As they finished the next month, they did their best to remain inconspicuous. They already had the suspicion of the hotel on them and they didn't want anyone to find out before they could reverse their situation.

Usually they didn't leave their rooms, not wanting to attract anyone's attention, but on the off chance they did need something they'd send their shadow to fetch them food or whatever they desired.

At the moment the shadow was walking around the hotel. Sometimes they wandered off to do their own thing since they had nothing better to do. Their neon blue eyes glowed in the dark as they pondered what to do with their time.

As they walked by they couldn't help but overhear the sound of a conversation taking place. As they listened further, they could make out Angel's suave voice and Husk's gruff one.

Intrigued, the shadow tuned in, keeping themselves in the darkness but still allowing themselves to creep closer. They were close enough just to see them, but not close enough to where they had to worry about them noticing their presence.

Angel had his head in his hands, his hair more scruffy and messier than usual. There were visible bags under his eyes as he smoked a cigarette before tossing it out at the last second.

"Ugh."

"So what's biting you?" Husk asked, sipping some of the booze from the counter,"Shitty day?"

"Could say that…'' Angel muttered,"You know Valentino?"

"Yeah, he's that asshole pimp. Heard of him, never met him though. I have the feeling he's a real piece of work though…"

"You've got no idea…" Angel chuckled before saying,"Anyhow, since you're so curious, I'll mention he's been in a shitty mood. Well, shittier than usual."

"Any idea why?"

"For a while I didn't. I didn't know what I was doing wrong since I had been doing every single damn thing he asked. Hell, everyone's been trying to suck up to him yet he still acts like he has a stick up his ass."

"So did you find out?"

"I overheard Val talking in the limbo after one of my shows the other day. He's been complaining that Vox has been missing for an entire month and that business is going slow because of his absence."

The shadow's eyes widened.

Uh-oh…

"Strange. Do you think anyone's seen him?"

"Hell if I know. Nobody has seen that walking TV for well over a month. He hasn't posted anything online and there hasn't been a peep about him from any of his associates. Val's been bitching about the fact he can't contact him. Either Vox is ignoring his texts or he isn't able to answer them for some reason."

"You think they broke up? From what I heard Val treats him like trash and they can barely stay together for more than two weeks without some shit happening."

"Probably. Val can't keep a relationship to save his life. He can't even take care of a pet, let alone maintain a relationship with a person. All I know is that his absence is the reason we're hauling our asses out there because Big V doesn't like losing the green and without Vox around to take care of the techy stuff he has to pay for things himself so he makes us work ourselves to death so he doesn't lose out on a cent or two."

"What a fucking dick…"

"Yeah. I know. Val is being such a pain in the ass. Like he's fucking working us to death because of his inability to treat his cable wired boyfriend like an actual person and he takes his shitty mood out on us."

"Damn. Well that's shit...Want a drink? It'll ease the pain until tomorrow…"

"Eh. Sure." Angel took a drink from the counter and chugged it,"I don't give a fuck if I'm wasted this shit will at least let me remain sane until morning-"

Scuff!

There was the sound of something moving across the floor, causing both Angel and Husk to turn.

"Eh? The fuck was that?"

"Beats me. Probably just some bug. Niffty will take care of it sooner or later.."

Angel shrugged his shoulders,"Whatever. It probably ain't that big of a deal anyway."

They continued talking, unaware of the shadow that just happened to slip away from the area unnoticed. They quickly retreated back to Alastor's room, the fusion reading a book to themselves with their monocle when they felt the shadow's hand on their shoulder.

"Huh? What do you want?"

They narrowed their eyes before whispering the situation. By the time the shadow finished the fusion's posture became upright and somewhat panicked.

'Fuck!' Vox shouted, now terrified,'Val is pissed!What do we do now!?''

'I don't know, we cannot tell him about our predicament.'

'But what about my life, Alastor? I have people looking for me. I have my own life too and it feels like I'm just stuck to live yours. Which wouldn't be too bad had it not been for the fact Val is fucking pissed that I'm gone. And that doesn't even mention Velvet and Vark...'

