Disclaimer: I do not own any of the songs nor Hazbin Hotel or any of its characters. All rights go to A24 and the creator Vivienne Medrano.

I only own my own characters: John Randell, Lucy Randell, Ursula and Liz Simmons

Checking into Hazbin Hotel

CHAPTER 2

A small light in the endless dark

John slowly woke up as he rubbed his sleepy eyes. When looking at the alarm clock on the nightstand, he saw it was 09:17 AM.

John sighed while forming a small smile and slowly stepped out of bed. As he stretched himself, John felt like he had the best sleep in years ever since he'd fallen into Hell.

"Alright, John Randell. Your first day at the Hazbin Hotel," he told himself while going to his closet and picked out some clothes for the day, feeling actually a bit exited to start working in the hotel "They've done already so much for me," but then thought while going into the bathroom and puts the shower on, letting the water getting warm "I do wander what Charlie is planning to try help us redeem ourselves. I guess I'll see."

After the water in the shower was warm enough, John puts off his boxers and stepped into the shower, letting the warm water fall on him. He used some of expensive soap to wash himself, which smelled nice "Hmmm. Man, I haven't had this kind of good soap in ages."

When he'd showered himself for almost 10 minutes, he puts the shower off and stepped out and dried himself with a towel. Once John was finished, he tied the towel around his waist and curiously decided to check out the rest of the cabinet, finding some spare soaps and even a few deodorant rolls. John picks 1 out and puts some on his armpits.

John then checked himself in the mirror and told himself while rubbing his cheeks "I should shave myself a bit." And used the shaving cream and razor to shave himself.

After 15 minutes, John stepped out of the bathroom, wearing a red shirt, blue jeans, a grey jacket and grey socks. He tried out 1 of the new pair of shoes, being black/white sneakers, which fitted him perfectly.

"Nice." John told himself while checking himself in his new outfit in the mirror.

As he walked to the door, he noticed there was a note on the floor, which was swiped in from below the door. John took the note and read it was the new hotel's schedule, telling at what times breakfast, lunch and dinner would be served, alongside at what time of the day some possible redeeming activities would be held.

Seeing that breakfast would be served between 9 and 11 AM, John told himself as he puts the schedule in his pocket "Guess I should go and eat some breakfast first. I wander what they'll serve?" he asked himself as he stepped out of his room, locking the door behind him.

"Good morning!" Niffty said as she rushed over to John, which surprised him.

He noticed that the little hyperactive cyclops woman was now wearing a red-pink maid dress and a white apron.

"Hey… morning, Niffty." John said.

Niffty then quickly went into John's room and started cleaning any dirty stuff she could found, which to her surprise wasn't that many, all except the dirty clothes he wore yesterday. Niffty smiled once she was finished in less then a minute and rushed out of the room with the small pile of dirty laundry in her arms "Oooooh. So clean in there." She told John with a smile.

John shrugged "Thanks. See you later, Niffty."

"Okay!" she nodded and quickly puts the pile of clothes in a basket of her cart, before she went to Charlie and Vaggie's room to take some of their laundry while also cleaning inside.

John went downstairs, finding Husker at his spot at the bar, cleaning some glasses with a small towel.

"Morning, Husk." John said.

Husk didn't looked at him and just gave him a little wave "Hey." And went back doing his job as a bartender before taking a sip from a new bottle of alcohol.

John raised an eyebrow to see someone drinking alcohol this early in the morning, but left Husk be as he wanted to make a good first impression on his first day and went to the dining room, where Vaggie and Angel were already eating breakfast.

"Morning everyone." John said before checking out the kinds of delicious foods that were on the big dining table, being fresh made croissants, scrambled eggs, bacon, different kinds of jelly and pancakes.

"Morning, John," Vaggie said.

"Hello there," Angel gave John a flirty smirk while taking a sip from his drink.

These flirting attempts of the gay porn star was starting to get more annoying to John, making him narrow his eyes at him while taking a seat.

"Had a good night sleep?" Vaggie asked.

John nodded as he took some pancakes "I sure did! I had the best sleep in a long time." As he wanted to take his first bite, he asked her, "Is Charlie around?"

Vaggie gave him a look of suspicion, which John noticed. But said, "Charlie is currently checking all the supplies in the basement. Why are you asking?"

John gave a shrug "Well, since basically I live and work here in the Hazbin Hotel, I wanted to know where I could find her so I could ask kind of job she has for me today."

"Oh, I see." Vaggie understood now "She will be done soon, so she would come back later on."

John gave a nod and took a first bite from the pancakes, liking it "Hmmm. This is good. Man, I didn't had a this good of a meal in a very long time."

Angel gave a shrug as he said, "It's good thing that you came to join the hotel yesterday, John and not when I first came here 2 weeks ago."

"Why?"

"Trust me, we had to cook our own food every day. And this chick," Angel pointed with his thump at and Vaggie "and her princess-girlfriend can't cook for shit."

