A younger and serious Adrian Craven was strolling through the streets, trying not to look at the humans. They surely had much simpler lives, after all they didn´t have to face a council that believed reapers should be emotionless each day. Sometimes he only wanted to ditch everything, even his high position on the society of Shinigami, but he didn´t have a real reason for doing so. He kept up his stoic façade (mostly created because he didn´t knew himself) and went to finish up his last job for the day. It was in a big manor, from a noble by the name of Claudia Phantomhive. When he finally reached the body, he found an unpleasant surprise.
"Sorry, but I will take that soul, I´m starving" the redheaded demon said, smiling to him. The ancient grabbed his scythe and took fighting stance, but the other man didn´t seem too willing to fight. "Maybe you should put that down"
"You don´t have any idea of how many demons I have killed with this" answered him.
"Oh, many lots, by the looks of it, but I don´t really care" the reaper didn´t let himself be surprised. But then the demon did something that threw him out of balance. "Do you know why a desk and a crow are similar?"
"What?"
"Why a desk and a crow are similar? You have a minute to answer!" Adrian, a little bit startled, started thinking while his opponent take the time. "End! And the answer is… nothing!"
"Nothing?"
"Nothing!" it was a pretty bad joke, but the redhead laughed so much of his face that the silverette´s eyebrow twitched as well as his mouth. The demon´s howls were so contagious that in the end he ended up doing that too. "Hey, your laugh is so pretty"
"Ehehehehe… hum!" he covered his mouth with his hand. "No! I hate it!"
"Don´t, it´s a part of yourself…" he looked around. "My master is waiting for me and I don´t really need that soul, besides it´s not really my type, so You have it! I´m Mooner, by the way… or that´s how my master named me"
"I…"
"You don´t have to give me your name, but I wouldn´t mind seeing you again. Maybe then you would heard some other good jokes"
"Do you call that a joke?"
"You laughed!"
"It was lame! And I only laughed because you face was so much funny that it compensated the bad joke!"
"You little reaper…"
"I´m not little, I´m an ancient!" they started to fight until a call from the noble made the demon butler go to his master. Adrian grumped and smiled for the first time in many centuries. He discovered something about himself, he liked to laugh… a lot. And for the first time in his existence he felt like seeing a demon again. He spent all that night in his library, researching for jokes. After meeting some times, it was kind of a tradition to have a joke match. And the one that loses have to give the winner something.
"Okay, okay!" screamed Adrian after laughing so hard that his sides hurts. "The death took place in the old warehouse…" he spit out some more information for the cases the Phantomhives were working in. soon he was the number one informant and Claudia wanted to meet him personally.
"You don´t have anything against, no?"
"Well… no" answered the reaper, making his big scythe disappear and walking with his new friend. That was his first tea in the Phantomhive mansion, where he would in the future be named one of the nobles of evil. He was presented with the name of Undertaker, a stupid joke of Mooner, that once said that his death scythe was a stereotype from Thanatos.
"You look different today, you know?" said a young Senecius, that was looking at his friend with dreamy eyes. He had a particular impression as to why he was like that. "Have something good happened to you lately?" he teased.
"Hum? No, not at all!" he answered, still smiling. The other returned the smile. Yes, Adrian was in love. The silver reaper then excused himself and went home (or to the Phatomhive manor to have another match with the butler) and the doctor was left. Lucien passed that moment and was stopped by him.
"I think Adrian is in love"
"Yes, with me" answered the other ancient. "Because we are a couple, you know"
"You and Adrian? Please, Lucy, only in your dreams" the doctor said before leaving, without knowing how deep he just offended the obsessed man. And worried him. Who was the bastard that was getting into his and Adrian´s path to happiness? He needed to disappear…
"Ehehehehehehehe!" laughed the silverette before falling to the floor. "Then, what do you want to know now?"
"Nothing, I just wanted to do something"
"What?"
"This" he grabbed the legendary reaper and kissed him on the lips. The surprise was more than enough to throw him out of balance, not knowing what to do.
"This shouldn´t have happened" he said, whipping his mouth before going away. He couldn´t deny he enjoyed it… and it was the dangerous part. For both of them. "I think we should stop seeing each other"
"But, Adrian…"
"Now" he tried to sound firm, but his resolution wasn´t. by the end of the week he was back to the routine, because he found out that now he needed to be with Mooner or wouldn´t feel complete. The demon received him with a smile.
"Want to play?" and they started with their joke war again.
-Some months later-
Adrian Craven was more confused than at the beginning. Now he was in a relationship with a demon (he couldn´t say that no, they did everything lovers do except for sex) and couldn´t felt better. He even knew himself more than ever before! He discovered he was curious, very curious. He wanted to know if there was something after the end. One day he brought up his thoughts to his boyfriend.
