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What if you were an asexual succubus, wouldn't that be fucked up or what

Chapter 21

Masterpost of chapters

Cw: Talk of past sexual assault (not detailed)

2024, Scotland

"Please just have a chat with him" Patton lowered his glasses to do puppy eyes "For me?"

Logan looked at him fluttering his eyelashes "…Fine"

"Yaaay!"

The corridor was dead silent and even when Patton put his ear up against the door he couldn't hear any sign of the human. At first he thought maybe Janus had gone to bed, but then he got the horrifying thought that maybe he had tried to escape through the window. The thought made him knock.

"Human? I don't want to disturb but Nico needs to go out for her evening walk"

At the mention of the dog's name he heard a happy woof come from the room and the sound of heavy feet dragging against the floorboards soon following. The door creaked open just enough to let the huge dog through, which Logan took as an opportunity to ram his foot in between the door and the frame.

Patton gave him a thumbs up before taking Nico out for her walk. Logan turned to the human and asked calmly "May I come in?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"I would prefer it if you answered yes, but that is not for me to choose. Being alone for long after going through something stressful is not good for the human brain"

Janus squinted at him "Where is…the bastard?"

"Remus is sleeping downstairs"

He hesitantly let the door glide open "Whatever"

The blinds in the room had been rolled down and none of the lights were on. Janus sat down on the floor with his back against the bed and though Logan thought it was highly stupid to sit on the floor when the bed was right there, he sat down beside the human anyway.

"Usually my husband is the one who handles the emotional talking, but he thought it may do you good to speak to me, how are you feeling?"

"I have Never in my whole life felt better than I do right now at this moment! What reason Could I possibly have to feel upset!? Preposterous! Upset? Me? Never! Unthinkable!"

"I think I hear hints of sarcasm"

Janus tightly held his arms around himself "He took my first experiences from me! He took my first boyfriend! My first date! My first time! He took them just so he could- he could-" His lip quivered "I'm never getting any of that back! I had been so careful not to let anyone trick me but he acted so callously clueless! Ugh! I need some pen and paper right now!"

"What for?"

"To write down my plans of revenge! Obviously!"

Logan lent his cheek against his palm "Would it perhaps help to think of it as being your first date with a demon? You still have not gone on your first date with a human"

"Semantics don't matter right now! He still used me! And you knew!?"

"I wasn't aware of just how close the two of you had gotten. I'm sorry. I was under the understanding that Remus was avoiding being intimate with you because he was averse to sex but not of the understanding that he was spending that much time with you. Furthermore, I remember how earth-shattering it can be when new species reveal themselves to you but there is beauty in discovery as well" He rolled up his sleeve to show the rough rectangular scar on his forearm "Succubi do not retain scars but this is from when I was a human so it has stayed, same as my sight needing assistance"

"Okay buddy I'm not going to like you more just because you have a weird scar. I got enough of my own"

"What I mean is that I am the only other being in this household who knows what it is like to be human, and to be a human romantically involved with a demon. When I met my husband I was still human"

Janus rolled his eyes and looked away in silence for a while before muttering out "…Did you know what he was?"

"Yes, Yes I did. I'm sorry that I can not fully empathize with your experience but I assume that you must be tired from taking in all of this sudden information. Perhaps taking a break from thinking…and planning your rightful revenge could help? I could tell you how me and Patton met"

"Oh yes for ssssure, what I want most of all is some old bitch to tell me his boring life story"

"A bitch is a female dog. I'm a succubi"

"You're barely a step up above silence"

"Ah but I am a step up. I will keep it short then"

-

1644, Scotland

Reports of a new outbreak of the plague had started to flood in but away in the monastery near the seaside of Aberdeen the sickness had not reached the monks yet. Becoming a monk had been a given for Logan because monks were one of the few professions who got to not only learn to read but spend their days studying texts and translating them.

(It also step sided the problem of marriage. No woman would ask to marry a monk)

Still the hours he poured into translation did not mean Logan was liked by his fellow men since he could not stop his habit of questioning everything he read. He wondered whether Heaven and Hell were a metaphysical place, He wondered what kind of brainpower God must have to watch them all at the same time, He wondered the exact definitions of sin. And all he ever got in response was to have faith.

Faith, faith, faith. What had faith done for them a hundred years ago when people were burned at the stake for believing that the sun was in the center of the universe only to be proven right by history?

So he holed up in his room and stocked up on candlelight to be able to study through the nights. It was on such a night when the wind was still but the stars were hidden by the clouds and the candle wax was pooling up at the bottom of the holders that a knock came on the window.

