After her second day of work, Elli joins her son's sewing club with her new friend Lizzie! And in the process they meet an... unexpected visitor.


Chapter 6: The Sewing/Knitting Club

The second day working wasn't all that exciting. But it was afterwards that she was looking forward to. When closing time came, she had taken the opportunity to help Rosie set the tables and chairs up in her roof-top garden. The tables and chairs were a Victorian-style. In black respectivally. Tea, cookies, finger sandwhiches, sugar, cream and a pot of coffee was set out. The coffee being for Alastor respectivally. Elli had learned from Rosie that it wasn't just a sewing club, but also a knitting club as well. Elli had no issues and she was quite eager to begin her first project in their little club. She, of course, made sure to inform Rosie that she had invited Lizzie, and the Overlord nodded in understanding. The doe-demon was very excited. As the time neared, the first one to arrive was Alastor. Rosie smiled at him.

"Punctual as ever Alastor." She greeted him.

"As one should be!" He motioned to Elli. "You should thank my darling Mother for raising me to be such a considerate gentlemen."

"You're right." Rosie agreed, the turned to her newest employee. "You raised a fine son."

"Thank ya. Ah tried my best bein' a single motha'."

Rosie raised a brow. She was not expecting that type of information. She knew from the time that she spent with Alastor that he talked about Elli frequently. But the fact that she raised him on her own? She definitely wasn't expecting to hear that. But the more she thought about it. Alastor had never mentioned his father. Anyone who knew the Radio Demon long enough could figure out that he was Mama's boy from how he spoke. And now she understood why. It wasn't because Alastor preferred his mother over his father. He never had the option to be with his father at all. Now that started raising questions in her mind. What happened to her friend's father? Why didn't he stay? Did he die before Alastor was born? Was the man down here? Or was he in Heaven? Also... it could finally explain her friend's mannerisms. After all, she knew that similar to her times, men were not expected to cook, clean or sew. But Alastor knew how to do all that.

"Mind if I make myself a cup of coffee?" He asked her.

"Help yourself." Rosie offered.

The deer demon made his way over to the coffee pot, pouring himself a cup and made himself comfortable in one of the chairs that were sitting in a circle with baskets of yarn, fabrics and other sewing and knitting supplies next to each chair. The table that homed the beverages and the snacks were in the middle of the circle of chairs. She had Elli go ahead and help herself as well. She took a seat next to Alastor. A bit reasonable, since this was her sewing/knitting club and she would want to be with someone she was familiar with. Rosie couldn't help but feel a genuine smile appear on her lips. She had to admit, it was...sweet to see how happy Alastor was to having Elli be with him. The two had a strong bond. It almost made her wish that her bond with her own parents- whoa. No. She was not going to be traveling down memory lane. She took a seat opposite of Elli. Not long their other friend, Mimzy appeared. Mimzy was a smaller, chubbier demon with with gray skin. She had dark eyes with pink pupils. She was dressed in a 1920's flapper dress. She smiled at Rosie and Alastor.

"Hey Rosie. Hey Al."

"Hello Mimzy." Rosie gave a small nod at her.

"Greetings Mimzy darling!" Alastor greeted then motioned to Elli. "I would like to introduce you to our newest member to our little get-together! My mother!"

Elli smiled down at the smaller woman.

"Pleased ta meet ya. Ya can call me 'Elli sugah."

Mimzy shook her hand.

"Pleasure to meet you. Alastor talks about you a lot."

Elli grinned. She offered the seat next to her.

"Would ya like ta take a seat?"

"Thank you." Mimzy sat down. "Since we're all here-"

"Actually," Rosie interrupted, "Elli invited one more person to our group. We're waiting on her to join us."

Several moments later, they all looked over at the doorway to see Lizzie step in. Her axe dripping fresh blood.

"Sorry. I would've been here earlier, but I had little problem I had to deal with."

Will the other three didn't seem to be bothered by Lizzie's implications, it was a bit much for Elli who forced a smile, looking a bit uncomfortable knowing that her newest friend just recently murdered someone. Lizzie sat her axe against the side of her chair as she sat down.

