Lucifer steps out of Adam's room looking down at his hand wondering what he just did, to an enemy, to someone high on a love drug, to… Adam of all people. Looking down he notices that he's hard, how could he not be after seeing Adam in such a state. It's been years since he even touched his nether regions so it's not much of a surprise that he'd react to the sounds the man made, he'd be lying if he said Adam begging wasn't a turn on. Yet the memory of Lilith make him curse himself.
Taking some deep breaths and thinking of anything that would calm his hot body he wills himself to return to a more presentable state. The divorce, his disappointed daughter, that decrepit rip off of LuLu Land, and other thoughts help but also remind him of his depressing reality. Regardless he makes his way to the kitchen finding a bottle of water for the man. Then they all hear the front door open.
In walks an unfamiliar face, six goat horns sprout from the man's skull tanged in his red hair. The bottom two curl around his ears, the middle two curve back like Adam's old helmet did, and the top two shoot up like his and Charlie's, Lucifer wonders how the man sleeps comfortably with them. Hoofed feet stride into the foray black fur peeks out from his pants. Lucifer sees what look to be burned marks down his arms. Goat-like eyes shift around as if he's looking for something, as cigar smoke puffs out his flat nose. The man turns examining the hotel allowing Lucifer to spot a small tuft of a tail swaying with each step. One of the man's clothes is strange as well, an ancient looking deer pelt fashioned into a vest covering up his tanned chest, otherwise he's wearing fairly modern clothing.
Charlie trips rushing to the man with a large smile on her face to see someone new come into the hotel. "Hi! Welcome to the Hazbin Hotel, where sinners come to get redeemed! Are you looking for a room?"
The man watches her taking a drag from the cigar between his fingers then hunching over to be at her height and smiling a sharp toothed smile. "Sorry to break it to ya but there's not a shot in heaven I'm getting redeemed."
Charlie dims slightly but stays strong. "Don't say that every soul is capable of redemption."
"Heh, even if that was the case I doubt my family would take too kindly to seeing me in that golden palace, if you can't tell I'm sorta the black sheep of my family." He chuckled at his own joke, making the jewelry drilled into his horns jingle.
"If your family is in heaven then they'll definitely forgive whatever you did in life." Charlie tries still hoping the man will at least consider her hotel.
The man lets out a nervous laugh, sifting his eyes away from her. "You'd think that yeah… Speaking of heaven, that's the reason I'm here."
"So you do want to get into heaven?" Vaggie chimes in.
"No." The man says, slightly irritated. "I saw an angel flying across the sky first from around here and then again coming back, you wouldn't happen to know where that angel is would you?"
Lucifer walks out of the kitchen approaching the man. "You sure it wasn't just another winged demon?"
The man looks him up and down. "Lucifer, my king, no demon has gold wings. Besides I saw his face, and knew it was Adam, general of the exterminators. Can't get more angelelic than that."
"Are you sure he came this way?" Lucifer can't help the feeling like this guy is dangerous.
The man notices something on the couch, picking it up he twists one of Adam's fethers between his fingers. "Positive."
Lucifer silently curses, as Charlie keeps up a smile. "Why do you want to meet this Adam?"
The man smiles watching the feather reflect light. "I wanted to catch up, it's been forever since I got the chance to talk to dad."
"Dad?" Vaggie asks the question everyone's asking.
The man blinks then realizes something and laughs bending down again and holding out his hand to shake. "Sorry I totally forgot to introduce myself. I'm Cain, first murder, and second son of Adam and Eve."
"You're Cain?!" Charlie shouts.
"Oh, you've heard of me?" He smiles.
"Uh… ya Adam mentioned what you did to your brother…" Charlie says hoping she doesn't hit a sore spot for the demon.
Cain's eyes widened. "He's still mad about that? Man, I knew dad could hold a grudge but it's been over a thousand years. Plus my little shit of a twin got his worthless ass into heaven, what's he got to still be pissed about?"
"What do you mean by catching up?" Lucifer asks since he can't really answer Cain's questions.
Cain thinks for a second. "Well that depends on dad, if he wants a fight I'm happy to oblige, but if he's willing to actually talk I want to get some answers for a few things. Maybe we can try to salvage what's left of our family bond but I doubt that."
"Well he's asleep right now." Lucifer says.
"Hmm, then I'll come back later. I'm not dumb enough to wake him, unlike some of my siblings." Cain waves as he heads back to the front door of the hotel.
"Uh, wouldn't it be easier to see him when he wakes up if you stayed?" Charlie says hoping that Cain may reconsider his views on redemption.
"Sure, but I'm not the only child Adam has down here that would like a word with our dear old dad." He says leaving.
Charlie looks worried for half a second before steeling herself and smiling at her plan of action. "Well, we better prepare a good game for them to all bond together."
Vaggie looks at her girlfriend with concern. "I think it would be better to just put them all outside and let them fight each other to save the hotel from damage."
Lucifer holds Charlie's shoulder. "Charlie, apple of my eye. I don't think we should mettle with Adam and his kids, he's already volatile as it is just being here. I can't imagine that getting any better with your… games."
Charlie shakes her head. "Nonsense dad, everyone likes games. Oh I already have an idea! Hey Alestor!"
She ignores Lucifer's and Vaggie's advice rushing off to the radio demon who is happy to see this train wreck happen. The demon smiles at him, the shadows around him mocking the king. Lucifer flips the demon off as he storms up to Adam's room. Peeking in he sees Adam still curled up in the sheets.
"Hey, buddy you thirsty?" He offers the bottle to the man as approaches.