At first Logan thought nothing of it. His room was on the third floor of the monastery, so it was not humanly possible to climb up there. It must have been a bird flying into the glass or a tree branch knocking against it.

But the knocking came back and this time followed by a voice calling for him to "Open! Please!"

Logan turned from his desk and to his surprise he saw a person pressing their face up against the window leaving smudge marks all along it. He checked his glasses just to make sure he wasn't seeing things before unlocking the window and letting the strange man in.

"Thank you! It was getting real cold out there!" The stranger said in a cheery tone while climbing into the room.

He didn't look threatening at first but the more Logan looked the more strange he seemed. He was shoeless and his feet animallike with claws digging out from his toes, a goattail was sticking out from his simple brown lapsack pants and big batlike wings stuck out from his back. It looked as if his skin had stretched out between the bones on his back to form them.

The stranger bowed before introducing himself "I'm Pat, currently short for Patricus previously short for Patricia, I am a succubi and if you want I am here to seduce you tonight"

The human didn't manage to muster a response so the demon continued.

"I was made to indulge humans who are attracted to 'Bears'. If you could tell me beforehand if you see me as a man or woman that would certainly help me make this as good for you as I can!!"

"You look like an amalgamation of many animals but bear is not one of them"

"Oh it's a demon term! We're working on making it a common term among humans as well!"

"Huh. Second question why are you topless?"

Pat glanced down at himself before smacking his hands together and letting out a big bubbly laugh "I knew I had forgotten something! I hope you don't mind!"

"I don't think I do"

The demon shone up into a bright smile, the kind that made the skin bundle up under his eyes. He moved up close to the human and held up his pinky "Pinky promise you want this?"

Logan didn't hesitate before pinky promising and let himself be pulled in for a kiss.

Afterwards the demon laid on his stomach in his bed and let the human poke at his outstretched wings "They're more muscular than I thought at first" Logan said.

"You know what they say! What you don't have in your brain you gotta have in your legs- uh- wings!"

"I did not know they said that, no"

Patton let out a laugh while rolling over on his back so he could face the human. He mindlessly took Logan's hand in his and played with his fingers while talking, "Going to monasteries are always a safe bet, your people are much more lovesick than you want to think. But usually it takes them at least some seducing first. Or well more like letting them think the big bad demon is seducing them so they don't have to feel guilty for wanting love. But you were awfully quick to accept"

"I took a man literally climbing in through my window in the middle of the night as a sign that if I had any qualms left about what I am it was time to figuratively throw them out"

"OOOOHHH what are you?"

"Someone who enjoyed this encounter. I've read up on Romans enough to know I am not the only man throughout history who has bolstered this type of attraction but this was the first time I have had the choice to experience it. I think it was....pleasant"

Patton smiled "I thought you were about to say you were secretly a werewolf or something but that's good too!"

After the demon noticed his glasses they ended up discussing how Logan could see and he admitted the only thing he wished he could see more clearly were the stars. Patton ended up carrying him in his arms as he flew up into the clouds to take him as close to the nightsky as he could. They flew around for hours before stopping at a windstill hill near the ocean to make love once more but under the stars this time.

Soon after he had come the demon suddenly seemed distressed and the trip back to the monastery went by much quicker, and quieter. He let Logan climb back in through the window before flying away leaving the human to wave after him.

A week after the meeting a knock came upon Logan's window once again once more in the middle of the deep dark night, but this time he knew what…or who to expect. He opened to find Patton who he quickly moved aside to let in.

The demon flapped his wings to warm them back up while looking around the almost bare room. All he had was his bed, his desk with its candle and his many books. Patton leant over the desk and oooeh

"Are you transcribing something?"

"From Latin yes. Why are you visiting?"

"Oh well" Patton nervously laughed while his eyes dotted around "I just hmmm forgot a thingamajig last time I was here so I just wanted it back"

"I clean every week so I'm quite sure I would have noticed if you left anything"

"But what's that behind you!!" Patton pointed which made Logan turn his head for a moment and when he turned back the demon had not so subtle put a random pen on the desk. He did a fake gasp "Here's my thingamajig!"

Logan crossed his arms and leant his side against the wall "You don't need a reason to want to see me"

The demon clicked his tongue while squinting "I kind offfff dooo. I- Succubi are only meant to seduce a human once since our goal is to make them sin and once they've sinned there's no reason to see them again. But with you it all came so naturally I didn't think to stop before we did it again. I uhhhh I just wanted to give this to you"

Patton took a glass jar out from his bag but as far as Logan could see it was completely empty. He pushed up his glasses and stared closer.

