#shoot that'd end up naughty though wouldn't it

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9 Days of Solomon: Day 8 - Barbatos

Okay, I see the shade here. Barbatos is the prompt for day eight lol.

I was kinda struggling with the prompt because any time I started to write a scene that Barb was actually in, he took over the whole thing. (Sorry, it's my bias as usual.) And these are the 9 days of Solomon so... I ended up just writing about him being eighth on the list lol. Mostly I thought MC would ask Solomon about it and I really think Sol would take the opportunity to flirt with MC.

You noticed right away, of course. Back in your own time, in the present, Barbatos and Solomon had a close relationship. They were friends and they trusted each other. But here in the past, things were different.

Of course you noticed. This was calm, collected Barbatos. Until he saw Solomon and then he displayed a level of anger and dislike that you had never seen from him.

You would never forget the look on Barbatos's face in the labyrinth beneath the castle when Solomon summoned him. When Solomon commanded him to open a portal to transport everyone out of there. The subsequent banishment of your teacher to some far away place as a response.

If you could have told Barbatos that you were from the past, you would have. Just to ask him what that was all about, to tell him that you were aware that something weird was going on.

It turned out that you had the opportunity to ask him anyway and nothing could have prepared you for the answer he gave.

Solomon seemed just as stunned by it as you were.

To think that a demon as peaceful as Barbatos always seemed to be would get so riled up about being eighth on Solomon's list of demons to make a pact with.

It was so unexpected, you almost didn't believe it.

Solomon seemed to accept it, though, and you couldn't help but find the whole situation quite funny.

You were having tea and donuts in the kitchen of Cocytus Hall when you asked him about it directly.

"Did you really make a list like that?"

Solomon shrugged. "I suppose I did. But it wasn't exactly a meticulous thing, just something I was jotting down while I was thinking about it."

You sighed. "Barbatos seemed really upset about it, too."

Solomon frowned. "I didn't mean to hurt his feelings."

"I kind of get it," you said. "If you made a list of your favorite apprentices and I was eighth on the list, I would be upset, too."

"Ahaha!" Solomon laughed, nearly choking on the tea he had just taken a sip of. "MC, that's ridiculous! It wasn't a list of my favorite demons. And I would never make a list of favorite apprentices or demons."

You laughed, too. "Sure, if you say so."

Solomon reached across the table and took one of your hands. He was still smiling, his eyes sparkling. "Anyway, you're far more than just my favorite apprentice."

The way he squeezed your hand made your heart race. You felt your gut flutter as you twisted your hand in his and interlaced your fingers. "Yeah, but I am your favorite, right?"

Solomon shook his head slowly, still smiling. "Do you actually have to ask?"

Of course you didn't. Maybe there was something more to Barbatos's unusual display of disgust and maybe there wasn't. Maybe there was more to what happened between them than Solomon wanted to share with you and maybe there wasn't. But that was between them, in the end.

You couldn't help but be curious about it, though. Maybe you would ask Barbatos more about it later, when your heart wasn't busy doing flips at the look in Solomon's eyes.

day 1: stars | day 2: nostalgia | day 3: knife | day 4: ocean | day 5: pact (nsfw) | day 6: snow | day 7: familiar | day 9: humanity

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