Adam mumbles something sleepily as he grabs Lucifer dragging the king into a cuddle. The angel wraps him close to his chest wings spreading to cover them both. He's mumbling the name Lute. Lucifer tries to get out of the hold only to be tugged into a tighter one. Adam being clingy reminds him of when the man was innocent. Before the apple he would normally grab anything he could get his hand on at the time, he once dragged a lion over to Lilith and Lucifer just so they could feel its soft fur.
Lilith… at the time he didn't understand her issues with Adam being his equal seemed fine to Lucifer but it wasn't enough for Lilith. She hated how easily Adam could just carry her around, or how dirty he got when searching for things, his messy eating, and other things that Lucifer thought was part of Adam's charm. At first Lilith would just leave Adam alone, listening to Lucifer's music rather than be near the man, but then Lucifer found her near the edges of Eden trying to find a way to get out. That was the first of many times he ever saw the two fight.
Adam had asked for help in finding Lilith, who was Lucifer to refuse? Flying far above the trees he scanned over the garden spotting Liliths golden hair near the walls of eden. It must have taken days to get there and Adam wouldn't have an easy time on foot. Flying back down he goes up to the anxious man.
"Uh okay I think I found her but she's pretty far, so I could probably fly you there faster than if you walked." Lucifer hopes his siblings don't see this he would be in trouble as it is just having the humans see him, let alone flying them around.
Adam looked at him confused. "You can carry me? Are you sure you won't drop me?"
Lucifer rolls his eyes knowing that Adam never thought his small body was that powerful. "I'm a lot stronger than I look."
Adam wasn't reassured but after days of hunting for the woman on his own he accepted the angel's offer. As soon as he nodded Lucifer wraps his arms around the first man lifting him with ease. Adam was amazed at the angel's strength and the new view flying gave. Lucifer could see the man's eye practically sparkle with new discovery.
Maybe that should be the gift he gives humans, knowledge. Sure God and the other angels said no but who would actually stop him? Beelzebub gave abundance, Asmodious gave love, Mammon gave gold, Satan gave power in emotion, Leviathan gave beauty, and Belphegor gave comfort. So he could give Knowledge, perfect, now the other seraphim won't be able to think up anything better than that. Take that Michel!
Lucifer lands not far from Lilith, setting Adam down. The man springs forward to the woman grabbing her arm and turning her around to search for injuries. "Lilith, honey where have you been?! I was worried sick-"
She tries to shake off Adam's grip to no avail before she suddenly slaps him across the face stunning him enough to wrench free. "Stop it! I'm leaving this prison you seem so comfortable in, come with me or stay here if you want but I'm going."
Adam is silent for a moment, rubbing his sore cheek and checking if she drew blood. "…Leaving? Wait, you want to leave Eden? Why, this is a literal paradise, why would you ever want to leave?"
"There's more than just here Adam, Lucifer proves that, so I intend to find somewhere better than here." She turns to continue ripping at the overgrowth on the gigantic walls around Eden.
The perplexed look on Adam's face made Lucifer feel even more guilty for telling Lilith about heaven but in his defense he didn't think she would ever try to leave Eden. "So what? You just want to leave our home and abandon our tasks to find a place you've never seen? We aren't supposed to leave, God said-"
She cuts him off a harsher tone growing as they get more angry at each other. "I don't care what God said, or what you say I will find what's out there."
Adam was quiet again, his eyes narrowing at the woman. Suddenly he grabs her arm, beginning to pull her away from the wall. "You may not care but I'm not letting you get us both in trouble."
She struggles in his grip for a moment, before kicking him in the back of the knee forcing his legs to buckle sending him face first into the dirt. Lilith runs back to her task tearing at the vines and moss with more urgency. Adam pushes himself out of the dirt, he looks more angry than Lucifer's ever seen. Rushing back to his wife he grabs both her arms moving them to one of his hands as he hoists her over his neck, wrapping an arm around her legs so she'll have a harder time kicking. Then he starts heading back to the main area they've been as Lilith screams in the man's ear and tries to escape.
Lucifer wanted them to stop them as he saw Lilith elbow Adam in the nose, as he moves to separate the two something grabs him. The hand pulling him away and covering his mouth is none other than Asmodeus. The fellow angel brings him away from the humans as he sees them start fighting, landing hits on each other and drawing blood.
"What are you doing Ozzie? I need to stop them before they do permanent damage to each other." He tries to escape before he sees the Beelzebub and Mammon creep out of the trees blocking his view from the humans.
"Sorry Luci, but we aren't supposed to intervene." Ozzie says sadness evident in his voice as they hear the humans yelling and screaming at eachother.
"Plus you already got all the other angels' attention when they saw you carrying Adam to the edge of the garden." Mammon adds in a more bitter tone.
Beelzebub lowers her head. "We're all being called to heaven to answer for violating the rules."
Lucifer wanted to argue but knew it was pointless. It would only bring more trouble to everyone, so he nods slowly. They all take flight back to heaven, once there he and the others that were in Eden without permission are punished Lucifer the most since he was the only one seen to have contact with the humans. The punishment is being trapped in their quarters for a long time doing busy work, it would have been worse if Azrael and Sara didn't stick up for them.
He should have known then that it was only going to get worse after that. Adam grumbles something in his sleep clutching Lucifer even tighter, his dream must not be pleasant. Lucifer maneuvers himself to look at the man's face, scrunched up like something bad is happening. Hugging Adam and stroking his back he seemed to relax, losing his hold. Lucifer doesn't want to leave though happy to bask in Adam's warmth like how the man would fall asleep in his lap when he would listen to Lucifer sing. A smile spreads on his face as he begins to doze off looking at Adams face.