It was the day after Y/n told Charlie and Angel Dust that he was the host for Zarathos. The Ghost Rider. It had terrified Charlie learning that her boyfriend was the same entity that she grew up learning to fear from stories she was told. And he was no less than her father's personal bounty hunter, too.

Charlie didn't sleep with Y/n that night. She was too scared to. Instead, she slept in her own room that night. Or she tried to at least. Her mind made her think that Y/n would come into her room sometime at night as the Rider and...

She didn't want to dwell too much on that. She didn't want to think that her boyfriend would try to kill her. He didn't when they first met as the Ghost Rider, so he wouldn't now.

Right?

Timeskip...

It was morning time now, and Y/n was making his way down the stairs. He walks into the living room to see Angel at the kitchen stove.

"Bakin' bacon pancakes," the Spider Demon sang as he made pancakes with bacon. "Bakin' bacon pancakes! Bakin' bacon pancakes!"

"Angel... you're making breakfast?" Y/n asked.

"Yep!" Angel turned to his friend. "Want some? They're bacon pancakes!"

"Sure," Y/n shrugged. "Why not."

"The hell are bacon pancakes?" Zarathos asks.

"No idea," Y/n tells the Fallen Angel. "Sounds good, though."

The biker hears Zarathos sigh in his head and he smiles a bit. Then Y/n turned to walk to the living room, and the smile fell. But not because he was angry. He saw Charlie eating a plate of bacon pancakes on the couch, and he remembered that she was angry with him. Or maybe scared of him. It made sense. He was a killer, but for a reason. He just needed to explain it to his girlfriend. But he didn't know if she would listen.

Charlie sensed someone standing nearby and turned to see her boyfriend. She nervously gulped down the food in her mouth. She chuckled awkwardly.

"Oh, uh, hey... Y/n," she waved at her boyfriend. "Good morning."

"Mornin', Char," Y/n waved back, just as awkward. "How are the, uh... pancakes?"

"Oh, they're, uh, good," Charlie nodded. "Yeah. Good."

"They fuckin' better be!" Angel called out from the kitchen. "I made 'em!"

Y/n and Charlie laughed a bit at this. Then they looked at each other for a few beats of silence. Y/n finally spoke up.

"So, uh... do we think we should... talk about yesterday?" he asked. "'Cause I don't think it's good for us to... ignore it."

Charlie was about to say her answer, but something stopped her. It was a knock at the door. They both looked at it and Y/n sighed.

"I'll get it," he says and walks to the door.

Charlie sighs as her boyfriend gets the door. He opens the door and looks on in surprise at who it was. Lucifer and Lilith stood there with smiles on their faces as they looked at Y/n. The boy could only scowl.

"What are you two doing here?" he asked.

"We just wanted to visit," Lilith stated. "May we come in?"

Y/n stared at the two for a moment, almost tempted to shut the door on their faces. However, he knew Charlie would berate him for that. So he just stood aside and allowed his girlfriend's parents inside.

"Thank you, dear," Lilith tells the boy.

"Yeah, sure," Y/n closes the door and walks towards the living room. "Charlie! We have guests."

"Hm?" Charlie pokes her head over tbe couch and gasps happily. "Mom! Dad!"

She sets her plate down on the coffee table and stands from the couch before running up to her parents. She wraps her arms around them immediately, pulling them into a hug. They hug back.

"I feel like it's been ages since I last saw you guys!" Charlie states.

"Dear, you called us last week," Lilith tells her daughter.

"I know," Charlie giggles.

Y/n only sighs and rolls his eyes before walking over to the couch. He sits down and Angel walks over to him with two plates with bacon pancakes, and sits next to the Human.

"Got your pancakes," he says and hands a plate to Y/n.

"Thanks," Y/n says as he takes the plate.

"Who's the two Charlie is with?" Angel asks.

"Her parents," the Rider's host informs the Sinner.

"Oh."

"Yep."

"They both can eat horse shit," Zarathos says.

Y/n couldn't help but chuckle at this, and Angel looks at him.

"What's so funny?" he asks.

"Oh, Zarathos just said something," Y/n shrugs his shoulders and takes a bite of his bacon pancakes. "Wow. Thish ish really good."