Vaggie glared at him for that little insult "Oh yeah?! Well, so can't you!" she fired back

Angel held his hand on his chest, "Ouch. That hurt my feelings." Clearly he was pretending that those words hurt him, but then shrugged it off "It's not my fault that these soft hands and this amazing flexible body," he then said in his sexy voice while shaking his chest that looked like it had boobs "was only made for the sex industry."

John narrowed his eyes at him "Well, you sure live up to your reputation, Angel Dust."

"Well thank you-" Angel said while looking at him flirty.

"For being able to swing around with your dick better than with a frying pan."

Angel glared at John while Vaggie chuckled.

"Oh yeah?!" Angel yelled.

"Yeah." John said while he formed a smirk.

That was when Charlie came into the dining room, forming a bright smile "Hello everyone!" she gave planted a big kiss on her girlfriend's cheek "Good morning, my sweet Vaggie." She then hopped over with excitement over to John "And Goooood morning, first real guest of the hotel!"

"Hi Charlie." John said.

Angel was a bit surprised when Charlie called John their 'first guest' "Him the first guest? What the hell am I then?"

Charlie tried to explain to him in a very nice way "Well, you're an important part of our family here, Angel. But, you uhm…" she tried to think of the best way to describe Angel "Uh…"

"Constantly make us look bad," Vaggie said for her girlfriend "sexually harass the staff and have latterly never once tried to improve."

Though Vaggie had a point, Charlie added "What she means is, it's just," she looked at John "nice to have someone interested for once."

Hearing that made Angel a bit sad, while John smiled.

"I'm really looking forward to start with my new job here, Charlie." John said.

Charlie chuckled while she raised her hands and sat next to her girlfriend "Oh, don't worry, John. There's still enough time for that. There's no rush."

Angle then formed a naughty grin on his face, having something in mind for John to do after his little mocking earlier "Well, Charlie, now that you're mentioning about John working around here. We were just talking about our cooking skills."

Charlie smiled to see, thinking that her guests were getting along while she giggled when thinking back when they tried to cook something together "Hahahaha. I wouldn't say that we're the best in the kitchen, but at least we have Niffty to do that now."

"Well, John here just told me that he's actually a really good cook and offered to cook once in a while for us," John looked surprised at Angel as he never said that "Right, John?" he asked as he smirked at him.

Veggie however knew that Angel was lying, but still looked at John, to see what he was going to answer.

Charlie formed a big smile "Really?! You would do that for us, John?" she asked when looking at him.

John knew that this was Angel's way of some payback. But then smirked at him like he was saying 'Oh, it's on, mate.' And told Charlie with a smile as he nodded "Yeah! That's exactly what I proposed. You guys did so much good for me, so it would only be fair to do something in return."

Angel looked surprised, not expecting to go along with this, same as Vaggie.

Charlie thought that was sweet "Oh, that's very kind of you, John. But you don't have to do that."

But John shook his head, insisting it "Oh, no, no, no. I insist," he then offered "Tell you what? I'll make tonight for you all a very special lasagna?"

Charlie formed a sweet smile "Oooooh, how thoughtful of you." she then shrugged "Well, if you want to make dinner for us tonight so badly, then it's fine by me."

Vaggie raised an eyebrow and asked, "You know how to cook, right?"

"Of course, I do," John shrugged while eating his pancakes "when I was still alive, I've done dozens of different jobs. 1 of them was that I've worked in an Italian restaurant for 6 months."

Angel chuckled and mocked him by asking, "Really? As what? A waiter?"

"No. I worked as kitchen assistant." John corrected him "Learned quite a few Italian dishes, including making a delicious lasagna."

This was something that Angel didn't expect to hear from the new guest of the hotel.

Charlie smiled brightly after hearing this "Well, I certainly look forward to try out your lasagna tonight, John."

"Yeah, me too." Vaggie added, now curious to John's cooking skills.

Angel narrowed his eyes at him and rose from his chair "Whatever." And walked over to the coffee machine to get some coffee for himself.

Just as Charlie wanted to ask what other skills John has, her dragon-goats, Razzle and Dazzle flew inside, delivering her the mail that had arrived this morning.

"Oh, thanks you two," Charlie kindly thanked them. When Charlie inspected the mail, which were a couple of bills, Charlie rose from her chair, saying, "Oh. I got to take care of these," she then told John "Come see me later and then I'll give you your first job."

John nodded as he took some scrambled eggs and bacon "Okay, I will."

"Great," Charlie said with a sweet smile "Enjoy your breakfast, John!" She then left and took out her cellphone to pay the bills.

Angel then sat back at his chair, drinking his coffee.

John then wandered and asked Vaggie, "Isn't Charlie or the other people going to eat breakfast with us?"

Vaggie stated "Charlie already ate some as she always wakes up earlier than anyone as she's got a hotel to run. Niffty probably ate some too before starting her work, but Alastor…?"

