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Being in the Devildom wasn’t nearly as bad as you thought it’d be. Sure it was dangerous but what you didn’t expect was to actually have some fun.
What you found particularly interesting was the lack of human world items the Devildom possessed. What you thought would be incredulous human word books on curses and cringy movies about demons were actually more expensive than the gory and realistic horror movies produced regularly in hell. Especially since human word movies only had actors, while demons would literally get torn apart in Devildom movies, definitely a bit too much for you to handle.
You remember when you first watched a horror movie made by demons, for demons. Satan and Asmo had wanted to watch a “simple horror movie” with you, which you discovered was anything but simple.
Satan declared his interest in human world movies, considering he (somehow) hadn’t seen many in his lifetime. You promised him that once your year at the Devildom was done, and you returned to the human world, if you came back to visit, you’d bring numerous horror movies from your realm.
And here you are, having a movie night with the brothers, (minus Lucifer of course, who was too busy to watch a “silly” movie some humans made, and mammon, who “wasn’t scared just uninterested), after returning from a well needed break from the chaos.
As you placed the stack of movies in front of the brothers for choosing, you heard some footsteps making their way to the living room.
You paid no mind, assuming it was Lucifer coming to shush the group, continuing to explain the various movies to, mainly, satan.
“Mammon?” Asmos voice rang out. You sharply turned your head to face him.
“What are you doing here? I thought you weren’t “interested” in horror movies?” Levi asked, calling mammon out.
“I-I only came cause I knew y’all would miss The Great Mammon’s company!” He said, slightly blushing and turning his head away from making any sort eye contact with anyone who would be able to call out his bluff.
“Right right” Belphie muttered, already nodding off, resting on Beel’s shoulder.
“So, which one did you say was your favourite again?” Satan directed his question towards you, very purposefully ignoring mammon.
Mammon sputtered, and reluctantly sat down with the group with a huff, his spot suspiciously close to the door.
Satan reaches out and picks one he thinks is most interesting, it’s a psychological horror, very fun.
As he puts un the movie, you turn to mammon, subtitly sitting next to him, not because you’re worried about him, just because that was the only space left, even if you had to squeeze next to Asmo. You’re sure he didn’t mind.
“You sure you’re gonna be ok?” You whisper to mammon, hoping he’d be more honest with you alone.
“I knew ya were worried about The Great Mammon! I’ll be fine! This is basically a children’s movie to me!” He stated, head high in the air with his arms crossed.
“Sure sure” you tease, causing mammon to pout.
God he’s cute when he pouts-
Wait, no, what? What are you thinking about? Never mind just focus on the damn movie.
“MC!! The movies starting!!!” Asmo tugged on your arm.
A loud grumble suddenly fills the room. Everyone looks to Beel.
“Hold on I’ll get your popcorn” Levi grumbles.
“Nah, lemme get it for him!” Mammon chimes in.
“Haaah?! Since when did you get so generous? I bet you’re planning something.” Levi narrowed his eyes at mammon, his body language not even trying to hide his suspicion.
“I ain’t plannin’ nothin!” Mammon shouted. Before Levi could respond, mammon was already out the door, making his way into the kitchen.
Another grumble made its way to your ears.
“You better hurry mammon!” You called out, earning you with a “Shut yer face!” from Mammon, calling out from the other room.
With Mammon back and Brel satiated, the movie was finally started. The start of the movie was pretty tame, as most horror movies were, not jumping right into the action scares away. Especially since this particular movie focused more on the psychological aspect of it, and the characters slow descent into madness. However, you had realised early on that this movie was in fact, not “child’s-play” to mammon, his hands already lightly shaking. He’d jumped a few times just from loud noises the director didn’t intend to even scare Watchers. He even scared himself sometimes when there was a brief silence in the movie, jumping at nothing but his own thoughts.
He’s really psyching himself out, isn’t he? You thought to yourself.
You glanced at him with worry, his eyebrows were furrowed and his back was overly straightened, as if he was trying to hide the fact that he was scared.
