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Assistant: Title: A Divine (Romantic) Comedy
        Author: Dystopian_God Dystopian_God 
        Chapter: 49/49 
        Summary: Depression is a horrible thing, all consuming and crushing. So when a failed attempt to cheer him up by the Six Sins leads Lucifer Morningstar, lord of the Seven Circles of Hell and Rubber Duck Enthusiast, into a random bar in a random city the last thing he's expecting is to strike up a conversation with someone who understands the pain of lost love.Naturally, things quickly spiral out of hand as Lucifer, now Lucius Magne, tries to date the lovely Camila Noceda while hiding his true nature, completely unaware that Camila is doing the exact same thing with the true nature of her daughters college... and her other daughters species. Add in some troublesome earth-bound imps, Some troublesome Sins trying to 'help' him, and trying to run an entire dimension sized kingdom and you got a romantic comedy for the ages.One could almost call it a Divine Comedy.Now fresh with its own Tropes Page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/ADivineRomanticComedy
        Contents: Chapter 49: Zoo Date: Meet The Family
    

    

        
          
          
            As everything comes together, Camila finally meets Charlie. It goes rather well, all things considered.
          
        

      
        
          I am very happy with last chapter, all things considered... but I should make a confession: I might have made the cardinal sin of writing and let a real-world bias influence a character's words... yeah, I'm talking about Charlie's Speech in her mind.I do want to explore her thoughts regarding how almost nobody believes in her or what she's doing and explore how she's viewed in a meta context... but I will admit I could have done better than that. I had a pretty good interaction planned between Camila and Charlie for... I'm gonna say two chapters from now? I think the Zoo Date is going to be six- or seven-chapters total cause there's a lot to cover and also seven is the funny Hell number.Like, I'm leaving it in there because I am confident about my writing, but the responses have given me a lot to think about... namely about how I kind of have this nasty habit of thinking something cool to write, going forward with it, and not thinking about the wider implications till someone points them out.It's a curse.Anyway, please enjoy the Noceda side of things.Edit: I sometimes get right and left confused in my head so sorry about putting Vaggie's eye patch on the wrong side
            
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    Today was the day.Today, Camila Noceda would finally meet Lucius' family. She would admit that she was rather looking forward to this, wanting to make a good first impression. She'd heard so much about Charlie from Lucius, hearing the man sing his daughter's praises to the high heavens as he regaled her with anecdotes and stories from her childhood.She hoped she made a good impression. She… she had sort of inferred from certain things that Charlie may not have been, well, excited to know her mom was no longer in the picture so she vowed to be a friendly but non-parental woman, someone who did care for her father but had no intentions of replacing her mother.And speaking of her mother… She sighed as she began brushing her hair, getting the curls into a less messy do after a long night. What little she had managed to get about Lucius' true nature painted a picture of some sort of otherworldly royalty… possibly Isles royalty from another titan since she now knew of two different women named Lilith and both of them weren't human, even though only one of them she had met.Lucius and Lilith… she shook her head as she placed her red and orange sweater on the bed and began to iron it. Whatever the truth, she knew she would be ready for it. After all, it couldn't be crazier than first learning about the Demon RealmNothing would be crazier than learning that the daughter you had been living with for months wasn't actually your daughter but a shapeshifting refugee escapee from a dangerous cult that was also a member of a long-extinct species while your real daughter was speaking to you through a car headlight that she had chosen to stay in a place that was probably the inspiration for Hell.Nothing could be crazier than that night, not even when she went into said Isles to try and stop an apocalypse even if that night was only slightly less crazy by a matter of semantics.She sat down on the bed next to her chosen outfit for the day and sighed, this was going to be an important meeting, and she wanted it to go rather well. Lucius… he, Luz, and Vee got on from the few interactions they had had together, and she hoped she and Charlie could get on as well.She decided to keep it casual; considering she didn't think Lucius understood