๐๐ฆ Ascensionsim ๐๐ฆ
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Pairing: Alastor/Lucifer
Rating: E, for explicit
Word Count: 3.6k
Summary:
Alastor revels in watching the King scramble for every crumb of attention he gives, and revels even more in the pain and heartbreak in Luciferโs eyes each time he realizes the Radio Demon will never love him back.
Songfic for โAscensionismโ by Sleep Token
Notable Tags: NSFW, emotional manipulation, all hurt and no comfort, top!Alastor, bottom!Lucifer, heavy sadism and masochism, biting, blood drinking, blood as lube, wing-fingering, anal sex, scratching, mentions of cannibalism, and Alastor being a terrible person
Minors DNI
{Cross-posted on Ao3, show me some love there!}
Who made you like this?
Who encrypted your dark gospel in body language?
Moans permeated in the air, hanging heavy like the drunken haze that had overtaken the two bodies entangled on the luxurious, four-poster bed.
As a general rule, Alastor didnโt let anyone touch him, nor did he touch others if it could be avoided. The sensation of hands against his skin had always been laced with abuse, leaving his body haunted with the ghosts of pain well into his afterlife. Those specters played into his own motivations for touching others, a well-taught lesson in how to inflict that same abuse, but with far greater tact; how many people and demons alike had he killed with a feather-light caress of his lips or the back of his hand, the effortless movements the nectar that lured them into the maw of the pitcher plant? Mortal souls were so predictable. At their weakest, they always wanted the same thing: connection, affection, adoration. All things that Alastor never cared for, but was more than happy to exploit in others for his own personal gain or his own twisted enjoyment. There was nothing sweeter than watching that easily-fostered security wilt away into terror and regret, self-hatred for falling for the light of an anglerfish.
Even immortal souls shared the same vices, leading him to make such a rare exception to his own rule against touch. After all, the King of Hell was so downright vulnerable, it was delicious. Alastor was a simple sinner, with simple desires; desires to wound and rip into the flesh of anyone who dared to consider themselves superior to him, dared to be superior to him. Lucifer Morningstar was superiorโhe held a level of power, a command of sorcery, that Alastor knew he would never hope to achieve, and he hated the king for it. Resented him, tremendously. It wasnโt as though he kept that information a secret. He addressed Lucifer with outright hostility, seeking to undermine him at every turn, to flip the power dynamic of any interaction they engaged with to get the upper hand, to render him subordinate. Their encounters filled Alastor with a hunger, one that could only be sated by hunting the king as a predator would his prey, to corner him and taste that divine flesh for himself. It wasnโt as though Lucifer was oblivious to this; truthfully, he seemed to admire it, taking every opportunity to goad Alastor further, driving his appetite to spiral. It was almost like he was flirting, and Alastor was certainly the type to see an opportunity when it presented itself and use all manner of tools at his disposal to seize it.
Nobody better than the perfect enemy
Digital demons make the night feel heavenly
Lucifer knew better, yet here they were.
The sight below him was almost too much to bear as Alastor leaned up, cleaning the rose gold blood from his fingers with his tongue. The fallen angel was disheveled, to say the least; his golden hair tousled, his white blouse unbuttoned and bloodstained, his pants bunched up at the center of his thighs, just above his knees, underneath a cacophony of deep, oozing bite marks heโd left there. Alastor grazed his palm across his handiwork, digging a razor-sharp claw into one of the welts left by his fangs. Lucifer cried out in agony, but his face betrayed an opposite sentiment, glowing with ecstasy. He was a masochist, which paired far too well with the sadism all but written into Alastorโs genetic code. โMore!โ he whined, pleading with the sinner through half-lidded eyes. The deer happily obliged, twisting his wrist and exacerbating the incision, reveling in the way Luciferโs body jerked, his hands grabbing onto Alastorโs fully-extended antlers for purchase, cheekbones illuminated by the faint, red glow of his eyes.
They only played in their purest demonic forms; it would be a pointless exercise otherwise. Their monstrous visages were the most accurate representations of who they really were, of the madness that lurked beneath the masks they tried so hard to maintain in mixed company. There was no need to keep up a pretense behind closed doors, not when they craved to indulge in the absolute worst of one another. Alastor pulled his finger from the wound, now made twice the size it had been previously, and smeared the blood across Luciferโs lower lip. He leaned down to lap it up, his prey whimpering and inclining his head forward to make it a full-blown kiss; not that Alastor minded. It gave him the perfect opportunity to worry the manโs lip beneath his pointed teeth, drawing more of his sweet, practically addictive blood.
