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Charlie and Alastor talking among themselves.
Vaggie sat next to Angel who seemed to be eyeing the redman
"Ain't he something" Vaggie looks In disgust "Yeah something that is a danger to us and the hotel! Has no one been listening to me" She explodes in anger, Moving away from Angel, grabs Charlie while giving Alastor a death stare
"Why? Why did you let him join?" Charlie sighs "I had to, we had no other workers, the place got no one to come in besides him and… I think it's best if we had someone who has more experience"
Vaggie hugged Charlie, giving a nod of approval
"Alright, everyone! We have work to do, Nifty If you would be so kind as to clean the bedrooms for our guests, Angel Dust… well don't get into any more trouble, Husk you do you and Alastor-" He gives her a quite cold smirk
"Well- you can come with me and Vaggie to discuss the future of the hotel"
Alastor steps into the other room, Charlie and Vaggie follow him
Vaggie rolled her eyes as Alastor pulled out of her seat. Sitting down next to her and acting as If nothing even happened
The day goes by and Charlie and Vaggie are packed with paperwork. Alastor silently finishes one paper after another
"Do you ladies need any help" He smiles
"No thank you Alastor, I mean honestly it's getting late, I'm heading to bed" Charlie stretches and grabs her coat, giving a sweet kiss to Vaggie
"I'll stay here and finish up," Vaggie said in a sweet tone
Charlie left both Vaggie and Alastor alone, the only thing that could be heard was the ticks of the clock and the grumbles of Vaggie's stomach. She blushed knowing Alastor heard that. He chuckled and went back to work
After a couple of moments a knock was heard at the door, he opened it to see a small kitten holding a large box on their back
He grabs it and gives them a small pet and money, Vaggie is confused by the kindness he showed to the tiny cat. He opened the box to show sweet bread and coffee, he gave some to Vaggie. She smelt it to see if it was poised, he drank his right in front of her
"I'm not gonna kill my new coworker~," Alastor said with a smug face.
She scoffed and drank her’s, enjoying the sweetness of the bread given to her
“Did you order these for me?” Vaggie asked with her mouth stuffed with bread, “Perhaps' ' Alastor sipped his coffee and continued to work, “That's… shockingly kind of you, Alastor”
Vaggie was still very unsure about Alastor but this bread made up for his unwanted behavior when he first arrived at the hotel. Vaggie and Alastor got closer as the time ticked, creating plans and future events for the hotel and its wayward sinners, Vaggie yawned as she started to balance her head, she felt as if Lucifer himself put a sleeping spell on her.
“Vaggie, My dear I think you should go to bed, I'll finish up here” Vaggie angrily declined Alastor, she shook her head and slapped her hands on both of her cheeks, “I'm fine. The food… got to me…” her voice softened as she started to cash on the couch, Alastor chuckled. He removed his coat and gently covered her, lifting her legs to rest on the couch.
“Tic, tic, tic’ the sound of the clock echoed in the hotel, Charlie woke up refreshed and ready to work, she quickly ran down the stairs to see Vaggie cuddling with Alastor's coat and Alastor himself soundly sleeping on the chair. “Oh!” Charlie was surprised to see them both sleeping in the same room.
“Vaggie, hey, wakey, wakey,” Charlie said cheerfully but quietly in Vaggie's ear. Vaggie rolled over to ignore Charlie and her playful voice, Charlie sighed and tried Alastor. “Uhm- hello? Alastor?” Alastor moved his hand in a shoo motion before snoozing off again.
“What? Are you both that sleepy? Oh alright,” Charlie gave up, grabbed the papers on Alastor's desk, and left. Vaggie groans as she slowly wakes up, she cuddles with the coat once more before getting up “Ugh, what time is it?” Vaggie yawns looking around and seeing Alastor asleep.
She slowly walked closer to him, noticing his coat was off. She was confused and looked back at the couch to see the ‘blanket’ she was using was in reality his coat, her face turned a little red, and she cleared her throat, “Alastor wake up, we have work to finish” Vaggie said in her tough tone of voice. Speaking of work she noticed all the paperwork was gone.
