HELP! How The Fuck Do I First Woman!? (Hazbin Hotel - Eve SI Chapter 4)

Everyday that passes Adam came to see more and more that Eve was not Lilith.

God may have said that Eve was a replacement for Lilith, yet the more Adam learned about her, the more he couldn't see Lilith in her.

Eve wasn't made as another version of Lilith, but changed to be patient and more willing to listen to him. Rather she seemed this energy Lilith never had.

She was excited to be in the Garden. Enthralled to see it all and experience it. Eve... liked being in his presence. She liked being around him, freely hugging and being affectionate with him.

Adam remembered the intimacy he had with Lilith. Yet he couldn't help but his memory being marred by her and Lucifer's, his once best friend's, betrayal. He couldn't help but look at all those affectionate moments, as either him being the one who had to initiate them, or Lilith doing it to request something of him. Be it stepping into his role as the Name Giver for a try or two, or having him do their Tasks her way, rather than how the Angels instructed them.

Admittedly, Adam digging up the vegetables or picking the fruits, and letting Lilith carry them was faster, but Sera was adamant that they both do their equal share of the Tasks rather than divide them.

Eve never had a reason to be affectionate with him like Lilith was. Adam kept expecting her to request something, to want something.

Yet... Eve never did. She simply wanted to be with him.

The extra knowledge the Lord gave her didn't diminish her wonder and joy over the Garden, but seemed to increase it. She didn't see, or rather didn't focus, on the negatives of the things she saw or experienced, unlike Lilith would constantly do.

Adam also gave Eve her space, as he learned from Lilith, how she didn't like being smothered by his constant presence. Eve appreciated the act, and seemed to delight in seeming him again after they were apart for a time. Adam couldn't help but unconsciously smile whenever he saw her now, because her face always lights up after she returns from her solo ventures.

Eve's expressions really were something Adam delighted in. Her reaction to the first time she saw an Undefined Being was something Adam would treasure. She was rambunctious and energetic. She sought him for comfort and safety, first asking him if he should defend her—Something Lilith would have done—and then wanted to offer her arms to stand by him.

The warmth he felt in his heart, still fills him even now.

And then there were her expressions once he Named a Being from start to finish after discovery of her Knowledge.

Seriously, Eve's expression are really something he delighted in. Yes, it's worth saying twice.

At first when she sat opposite to him when he named the Lizard, she looked confused and intrigued. But the more he theorized and chose what aspects the Being should have, and how it was meant to be shaped, a look of recognition came to her face.

She would look on with wide excited eyes, a trembling smile, that would turn into worry if he veered off the correct path, or rising anticipation the closer he got to finally naming the Being. Once she realized that he had been observing her face through the Naming, he scolded him. Telling him that he shouldn't use her as an "answer sheet", that he needs to do the Naming properly as the whole process was important and had value.

Yet even her scolding was filled with worry and concern for him, that Adam couldn't find it in himself to be displeased. Is it wrong that even Eve's "disproving face" was also cute?

From then on Eve would stand behind him while he Named a being.

He had the Garden form a small puddle next to him, and from it's reflection he'd watch Eve's expression. Adam genuinely wasn't trying to "cheat the answer" or use her as an "answer sheet". He just genuinely enjoyed watching her expressions and how they changed as he went about the Naming process.

Heck one time, after he had already more or less mentally settled on a Being's name, the Monitor Lizard, he started backtracking, and going for faultier and faultier descriptions watching Eve grow more and more worried, till eventually he revealed that he was joking, and correctly Named the being.

Eve got her revenge with the Ostrich. While she definitely says she was no longer upset at his prank, he was pretty sure her tricking him to ride the Ostrich and giving him a scare was her getting back at him. That innocent smile didn't fool him!

He still liked seeing it thought.

A loud bird call caught Adam's attention. He looked up to see a group of doves flying toward him while cooing.

"Hello, friends. What seems to be the urgency?" Adam asked pleasantly. All animals in the Garden were peaceful and friendly to the humans who tended to it. And while the animals can not speak, they could still be understood by all who interacted with them Human or Angel. "Huh? Eve is flying?" Adam blinked in confusion. Then his eyes widened as the doves finally managed to get their point across, of what the First Woman was doing. "Eve is falling from high trees!?"

