Mammon
The sin's mood was far from good at this point, he didn't want to give Adam an inch but he did. It was odd asking for permission to touch someone but to get in Adam's good book again he'd have to. To take his mind off things he'd perused the big business of Pride, deciding to take a look at something called V's tower. Stepping inside he sees multiple interviews crowding a TV faced sinner as he spouts off some vague rhetoric about security. Mammon peers over the people trying to judge whether the sinner is worth his time.
Some sinners regard him with annoyance not knowing who he is, until the flat faced TV guy's eyes go wide. "M-Mammon?!"
The sin can't tell if he senses excitement or fear from the man, maybe both. The crowd changed their tune immediately, turning the cameras on him, and now shouting out questions towards him. Mammon begrudgingly forces a smile and answers a few questions about why he's in pride, making sure to plug new releases of merchandise. He hired talent rather than being the spotlight specifically for these annoying news crews and press talks. He's not half as prideful as Lucifer to enjoy this type of stuff.
Mammon pushes past the crowd to stand next to the TV guy when he notices him trying to sneak off. Harshly gripping his shoulders so he can't try and slip away again. He leans down to give a menacing smile and glare to the sinner which the cameras eat up not noticing the smile on Mammon's face is anything but friendly. The sinner plays it off well giving a bright smile to the camera.
One idiot decides it's a good idea to bring up the shit Fizz pulled at the last clown pageant. Lightning sparks around Mammon as he grinds his teeth. "What did ya just say bitch?!" Mammon towers over a rabbit like sinner.
"A-alright everyone I think that wraps up our time today, remember to trust Vox Tech with your safety." The sinner says making one of his eyes bigger and seemingly hypnotizing the others in the room, not that he could hope to do the same with one of the deadly sins.
He motions for Mammon to follow him somewhere with the most professional ass kisser smile Mammon's ever seen. Yet Mammon could use someone with this power plus he already has notoriety without Mammon having to spend money on him. So he follows the tiny man through a few rooms. He appears to be doing something on his phone as he walks, but finally stops at a room with double doors. Like a proper servant he opens the door and bows for him to enter. Inside is a large meeting room, Mammon doesn't hesitate to take a seat at the head of the table.
The sinner hides his emotions well as he takes another seat near him. "Well, lord Mammon, it's a nice surprise to see you come to our humble tower. I'm Vox, CEO of Vox tech, and my associates will be with us shortly. Is there anything I can get you in the meantime?"
"Humble? You do know this is Pride right?" Mammon chuckles to himself. "Don't try to suck my dick and just give me your profit margins and your usual business spiel."
Vox ignores the crass comment puffs up his chest in confidence, before his face switches to a multitude of graphs. "Well then I assume you're wanting to invest as a shareholder, we have a good amount of stock we-"
Mammon grabs his face, squinting at the information and touching the screen to try and enlarge the images and text or scroll to new data. Vox struggles at first before just falling limp allowing Mammon to do as he pleases. Vox tries to continue drumming up all the great things that partnering with the V's will do, grunting as Mammon pokes at his face. The doors eventually open as the two associates Vox was talking about walk in. The girl quickly takes a picture of Mammon manhandling Vox laughing as she taps something on her phone.
Mammon glances at the newcomers seeing a woman with swirls in her hair and some moth man who looks like a cheap imitation of Asmodeus. Mammon glares at the reminder of his fellow sin no matter how corrupted it may be. Dropping Vox he relines in his chair. The TV demon quickly picks himself up and straightens his suit, dusting his sleeves for good measure. To Mammon all of these young sinners look like nothing but an easy payday, not one strong enough on their own so they group together and hunt better prey. Too bad they think kissing up to greed will earn them any favor.
"Oh, who's this Voxy?" The moth asks, getting uncomfortably close and still squinting as if he can't quite see Mammon's face.
Vox quickly pulls the man away from Mammon with a nervous chuckle. "This is Mammon ruler of greed, Mammon this is Valentino he handles the whores that work in our company as well as directs all the best pornos that come from Pride."
Mammon rolls his eyes at the pimp. "Don't tell me that's where most of your money comes from."
"Oh no, just a portion. Velvet here runs the social media side of our company, along with making the most amazing clothing you'll ever see." Vox continues quickly pivoting the moth away from the sin upon noticing his annoyance.
Mammon only half listens as the sinner talks on, explaining parts of the business with his companions scrolling on their phones unless he said something that pertained to them. The sin didn't dislike the group, in terms of profit they were extremely compliant so he was willing to invest a small bit. He would have to avoid the moth's part of the business mainly because it was bad PR for him, he also didn't get the whole hype with porn after experiencing sex maybe it was something about the voyeur kink Ozzie had talked about years ago when he was explaining things.
Mammon is pulled from his inner thoughts when he hears the mention of an angel. "We also have a love drug Val produces, which can even affect angels."
"A love drug that can affect angels?" Mammon interrupts snorting in disbelief.