Alastor cracked his neck and opened his eyes to see Vaggie in front of his desk “Vaggie?” Alastor moved around to crack the rest of his poor bones from the uncomfortable chair “God, are all your bones broken or something” Alastor chuckled at her silly remark “Excuse my aching as I was stuck to either sleep on the floor or the chair. I took the best option”
“You could've just gone to a room,” Vaggie said crossing her arms together. “And leave you here with the front entrance unlocked? I'm a gentleman, not a barbarian” Vaggie scoffed but with a smile, she walked to the couch and threw back Alastor's coat “...thanks for the coat”
Alastor hummed “No need to thank me” Vaggie smiled and walked put the room, Alastor looked down at the coat, he stood there for a moment. He chuckled to himself and put it back on, he followed Vaggie soon after.
“Oh! You guys are awake! I made a few edits on your plans” Charlie happily said “Wait what?” Vaggie grabbed the paper and was dumbfounded “Charlie-” Vaggie looked at Charlie whose face was sad like a puppy, unable to critique Charlie, Vaggie stood silent. Lucky for Vaggie, Alastor had no issue telling the puppy-like girl his feelings towards the change.
Gently grabbing the paper from Vaggie's hand he scoffed “Charlie, the point of having our guests fill out questions about themselves- Alone! Was to warn demons of what they think are good or bad qualities and see who will be chatty with who. Your idea is to -” He double-checked the paper “to do trust falls and tell your deepest regrets…”
“Well you see it's-” Charlie got up to explain herself but was stopped by Vaggie “No, Me and AL stayed up all night and you just butchered our plans” Vaggie's face was full of disappointment to see her work rewritten, scrambling the papers around to see every plan she's made was given the red pen touch of ‘correction’
“I'm sorry” Charlie put her hands behind her back, Vaggie regretted her words, she put down the papers and caressed Charlie's cheek “No, I'm sorry, I should've asked what you felt about the plans” Charlie smiled at Vaggie and hugs her.
Alastor grabs the work and walks back to the office, Vaggie and Charlie shrug at each other in confusion.
Bing! It was Charlie's phone, grabbing it from her pocket she noticed it was from Angel “ Help, I'm lost in the 7th ring of hell… got wasted- okay, Angel is lost, again, so I'll go get him and bring him home. You and Alastor come up with more amazing ideas! And I promise this time we'll all go over the plans” Vaggie nodded and Charlie left, leaving the Radio Demon in the care of Vaggie.
Vaggie sighed and walked back into the office where Alastor was, but before she could answer, a knock came on the door. She opened the door to see a black kitten with a box and two cups of coffee “Oh, you're the cat from last night” she smiled giving them pets, the cat purred and mowed at her.
Alastor watched from afar, Vaggie took the box and cups in, shutting the door behind her. “More bread?” She put down the box on the desk “Yes but a bit more of everything than before” Alastor took his cup and started to drink it. Vaggie opened the box to see mini cupcakes, Mexican bread, slices of cake and flan
“Are you trying to win my trust by food?” Alastor chuckled, “Would it make any difference?” “No” Vaggie smirked. She grabbed Mexican bread and sipped her coffee. “How did you order these?” Vaggie asked “And what's up with the cats?
“I have a tiny friend, her whole business is centered around the furry little felines, she's the only lady who knows how to make sweets that even I enjoy,” Alastor said so proudly as if he was speaking about his flesh and blood, Vaggie looked at the brand name “Alfred’s Cakes? Is that her name?”
“She's an absolute doll! You should meet her- say! She's good at friendship, we should visit her and see what other ideas she can give us!” He got up, hanging his arm on Vaggie's shoulder. She cringed a bit and pushed his arm off “But the food is already here, shouldn't we finish this?”
“Nonsense, we'll leave that for Charlie and Angel Dust, We, my friend are going to go visit my darling kitten Alfie!” Alastor pushed Vaggie out the door, her feet trying to stop him “Wait-” it was too late for her, Alastor had already dragged her across the street from the hotel and she knew it was hopeless.
