Pillow Fort Movie Time! - with the Brothers
After begging, pleading, wheedling, and scoring As for all your tests, Lucifer had finally given in and allowed you to use the House of Lamentation's common area one (1) time to do whatever you wanted.
And you wanted to build a pillow fort.
However! You were not content with just a pillow fort. No. You wanted a Cinema Pillow Fort: large, extravagant, and with a television you could watch a movie on.
And so you went to Mammon, knowing that he had a large flat-screen television hoarded somewhere within his room that he wasn't using at all.
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> When you asked Mammon for the television, he was somewhat reluctant to part with it at first. After all, it had cost him a pretty penny and it was fragile!
> However, after telling him what you wanted to do with it and inviting him along (because he would be part of your pillow fort movie party. C'mon. He never leaves you alone and it'll be better to invite him rather than have him try to squeeze his way in. Inviting him would make him feel wanted and you definitely wanted him there!), he had blushed and said that it wasn't that he wanted to help you, but you had asked and he just so happened to be free so he would help you set up both the television and the fort! But he wasn't being nice! He was just... making sure that your pillow fort didn't suck! Because he'd be in there too! (Because he was your first! Your man!) And he didn't want to be in a pillow fort that sucked!
> Mammon had no idea what a pillow fort was. But he wasn't going to tell you that.
> He plugged up the television and hung up the canopy of the pillow fort, layering the blankets and cloth (and why had Mammon been hoarding so much good cloth?) and attaching them to the part of the ceiling where Lucifer usually strung him from so they were nice and secure.
> Your excitement and joy was rubbing off of him and he found himself looking forward to seeing the end result of the pillow fort the two of you were building together.
> Meanwhile you placed some futons and thin mattresses — whatever you had lying around, really — on the ground before covering them up with a few layers of plush and fluffy blankets for the base of the pillow fort.
This was when Belphegor trailed down the stairs, sleepily rubbing at his eye with one hand and holding his pillow in the other, pausing in his step when he saw caught sight of the utter mess you and Mammon had turned the common area to.
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> Belphegor's first thought was honestly to just leave you guys be. It looked like more trouble than it was worth and he couldn't really muster up the energy for it.
> But then you smiled at Mammon so openly and so sweetly, thanking him for his help, that Belphegor suddenly sound himself standing next to you, arms around you and his chin resting on your head.
> "MC... what are you doing?" he asked, ignoring Mammon's demands for him to keep his hands to himself.
> "I'm building a pillow fort!"
> Despite having a demon hanging off of you, you move with a practiced ease as you shifted the futons and mattresses around to ensure that there were neither bumps nor gaps in your base.
> With a similarly practiced ease, Belphie nuzzled his face into the crook of your shoulder.
> "What's a pillow fort?"
> You briefly explain to Belphie what a pillow fort was (pretending to ignore how Mammon listened in on the conversation as well): a construction made out of blankets, pillows, and other soft material resembling a sort of den or nest. It was supposedly very comfortable and cozy.
> This piqued Belphegor's interest. He asks if he can help. He wants to be praised too, like how you praised Mammon.
> You tell him to bring all the pillows he's willing to part with. This was something he could do. He had a lot of pillows, after all, and he would ask Beel to help him drag them all down.
> While Belphegor went to retrieve his pillows, you already had a few beanbags chairs that you bought specifically for this day that you placed around the fort. You piled your pillows together with them to create a few sizeable and steady piles to either lean back or bury yourself in.
Eventually, Beelzebub came down the stairs along with Belphegor, arms pull of pillows and cushions.
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> After setting down the pillows and watching Belphegor lie face first into a pile and fall asleep, Beelzebub's attention was immediately drawn to the pile of snacks you had set aside for your movie night.
> First, there were the snacks you had specifically imported from the human realm. Popcorn with various flavors, marshmallows, potato chips, ice cream... you even got yourself two buckets of cotton candy!
> Apart from those, you had spent the day cooking large servings of mac n' cheese, mashed potatoes, and warm soup (in a thermos!). You had also baked cookies and although half of them "mysteriously" disappeared when you were cooling them, you still had quite a sizeable serving left.
> Why did you have so much food? Because you planned ahead of course! From the very beginning, you knew that even though pillow fort movie night was something you planned for yourself, your wonderful, beloved, amazing, clingy demonic housemates would somehow become a part of it.
> The only thing you weren't sure was the number of demons joining you.
> It didn't matter though, considering Beelzebub was here.
> You had to stand between Beelzebub and the food, sternly holding your ground and talking him down. It was an extremely difficult endeavor, considering the lethality of Beelzebub's puppy eyes, but you pulled through. Just barely.
> You lied. You gave Beel the mashed potatoes.
> When you noticed that Beelzebub was still eyeing the rest of your food, you firmly told him that the food was saved for your movie night and that if he wanted to eat it, he had to wait until then.
> "When will movie night start?" he asked.
> "When the pillow fort is set up," you replied.
> +1 helper, get!
> He helped with most of the heavy lifting, bringing the high-backed dining chairs to act as boundary wall for the fort, tying the blankets to them.
> Your pillow fort was taking shape!
> However, it seemed a little too dark. You had completely forgotten to order the fairy lights you planned to use as mood lighting. Thankfully, you know someone who definitely had what you were looking for.