'I know, but we can't exactly go back without blowing our cover. And it's not like we can separate ourselves either. Telling Valentino when we have no plan to defuse ourselves will not help us at all. We haven't even told the others, Valentino is the last person who should know about this.'

Vox sighed,'I know, but…now what? It's been an entire month, we haven't found a solution to our problem and we've gotten ourselves 're still trapped in this body...What if...there's truly no way to reverse this? How will we tell everyone?'

'There's got to be a way, Vox...There has to be…'

'That's not always the case. Sometimes there's no do-overs or elaborate solutions. Sometimes you're just...stuck the way you are and there's no going back.'

'We don't know that-'

'Considering we haven't been able to find anything on how to defuse ourselves in well over a month, I think it's safe to assume there is no way to de-merge. Even if there was, with our luck whose to say we'll find it or if it's even safe to do. It might just fuck us up even more than before…'

'So what now?' The former radio host asked,'Are we just supposed to give up? I never took you for a quitter Vox…'

'Hardly quitting, just seeing the writing on the wall. Al, I think it's fairly obvious that even if there was a way for us to unfuse, it's probably dangerous and too risky for us. We might end up in a worse situation than we started in.'

Alastor fell silent.

No quips, no arrogant banter. Not even a witty remark.

Truthfully, he didn't know what to do. Vox didn't know what to do. The fusion themselves didn't know what to do.

'And judging by your silence, you've realized that too…'

'I never wanted to admit it but….I'm afraid you might be right.' Alastor wanted to burn his tongue, but he couldn't deny the facts before them. Over a month of searching and research and not a single lead on how to fix this mess.'Though that still brings into question, what do we do now? Even if this merger is permanent, that doesn't mean we're out of this situation. We still have the others, your associates and everyone else in Hell to worry about.'

'I don't know. How do we explain something like this? We've fused into a new entity. And now, we're stuck. We don't even exist as people anymore. We're more akin to parts of a machine at this point. We don't have complete control over our decisions, we have to rely on them to do our work and even then, they are technically their own person. They are the only person who can hear us. To everyone else we don't even exist. We may as well be invisible.'

'I know…'

'Hell, even with us merged you get the bigger straw. Everyone else still thinks that our fusion is you. I'm just put to the wayside. Nobody thinks of none of them really know me but still. I'm just flat out ignored, nobody even knows I'm here. I may as well not exist.'

"We wish we could get ignored," The fusion mumbled, now huddling themselves into a corner,"We didn't ask to be created, we weren't supposed to exist and now look at us. We're stuck. Everyone thinks we're Alastor but we're not. We're us. We just wish to exist without any of the baggage from our components. Why is that so much to ask?"

The fusion already knew the answer. Alastor and Vox were a part of him, thus he had to represent them in their stead. Individually, the two overlords didn't exist anymore. They are parts that he needed to function, but otherwise they were like corks in a machine.

It wasn't half Alastor or half Vox, at least not completely. It was more akin to them sharing a brain but some parts became more dominant in certain instances. Equality was desired but given the people he was made up, that wasn't easy to find.

'Even if we're fused together permanently,we should at least call our fusion something. They didn't ask to be created, we should give them an actual choice for once,' Vox said.

'Fine…You heard the TV, it's your choice. We've bossed you around long enough. Make your own decision.'

The fusion looked up, now pondering what to call themselves. They've never thought of calling themselves anything before. They had been used to calling their red component that they hadn't bothered thinking of a name.

'We're technically Alastor and Vox yet neither at the same time...Hmm…' They paused, going over a few random names.

Alavox? No, too weird. Aox? Nope. Alastox? Nah. Alox? Nada. Voxastor? Eugh….

The names they thought of sounded way too weird. They were tempted to give up but suddenly one came to them.

"Volastor."

'Hm? That's a new one.'

'Its better than Alavox so I'll take it…' Vox muttered,'Volastor does have a nice ring to it…'

"Thanks, we know you appreciate being acknowledged, Vox…." They smiled. They were technically talking to themselves, but that didn't take away the fuzzy feeling they felt in their chest at being acknowledged properly.

While they weren't sure how to deal with the situation with Vox's personal life, they were certain they'd tackle that hurdle eventually….

Things may not have been perfect, but for the first time, the fusion and their components felt at peace.

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