"It's not a lie big guy~ The head of the exorcists himself came by with one of my whores a while ago, a deluded dose was all he needed to get all hot 'n bothered. Sadly he didn't stay long enough to see how bad he got, tho…" Val coos blowing pink smoke in Mammon's direction.
Mammon tilts his head as if he's curious. "Adam, you mean? You drugged the first man, Adam, with a sex drug?"
"N-not on purpose but yes." Vox attempts to defend Val who is blind to the static sparks running off Mammon's face.
Mammon clenches his teeth in a tense grin. "Yeah sure… you know what, just send me the prices for any of your open stocks and I'll think it over then."
Mammon stands walking out of the room and then the building all together, ignoring the baffled sinners as he leaves. He's half tempted to destroy the V's tower for just messing with his angel intentionally or not. He's mad, sure, furious even but he can't throw a fit in a ring that isn't his. He doesn't even feel like hunting down new suckers to exploit now. So what else can he do? Head back to the hotel? Adam probably doesn't want that, and he doesn't want to see Lucifer.
Grumbling to himself he strolls down the sidewalk, wondering what he could possibly do now with so much free time. Suddenly a jingle comes from his phone. Pulling it out he sees it's a court hearing notification, something he can't really say no to even if he wanted. Something about an imp stealing or whatever. At least it's something he can do to take his mind off things. Going back to greed he quickly changes into a nice suit, taking a few toys along to keep his mind occupied as he waits for the entire event to finish.
Appearing in Wrath's courtroom he sees Asmodeus and Beelzebub already there, Belphegor is also in the room fast asleep like normal, but she isn't glaring daggers at him like the other two. Outside of Bee's parties she is able to show her displeasure with him apparently, and of course the two with a taste for trash stick together. He really doesn't understand them, he used Bee's advice and Adam still wanted more so even their advice is shit.
Lucifer's seat is empty like normal but he at least knows where their king is at the moment unlike the rest. Satan is talking to the emotional helper demon he got some years back. The literal embodiment of wrath is taking anger management or some other shit, he'd laugh if he didn't know Satan would kick his ass for it. Around the court he can see the many high born demons filing in, some icey bird guy is standing smugly on one of the balconies. If Mammon had to guess that guy is probably behind this hearing.
Leviathan eventually shows up, she's cute, and out of the other sins he's pretty sure she likes him the most. Of course she has this weird dual emotion thing but honestly that's probably the best he can hope for. Maybe if he puts his focus on someone other than Adam he will stop having this icky possessive feeling in his gut. Eh, maybe he'll ask her out later who knows.
The court actually starts up when a few imps and a hellhound are dragged in, the largest imp he kind of recognizes but can't place. The imp yells and shouts as some others start arguing but Mammon just plays with his fidgets only half paying attention to the ones talking. He only really starts paying attention when he hears the imp say something about killing a highborn demon. Ozzie and Bee start sticking up for the imp, not that he's really surprised, but them ganging up on him just pisses him off.
Satan stops the fight before it can escalate asking who really wants this shit to go on for much longer, and to Mammon's delight nearly everyone doesn't. When the imp lays his head down to die he shuffled over to Levi to shoot his shot, asking if she wanted to go out. She doesn't answer him just staying quiet so he returns to entertaining himself as the owl prince, or whatever he is, storms in. He starts singing about who's to blame and rudely gets in his face smashing his block tower. The imp is released, as the owl takes the blame for whatever this mess of a hearing is about. Finally the whole ordeal is finished so he pulls out some lunch and goes to town munching his food.
Mammon eventually left along with everyone else returning to their days like nothing happened. Checking the time he figures that Adam should be done talking to his kids by now. Popping into the hotel he looks around the lobby seeing a few familiar sinners' startled reflection. Charlie jumps slightly at first then smiles, approaching him with a bright smile.
"Uncle Mammon, what are you doing here?" Charlie asks.
Mammon sees a try of barely touched treats and snatches one. "Come to get my Adam. Why else would I come to this shithole?"
Charlie falters at her hotel being called that but it isn't his job to make her happy. "Uh, well he's in his room with dad, but he seemed rather distressed so-"
"Great, thanks mate." Mammon turns, heading up the stairs not pleased that Lucifer is apparently alone with his angel.
Mammon listens to the doors trying to find wherever Adam and Lucifer are. One door opens before he can listen and out walks Lucifer holding on Adam's arm looking far happier than either should be in each other's presence. Adam looks drained but has a tired smile watching Lucifer lead him from the room. Lucifer is practically wagging his tail as he positively beams at the angel. Mammon glares at the duo engranged at the touch no matter how minor.
Turning to walk down the hall Lucifer suddenly stops, eyes going wide, as a nervous smile spreads over his face. "Mammon?! W-what are you doing here so early?"
Mammon raises a brow at his skittishness. "Come to take Adam home, what did you think I was just gonna leave my little bird in your care for another week?"
