#applegarden

"You look terribly." The first man finally says something after a time of silence in which he just looked at her with a inexpressive face.

On the second extermination, actually the first official one since the agreements were made after heaven dealed with Lilith's uprising, he and his bad girls started their hunt in the exactly moment they left the portal. He would be taking part of the fun, although it wasn't nearly as much funny as it would be to him thousands of years later, but there was something or better saying someone who took his attention.

Eve.

"And you look like a joke." She also gives her opinion. "What are you trying to do, cosplaying you and your new women heaven gave you as demons like us?"

He saw her watching after her voice invaded his mind, calling him from afar. After that he couldn't simply continue and ignore her, so left the command to Lute for now.

" I was always a joke to you. How I and my women dresses it isn't your businesses." He says bitter, his fists clenching harder. "What do you want, Wasted Rib?" He uses her old nickname, what he started to call her after she listened to Lucifer and caused the fall of humanity.

"I want to talk Adam, please don't simply go away and ignore me again. You owe me this." She tries to approach.

"Huh? What makes you think I was ignoring you?" He enters in guard, making Eve stops right there as if he would attack for getting too close. "That I simply chose to go away? That I owe anything to you?" His voice leaked rage after the last rhetorical question.

"Don't you think I deserve a talk as the mother of your children and wife you fought alongside against the world?" She sounded insecure about what she might hear from him.

"You talk as if I had choice about having children and fighting together alongside you against the world." He grumbles, but then he adds. "What the fuck you want?"

"You wern't complaining about it, well you weren't when we're making our children and about being married with me at first." She throws in his face.

"It was before you cucked me with Lilbitch and her little whore and there wasn't any other hole for me to stick in, so now go directly to the point or I abandon you like you said I did or worse, treat you like our useless descendants that are being killed right now!" Adam screams. Out of rage he blast a construction out of existence making Eve jump out of surprise.

Instead of let her fear take over, she remembered that she needed to talk and that Adam may be a very angry angel now, but he never hit her in life and she believed he wouldn't do it in death. She hoped so.

"It's about them, our 'useless descendants' you're slaughtering. At least in part." She says with a very serious tone.

"Oh, are you going to judge me for it? At least you have more right of doing it than your girlfriend, do you believe that fatass slut called those sinners her people and tried to put shame on me for erasing them as the mistakes they are?" He chuckles, the memory was both amusing and annoying him in equal measure. "How dare she!? I guesss she is really trying to fill the void left by her nonexistent children hahahahahahahahaha!" Malice leaks from laugh.

"Yes Adam, I will. What the fuck you were thinking going Cain on them!? Although comparing you with my son would be an insult because he never killed as many people as you do! They're our family Adam, how could you do it?" Her angry tone gained notes of pain in the end.

"Someone needed to put them in their place. After Lily encouraged them in uprise against heaven something had to be done and now I'm securing they never do it again."

"There must be better ways of doing it, did you all on heaven considered in try to save us instead of simply leave us alone here where we would only get worse and worse?" Eve questions the angels. "For God's sake, if you all were so afraid about Lilith trying it again why don't you replaced her for someone thrustworthy?"

"Don't look to me like that; for me we would have erased her, her bitch, their friends, lapdogs and most of all hell, but Sera and most of Lucifer's older siblings were mericiful" Adam scoffs.

"You talk as if your idea was so much better." The second woman says with a mocking tone.

"Heh, did you wanted us to bombard all hell leaving this seven-layered scar devoid of any life?" He also uses a mocking tone to annoy her. Considering Eve got angrier it was effective.

"Urgh! Can you even hear yourself Adam?!" She wanted to pull her own hair out of frustration.

"Perfectly."

".....You really aren't the man I was married with."

"Funny you say this considering that the First Mistake said the only difference is that now I have more power and can act on my whims on a bigger extent than before." His last talk with Lilith pass through his mind. "Talking about her, why you aren't with our former neighbors you were too friendly with? I thought you would jump on the opportunity of get back together with them." Curisoty could be felt on his voice.

"This is why you never searched for me?" She looks him into his eyes, her own trying to pierce through his mask and see his soul. "I couldn't simply get back together with Lilith and Lucifer even with them wanting me on their side, not after seeing the consequences of the Forbidden Fruit and how Lilith used my children as an army against heaven and Lucifer did nothing about it."