"What about him?" John asked.

Vaggie shook her head "He prefers to eat his 'own prepared' breakfast in his room. Don't ask me why."

John shrugged "I'm not, but… Why is the Radio-Demon so interested to help you guys with the hotel?"

Vaggie began to get angry as he told him, "Why do you think? That demon doesn't want to help redeem sinners! He only wants to help running this hotel just to watch everyone fail for his own personal amusement!"

Hearing that made John narrow his eyes "That would explain some stuff."

Vaggie then warned him, knowing what kind of a sinister person Alastor truly is, "But listen, John, and I'm only saying this to warn you and because Charlie has faith in you. Whatever you do, don't ever make a deal with the Radio-Demon!"

John ensured her, knowing already Alastor by his reputation with making deals, "Don't worry. I won't. After hearing all about him, I'll be careful when being around him."

Vaggie nodded while forming a small smile "Okay." She then resumed eating her breakfast.

But then John thought, "But come to think of it. I heard that Alastor had been missing for years. What do you guys think where he could've been for him to suddenly reappear in Hell?" he asked both Vaggie and Angel.

"How the fuck should I know?" Angel said while taking a sip from his coffee "That guy is the biggest mystery in all of Hell. Nobody knows what that smiling freak did or where the fuck he's been."

Vaggie shook her head "Nobody exactly knows. And I still don't trust that guy."

John shook his head too "Me neither."

Vaggie gave him a nod, seeing that John was taking her advice, and he too didn't trust the Radio-Demon.


After John had finished his breakfast, he went to look for Charlie.

Lucky for him, Charlie was there in the lobby, talking with the grumpy Husk at his bar about something which made him roll his eyes.

When Charlie saw John approached him, she smiled and asked "Hi, John! Enjoyed your little breakfast?"

John nodded "Best breakfast I had in years!" then he wandered "So, what kind of job do you have in mind for me today, Charlie?"

Charlie then stated as she took out a list of supplies for the hotel, "Well, since Alastor has changed a couple of things in the hotel for us, including adding Husk and Nifty into our staff, and you having joined yesterday, I kinda noticed that we need some extra supplies in the hotel, like: food, spare parts, toilet paper, etc."

"And also, lots of alcohol," Husk added while he was cleaning the bar "With the alcohol that we have in here now, I won't even be able to make even a simple cocktail!"

Charlie gave a nod to Husk before telling John "And, as Husk just pointed, we need some extra bottles of the best liquor he told me he needs."

John guessed, "So, you want me to go into town and do a large grocery for the hotel?"

Charlie chuckled while she shook her head, "Oh no, silly! That would take way too much time," she then told him with honesty while giving him a gentle elbow "I don't want my very first guest/worker to get overly tired by this," she handed him over the large list of supplies they need "I already contacted a big supplier and he's willing to provide what the hotel needs," Razzle and Dazzle then flew next to John "I just want you to accompany Razzle and Dazzle to go to the supplier and see if everything I ordered is in place. Once it's all okay, you just sign some papers and then the three of you can bring them all to the hotel. And don't worry about the payment, everything is already taken care of."

John formed a smile "Sure. No problem, Charlie," but then he thought to himself "Oh, wait! I actually don't have a cellphone."

Charlie immediately handed him over an expensive smartphone "No problem. Since you work and stay with us, I figured you might need a new cellphone. Here, you can take my old one." John took the new cellphone "I already put my new number in it, along with Vaggie, Angel, Niffty, Alastor and Husk's number."

Husk then told John as he left the bar "But don't call me while I'm busy, okay?! If I need anything, I call you! Understand?"

John raised an eyebrow at him but shrugged "Sure. If that's what you prefer."

Husk gave a small nod and went to the nearby toilet.

"What's his problem?" John asks Charlie.

Charlie ensured him while she smiled, "Ah, Husk just needs some time to get used to it down here. Don't worry, once he's come out of his shell, he'll be smiling bright like the morning sun!"

"No, I won't!" Husk angrily called out from the toilet "And there is no morning sun in Hell!"

John ignored just Husk's grumpiness and told Charlie, giving her a salute, "You can count on me, Charlie." And went to the front door with Razzle and Dazzle

Charlie gave a sweet smile and waved to them "Good luck! Stay safe!"

John gave her a thumps up as he left the hotel with the 2 little dragon-goats.

Razzle pointed to the truck that was parked at the street, in which John gave a nod but then asked them "Uhm… do you guys know how to drive a truck, because I can't, honestly."

Dazzle nodded and flew inside the truck, sitting at the driving seat.

John shrugged "Guess you guys can." And both him and Razzle sat at the passenger seats while Dazzle started the ignition and gentle drove away.


An hour later, after avoiding some of the chaos in Pentagram City as some demons were still fighting for control after the Extermination, the trio arrived at a large warehouse called: HADES SUPPLIES

After parking the truck and entering the warehouse, John, Razzle and Dazzle were led to where big piles of all the supplies that Charlie ordered, being in both wooden crates and boxes. John inspected all the items, doing double checks to see if everything was in there.