"Hum? This is not something an exemplary reaper should think about"
"You know, each day there is less and less of that exemplary legendary reaper and more from Adrian Craven, the Undertaker. If you don´t like it…"
"I love it" Mooner answered with a smile. Dorain was near them, shaking his head. Why did his aster have to fell in love with a reaper? There was something very wrong with his head. "I love the Adrian that laughs and lives life not like he has been told but like he wanted to"
"That makes me happy" then something crossed the silver haired man´s mind. "What´s your true name, by the way? I´m not saying that Mooner is bad, but I want to know"
"It´s Lucifer" answered the demon sincerely. "Lucifer Luciferinis, Prince of Pride"
"W…what?!" a memory flashed in front of the reaper´s eyes, of a demon much older than this, on the floor after being defeated by the sacrifice of a lot of his elders. He remembered grabbing the sword that laid near him and thrusting it into Lucifer´s hearth. Between laughers, the proud demos disappear… the father of his boyfriend. "I… knew your father in the war… hum"
"What´s the matter, Adrian? You suddenly look pale"
"I…" well, better now than later. "I was the one that delivered the killing blow to him"
"I know" was the simple answer from the second Prince of Pride. Undertaker raised his head in sudden confusion. "Come on, you are the Whip of the Demons, it´s not like we didn´t know what you did… like a horror history"
"Thank you"
"But that doesn´t matter. In a war even the powerful ones fall, and you were only a little boy, afraid of ending up dead like a lot before you" the demon smiled at him, then gave a devious way. "And, between us, I didn´t like him very much, he was kind of an asshole. He didn´t even allowed me to go near him"
"Well, he died in a fit of laughter" Adrian didn´t know what else to say. "He was a jerk"
Some months later Senecius was still pressing his friend to tell him who was he dating. He even was visiting the Craven Manor at an unholy hour. It was a miracle he didn´t crashed into Lucifer more than one time. The demon got up late to make Adrian some breakfast, in efforts to be romantic, after spending the night at his house, but he turned out to be a terrible housekeeper, turning everything into a mess.
"How were you employed as a butler? I really don´t get Claudia, her house has to be a mess" the silverette asked after a few laughs when the prince managed to burn the water (something that appears to be impossible).
"I have other duties in which I am the best" defended himself the royal, trying to look great in the middle of the disaster zone… which his sheath was already trying to tied up. "Plus, I have Dorian to pick up my mess"
"Lucky you" said the reaper, sitting down while the sheath cooked him some eggs. "Last night you were somewhat nervous, what happened?"
"Well, after much deliberation and thinking, I decided that I wanted to ask you something even if my family won´t be much glad by my choice… in fact, they might want to murder me" the prince took his ring, a simple band with a green crystal engraved with the symbol of the Luciferinis house from his hand. "Adrian, would you like to wear my ring?"
"Um?" that woke up the Legend completely. Accepting that ring was not a joke, it meant he was mating the demon, tying his life to him. He wanted to say yes, but… what would happen in the next years? And centuries? There was too much to think about, too much insecurity.
"I wouldn´t want anyone else to use it. I love you, the real you, and I don´t care what the world will think of us in the following times. I want to spend the rest of my live with you. So… do you want to use the ring?"
"Yes…"
After that he met the Luciferinis family. The demons were not so happy that their cousin was going to mate a reaper, but they couldn´t convince him from doing so. They prepared themselves to tolerate a reaper in their house from now on. Specially Asmodeus (Elladora later), that for some reason couldn´t stand Adrian, not that it wasn´t mutual…
"You know, you should bring one of your friends to the ceremony too" said Lucifer, even if he himself wasn´t convinced that it was a good idea. After he ended that phrase the door banged open, revealing a reaper in a lab´s coat.
"Adrian! I´m here and I´m not going to leave before… Demons!" screamed Senecius and called for his death scythe, but was intercepted by his friend and at down by the force. After being explained too why the demon in question was here, all the doctor could do was stare in disbelieve. "You are dating a demon? God, you truly are crazy. I thought you have changed before when you stopped being serious and changed your hairstyle, but this…"
"My new hair style is not that bad" commented the silverette, a little bit offended. The truth was that the idea of letting his hair lose wasn´t exactly his. One day when he woke up late for work after spending a night with his boyfriend, he just ran out, not wanting overtime or noticing that while he was asleep the demon made a thin braid on his locks. In the end, after all the Dispatch commented on that, he decided it was not that bad and he should keep it.
"It´s irrelevant" stated Senecius, crossing his arms. "Is there something else I need to know?"
"I´m… kinda… getting married"
"No shit!" the other practically howled and then grabbed his hand and sunk himself on the chair. "Oh, God. Have you even realize what are you doing?"
"Mixing a reaper with a demon? I don´t think it´s quite uncommon"
"Well… no. I have seen some half breed children, but they were executed after being born along with their parents. Do you want something like that if you ever get pregnant?"
"No, but… I love him and I won´t go back on this" said Adrian sure. "Please, Sene-kun, help me with this. Be there for me and gave the satisfaction that at least one of my kind values my happiness more than the rules."
"I´m not walking you down the aisle, but I will definitely be there" grunted the doctor, crossing his arms. He wanted his friend to be happy and, by the way the demon was looking at him, he could tell they really love each other. But anyway, it was a dangerous thing, and he would need to be there as an ally to hide everything and more. He grinded his teeth. "You have to promise me something" after a short nod he proceed to speak. "If you ever suspected you are pregnant, you have to take immediate leave and come to me"
"Why? it´s not like it´s going to be very noticeable in the first few months"
"This is not a joke" the medic scolded seriously. "If you ever have a child there is a great chance that he might be powerful, as a demon or as a reaper. The offspring of an Ancient and a Luciferinis will be hard to hide… and you need to do this carefully. Probably, if you ever have a kid, the waves of demonic energy he gave would be enough warming for the alarms to get on"
"Okay, I promise I will"
The wedding was magnificent. Senecius, who didn´t like being surrounded by demons, tried to keep a neutral expression for the sake of his friend. After a few glasses of liquor, he even managed to feel good enough to dance with some girls. He woke up the next day with a huge hangover and a desire to take the longest bath in his life, but was happy for Adrian. The couple, that wouldn´t want to live with a lot of joykillers, moved to the Craven Manor. The place was renovated in a few days by Annafellows, that happens to know exactly what his master would have wanted.
"This is going to be the beginning of our new life" said Lucifer and kissed his mate… both unaware of the hateful eyes that were starring at them.