the meaning of the word 'casual' she figured someone had to. A simple sweater and jeans, nothing fancy or out there. She liked how dressed up Lucius got for her, how he dressed to the nines just to spend time with her… it made her happy to know he thought her worth it.It would make for some funny looks at the Zoo as she walked arm in arm with someone who dressed like he was hosting a formal gala for the rich and famous.She pulled the red and orange sweater on and went back to making her hair nice again, wanting to make sure she looked as nice as she could before going down for breakfast… she knew he would show up sometime around lunch and so, hopefully, they would all be seeing cute animals before One in the afternoon.Honestly, hopefully, nothing bad would happen.**********Today was the day.Today, the start of the human month of June, would be the day Amity Blight killed her older sister and rid herself of sibling tyranny. Emira left her no other choice, so sad, very depressing but it had to be done. Here lies Emira Blight: She Messed With The Plan."I'm going to buy her a gift basket, she did the right thing." Willow, her childhood friend turned victim turned friend once again said from the other side of the scroll. "I saw how you were running yourself ragged, you needed the sleep." The plant witch somehow audibly rolled her eyes through the scroll."She could have done that without giving me enough sleeping nettles to put me out so long I needed to rush here." The lilac haired witch grumbled, annoyance bleeding through her as she walked towards the Noceda Household in a nice summery skirt cut at the knees that was slightly at odds with the pristine white T-shirt that read 'She's My Sweet Potato.' in happy and colorful lettersHer carefully arranged outfit that she had spent days picking out would have taken too long to put on and prepare, an hour and a half at least (it was a gorgeous Abomination Dress she had spent weeks working on so it looked absolutely perfect and it had been) So she had gone with the fastest thing she could wear in a hurry, groomed herself quickly while abandoning the complex bun she had wanted by instead keeping her hair loose, and basically rushed out the door and towards the Owl House and its portal door as fast as Ghost could fly her there.She was going to kill Emira for this."You're gonna laugh at yourself when this is all over and you realize you went crazy over nothing." Willow sighed, despairing at her friend and her madness. "Like, literally only you think Luz will say no, it's not happening.""But what if-""Nope.""But I-""Nope." Willow sounded teasing over the scroll as she kept shooting down her worries. "I know for a fact that you two are going to be engaged by the end of today."She paused, frowned, and then looked down at the scroll with annoyance. "Willow… did you do something?""I most certainly did nothing at all." Willow sounded smug, which made her angrier. "I am willing to make any and all promises to said fact.""If you didn't do something, then you know something!""I know many things: like the fact you and Luz love each other, that you two are perfect for one another, and that today there will be a proposal between you two that ends with a ring on a finger… do you need to know anything else?" Willow rattled off, the plant witch and professional flyer derby star sounding even more smug as she spoke."Willow, please tell me Luz doesn't know anything about my plan-""Luz and I have not discussed your proposal plan for her, no." She breathed a sigh of relief, her plan was still secret and thus safe, and while she wanted to go overboard figuring out what Willow did, she was currently walking up to the house of her future fiancé so she decided to cut things before she went even more crazy…Not that she had been acting crazy, or that the restful sleep she got made her super embarrassed about how she had been acting before today. No, she was still a logical witch with great plans."I'll text you all if she says yes-" she began only for Willow to cut her off."When, Amity… when." Willow chuckled at her, and she gripped the scroll tight enough it creaked in her hand. "But yeah, one of you better send me a text afterwards or I'll never forgive either of you."She was just about done with this conversation and thus sighed in relief when Willow hung up. She loved the plant witch, don't get her wrong… but right now she wanted a good rant about her siblings, not reminders that 'they care about you' or anything like that.She was unreasonably mad, let her have this.She raised her hand to knock when the door was flung open, and she was dragged into the house by the single greatest thing in any universe."Sweet Potato!" Luz cried happily, hugging the lilac-haired witch tightly and spinning her around as said witch shrieked with joy. "You could have told me you were going to wear that; I would have grabbed my own.""You look