my_own_advocate: (lucifer - healthy coping)
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It had been days since Dad had announced His retirement and left. Lucifer supposed he should feel relieved by now, or elated. Dad was... vacating their lives for good. And there was no doubt who His successor would be: Amenadiel, who had trained for this for his entire long celestial life.

He could admit in the privacy of his own head that Amenadiel would make a far better God than their Father had ever been.

Not for the first time in the past... month? Had it been a month? Lucifer thought about how they should be headed home. To the Rouge, and its nostalgic sailor aesthetic that, again in the privacy of his own thoughts, Lucifer could admit he sort of missed.

Perhaps it was the matter of Daniel and his well-deserved revenge that kept his thoughts so messy and his feet firmly placed within the boundaries of Los Angeles county. That had to be it. No?

Lucifer poured himself another glass of scotch and leaned against the bar, contemplating the bottles. He did still like this apartment, he mused, so there was that.

[[ expecting one, but open for phone calls ]]

Date: 22 Jul 2021 19:06 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (checking in)
From: [personal profile] betterthanaplan
Nah. Not these eyes. The silver ones, sure. But not these.

"You don't have to believe me yet," Duke said. "Octavia gave me that room, so I'm going to give it to you. But you -- we -- are loveable and loving. No matter who our parents are. Or what they did to us." He offered Lucifer a small smile. "And frankly, you trying to say otherwise is starting to piss me off."

Well past starting. But he was trying to be gentle here.

Date: 22 Jul 2021 19:16 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (touching foreheads)
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"Because your parents fucked up," Duke said simply. He tipped his head up to kiss Lucifer again, softly on the forehead. Like a benediction. "They never showed you what love is, so you don't know how to recognize it. All you've got is movies and TV and they're liars." He rested his forehead on Lucifer's, watching him from up close. "Trust me, Luce. I'm still learning, but I've been where you are right now. It's terrifying. But I think, maybe . . . that's what makes it better, in the end."

Date: 22 Jul 2021 19:31 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (Boy smooches)
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Duke hadn't known what to expect, jumping into all that. But it wasn't this.

(He hadn't dared to expect this. Or even hope for it.)

There was maybe a moment's pause, of just receiving, before he dove into kissing Lucifer back. Putting everything he still didn't know how to say into gripping Lucifer's hips, into gently sucking on Lucifer's lower lip.

Lucifer could love, Duke was certain of that. And Lucifer was loved, quite thoroughly, in return.

Date: 22 Jul 2021 21:10 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (just bros)
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And Duke, hopeless romantic that he was deep down inside, felt like this was a victory. Even if he knew that Lucifer wasn't totally convinced just yet.

So he let out a soft moan as Lucifer's fingers brushed his scalp, encouraging him -- then pulling back. Just a little. Just enough to get a breath and tease: "Your dad's for sure not about to just show up again, right?"

Date: 22 Jul 2021 21:32 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (Boy smooches)
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"Good," Duke said. And dove back in to show Lucifer just how much he'd missed him back.

Date: 22 Jul 2021 21:43 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
From: [personal profile] betterthanaplan
Duke blinked. Why had Lucifer stopped?

"You okay?" he asked.

Date: 22 Jul 2021 21:51 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (inuendo?)
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Duke smirked. "You know I don't mind being bent over."

Date: 22 Jul 2021 21:58 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (snuggly hat)
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Duke smirked harder at that grunt -- but then it faded at the further hesitation. Duke pulled back. Not all the way away, but back, so that he was loosely holding Lucifer's waist instead of holding himself against him.

"Ah." He nodded. "Okay. We don't have to -- we can take it slow."

Date: 22 Jul 2021 22:11 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (smooches)
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Duke let out a startled, delighted laugh. There were not many people in this world who could just scoop him up like that. He lifted his legs to replace his arms around Lucifer's waist, and instead wrapped them around his neck.

And leaned in for more of those kisses.

Date: 22 Jul 2021 22:42 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (literal bedfellows)
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Duke laughed again as he bounced onto the mattress, then reached for Lucifer.

Octavia said that love was in action, not in words. And Duke would happily show Lucifer -- and let him show him -- just how much love there was in this loft, this morning.

It was a little bit quick. Maybe more than a little bit urgent. While Duke and Octavia had found the time to enjoy each other earlier in the week, he and Lucifer hadn't touched each other this way in far, far too long. Afterwards, when they were both sprawled on the mattress, Duke let himself continue to touch, drawing lazy patterns on Lucifer's arm with his finger.

(He still hadn't figured out his Lucifer tattoo, yet. He didn't have quite the same set of easy nicknames to choose from as Octavia had, after all.)

Date: 22 Jul 2021 23:04 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: ((:-|)
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Duke felt the shift, though he couldn't have consciously said when it happened or how. (He was pretty sure he knew why, though.)

"Is this the part where we're supposed to clutch the sheet to our chest and stare at the ceiling like we're in a sitcom?" he teased, trying to find that easy place again.

Date: 22 Jul 2021 23:11 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (shiny hair and concern)
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"Have you ever been even a little bit in the closet?" Duke asked, propping his head up on his hand so he could look at Lucifer properly.

(He was such a beautiful man. If Duke had to give God credit for anything, it was how exquisitely he'd crafted his angels.)

(Or maybe that was their self-actualizing. Maybe Duke didn't have to give God any credit for that, either.)

Date: 23 Jul 2021 04:28 (UTC)
betterthanaplan: (thoughtfully amused)
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“Nope,” Duke decided. “Doesn’t count. Being closeted involves actually hiding things.”

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