The next morning Blitzø had gotten up for work, asking Stolas to open a portal for him to his apartment. He kissed Stolas' cheek and promised to call him later. He hopped through the portal later. He hopped through the portal, seeing Loona making herself coffee in the kitchen. He waved to her as the portal closed behind him. He made his way to his room and closed the door.
He changed out of his pajamas and threw on a red turtleneck, black pants, and a loose black bomber jacket. He walked out of the room to see Loona standing at the door, her arms crossed over her chest.
"Well look who decided to come home," She had a sly smile on her lips looking Blitzø up and down, "How was the nerd bird's house?"
Blitzø rolled his eyes at Loona and shoved her arm playfully as he walked past her, "It was fine Loonie. Why? Did you MISS ME?" Blitzø wiggled his eyebrows at his adopted daughter smiling at her.
Loona scoffed walking behind him towards the kitchen, "Over my dead body. It was nice to not hear you throwing up a lung the past two mornings."
In reality, something she would never admit, she really had missed him. She had walked into his room the day before expecting to see him in bed, but was thoroughly saddened that he wasn't there. She had felt so lonely that day. Something that she hadn't felt in a really long time since before Blitzø had adopted her.
Loona sat at the table going back to her coffee that was on the table and shoving a donut in her mouth. Blitzø sat across from her making his own cup of coffee and scrolling on his phone. He looked up at Loona contemplating whether or not to bring up Stolas' proposition to her. Yeah, it was a good idea long term, but how would Loona react? Let alone Octavia who had already blew up at him not even forty-eight hours ago.
"Loona, can I ask you something?"
Loona looked up at him raising an eyebrow, "Sure. What's up?"
Blitzø tapped his nails on the tabletop avoiding Loona's gaze, "Stolas brought something up to me that I thought I should run past you." He looked up at his daughter seeing her confused face, but continued.
"How would you feel about living at the palace?"
Loona's eyes widened at the question and she immediately went into protective mode, "What does he want from you for moving into the palace? I get you guys are 'boyfriends' or whatever, but is there a catch?"
Blitzø looked into his coffee cup shaking his head, "No. There's no catch. Its for the twins' sake. For them to be raised with both Stolas and I." Blitzø looked up to see Loona's mouth about to hit the floor. He blushed realizing he told Loona what he found out yesterday.
"YOU'RE HAVING TWINS?!" Loona shook her head to get the dumb look off her face before it was there permanently. She crossed her arms looking Blitzø up and down, her eyes narrowing into slits, "When did you find out? You haven't been keeping this from me too have you?"
Blitzø waved his hands in front of himself and shook his head, "No of course not! I just found out last night! I was planning to tell all of you guys at the office today."
Loona's ears flattened against her head, a sad look crossing her features. Why was she being grouped in with Moxxie and Millie? Was she not more important than the two employees that her dad had hired? She was his daughter after all. Adopted, but still his daughter.
She looked up at Blitzø, "Why wouldn't you tell me by myself? Am I just an employee like the lovebirds you hired?"
Blitzø looked confused at the question, "What are you saying? That I'm putting you all on the same level? For fucks sake Loona…" Blitzø pinched the skin between his eyes sighing. He didn't know why all of a sudden Loona was being clingy. She had never been like this until he got pregnant, but he was going to get to the bottom of it.
"What crawled up your ass? You've been clingier than Stolas when he wants my dick." Blitzø looked his daughter up and down trying to see if she gave anything away.
Loona scowled, her eyebrow twitching as she brought her cup to her lips to take a drink. She then slammed the mug down thoroughly irritated, "If I'm your daughter shouldn't I know these things before anyone else? I…" Loona swallowed her pride for a second and spoke.
"I've been out of the loop for all of this. You have gone days without calling me or updating me on if you're okay. Yesterday I felt so…lonely. Stolas had just came by to grab you and then I didn't hear from you until you walked in about fifteen minutes ago." Loona's barriers were completely falling down as she spoke. She couldn't look up at Blitzø for fear of how he was looking at her. Probably with pity.
"I know I'm an adult, but I still need my dad. You're the only person that I've got."
Shit, Blitzø was watching Loona as she spoke. He hadn't realized that as much as all this change was affecting him, it had been doing just as much to her. He put his head in his hands realizing his fuck up. He never had this many people that needed him around. It had always just been himself after Barbie disappeared into rehab and his mom died. He looked up at Loona who was still staring into her coffee cup.
Blitzø stood up and crossed the table to hug his daughter. He felt her return the hug tightly. Blitzø looked at Loona who still was clearly upset. He sat on the chair next to her and grabbed her hand.
"I'm sorry Loonie. I knew that this was a big change for me, but I didn't realize that it was just as big for you. I'll put you in the loop more often now, okay? And I won't disappear for days without updating you or bringing you along with me. Does that sound good?" Blitzø saw Loona's eyes brighten as she nodded. She pulled him into one last hug, needing to just be close to Blitzø for another minute before she got up grabbing the van keys.