The demon laughed so hard that the tips of his wings bounced "no no there's nothing for you to see. I realized when I was holding you I couldn't fly as far up as when I'm flying on my own so I flew as far up as a could and collected the air for you. Some space air for you! Sorta!"

He handed it over and as he did their fingers touched and Patton blushed slightly. The expression seemed so innocent for a demon who must have touched countless humans during his life. Logan couldn't help but smile slightly.

"You do realize I will not be able open it without the air disappearing, do you not?"

"That's okay. I'll just fly up and get you another bottle!"

-

2024, Scotland

"So it is just lovey dovey shit. Gross. I have a" Janus stopped to yawn "I have a revenge plan to get back to"

Logan stood up "I see. For your information this is my spare hobby room and I am giving you full permission to use the bed. My husband will probably bring you breakfast in the morning so sleep well"

"Sleep? Never heard of her"

The demon left the room and made sure to properly close the door behind him. He soon heard the lock be turned on the other side and stayed standing long enough to hear snores. He went down the stairs to the living room where Remus was to his surprise not sleeping. He was laying still on the couch with his arms crossed over his chest like a mummy.

"Shouldn't you be resting?" Logan asked.

'and miss out on feeling this delicious pain??!?!?!' He signed with his working hand. He waved that hand around to mimic exclamation marks.

"I thought getting your arm impaled would be enough for you but it seems I was wrong"

'yup' Remus tried to subtly poke at his bandages but Logan slapped his hand away.

"Don't make me put the dog cone on you"

'it would match my collar!!!!'

Logan decided there was no winning when it came to threatening the demon into acting sane so instead he sat in silence and waited for his husband to come back from walking the actual dog. Soon enough Nico happily came yapping into the room and jumped up to snuggle on Logan's lap, completely unaware of her size and the way she nearly smothered him.

"Kiddooo, you should be resting!!" Patton said as soon as he had put away the dog leash.

"I suggest we give him back his voice now. He is clearly not averse to pain and having him heal first would only be a waste of time"

"Do you think you'd be okay with that kiddo?"

Patton stared at him with his big blue eyes which only made Remus gulp and push himself to sit up. 'How?'

"It's easy! I just do what your manager would have done if they had hypothetically given you your voice back. We'll fix it in a yippie!"

'Im not letting some geriatric traitors mess with my body. Youll probably brain wash me or cut my toes off so I cant run or'

Logan who had been translating his singing to Patton stopped as the demon continued to sign wilder and wilder ideas "If you get your voice back your brother will too"

Remus stopped in his tracks and seemed to think it over before signing 'Why didnt you start with that! Sure! If Ro gets his voice back I will let you experiment on me!'

Patton let out an excited "Yippie!" before hurrying off to another part of the house. The sound of metal turning could be heard before a click, similar to a safe being unlocked. When the demon came back he was holding an old notebook torn and frayed at the edges. The spine had been taped together with ductape and on the cover a red stain had been left many many years ago.

"Get a bucket and some candles sweetiepie" Patton instructed before laying his arm around Remus' shoulder and guiding him out of the house "We best do this in the garden in case you scream. Your human has finally fallen asleep and humans need to recuperate in that way"

He moitioned for Remus to lay down on the grass. The wet strands of glass tickled against his back as he saw Logan come back. The bucket was set beside him ("Please try and throw up into it or else the flowers will smell") and one after the other the candles were placed in a circle around his head and lit ("Be careful so you don't light your hair on fire").

Patton opened the book and Remus tried to catch a glimpse of the page but Logan covered his eyes. Through the gaps of his fingers he could see that Logan had closed his eyes as well.

"If anyone who isn't Patton tries to read that book their eyes melt" He said matter of factly "Don't ask me how we figured that out"

Despite eyes melting sounding kind of fun Remus played along and closed his. The sudden sensation of Patton pressing his fingers against his lips made him twitch but he parsed his lips and let the older demon press his thumb against the tip of his tongue.

Patton began to speak but the way he spoke made chills run up Remus' spine. It didn't sound like the language of demons but not exactly Angelic either. It was something much older and more primal than that.

He continued to repeat the words until suddenly Remus felt something sticky crawl up through his insides.