Adam pulls his arm from Lucifer ignoring the sad look the sin gives him for doing so and approaches Mammon. The sin fights his instincts to grab the man and backs up further when Adam gets close. Confusion plays on Adam's face as Mammon moves away from him and attempts to get close again only to be met with the same reaction. Mammon won't go back on his promise to not touch Adam without consent, no matter how much Adam tests him.
"Thought you wanted to take me back to greed, why the hell do you keep backing up?" Adam asks, slightly annoyed for whatever reason.
Mammon scowls at Lucifer not wanting to remind the angel of the power he now has in front of the other sin. "You haven't consented yet." He grumbles a whisper leaning to Adam's ear, careful not to touch his skin.
Mammon can see Adam trying to remember what he's talking about. The sparkle of recognition eventually appears in Adams' eyes same with a smug smirk. Suddenly Adam lunges at Mammon who quickly poofs away leaving the angel coughing in the smoke he left. Undeterred, the man maliciously starts rushing Mammon who attempts to avoid him. Lucifer just watches the two dance away from each other like a game of tag with the arena slowly becoming bigger as Adam gets faster in his chase.
Mammon tries to avoid the angel by appearing back in the lobby, he's getting tired of using his powers especially in quick succession. Adam switches tactics slowly walking down the stairs with deliberate gentle steps, making Mammon's fur stand on end with the sudden change. It almost makes him remember watching the man hunt down new animals in Eden, unpredictably changing movements to keep his prey guessing. He even has a similar triumphant look on his face as if he's already cornered a wild animal.
"For fuck sake, just say okay and we can go home, why are you being difficult?" Mammon tenses up ready to teleport again if he has to.
Adam rolls his neck letting it pop as he cracks his knuckles then lowers himself slightly like he's about to tackle the sin. "Oh come on Mon-mon, I just want to play a bit~ Don't tell me you're scared you can't keep up with me."
Mammon cringes at the childish nickname. "You're really testing me Addy…"
"Wouldn't be fun if I didn't." Adam jumps using his wings to gain height before diving at Mammon.
Mammon looks for a spot that Adam's shadow isn't, finding a place behind one of the sinners. Moving there just barely in time and gripping a small spider demon like a shield. "You had your fun. What more do you want, bitch?"
Adam lands in a swoop, his wings blasting wind everywhere. Adam rolls his eyes not even bothered by his human shield. Folding his arms and tilting his hips reveling in his sliver of control he makes another ultimatum. "I'll only go back to greed if I can come back to pride whenever I want."
"ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!" Mammon's grip on his makeshift shield turns harsh as a whine comes from the sinner not that the sin cares.
Adam nods, uncaring of Mammon's shout or the sinner's pain.
Tossing the spider aside he stomps in front of Adam, hissing sparks of irritation as loud as the smoke pooling from his mouth as he seethes. "What makes you think I'd ever agree to that, especially when I get nothing in return?"
Adam cranes his neck up to look Mammon in his many eyes. "Who said I wouldn't give you something?"
That makes the sin pause, it's the first time Adams offered something without a fight and he'd be lying to say he wasn't curious. "What do you got in mind?"
"Depends on whether you agree or not. If I have to tell you then it would ruin the surprise, wouldn't it?" Adam plays up a sultry tone but gives nothing away knowing that Mammon's mind will make the offer far more appealing than anything the man could say.
Mammon contemplates it agonizing over relinquishing more freedom to the angel. Biting his lips in frustration for even considering it. "F-fuck fine, fine, you can come here whenever you want but you cant stay long and you have to tell me in advance."
Adam smiles getting exactly what he wanted, opening his arms like he's welcoming a hug. "Alright we can go then."
Mammon tentatively wraps his arms around the man, unsure if that was consent or not, but since Adam doesn't scream he thinks it is. The next moment he transports them to Greed ignoring the hateful or confused looks of the hotel residence as they disappear. He refuses to let go of Adam when the smoke clears greedily hugging his warm body and petting the man's soft feathers. Adam doesn't fight just allowing the man to squeeze and stroke at his body.
"So what do I get?" Mammon nags eager to know what Adam would give him.
"Give me a day to prepare it." Adam says squirming as Mammon touches the spot between his wings.
"Sounds like stalling, you wouldn't lie to me would you Adam? You know how angry I'd get if you lied to me." Mammon hums lacing his threat sweetly.
"Yeah you'd destroy a city block but not touch a single one of my feathers, unless you'd be so quick to go back on your word." Adam fluffs the fur on Mammon's chin. "Don't worry I do have something I know you'll love but I want it to be perfect."
Mammon can't help purring as the angel scratches his face. "Mhm, you're really testing my restraint you know…"
"You know it's worth it." Adam chuckles as he tries to find where he can scratch to make Mammon's purr get louder.
"Better be." Mammon sets Adam down knowing he'll have to do some work to make up for the free day he gave Adam, gently kissing Adam's forehead before leaving the first man alone.