The Radio Demonโs hands whispered across Luciferโs cock, the fallen angel twitching and gasping with each tiny caress. He was so sensitive when he was vulnerable like this, his stare betraying an emotion Alastor knew was there, but Lucifer would never speak into full form. It made him want to laugh as he thumbed at the slit, smearing precum across the head; to think, the King of Hell had fallen again, for someone so far below his status. How poetic, how predictable. It wasnโt the first time heโd fallen in love with a human soul. Alastor wrapped his hand around the shaft, laying each digit against the fevered skin one by one, so agonizingly slowly that Luciferโs hips bucked with each moment of new contact. He tightened his grip, flicking his wrist as he languidly moved his hand up and down at the perfect speed to make the king begin to fall apart beneath his palms.
These trysts had become so common for the two of them in the past few months. From the second they laid eyes on one another in the hotel, they believed they saw past each otherโs charade. Lucifer, pretending to be a caring fatherโlike he hadnโt spent the seven years since his wife left him wallowing in self-pity, not giving his daughter the slightest ounce of his mental energy, only getting in touch with her to slake off his responsibilities. Alastor, pretending to be a well-intentioned, civil hotelierโwhen in reality, he was only around to manipulate Charlie and everyone in her vicinity for his own selfish gain, a monster who found his greatest joy in watching others suffer, particularly those tried endlessly to do the right thing, only to fail. Their mutual disgust and disdain for one another had become a game of preying on each otherโs weaknesses; Alastorโs gluttonous need to relish in the agony and flesh of others, Luciferโs need for physical contact and emotional intimacy. They each came to the table thinking they were going to win, but Alastor knew he was the only one equipped for victory.
Tell me you met me in past lives, past life, past what might be eating me from the inside darlingโฆ
Half algorithm, half deity; glitches in the code or gaps in a strange dream?
Humans and angels both were made in the same mold, made to be images of a God who knew nothing but loveโa love that Lucifer had muddied with his fingerprints and a few sets of bite marks on an apple. If Alastor could fill a human with infatuation, make them go against their better instincts to follow him to their final resting place in a shrouded wood, a fallen angel would be just as simple to manipulate. After all, they were modeled after the same Creator; there couldnโt be too many differences. He knew, the moment he agreed to this arrangement with the king, that after months of these encounters, Lucifer would fall in love with him; and he did, just as Alastor had predicted. Oh, he loved being right. It was truly intoxicating, stringing along someone who was in love with him. Watching them come to the realization, over and over again, that those feelings would never be reciprocated, but unable to prevent themselves from desperately accepting any shred of attention Alastor gave them, was a high unlike no otherโa sumptuous feast of agony that, every so often, slaked his need to consume, consume, consume flesh and bone alike.
Alastor dragged the sharp point of his index finger around the base of Luciferโs cock, down across his perineum, down even further to circle against the tight ring of muscle there. The disgraced seraphim bucked his hips downward, almost far too eager to indulge in carnal sin. The Radio Demon laughed, enthralled by how such a simple action could make the king squirm, make his mind start to go blank with desperation, lust, unadulterated desire. What a thing to experienceโAlastor wouldnโt know what that was like, and he knew he never would. He didnโt want to, lest he end up vulnerable and exposed, writhing beneath the hands of someone as poorly-intentioned as himself.
โPlease, just put it inโโ
โShut up.โ Alastor withdrew his fingers, shoving them in Luciferโs mouth with enough depth and force to make him choke; Alastor adored the feeling of the kingโs throat convulsing around him. He briefly fantasized about those being the final twitches of the angelโs lifeโbut if they were, would he ever have so much fun again? There would be no one else for him to play with that met his criteria, no other prey that would leave him truly satisfiedโno one strong enough, no one with a high enough social station, for this weakness to be enthralling instead of pathetic. โYou know you wonโt get a thing otherwise.โ He pumped his fingers in and out of Luciferโs mouth, pleased with the way submission reflected in Luciferโs demonic red eyes. He continued with that until he was content with the former seraphimโs demeanor, dragging his fingers across the kingโs formerly pristine skin, now marred by the deep lacerations heโd left there with his teeth.
Alastorโs hand continued its slow crawl downward, blood gathering around his fingers, until it found that ring again, circling twice before beginning to press his middle finger inโmore abruptly than any sane person would, not caring a bit for Luciferโs comfort; the fallen angel wouldnโt like it if he did. He was providing far more compassion than in past encounters. Blood wasnโt the most effective lubricant, but it was better than nothing, more than he felt Lucifer even deserved. Lucifer seemed to enjoy the abrupt, thoughtless intrusion anyway, bucking his hips like a wild bull just to make that finger go in deeper, thrust faster; Alastor stilled the kingโs movements and tore a scream from his throat all at once by adding two more fingers without warning, giving Lucifer a brief taste of blissful pain.