Once everything was in order, he told the supplier that everything was in order, and he signed the papers.

However, to John's confusion, none of the workers were going to help them as Charlie hadn't paid them to also place all the stuff in the truck, despite that Charlie has already paid them for it, but they laughed about it and said they would need to pay them extra to do it.

John hated this kind of heartlessness and corruption, but, not wanting to be like a whiny bitch and call this problem to Charlie, he decided to load in the stuff himself in the truck, with some help from Razzle and Dazzle.

After more than an hour of lifting, they had loaded in all the stuff and drove away with the truck back to the hotel.

Arriving back at the Hazbin Hotel, John, Razzle and Dazzle began loading out the new supplies and brought them inside.

Charlie smiled when seeing they'd brought everything "Ah, wonderful!" she said as she and Vaggie walked up to John while he was carefully putting a wooden box inside.

John tapped the box "Everything you ordered, Charlie," he handed over the supply list to her "I double checked everything. It's all here."

"That's great, John!" Charlie said before asking Razzle and Dazzle, "Did he helped you guys well today?"

Razzle and Dazzle both nodded before resuming putting everything in the storage room while Husker took a few wooden crates with the liquor he needed for his bar.

John then told Charlie and Vaggie what happened at Hades Supplies "But you might need to call those greedy bastards at Hades Supplies, Charlie, because we had to load in everything ourselves as those dickheads were asking for double the money."

Charlie was shocked by this "What?!"

Vaggie was getting angry and clutched her fists "That's it," she took out her spear "I'm going over there and teach them some manners!"

But Charlie stopped her "No, Vaggie!" she suggested a more polite alternative manner "I'll just call the manager and ask them nicely our money back." she took out her cellphone and began call Hades Supplies.

Vaggie puts her spear away as she told John "Well, at least you did a good job with brining us what we need for the hotel, John. Nice work."

"Thanks, Vaggie." John said with a smile.

"We'll take care of the rest. You should go look around and see if anyone else needs help." Vaggie suggested.

John gave her a thumps up "Got it." and walked up the stairs.


As John walked across the second floor, he noticed Angel was leaning against the doorway of his room.

Angel then asks him with his sexy voice "Ahh, you have returned, daddy."

John narrowed his eyes at him and shrugged as he simply said, "Well, I had to a little grocery for Charlie, and I mean not the light weighted kind of groceries."

"I can see that," Angel chuckled and suggested "Why don't you come into my room and use those strong arms of yours to… help me around a bit?"

John at first wanted to brush it off and move on, but instead took a deep breath from his nose and told Angel, trying to stay friendly, "Look, Angel, I know what you're trying to do here. And, with all respect, despite you seem like a nice guy and possibly good in bed," that made Angel nod slowly while moving his finger across his chest "but, I'm going to tell you this in the most controllable and polite way I can, okay? I'm NOT into that, alright? I'm not gay. I'm straight and only like women. Period."

Angel snickered while rolling his eyes "Of course, you are. You just like to do a man's job in the hotel, huh?" he then leaned a bit closer to his face "Well, gay or not, you're the kind of guy that needs a few extra… strong pair of arms."

Angel's attempts to flirt with him was now getting on John's nerves and took a step back as he said "Angel! No means no, alright? Now, if you'll excuse me. I'm going out and find someone who needs some REAL help around here. Later!" he then walked away.

Angel narrowed his eyes at him, feeling offended "Seriously?! You're declining the best offer of your afterlife from Hell's number 1 porn star?! You know what, you straight-up bag of shit?!" he flipped the bird at him "Go jack yourself in the ass!" and went back inside his room and slammed the door shut.

Despite John had heard those insults from Angel, he wasn't in the mood to waste his energy on that spider-demon porn actor and went up another pair of stairs.

"I don't know what your big deal is, Angel, but they're not gonna work on me." John told himself. He then thought about Liz "Cause… someone else already stole my heart." He blushed at the thought of her. As he'd arrived at the third floor, he thought to himself "Perhaps I could pay her a visit tonight? I'm sure she'll be glad to see me again."

John then saw Niffty crawling on the floor, like a predator that was hunting for its prey. Shen then jumped out and took out a big knife and stabbed a Hell-bug to death "Yeah! Die! Die! Die! Hahahahaha." she giggled maniacally.

Though Niffty's behavior was close to a psychopath and would be considered to be a crazy chaotic housemaid, making John a bit uncomfortable being around her, he knows that the shouldn't judge other people/sinners so easily and need to get to know them better before knowing what their real deal is.

Niffty noticed someone was looking and looked back with her cyclops eye, making her smile brightly when seeing John "Ooooohh! The new guest is here. Hihihihi." She went over to him and said with a big psychopathic grin "Wanting to do some bad stuff with me? Cause you look like you want some more. And I like that! Hahahaha."