Alastor and Vaggie walked around hell, taking in the disgusting sights of the city. Demons gasp and take pictures of Alastor and Vaggie, she slowly starts to feel unsafe. “I never get this many people staring when I'm with Charlie” Vaggie covered her face from the flashes of lowly demons taking pictures.
“pardon my presence Vaggie, demons love to stare at things they'll never have” Vaggie looked up at Alastor, blushing a bit. She shook her head knowing and hoping that wasn't towards her. “Here we are!”
Alastor stood in front of a very pretty pink building full of flowers, glitter, and hearts. “very… pink” Vaggie said looking in the shop
“She's a sucker for pink, it's her favorite color” Alastor opened the door for Vaggie, going in she was amazed by the decor of the shop, simple but elegant. Pictures of Alfie and her kittens were all over the walls including her favorite customers which included Alastor, but even for a friendly picture, Alastor's face was blurred and glitched out.
“Heya! My name is Alfie, what can I get for ya?” a small little cat girl said. Vaggie smiled and was in awe by how adorable the girl was, Her fur was brown and soft, with cute light sparkling freckles going across her face and shoulders, Vaggie noticed her eyes. A bright neon pink eye on her left and a baby blue eye on her right. Alfie giggles as a kitten comes out from her wavy short black hair.
“Alfie!” Alastor cheered “Alastor!” Alfie responded, she went under the table and hugged his legs. He laughed at her silliness, picked her up, and bopped her nose “Uhm- HI, I'm Vaggie” Alfie gasped
“You're so pretty! Alastor is this your girlfriend? Hehe, who am I kidding, you're too pretty for him” Alastor's face was annoyed “Very funny. She's the manager of the Hazbin Hotel, she's my coworker” Alfie put her hand to her chain as if she were pondering something.
“Alastor's right, I'm technically his boss,” Vaggie said proudly. “Boss? You're dating your boss?” Alfie asked Alastor. “No, Alfie- listen, I'm working with her. Not dating her” Alfie sighs “making double sure, real shame that you aren't dating the pretty moth lady” Alastor scoffs “Okay, get down”
Alfie giggles, going under the table again, “So what brings you here? Alfie asked. “We were hoping to see if you had any tips of uhm- friendship” Vaggie felt embarrassed to say. “friendship? What is this? My little demon? It's not hard to make friends” She said giggling, a customer walked in, and Vaggie and Alastor looked back to see it was Velvet, a member of the Vs, they both were not very excited to see her.
“Watch!” Alfie says to them both as Velvet walks to the register “Hello there miss! May I say you look beautiful as always” Velvet smirks “Ain't ya a little kitten” Alfie takes out her phone “I'm a kitten who's ready to take your order” Velvet smiles looking at the menu “I'll take 3 Velvet cakes, and 2 coffees black and one cappuccino with extra whip cream, thank you” Alfie nodded, running back to her kitchen.
Velvet was scrolling through her phone and pointed it up for a selfie and noticed Vaggie staring at her, “Hey there cupcake, I didn't notice you” Vaggie's face turned sour “Don't call me that”
“Oh! Is your guard dog going to bite” Velvet looks in Alastor's direction. He ignores her to pay attention to the cat that was rubbing on his legs. “Having fun with that shit hotel your princess runs? I heard it's a real thriller, so scary no one wants to go” Velvet giggled, “Shut it!” Vaggie growled.
Alfie came out with Velvet's order, “Here you go!” Alfie put down the order, but added the whipped cream after, molding it to shape it like a cat. “Aww, that's adorable”
Velvet raised her phone again and took a picture of the cat and Alfie. “You should make an account so I can tag your cute face” Alfie smiled “I do! It's Alfie's cake!” Velvet typed in her phone and Alfie's phone binged, Velvet's post already had over a hundred thousand likes, and Alfie was amazed. “Thank you! Please come again!” Alfie shouted as Velvet walked away, “I will if the cakes are good, bye bye little kitten” Velvet left.
“You made her look like an angel,” Vaggie said, “You see! It's not hard to get even the meanest of demons to become your friend, how do you think I befriended Alastor?”
She looked at Alastor who was playing with the kitten, “cake and kittens?”
