She Belongs To The Devil

"Damien?"

Lilith waited for Damien to speak but he kept on staring blankly and stayed unmoving.

"Damien. Please say something. You are scaring me." Lilith pleaded again.

Damien looked like he had gone into some sort of a shock after listening to the whole truth from his mother and not just some one-sided half-baked truth.

Lilith nudged her son gently and apologized for the umpteenth time, "Damien, I am extremely sorry that all of those things happened that day. And please don't blame yourself for it. I was the one who hid the truth from you. And I am the one responsible for all of your actions, not you."

Damien suddenly started to chuckle as he kept on staring at nothing. His chuckle then slowly turned into laughter.

"Hahahaha… hahahahahaha…"

Lilith crouched in front of the sofa and looked at her son's face. "Damien?"

"Hahahahaha… Aahhhhhhhhhhhh…"

Then the next moment, his laughter turned into the screams of frustration.

He grabbed his hair and bent down. And he kept on screaming his gut out.

"Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh…"

And then in a blink, he protruded his claws and dig into his own chest as if he was going to pull his heart out.

"Damien!" Lilith hurriedly grabbed her son's wrist. She forcefully made him leave his heart and pulled his hand out of his chest.

"Damien! What do you think you're doing?" She firmly held both of his hands on the sofa and shouted at him.

Damien started to mockingly chuckle at himself again. His open chest hurt even more as he did so. And his cloth was covered in blood.

He was even more ashamed of his actions, he despised himself even more now that he knew…

"My father was a monster. And I… and I said that blood relation comes first when Ariel tried to remind me that she was my friend." Damien sneered at himself and mumbled, "Well, I guess blood relations do come first. I have now become the very monster my father was."

Lilith couldn't explain how hurt she was to see her son in this state. She was worried that he would go into the depth of despair again at this rate. She didn't want to lose her son again.

"Baby, you are nothing like your father. If you think you are a monster then your father was a thousand times worse." Lilith shook her son and said, "Everybody makes a few mistakes in their lives. We learn from our mistakes and keep on moving forward. Despise ourselves doesn't help in any way."

Damien wasn't having it.

So Lilith further tried to ease his mind, "Damien, I have also made countless mistakes in the past. Even Prince Theodore and King Lucifer have. And so did most of the ancient demons that reside in Hell. Nobody is as pure as you think."

Damien leaned forward and rested his head on his mother's chest.

Lilith let go of his hands and lightly caressed the back of his head.

After a while, Damien whispered in a weak voice, "I want to sleep. Please don't let anyone disturb me until I come out of my room."

"Of course. You need to rest." Lilith picked her son in her arms and took him to his room.

She helped him get out of his dirty clothes and wiped the blood clots from his body and hand. Then she tucked him into bed and placed a kiss on his forehead.

"Call me if you need anything," Lilith pulled all the curtains and took a glance at the resting face of her son.

She didn't want to leave him alone thinking that he might try to do something stupid again. However, she also didn't want to keep on hovering. She wanted to give her son some alone time so that he could think over everything, and try and accept himself.

She closed the door and walked out of his room.

Lilith headed towards her own room only to find Lucifer waiting for her in the hallway.

"Lucifer, I didn't get to thank you properly." She bowed to him and said in a polite voice, "I cannot even explain how grateful I am towards you. You didn't have to get stuck in the darkness for two whole weeks just to get my son out of there. But you did anyway."

She looked at him with a slight smile on her lips and further said, "Thank you for bringing my son home. I wish I could pay you back somehow. But I have nothing that you don't already have."

Lucifer's lips curved up a little after hearing such polite words from Lilith. But he didn't like it when he saw the condition that Lilith was in.

"Why don't you pay me back by taking care of yourself? You look like you don't have a drop of energy left in you."

Lilith touched her sore nape and reassured Lucifer, "I will be fine now that Damien is here."

Lucifer gave a nod.

There was an awkward silence between the two of them until another guest appeared at the end of the hallway.

"Brother!" Theodore teleported to cover that short distance between him and Lucifer, and welcomed Lucifer with a hug. "You're back!"

"Oh!" Lucifer was pushed back a little because of how Theodore literally jumped at him. He chuckled and said in a mocking tone, "I didn't know you'd miss me this much. Maybe I should disappear every once in a while."

Theodore ignored his mockery and asked, "Did you bring Damien along with you?" He looked restless because if Damien was not back then that could have meant that he would never be.

Lucifer patted Theodore on the shoulder and said in a serious voice, "Relax. I brought him back."

Theodore sighed in relief and looked at Lilith. "Where's he? Can I talk to him?"

Lilith gave a sad look to Theodore and replied, "I'm sorry. He just went to his room saying that he needed to get some sleep. And he asked not to be disturbed."

"But I need to clear things between us as soon as possible," Theodore gave a sad frown.

He needed the relationship between him and Damien to get back to how it was. And he needed Damien to meet Ariel so that his daughter would start to eat and sleep properly. Her situation was no better than Lilith's. And because of her, Adeline was also in no better shape.

Lilith understood what was bothering Theodore. So she reassured him, "Theodore, I have explained everything to him. But that just made his hate towards himself grow even stronger. He…" She gulped and said, "He tried to hurt himself by pulling his own heart out."

Both Theodore and Lucifer felt bad to hear that.

Theodore was even more worried for Damien. "Let me talk to him then. Maybe he will blame himself less if I say that Ariel has already forgiven him."

Lilith thought for a while and gave a nod. "If that happens then I will be more than happy. Go and try to talk to him."

"Thank you," Theodore instantly teleported outside the door of Damien's room.

He took a deep breath in to calm himself down first. He wanted to say the right things so that he wouldn't mess things up with Damien. He really needed the two of them to go back to normal like before.