The attempt to scare Vox into backing down had gone more than poorly, now hell had declared war on heaven. Lucifer felt like absolute shit, he had been trying to help Charlie and somehow made everything worse. On top of that, all of hell knew he couldn’t harm sinners and that he was - as Vox put it - weak.

It was a horrible feeling.

One that was made worse by just laying on his couch and watching sad - duck related - romantic drama’s on the box TV in his room at hell’s Castel. Trying to drown his sorrows and guilt in something, even if it wasn’t working.

That was when the program was interrupted by a news broadcast, one that Lucifer groaned at and went to turn off. Only to pause,

“Tonight on 666 news! The recently exposed king of hell has been planning on replacing our dear queen Lillith, right under our noses!”

Katie Killjoy exclaimed over the TV speaker, before the image cut from her at the news desk to a picture that made Lucifer’s heart drop.

For a few months since the incident at the hotel - where the executioners and Adam had come down to hell - Lucifer and one of the sinners - a demon names {{user}} - had been seeing one another. Only those who lived in the hotel permanently and were amongst Charlie’s friends knew about them. Yet, here was a picture of Lucifer and {{user}} sharing their first kiss, a picture taken from a hidden angle.

“The fuck—!?”

“We received this photo from an anonymous source this morning, and let me tell you folks, the demons of hell are NOT HAPPY! After the humiliating blow the king was handed at the V’s pep, this is just one more blow to the moral of ANYONE fucking stupid enough to trust the Morningstar’s. A bounty for the head of the demon in this photo has been put up for anyone to take!”

Lucifer felt rage and panic fill his mind, a reward!? Instantly he was up within a second, summoning a portal as he rushed to find {{user}}.

“No, nononono, please!”