“Not far from the truth,” Alastor said, picking up the kitten and petting them. “I saw Alfie a few times around Cannibal town, gathering ingredients and such for her goods. But you know how some folk are, one fellow was so hungry that he was ready to take a bite from her face. I stepped in to protect her. She awarded me with free goods from her bakery and I've been pals since”
Vaggie was shocked, to think that Alastor would be a knight in red armor, to make him more of a confusing demon she noticed how gentle he was with cats, looking up to his face she noticed three more cats on his head, shoulders, and back. Giggling at the funny scene, “having fun there?”
Alastor smiled in annoyance at Vaggie's remark, he grabbed all the cats and put them on her, “very” He chuckled. “It's a real shame you two are smooching faces and holding hands, you two look adorable together. I have a good eye for lovers” Alastor pet Alfie's head “Now, now, don't get ahead of yourself. Vaggie almost chopped my head straight off when we first met”
“Sounds romantic” Alfie held her hands together putting them up to her face and giggling at how cute they were. “Let's not forget to mention I'm already taken,” Vaggie said, “taken? By who?”
“Charlie”
“Oh, bummer,” She sighs. “Hey! Don't insult Charlie that way” Vaggie put down the kittens, “I'm not… entirely” Alfie gave Vaggie a disappointed face but went back to her sparkling self. “Sorry to cut this short but I have a bunch of orders to get finished before the day ends, have anything in the house” Alastor and Vaggie left the building with cakes in hand.
“She didn't help” She took a bite from her cake, “she's very fast” Alastor ate his cake in one bite. “What are we gonna do now? We've hardly come up with anything, we have activities to do, trying to get demons to come in and join the hotel, get heaven one way or another to see if they can allow demons to become angels, and-” Alastor put his finger on Vaggie's mouth.
“Vaggie please, it's not so difficult, with Charlie's status and personality she's bound to get one demon to redeem themselves, we both can only do so much” Alastor starts to walk down the street, and Vaggie follows him. She tried keeping up, Alastor's long legs helped him to walk down the street faster than Vaggie, it felt like she was running to keep up. Noticing that Alastor took small steps, this was much too slow for him but perfect for Vaggie.
“But we can't leave it all for Charlie,” She said out of breath, “Now I didn't say that darling. I was only saying we have limits to what we can do, she's the face of the hotel, not us”
Vaggie was silent, hating that Alaator was right, she felt bad knowing all the pressure was on Charlie but felt worse than without herself and Alastor to make up ways for activities, it could ruin the hotel. Vaggie was overworking her brain with so many thoughts that she didn't notice that Alastor took her to Cannibal Town, not only that they were at Hell’s aquarium.
“What are we doing here?” She looked at the building, it felt out of place to see something so well taken care of in hell, but felt more uncomfortable with the hungry eyes staring at her, Alastor put his arm around her. “Let's go in! Maybe these fishy fellows might help us” Alastor looks back at the demons eyeing down Vaggie, they backed away in fear.
Pushing her in, they both looked around to see sharks and fish. “I wish they weren't so… gross looking” Alastor looked at the half-eaten shark with spikes on their back. “Hmm, it's like art! Every creature is beautiful because they're not perfect” Vaggie looked up at Alastor, he brushed her hair out of her face, lighting and touching her eye patch, Vaggie was startled. She blushed and turned her face to the sharks again.
“Yeah- yeah you're right”
Alastor puffed out a bit of air from his nose as he chuckled. They continued to walk down the aquarium to see the different sizes, shapes, and colors of the fish. Vaggie points out the Angelfish and mocks how Angel Dust would react. Alastor laughed at her performance, Vaggie watched Alastor laugh, to her it felt so genuine and not some evil smug laugh he would do, she felt happy.
Time goes by, they hold hands and explore the different exhibits, walk to an ice cream stand and excitedly order their favorite. Vaggie got Strawberry ice cream with Strawberry bits, while Alastor got cookies and cream with Strawberry bits and one signal pink eyeball. Vaggie looked disgusted, Alastor offered her some, and she gave him a stink eye before giving it a lick. It was so sweet she did enjoy it. She offered her's in return, Alastor took a bite and loved it. Unfortunately for Vaggie half of her ice cream was gone.