amazing as you are, batata." Okay, to be fair she was so utterly biased about this that Luz could punch holes in an overfilled garbage can and wear that for the rest of her life like a right arm box troll and she would still find her the most beautiful girl in the world.So Luz wearing a Bad Girl Coven shirt with a checkered jacket tied around her waist with her glyph covered jeans was, well, like she had said she was incredibly biased and so thought it was perfect.Luz went in for a quick kiss and bolted back up the steps, hurrying as fast as she could with a final "Gimme a sec!" Thrown back down as the love of her life went up to get the second half of the novelty gag gift Hunter had gotten them one Human Solstice Holiday that the two of them had fallen in love with much to his annoyance.Like it was her fault that she could both annoy Hunter and make her soon-to-be fiancé happy in one fell swoop.She made her way into the kitchen, following the smell of long consumed pancakes as she looked about the Noceda House once again. It never ceased to amaze her lived in the place looked: every part of it spoke of a life spent happily.One day she would have this, just her and Luz in their own little home-Oh.Oh sh@t, she never figured out what to do after the wedding! She had spent so long trying to figure out how to make the proposal perfect she never once thought for a single moment what happened afterwards.She walked over to the Noceda's kitchen table, sat down, and slammed her head into the wooden table with a groan of pure despair."Trouble in paradise?" She looked up to see Vee Noceda smirking at her, the basilisk grinning from ear to ear as she looked down at the mournful witch."I am a failure of a woman and am unworthy of Luz.""Oh, we're doing that again? Alright." Vee rolled her eyes and took a chair beside her, sitting in it backwards for reasons she could not begin to comprehend. "Tell your big sis Vee what's wrong.""I realized just now I have no idea what the future after today is going to look like and I'm beating myself up for not planning even for a moment for it." She said as she groaned into the table, despair rolling off her in waves as she did so."Does anyone?" Vee shrugged in response, completely unbothered. "Nobody knows what tomorrow looks like so just go with the flow." Vee paused, thought it over, and then shrugged again. "Or catastrophize so hard you end up ruining your big moment today, either or."She raised an eyebrow at the Basilisk in confused wariness. "How do you know what I've got-"Vee held up her hand and a tiny little ring box was sitting upon it. "You slammed yourself down in the chair hard enough it flew out of your pocket, so I found it on the floor."She bolted out of her chair and quickly grabbed ahold of the box and clutched it close to her chest. Vee smiled and simply stood up and made her way over to the fridge to begin raiding it for snacks. "So, what's the general plan for today, anyway? You guys gonna just wing it or have a specific plan of attack on your mind?"She sighed and put the ring back in her pocket, thankful for the distraction. "Probably wing it… We went in with a specific plan back when we were all slumming it here and half the animals stayed in their dens due to the heat." She tipped the chair back on its hind legs and stared at the ceiling in deep thought. "Talked it over with Luz and we all have something we want to do: Mr. Magne wants to see the Aviary, Mo- Mrs. Noceda wants to watch the sea lion show."She pointedly ignored Vee waggling her eyebrows at her slip-up and continued on. "Don't know what Mr. Magne's daughter or her girlfriend want to see so I guess we could ask but I plan to take a train ride through the savannah land and see all the big cats I can before pop-""Aaaaand I'm back." Luz practically skidded to a halt, her Bad Girl Coven shirt replaced with a bright orange T-shirt with white lining and a whiter 'I Yam!' written on it, though she had replaced her checkered jacket with what looked to be her old Grudgby heirloom jacket from Eda. All in all, her face broke into a smile from how amazing Luz looked right now.Not that she was biased or anything."We talking about the zoo?" Luz asked curiously, her smile bright and shiny. "I can't wait to see the sea lion show! It was always mom and I's favorite thing in the world way back when." Luz sighed in contentment before looking at Vee sadly. "You sure you don't want to come along?""Yeah, I got a date of my own with Masha today otherwise I would join you guys." Vee smiled before shaking her head. "Besides… between the six of you I'm sure you guys have enough to keep track of."Luz shrugged and then shuffled the chair closer to her to place her head on her shoulder. "Hey." She said with a smile; one she returned with just as much affection."Hey batata.""Urgh, gonna leave before you two forget anyone else is present and start making out… again." Vee complained and walked off upstairs as the two lovers laughed through the twin blushes.