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[iwasason]

Who: iwasason, bibliophilistic, and splicedsurgeon
What: Satan to the rescue~
Where: Steinman's new digs, then Aziraphale and Lu's place.
When: While the rescue team is still organizing trololo
Warnings: Lucifer and Steinman. Consider yourself warned.

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[splicedsurgeon]

In his ADAM-riddled mind, Doctor J.S. Steinman is not a kidnapped. He is a plastic surgeon (the Picasso of surgery, to be precise) and he is performing a service. Those people were out on the streets during that chaos and he found it in his heart to open up his schedule and take them in so that he could make them beautiful.

He's done what he can, for now. He's forgotten what it's like to have so many patients, after the fall of Rapture and the chaos there. He is only one man, and so he makes his rounds, injects more ADAM, draws a few new lines with a scalpel before moving on. It's Aziraphale's turn now, and Steinman opens the door, muttering to himself. Somehow (likely the fact that one of his own eyes has been mutilated), he doesn't see Lucifer until the door is shut behind him. Even then, his reaction is... perhaps not what he was expecting.

"...Beautiful."

[bibliophilistic]

Aziraphale stirred on the table, his eyes opening slightly. He knew that Steinman was back, but there was a new presence. A new, but still somehow familiar presence. He attempted to reach out to the other person in the room, his hand barely lifting off the table, praying that they were there to help.

[iwasason]

Looking at him then, Lucifer saw everything. How broken the creature before him was, how shattered, how worthless. Barely even sentient, and wasn't that all the humans had going for them? The reaction almost made him smile.

He made no move towards Aziraphale or, indeed, any movement at all.

"I am, aren't I?"

[splicedsurgeon]

"Yes, yes... The asymmetry! Exquisite!" Oh, if only Steinman knew. For him, aesthetics go hand-in-hand with morality. His argument, the argument warped by Rapture and Andrew Ryan's ideals, the argument warped even further by ADAM use, is that we do not allow the sick with the healthy or the criminals with the rest of the population, so why should the ugly be allowed among those who are beautiful? To think that Lucifer is beautiful, for Steinman, is to think that he is moral.

Then again, that could explain everything. "And naturally so, too! Wonderful, wonderful..."