"Asmodeus. What do you want?" Remulus spoke, his voice neutral. His eyes locked with hers as he taps the ring in his hand, shadows crawling beneath his children.
Asmodeus smiles. "Is it wrong to visit?"
"Yes, definitely. Please leave." Remulus points to the door.
Asmodeus holds her chest, "Aww, how could you be so cruel? Has our long time apart made you so cold towards me?" Her eyes then intensify as she turns to Attie, "Or is it because of that hussy?"
Remulus closes his eyes with a snap. The children gasp as the darkness opens wide, swallowing them whole as he spoke. "Why are you really here?"
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Arhur looks around in confusion. "What? Did we just get teleported?"
Attie nods beside him, gravy on her lips. "Yep, a devil just appeared."
"You mean that lady?"
"That LADY is the Former Angel Asmodeus. A devil, a servant of Chaos." She sighs, her phone up as she dialed, "I'll have to contact Brother Leonard, if there really is-"
Arthur takes the phone from her hand, "Don't."
"What? Why? There's a devil there! A servant of Chaos." She hits him in his arm as she reaches for his phone, her expression angered.
Arthur grunts, "I know that. You think they don't know that? If Father didn't contact him the moment he locked eyes with her, it means him knowing would be a problem."
He then scratches his cheek, "And I don't know about you. But that place seems to be teeming with powerful figures."
She stops at his response before nodding, "Fine. We'll wait and see."
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Asmodeus giggles as the shadows disappear in his hand. "Oh my, did I scare you? Or have you gotten weaker?" She traces her lips. "I wonder what happened?"
Vlad then coughs in his hand. "Psycho bitch."
She turns to him. "I don't know about that. I'm merely here to give my beloved darling another offer from. Yours truly."
Remulus narrows his eyes. "No."
"You're not even going to bother to hear it out?" She puts her hand over her chest, "Oh my, you've become so cold and so cruel to little ole me?"
Zeus grunts, electricity arcing off his fingers. "Why are you really here?"
She huffs, arms across her chest. "Fine!" He locks eyes with Remulus. "I want to invite my dearest beloved," she offers her arms at him. "I wish to once more have you in my arms."
Zeus glances at Remulus. "Is there something you wish to tell us, Remulus?"
Remulus sighs. "My personal relationships are irrelevant to you."
Vlad shouts, "It is relevant if it means you have consorted with the enemy!" He points to her, "We cannot have you as our leader if you hide such valuable information!"
Asmodeus giggles behind her hand. "Oh my? Have you told no one about us?"
Remulus was irritated, the ease with which how he turned the two men against him has filled him with irritation. His eyes locked on the woman before him.
Remulus smirks, "Then shall I tell you on a how an emotionally broken man was manipulated and tricked into sleeping with a millennia old angel?"
"...." "...." "...."
The sentence left the three of them frozen.
Vlad looks at him for a minute before reaching for another bottle of wine or alcoholic's blood. "Yeah, I don't think I want to hear this."
Zeus coughs in his hand. "How uncouth. What a horrid thing to do to another person. Certainly not a story to tell through the ages."
"Oh please, that wasn't how it happened! I wasn't even evil back then! And you weren't emotionally broken, not even close! You were thirty back then, a man of sound mind."
Remulus wipes a tear from his eyes, "Ah, a guilty's explanations to oneself. Despite your wrongdoings, you seem to be unable to accept it."
Asmodeus, whose smile vanishes, scoffs, "You don't have a right to say that. You were literally the first one to touch me. Hell, that was my first kiss."
Remulus rolls his eyes, "It was the feminine wiles! And you sat on my lap, lady! You're not exactly an innocent angel back then. You were teasing me for a year, and when I didn't get the hint, you just outright smashed your lips to mine!"
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Outside the door, two men listen in. The awkward tension leaving the two men uncomfortable. Their conversation a chance that they immediately took as they left, only listening in for vital information, not gossip, but information.