"See? I'm pretty good," the runaway Spider Demon smirks.

"Yeah, yeah," Y/n rolls his eyes and takes another bite.

Back over at the front door, Charlie was talking with her parents.

"I'm so glad you guys are here!" she states. "How's home?"

"It's the same as usual, dear," Lilith tells her daughter. "Though, we had someone try something on your father."

"An assassination attempt?" Charlie asked.

"Yep. I took care of it, though," Lucifer grinned.

"Speaking of which," Lilith says, "how is Y/n treating you?"

Y/n scoffed when he heard this.

"If you're insinuating that I mistreat your daughter, Lilith, then you're terribly mistaken," he turns to them. "I would never hurt her."

"Splendid!" Lilith smiles. "I'm so glad that the two of you are happy together."

"Yes," Lucifer strains a smile. "Very happy."

"Oh, don't be like that, Luci," Lilith smacks her husband's shoulder. "You should be happy that Charlie found someone to be happy with."

"Hmph. I just wish she stayed with Seviathan," the King of Hell states.

"Hey! I'm right here, you know!" Charlie declares.

Y/n, however, was left somewhat shocked. Charlie was with von Eldritch once? Thinking about it now, it made sense with how he reacted with the news Y/n told him about someone trying to hurt Charlie. An old ex who may still care for their ex would definitely want to hurt anyone that would dare harm their former lover.

"Anyhow--" Lilith stops talking and sniffs the air. "What's that delicious smell?"

"Uh... bacon pancakes," Angel says. "Want some?"

It was no later when Lilith and Lucifer was sitting on the couch with Charlie as they each ate a plate of bacon pancakes. Y/n and Angel sat in the chairs on either side of the living room, eating their own bacon pancakes.

"Mhmmm! This is delicious!" Lilith turns to Angel Dust. "Thank you, Angel. I've never had this kind of pancakes before."

"It's my first time making them up here, so thanks for the compliment, your majesty," Angel smiles and takes another bite. "Personally, they are my greatest creation."

"Hey, speaking of bacon," Y/n looks over at Angel, "where's Fat Nuggets?"

"Oh, he's still asleep in Charlie's room," the Spider Demon answers.

"Who's Fat Nuggets?" Lucifer asks.

"He's our pet pig!" Charlie beams. "He's the cutest little thing! Y/n brought him here after his boss gave him to him as a gift."

"Yeah," Y/n confirms. "Though, Angel acts like Nuggets is his pet and technically not mine since he was given to me."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Angel says. "He likes me more."

"Probably because you pamper and spoil him," the biker shoots back.

"You guys sure I'm the one in a relationship here?" Charlie giggles.

Charlie's boyfriend turns to her. "What makes you say that?"

"You two are bickering like an old married couple," Charlie giggles again. "Again."

"What? No, we're not," Y/n says.

"Yeah, no-no," Angel joins in. "I don't have the commitment for that."

Lilith couldn't help but laugh at that.

"Oh, how I miss little family moments like these," she admits. "Don't you miss it, Luci?"

"... I do," Lucifer agrees. "Unfortunately, my duties as king don't allow much time to myself."

"Yeah," Charlie dips her head down. "I miss the times where we could all hang out."

"Maybe one day we will again," Lucifer says.

There was silence after that. No one dared to break it. Because if they did, it would be like taking a knife through butter.

So everyone continued to eat in silence until they were all done. Y/n took the dishes and brought them to the kitchen to wash them. As he did, Charlie entered the kitchen and leaned against the counter next to her boyfriend. She then cleared her throat and looked at Y/n.

"So..." she started. "Do you wanna...?"

"Talk? About what happened?" Y/n asks as he finishes cleaning a plate. "Yeah. I would like that."

Charlie nods and lets out a breath. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't know until some time after I made the deal," Y/n admitted. "I had no memory of it until later."

"Then why didn't you tell me when you realized you were the Ghost Rider?" Charlie asked.

"I don't... I don't know, okay? I had to figure things out," Y/n shrugs his shoulders. "And I didn't want you to know until I could actually explain it all to you. 'Cause if I couldn't explain it, I didn't know what would happen."

Y/n lets out a breath and stops cleaning a plate. He then turns to his girlfriend.

