -something I thought would never happen to me again." he takes another step closer, "And now you're telling me that not only I get to have a new start with my daughter and the man of my dreams, but also with a new addition to this family?" he pauses, "I think I'm gonna cry."
"I'm way ahead of you, short stuff." said Angel Dust from somewhere, followed by a sniff.
Alastor was still staring at the short man in front of him. Looking into his eyes for any indication that he was bluffing, that he was just trying to be decent and not say something insensitive in front of the gang. Maybe he would end all after they were alone, so nobody would hate him. Or maybe he would agree to this and be bitter towards Alastor and their child -Oh for Hell's sake, their child!
But as he continued to stare into those ruby eyes, submerged into a warm sea made of gold, he could only find total devotion in them. Sincerity. Care. Love. All the ways Lucifer would look at him.
"Really?"
"Really."
And all the pressure, all the insecurities that had been bothering him since he first learned of his status, all the negative thoughts that had been nothing but a big and annoying pain in the behind were thrown away "Oh," as he lets himself be embraced by those arms that promised to keep him safe, to hold him and love him for all eternity, and maybe even more. Just as they were separating from the embrace, the hotel exploded.
"I'm going to be an older sister!"
"I ask to name the child!"
"Why the fuck you get to name it, Angie?"
"We're gonna need to baby proof the hotel!"
"I'm gonna need more booze."
"Baby Roach?"
Alastor couldn't help but to feel a specific warmth over his chest at all the kind and heartfelt emotions going around the lobby by his newfound family, their sweet words and acts of comfort, never believing he would get to experience it.
As Charlie hugged her dad's arm and spoke to her girlfriend about the new hanged they would have to make to the hotel for the arrival of the new member of their family -dear child, the baby is not even there yet!-, Angel Dust and Cherri were both talking about who would get to convince the Radio Demon to wear maternity clothes first, Niffty raising her hand and declaring that she would start making baby clothes! Just like the ones she made for the roaches!
Charlie's face hurt from all the smiling she was doing but honestly, she didn't care at all right now! She was so so happy, everything would be great and tomorrow would be a fucking happy day in-
She felt tender hands touching hers and untangling her from her dad; Charlie turned to face her dad only to find Lucifer turning around and making his way towards the main entrance of the hotel.
"One moment." he simply said.
"Dad?"
"Just- One moment!"
They all watched as the king of Hell crossed the hotel's doors and gently closed them behind himself, wondering what was going on in their king's head and what was that about when suddenly they all felt the ground shaking and then heard a loud 'WHOOO!' coming from outside the hotel.
They all ran and opened the doors to see what was going in:
Lucifer, his six wings unfurled to their full length, flew as he took to the skies higher and higher, before reaching the highest point in which they weren't able to make out his silhouette before he plummeted to the ground at an incredible speed. Just before reaching the ground, obviously, he stopped and continued flying around the hotel, his arms extended at his sides as he continued hollering with complete happiness about the recent news of his new parenthood.
Alastor could feel his face flushing. Yeah, that was the man he loved and father of his future children.