Her look made Adam unconfortable, who looked away before answering.

"In part."

"What was the other reason?"

"To begin with, hell is forever whether we like it or not. You all had the chance of being better, now you're going to boil in the pot." He simply says.

"What makes you so sure? If angels can fall why demons can't ascend?"

"I dunno, the Elders said things are simply black and white that way."

"And you simply listened to them without further ado!?"

"Yeah? Look, I don't know how things work, but they must be the beings who have an better idea about it if compared to everyone else since they are the closest to their creator." He mentions the Good worshipped by the angels.

"I can't believe you simply listed to those six who abandoned us to our own luck on Earth and now you're abandoning your own family to their own luck on hell!"

"I didn't abandon my family; from my perspective the only losers sent there are your little bastard and his spawns and those who didn't listen and followed his example" He then points to heaven on the red sky of hell." "My family is up there with me!"

"....You don't consider me your family? This is the other reason why you didn't try to look back for me, Addy?" Eve looked like she was about to cry.

Adam felt like he received a hit, but he quickly recovered.

"You are, for better or worse you're the person who knows me the most and because of it, for everything we went through with, I ain't going to treat you like any sinner now and kill you." He is sincere.

"So why you left me to rot on hell?!" Now she was crying.

"Because I'm not going to loose paradise a second time for you. They told me I couldn't bring you with me, but I could fall into hell to be with you if I so wished." Adam admits, admit that he actually tried to talk on her behalf, then he was finally presented a choice between be with Eve and his happiness he choose his happiness.

"I guess it's already obvious what you chose." She tries to wipe away her tears.

"Needless to say about the details." He agrees. "Are you finished? I have a work to do and you took too much of my time, I don't want MY GIRLS to have all the fun."

"I should try to stop you, for my children. " Eve seemed to seriously consider attack Adam.

"You aren't strong enough for it, now be a good girl and sit down." Without giving her a second glance, Adam flies away in high speed to the direction of the current hunting field of the birds of heaven.

From afar, his second ex wife screams.

"I HATE YOU!"

Adam simply ignores and start to blast all sinners he see with holy light, eventually summoning a golden axe out of thin air to butcher them.

To unstitch your heart without causing a flood

To fall but never ceasing to believe

In light taking over darkness

To breathe life in serenity/

1. "Think about the lost opportunities. What if Adam had found forgiveness on his heart and was at least willingly to try what Eve, Lilith and Lucifer offered to him? Or what if Lilith and Lucifer instead of try to sneak after Eve behind his back, they tried a better and harder approach, trying to tempt both at the same time?"

2. "At this point Adam is really the orchestrator of his own suffering. If he was less stubborn and listened to Eve (and by extension Lucifer and Lilith) maybe there would be a chance he would understand why both his wives left him for Lucifer and rebelled against heaven.....oh well, Lilith left and Eve probably tried in vain if Abel and the rest of humanity is something to go by."

3. "What the fuck Eve, Lilith and Lucifer expected would happen after they (double?) cucked him?! Were they trying to make a experiment about if Adam would be less of a dick (in their opinion) if he gained free will (knowledge of good and evil); or they actually thought that everything would be fine in the end, with Adam joining the Forbidden Fruits team and maybe even become a quad with them!? They clearly underestimated the damage they had caused and Adam's pride."

4. "Honestly I thought freeing humanity was in part freeing Eve from Adam in Lucilith's mind, so they gave her a magic apple (and became the first homewreakers in the way). I didn't expect they or at least just Eve actually tried to free Adam too, so I would be more surprised than anything."

5. "Smug because I already knew that they (or at least Eve) tried to give free will to Adam, meanwhile most thought they simply abandoned him on Eden."

6. "After that I would start to ship Applecore/Eden Poly as something that could have happened and be into the idea of them ending up together. Would be a very fitting end if despite everything, the four are drawn back together thousands years later and the first rebels finally manage to make Adam accept Free Will, turning a page of a very old book." Basically a more hopeful version of the first version in which you ship Applecore and still believe and/or want the ship to be an endgame canon.