When Charlie went to invite her dad to join in her and Vaggie's nightly routine she didn't expect to find out she had not only a sister but an entire angelic family.
Or to be summoned by said angelic family after her dad dropped a massive truth bomb. She'd barely blinked when she saw her dad freak out and fall back before her recently discovered sister, technically half but she wasn't going to split hairs, decided to dive bomb her with a hug. "Charlie!" she heard moments before two gray arms wrapped around her neck excitedly. Though if she was being honest, she was just as excited and did the same wanting to embrace her new sister as hard as she could. "Charlie I just found out we're sisters."
"Me to! but how?"
"God! He came back a little while ago and saw me and Sir Pentious then summoned all of us. I found out Sera was my mom then when he got excited about being a grandpa, I mentioned you then he summoned an orb to see you and when he saw how great a person you are he kind of just summoned you three here.
"Wait wait wait!" too much was happening to quickly, but one part stood out to her. "Sir Pentious is alive!?" she had to make sure she heard her correctly. "Yeah!" pointing down she saw him awkwardly waving back at her. She couldn't stop from squealing as she took in his new appearance. His white scales and white and gold suit, the lack of multiple eyes on his body, his halo now resting atop his top hat. "You're alive!? And in Heaven? He's really alive? Not some hologram or illusion."
"I can asssssure you Charlie I am most certainty alive and well. And as of a few hours ago an official reesssidant of Heaven."
Once on the ground Charlie rushed to her formally deceased friend nearly squeezing him into his third death. "You're alive! When Adam blasted you, we thought..."
"As did I, but apparently my death wasn't to be." Vaggie seeing Charlie's tail pop out quickly separated them only for her to wind up being squeezed by an excited Charlie. "Vaggie the hotel works! Redemption is possible! I knew it I knew it I knew sinners could redeem themselves!"
In her excitement she turned around wanting to show her dad only to see him looking nervous before a very tall man in a white and gold suit. His four eyes were floating around her dad as he looked him over. "Luci it's good to see you, but you look a bit thin, have been eating properly?"
"Yes but fath-"
"And your wings?! Don't think I didn't see what they looked like before Charlie applied the oil. I saw how unkept they looked."
"They were fine!"
"Fine? No, no no no no they were not. But don't worry I'll make sure you receive to quality oil as well as regular checkups. I mean they looked like you've barley used them. I remember when you and Gabriel would race around Eden." He goraned as two other aneles hugged him. Charlie couldn't look away, after all the only person she'd ever seen make her dad this nervous was her mom.
Curious at seeing her dad she asked Emily"...uhhmm Emily, who's that? Is that one of my-our uncles?"
Emily seeing where Charlie was looking grabbed her hand and led her over to the mysterious stranger. "Charlie meet god, our grandpa. Grandpa meet Charlie."
Wha? This is God? Looking over her grandfather she truly had no idea what to think. One the one hand he looked kind and gentle and yet this was God.
"I'm never going to get tired of hearing that. And Charlie my dear you look even more lovely up close. "A bit nervously she extended her hand, but god instead scooped his granddaughters in a massive hug. When he set them down, she felt her face burning as she'd never felt so embarrassed before.
Here she was standing before God, her grandfather, the king of Heaven and creator of all things in a pair of old pajamas.
And my hair! I should have kept it bound oh he must thing it's a mess. Not to mention my hooves haven't been trimmed since we rebuilt the hotel. And my tail! It is out?! To her shame she felt it swishing about. No no no pull it back, wait! Are my horns out? Crap I feel them growing.
Seeing her fretting he calmly placed a hand on her shoulder instantly sending a wave of pleasant magic coursing through her body. "Charlie please relax." his voice was calm and gentle as he gently looked down at her. "You have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Your horns, your tail, even those adorable hooves, all of them make you who you are. I might have only learned about you an hour ago, but I can promise you this. I love and cherish you just the way you are, so please don't think you need to hide yourself."
