A/N: okay so i tried to post this yesterday idk WTF happened to the text but the quotation marks were all missing, half the words were gone... lets try this again shall we?
The look on their faces never got old to her. Hungry and stupid. As Tevy dipped and swung around her pole, she smiled at them. They were like animals, watching her dance in a black bra, a tight black girdle strapped to torn fishnets under high heeled combat boots. Her long, black mohawk, loose and flopped to one side of her head, flowing down past her shoulders. One man reached up and slipped a dollar bill into a tip jar at her feet and Tevy winked as she blew the man a kiss, her silver, horseshoe Lebret piercing glistening in the spot light.
For a half hour, she rocked the stage before switching with another young woman for her break. Tevy strut past the men and over to the bar. "Water, please" She asked the bartender. He handed her a bottle of water, which she immediate cracked open and began drinking. As she was taking a huge swig, a man's hand slid in front of her, pushing a small stack of $100 bills. She paused, mid gulp and looked from the money, following up the arm pushing up and to the man's face. He was an average sized gentleman in a all black suit and tie, his hair was dark and receding, thin facial hair covered his chin, jaw and trailed from under his nose as well. When Tevy looked in his eyes though, she knew what he was as he blinked and they turned blood red before switching back to hazel, human looking eyes.
"You're a demon…" Tevy whispered, "What do you want with me? What is this for?"
The man smiled, "Crowley," he said, an obvious british accent already showing. He offered to shake her hand.
Tevy hesitated but then gripped his hand, before she could shake, he pulled her hand up to his lips and kissed it gingerly. "Tevy," She said, slightly taken aback. "Now why dont you tell me what it is you want for all this money."
"How would you like to get out of this place?" Crowley inched closer to her.
"I'm not a prostitute, take your money and go."
"I dont mean sex, darling, I mean a new job."
Tevy sipped her water, cocking an eyebrow, "Where?"
A few more people walked over to order drinks. "Come outside and I'll tell you," Crowley vanished into thin air and Tevy sighed, standing up and going to fetch her hoodie.
Tevy stepped out into the alleyway to find the demon leaning against the brick wall. "Alright, so where is this job… what is it… and most importantly why the fuck does a demon want me?"
"Hell. And you would be doing the same thing down there for me and my men as you do so well up here for these pathetic mortals." he stepped away from the wall to stand in front of her.
"But why me, of all people…if you were out looking for dancers up here why would you pick me?" Tevy asked, still confused.
"Oh what, love, I can't just pick you because you're the loveliest dancer in the Chicagoland area?"
Tevy tried not to let him see her blushing, "I know thats not why…"
Crowley stepped closer and brushed her hair from her face, seeing her reddened cheeks, "I know you're not human," He smiled, "I needed a girl who was of the 'supernatural', so to speak… can't really go offering jobs in hell to a human, can I? Besides, my men would get a kick out of seeing an Angel dance for them."
"ex...angel…" Tevy said.
"You still have your grace, ducky, I can smell it in you."
"Yeah well, my 'kin' tore my fucking wings from my back and kicked me out of heaven, so i dont really think i can, or even want to call myself an Angel…"
Crowley smirked, "So show em all how blasphemous you are and come dance for the King, wont you?" He took her hand again and kissed it, smiling and looking right in her eyes.
Tevy tried not to smile as her manager came storming out the side door screaming.
"TEVY WHY THE FUCK ARNT YOU INSIDE? THIS ASSHOLE BETTER BE PAYING YOU FOR WHATEVER IT IS YOU'RE OUT HERE FOR, YOU BITCH! GET THE FUCK INSIDE!" The man was screaming in her face and Crowley could see how hard Tevy was holding back tears.
When the manager finally ran back inside, Crowley took Tevy's hands and said, "I would never talk to you like that… and you would be free to come and go as you please, between hell and Earth."
"I'm in." she said, her voice shaking, "Get me the fuck out of here, Demon…"
