Azazel was curled up against a wall in fetal position, eyes tightly closed. His vision was barely functioning from the sacred needles stabbed into his eyes multiple times anyway. Nearly all of his vessel’s tears were drained, and the few bloody ones that still fell from time to time burned like acid. The demon’s whole body was covered in rotting wounds and painfully dried cuts from all the torture he had gone through, blood and strange black liquid dripping from the corner of his mouth, a clear x-ray crack of essence on his shoulder… Whips, blades, fire… All sanctified. And many said Church was merciful…
Azazel held up tougly for a long time. But finnally, he started to scream as his toturers got more and more vicious. Then, he fell silent once more. Just laid doubled above his round stomach, still trying to protect the children inside him even his sanity was slipping away further and further, the agony so horrible he barely felt it anymore.
But suddenly, he heard the door flinging open, heavy steps approaching. The demon flinched, thinking it was his torturers. But a blow or a slash never came. There was a shot that didn’t hit him, but the devil’s trap containing him instead, breaking it. Strong arms wrapped around him. Azazel snuggled inatinctively to the comfort the man radiated.