They make their way outside, seeing the Vees sitting at the top of a giant robot, Vox in the middle.
"Try and ignore me now Voe! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Are you serious?"
Alastor rolls his eyes "Ugh,"
"I'M VERY FUCKING SERIOUS! HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW VOE?"
"Less and less!"
"FUCK YOU!"
Vox presses a button and shoots a missile at the hotel. Voe whips around at the damage, as Angel runs outside.
"What the fuck?! That wall again?! Oh hi, Vox,"
"FUCK YOU ANGEL! NOBODY LIKES YOU!"
"Everybody likes me!"
"Velvette, are you seriously part of this nonsense?"
She sighs, holding up her phone "No, I'm just here for the views,"
Voe sighs "Fair enough,"
Alastor grows ten times larger and shoots out his tentacles, wrapping them around the giant robot's legs and pulling them forward as the Vees crash down on the ground. They shoot another missile that Voe narrowly avoids.
Alastor growls "Have a nice trip? See you next fall," he laughs and he stands and steps atop the robot crushing its legs
"MY LEGS!" Vox screams
"And next will be your face! LEAVE! HA HA!"
Vox points up at Alastor "YOU DON'T SCARE ME!"
"But do I?" Voe flies up in her demon form baring her teeth
Vox scoffs and turns his head up in concern "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" he points upward
Voe crosses her arms as Angel brings out Charlie, Vaggie, Lucifer, Casper, and many other residents. "Nice try, but I'm not a child," she glances down seeing everyone else looking up as well, and turns to where Vox is pointing.
A hoard of exorcist angels descending from a portal to Heaven wielding weapons as they get closer, with Lute front and center.
"I think we should go," Val tells Vox
Velvette nods "Agreed,"
Vox presses a button and the top of the robot ejects and launches them back toward V-Tower.
"What's going on? Why are you here?" Charlie asked
"You're overdue on an extermination," Lute spits through her teeth "But we're here by order of the Head Seraphim, to eliminate a pair of illegal sinner children,"
Voe's eyes shoot open and glances back down at her husband and Lucifer. Illegal sinner children?
My children. She thought. Her children, innocent and little, never asked to be here and only brought love and light to every room they entered. They slept peacefully in their crib and here come angels trying to kill them.
"We don't know what you're talking about," Charlie lies, her eyes darting back and forth
Lute scoffs "You're a terrible liar. Bring us the little abominations and you can keep whatever is left of the 'hotel' once we're done with them,"
"NO!" She screams without thinking
For the first time, Lute turns to her "Oh? Are the abominations yours?" she smirks a sick smirk
"You're the abomination with your metal arm, that's not natural. Isn't that against Heaven's way?"
Lute laughs dryly "Funny, but we're still killing your children,"
Vaggie flies up next to Voe, her spear drawn "Then you'll have to get past us," she points it at Lute
"I intend to. You and I have a score to settle," she grins before launching at Vaggie
"Vaggie!" Charlie called out
The angels descend upon them, as Voe twitches and convulse, turning into a large dragon. She bites and swipes at them as Alastor uses his tentacles to grab and throw exorcists about, Cherri throwing angelic bombs, Angel shooting angelic bullets from machine guns, Husk with his cards, and Niffty with her dagger. One of the exorcists zooms past them, straight through the glass of the window looking into their room, Voe changes back and follows her, finding her babies crying after being awoken.
"Aw, how cute are they? Shame they'll have to die,"
"If you don't leave my kids right now, I will kill you with your own weapon
She chuckles and reaches down to grab Alyson when she is suddenly slammed through the wall by Voe.
"Not my daughter, you bitch!" Voe spits through her sharp teeth. The tussle between them lasts a bit. Voe is not above scratching and biting, leaving as much damage as possible, her nails coated with angelic steel. She wrestles the sword out of the woman's hands and slowly inserts it into her abdomen "I say exactly what I mean!" she comments before running her through with the sword and slicing her up the middle. Golden blood splattered onto her face.
