Abigail just couldn't help seeing her son like this.

The radio host was getting much worse by the hour, and he seemed to barely keep himself together.

He was unable to sleep, his internal temperature switched on the dime, and had a constant case of a incredibly bad fever.

Alastor kept himself close to his mother in fear of relapsing again. She knew that her son was able to handle a fight with other people but not against himself.

What made it worse though were the shadows.

Given that she had to take care of him, Abigail summoned her shadows to handle the housework for her. Alastor seemed to be on edge every time one of them approached even when to comfort him.

On a few occasions, Alastor would outright attack the shadows believing that they were out to get him. His mother was forced to comfort him for a while and stop whatever housework she was doing in the meantime.

Eddie was fortunate enough to stop by every once and a while to help her out. He could take of Alastor's unfortunate state, since he seemed less tense around him.

Currently, her husband wasn't around to help at the moment.

Alastor was stuck in his bed, shivering in the warm air of the home. She couldn't give him another round of food, since he seemed to be losing weight more than he was gaining and Alastor didn't wish to eat any food that was a solid.

Abigail stood over him at the bed, with him wrapped in the blanket and staring off into the distant abyss.

"Dear, are you awake?" Abigail asked softly.

He turned his head to her, and nodded.

"I'm fine." Alastor croaked.

"You're not, Alvin." Abigail said, "You've been suffering withdrawal symptoms for the past few days and you're getting worse."

"I know.." Alastor said, "I've been through worse."

Abigail sighed, remembering the stories that Alastor told about his withdrawal experience down in Hell. Unlike what he was experiencing right now, he had to handle the painful process for several months.

They remained silent for a few moments, and Abigail sat down on the bed and placed a hand on Alastor's forehead. It was cold, and pouring with sweat.

"Maman.." Alastor murmured.

"Yes?" Abigail replied.

Without any warning, Alastor began to cry. He turned away from her, and she moved a bit closer to him.

"What's wrong, darling?" Abigail questioned.

"I fucked up." Alastor suddenly blurted out, "All this is my fucking fault."

Abigail wanted to say that it wasn't but she knew what he said was true.

"What if Molly breaks up with me?" Alastor babbled, "What if the Hazbin staff find about this? What if I can't go into the army? What if-"

"Dear, calm down." Abigail reassured, "Everything will be alright in the end."

"It won't be." Alastor said, "After all this, I don't know anymore."

"God has a plan for all of us." Abigail said, "But I'm sure that he has something for you at the end of this road."

"Then, what is it for me?" Alastor whined suddenly, "I don't care if it's meant to be a challenge, or a punishment. Just tell me where the hell I'm fucking going!"

"Alastor." Abigail said sternly.

He buried his face into the pillow and began to sob loudly, with Abigail fruitlessly wondering how to handle the situation.

Promptly, she picked him from the bed, still wrapped in the blanket and positioned him into a hug. Alastor responded accordingly, with him swiftly wrapping his arms around her. The radio host began to cry into her shoulder, his body at a cold temperature.

Abigail could only offer the only thing she could give. The comforting embrace of a mother.

"It'll be okay, dear. I'm sure it'll be okay."

Charlie knew whatever this Extermination was going to be, it was going to be much different than any of the yearly purges she had experienced.

Since she would be watching from above instead of being in one.

The hotel staff decided to dress as formally as they could for the occasion, because they didn't know what was to come.

It was good thing that they discovered that they could shift from their human forms to their respective demon forms at will, so in case something were to happen, they would be able to go on the offensive.

All of them were standing in front of their homestay, waiting for their pickup.

"So, are we all ready?" Charlie perked up.

"Not really." Husk said bluntly, "But it's the best we can do."

Mimzy sighed, "I'm scared, darlings. What do you think they want from us?"

"We can theorize for all we want, but we still don't know about that." Baxter stated.

"Shut it about your theorizing." Husk stated sternly.

"No arguing!" Vaggie exclaimed.

Charlie couldn't help but notice that Niffty was remaining silent about this. Then again, she seemed more interested in her human form.