"Let's get to work."
They had locked up and were in the van when Loona spoke again.
"By the way, I think you should take his offer."
Blitzø looked up at Loona raising an eyebrow, "You think so?"
Loona nodded starting the car and beginning to drive towards Millie and Moxxie's house, "I'm surprised you didn't jump at the chance. Who wouldn't want to live in a palace? Plus, I don't think that you and the prince of horniness are ever going to split."
Blitzø looked up from the game he was playing on his phone, "The fuck makes you think that?"
Loona rolled her eyes, "You think that you would've been going to the palace every month to have sex with the prince if you didn't at least somewhat like him? Plus, I've seen the pictures you take of him sleeping on your phone. At one point I think you accidentally made one your wallpaper."
Blitzø blushed looking out the window. Was he really that obvious? He was lost in thought as they pulled up to Millie and Moxxie's house. They piled in, Millie immediately hugging Blitzø around his neck from behind.
"B! Where were you? We had to run the office without you!" Millie exclaimed throwing herself back into her seat.
Moxxie nodded at his wife looking at Blitzø, "Yeah sir. You didn't bother calling either. We were worried."
Blitzø was internally happy that he was missed by the two smaller imps, but went back into his usual joking demeaner, "I was with feathers for brains yesterday. No need to worry about me."
They got to the building walking up to the office. Blitzø sat on the waiting room couch. For some reason he was out of breath and he couldn't for the life of him figure why.
Probably has something to do with the twins, He ran a hand over his pregnant stomach soothing the active babies inside. He got some worried looks from his crew, but he waved them off.
"Come on guys. Let's get this fucking day started." Blitzø walked into their conference room loving the familiar look of the office. He hadn't realized how much missing a day at work would affect him. He sat at the farthest end watching Moxxie sort through the manila files of jobs that they had to do that day.
Blitzø made mental notes of what the various jobs were and went to go grab his gear along with Mox and Mills.
"Loona! Portal sweetie!" He said as he shoved his prized gun in his boot, just in case. He watched as Loona opened the portal to their first job of the day. The three imps walked through and immediately the portal closed behind them. Blitzø looked at Moxxie.
"Tell me what the fucker looks like again Mox?" Blitzø said as they hid behind a dumpster. Their first job being in a city meant that they weren't very hidden at all.
Moxxie looked at the notes on his phone, "Well it's two people. A couple I believe. One is a red-headed female, and the other is a brunette male. I guess they were each cheating on their partners with each other."
Blitzø looked out from behind the dumpster seeing a lot of people walking the streets. Even with it being nighttime it was going to be hard for them to stay out of sight, "Why the fuck did they have to be in the middle of a clusterfuck of people?"
Millie jumped on top of the dumpster and then climbed an emergency fire escape to get onto the roof. Moxxie and Blitzø followed suit watching to see if they could see the targets. They all watched the street, looking into every business and apartment on that strip. The targets were nowhere to be seen.
"Where the fuck are these people? Maybe we were given the wrong address."
Suddenly, the three imps heard a gun cock behind them. Blitzø looked back to see a muscular man wearing a suit with a gun pointed at Blitzø's head. He froze in place. They had never had a human get the jump on them before.
"SCATTER!" Blitzø yelled jumping off the roof and onto a dumpster as Millie and Moxxie went into two separate directions. To his dismay there were more humans with guns pointed at him. He pulled out his own guns a hard look plastering itself on his face. He began to shoot and kill some of the humans, but not before getting shot himself. He yelled in pain at the bullet that lodged itself into his bicep. He saw out of the corner of his eye Millie and Moxxie being carried off in a cage by a woman and a man that had the description of their targets.
He suddenly realized what had happened and cursed himself. They had gotten played.
Next thing he knew he was shot with a tranquilizer gun and thrown in a cage. He was slid into a big truck next to Millie and Moxxie who were looking at him worried.
"B! Blitzø are you alright?!" Millie called out to her unconscious boss. She looked at Moxxie angry tears falling down her face, "Mox…"
Moxxie grabbed Millie holding her close as he looked at their boss, "We'll get out of this Mills. Don't worry."
They didn't know how much time had passed when the truck had finally stopped. The door was opened to reveal One and Two, clad in their black suits and black sunglasses, smirking at their prizes. The cages of imps were brought into the D.H.O.R.K.S building and thrown into holding cells after they were stripped of their weapons and devices.
Blitzø had woken up after a few hours looking across the way at Millie and Moxxie, his vision still blurry from being out for so long.
"Sir! You're awake!" Moxxie said running towards the glass door of his cell and looking Blitzø up and down, "Are you hurt?"
Blitzø shook his head, "Other than a bullet in my arm, I think I'm okay. What the fuck happened?"