-

2024, England

At the same time Virgil was sitting on the bus with his face moodily staring out of the window and in his headphones in as he imagined himself in a music video. All of a sudden he noticed that Roman had began to shake in the seat next to him. At first he was about to ask if she was cold and needed to borrow his hoodie but as he took out his headphones and turned his head he realized she wasn't just shaking.

Her entire body was convulsing with her fingers spazzing and her face contorting into a painful expression with her mouth hanging agape.

"Shit, are you- You okay?" Virgil asked but obviously no response came.

Roman started to gurgle and spit up bits of bile all while shaking. A cold sweat ran down Virgil's skin as he forced his voice to louden.

"Uhh! Uhh driver! Can we-" Everyone on the bus turned to look at him or at least it felt like it "Can we please stop? My friend is- is having a seizure"

The bus shifted to drive to the side of the road "Want me to drive you near a hospital?"

"No. No thanks but he just he just needs some stable ground"

At this point the convulsing had gotten so bad that Roman nearly fell out of her seat, only being stopped by Virgil wrapping his arms around her. The bus came to a sudden stop and the angel had to use his wings to give him the extra strenght needed to basically carry the demon out onto the pavement. In a hurry he let out some sort of thank you and caught the busdriver waving as they drove away.

The ground had barely had time to hit against Roman's knees before he threw up.

The puke was pure black and oozing. As it landed on the cement it stuck like gum while Roman panted and groaned in pain. It oozed before to Virgil's horror it moved and slunk away down into the drain.

"Did you- Whatt- huh" Was all Virgil got out.

Roman woobled side to side before collapsing to let out raggedy breathes. The angel muttered under his breathe while taking off his hoodie and laying it on the ground so that Roman didn't have to lay on the dirt at least. He poked at her cheek and checked her pulse.

"Hey, you okay?"

"I feel like Gaston after he fell off that cliff" Roman mumbled back.

"You're well enough to make Disney references so that's like good I guess. The next bus should...."

Virgil stopped to think. If they got on the next bus they could be near Janus by the evening but on the other hand Roman was as pale as sheet and barely looked to have enough energy to breathe, much less travel. He glanced between the demon and the bus sign before sighing.

"Okay I'm gonna google if there's a hotel nearby"

"What?" Roman shifted his head to look up at the angel but the simple movement made the white clump of hair fall from his skull and both of them stared at it with shock for a second.

"Dude. Do you think a human doctor would notice that you're not human? 'Cause maybe we should go to one"

"Doctor? The only type of healer I go to is a spa or a wizard" Roman tried to sit up "When's the next uhh magical unicorn bus coming to pick us up??"

Virgil picked up his phone and searched until he found a motel only a walking distance away "Jannie isn't in any danger right now. If anything happens I'll just leave you here for now and fly there- I'll come back for you- uh I guess- Maybe- Sorta. But yeah did you like eat some Alien shit recently? Or do demons normally throw up black goo?"

"Maybe it was that pasta I ate at your place. I'm lactose intolerant"

"How the fuck is a succubi lactose intolerant"

"A cow scared me when I first came to earth. I've had a fear of them ever since"

"that is not how lactose intolerance works-Wha- Why am I debating this! Come on! Get up! You gotta feel good enough to book a hotel room because if I have to talk to another clerk I will die"

Roman ran her fingers against her neck "I feel.....lighter"

"I hope it's not in a seeing the light kind of way"

"...No....More like....Drinking a poition, a good one. I think"

They arrived at the hotel stinky and dirty from sitting on the ground and with Roman looking like she had just knocked back 5 redbulls and fallen down a hill. Despite that her natural charm managed to land them a room and Virgil quietly clapped as she gave him one of the keys.

"Alright sounds like our room is down that corridor" Virgil said as they walked down the winding halls of the hotel.

They passed a longue with a few couches littered about and a vending machine with a pot of coffee standing on the table next to it. Against the middle of the wall stood a fishtank with a few guppies and clownfishes bopping about in it.

Virgil continued past it without a second glance but noticed that Roman had stopped and he had to call out to her to make her continue.

"Here it is!" Virgil went up to unlock the door and held it open for his companion but Roman froze.

She started to shake again and at first Virgil looked around for the best spot to vomit before realising this was just anxiety shaking. 'Just' and ' just', she was shaking like a leaf with her eyes wide open in horror. She twisted her arms around her herself and backed away.

"I don't want to go in there"

"Ro-"

She shook her head furiously "I don't want to go in there!"