Voe slices her way through every exorcist who tries to lay a hand on her babies, braving through the slashes they land on her as well. Her anger was more righteous than the ones attacking them.
"I told these bitches that she would come back! AAAAHHH!" She screams while sltting an angel's throat "Why didn't you just kill her?!" she slashes an angel's stomach open. She takes her time to soothe her babies back to sleep "I'm sorry, I know Mommy is being loud, let me move you somewhere else." she takes them to her closet, wraps them in clothes, and places them on the floor "I know I'm sorry this isn't ideal, but I want to keep you safe, okay? I'll come back once this is over, alright? Momma loves you," she kisses their foreheads as they fall back to sleep closes the door behind them.
Voe takes a deep breath and rubs her head, the sounds of battle getting to her. When she opens her eyes she sees Alastor, taking care of one exorcist while another sneaks up behind him. Her eyes widened as she dove out the window with no hesitation, using her wings to glide down and intercept the exorcist's blade. The only consequence being that she herself was slashed, the blade meeting her skin and being driven deep into her torso. She closed her eyes, the pain taking over her body as she screamed out. The pain is lessened while her eyes are closed, the blade no longer being driven deeper, but still inside her skin.
She opens her eyes and all of the crew surrounds her, bending and leaning down to look.
"It doesn't look good," Angel whispers
"Dad, can you do anything?" Charlie asks and Lucifer looks away knowing that he can't
Alastor breaks the semicircle, his smile tighter than it had ever been "Why would you- what?"
Voe coughs and sucks in some air at the pain of movement "She was…going to attack you," she smiles a little "So I stopped her,"
He moves his hands around frantically "W-why would you do that?" he cups her face
"Because I love you," the words came easily and naturally to her, even in this moment where every movement was hard
Lute lets out one more battle cry, trying to attack from behind, and Alastor enraged, grabs her spear with his bare hands and turns it around on her, making this her final stand. When he comes back, Voe's eyes are closed and she has stopped moving, not even breathing as they all stare.
"Come on Voe," Charlie gently tries to wake her "You can do this, you can stay awake," but she can't
Alastor can do nothing but stare with everyone else, as he forces his tears to stay inside their ducts, at least until he can be alone.
Voe lets out a large gasp and coughs heavily.
"You're all right?!" he asks her
She coughs again "I guess so, I felt myself dying, and then I just….didn't," she reaches for him and he helps her stand. Once she's steady, she pulls the blade out of her with lots of effort, the sound of her screams the only thing heard. She drops the blade and beds over trying to breathe, a deep red spot soaks its way through her clothes. Alastor embraces her when he lets go, he holds her face, neither of them caring about the blood everywhere on them, mixing together.
"Once upon a time, you said I was a monster," he breathes into her
She nods with tears in her eyes "Yeah."
"You could truly love a monster?"
She smiles with the tears flowing "Only if that monster is you."
She leans in to kiss him and he leans to kiss her back before Voe feels an agonizing pain, as though her flesh was being torn. She bent forward in pain as two wings ripped themselves out of her back.
She collapses on the ground in pain. Alastor kneels to tend to her.
"Voe?!"
She lifted her head slowly "I'm okay. I'm okay." She looked at her lover, smiling "I'm okay."
"You have wings, my love,"
"Yeah, I can feel them" she laughs. She tried to pull him in for a kiss once more when a blinding light appeared behind them and Voe began floating towards it.
"Love, what are you doing?"
She whips her head around "I'm not doing that," Higher and higher she floats toward the light "Alastor?" Her arms are outstretched toward him, while he remains frozen in shock. "Alastor!"
Her cries snapping him back into reality and he jumps onto his feet, grabbing her hands as she is pulled toward and into the light.
"Vera!"
And just like that, she was gone. The image of her crying out and reaching for him, burned itself into his mind. And for the first time, Alastor did not care about his image, nor that people were watching, fell to his knees and cried.
"I never got to say I love you,"