Millie looked towards Blitzø, "They got the drop on us B. It looks like they had been planning this for a while."
Blitzø looked at his surroundings. A steel reenforced cell with nothing to view the outside world. He looked down the hallway, but couldn't see anything worth noting. He cursed himself and sat on the ground, curling around himself.
"Sir, what are we going to do?" Moxxie asked looking slightly scared at what was to come for them.
Blitzø buried his face in his knees, "Let's hope that Loona started looking for us by now because from where I'm sitting… we're fucked."
Luckily, Blitzø had been right. Loona was pacing the waiting room at I.M.P looking at her phone every few seconds to see if her dad texted her yet or not. She growled getting impatient. She looked at her phone and dialed the one person who she thought would know what to do.
Stolas.
The phone rang for a few second before she heard Stolas' light airy voice on the other end of the phone, "Goetia residence!"
Loona immediately spilled what was going on worry clear in her voice, "…and they've been gone for HOURS Stolas! I don't know what to do!"
Suddenly, Stolas was in the office clad in a flowy dress shirt and black pants. He looked at Loona his eyes glowing brighter than usual.
"My grimoire please." Stolas' voice was hard and cold. He grabbed it from Loona as she handed it to him. He flipped pages to a locating spell. He opened a portal his eyes glowing as the places changed rapidly. He stopped when he saw Blitzø, Moxxie and Millie sitting in cells looking defeated. He stepped through, but not before changing into his human form along with Loona.
Blitzø looked up at Stolas' human face, tears running down his face, "Stols, I-"
Stolas hushed him, "Later. First, we have to get you all out of these cells." Stolas' hands glowed with blue magic, easily unlocking the cells. An alarm began to blare as the cells were opened, startling all of them.
"MOVE IT!" Loona yelled as Moxxie and Millie ran through the portal with her. Stolas picked up Blitzø who looked numb to what was going on and ran through with him, but not before getting hit with a bullet. It didn't affect him at all as the portal closed behind the five of them.
Stolas transformed back into his normal form as Blitzø hugged his neck sobbing. The pregnant imp had never been more scared in his life. The tears, no matter how much he tried, just wouldn't stop coming.
"Blitzø…" Stolas said sitting on the waiting room couch with him still in his arms. Moxxie, Millie and Loona all looked at each other worried about the one person that never showed emotion like that.
Blitzø looked up at Stolas tears still rapidly falling down his face, "We were tricked. They were there waiting for us when we got topside Stolas. I didn't know what to do. I didn't think to have Loona bring us back. I was so fucking scared Stols."
Stolas watched as Blitzø explained every detail of what happened, and he sighed, "Blitzy. I'm just glad you're okay. I couldn't imagine something happening to you."
Stolas looked at Millie and Moxxie, "I will get you all human disguises. I have someone who sells them through the underground markets. But you," Stolas lifted Blitzø's chin with his hand, "I don't think it's safe for you anymore. What if we hadn't gotten to you all in time?"
Blitzø looked down at his hands staring into his palms, "Stolas…"
Stolas pressed a finger to Blitzø's lips, "But I know that I have no power to stop you. I will get all three of you disguises, you just have to promise to be more careful and cautious especially in your condition."
Blitzø nodded slowly, looking up at Stolas, "I promise."
Stolas nodded looking at the other three that were in the room, "Loona, you are welcome to join us at the palace tonight. You other two," Stolas smiled at them gently, "Go home and get some rest." He opened a portal to the couple's home and closed it after they said their goodbyes and then opened one for himself, Blitzø and Loona.
They walked into the kitchen through the portal and Stolas set Blitzø down as he showed Loona to her room for the night. He went to his bedroom after leaving his partners daughter to settle in to see Blitzø turned away from him, buried in the covers. Stolas walked over to him, laying on the bed and holding Blitzø to his chest. He let tears flow from his eyes
They walked into the kitchen through the portal and Stolas set Blitzø down as he showed Loona to her room for the night. He went to his bedroom after leaving his partners daughter to settle in to see Blitzø turned away from him, buried in the covers. Stolas walked over to him, laying on the bed and holding Blitzø to his chest. He let tears flow from his eyes, the gravity of the situation catching up with him.
Blitzø rubbed Stolas' arm trying to console him, "I'm sorry Stolas. I-"
Stolas hugged Blitzø close, "No more talking… I just…" He sighed shakily letting his worry and fear leave his body, "I just wish to hold you."
Blitzø obliged, hugging Stolas back. Blitzø soon fell asleep with Stolas still holding him close. He couldn't imagine losing the one person that was keeping him sane. He ran the back of his hand over Blitzø's cheek. He had been more than just worried for his pregnant partner, he thought there was a chance he wouldn't ever see him again and that alone scared him to no end.
Soon the prince fell asleep, worry and fear dissipating between the couple and leaving only love in its wake