Arifer Snippet

Arianna was terrified right now. She hadn't seen Emily in about three months, and coincidentally that was how pregnant she was right now, which was quite far along as a Nephilim pregnancy lasted half as long as a fully human one. She was quite heavily showing, and Emily could see it very clearly.

"Lucifer should be fathering /my/ children, not yours," she snarled. "That should be my baby. Now, let your husband come back to me, and I might just spare you two. "

Arianna was reacting to her threats a lot differently this time, she wasn't trying to fight back, she was just trying to keep her baby safe. "Please, just... just don't hurt Addie," she whimpered, arms wrapped firmly around her stomach. "I'll talk to Lucifer just please don't hurt my daughter."

Emily smirked. Poor Arianna had absolutely no idea what was in store for her. "There's a good girl, now run along and go talk to Luci," she purred.

She wasted no time in running off, but Lucifer was right outside the kitchen door. He had heard everything, so surely he would help her, right? But why wouldn't he intervene? And he looked mad, but not at Emily, he looked mad at his wife. Why?

"You were just going to let me go that easily? You didn't even /try/ to fight for me? I'm your husband! Maybe Em was right, maybe you really aren't good enough for me. I was testing you!"

Arianna collapsed in on herself. She was holding back tears and failing miserably at doing it. "How could you say something like that? I was protecting our daughter! How was I supposed to know it was a test? I thought she was going to hurt the baby!" she exclaimed. "How could you say I don't deserve you? Was it all just a joke to you then? Was all this some elaborate lie, and you never loved me to begin with?"

Lucifer wanted to cry too, but he wouldn't. He felt hurt that Arianna didn't even try to reason with the demon to be able to keep both, and he wasn't exactly being rational. "Of course it was a lie, I'm the devil, darling," he fibbed. He loved her, he did, but he wasn't thinking about that. He was thinking about hurting his wife the same way he was hurt.

"Then send me back to earth," she said tightly, blinking back a new round of tears. "Send me back if you never loved me," Ari pleaded, and her (likely former) husband did just that. She arrived back at her former residence. She was sobbing her eyes out, but there was nothing she could do. She was pregnant and alone and scared to death.

She sat down on her bed, feeling a sharp pain in her abdomen. "C'mon Addie, don't hurt Momma, I know you're upset too. Don't kick me that hard though," she sniffled. She realized a few moments later that her baby wasn't kicking when there was a sudden flood of wetness between her legs- her water just broke. The stress of losing Lucifer sent her into premature labor.

"No no no... " she mumbled, starting to cry again. She couldn't go to a hospital, she knew that, and she certainly couldn't call Lucifer. And she had no way of calling Susie either, so Arianna was alone in this, and she had no idea what to do. She didn't want to lose her daughter too.

Arianna had no choice but to lay on her bed for hours while contractions wracked her steadily weakening body, not being able to tell when was the right time to push and when was too soon. She was tired and losing strength quickly, so she made a judgement call and started to push, screaming and crying.

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Lucifer was in Hell, arguing with his cook, Susie. She knew he loved Arianna and thought he had overreacted, his excuse was that he was teaching her a lesson. "She's your wife, you don't /teach her a lesson/, and especially because she didn't pass whatever paranoid test you gave her! She /loves/ you, and for God's sake she is carrying your child! Lucifer Morningstar you are being unreasonable, and however much you love her, you probably just lost her for good."

"You mean she... she wouldn't come back? She's not just escaping to earth for space, she left?" he asked, tearing up. "Susie, what did I do?"

"You messed up and you ruined the one good thing you had. Now go fix it before you lose the chance."

Lucifer sighed and ran his hands down his face, not knowing whether what he did was even fixable. But Susie was right, he couldn't let this colossal mistake cost him his wife and child. So, he went up to Arianna's old house, and what he saw made his blood run cold. He saw her, lying on her bed, covered in sweat- and from the thighs down, blood. And there was a tiny baby in her arms, not making a sound.

"Ar-Ari... what happened?" he asked quietly, tears welling up and spilling over. "Is she... ?"

"Why are you here?" Arianna asked hollowly, her voice was so thoroughly depressed. Did he lose her already, and his daughter too? "She's alive. She's sleeping. Now answer the question."

"I'm here to-to apologize. I didn't mean what I said about not loving you, I swear it. I do love you Arianna, and I always have. I was hurt, and I was overreacting, and I was /wrong/. If I didn't love you, trust me, I wouldn't be here to tell you how sorry I am."

"How can you really expect me to believe you? Even if you do love me, because of what you said, I will /always/ have those doubts in my mind. You put so much stress on me that Adelina came too early and could've died."

Lucifer kneeled down next to her bed, sniffling. "Please. I'm not asking you to forgive me, I know how badly I messed up, and I know this is all my fault. I'm just asking to let me fix this. Please, don't leave me."

Arianna spent several long minutes deliberating while her husband sat there sobbing and staring at his daughter, wanting so badly to hold her. "Okay. Help me home."