He ran.

There was no other thought in Adam's head. He rushed to where the doves told him where Eve went. He sped up faster than they can follow. Next Being he Names will have to be a bird will have to be one with extreme flight speed, that could even keep up with him.

He found the forest the doves told him about. He knew what a "conjured" section of the Garden looked like. Why would Eve make a place with tall trees and lots of vines?

He ignored that inquiry. Regardless, He needed to reached her before she got hurt!

Adam found Eve falling while holding onto one of the vines (she was smiling), she was letting out a loud frightened cry (she was laughing).

Eve went up the tree holding firmly onto the vine so as not to fall. She went up a full circle and back down, as the vine wrapped around a giant tree branch.

"Eve!" Adam couldn't help but shout in worry.

"Eh? Adam?!" Startled, at the upward swing Eve's grip faltered.

Eve was launched directly into the sky past the treeline and leaves.

"EVE!" Adam screamed as he jumped from the ground, to one tree and another, reaching the highest branch, and jumping straight up into the sky.

It's only now that he was in the open, that he saw where Eve was, and how far away she was. That he calmed him enough to think straight and focus on manipulating the "space" of Eden.

He held out his arms as Eve fell down straight toward him.

"WOOOOOOOO—HA! Hey, you caught me~!" It was only now that he realized that her screamed, were actually laughter.

The both fell while Eve was holding onto his neck, smiling without a care in the world, looking happier now that he was here.

Adam focused on the Garden once more, manipulating the ground to be more springy. Adam landed on the ground and bounced a few times before making the ground solid again.

"Eve, are you okay? What happened!?" Adam spoke on with worry, as he held her in his arms refusing to let her go.

"Yeah, I'm perfectly fine." Eve replied, her smile dimming as she was the panic on Adam's face. She spoke with a more gentle reassuring voice. "It's okay, I was never in danger. We can't be hurt in the Garden. Not any real hurt." She ran her fingers through his hair, a calming gesture and to show him that she was here, in front of him and unharmed.

Adam looked her over, now that they had a moment to calm down.

"You have scratches all over!" Adam said with wide eyes. They reminded him of when he and Lilith jumped from the side of a mountain once.

"They're barely scratches, I'm not even bleeding." Eve said, but only made him panic more.

"You bled!" He cried out.

"No! No, I'm saying not of the scratches got even that deep into my skin. Trust me, I crashed through branches, trees and even fell to the ground a few times. None of it seriously hurt me. I'm fine, I swear."

Her words only confused Adam more.

"I... what happened? Where you chased by any of the predators? Did they play in a rough manner? I'll hit them for that!" He shouted, anger filling his mind at the imagined scenario. The animals were generally peaceful true, but sometimes they didn't understand human limitations, or didn't consider something humans would be abrasion to. He will have to show them why what they did was worth his anger and get them to apologize, before all would be well again—

Once soft hands, that were now calloused, yet held a gentleness to them cup his face.

Golden eyes of laughter, joy and worry filled his vision. Warmth was on his lips, sending pleasure through his mind.

He only felt that warmth and his slowly heartbeat as the hot anger that filled him, one overtaken from worry, cooled down. All that was left was the warmth of Eve and the sounds of the forest.

He opened his eyes once the kiss ended, to see a regretful smile on Eve's face. He ached at seeing it, wondering what brought it about.

"I really wanted our first kiss to be on a better occasion." She said. "I'm sorry for that, but I'm at least glad it calmed your heart."

"I'm... sorry for getting angry. But the thought of anyone of my animals friends would cause you panic and forcing you to run—" He spoke in a calmer tone now.

"Nothing like that happened." Eve said, and with a push he let her down. She stood on her own, facing him, cupping his face with one hand, while running her fingers through his hair with the other. He held her by her waist, holding her in his hands to tell himself that she was here and she was safe. "I edited the place here to make a forest here to make a forest with lots of vines so I could play a little."

Adam closed his eyes, pushing away the wince at another Word being invented. Eve had been careful not to do that, worry that she might make a "harmful" Word be Recognized thus proliferating its use in speech and deeds, but she slips here and there.

"Play?" He asked, looking at playful yet apologetic expression of the First Woman.

