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    Lucifer comes to two, somewhat related, realizations regarding the most prickly resident of the Hotel after the Hotel itself keeps shoving them together.

    1) Alastor is terrible at taking care of himself while being absurdly competent about taking care of literally everyone and everything else while he goes about like a rabid porcupine.

    2) He might have come on a little strong during their initial meeting and he might need to soften his touch just a tad and maybe make up for the insults and the manhandling and the degrading commentary.

    Lucifer decides that he's going to take care of Alastor whether he likes it or not and they are both taken off guard by how much Alastor desperately needed to be cared for and how starved for affection he is.

     

     

    Part 1: Tea & Tenderness
    Part 2: Insomnia & Control Issues

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    03 Feb 2025

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    Standing up, he considered his options. For good measure, before attempting anything else, he poked the body with his staff—no reaction. Then he kicked him a few times, harder than he’d admit. Nothing.

    "Maybe I should just… end his suffering"

    Or not. Though the thought of killing the unconscious angel was tempting, he knew it wouldn't benefit him in the long run. If anything, Lucifer was more useful alive than dead.

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    In which Alastor, while studying his not-quite-enemy, finds himself taking care of an exhausted king, understanding him more, and developing feelings along the way. Alastor falls first, but Lucifer falls harder.

    [This work is discontinued. Thank you for reading!]

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    12 Oct 2024

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    Alastor still didn't know precisely what had given him away - the pathetic, mewling whimper he hadn't been able to bite back, the few tears that the alcohol had loosened, the incriminating way he had leaned into Lucifer's touch, just for a moment, before he'd caught himself and jerked back.

    Something, any one of those things, all of them. It had given him away, and Lucifer had looked at him with eyes too wide and shocked and only needed to say "ohshit" for Alastor to know he'd understood.

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    Alastor is a little. He's fine he's fine he's fine. But Lucifer offers to halve the load and Alastor wants to say no he needs to say no but he has to fix this weakness, or he'll be left trembling and incapable in another battle, just as he was when Adam faced him - resisting headspace leaving him too unstable to put up an adequate fight.

    He's weighed the odds. He needs to accept the offer. It's the intelligent, logical way forward. He'll drop before the King of Hell - he must simply control the descent.

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    19 Aug 2024

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    Harry Potter is a coddled, spoiled Heir Potter Black in a setting where he vanquished Lord Voldemort as a 15 months old baby, Lily and James Potter have never died, and Albus Dumbledore is not as important as he thinks he is.

    Severus Snape is a genius, yes, but also a scared, insecure, abused, neglected, misunderstood, poor, bitter, snarky, jealous, broken man. At least, that's how everyone see him - everyone, but Harry Potter.

     Update every Monday.

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    18 Jun 2024

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    Prompt fill for the Daddymort fest:
    Something goes wrong during the resurrection. Turns out that by using Harry's blood in his ritual, Lord Voldemort becomes part of the Potter line. And as the oldest Potter alive with Harry only being 14/15, that means The Dark Lord is now... Harry Potter's closest living magical relative and in the eyes of the Ministry, his legal guardian. He now has to attend Harry's Disciplinary Hearing before the Wizengamot for performing the Patronus Charm in front of his muggle cousin.

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    17 Jun 2024