"Okay grandpa." Seeing Charlie was still a little nervous Emily came up saying something she knew would help her sister. "You know Charlie I think your hooves are cute as well. After all some of the cutest creatures in the world have hooves. And with Luci-dad being the sin of pride I doubt he'd settle for anything less than the most beautiful."
"Emily!" a second later Charlie was chasing her sister wanting to give her not so gentle sibling love tap. A sight that brought much needed warmth God's heart as when Charlie caught her she simply gave her a loving squeeze.
"There's that Morningstar smile that lights up a room. You truly are my little Luci's girl."
All Charlie could do was nod as a sense of pride and relief washed over her as her grandfather turned to Vaggie. "So, this is the lovely angel that captured my granddaughter's heart?"
On pure instinct Vaggie stood firm and saluted. "Yes sir!"
"Sir? No no none of that. Like my dear Lucifer said we're family, just call me God."
"Yes, God sir!"
"We'll work on that, now I am rather curious as to how an angel fell in love with the princess of hell. Was it a secret romance? You saw her and snuck down to Hell much like Lucifer did with Lilith? Or maybe Micheal sent you down to hell on a mission and when it was done couldn't get her out of your mind?"
Vaggie went rigid. Her eye shot to Charlie who was also looking nervous. Though it was Sera having heard this that looked the most horrified.
"Well...uhh...I...we..."
"Can't quite put it into words huh? Well, that's fine I rather want to see for myself." before anyone could stop him, he snapped his fingers bringing the orb back to nearly three years ago.
Vaggie took one look at her old self and wanted to flee. Thankfully Charlie pulled her into a hug kissing her and whispering "shhhh it's okay we've moved past this." for added measure she pulled Emily in trapping her in a gentle embrace while God and the others watched silently taking it all in. Even Sera was rather curious as when Adam had spoken about this, he'd simply said she died, and they destroyed the body. It only took three seconds of hearing Adam's sadistic prefight speech for Michael to wish he was still alive so he could personally kill him again. Even now he was still uncovering how much he'd gotten away with. As well as how much Sera had kept secret. Whereas God was horrified. Adam, the first man, the first human he spent centuries crafting had become a bloated arrogant sadistic monster. How could this happen? Yes, he'd always been a little arrogant after Eden but when he and Eve arrived in heaven, they'd-... that was when he remembered he'd left shortly after they arrived. He and Eve were in Heaven so I thought I could step away for a bit. No, I left my children charge and yet they seemed just as horrified. Well nearly all of them. Sera just seems guilty.
Then came Adam opening a portal to hell followed by other masked angels who immediately sought out sinners and putting them to the sword. Every second God stood there silently watching as Vaggie removed her mask and chased after a sinner. Saw as Vaggie realized it was a child and lowered her spear telling him to run and hide.
Even after being told everything Charlie still felt pride when Vaggie let him go, followed immediately by anger seeing Lute cripple her. Vaggie heard her furious growl when her eye and wings were removed.
"Filth like you has no room in Heaven." that one line got to God as for a single moment all of Heaven shook with barely restrained rage. He hadn't moved, hadn't said a word, but everyone in that room would never forget how his eyes turned black. No, not black, his eyes were utterly void of anything. Even if it was for a mere half second everyone felt their bodies react and their true forms come out.
After seeing that God couldn't stop from seeing more. Seeing how Charlie had saved Vaggie, inviting her to the hotel and showing genuine kindness to a complete stranger. Offering her home for as long as she wanted or needed it. How their relationship grew from friendship to love. He did smile when Vaggie said Charlie didn't use her position or powers to demand respect only for Charlie to say, "But that's so meeeeaan." Kind, humble and loving. How was she not born an angel?
Michael especially saw how loyal and protective she was and made a mental note to personally train her. But then came the moment were after getting to Heaven Vaggie had been ambushed by Lute and Adam who pronounced her named with soft g before proudly stating how he named her after the best thing ever.