**********Vee Noceda rolled her shoulders and smirked to herself, the basilisk living among humans feeling proud. 'Those two are going to drive their kids insane with all the syrupy affection… heh.' She'd tease the two over it if it weren't for the fact she and Masha were absolutely, positively going to do the exact same thing."Ah, Vee! You're up." She blinked and saw her mom standing happily as the mature woman left her room and brushed her shoulders off. Camila looked happy, though considering everything that was probably a given. "And also still here, I thought you would have been off with Masha by now.""In a bit, I just wanted to enjoy some time before you all went back to whatever after this." She shrugged and tried to smile-Camila made her way over and placed a hand on her shapeshifted shoulders. "Vee, do you remember what I said the day I adopted you?" Camila smiled at her so warmly that it almost hurt. "I told you that no matter how old you get you will always have a home here with me… so please don't forget that."Oh, oh dear she was about to cry. She hugged the older human before the tears came on and made her escape into her old room… or the room she would always be able to share with Luz, apparently.Titan, what did she do to get lucky enough to run into Camila first thing after escaping to the Human Realm?The phone buzzed in her pocket and she pulled it out before thinking it through. "It's Vee and I'm not in the mood for a telemarketer right now-""Wow, rude." Masha's voice came over, their tone playful as her mood brightened just from the sound of them. "And here I thought we were special. Told you that you were the light of my life and all that jazz.""You probably tell all your shapeshifting basilisk girlfriends that.""Just you so far, sure made all the other girls I'm seeing mad jealous."Vee and Masha stood in silence for a moment before falling into mad laughter. "So…" Masha finally got out through their laughter. "Did Amity woman up or chicken out yet?""Too early to tell.""D@mn, I have five hundred riding on her waiting so long Luz proposes first." Masha sounded entirely too proud of that.Vee blinked and stared down at the phone. "Who in their right mind would willingly bet money on Amity's love life- Edric and Emira, it's absolutely the twins isn't it?"The goth's silence was telling. She groaned and collapsed against the lower bed on the bunk, staring up at the underside of the top bunk. "Like, you think Eda would put a stop to- she's in on it, isn't she?""Everyone is, the twins are just keeping score is all. If everything goes right today Gus and his boyfriend Matt walk away with thousands, and I want to get that money for a good trip for us.""You do realize Isles Snails don't exchange at all for American Dollars, right?"Now Masha's silence was embarrassed. Once again she groaned in despair at the Isles. She was right to leave them all behind…Okay, that wasn't fair. It had gotten a lot better than it had been under… him . And she was happy for the people of the Isles but she still didn't like going back there. Too many bad memories associated with it, too much had happened.She was as happy here among the humans as Luz was amongst the demons and witches."So, you gonna update your 'What is Lucius?' bet after today?" Masha asked, dutifully ignoring how she was going to basically get a net loss win or lose today."Probably, I still think he's most likely a vampire millionaire but I'm not willing to write off changing my answer depending on how today plays out. I mean, he's either a vampire or an actual Noble from another Titan because if that man is a normal human I'm going to eat my jacket.""Could be a dragon.""Most sentient talkative Dragons died out hundreds of years before even Basilisks died… so considering he's capable of talking and what not I'm going to say he's not a dragon. Besides, Dragons as humans understand them never existed in the first place since a big red lizard that breathes fire and fly without magic is just a fable..."**********
  The Ring of Wrath…
**********The dark citadel of Behemoth was, in Juseth's very humble opinion… kind of the worst.If he knew trying to pull one over on Ol' Crim and the Colorionis Family while the head was recovering down in Sloth from… actually, had Crim ever even said how he got so injured? He couldn't remember how the mafia don had crawled back to Greed with more wounds than anyone had ever seen on any demon before- no, wait, he remembered one unfortunate mafioso asking if Crimson got in a fight with a cheese grater and getting a round 'tween the eyes as an answer.Either way, he didn't want to be here- he'd much rather be trying to find some hot rich demon to try and tie himself to so he could actually get some money back in his accounts by joining another family. That was the