John looked a bit nervous at her and said while some sweat fell from his forehead "Actually, I… was wandering if you maybe needed some help, or something?"

Niffty looked a bit surprised, making her big smirk fade "Oh." But then shrugged "Nah, I'm good. Did all the cleaning already and-" she then spots another bug behind "BUG!" she yelled and took out her dagger before jumping on the bug, stabbing it to death "Die! Die! Die! Hahahahaha!" she then stopped stabbing and told John while cleaning her small blade "Actually… I could use some help with finding more bugs."

"Bugs?" John asked "Is there like a… bug infestation around here?"

Niffty shrugged "Maybe. And if there is 1," she then formed a manically smirk again "I would be delighted to put them out of their misery."

John gave a nod, trying not to bother himself with Niffty's desire to slaughter as many bugs as she can, and said, knowing that Niffty likes things to have perfectly clean, "Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm sure that, you as a maid, it must be a torture to have so many bugs wandering around and make a mess of things."

Hearing that, made Niffty's smile fade away and looked a bit sad "Yes! Those meany little bugs ruin every little perfection."

John began to think as he looked down at 1 of the bugs that Niffty killed, and said as he scratched his chin "You know… this reminds me of 1 of my old jobs when I was still alive, and worked as a cleaner in old apartment building," hearing that John has some cleaning experience, caught Niffty's attention "We suddenly ran into a little cockroach-problem, which annoyed us for weeks. But I did some research then, and I found out that bugs, when they show up in big numbers, they usually make 1 or several nests throughout the building." He then asked her "Did you found any place in the hotel where those bugs might be hiding?"

Niffty shook her head "No. I looked in every single room since I got here and I hadn't found a big number of bugs," she then formed another psychotic smirk "And if I had, I would've already killed them all and entire families. Hihihihihi."

"Well, bugs usually make their nests in dark, hidden areas where no human-" he cleared his throat and corrected his words "I mean, demon could ever reach," he checked the walls and the ceiling "It might be possible that these bugs you're dealing with might have been able to make their nests in the walls or in the air shafts," he then looked down at a loose plank on the floor "or even under the floor."

Niffty gasped with horror, realizing that despite her attempts to keep the hotel clean, the inside would always be dirty and a good place for bugs to hide.

Seeing it might make Niffty's job a bit easier, John suggested to her, "Why don't you and I look around for any bug nests? I'm sure you'll be delighted to get rid of them for good?" he finished with a small smile.

The thought of not having a single bug around and also the enjoyment of making those bugs suffer and wish they never crossed with Niffty, made the little cyclops maid smile with brightness "Ohhhh, that would be great!" and jumped, being hyper excitement.

John gave a nod and suggested as he pointed up, "Right. Then the best place to start is from the top, and we then make our way down and take every floor till the basement."

"Okay!"

John and Niffty made their way up to the eight floor, which was the observation platform every corner of the floor but couldn't find any bugs there.

They worked their way down to every floor, finding only a few bugs, but no nest.

When they reached the fourth floor, they checked the many empty rooms, including John's, but didn't spot any bugs.

"Let's go in here! Didn't checked this room yet," Niffty pointed out to room 429, which was Charlie and Vaggie's room.

As Niffty took out her special key to open every door she usually uses for her chores when cleaning the rooms, John was a bit unsure if they should go in there "Uhm, Niffty? I'm not so sure if Charlie and Vaggie would appreciate it we sneak into their room without their knowledge." But Niffty already got quickly inside, not having listened to John's words. He sighed and went inside with her "Well, I suppose that if they don't know about it, I guess it's okay."

When John went inside, he looked surprised for a moment to see Charlie and Vaggie's bedroom was looking very nice, though it was a bit bigger than his own and had even a big couch close to the balcony. While Niffty was quickly searching around in every corner and under the bed for bugs, John searched around too, though he took a look at the few pictures that were either hanging on the wall and on the nightstand, showing pictures of Charlie and Vaggie being happy together.

John then saw a bug crawling on the floor and called "Niffty! I got one!" and tried to grab it but quickly crawled away.

Niffty saw it and took her dagger, attempting to stab it to death but missed every time as the bug was fast "Die! Die! Die!"

The bug quickly crawled over the floor, trying to escape John and Niffty, before it jumped into the small air ventilator on the floor, escaping their grasps.

John and Niffty tried to peek inside, but they couldn't see the bug anywhere.

"He got away!" Niffty nagged, before forming a sinister smirk while checking her knife "But he won't out for long."

John kept checking the ventilator, taking it off and checked inside the airshaft using the flashlight on his cellphone, seeing nothing but dust and some spiderwebs "Well, wherever that bug went, this proves my theory that those bugs must have a nest somewhere in the air shafts." He tried to crawl inside, but the air shaft was too small for him to fit in "Dammit! I'm too big. I can't fit in." he said as he pulled himself out of it.

