PRESENT MOMENT =FLORA=

During Scott's explanation, Vulca removed the choker off of Allie and even destroyed it! Allie looks at Scott desperately. "NO! Don't stay with her! Do you know what she did? I...

I had to massage her! I was a footrest! SHE MADE ME DANCE WHILE WEARING A HELLHOUND COSTUME!"

Scott glances at Vulca. "Really? That's the worst you got?"

Vulca shrugs. "I was never going to harm her physically."

Scott looks back at Allie, responding to both of them. "Then I got no problems."

Allie gasps as Zack slaps her back. "Come on, everyone knows Scott's a bit of a weirdo! He was gonna take a cursed item from Walzer, remember? And who can forget his obsessions with ghosts and exorcism and stuff?"

Allie nods. "That's true..."

Vulca gives Allie a hug. "I'm sorry for making you do those things... I just didn't think any option was open apart from a choker, and..."

"...And I was an easy target" Allie finishes. Allie's steel seems to resolve. "Right. I need to stop being so weak and fragile."

"Guys" I call out. "I... I can't ho-" the door holding Zorl bursts open, sending me flying back. Urrick catches me and puts the bracelet back on my arm.

Zorl looks around and spots Allie. Aaron gets in front of her, sword out. "I'll destroy you! Don't come any closer!"

Zorl growls and looks at Vulca. "WHY DID YOU LET HER GO? SHE WAS OURS!"

Vulca shakes her head. "I wanted a real-life mannequin, you know that. I got carried away. You want a toy, a plaything, but you don't want to do it correctly."

"WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?" Zorl yells. Lucifer steps forwards.

"It means you want to take a human by force. Fair enough. But you don't want to make claims or wait. Really, if someone told me this whole charade was your idea, I wouldn't be surprised. Didn't you just get released from heaven after being arrested for kidnapping a baby?"

"A BABY????????" We all turn. That was Tasha. She can get sensitive about things like this.

Zorl scoffs. "What's the problem?" he retorts.

Tasha goes into an absolute FURY! She charges at Zorl, doing her best to beat him up.

Zack rolls his eyes. "Aaron, finish Zorl off before Tasha hurts herself." Aaron glances at Lucifer, who nods, then slashes at Zorl, who didn't see it coming due to being distracted.

At once, Zorl lets out a roar, turns to dust, and disappears.

Everyone is silent for several moments, before Zack clears his throat. "Well... that was unexpected..."

"My business here isn't concluded" the angel states. He calmly and gently walks his way over to Vulca. "God told me that once Allie was safe, I was to have you and your brother either arrested or destroyed." He holds out an arm.

Scott looks between him and Vulca. "Wait, so... Vulca, you're going?"

"Seems like it" Vulca sighs. She looks at the angel and nods. He clears his throat.

"Vulca... for illegal possession of a choker, use of a choker, and stripping a human of free-will, you are to be held imprisoned in heaven." Vulca reaches out a hand to take his. Silence.

^("Never gonna give you up...") everyone looks to see where the voice is coming from.

^("Never gonna let you do)wn..." the voice is picking up. Everyone figures out where it's coming from.

"Never gonna run around... and desert you..." Scott seems to be saying this for Vulca.

"Never gonna make you cry... never gonna say goodbye..." as everyone stands dumbstruck, Scott takes the hand Vulca is holding out for the angel. "Never... gonna tell a lie and... hurt you..."

He grabs her other hand. Silence again. Then, Aaron bursts into laughter.

"Did... did you just say part of that rickroll song? Not even SING it, but speak it?"

Scott looks at him and smiles. "Yes, I did. I was creeped out at first when I was distracting Vulca..." he looks at her. "But... she's not bad. Just distracted easily." He looks at Allie. "Allie, do you forgive her?"

Allie lowers her head for a moment as she thinks. Then she looks up, a fierce, strong, fiery determination in her expression. She walks up, stopping in front of the angel but looking at Scott and Vulca. "No, I don't forgive her..." she turns to the angel with a soft smile. "But I already made the mistake of not trusting a demon once. I don't want to make that mistake again. If Scott really thinks Vulca deserves another chance... then let's give it to her."

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This story is a part of my series, To Love a Demon. Please check it out!