plan: Go and find some way to lie his way into joining some other criminal group and draining them of as much money as he could stuff into his pockets before anyone got wise.Except it had all fallen apart, mostly because he had no way of knowing that the hot dude he had been scr@w@ng had accidentally blabbered to someone from the Colorionis Family about it and Crimson knew within the hour. Rather than face down a certainly gruesome murder at the hands of Crimson and his hitmen for trying to fly the coop he had basically walked into the nearest Greed Enforcement Station and admitted to some small crimes he had committed against Mammon… and a whole lot of crimes he didn't. And now he had been transferred from the Mammon Funtime Prison Industrial Complex to Behemoth itself due to 'unforeseen circumstances.'Apparently, some poor b@st@rd had tried to pull one over on the King himself and now the Greed Shark's future was increasingly uncertain.Satan, the Great Beast that was called Dragon, glowered at the mafia gunman as he snorted, fire bursting from his great snout as he did so. The Draconian Sin of Wrath looked horrifying from his throne and stared into his very soul."I have been told I am going about this the wrong way." Satan grumbled, both of them looking back to the near-empty viewing gallery behind Satan's Throne to see Queen Beelzebub nodding happily at the Grand Adjudicator. "I should be… kinder. Luckily, Bee has informed me of how." Satan snorted as he looked down at the Greed Shark. "I shall try with you.""Uhh…"Satan pulled out a small paper and handed it over to the flying meditative herald known as Smeck. Smeck looked over the paper and nodded to himself before flying up to Satan's massive ear and beginning to whisper into it rapidly.Satan nodded before he looked back at him and tried for a smile: a hideous and brutal thing that Jom really really really did not want to look at any longer. The massive draconian Sin took a knee before the Greed Shark and looked like he was trying to appear like a friendly confidant… except he was fifty feet tall and looked like a horrifying atrocity. "Hey, you." Satan said, pointing a claw at the Greed Shark. "Don't you know trying to trick Lucifer is… uh, what was it again?"Smeck whispered something in his draconian ear and Satan nodded contented. "Right… anyway, trying to trick Lucifer is 'Lame Ayy Eff.' and you're 'cringing' for doing it."As the Greed Shark tried not to visibly recoil from the horror he just heard, Satan looked back to see Queen Beelzebub offering the massive Sin of Wrath four thumbs up and a Cheshire grin."So don't defend any demons you know who are running a scam called The Boiling Isles, it's… Bee, what is it you said?" Satan turned back to the four-armed Sin of Gluttony and the Queen of Indulgence smirked."I said to call it sus!""Right." Satan nodded and turned back to the horribly cringing Greed Shark. "It's very suspicious of you to do that so don't defend them… uh, fam." Satan nodded as he finished, scratching the underside of his snout with massive claws sharper than steel.He merely cringed out of his skin, wanting desperately to run off and flee so he never had to hear such words ever again. "Right, so I'm willing to say that this is all a giant misunderstanding on the grounds you please, for the love of… uh, yourself I guess, never say that ever again.""Really?" Beelzebub piped up from the Sins Viewing Gallery, a vulpine eyebrow raised. "That's what you're going with, the misunderstanding angle?""No, but really, it is!" He never had anything resembling self-respect or dignity, so he threw what nonexistent notions of them he had away and all but babbled his way through an explanation. "So my old Family is in a tight spot right now since the head went up and got beaten black and blue by what can only be described as a cheese grater so now I'm trying to get out but it's taking way too long so I tried to get with this hot dude and become his bodyguard except he's a blabber mouth so Crimson figured it out and now I'm here because it beats being thrown into a woodchipper tail first. Crimson is a nasty piece of work but also nothing I'm saying should be used against him because I'm already in hot water and I'm babbling I can't stop please someone interrupt-""SILENCE!" Satan roared and he yelped in fright. The colossal Sin of Wrath held up a clawed hand and sighed. "That… I'll have to check with my stenographers just to figure out what in Lucifer's name you actually said because I didn't understand a word of it.""Yeah… it was pretty wild how you could do all that without breathing." Bee said with a weirded-out expression."Just please explain if you have ever heard about the Boiling Isles in any context whatsoever.""Oh, I have!" Satan and Bee blinked and leaned forward eagerly. This was the first actual lead they had, and they wanted to deliver good news after more than a week