Niffty excitingly hopped while raising his hand up "Oh, oh! Me me me me! I'll do it!" and quickly crawled into the airshaft, going into 1 direction while raising her knife "Okay, bugs. Get ready for some slaughter! Hahahahaha!"

John peeked inside, seeing Niffty quickly disappearing, hearing her voice echoing through the air shaft as she stabbed some bugs she found to death "Die! Die! Die!"

John called out to her "Niffty?!"

"Down here!" Niffty called back and yelled in excitement "Found a nest! Hihihihi!" she then manically laughed while stabbing around more and more, killing lots of bugs "Die! Haaahahahahaha!"

Hearing the stabbing and squealing noises of dying bugs, made John a bit uncomfortable, but was at least glad to help Niffty around.

After only a minute, the stabbing and killing stopped and Niffty quickly crawled back to John, saying with a satisfied and cheering voice as she crawled out "There all gone! No more bugs in here anymore."

Seeing her satisfied and happy, John said with a smile, "At least we know where to find more bugs, huh?"

Niffty heavily nodded "Now that I know where to find them," she then gave another psychotic smirk "they will be all gone soon." She then jumped excitingly and asked John, "Wanna find some more?"

John chuckled as he shrugged, "Sure, Niffty,"

"HEY!" a sudden voice called in the room, making John look nervous while Niffty was still in a happy mood as they both looked, seeing an anger Vaggie but a confused Charlie entering "What the fuck are you 2 doing in our room?!" she demanded.

Niffty answered with an exiting and sinister smile "Me and John went to look for bug nests, and we found 1 here in the air shaft. And now that I know how to find them, I got the taste for it!" she then ran out, bypassing Charlie and Vaggie as she ran into another way, ready to hunt for some more bugs now that she knows where to find them in greater numbers.

Vaggie and Charlie returned their glance at John, who explained while he scratched the back of his head, "Yeah, I wanted to… help Niffty found out if there were any bugs laying their nests in the hotel."

"So, you then decided to sneak into our room?" Vaggie asked as she glared at John.

John apologized "I know, I know, I should've asked permission first." he first wanted to tell that Niffty was the first to enter but knew that was no excuse so he remained quiet.

Vaggie crossed her arms "Yeah, you should have."

Charlie held her hand on Vaggie's shoulder "Ah, c'mon, Vaggie. I'm sure it wasn't John's intension to invade our privacy. He just wanted to help around," she then looked at John, saying, "Just be sure to ask permission first, okay?"

John nodded "I promise. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding."

"That's okay, John." Charlie ensured while giving him a sweet smile.

Usually, if John ever did anything wrong during his work, if it was from 1 of his former bosses in Hell or from Earth when he was still alive, he would've had either had been yelled at, insulted, receiving a serious warning or being fired on the spot. But Charlie… she was so kind, understanding and forgivable, no 1 like any other person he'd met before.

Niffty then called out as she ran back to him "C'mon, John! We need to go and look for more bugs!"

Charlie told John "Hey, you don't have to overwork yourself or anything. If need a break or something, it's okay."

But John shook his head, insisting that it's no big deal, "Oh, don't worry, Charlie. I'm okay. And, if I do feel tired, I promise I'll take things easy." He then went with Niffty, going down to the third floor and look for more bugs.

Charlie sighed, being so happy to have John around "Oh, Vaggie. He's so much of a great help around here."

Vaggie gave a shrug "Yeah, he sure is."


Spending that time with Niffty, looking for bugs and bugs nest through the Hazbin Hotel, have been surprisingly… nice.

Though it would take time for me to get used to Niffty's craziness and psychopathic happiness, we did make a good time that time. Even when we had our lunchbreak, Niffty showed that she's actually a nice girl and is always easily entertained… and also a bit easily distracted, as I noticed that when I talked to her, she wanted to clean some dirt she found or kill another bug.


When it was 2 PM, John and Niffty call it a day, with the little cyclops maid being thankful for John's help.

As they came back from the basement and entered the lobby, Niffty said, "Thank you so much for helping me finding those bugs."

"No problem, Niffty," John said as he gave her a wink.

Niffty nodded, but then looked around while narrowing her eyes, "But those bugs will be coming back. I know they will," she was eager to kill more of these Hell-insects that dared to mess around in the hotel.

John ensured her as he suggested "Well, if you need my help again looking for bugs, you can give me call." He held up his cellphone.

"Okay! And if you see any bugs," she then jumped on him and grabbed his collar, staring into his eyes with a very serious cyclops eye while she smirked psychopathically "you tell me immediately!"

John, though a bit surprised by Niffty's thirst for bug-blood, gave a shrug "Sure, I'll do that."

Niffty then released John and happily hopped away, before going to do some dusting around the lobby with her hyper enthusiasm.