Niffty looked drastically different from her demon imp self, and became a tall woman of Japanese descent.

It was hard for her to adjust to the larger height, and she could no longer fit in smaller crevices to clean everything.

"Niffty? Is something wrong?" Charlie asked.

She looked over at her, "Nothing's wrong. Just.. thinking."

"That's alright, we're all worried too."

"I know that, but it's just that something is weird about this whole situation." Niffty said, a small hint of Japanese dialect in her voice.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps approaching them caught their attention. All of them turned to the direction of the sound and froze immediately.

Approaching them were three Exterminators. Of course, having seen the design of them was unsurprising.

But what weapons they were brandishing really unnerved them.

Charlie couldn't help but panic just a bit as the Exterminators wielded assault rifles to them. One of them appeared to be the defacto leader of the trio, and they tilted her head towards them.

Unfortunately, the princess recognized who it was.

"Idosing." Charlie hissed.

The musician chuckled in response but the other two that seemed to be lesser to him, stood beside him, giving him protection.

"So, it's come to this, huh?" Idosing said coyly, "Then again, I have to follow orders more than anything."

Everyone looked at him with squinted eyes but ultimately, they made their way to him.

Idosing observed the hotel staff to make sure that nothing was amiss, and promptly snapped his fingers.

Their ears buzzed with radio static and their vision went blurry and once they blinked, they appeared in a particularly crowded area.

Well, being surrounded by Exterminators would be able to give anyone goosebumps.

All of them weren't sure where they were at first, but Vaggie suddenly brought everyone close together forcefully.

"Everyone, keep close." Vaggie hissed, "This is the Exterminator's main headquarters. Remain in a group."

Charlie remained frozen, observing the Exterminators surrounding them. Some of them were busy minding their own particular business, while others took notice of their guests. The princess noticed that they were in a cross junction of sorts, and tall black buildings towered over them.

Unfortunately, Idosing seemed to have dissipated into the crowd. The princess could have at least gotten some kind of instructions as to what to do next.

Suddenly, the sounds of clicking filled the air, and everyone including the Exterminators, looked at the direction of the sound.

While the origin of the sound was another Exterminator, the design of the suit was more formal and more signifying that whoever it was, it was a high ranking officer.

The clicking stopped, which the hotel staff recognized as the speaking code for the Exterminators.

Vaggie seemed to be the most tense about this Exterminator, as Charlie could feel that tension around them.

"Vagatha." a stern, hoarse voice emanated from the Exterminator.

Charlie was surprised when Vaggie moved forward to the person, but something about it let her do it.

To the hotel staff's surprise, the Exterminator tilted their head and said something in that clicking language.

Suddenly, every Exterminator began to approach them. They lined in uniform crowds, surrounding each of them in the large radius.

Without warning, all of the Exterminators kneeled onto one knee. Their heads faced down onto the floor

All of them were quite shocked with Charlie, Niffty, Mimzy and Husk mumbling to each other as to what was going on. On the other hand, Vaggie was frozen as a statue until the leader Exterminator stood up, to which the other Exterminators went ahead and straightened themselves.

Charlie wanted to speak up, but Baxter was first to do it.

"What was that?" he asked, though it seemed more to himself than towards everyone around him.

The leader of the Exterminators pranced towards them, and chuckled to which Vaggie stood in front of Charlie.

"Let's just say.. that was something you don't need to know at the moment." they stated.

As if on cue, some Exterminators approached them. Charlie noticed their friendly demeanour and faced towards them.

"Hello." said the one that seemed more enthusiastic than the others,

"Are you ready for your tour?"

"Uhm.. yeah." Charlie replied nervously, "We're ready."

Molly knew what Exterminations were like.

Every time she had to endure the process of purging the sinners of Hell, she would at least have some sort of satisfaction of killing those very people because of who they were. However, she knew that not all sinners were to be in Hell.

But the fact that the Hazbin Hotel staff was watching made her feel uneasy.