Virgil wasn't a stranger to hyperventilating and therefore noticed it as soon as Roman started to heave for breathe. She sunk down to the floor and started to gasp repeatedly.

"Ro what's wrong? Talk to me" He hunched down to be at the same level as her. He knew she wasn't going to respond but simply speaking would help.

The demon moved his hands up to cover his ears at the same time that his eyes unfocused and stopped blinking. Oh no it was the overthinking spinning out into a complete tune out.

"Ro I'm gonna touch you. Just your hand"

The demon flinched at first when Virgil took her hand but let him place the tip of her fingers against the vein on his neck.

"Just like try to focus on me. I'm right here"

It took a while but Roman ever so slightly started to focus her eyes on him as she felt the steady rythmn of his heartbeat. Until she let out a groan.

"Ugh that wasn't very cool epic princely knight of me"

"All princes in this country are nonces anyway" Virgil joked back.

Roman let his fingers fall away "Nice neck trick"

"Ehh it's not mine. Janni- my human always does it to me when I get panic attacks"

"Huh. Well shall we check if the room is to my high standards?" Roman asked wanting to quickly move on from that embarrassing display of weakness.

"You okay with that now?"

A slight tremor moved up along his arm as his eye twitched "Yeah I'm good! I love adventuring! Love discovering new parts of Earth! So fun! Bus trip! So fun!" His smile was as stale as a corpse. "It wasn't the room that uh fucked me over. I think it was the" He grimaced at the word "Fish tank. There were like a dozen fish tanks in the apartment I was raped in so"

The bluntness of it made Virgil stop and panic about what the most sensitive way to respond was. All he got out was "Oh. Uhm. Uhhh"

"Let's go. Shall we!" Roman said, swiftly moving on.

The room did have two beds but they were pushed together so Virgil hurried over to push space between them while blushing red. "Woooow akward am I right hahaHAH" The angel tried to joke to lighten the mood but Roman didn't give a response.

"I think I'll take a shower....Get the alien shitpuke away"

Virgil did finger guns and immediately regretted it "Cool. Uh. Don't drown"

Roman locked the bathroom door and checked it three times before leaning in front of the sink and sighing. At the sight of his reflection he flinched and moved to quickly throw his clothes aside but that only made him feel worse. The near panic attack making him relive the assault had left him hard and he felt so unimaginble gross for it.

Logically he knew it was just a physical response but he felt as if it was some big give away that he had secretly enjoyed it.

The stupid hotel shower had stupid see through glass. Did hotels hate shower curtains or something. He wanted to hide himself into a tiny little box but at least the water was warm.

She jerked off while thinking of the assault and it all made her feel nauseous. She just wanted it go away. This was the first time she'd gotten aroused since it happened, was this just how her body worked now. Would she have to think about it every time.

He remembered the tv had been on the entire time but the sound was so low he hadn't heard any of it. It was some show from the greed ring and while it happened all his eyes had been able to focus on was the fictional characters moving about.

It was so strange how he couldn't remember exactly what the manager had done but he remembered that the character on the tv had to go to the police in the episode to argue against a parking ticket. The show was supposed to take place on Earth with the demon actors playing humans. All of their tails had to be hidden under clothing and the horns hidden under wigs. Ridicolously big wigs.

He hadn't seen how the episode had ended. It had been over before then. It was so stupid but when it ended and the manager left the room to take a shower Roman had been embarrassed that the fish had seen it. All of them seemed to stare at him with empty eyes from behind the glass. He hadn't been able to get up immediately afterwards, not because of some physical reason, but because his entire body felt too heavy. It felt like the wrong response. as if he should have run out from there as soon as he could and not waited for the manager to come back. But he had stayed there. Staring at the fishes and the fishes staring back at him.

A whimpering moan slipped out from between her lips and she slammed her mouth shut out of shame before realizing she had made a sound? A sound while alone?

"Aaahh" She tested "huhghg aahhh bleehhh hi hello I'm Roman" The words came out as smoothly as they used to.

Her insides turned all ticklish from joy with the tips of her fingers suddenly feeling like fireworks as she jumped out from the shower. She was about to shove the door open but remembered that nudity made her new friend uncomfortable and quickly wrapped a towel around herself.

"VIRGILLLLLLL!" He sang while kicing the door open "ANGEL OF DARKNESS!!"

"Why are we yelling? Was there a spider in the shower or something?"

"No stupid! Can't you hear!? LA LA LA LA LA! I got my voice back" He coughed "It's still a bit rusty but it feels better"

Virgil put his phone aside "How?"