Really Adam? If Vaggie was the best thing then she would have bore your wife's name. Or even something similar, but to just name her after a body part? You named all the animals but couldn't come up with a proper name? First pride and Wrath and now Sloth? Just how many sins have you embraced in my absence?!
Sadley, it got worse as he watched Adam threaten Vaggie into sabotaging their meeting before causally admitting to wanting to murder sinners for fun and not thinking anything of it. Worse though was watching Emily find out, finding out Sera knew and signed off on it with her excuse being it was a hard decision. One she tried to persuade Emily into believing she only did what was required. The only good that came of him continuing was seeing Vaggie regain her wings due to learning to fight for love, well that and seeing her defeat Lute and when given the chance choose mercy instead of vengeance.
God stopped the video and immediately Sera tried to justify herself. "Father please understand Hell was threating an uprising-"
"ENOUGH! We'll speak later." with a wave of his hand a portal opened, and Sera was flung down to Hell's embassy. "You will remain there until I decide to summon you back."
As the portal closed God took a series of deep breaths doing his best to understand and calm down. He then turned to Vaggie and hugged her. "I am so sorry that you suffered because of Adam Vaggie."
"It's fine God, you had no way of knowing."
"Perhaps, but that doesn't mean I can't attempt to make it up to you." focusing a finger over her eyepatch he activated his powers and Vaggie felt a strange sensation in her empty eye socket. "That should do it." summoning a small mirror she pulled her eyepatch free and saw her eye was back. Sure, her new eye had a red sclera instead of pink, and her iris was now gold, but she wasn't about to refuse having proper depth perception again. "M-my eye, but how? It was removed with angelic steel."
"Vaggie dear, If I could create the entire world then surely I can create a new eye for you."
"Thank you God!" in her excitement she quickly hugged God before being hugged again by Charlie who told her that her eye was beautiful. Seeing her happy only made the conversation he was about to have all the more difficult.
"Michael, summon Adam here immediately I need to have a conversation with my first man."
"We would..." he said cautiously. "But he's kind of dead. The report claimed he died during the attack on the Hazbin Hotel." God saw Michael look to Lucifer who looked at Charlie which told him everything he needed to know.
"hhmmm. Okay...well then, Emily sweetheart how about you take Charlie and Vaggie and have that sleepover you spoke about. I need to have a conversation with my children about some troubling things and I'd rather not my grandchildren be here to whiteness it."
"Of course grandpa." the three of them quickly their way out. Sir Pentious raised his hand only for God to say, "Enjoy Heaven my redeemed friend." Once he quickly slithered out, he turned toward his children.
"Sooooooo... Who wants to explain first? You Michael? Or perhaps you Gabriel?" they stayed silent, so he turned to Lucifer. "You perhaps Lucifer?"
"Woah there father I know our last conversation ended poorly but this time I honestly did nothing wrong. Remember I've been in hell for eons sooooooooo."
"Good point." snapping his fingers Sera was pulled back. Her nerves only worsted no longer seeing Emily. "Now father I promise I can explain."
"Yes, I'm sure you can, though it still remains to be seen if you explanation will be deserving of forgiveness. Because I just found out not only has my me damn first man become the harbinger for at least four of the sins but is apparently DEAD! Care to explain how that happened? Because I seem to remember leaving you in charge of Heaven while I was away."
"Well, you see I was led to believe that Hell was planning an uprising and with its population growing and Lucifer's lack of proper leadership I had to act before Hell became a threat."
"Lucifer is that true?"
"Weeeeellll, it's true I might have let Hell kind of govern itself for a time while I... okay so I was depressed and didn't care. You try being surrounded by but an uprising? No! At worst it was a bunch of aggravated sinners believing they didn't deserve eternity in hell and kept trying to invade the embassy. Pretty sure it was after the third crusade, maybe the fifth. Apparently, they believed killing in your name wouldn't get them into hell. Anyway, they had no way to get to Heaven so no way of posing a threat. Only I can open a portal to here and even then, someone up here needs to allow it."