of false stops and dead ends so that they coul- "You keep using it during these trials so that's somebody right there."Bee almost fell over in exasperation while Satan breathed in and out incredibly slowly before sighing in annoyance and pinching the bridge of his snout. "That... is not what I meant.""Well, you should have specified."Satan held up a hand and just sank into the throne. "At this rate I will never be able to fulfill Lucifer's request… whatever demon is running circles around my court is laughing at the authority of Hell. Laughing at it, Bee!" Satan did not weep, he was physically unable to do so since his innards were literally magmatic, but it was a close thing. "They're laughing at Lucifer, and I will not STAND for it!""This day can't get any worse, can it?" Bee asked.A pillar of bright green fire emerged from the throne on the far end from Queen Beelzebub, lighting crackling around the flame as it dissipated and revealed Mammon the Sin of Greed reclining on his throne with a bucket of fried phoenix drumsticks and several bags of money. "Sup losers, find the culprit yet?""It got worse." Satan and Beelzebub intoned at the same time.**********"... so, either way, the Dragon as humans see it never existed. It was always a myth.""Huh." Masha finally said after a long moment once she was done. "Neat. What about Hydras? Are they real?"She opened her mouth to tell Masha that they congregated by the Titan's Feet when an unfamiliar voice echoed through the open window. "DO I ACT DARK AND SPOOKY, VAGGIE!?"She blinked and got up to lean out the window and just blinked at the odd tableau in front of her eyes: Lucius Magne, once again dressed in fancy clothing, standing next to what could only be his daughter who was currently shaking a Latina back and forth in a panic. She looked over the incredibly, almost stupidly tall girl as she babbled about wanting to make a perfect first impression.Honestly? The fact that she was this worried about making a good impression was a good impression in and of itself to her.The tall girl was wearing black bell-bottom jeans, she must be feeling retro today, alongside a frilly and poofy sleeved red floral shirt actually matched with Lucius' red and white color scheme in general. Sun-kissed white skin with bright green eyes alongside a bushy tied back head of long golden hair made her look like a popular but kind woman.The Latina in her arms being shaken back and forth like a ragdoll looked rather pretty herself with a simple white dress, though as her dark chocolate hair flew back and forth, she could swear she could see an eyepatch on her left eye.Delilah the palisman was circling the three Magne's happily, trilling as she tried to calm the hysterical young woman down. She may find it kind of funny how worked up the tall woman was getting just at the thought of helping them… she also wants to help however she can."Yeah, I'll have to call you back babe." She and Masha shared a quick goodbye as she leaned out the window to stare at the three of them and breathe in the smell of spring… and also three people under Illusion Magic. Isles Illusion Magic. The familiar tang of fruity sweetness with a savory aftertaste hovers just before her-And overpowering all of it is the scent of pure heat. It's a spice so overwhelming that she almost immediately closes off her magic senses, not wanting to sense the eye-watering and throat scalding scent of whatever it is that is everywhere around her. It's everywhere and it's overwhelming and it's so utterly, unbearably hot that she feels nothing but relief closing off her magical senses.Normally such a process is stifling, but she learned it back in the Emperor's Cages just to survive. She had never had to use it ever since her escape and now she was using it here.That was… she looked down at the trio of dorks and has to take a deep breath to steady herself. Cutting off her sixth sense is hard, but necessary right now.But holy sh@t is she going to rant about this to Masha later. Actually, she's just going to rant to whoever will listen that this is… this is insane. Even standing in the Wild Magic University had never overwhelmed her magical senses like one dork standing at the foot of her home did just by being present.That's… actually terrifying if she were honest. The palisman is currently flying over his head in a lazy halo and she has the briefly funny thought that maybe he was a demon from the Bible.She dismisses it, nobody may be able to say what Isles stuff the book is based on but it's probably very off the mark."... What do I do? What do I say!?" The unfairly tall girl yelled as she basically clung to the Latina like a lifeline. She swallowed her nerves and smiled down at them, taking comfort in the fact they were basically a bunch of dorks."You could try talking to my mom and I like we're just normal people." She said, leaning against the windowsill and smiling happily. Despite everything, this is still a nice day. "That usually works."The blonde, understandably, kept freaking out.