"Y-Yeah, hehe." She gave that awkward laugh when she felt she might have—as in her own words—made an "oopsy". "I'd run, build momentum, jump and catch a vine, then swing from it to the next."

Adam blinked a few times as what Eve said registered to him.

"You were doing what?" His voice raised.

"Yeah!" Eve beamed, and then explained her "Jungle Swinging Game" as she called it. "So I was basically going for a record of longest jump from one vine to the next when you came. At least I went higher up than I tried before. I have to say, I'm surprised! I don't have a fear of heights. It's awesome!"

Adam was speechless for a few moment, trying to wrap his head around what his wife just explained.

"Eve," he said, his voice lanced once more with worry. "Do you... enjoy hurting yourself?"

"What!? No! Not even as a kinky thing. I'm as vanilla as they come." Eve protested, her hands now resting on Adam's shoulders.

Adam let out a groan feeling another Word snap into Being, and he didn't know an already existing Word could be reframed by adding new Context to it. He decided to leave those revelations for later.

"Ignoring learning those Words." Adam focused on Eve once more, his expression firm and disapproving. "Eve, do you enjoy endangering yourself?"

"Not... actual real danger. Just perceived danger. The brain doesn't know the difference. So doing things like jumping from high places into a pool of water, or sliding down a mountain. The mind thinks those are dangers, but they are only so if we don't take precautions. I wasn't hurt by hitting trees or falling from their height. I would have immediately stopped had I experienced any injury and returned to you right away." She explained calmly.

Yet her words and tone did nothing to calm Adam's anger born of worry.

"You could have gravely injured yourself, just, just..." He struggled with the Words to describe his august. Eve thought to give him the Words even if they would be more weapons to condemn her, but felt something in her telling her to wait. "For the thrill of danger?!" Eve's eyes widened, as she smiled in surprised pride, having witnessed Adam invent a Word this time. "You can't do this again, Eve. You could get hurt, or... or something so much worse I can't imagine it. No, in fact, as your husband I forbid you to go thrill-seeking again!" He declared.

Adam shouted the last part. In his heart filled with anger yet overtaken by worry, he prepared himself for Eve's retaliation in equal wrath. Of being constrained, of being stopped. He knew this was the first major argument they have, and prepared his heart for her scathing, or tearful words, and whatever followed after. Be it silence or aggression till her heart's fire simmered down.

"Adam," Eve said in a patient tone. A small smile on her face. "I understand that I can't convince you with words that I was safe, thus before you stop this activity all together, and close this discussion, can I ask you for one thing?" Adam opened his mouth to refuse, having seen his argument before. She would ask for something smaller, a compensation, a way to undermine his word, just to do as she willed— "Try it out yourself."

Adam was left stumped. "Huh?"

"Try it out." She chuckled, stepping away from his embrace to stand by his side, and hold his hand. "Just give this game a shot. See if it's really all that dangerous. If you try it and still see it as dangerous, or can't see a way to make it safer, then I will abide by your words."

"Eve." Adam narrowed his eyes. Those words "abide by your words", they were a lot like Lilith, when she wanted to trick him into agreeing to something by playing a "trap" or a "win condition" in their arguments. A way to bind him to his words. Forcing her choice on him.

"Just see for yourself. You'll be able to judge better with first-hand experience, and if there is any danger, you can just edit the Garden to land safely like you did before." Eve said.

"And then you will follow my command?" Adam asked.

"Done fairly and after having seen my perspective, then yes, without hesitation." Eve nodded.

"...Fine." Adam said.

He went ahead to try out Eve's Jungle Swinging Game for himself. Adam couldn't see himself coming to enjoy it after that former frightening experience. He would just try vine swinging once, then tell Eve to cut it out. She'll have to listen to him bar her own words, or he'll tell Sera.

...That... he really didn't want to do that. Complaining to the Angels about his wife's behavior would just lead to resentment. But if he can't stop Eve of doing things that could harm her, what could he do?

He shook his head, and paused away the thought for later. He took his running start toward the nearest vine.

Let's get this over with. Adam though. It's not like this dangerous game could in anyway be fun.


"WWOOOOOOOOOOOHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" A shout of pure excitement rang out through Eden, as the First Man was flying over tree tops.

