acestrawberrypimp: (Alastor (543))

[personal profile] acestrawberrypimp 2024-05-11 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps not the inhabitants within the hotel, but most definitely the princess herself. She has a... thing about any and all forms of sin. No matter how small and inconsequential the transgression.

[ Hence why stealing away to Vox's is becoming quite the little respite for him. It gives him a break from her harping in his ear about "murdering innocent demons" or "allowing the others to get drunk". ]

As long as neither of you insists on putting me on a television screen. You know this face was only made for radio, darling. I much prefer working behind the scenes of things.
Give me an hour or two and I will have your replacements at the ready and in the meantime, how about I send some of my littler minions to clean up the mess left behind.
acestrawberrypimp: (Alastor (541))

[personal profile] acestrawberrypimp 2024-05-11 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
She is, yes. I would not bring that up with her, however. I fear the outing of her hypocrisy to her face would break the poor thing.

[Though he is keeping that thought in his back pocket for now.]

You have my utmost thanks, love. I do owe you greatly for this little favor.

[Even if he doesn't believe himself to be in the wrong on eating the bitch that had dared to touch him without permission.]

You have my word. Simply give me a couple of hours to freshen myself up and I shall be right at your doorstep.

[Because he really did miss Vox even if he'd literally just seen him.]
acestrawberrypimp: (Alastor (432))

[personal profile] acestrawberrypimp 2024-05-12 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
She is... fascinating in a way. If I had not seen her demonic form myself, I would not believe her to be Hellborn at all. Perhaps one day I will sneak you in here and give you a personal tour.

I cannot wait to see the ways in which you decide to collect.


[Knowing Vox, there could be any number of interesting and fun ideas in that head of his. Not to mention any new ones that had brewed in their time apart. The thought alone has him already flitting about his room to prepare for his trip to the tower.]

Much oblidged. I take it the code is still the same for the doors?
acestrawberrypimp: (Alastor (58))

[personal profile] acestrawberrypimp 2024-05-12 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Those early little promotions are actually what piqued my interest in her little project. I just had to see for myself just how serious the Princess of Hell was being when she claimed to want to send us all to Heaven.

Try not to spoil the surprise until you do, love. It's much more fun to give you my genuine reactions.

I would not expect any less of you, my light.


[ Alastor cannot expect to earn forgiveness for his absence so soon. Only hope that he can show through actions just how apologetic he is.

So he freshens himself up. Puts on a clean (or at least relatively bloodstain-free) jacket and brushes the fur of his ears into a neat line atop his head. Finally he posts a notice to his door letting the others know he was going out for the night, just so none of them blew up his soon-to-be turned off cell phone wondering and worrying over him. The last thing he needed was a search party looking for him and finding him in the lair of who was supposed to be their rivals. ]
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[personal profile] acestrawberrypimp 2024-05-12 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
She claims to care about us and for her credit, she makes a good show of it.

[As where Vox's world was coming back to life, so was Alastor's. Yes, he loved the darkness and shadow under his command, but the soft glow peeking through soothed him more than he's ever thought it would. It kept him from falling too far into the darkness living inside him since his living years.

It spurns him to fade away into the shadows once sure his room was secure, emerging a block away from a dark corner where two building met. Brushing the whisps of shadow clinging to his jacket, he gave the nearest camera a wave of his staff to alert Vox to his proximity. From there the route felt like second nature right down to when and where to duck into darkness to avoid prying eyes.

When he reaches the door, elation puffs his chest as his code indeed works, allowing him inside so he could climb his way to the prize atop the tower. Once there, he tapped out a familiar rhythm against the metal as the signal that he'd arrived.]
acestrawberrypimp: (Alastor (336))

[personal profile] acestrawberrypimp 2024-05-12 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Red, luminous eyes blink as the door opens and the question is immediately thrown at him. Tilting his head to the side, his smile softens as he cups a hand to the bottom edge of Vox's monitor. ]

Is that what has you so worked up, my love? That there is the possibility of me being redeemed?

[ Admittedly, he'd had the same thought more than once. Even scarier was the possibility that Charlie might convince him to actually want to be redeemed.