"But Adam told me they-"
"Yeah Sera, I'm sure Adam had no ulterior motives when he told you sinners needed to be killed. It wasn't so he could justify invading the realm of the man that took his wife and the women who not only ran from him but played a part in convincing his second wife to eat the apple that got the kicked out of Eden."
She tried to argue but seeing how their father was staring she simply slumped down. "You still signed off on it." Her response was childish and yet under their father's gaze it was all she could think of.
"Woah woah it's not like I had a choice. You summoned me and told me it was happening and that the meeting was just a formality." But after seeing their father's gaze he admitted. "Okay so yes, I signed off on it. But only because I had them put in a clause that they couldn't hurt hellborn or my family. Which Adam broke when he invaded the hotel and slew one my creations before laying hands on my daughter."
Hearing this God once more activated the orb showing the attack. Seeing Lucifer punch Adam into the building before he and Charlie pummeled him into the ground before she prevented Lucifer from finishing him off.
Only for him to go into an entitled rant demanding to be worshiped before being impaled by a tiny sinner. Even after seeing and hearing what Adam had become it still hurt to see him dying with a smile on his face.
"So, Sera, you're telling me not only did you allow Adam to engage in a yearly slaughter, one he openly delighted in, with no oversight, you had a pact forged between you and Lucifer that guaranteed my GRANDAUGHTER'S protection. And yet after hearing that Adam was going to attack her hotel first you still allowed him to go."
"Father please show mercy I only did what I thought was best."
"Yes, yes you did Sera. Now I do believe Adam convinced you something needed to be done. Though as Lucifer pointed out they had no way into Heaven, only he could open a portal here and only with the permission of you or Michael or Gabriel. Something you either forgot or simply overlooked. And yet instead of getting approval from the elders or the archangels thus justifying your actions you hid them."
"I..."
"FOR THOUSAND OF YEARS!...So, you're to be punished." his children began whispering and Lucifer felt his ptsd flaring up remembering when he was on trial.
"I accept any punishment you feel is necessary father."
"Good, so Her's what's gonna happen. As you did nothing to stop or control Adam, made no attempt to find a nonviolent way to deal with Hell and of course never attempted to see if redemption was even possible, I'm sending you to Sloth. Lucifer what has sloth became since its creation?"
"It's the medical capitol of Hell, though most residents spend their time in a drugged-up stupor barely moving. Most can't read or write or even complete sentences. At least when she's awake Belphegor stays busy treating patients. Well in between her daily naps."
"Excellent, Sera you'll work for Belphegor at the hospital."
"Fo-for how long?"
"Until we clean up the mess you made." with that she was pushed into a pink office where a massive pink goat demon was sleeping. Around her were massive piles of untouched paperwork which upon seeing gave Sera a headache. Lucifer walked through first before summoning an alarm clock waking her up. Opening one of her four eyes she groaned seeing him.
"Luci? Why'd you wake me up? I've only had fourteen breaks today. You know I need a full sixteen hours sleep."
"Good to see you to Bel, now I'm sure you remember Sera?"
"Huh?" opening another eye she saw Sera nearly having a meltdown seeing last weeks or possibly last month's paperwork. "Do you even have a system!?"
"Anyway, to sum things up, God's back, she fucked up so she's working for you for the time being." she looked to see God smiling at her. "Good to see you again Bel, proud of you for becoming a doctor." she simply nodded thinking she must still be dreaming. "Anyway just treat her like your unpaid interns kay thanks bye!" he rushed back before Sera could say anything and once the portal closed god sighed having witnessed another of his children in Hell. "Well, that's one thing dealt with, Gabriel why don't you show Lucifer to his old room. Michael and I need to have a word with these so-called exorcists."