"So, since Elli and I are newcomers, what do we need to be filled in on?"

Alastor laughed.

"My! Aren't you the blunt one! Well, each one of us working on our projects. Just pick something you want to make and start making it!" He turned to his mother. "Mother, anything specific you would like to make?"

Elli thought for a moment. She smiled finally thinking of something.

"Ah could do wit' a nice evenin' shawl."

"Any specific color?"

Elli thought for a moment. Looking over different colored yarns in the baskets.

"Pink would be lovely." She told him.

Alastor nodded, reaching over to grab her the pink yarn. She thanked him, taking the yarn and wrapped it around her knitting needles to begin working on it. Lizzie decided to make a cozy for her axe. She picked red yarn, to help soak up and blend with any blood. Mimzy was sewing a new dress for a future show she had in mind. Alastor was working on stitching up some new gloves for himself. And Rosie was knitting a blanket that could be sold in her store. The conversation mostly focused on Elli's arrival to Hell and how she was dealing with it and her reunion with Alastor. Alastor opened his mouth to make a comment when they were interrupted by a voice.

"Aw, look at all these lovely ladies." A smooth voice cooed.

They all turned to see a man with dark gray skin with black eye with green pupils. He was wearing an a 1700s black coat with wide gold accents on it with a white lace ascot and cuffs, wearing matching pants that went up to his knees, white stockings and buckled shoes of his time period. He had white hair, styled to that of his time period. Rosie, Mimzy and Alastor looked irritated at the newcomer, while Lizzie looked like she was ready to kill him and Elli was just looked at the stranger in confusion.

"Marquis de Sade." Rosie greeted, forcing a smile. "I thought we told you were not welcomed to our little social circle."

The stranger, Marquis, hummed as he made his way over.

"Come now. I mean no harm my darlings. I just came to offer my services to my favorite girls and my beloved doe." He flashed a smile at Alastor. "It's not every day I find a man who has such a woman's touch to him."

Elli noticed that her son's smile seemed to get tense. His eyes narrowing.

"I assure you my good fellow. We don't need any of your... services. If you could politely leave, it would be much appreciated."

"Oh come now," Maquis tsked, acting like he was disappointed. "I mean no harm. I'm sure you can find my company quite... pleasurable."

He had leaned close to Alastor's face. The deer-demon, summoning his mic and pushing him away with it. He did not like having his personal space invaded.

"If you kindly follow my five-foot rule, I would deeply appreciate it!"

"Of course darling. How forgetful of me."

Alastor just kept his narrow gaze at the other man. Marquis then set his sights on Elli. His grin widen a bit and he took her hand. Elli offered a shy smile in return. Unsure what to make of this newcomer. He places a light kiss on her knuckles.

"How rude of me to not introduce myself to such a fine woman as yourself. I am Marquis de Sade. And you are my dear?"

"Elliana LaBlanc, Mr. Sade. A pleasure ta meet ya."

She retracked her hand. She looked out the corner of her eye to see her son glaring daggers at the man, despite the smile on his face. But it was a tense smile. The sound of static was coming off of him. He did not like this man. Lizzie picked up her axe.

"If you don't leave, I swear I will chop you to bits!" she threatened.

Marquis looked at her. A small smirk was on his lips.

"I like a woman with some fire in her."

She growled at him. He looked them over.

"I was going to ask if one of you lovely ladies would've like to accompany me out into the city, but alas. I see that is not to be for tonight. I guess I must take my leave. Au revior!"

The group watched as he left. There was a bit of silence before Mimzy seemed to say what was on everyone's mind.

"Good riddence, the disgusting creep!"


Marquis de Sade what an... interesting man is his. He requested to be in the story as well by Mister Enigma. I had to do a bit of research on who he was since I had never heard of him. And boy... Angel Dust has quite some competition with how sexual this guy! Though... I'm pretty sure Angel Dust isn't a sexual sadist like this guy was. Anyway, that was chapter 6! So please review!