The demon shrugged.

"What the fuck did they put in the shower at this place- Could Remus or Janus have done something? Are you and him connected in that way?"

She shrugged again "Angel I've never had my voice taken away before. It's not like I know how any of this works" Her tail excitedly waged back and forth "Well. I should probably finish the shower. Just wanted to tell you that"

The emo let up into a smile "Yeah. Worthy enough news to get out of the shower for innit"

"Indeed!"

Roman spent the rest of the shower singing at the top of her lungs while scrubbing her scalp with her fingers. She wanted to feel brand new- Or maybe more like a previous version of herself. The one she had been before losing her voice. Her nails had grown long and jagged from her biting on them out of nervoussness so by the time she was done in the shower she had scratchmarks all over herself but it was better to feel that than feel traces of the past.

Her clothes stank from wearing them for so long but all she could do was hang them up to try and wear the hotel robe for now.

"Oooohhh Viiiirgggiilllll are you ready to hear me recite all of Legally Bloooonndee!" He stepped out from the bathroom and saw the angel stuffing a dozen monster energies into the tiny hotel minifridge "Oh my. Was wittwe Wirgil brave enough to travel out to the vending machine? Impressive"

Virgil pushed the last can in and stood up. He pushed a papercup across the table towards Roman while saying "Uh yeah I got you some tea with honey too...You dick...I thought like it would help your voice. And you'd probably not wanna have to go into that room to get it yourself"

Both the near panic attack and shower had gone by without Roman shedding a tear but for some reason Virgil handing him the cup of tea made him burst into tears which made the angel flinch.

"Did- Did I fuck something up?"

"No" She sniffled "No that's just really sweet of you"

"Dude I walked like...3 metres at most"

He laguhed before taking a sip from the tea "Of course it's English Breakfast. Makes sense. Wanna watch Legally blonde now? The whole musical is free on youtube! So y'know..you as an Angel don't have to pirate watch it!"

"If we're gonna watch a musical can we at least like watch Repo or Sweeney Todd or something"

"Of course! Forgot you're alllll edgy and dark" Roman gasped "!! I saw a balett rendition of Frankenstein last year! I wish you could have been there! I bed you'd love it!"

"Dunno. I've never even seen a balett i think"

"I'll show you some! Don't even worry about it!!"

--

Janus looked out of the window at Remus running around in the garden while screaming and hollering. He had been doing this for 5 hours ever since he got his voice back. The human couldn't stop looking at him, for one because he was hoping that he would suddenly develop telepathic abilities and kill the bastard with a single thought, but also because a part of him missed talking to the demon.

The door handle rattled and Janus unlocked it before backing away. He laughed mischievously to himself as Logan opened the door and the thread connected to it went off and dropped a stack of books onto the demon's head.

Logan nearly dropped the tray he was carrying but managed to stay upright and shook it off "Now what was the reason for that?"

"Nothing! Not testing out booby traps in case I have to escape or anything"

"If you wish to leave you can but we won't protect you outside our house, though neither will we stop you"

"Oh please you're literally demons. I'm not putting any trust in you muppets"

"Understandable. I brought breakfast? Supper? Your sleep schedule has messed up the time of day…. I brought food"

He sat the tray down on the bed. It had some weird greenish puttering soup on it along with a huge bowl of rice and salad where all the carrots had been cut into heart shapes.

"It was Patton who made it" Logan added.

"Ah and I can see that he has most definitely eaten human food maybe even more than once" He snarked back.

Despite the dubious contents Janus still sat down to eat and Logan brought a chair over to sit near him "Do you wish to hear the rest of it now? The lack of information sharing in this situation is irking me. I believe that all of us having the same knowledge would be immeasurable important"

"Sureeee. I was becoming tired of only hearing Remus' screaming anyhow"

-

Scotland, 1645

Patton visited his human every Friday. He said it was a good thing Logan lived in a monastery because then if his manager noticed him visiting the same place repeatedly he could simply say he was seducing different people.

The human soon learned that Pat had never been taught how to read because succubi 'didn't have any use for it' so they spent a lot of time hunkered over books in Logan's bed. When they weren't making out or making love in that same bed. Patton thought he was the best teacher he could ever imagine and Logan thought the same about the succubi, just not a teacher in a subject that usually was taught in school.

A bit over a month after meeting Pat invited him along to a threesome with a succubi friend of his, obviously under the guise that this was the first time Logan had met either of them. While the other demon wasn't exactly a copy of Patton they were oddly similar in both their builds and facial features. He realized that all succubi were that insanely handsome.