He would fly up over the treeline in one giant arc, disappear under the trees, before appearing again for another chiasmic arc.

Adam swung with one of the thicker vines, letting spin and wrap around a tree branch, and once enough momentum gathered, he intentionally did what Eve accidently did, and launched himself straight upwards into the sky.

The momentum carried him so far up and Adam startled a group of flying ducks. He laughed, imaging if those ducks were Lucifer, flying about in peace only to be spooked by Adam suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

Gravity began to assert itself upon the First Man and he let himself fall. He felt the sensation of falling, the excitement and elation, yet fear that passed irrationally through his mind, even thought he knows he won't be hurt.

Adam slammed into the ground, his legs spread wide, and bleeding the momentum into the ground, as he crouched upon landing. The ground shook and dented under his feet from his landing.

He panted from the exhilaration of that experience. He'd never felt this invigorated, this alive, as if everything was so much more... well, more Joyful. More Now!

He let himself drop and sit on the ground, letting out a pleasant groaned.

"You know," Adam looked to the side to see Eve with her arms crossed, and a deadpan look on her face. "Even I never went above the treelines, since I thought that was too dangerous, and I wanted to make sure to always keep all the vines location in mind for my next jump."

"...Ah." Red covered Adam's face. He had been so angry at Eve's recklessness, and then look at what he ended up doing.

Eve then smile, chuckling, which made Adam feel relieve. She went and sat by his side leaning against him, resting her head on his shoulder. His arm wormed itself comfortably around her waist.

"So, couples' activity or strike it out of our schedule?" Eve asked, and Adam found himself looking at her in shock.

"You'd... go with my choice if I said we are not to do this again?" He hesitantly asked.

"I understand why activities like these might not be to your liking, or rather, you wouldn't like me doing them. They are inherently dangerous if done without precaution, training or care. And while I do enjoy it, it's not worth sacrificing my husband's peace of mind." Eve explained.

"You'd... prohibit yourself your enjoyment for me?" He said in disbelief.

"Adam, I'm your wife." She looked him in his eyes, gold meeting gold. "Some choices I'll accept whatever you say. Some, I'd push back against, but relent if you truly are against it. And there will come a day where a decision might come where I'd firmly be against you and not relent." A familiar ache stabbed at his heart at those words. "Yet throughout it all, and regardless of the circumstances or arguments one thing will always remain true. You are my husband as I am your wife." She reiterated. "I am yours as you are mine.

"We might disagree, we might argue, but ultimately we are each other's home. And for that home, there's quite a lot I'm willing to put up with, or unpleasantness to go through, just as I know you'd do the same, for this house to stay standing." Eve smiled once more. It was as if you had seen his original worry all along and was washing it away with her gentle warmth. "And quite frankly, the things that can't be compromised are much more limited in number, than the vast number of things that could be compromised on."

"...What wouldn't you compromise on?" Adam asked in a soft low voice.

"My family." She said back immediately. "My ability to choose. Good or bad, whatever I choose, it must be my choice and I will fully accept the consequences of it." She gave a small smile to him. "Just like you gave me a choice, so I choose you. Even if I end up doing something I dislike, like not playing the totally fun extreme sports games I make," she said under her breath in a whiny tone, that had Adam struggle to hold back a chortle. "I still fully accept that choice." She finished.

Adam had no words. So he acted.

He pulled Eve toward himself as he fell back, hugging her to his chest.

"Adam?" Eve cried out in surprise. Adam held her head against his head, while rubbing her head. Her hair tickled his nose, as he smelled the foresty scent of her hair.

"Can I... hold you like this for a while? ...Please?" His voice was watery.

"You don't need to ask. I want to hold you too." She wrapped her arms around him, as the two stay there, basking in each other's warmth for a while.

Sera would go looking for the First Couple, wanting to discuss their Tasks for tomorrow, and present some Undefined Beings for Adam to choose which ones to work on the next day.

She found them asleep in a forest area in each other's arms, surrounded by dogs and wolves who came to share in the warmth and comfort of the First Man and First Woman, leaning asleep against them.

Even though it was still technically day time, Sera opted to leave them be for now. She discuss the topic of Tasks later.