But that was before he started to speak to Vox again and began rekindling their relationship. ]


I promise you, Vox. I will not allow myself to be redeemed, and if there is even the slightest possibility of it happening, I will find a way to guarantee you a way into Heaven to put me out of my misery. Because Heaven or no, any life without you would truly be misery.

[ Seven years of darkness and loneliness had been miserable enough. ]

Besides.... [ Leaning in, he kisses where Vox's mouth is set on his monitor. ] I think we are both well aware that with the things I have done both in life and death, I will never be welcome amongst the holy rabble.
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[personal profile] acestrawberrypimp 2024-05-13 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[The hardest part of his return had been convincing Charlie that he'd been serious about helping at the hotel and wanting to be redeemed. He'd had to lie so hard that it'd almost felt real. But being with Vox again brought Alastor back to his senses and reminded him of every diabolical reason he didn't want redemption and why he didn't even deserve it.

With the demon leaning into him with that hypnotizing eye staring into him there was no fucking way he was giving up the best part of his existence for a second time.]


Whatever she may be capable of, I have no doubt we can handle it with our combined mights. With the masses under your influence, the former Overlords and all of their souls in mine. We're unstoppable, my love.

[Unlike the pretty lies he told the hotel, these beautiful truths were only for Vox. He might not have much of a heart aside from the one he ate for lunch, but what he did have belonged to this demon.

His arms wind around the other, pulling him close and pricking his claws into his hips.]


Oh how I love the threat of your wrath, my light.
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[personal profile] acestrawberrypimp 2024-05-14 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[A part of him has always been curious about whether that eye would actually work on him. But the bigger part of him had been too afraid to actually give in to that gaze and find out. Refused to give up his own control over the threat of what might happen no matter how much he trusted Vox.

He would have to settle for giving control to his lover in other ways.

For now he gqve Vox a teasing smirk and drew a claw down the front of the other demon's shirt to pop the buttons free. If some of them tore away completely, that was hardly his fault.]


And who said that I would not want your wrath, my love? Not when you're utterly gorgeous when your rage is turned on me.

[Luminous eyes flicker shut as cyan claws grip his throat and trace his jaw. His own claws slip into the front of Vox's shirt through the gap he's created.]

You will not lose me, Vox. The moment it feels as if I am slipping too far into the role I must play in front of that little bitch, you have my express permission to pull the plug, as it were. Bring me back to myself any way you can.

[He cants his head forward to press his forhead to the warm screen of Vox's head.]

I do not want to leave you again. Ever. I love you too much to hurt you like that again.
acestrawberrypimp: (Alastor (336))

[personal profile] acestrawberrypimp 2024-05-15 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps.

[ He admits this with a purr on his voice as his claws seek the demon's warm skin to graze over teasingly. ]

Can you blame me when you were such a vision of beauty when I first returned to the city?

[ The very tip of one claw seeks out Vox's nipple to trace over slowly as he lets the man clutch his throat and vent those wonderful threats. ]

And I for you, my light. Until my very last broadcast. Your name will be the last thing anyone hears from these lips. You alone will be the final thought in my head.

[ He watches carefully as he let those words slip free. Ones he'd held back on for so long only to have it bubble up wishing to be free.

And not it was. ]


I won't ever leave you again, Vox. Even if it means my death, I would gladly have it be here at your side rather than hiding away in some hole. I was such a coward to run, no matter how much of a panic I had been in.
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[personal profile] acestrawberrypimp 2024-05-15 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course it did, my love. Outside of once or twice when my ruts got too much for me to stand any longer, I did not have sex with anyone the entire time I was away from you.

[ It was what led him to becoming so wild when he took Vox against that wall in a dark alley. Alastor allows himself to be pulled along all too easily towards the bed. Not because of the threat of those beautiful claws currently clutching him, but because of how fucking good they felt and how it made him want to lean further into their touch until his blackened blood flowed between Vox's fingers.

Even as Vox's anger flares from the Radio Demon referring to himself as a coward for running and hiding, he only groans in pleasure when the razor tips dig into him. Once Alastor is shoved onto the bed, his own hands find the demon's slender hips as soon as he's close enough. Clutching that electric body to his own and stroking up the expanse of his back. ]


Hell could erupt into flames and everyone could turn to ashes within and I would still be yours. No matter what, my love.