But ironically enough it was when Logan got fucked by that demon he realized that while he enjoyed it he didn't enjoy it nearly as much as being with Pat. It struck him that being with Patton wasn't pleasant because he was a succubi, it was simply because he was his Patton.

Pat giving him a kiss gave him more butterflies than literally getting railed by the other demon. It was during that night Logan decided he wanted to leave the monastery.

The monastery had nothing left to give him. He had read all he wanted and translated everything they had let him. Despite there being countless texts untranslated, he knew they would forever forbid him from touching them due to their 'sinful' contents. During his more smug moments he got the urge to tell them he was with one of those demons they all feared and that he was most definitely going to Hell but he still had his time on earth and he wasn't going to let anyone stop him from studying whatever the hell he wanted during that precious time.

Besides Pat had told him he had never seen any of the humans in Hell but he swore once Logan died he would come and find him and protect him.

The two of them moved away from the sea where the wind was constantly cold and the plants rigid, and traveled closer to the mainland nearer the towns. Together they picked out a place in the woods far away enough that no one would question them but close enough that Logan could travel in to buy ink and food. The plague hadn't reached the town either. From all they had heard it seemed like the outbreak was contained to the central lowlands. The outbreak would probably disperse and disappear as it had done the other times.

Logan sketched up the architectural plans and calculated how much wood they would need while Patton hammered or sawed at whatever his lover told him to. For the first few weeks when their cottage was nothing but a stub Logan lived in a tent with his books and telescope.

Sometimes strangers, often travelers, would stumble upon them in the woods and Patton would always gladly invite them to rest and share their food with them around the campfire. He would listen to the humans tell stories and no matter how mundane or boring the stories seemed to Logan the succubi's eyes always lit up as he listened.

Logan wasn't all that excited about uninvited guests but if it made his lover happy he would accept it.

The demon was there as often as he could but often had to work at seducing other humans. Sometimes the thought aroused Logan but mostly it only made him miss his lover. The nights Patton could spend alongside him he laid his wings around him to keep him warm.

"Am I a curiosity to you?" The human whispered one night "Is my humanity the thing that intrigues you? Is it my mortality?"

"It's your beautiful brain Logie"

"Am I your first human?"

"You're my first lover I have wished to live with. There was others before yes but all of those I only visited every few years. I hoped that only seeing them sparsely would make it so my manager did not notice"

"I thought meeting humans more than once was against the rules"

"Love can never truly be against the rules, not in my heart at least"

Logan laid still for a while before asking "Will hell hurt?"

"I'll visit you"

"Have you visited your other humans who are in hell?"

"I....I've thought about it...but never gotten to it"

"Will it hurt?" He repeated.

"We don't have to think about that right now! You won't see Hell for many years honey"

A few months into the building project all that their home was missing was a roof which Patton was using his wings to work on. Just as Logan was about to yell for him to come down for a water break a stranger came into the wood clearing and gave him an innocent look.

The human groaned at the thought of having to make small talk but let the stranger come up to him "Oh woe me. I'm just a wee traveler who got lost. May I perhaps ask for a bed to rest in till the morning?" They asked.

"No. We only have one bed. At most you may sleep on the floor" He clled out for his lover "PAAAT! My partner will probably give you some food so don't annoy me anymore"

"What is it?" Pat asked as he walked towards them "OH! A Gue-" His expression dropped as soon as he laid eyes on the stranger.

It was the first time Logan had seen his lover angry and what a frightening sight it was. Pat went up to the stranger and grabbed a hold of their shirt. His body which always had seemed soft and welcoming to Logan suddenly became intimidating as the demon stretched himself to his full length and tensed his body enough that his muscles became fully visible as he moved.

"LEAVE!" Pat shouted right into the stranger's face. The only time he had raised his voice before was when he had erupted into laughter.

"I'm just passing through" They quietly replied.

"YOU WILL LEAVE AND YOU WILL NEVER RETURN AND YOU WILL NEVER LAY YOUR EYES ON THAT HUMAN EVER AGAIN! HE HAS ALREADY SINNED! THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU HERE! YOU CAN GO! GO! LEAVE!"

The stranger let their friendly mask falter and glared at the demon "Why are you here then?"

"YOU WILL NOT SPEAK A WORD OF THIS OR ELSE YOU ARE NOT LEAVING THIS PLACE AT ALL! NOW GO!"