As the movie escalated, your worry for Mammons wellbeing increased greatly. You couldn’t help but side glance at him every five seconds to check if he was ok.
You wondered if there was a way to help him feel better without embarrassing him in front of his brothers.
Would it be weird to let him cuddle up to you? I mean, friends do that right? And it’s not like he hasn’t cuddled up to you before. It’s not weird at all.
With your plan in mind, hesitantly, you slowly lifted your arm to the back of the couch.
Geez, why’d you have to be so awkward about this? You’re sure he’d be ok with it so why are you so nervous?
You try slowly drifting your arm down from the back of the couch to resting on his shoulder, inching closer and closer and-
“Hey, you ok?” Asmo’s voice snapped you out of your unwavering stare at the tv screen as you were trying not to make eye contact with Mammon.
“Yeah I’m fine. I’ve seen this movie before so I already know what happens.” you reassure him.
“Ok, just don’t be afraid to cuddle up to me if you need to~” he retorted.
It seemed as if your nerves in trying to get your arm around mammons shoulder was confused as nerves from the movie. Your face felt flushed, embarrassed how you could be nervous about simply touching Mammon.
“AH!”
Multiple screams fill the room as a cheesy jumpscare came on screen. You could hear faint sounds of giggling and laughter coming from the brothers, replacing their earlier screams, finding it funny once they realised how bad the jumpscare was pulled off.
But it was hard to focus on them when you felt someone’s arms wrap around your neck, a face buzzing into your shoulder, away from the screen.
Holy shit.
You looked down to confirm and, yep. Under the dim lightning of the room you could see him holding onto you tightly, feeling his fluffy white hair tickling your jaw and neck.
You slowly wrapped your arms around him, holding tightly around his waist so he could find comfort in your strong hold.
You were literally the happiest human in the Devildom right now, (which wasn’t too hard to do considering you only had one competitor), you prayed that he couldn’t hear your rapid heart beat fluttering in your chest.
Realising he wouldn’t be letting go anytime soon, (thankfully), you shifted to get yourself comfortable, before finding a position where mammon was sitting on your lap, entirely facing away from the tv screen.
You looked around to the brothers, seeing that all their eyes were glued to the screen and not on you and mammon. Well, almost all of the brothers.
Your eyes suddenly made contact with bright peach eyes, practically shining in the dim light.
Asmo giggles as he winked at you and slowly turned his face back to the screen.
You let go of the breath you didn’t know you were holding, you’d have to thank him later for not making a scene about it in the moment, although you knew he’d tease you later for sure.
But all concerned thoughts went away as you felt Mammon practically melt in your arms. You realised you had absentmindedly started petting his head. Seems like you’re instincts new exactly why to do to calm him down.
You swear your cheeks were going to fall off with how much they hurt from smiling. His reactions, although you felt sympathy for his fear, were so adorable! The little jumps he made just from hearing a loud sound or the others scream was so cute. He would immediately hold you tighter to feel safe, somehow you didn’t suffocate from how tightly he was holding onto you.
Once the credits rolled, you tapped mammon lightly on the shoulder, knowing he’d want to leave this position of vulnerability before the others could see.
However, he didn’t stir. As you looked down at him, you seemed to realise he had somehow fallen asleep in your arms.
Incoming news: Mammon, of all people, has somehow fallen asleep during a horror movie. Could this mean the world is ending?
You quickly placed him off of you as the lights came on.
“Wait, did mammon fall asleep?” Beel asked incredulously.
“Woah seriously?!?” How’d he- how- what” Levi asked in shock.
“Wow he must’ve found that movie pretty boring, too bad it was one of your favourites MC” Belphie bit back, grinning to himself about his snide comment.
“Whatever, he probably got so scared he passed out.” Satan commented.
Everyone collectively nodded and agreed with satans statement. You just let out a light chuckle in response.
“Anyway it’s pretty late, I don’t think any of us want to carry mammon to his room so it’s up to you MC!” Asmo giggled and quickly tried rushing everyone out of the room.
“But i could-“ “Shut up Beel!” you heard Asmo interrupt Beel from outside the lounge room.