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When you knocked on Asmodeus' door to get some of his charmed candles (spelled to keep the flame to themselves! no more burns! no more accidental fires! no more fire hazards! get yours from akuzon now, for only—), he demanded to know what it was for.
> "Is it for a date? A candlelit dinner, maybe?" Asmodeus sidled up next to you, wrapping his arms around one of yours and snuggling close. "Or perhaps to set a romantic, sensual mood for certain... activities?"
> Was it just you or was Asmodeus' grip getting tighter?
> "Since when did you get a paramour anyway," he pouted. "I thought we were friends? Close friends, even! We're supposed to tell each other our secrets!"
> "It's for my pillow fort," you answered. "I'm making one downstairs with Mammon, Belphie, and Beel. You're welcome to join if you want to."
> "I'd love to join!" Asmodeus let go of your arm to grab his candles. "Scented or non-scented?"
> "Non-scented please, we'll be eating snacks while we watch the movie."
> Asmodeus gasped. "A movie? We're going to have a movie date? Ooh, I want to sit next to you! Can I?"
> "Uhhh, I don't mind, but the others might—"
> "It's settled!"
> Asmodeus looked so happy that you decided that you had to make space for him by your side, even if you were faced with ten thousand puppy eyes.
Just then, you saw that Leviathan's door was open and he was looking at the both of you with a pinched expression on his face.
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> When he realized that you were looking at him, he panicked.
> "MC!!" he blurted out. "I wasn't eavesdropping!"
> His face was flushed red but you noticed that his gaze was still enviously fixed onto you and Asmodeus.
> "Do you want to join us in the pillow fort as well?" you offered. Levi's face turned redder and his grip on the door tightened. Ahh Levi, you're warping the wood.
> "I don't need to join in on your normie activities!" he spat out and then immediately regretted it. "I mean, I don't need to, but I don't mind it! Since you've asked, I suppose I can join in on your movie night and pillow fort!"
> "You don't have to if you don't want to," you said. Half of you was trying to be nice. The other half just wanted to see Levi flustered. You couldn't help yourself. A flustered Levi was a cute Levi!
> Levi mumbled something under his breath. You blinked and leaned in closer.
> "What did you say?"
> "I said I want to!"
> You grinned at him and discovered a brand new shade of red.
> You reached out to link your arms with Asmodeus and Levi.
> "C'mon, let's get back down. The pillow fort should almost be done by now!"
> "Oh right MC," Asmodeus suddenly said. "I've been meaning to ask; what exactly is a pillow fort?"
> "..."
When you were done explaining to Asmodeus and Levi the intricacies of building the Ideal Pillow Fort, you saw Satan standing in the common area, looking curiously at the fort.
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> You swear, if you had to explain what a pillow fort was one more time—
> "Hello MC, is this... a blanket fort?" Satan asked.
> Oh thank god.
> Or the devil?
> Religion is hard when you're in hell.
> "Yes! I call it a pillow fort but blanket fort is one of its names as well."
> "I see."
> Satan had come across blanket forts — or pillow forts, as MC called them — before in some of the human romance novels he's read. Usually they were used during terribly intimate moments between the romantic leads, or between two very close friends.
> Huddling together and trading hushed whispers, intertwined fingers and shoulders brushing against each other, a small part of Satan has always wanted to try it out with someone.
> Try it out with you, you, it could only be you.
> But he hadn't known how to make a blanket fort and if he were every to do something like that with you, he would want it to be perfect.
> He couldn't find any books on the subject of making blanket forts either so he eventually gave up on his fantasy.
> But now, here it was. The blanket fort.
> It was a little bigger than how he imagined it to be, but it was fine.
> There were also more people compared to how things were in his fantasy but that was also fine.
> He took careful notes in his head. Next time, he would be able to replicate a blanket fort and hopefully you would be willing to share it with him.
> "Would you like to join in?" you asked because Satan was really eyeing the pillow fort with a strange intensity.
> "If you don't mind," Satan replied with a smile.
It was just then that Lucifer came home.
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> "When you said that you wanted free reign over the common area, this was not what I had in mind," Lucifer commented.
> "Haha," you said. And because you already had like six out of seven of the brothers agreeing to join you in your fort, you decided to test your chances with Lucifer. After all, it would suck for him to feel left out. "We're all gonna watch a movie together, would you like to watch with us?"
> There was a long pause as Lucifer looked at you, at the pillow fort, at his brothers, and then at his suitcase.
> Just as you were sure that Lucifer was going to turn down your invitation, he sighed and gave you a small smile.
> Tiny, miniscule, microscopic softening of the eyes, but you knew him well enough to tell that it was a smile.
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> It took a while but eventually you all got yourself settled into the pillow fort. It wasn't a very tight fit, but it certainly was cozy with your clingy demon housemates squeezed tight all around you.
> Each of them had to have a part of their body touching yours, like you were their life source and it brought back memories to the time you went to the beach and, in the hotel, they all formed a circle around you to sleep like some sort of deranged ritual.
> Still, they wouldn't be your beloved demon housemates without all their oddities and quirks and you love them all dearly for it.
> It also helps that not all of them ran hot; some of them actually ran cold so you didn't have to worry about getting overheated anytime soon.
> Anyway, you were comfortable and once you made sure everyone else was too, you loaded your movie and hit play.
"I'd never given much thought to how I would die—"