"It's probably not the best explanation, but it's what I got," he says. "Because if I couldn't explain anything to you, why tell you?"

"Besides, if you never did tell her, she'd probably not find out about me," Zarathos tells his host.

"Hm?"

"Y/n?" Charlie questions her boyfriend. "You okay?"

"Seeing you as you are, Lucifer would think you're not a suitable host for me anymore since you've fulfilled your purpose for him," the Spirit of Vengeance states. "He'll take me out of you and give you back your soul."

"Wait, then what would happen to you?" Y/n asks.

"Are you talking to Zarathos?" Charlie asks, and she gets a nod of confirmation.

"I dunno, probably go back to the abyss until Lucifer has need of a Ghost Rider once more," Zarathos informs. "And who knows how long that will be..."

Y/n couldn't believe what he was being told. Zarathos is just gonna be tossed away and left alone? To be forgotten until he's needed to be some entitled bastard's errand boy? He couldn't let that happen... could he?

"Y/n?"

Y/n snapped out of his thoughts and turned to his girlfriend.

"Yeah?" he questions.

"Are you alright?" Charlie asks her boyfriend. "You got real quiet."

"I'm fine," Y/n tells the Demon princess. "Just got lost in my thoughts."

"A-alright," Charlie says and kisses Y/n's cheek. "I'll be waiting for you in the living room."

"Alright," Y/n smiles as Charlie walks away.

He then brings his hand to his cheek and rubs it. He always cherishes the kisses he gets from Charlie.

Y/n soon finishes the dishes and leaves to the living room again. There Charlie sat with her parents again and Angel now had Fat Nuggets on his lap. He turns to Lilith.

"So what else are you two here for?" he asks. "I mean, are you here just to hang out, or...?"

"Unfortunately, we cannot stay long," Lilith says somewhat sadly. "Our royal duties as rulers of Hell keep us very busy."

"Oh..." Charlie immediately felt a little down. "Well, I'm glad I could spend a little more time with you guys."

"As are we, dear," Lilith gave her daughter a side-hug.

"Yes," Lucifer smiles at his daughter before turning to Y/n. "However, I must have a word with Y/n, here."

You looked over at him with a raised brow. Charlie was also confused.

"Um... okay," she says. "Just don't do anything to him, okay?"

"I wouldn't dream of it," Lucifer grinned with a mouth full of fangs.

Not much later did Y/n bring Lucifer to his room so they could talk. Once there, Y/n closed the door and leaned against it as Lucifer strolled around the room. Why was he examining the room?

"So what did you want to talk about, Lucifer?" Y/n asks.

"I'm sure you know, L/n," the Fallen Angel says and looks over at the Ghost Rider.

Y/n sighs. "You want Zarathos back now, right?"

"Correct!" Lucifer chuckles a bit. "And in return, I give you back your soul. You won't have to deal with Demon bounties ever again."

Y/n stayed silent as he thought this over. Of course, having his soul back and never having to answer Lucifer's beck and call was a great deal. However, after what Zarathos told him... could he do that to him?

"It's okay, kid. I'm used to it," Zarathos said, almost as if he had read his host's mind. "Even if it never seemed like it, it was nice working with ya for the last two weeks."

"Zarathos..." Y/n mumbled under his breath.

Man, Charlie really has made him soft. Y/n's actually considering sparing a monster of some kind from being tossed aside like garbage.

No... he wasn't considering it.

"Nah."

He was doing it.

"I'm good."

Both Zarathos and Lucifer were caught off-guard by this. Did they hear correctly?

"Excuse me?" Lucifer questioned.

"What?" Zarathos questioned.

"Sorry, but I'm not willing to give up Zarathos," Y/n states. "I mean, what if more dangers show up? I'm gonna need him to protect Charlie and Angel, right? Besides, I like dealing out penance."

"Wh-what?" Zarathos couldn't believe his nonexistent ears.

Lucifer, however, gave no response at first. He was just silent. Then he cracked a smile and laughed to himself.

"You know, I always try to expect for Riders to refuse my offer," the King of Hell states. "So it's a good thing I always come prepared."

"What?" Y/n arched a brow.