Ok you definitely owed Asmo something after this.
Wait a second.
How are you supposed to carry a large ass demon all the way up the stairs and to his room?!? Ugh, this is gonna be a long trip.
As you practically dragged mammon up the stairs, (well partially, you carried him bridal style further than you thought you could, but then almost tripped cause you weren’t looking where you were going, instead focusing on mammons serene expression), and to his room, you started getting lightly concerned that satan was right and mammon did actually pass out due to fright.
You placed him gently on his bed, or actually on the floor, and then dragged him up onto his bed, leaving his room but stopping when you heard a small sniffle.
“Mammon? You ok?” You quickly rushed to his side.
“S-sorry, i just-“ he stared at you for a second, tears peaking out from his eyes before diving under the covers.
“Hey Mammon, it’s ok! No judgement here, you can be scared if you want to, doesn’t make you any less of a demon.” You sat down on his bed next to him while trying to console him.
“I-I know that! That ain’t it! Well, it kinda is but not all of it!” Mammon sat up suddenly, staring at you with a sense of betrayal.
“It’s just, how could she die!?! I knew I wouldn’t like the movie that much but after all she went through, they just kill ‘er at the end all of a sudden?!? What kinda movie is that!” He was full on crying now, your mind started doing mental gymnastics to try and catch up to what he was getting at.
“How did you know she died at the end? You weren’t even watching the movie?” You asked, keeping your voice low.
“I still ‘ave ears ya know!” He cried out.
Oh, so he wasn’t asleep… This fool really let you drag him up the stairs just so he could avoid having this conversation by fake sleeping.
“Hey, I know, that movie was unfair, that’s what makes it appealing to people.” You try to explain, slowly bring him in closer so he ends up crying on your shoulder.
“But how though? That doesn’t make any lick of sense!” He cried while burring his head into his arms and subsequently closer to your neck.
“It’s what makes it disturbing I guess, the fact that theirs no resolution to the story, the killer gets away with it, no justice is served.”
There was a brief silence in the conversation. Your fingers were steadily carding through his hair, feeling his body slowly start to relax further.
“…I hate that” mammon spoke softly, slowly calming down from just your presence.
You felt really bad that you didn’t at least warn him of the plot first, he must’ve prepared himself for a bunch of jumpscares but was instead met with more of a guy-wrenching storyline.
“How about… we watch some Disney movies?” You suggest.
He suddenly sits up, blushing profusely. “I ain’t a baby!” He protests.
“I’m not either but I think I deserve a positive movie to brighten my mood, flush out all that angst, yeah?” You explained further.
“Fine! B-but I’m only watching it with you cause your the wuss who can’t handle horror movies like The Great Mammon can!” He says, trying to give himself an excuse as if he wasn’t just balling his eyes out a second earlier.
“Alright alright, I’ll let you pick too since you have the superior taste in movies.” You laughed, the unspoken rule to help protect his pride was kept, even though you both knew that the Disney movie was more for him and not you.
He somehow blushed brighter than before, the tips of his ears turning a cute shade of red like the rest of his face.
He pretended to hesitate before choosing a movie he liked. You turned the movie on and cuddled with mammon on his couch, performing the action quickly so he had no room to fake protest.
The intro music had an immediate calming effect on him as he snuggled closer to you.
You grinned down at him, before placing a soft kiss on his cheek.
His faced whipped to you as he stared open-eyed at you, you mirrored his expression after realising what you had done.
You both flushed in unison, before mammon looked down to your lips before looking back up to your eyes.
You smirked at him, pulled him close and shared a quick kiss with him.
As you pulled back, mammon had a distant look on his face.
“Focus on the movie mammon.” You whispered.
“R-right!” He sputtered, quickly turning his attention back to the screen.
You watched his face as a wobbly smile formed on his lips, fairly obvious he was trying his hardest not to smile.
You turned back to the screen, smirking as you felt something subtly hit your hand. You replied to his gesture by confidently holding his hand tightly, causing him to sigh and lean into you more.
You both enjoyed the movie till the end, but this time, both of you actually fell asleep, hand in hand.