As the day ended they both walked out of the aquarium, laughing while still holding hands. “That was the funniest fish I've ever seen!” Vaggie held her stomach “I've seen ridiculous but that took the cake!” They both slowly calmed down and sighed. Vaggie noticed her hand was intertwined with Alastor's hand; she let go as soon as it registered in her head. “Ahem- we should probably get back to the hotel, Charlie might get worried if we stay out too long” Alastor nodded “Right”.
They both quietly walked back home, hardly any demons were out, only the sounds of fire and long-distance screaming could be heard. Alastor noticed a rose bush, he grabbed a rose and ripped the thorns out. Alastor stopped Vaggie, she was confused but was startled by Alastor putting the blood-red rose in her hair. Her face turned red, matching the rose.
Alastor had a very soft smile on his face, a smile Vaggie never saw him have. They both continued walking home, Alastor started to hum a sweet tune as Vaggie slowly swayed side to side from his song. She hummed the same tune. Both Vaggie and Alastor hummed the song “La Vie En Rose”. Alastor held Vaggie's hands as they both danced down the street, Vaggie keeping the tune by singing as Alastor sang the lyrics.
“Des yeux qui font baisser les miens
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche
Voilà le portrait sans retouche
De l’homme auquel j’appartiens” Alastor held Vaggie's waist as he gently sang the lyrics. Demons watched in awe of the beautiful demon lord and demoness.
Alastor started to vocalize as Vaggie sang.
“When he takes me into his arms, He speaks to me softly, And I see life through rose-colored glasses” She spun around with her hair hitting the rose petals into the air, showering them both. Alastor slowly put his forehead on hers, and they both started to vocalize in a beautiful harmony. Waltzing down the street as demons moved window to window watching them go by.
Alastor in French and Vaggie in English sang the last parts of the song
“C'est lui pour moi, Moi pour lui dans la vie, Il me l'a dit, l'a jure pour la vie”
“It's only him for me, And me for him, for life, He told me, he swore to me, for life”
They stood by the doors of the hotel as they smiled at each other.
“Et, dès que je l'apercois, Alors je sens en moi, Mon coeur qui bat…”
“As soon as I notice him, I feel inside me, My heart beating…”
Vaggie and Alastor look into each other's eyes, slowly releasing themselves from each other.
“Uhm…” Vaggie was speechless. Her face was warm, Her chest beating fast with each moment looking at Alastor, her stomach feeling like butterflies hatched open and we're ready to fly away. Alastor himself felt his cheeks get warm, his smile softened and his chest about ready to explode. Both demons stood there for a moment taking in the night and each other.
“Thank you Alastor, for today,” Vaggie said in a tone he'd never heard her talk before. Her soft gentle voice made him melt, “I'm glad I could help you relax Vaggie”
They opened the door to see Charlie and Angel talking. “Hello? Did you both go to the spa? I've never seen you both so- relaxed” Angel said. “Yeah, nonetheless you both look like you had a good day”
Charlie said cheerfully, she then spotted the flower. “Oh, a rose” She went to touch it but Vaggie stopped her
“Ah! Please don't… sweetie- Yawn! Look at the time! It's super late. I say we all go to sleep” Vaggie took off the floor and quickly walked upstairs to their bedroom.
“Huh, that's the first time she's stopped me from touching her hair”
“Some demons need their space, Charlie. Good night everyone” Alastor walked upstairs into his room. Vaggie looked at the rose and smelled it, humming the same song she and Alastor sang. She realized what she was doing and shook her head. “What is wrong with me?” She got up and walked to the trash bin, hovering the flower over it. Vaggie clenched her fist and sighed, taking the flower to the nightstand, she grabbed a zip bag and put the flower in it. Picking a book Charlie would never read, she tucked the rose away within the book, putting it back.
Vaggie changed into her Pj's and put herself to bed, she cuddled the pillow beside her. She sang the song once more. Alastor, already in bed, also started to hum the song.