#the vees are there but they aren't really the main focus so I'm torn on whether to tag them

[blue-rose-soul]

So we all know Alastor's gonna be at second death's door before that wound gets fixed. Even with the footage of his fight with Adam, he'd sidestep any acknowledgement of it.

What's the fallout like in the Main Devil's Bastard AUs?

In the Devil's Bastard AU, Alastor manages to hide his wound up until the moment the Vees make their move and launch an assault against Charlie and her people. Alastor steps in to give his sister investment a chance to escape and in the ensuing combat his wound is reopened. The battle is vicious, resulting in widespread destruction and a massive number of bystander casualties. At first Alastor does manage to hold his own against Vox in spite of the wound gushing blood.

But then the other Vees step in. I'm willing to bet that Vox is the powerhouse of the group with his hypnotism and eletrokinesis, but being Overlords themselves, Valentino and Velvette have to be quite powerful as well. Alastor does manage to hold them at bay for a while, even as badly wounded as he is, but he winds up on the back foot surrounded by three powerful Overlords, the leader of whom is gleefully bragging about how he's going to break Alastor over and over again until Alastor's begging Vox to take his soul just to stop the pain.

Fortunately by this point Charlie's caught her second wind and rejoins the battle. She easily dispatches Valentino and Velvette thanks to her pure strength and the element of surprise. Vox avoids her assault by teleporting away though and no matter Alastor's taunts, he's quite powerful on his own. Maybe not as powerful as Alastor or Charlie at full strength, but both of them are wounded and exhausted and Vox is still in fighting shape. Still, two against one with Charlie's strength and Alastor's skill combined, the battle is far more even than Vox would like it. So he makes a final desperate move for Alastor, planning to grab him and drag him back to Vee Tower through the electrical currents, even if it means leaving the other Vees behind.

That's when Lucifer appears, called by Charlie before she jumped back into battle. He plows Vox into the concrete so hard that the crater Charlie smacked Adam into looks puny by comparison. Vox is just lucky Lucifer is far more concerned about his wounded and exhausted children. Lucifer leaves the Vees twitching on the ground like insects on a windshield as he lifts up Alastor - who's now lost so much blood he's struggling to keep himself upright - and opens a portal back to the hotel.

The next few weeks are filled with much smothering and hovering. For Charlie and Alastor both, but it's especially intense directed towards Alastor, whom everyone in the hotel now knows has been hiding a very large angel-inflicted wound for well over a month. Even when he wakes after passing out for three days, he's confined to further bed rest against his will and really, the only thing keeping him there is Nicaise's, 'I am both angry AND disappointed,' glare.

This would likely mark the first time since The Reveal that Alastor and Lucifer actually talk to one another, and that's mainly because Alastor is a captive audience. Granted, it's less a conversation than an argument, with Alastor reiterating for what must be the thousandth time that he's capable of looking after himself and Lucifer trying to drive home that, as much as Alastor may try to act otherwise, he isn't invincible (without making it sound like a slight. It only sort of gets through).

The argument gradually shifts to Lucifer trying, again, to verbally reaffirm their familial connection and Alastor, again, shooting it down.

L: We're family! That should mean something! A: Why should it? I am the exact same person now as I was when you first stepped foot through the old hotel's doors. I am the same mass murderer. I am the same cannibal. I am the same sinner you so thoroughly despise. The only thing that's changed is that you are aware of this flimsy blood relation that hasn't affected either of us for the past century, so why should it now? L: It just does! What do I need to do to prove it? I would have taken responsibility for you if I'd known you existed back then, and I want to now. Okay? I want to be your dad! A: No, you don't. You just don't want to feel like you've failed as a parent twice over.

Lucifer spends the rest of the evening down at the bar bending Husk's ear.

This is also the point where Charlie decides maybe staying uninvolved isn't the best move. She asks Angel Dust for advice - not wanting to repeat earlier mistakes - but he doesn't have much insight to offer since this situation is very different from the one between him and Valentino. But he does reassure her that this situation is her business, considering it's her family involved.