โFuck! Thatโโ
Alastor rolled his eyes; he hated the sound of Luciferโs voice when those pretty lips formed words. He curled his fingers, the pointed tips of his claws grazing against a small bundle of nerves that completely cut off anything the angel was trying to say. He glanced up at Luciferโs face, pleased to see that the simple motion had made his eyes cloud over with mindless lust, dragging him deep into a submissive headspace. He knew from previous experience that the king wouldnโt be speaking much anymore, at least coherently or in full sentences. He repeated the movement again, letting the pads of his fingers do the work this time, each stroke making Luciferโs needy whine jump a few notes higher; the sound of Lucifer falling even harder, promising Alastor the continued entertainment of heartbreak and misery.
Alastor removed his hand, smoothing it across the litany of bite marks decorating Luciferโs skin, smearing ichor around like paint on a canvas. Oh, how he wanted to bite in to that slight musculature, to pull and cut through muscle and sinew, down to the bone. Taking Lucifer apart emotionally was just a means to an end, foreplay for the event he truly wished to indulge inโliterally, physically tearing Lucifer apart. It would occur in time, though he wondered how many more of these meetings it would take; how deep in love would the father of lies have to fall before he willingly gave up his flesh? As the question bounced around, repetitively, in Alastorโs mind, he pressed the tip of his member against Luciferโs entrance, giving him only the slightest warning of what was next before he forced himself inside; only halfway on the first thrust, but even that was enough to make Luciferโs spine arch so high off the mattress that Alastor was surprised it wasnโt followed with the beautiful percussion of snapping bone. A second thrust, a third, a fourth; Alastor was finally enveloped in the tight, white-hot warmth of his favorite prey.
Alastor stayed still, the head of his cock applying a constant pressure to Luciferโs sweet spot, reveling in how the king himself twitched and convulsed around his length. His inky, black hands reflexively clenched and unclenched the bedsheets in the futile hope of keeping himself from falling further into subspace, past the point of no return. Lucifer was restraining himself, and Alastor wasnโt going to have that. He needed the king to fall harder for him, to inflame the torturous agony of unrequited love, to encourage him to give Alastor everythingโhis body, his flesh and bone; he withdrew from Luciferโs shaking form only to immediately slam himself back in at full force, with enough momentum to fucking bruise the angelโs prostate. Lucifer screamed, leaving Alastor giddy as he watched the final flickers of rebellion fade away from his ruby eyes, replaced by a dazed, hazy look of unadulterated submission.
Tears welled in the corners of Luciferโs eyes as Alastor established a rhythm that was brutal, punishing even. With each snap of the Radio Demonโs hips, the kingโs moans grew lower and lighter, more infrequent, the angel so overstimulated he was rendered practically mute, at least momentarily. Good. The further Luciferโs mind fell into that liminal space, the further he would fall into those insipid feelings of love; the further he fell, the sooner Alastor would get to use his teeth to rend and tear, to make Lucifer suffer physically just as he suffered emotionally. He closed his hands around the kingโs throat, craning his neck down to lick away the tears that had begun to track down his cheeks, salt and pleasure and sadness intermingled into one. โWhat a good boy you are for me, cher,โ Alastor growled, his brows knit together as a result of his own pleasure, eyes half-lidded and watching Lucifer with equal parts hunger and nefarious intent. โSo talented at debauchery, so willing to embrace sinโit was your finest creation.โ
Luciferโs eyes snapped open, leveling a stern glare at the demon hovering over him; the comment had clearly pissed him off, and he was able to maintain that fiery annoyance despite the way Alastor was able to make him see stars with every collision of his cock into his prostate. โItโahhh, fuckโit wasnโt sin,โ he argued. โTh-thatโs whatโoh, god, pleaseโthatโs what y-you shitty humansโahhhh!โchose t-t-to doโโ
โWhatโs the matter, canโt use your words?โ Alastor goaded, like he was paying no attention at all to what Lucifer said. โThatโs alright, youโre much cuter when you canโt speak.โ The fallen angel looked slightly wounded at the comment, once again acknowledging how Alastor didnโt want to hear his voice, didnโt care in the slightest what he had to say. It must hurtโbeing in love with someone and knowing they prefered you when you were silent. Alastor pressed down harder on Luciferโs throat, acutely aware of how the kingโs pulse thrummed invitingly beneath his palm; he wanted to rip apart the thin flesh above his jugular and bathe in that sickeningly sweet ichor. He pulled out of Lucifer, the tip of his cock resting slightly against that ring of muscle, and commanded: โFlip over.โ
The king was wholly obedient, immediately gathering his wits about him enough to do as Alastor ordered, rolling onto his stomach and bracing himself on his hands and kneesโeven though it was difficult, even though he was trembling so hard, he wondered if heโd be able to support his own body weight when Alastor chose to re-enter him. Lucifer gave Alastor a sultry look over his shoulder, but the sinner didnโt even notice; he was more transfixed by the six diagonal, narrow slits that ran down Luciferโs spine at the center of his back, three on each side. Oh, how he wanted to dip his fingers into those crevices and pull, but he wouldnโt. Lucifer would have to beg for it, eventually; Alastor was damned and determined to drive him to that point. He ran a single, long finger between those openings, summoning a thin rivulet of blood. As he leaned down to lick up its length, he roughly slammed back into Lucifer and the angel howled.