**********Camila would say she was nervous as she waited.Lucius was on his way, bringing his daughter and her girlfriend along just like she was bringing Luz and her future daughter-in-law. Luz is regaling Amity with tale after tale of the many times she got to pet the sea lions in her childhood during the shows.She was absolutely going to spend the car ride teasing Luz about the time she disrupted the whole show when she was five by imitating the sounds the sea lions would make and accidentally causing one of them to break formation to match her, the both of them essentially talking nonsense to one another while the handlers tried to get the show back on track while everyone cooed at the sight.She was playing the video she and Manny took of it at the wedding, it was a given.As Luz deftly explained the difference between Seals and Sea Lions, the front door knocked. "Ah, that must be them!" She brushed herself down and breathed deeply. This… this was it. This was the moment.She hoped she would make a good impression. Luz and Amity both followed behind her as she opened the door-"Heeeey b@tch!" The incredibly tall blonde woman with long blonde hair tied back in a bushy tail cocked double finger guns at her and smiled even as her eyes widened and looked like she had just watched a twenty-car pile-up happen before her very eyes. The shorter Latina next to the blonde that could only be Charlie covered her mouth to hide her snickers while Lucius just sighed and patted Charlie's shoulder comfortingly.She could hear Luz and Amity trying not to laugh behind her. They were failing badly.Charlie, for who else could it be when she looked so much like Lucius, kept her smile present even as said smile looked more pained as the silence turned awkward.She decided to do what needed to be done in such a situation. "Hello, my name is Camila." She said, smiling gently so as to try and put her at ease."Charlie!" Charlie yelped, her expression dropping into panic as she tried, bless her heart. "Me am Charlie… Mean I Charlie Am… Um-""Hun? Breathe." The Latina next to Charlie smiled gently and put her hand on the tall blonde's other shoulder. Charlie looked ready to take an almost comically large breath before she finally got her panic under control and started calming down."I… sorry about that." Charlie giggled to herself and looked away embarrassed. "I… didn't really think about what I would say until I was standing here so I kinda… panicked. Sorry about calling you a b@tch, I didn't mean it.""Oh, believe me, I've had worse introductions- you're perfectly fine." She smiled and offered a hand to which Charlie took with both of hers. "Like I said I'm Camila, it's very nice to meet you""I'm… I'm Charlie, but you probably knew that from the-" She waved a hand through the air and grimaced. "-the introduction that wasn't.""I'm sorry, but… of all the things to say you chose that?" Luz asked as she tried to get her laughter under control."I was thinking that I just needed to say something but would say it with confidence." Charlie crossed her arms and pouted before she brightened considerably. "But… it never happened so let's just pretend and move on!"She laughed and nodded at the taller woman. "Agreed, I'll move on… your father has told me so much about you that it's nice to finally meet you."Charlie blinked and looked happy at that, looking back at Lucius as the man just stared at the scene with pure joy. "I'm… he's talked to me about you a lot too, but I wouldn't mind hearing stuff from you."She smiled and nodded her head. "I would like to hear it all from you as well."The Latina next to Charlie rubbed the back of her luxurious hair and offered a hand of her own. "Vaggie, ma'am."She paused at that, wondering… well, who names their child Vaggie of all things? She didn't say it however, simply shaking the offered hand and nodding happily. "It's very nice to meet you, Vaggie. I… will admit I maybe only know one or two things about you and one of them is your name.""That's fine, I'm kind of a private person." Vaggie nodded to herself, and she relaxed as things seemed to be going well."And I'm Luz!" Her daughter practically exploded into the meeting with a wild grin on her face. "Ambassador to a new world and now walking the path of teaching the next generation about magic!"Amazingly, Charlie seemed to match Luz's enthusiasm beat for beat. "I'm Charlie, I've devoted myself to helping to redeem… well, just about anyone willing to help redeem themselves!" Charlie was practically vibrating in excitement. "I've actually got a hotel I'm running to help with that… eeh! I'm so excited I keep getting staff to help and I've got my first patient!""That's so awesome!" Luz said happily as Amity- she blinked at the odd look on Amity's face, as if she were