Pat pushed the stranger away and stared daggers into them as they rushed to disappear among the trees. Logan laid his arms around his lover's shoulders and pressed a kiss to the top of his head when he noticed his chest heaving up and down.

"Did you know them?"

Instead of answering Pat started to sob. It was an ugly sort of sobbing with snot running from his nose and his throat straining to breathe. He fell down on his knees and wallowed in the tears. Logan stayed beside him until he was able to muster up the strenght to whisper

"That- That was a Guardian Angel" Just saying it made Pat sob even harder.

"Is....is it bad that they saw you? Is it bad that they saw us together? Are you in danger?"

He shook his head "no. no. I'm not the one in danger. Guardian- Guardian Angel's they- they come to humans who- who are- they make sure the human hasn't sinned because because the human is- is soon going to die"

Logan couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"I thought we would have at least 60 years together. This is too fast this isn't enough time! I should have been more careful! I should have shielded you from harm's way!"

"They cant know that. I'm not even ill. Why would I die now. This can't be real. This can't be"

That evening Logan got a fever so severe that he passed out in his lover's arms. The day after painful nodes swelled up in dark bruised patches on his skin.

It was the plauge, and they both knew no one survived the plauge for longer than a week.

-

Scotland, 2024

"Hold up" Janus interrupted "You got the bloody plauge? As in the black plague? The bird mask one? The one they buried kids alive because of?"

"Yes"

Janus couldn't help his curosity "....Did it hurt?"

"Yes. The pain was not the worst part of it though. I loathed the powerlessness. I felt pieces of my body giving out hour after hour. Losing the ability to care for myself was humiliating. Not to even speak of being in too much pain to use my brain. I have always been proud of my intelligence so being in such a state as to not even be able to form words properly hurt deeply"

The human nodded along "I know that feeling. I spent so long in the hospital after the accident I had to relearn what existing in the outside world was like- I was in a car crash as a kid. That's why I look" He motioned to his scars "Like this"

Logan's eyebrow raised slightly but he didn't let his expression change in any other way "An accident huh?"

"Yeah, the doctors said it was a medical miracle I even survived. By all logic I should have died and in the slim chance I survived I should have been paralyzed almost completely" He wiggled his fingers "But clearly I'm not"

"I am sorry to hear that…" He chose his words carefully "Was anyone there to support you?"

"Uhhh the foster system is honestly shit. Absolute rubbish. But I did meet Virgil. He's my roommate nowadays. We've stuck together like parasites"

Logan took a deep breath "I see. I see" He stood up and Janus noticed that his hands had clutched into fists "Would you give me a moment"

The demon opened the window and summoned his wings just to descend to the garden below. Janus watched as he stopped Remus in his tracks by grabbing him by the bottom of his tail and heaving him up into the air.

"Were you aware that Janus had been saved by a Guardian Angel!?" His voice was barely being contained below a shout.

Sweatdroplets ran down Remus' forehead "...I promised The angel I wouldn't tell anyone"

"And this Angel is that Virgil roomate I assume!?"

Remus didn't respond.

"IS IT?"

He nodded.

Logan let go off him to instead rub the bridge of his nose "You idiot! If you had told me from the start we could have figured out how to help your dear human immediately!"

"Honey?" Patton had come out of the house "What's going on?"

"This dumbass has been hiding the reason for why Management wants Janus dead! Janus was supposed to die YEARS ago but his Guardian Angel saved him! He must have cheated death a hundred times by now!"

Patton covered his mouth with his hands "Oh dear.."

"Why does the manager shitheads care for when he dies!?" Remus exclaimed.

"Because he's spent his entire life being intertwined with a supernatural being! There is no way he is simply going to disapear like a normal human when he dies! He's going to turn into one of us! Or something similar! Hell wanted you to seduce him so he would become a demon when he died! So he would be on Hell's side!" Logan let out an annoyed groan "You've put us all in danger do you not realize that!?"

Remus shriveled in on himself.

"You've practically brought an Angel to our home. He's probably on his way to us right now! And you didn't tell us!"

Patton brought his arm around his husband and whispered for him to take deep breathes before he started throwing stuff at Remus.

"Kiddo we don't usually involve ourself in supernatural matters anymore. We just want a quiet life. We only helped you because you were so close by that we couldn't ignore it. You should have told us!"

"I don't think that Angel wimp is gonna do much" Remus mumbled back.

"What the bloody hell are you talking about!?" Janus yelled. He had run out onto the poarch "What the hell are you saying about Virgil!?"