The new position allowed him to fuck rougher, deeper, and Alastor could hear that Luciferโs moans had turned into tearful sobs of ecstasy. Reaching forward, he grabbed a fistful of Luciferโs hair, twisting harshly to keep his head at an awkward, uncomfortable angle, looking over his shoulder so Alastor could admire the mindless expression on his face. Alastorโs mouth watered, black drool dripping from the corner of his mouth as he watched the angel cry in rapture, wondering in the back of his mind if this was the same expression he would make as Alastor tore him limb from limb, savoring the taste and texture of his divine flesh. The thoughts alone sent the deer into a frenzy, his hips pistoning at twice the pace; Luciferโs brain seemed to short-circuit and switch off behind his glowing red eyes, and he whimpered and moaned as he could think of nothing but the pleasure being given to him. Alastor could read the emotion behind his pupils, as heโd seen it multiple times before; love. If he wasnโt so preoccupied with driving himself to completion, or fantasizing about how orgasmic it would feel to finally consume the king below him, he would have cackled in sadistic glee.
The hand in Luciferโs hair violently shoved his face into the mattress, while the claws of his free hand fingered the slits where Luciferโs wings emerged. The former seraphimโs entire body spasmed around Alastorโs fingers, around his cock, tensing so tightly that Alastor feared he might lose himself posthaste. But he reigned himself in, if only to dive his fingers in and out of those small openings to make Lucifer cry out in an addictive mixture of pleasure and pain. โSt-stoโโ Alastor dug one claw in deeper, and Luciferโs word was cut off with a wail. He repeated the movement again and again, deducing by the way each of Luciferโs whimpers grew higher in pitch that he was closeโand Alastor didnโt even have to touch his cock to get him there this time.
โThatโs it, cher,โ Alastor purred, maintaining the tempo heโd set with his hips and his hands. โLose yourself for me, Lucifer. Fall for me.โ
Alastorโs urging was the straw that broke the camelโs back. Lucifer gripped the bedsheets so hard he tore them, just like his orgasm tore through him. The Radio Demon laughed this time, unable to suppress the humor he felt at seeing the King of Hell so vulnerable, so debauched, in absolute shambles beneath him. Lucifer had tightened impossibly further around him when he came, and it only took a few more fast, hard thrusts before Alastor reached his peak as well. Unlike Lucifer, though, he didnโt emit a single sound, retaining his composure even through the high of his orgasm; he didnโt want to be as affected as the man below him, he did want to show how truly in control he was, after all. The two stayed there, twined together, for a brief moment, until Alastor pulled out, watching with the slightest hint of pride as his seed dripped out of the fallen angel. It was as though he was claiming his territory, an indication that this man would be his next mealโif he ever finished toying with him.
The Radio Demon was quick to extricate himself from Lucifer. He snapped his fingers and his shadow came forth with a towel, allowing him to clean himself off well enough to start redressing in seconds. Alastor offered no such courtesy to his bedmate, who laid half-catatonic on his sheets for a few seconds before trying to right himself into a sitting position. The deer had already started pulling his jacket back on and re-straightening his tie when Lucifer asked, โUmโฆAlastor? Would you, ah, like to stay the night?โ
Alastor laughed, the sound full of mockery and derision. โAnd be caught leaving the Kingโs palace in the morning? Mm, no, I think not.โ He picked up his microphone with a flourish of his wrist, stealing a glance at himself in Luciferโs dresser mirror. Despite everything that had just happened, he still looked impeccable, as though he hadnโt just spent the last two hours of his afterlife railing Lucifer into his mattress, fighting back his own primal urges to turn his fuckbuddy into dinner. All good things came to those who waited, after all.
Luciferโs face fell, disappointed. โOh, IโฆI see. Yeah, youโre probably rightโฆโ his voice was forlorn, clearly upset by Alastorโs unwillingness to stay. No one ever stayed, and that was an insecurity Alastor would be a fool not to play with; it made the times he did come around even more effective, breadcrumb by breadcrumb. โIt would get people talkingโฆโ
โSplendid!โ Alastor chirped. โYouโre a smart man, I knew youโd see it my way!โ His smile widened imperceptibly with joy and entertainment as he watched how Luciferโs heart seemed to crack behind his piercing, red eyes. The fallen angel gave him a sad, desperate look as Alastor faded into the shadows, and he knew it wouldnโt be long until Lucifer gave him what he wantedโthe last bargaining chip he had to make the Radio Demon stay.
So Iโll take what I want and leave.