trying to remember something she'd forgotten. Luz, however, was happy to have someone else match her exuberance. "I've already got a student of my own! He's… well, he's your dad but it still counts so I'm still happy!""Hell yeah!" Charlie thrust her hand out high as Luz reached up and smacked her own against it in a high-five between newly formed friends.Lucius stared at the scene like it was everything he had ever asked for and she went over to stand beside him as their daughters hit it off rather well."It's… I wanted this but to see it happen-" He breathed and smiled at her. "She likes you, and your daughter… that's good.""Charlie can befriend anyone, sir." Vaggie said, walking up to the three young women and joining in the conversation. "It's actually incredibly impressive." She offered as a final comment before standing by Charlie and her new friend Luz."So we can probably talk in the car more, and I would like to talk to Charlie more… but a problem has sort of popped up." She laughed sheepishly and looked away as Lucius stared at her concerned. "I… I don't think my car can carry this many people without some squishing-""Oh, don't worry about that." Lucius waved a hand and smiled. "We're taking mine.""The Limo?" Charlie, Vaggie, and Luz all asked at the same time. She blinked in shock at the thought of riding in a personal limo that belonged to her boyfriend."You… own a limo?" She asked and blinked as Lucius nodded happily."I gave it over to my daughter but for the most part it's basically the family Limo.""Dad, you barely drive anywhere. You literally only have the limo because Uncle Mam kept bugging you every time he bought a new car about being poor." Charlie smirked at her dad. "I have literally driven more than you in the past seven years and that was just driving to my interview and back."Amity frowned harder.​"I like walking places, sue me." Lucius said with a pout."And there's nothing wrong with that... but it is kind of just my limo at this point." Charlie said with a shrug and a smile."See, I just usually fly everywhere nowadays." Luz said with an evenly matched smile. Vaggie frowned and opened her mouth before Luz cut her off, "Oh we have so much to talk about on the way there, my apprentices grow in number...""Cool, I have no idea what any of that means but I'm down I guess."She smiled at the scene and leaned against Lucius, the two of them just staring as everyone got along well. It... was a nice sight. Charlie was laughing with her Luz while Amity nodded to Vaggie, the two seeming to speak without words as they stared adoringly at the two excitable young women."We should probably get going," she said with a smile. "But I don't really want to break this up.""Neither do I... but needs must. Vaggie!" He said happily, his glee present to all. "How would you like to see those videos of Charlie's School Musicals-"Charlie's laughter turned to a cry of terror as she practically grabbed hold of her girlfriend and furiously rushed out of the house while Vaggie begged to see the videos as Lucius laughed to himself as the three of them headed towards the limo pulling up. It was… well, it certainly solidified her belief they were from the Demon Realm since it looked ripped straight out of the Boiling Isles. The fanged grille at the front of it with headlights shaped like snake eyes didn't help."Oh, thank Titan I don't have any embarrassing stories." Her darling daughter said, opening herself up for a new angle of attack."Oh?" She would admit it; she took an almost evil pleasure from this. "So, you wouldn't mind me telling Amity about the time you got your head stuck in the railing-""OH, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT WE HAVE TO GO TO THE ZOO NOW!" Luz shouted in a panic as she tried to force her out of the house after the others while she laughed to herself, and Amity asked to see what she was talking about.
  
  

    
      
        
        
          Next chapter is going to be all about those sweet, sweet character interactions as everyone is forced into a limousine for a prolonged period of time. Oh boy am I excited to write it all out.Also, fun fact, the Behemoth section was originally going to be from the perspective of a canon Helluva Boss character before I actually remembered said character was dead as a doornail by the time the fic takes place... several minutes before posting. Whoops on my part there. So now Juseth (was originally Jombie but the joke that said name was used for was cut due to Jombie being... not the best name) is basically just Chaz but... you know, alive.Also, I may be setting up something important by NOT showing a certain someone's perspective due to spoilers... you can probably guess who and what :DNext Chapter: From the limo to the Zoo, our two families get to talking. Will friendships be made or will secrets be revealed?'
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