Zeus chuckles, "It's always the feminine wiles. Never get taken in by the feminine wiles"
Vlad shrugs, gulping down another glass. "Yeah, sure. Keep telling that to yourself." He takes another gulp. "Maybe it'll help you sleep better."
"No, that's my wife's job, you know, a wife you don't have."
"Fuck off."
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Asmodeus then shouts, "Because you were thick as a brick! It took me a year of hints and just smashing my lips into you before you got any of the hint."
"Well, sooooorry if I wasn't emotionally available! I had to like move past the realization that I was immortal! To watch my beloved friends and comrades to die. I even faked my death!"
"Yeah, suuuure that was the reason. It wasn't your first love that held you back?" She scoffs.
"This again? I keep telling you from back then till now, that it didn't matter. It's been decades! But you're more hung up on her than I am."
"Because you still love her! I can see it in your eyes! The same way you love that bitch, the same way you made that kid! You were always thinking of leaving me. I just took the first step!"
"Is that it? Is that another one of the reason you rationalize in your head? Another reason, so you could tell to yourself that betraying me was the right option?"
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Vlad wipes the wine off his mouth. "Jeez, it's getting heavy."
Zeus whispers, "Just shut your mouth. They might hear you and their anger will get directed at you."
He raises an eyebrow "Happens often at your place? How shocking."
"Yup. Probably doesn't happen much with yours." Zeus smirks.
"Go fuck yourself."
"Is that a dare?"
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Asmodeus recoils, as if slapped, her pink eyes illuminate in anger. "Okay! Fine! I'm sorry! Is that what you want me to say!? I'm sorry for what I did! It was a moment of weakness!"
"A moment!? Bitch, you literally stabbed me in back twice! And every time I thought you had changed, you just stab me again!"
Asmodeus roars, "That's because you keep talking to that bitch! I see how they look at you and I see how you respond!"
She slams her hand on the table, pointing at where Attie once sat. "And now would you look at that? I was fucking right!?"
"How is that a reason for you to try and kill me!?"
Her eyes shine, "If I couldn't have you no one can!" Asmodeus' smile then turns malicious, "Maybe I can fix this by taking that brat out of the picture."
Remulus locks eyes with her. "Don't you dare bring my daughter into this!"
"Why shouldn't I?" She holds a knife in her hand, the implied threat sinking in.
Only for Remulus to appear before her. The knife then embeds itself into her chest. Remulus' in front of her as he spoke. "That's why. That's why you shouldn't come near her."
Asmodeus chuckles, taking the knife off of her chest, the smoke around her mending itself together like an illusion. "You know this is an illusion, right? There was no way I'd come here myself."
Remulus sighs and backs off. "I know that you are cowardly enough to hide, even when you came to apologize. Because it's never actually true, all just lies, always just lies."
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Vlad hisses, "Oof, that stings."
Zeus nods, "Yup, those two have some issues."
"Please don't talk about issues, you sister fucker."
"Okay, cuck lord."
"I hate you so much."
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She freezes at his words before she looks down, tears escaping her eyes. "Just tell me why? Why would you have a kid before mine? What reason is there that you'll choose her over us?"
Remulus looks away, unable to see her cry, "There was no us. You burnt that bridge the moment you let chaos take hold of you. The moment you let your brother whisper into your ears, the moment you stabbed me."
"Is there anything I could ever do to make up for that mistake?" She whispers.
Remulus stay silent, his eyes never meeting hers as he mutters, "I don't know."
The door then opens, Asmodeus steps in as she smiles. The illusion in front of him disappearing like a smoke. "I could surrender."
Leonard stood behind her as Vlad stand right behind him. A group of armed men surrounding them, their weapons aimed at her.
Asmodeus smile, a smile aimed at Remulus. "And I'm even willing to give out information about Chaos' most prominent figures. On a condition."
Leonard hisses, "On what condition?"
She then chirps, pointing at Remulus. "I get to stay at his house."