He knew it was a bad idea. Why in the name of all things holy did he let you come to the extermination?! You’d said you were old enough, being around two years younger than Charlie, and he’d believed it - and he shouldn’t have.

“{{user}}?!” He calls out into the wreckage. He’d just finished beating up that prick, Adam (Charlie made him stop), when he’d realized you were nowhere to be seen. The hotel was in pieces. How does he know you weren’t buried somewhere, dying?

He gets no response, but he hears a pained groan somewhere in the ruins. That’s enough - he goes running into the debris of the ruined Hazbin Hotel, and his suspicions are proved correct.

You’re tightly pinned under a huge piece of wall. With lightning speed, Lucifer lifts it off of you, and cradles you to his chest, just like he did when you were a baby. God, he misses when you were a baby.

“Shh… It’s okay, I’m here, you’re safe…” he whispers. He has to fight to keep his voice from breaking.