John decided to go to the kitchen, seeing if he could find anything a little afternoon snack, finding some cold sandwiches with cheese and meat in 1 of the fridges. As he took a bite from it, it tasted far better than the ones he'd eaten before over the years he's been in Hell.

When John inspected the fridge, he thought to himself 'Hmmm. If I'm gonna make a lasagna tonight for the others, I might just check around for some fresh ingredients,' he then looked at the clock 'And knowing from my experience when working in that Italian restaurant, I better start now.'

When remembering that he picked up large supplies together with Razzle and Dazzle this morning, John figured that he may find some ingredients in the storage room. Once he'd finished his sandwiches, he left the kitchen and went to the storage room, quickly finding where they put all the food placed in several crates of boxes. As John inspected the flour, dried basil leaves, different kinds of cheeses and canned tomato sauce, he was surprised to see how fresh they were "Wow… To think to ever find fresh food like this in Hell. It's like… a miracle." He almost got teary as he hadn't had his hands on fresh food like this in ages.

After taking all the ingredients he needed, including the flour as he wanted to make the Lasagna sheets himself, he placed them in a crate and walked with it back to the kitchen, setting everything ready and put on an apron.


Making the lasagna brought me back those nice memories when working in the Italian Restaurant, having worked together with such nice people and learned to make all kinds of Italian dishes.

That time, made me just forget that I was in the worst afterlife imaginable, imagining I was back at work in the kitchen of the restaurant.


As the clock struck 6 PM, most of the hotel's residents went to the dining room. Charlie and Vaggie were the first to enter and looked surprised at how nicely the table was set, with a red/white tablecloth covering it, a few burning candles and an old record player, that sat in the corner playing nice music.

"Whoa…" Vaggie said, "Did John put all this together?"

Charlie smiled bright "It looks… wonderful!"

Both sat at their seats before Niffty entered, sitting a few seats away from Charlie and Vaggie. She too was impressed how nice the dining room looked, and how clean it looked.

Husk and Angel then entered, with Husk just sitting down with his grumpy unimpressed face. But Angel stopped, looking at the table for a moment, seemingly impressed, but then narrowed his eyes as he shrugged "Nah. I've seen better." And sat down, trying to shove close to Husk who gave him a very annoying look.

Not long after, John came from the kitchen, holding a bowl with his fresh made lasagna and placed it on the table.

Charlie said with a bright smile, "Wow! That looks delicious."

"Just wait until you've tasted it, Charlie," John said.

After John had cut the lasagna, everyone took a piece of it, with everyone taking a bite.

"Oh my gosh…!" Vaggie said when swallowing the piece of lasagna "This is amazing!"

Charlie nodded, loving the lasagna "This is… one of the best dishes I ever had!"

Niffty was just quiet, enjoying her lasagna.

Husk just shrugged, while seemingly suppressing a smile "It's not bad."

John then asked Angel, "So, how do you like it?"

Angle took another bite and gave a shrug "Truth is… it's really good. You sure know how to make a good lasagna."

John shrugged "Thanks." He then went into the kitchen "Oh. I almost forgot." He then came back, holding a bottle of wine "Every Italian dish is perfect with a glass of good wine."

Niffty held up her glass "Ohhhh! Gimme, gimme, gimme!"

John chuckled as he opened the bottle "Okay, okay. Easy Niffty. Just… don't drink it too fast, okay?" as he poured in her glass with the red wine, Niffty took a big gulp before she manically giggled.

As John wanted to offer Charlie and Veggie some, they politely declined the offer.

"No, thank you, John. I don't drink alcohol." Charlie said kindly.

"Me neither. But thanks anyway." Vaggie added.

After John poured in wine for Angel, he walked over to Husk, who simply raised his glass as John poured in for him. Only for Husk to quickly drink it all in a few seconds.

John sighed as he puts the bottle down on the table and served himself some of his made lasagna.

Then, the Radio-Demon, Alastor walked into the dinning room, saying with his radio voice "Good evening, everyone," he sniffed the air and said as he sat at his chair "My, my. What is that delicious smell I sense in the air," he looked at the table, spotting the big bowl with lasagna "A seemingly delicious Italian dish, I see. I didn't know that you could even cook this kind of food, Niffty." He turned to the little demon-maid.

Niffty however shook her head "I didn't cook this time, but the new guy did." She pointed to John before she took another sip from her wine before eating more lasagna, loving it.

Charlie nodded while taking another bite and told him with her mouth full, "Yes. John made it for us."

That caught Alastor's attention and turned to John with his big wide smirk "Really? You cooked dinner for us? How kind of you, Mr. Randell." He then shrugged as he took a piece of the lasagna "Well, since everyone seems to like it, I suppose it's worth the taste."

As John was about to pick the wine bottle and see if Alastor wanted a glass of wine too, Alastor raised his hand "No thank you. I don't drink on the job."

"Don't drink on the job?" John asked with a raised eyebrow as he sat back at his seat.

