Barbatos falls
How Barbatos falls for Mc.
- Content warnings: Sex but nothing too explicit, and nothing described in any detail.
- Gender-neutral Mc.
Barbatos falls for you slowly, inevitably. Until there is nothing he wouldn’t do for you. Nothing unless lord Diavolo forbade him to act. Even then he might just break the rules for you.
Barbatos wants to be with you, but he has not been with a human in many, many years. Enough years that he has forgotten how fragile humans are. The first time he takes you he leaves bruises along your hipbones and arms. He won't touch you again for several weeks, and when you finally convince him to give you even just casual touches he touches you like you are made of glass. Holds your hand so lightly he is hardly touching you at all. It takes him time, more time than he would like, to shed the fear that he will accidentally hurt you. Once he does, he wants to commandeer all of your time, although he knows he can’t. Not without disrupting the exchange program, and that he cannot do, will not do, lest he acquires Diavolo’s wrath and disappointment.
In public, he remains the prim and proper butler to the future demon lord. But he will find nearly any reason to spend time with you. From teaching you how to bake Devildom sweets to accompanying him to buy Diavolo’s favorite tea. He’ll hold your hand and lightly brush against your shoulder, even chastely kiss your cheek when you go on outings.
Behind closed doors, Barbatos is considerably less proper, although no less considerate of you. He is bolder in his affections, and will even curl his tail around your waist or slip it beneath your RAD uniform to tease you. Occasionally using it to bind your hands above you while his lips and fingers do the teasing. You see a side of him that few others even suspect he has. You’ve awoken a curiosity and passion in him that he has not felt for hundreds of years, you make him feel alive again. It's a feeling he values almost as much as he values his loyalty to Diavolo and the crown. Almost. And he fears someday having to choose between the two as not even his powers can give him a concrete answer of which he will choose.