Lucifer dug his band into his coat and pulled out what seemed to be some kind of playing card. He then tossed it to Y/n who caught it and looked at it. The back looked like a mixture of red and black, but the front was something completely different. It was displayed like a normal playing card, like a King or Jack, but it didn't show either of them. Instead, it showed a young boy with short (H/C) hair, (S/C) skin, and bright (E/C) eyes with a shining smile. Y/n recognized him.

Why?

Because it was him.

"What is this?" the biker asked.

"It's the one thing you want most," Lucifer grinned. "Your heart. Or, to be more exact, your happiness."

"My... happiness?" Y/n repeated in confusion.

"Of course. I mean, isn't that what was taken from you when your precious grandparents were killed?" Lucifer asked. "You can have it all back. All you have to do is give me back Zarathos, and I'll give you both your soul and happiness. Isn't that what you want?"

Happiness? Like what he felt when he was a child with his grandparents? That kind of joy and happiness would be incredible to have back in his life. However, Y/n only scoffed.

"I don't need your happiness," he states.

"What?" asked a shocked Lucifer.

"I appreciate the offer, I really do, but I don't need that kind of happiness anymore," Y/n says as he spins the card around his fingers. "I already have all the happiness I need in life, and that's with Charlie."

"I beg your pardon?" Lucifer asked, his smile replaced with a scowl.

"For the longest time, I wasn't happy with anything and wanted to fucking die. Kill myself even," Y/n stated before smiling. "Then you just had to bring Charlie here and brighten up my entire life. If it weren't for you, honestly, I wouldn't be here right now talking to the father of the love of my life."

"But the happiness you had before... you could have it all!" Lucifer declared. "What you felt with your grandparents--"

"My grandparents are dead, which means I can never feel that kind of happiness again. That was the happiness of a child, and I've grown," Y/n grips the card with both hands and grins at Lucifer before tearing it in half. "So I don't need your happiness. I've got my own."

The Human tosses the torn card which fell to the floor and burned away. Lucifer looked at them, watching the two halves get reduced to cinders. He scowled and growled as he looks up at Y/n. The Human only grinned at him.

"It's always the Ghost Riders..." he mumbles.

"Excuse me?" Y/n questioned.

"You said my daughter is what makes you happy, correct?" Lucifer asks. "Then I'll take that from you."

"What?" Y/n asked.

Lucifer didn't respond as he walked past Y/n and left the room. The Human boy was left confused before he followed the Fallen Angel into the hallway and down the stairs.

"Uh, what does that mean?" he asks.

Lucifer didn't answer as he entered the living room to see his wife and daughter laughing, presumably at a story or joke Angel Dust just told.

"We are leaving," he tells them as he makes his way towards the door.

"So soon?" Lilith asks her husband. "What a shame, I was just enjoying some stories with Charlie."

"Well, you can enjoy more of them because she's coming with us," Lucifer states.

"Pardon?" Lilith asked.

"What?" both Y/n and Charlie questioned in unison.

"I'm confused, what just happened?" Angel asked.

"Yeah, um, why am I going back to Hell?" Charlie asked as she stood from the couch.

"I've decided that Y/n is no longer a good caretaker for you," her father stated. "And because of that, you will come back to Hell with us."

"Wh-what?" Charlie questioned.

"You can't do that!" Y/n angrily stepped forward.

"I am her father. Of course I can," Lucifer barked before turning to his daughter. "We're leaving. Now. You've spent enough time with these disgusting Sinners."

Charlie's eye twitched for a split second before she growled.

"Don't you dare call my Y/n a disgusting Sinner! And he's a Human!" Charlie snarled. "Don't you ever disrespect him like that!"

Everyone in the room had to do a double-take from what they heard and turned to Charlie in surprise. Did she just yell at her father?

"Excuse me, young lady?" Lucifer glares at his daughter. "Don't you back talk to me!"

"Back talk? You haven't even seen me begin to back talk!" Charlie declares. "You can't just come into my home, act all nice and friendly, and then try to take me away from my boyfriend? What, because he didn't take some kind of deal of yours?!"

Y/n gulped nervously and took a step away from his angry girlfriend. She didn't get angry and loud very often, but when she does, she's scary.

"You've done this to so many people who I thought I could make friends with, too! They do something you don't like and you want to get rid of them!" Charlie went on. "I'm almost an adult! Stop trying to ruin my life just because it's not going how you want it to!"