At least other people were busy handling the situation of the hotel staff, since it was a bit stressful.

Obviously, the staff had plenty of questions primarily about the ethical code of the Exterminators which boiled down to them purging sinners that deserved to be in Hell and putting some out of their misery.

To her surprise, everyone seemed to be neutral about the whole situation, even Vaggie.

She remained deep in thought, out of view of everyone when someone approached her.

"Hey."

Idosing's voice suddenly took her attention and she saw the musician waltzing towards her.

"How you holding up?" Idosing asked.

Molly sighed, "I'm fine. Just thinking about stuff, more than anything."

"Look, I'm as concerned about Alastor as you are." Idosing stated, "If you want to talk about it, then go ahead, lay it on me."

"It's not just Alastor, it's also my brother, you know?" Molly said,"Like, if they know about me.."

"Pretty sure they won't know about you just yet." Idosing reassured.

"What if the others talk about me?" Molly said, "They could just bring up my brother, and they'd want to meet me."

"Hm. And since you're dating Al.."

Molly took a breath, "I'll have to see them eventually."

Idosing snorted, "They hate my guts right now, so I'd have to get away from them soon."

That brought a chuckle out of Molly, but she took notice of Idosing looking at something.

"Speaking of the devils themselves." Idosing mused.

Coming into view was the Hotel staff who were being toured around the medical area of the base. All of them seemed to have finished the main part of the tour, and were ready to move on to the next part.

However, Charlie Magne, the princess took notice of Idosing, and stared at him. She said to the rest of the hotel staff and the tour guide, before making her way towards the two of them. The staff left with the tour guides and made way to their next destination.

In response, Idosing laughed. Well, it was more of a 'ha, ha, ha' sarcastic laugh more than an actual laugh.

"Well, this is certainly a situation I was expecting." Idosing said with crossed arms.

Charlie sighed, "Look, I'm here to ask one question only."

"It's somewhere along the lines 'Please tell me where Alastor is.', isn't it?" Idosing inquired.

"Fuck you." Charlie hissed.

Molly could tell there was a certain tension between them, especially since he was the one that wounded Alastor in the first place.

"Like you pretty much read and heard, he's up here."

"Is he in this base?" Charlie asked.

"Tsk, no. He hasn't been drafted just yet, in about a few months, he will be here." Idosing said, "But I wouldn't recommend that you meet him after this tour."

At that moment, Molly resisted to urge to sigh. She didn't want the princess to know about her relationship with Alastor, since he was in a rough spot at the moment.

"Fine then." Charlie said as she turned around, "Keep your secrets."

"Wait." Molly blurted out.

Idosing looked in awe as Molly approached the princess nervously. He seemed to get at what she was going to say, but began to click to her nonetheless.

Don't mention Alastor, he said before he promptly waltzed away from the scene.

Charlie was intrigued at Molly's sudden approach as she faced her.

"I'm.. just gonna say this, but I just wanted to thank you for redeeming my brother." Molly said.

"Who's your brother?" Charlie asked.

"Um, Anthony. You know, that really famous pornstar?" Molly said quietly.

"Oh.. Angel Dust?" Charlie said, "You're his sister.."

"If you're wondering about what he thinks of me being an Exterminator, I would say it wasn't the best reception." Molly stated.

"That makes sense, I guess." Charlie said, "How's he doing?"

"Great. He's working for my mother up here, so he's got some grip in paradise." Molly mused.

Charlie smiled, "That's good to know, can't wait to see you soon with him."

"Me too." Molly said sheepishly as the princess turned around and walked away to the hotel staff.

It took a while for Molly to do anything but she managed to heave a sigh of relief. She fortunately took out one of her biggest worries out of her system.

Obviously, there was the looming threat of the upcoming Extermination at midnight, and they were mandatory to sleep for a few hours before the operation was in motion.

But as she began to waltz to the dormitories, Molly's mind wandered towards the thought of Alastor who was still recovering from his drug addiction.

"I hope he gets better." Molly murmured to herself.