Everyone was completely shocked at Charlie's outburst. She has rarely spoken out like this before, and it took everyone by surprise.

However, Lucifer's shock quickly vanished as it was replaced with his own fury.

"How dare you talk to your father that way, you ungrateful little--WAH!" Lucifer didn't get to finish as Lilith violently grabbed his ear. "Ah! AH! Lilith!"

"What in the world is wrong with you, Lucifer Morningstar?" the Succubus Queen asked her husband. "What gives you the right to hurt your only daughter this way?"

"Wh-what?" Lucifer questioned.

"You're daughter has been happier than she's ever been here than in Hell, and you want to take that from her?" Lilith growls. "That is not happening on my watch, Mr. I-Get-Everything-I-Want-'Cause-I'm-The-King-Of-Hell!"

"Lilith--"

Lucifer cried out in pain as his wife pulled harder at his ear. Y/n couldn't even believe what he was seeing. Was this oh-so-fearsome King of Hell whimpering under the hold of his wife? Holy shit!

"Now, we are leaving, and Charlie is staying here," Lilith tells her husband before turning to Y/n with a smile. "Thank you for letting us be here to be with our daughter, Y/n. I appreciate it."

"Y-yeah, it's no problem, L-Lilith," Y/n said nervously. "Come b-back anytime."

"Thank you, dear," Lilith smiles. "Take good care of my daughter, will you?"

"Of course..." Y/n nods.

"Wonderful," Lilith loses her smile as she turns to husband. "Now let's go, Lucifer."

Said helpless husband cries out in pain again as his wife drags him out of the house and to the royal limousine. When they left, Y/n closed the door with a speechless expression on his face. Then he turns to Charlie and Angel, the princess still looking a bit angry while the runaway porn star looked shocked beyond words. However, he still spoke.

"So... that just happened," he said with a nervous chuckle.

"Yeah," Y/n nods in agreement. "It did."

Charlie lets out a breath. "At least it's over with."

"Yeah, but I can't believe that you just did that, Charlie," Angel tells his princess. "Good going standing up for yourself, toots!"

Charlie couldn't help but smile. "Thanks, Angel."

Said Spider Demon smirked and did finger guns towards the Demon princess. Then Charlie turned to her boyfriend and smiled at him, and he nervously smiled back.

"So... why'd my dad get so angry like that?" Charlie asks her boyfriend.

"He, uh, tried to offer me a deal he thought that I couldn't refuse, but I did," Y/n said. "And he did not like that."

"I can see that," Charlie giggles. "But... my dad's deals are the most tempting thing in the world. What made you not take it?"

Y/n smiled at his girlfriend. "It was you. He thought he could give me something that he thought I wanted more than anything, but what I want more than anything now is you."

Charlie couldn't help but gush at this and walked up to her lover. She cups his cheeks and kissed his lips, making Y/n smile. He kissed back as he wrapped his arms around his girlfriend's neck, deepening the kiss as Charlie wrapped her arms around her boyfriend's waist.

"Awww, aren't you two the cutest~" Angel spoke up.

Y/n and Charlie immediately broke their kiss and parted from each other with blushes. Angel couldn't help but laugh at this.

"Come on, love birds," he says. "How about we pick something to watch, huh?"

"Y-yeah, that would be nice," Charlie says and walks back to the living room.

Y/n was going to follow her, but he was stopped by a family demonic voice.

"So... you didn't take his deal and let me go," Zaratbos says. "Why? Because you need me for protection? You already have enough of that."

"Yeah, I know, but... Heh," Y/n couldn't help but smile. "I couldn't just let you get tossed away like that. That would be wrong, and I would hate it if that happened to me."

"So you're saying you care for me now, L/n?" the Spirit of Vengeance scoffed. "You really are soft."

"Yeah, yeah," Y/n rolled his eyes. "Given how you are, you would've done the same thing."

"Whatever," the Fallen Angel said.

Y/n begins to walk back to the living room again, only to be stopped once more.

"And... L/n?"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you," the Spirit of Vengeance  tells his host. "For sticking up for me when you didn't have to."

Y/n couldn't help but smile. "It's no problem, Zarathos. Just helping out a friend."