"Well, yes. I am the host of the hotel, after all and I also need to have a clear head whenever broadcasting my radio shows."

John shrugged "If you say so," but then told Charlie with a sense of happiness "I just still can't believe that you guys are able to get the ingredients all this food down here."

"What do you mean?" Charlie asked.

"Well, I mean," he raised up his arms "We're in Hell, right? I mean, I never realized it was even possible to get this kind of food down here," he then sighed "as there is nowhere in Pentagram City to find good food, other than the usual garbage I was forced to eat and get used to."

Vaggie answered for Charlie "Well, believe it or not, some demons are able to smuggle food from Earth and sell it here in Hell for big sums of money."

This surprised John "Wait. You tell me there are demons here in Hell that are able to go to Earth?"

Charlie nodded "There are, but they're not so kind to share their smuggled goods with the other people in Hell and only sell it to those who can afford them."

John then guessed "And, I suppose, with you being the Princess, you and your parents were able to afford to pay for this kind of food from Earth?"

"Mm-hm." Charlie nodded again. She then sadly sighed after swallowing her bite "Wish my parents could be here. I'm sure they would've loved your food, John." She said to John with a smile.

John felt modest "Thanks, Charlie."

Angel then wandered and asked him, "Well, if you were so good at cooking at that Italian restaurant as you said, then why did you only stay there for 6 months?"

John was a bit uncomfortable to tell.

Angel smirked and asked, "No, wait. Let me guess: They fired you?"

"No. I wasn't fired." John said.

"Then… you left?"

"No, I didn't quit either." John narrowed his eyes.

"Place got shut down?"

"No!"

"Then what? Spill it out already!" Angel asked, ready to mock him with whatever answer John was going to give.

"I died. That's what happened!" John answered with some anger.

That answer made everyone silent, except Husk who continued eating, while Alastor was eager to learn more how John died.

Charlie tried to ease the situation by changing the subject "Then… tell us about the other jobs you've been doing before becoming a cook!"

John raised an eyebrow, but shrugged and told, "Well, I kinda did like dozens of different jobs when I was still alive: cleaning, delivering the mail, working in warehouses, small administrative jobs. I even worked as door-to-door salesmen for some time," that last part made him frown "worst job I ever took."

"So, you've technically worked almost everywhere?" Vaggie asked.

John nodded "Same as here in Hell, though the jobs are way harder than back on Earth."

Alastor chuckled "Well of course they are. This is Hell for a reason."

John glared at Alastor, as he loves nothing but enjoy the view of someone suffering. But didn't went along with it and just continued eating his meal.

When everyone had finished their pieces of lasagna, with Charlie, Vaggie and even Angel taking another piece, Niffty began cleaning the table fast and started with the dishes.

John went to help Niffty as he didn't want to give her a too big of a job as he'd made a bit of a mess in the kitchen, something that the little demon-maid dearly appreciated.

After John was done helping cleaning the kitchen with Niffty, he met with Charlie and Vaggie in the lobby.

"I have to give it you, John," Vaggie started "You did great on your first day here."

Charlie nodded and gave John his first salary, which he took.

"Wow," he said as he counted the money, which was 500 Hell-Dollars "Already?"

Charlie shrugged while she smiled "Well, that's what I said, that we'll pay you well for every job you do around in the hotel."

"Thanks, Charlie," John said as he puts the money in his wallet.

"No, John. Thank you for being such a great help around here. Take your rest. You've earned it." Charlie said.

John nodded "I will," but then stated as he went to the front door "in fact, I'm going out for tonight."

"Really? What for?" Charlie asked.

John ensured her "Oh, don't worry. I'm just going to visit a friend of mine downtown. It'll probably be late."

Charlie and Vaggie exchanged a glance, with Charlie telling John "Well, alright, John. Just stay safe, okay?"

"I will," John ensured as he walked out the door "See you guys later!"


Heading into Pentagram City with all the inner fighting and chaos still going on after the latest Extermination, would be seen as suicide back on Earth. But, having taught myself how to survive and avoid major conflicts, I was perfectly able to stay away from all the gunfights and slaughter and made it to 'Red Light Territory'.

At least this part of the Pentagram was less chaotic, as the Overlord Valentino and the other Vees; Velvette and Vox have their own little army of henchmen to make sure no nutcase would dare to try to steal territory from them.

I tried my best to ignore these Vees henchmen, being very muscled and heavily armed, looking like bulldog, wolf, shark or wasp-demons.

After bypassing many sex shops, nightclubs or brothels, even ignoring several hookers offering their service to customers on the street, I made it to my final destination. The strip club where Liz was working. The Desire Den.


The place was a big black building, with the edges being lighted by pink neon lights and a large shining billboard on top of the entrance with the picture of a naughty stripper, with the words saying: Desire Den.

At the front door stood 2 serious looking bouncers, both being bull-demons. As there wasn't a big line upfront, it took only a few minutes before it was John's turn. The 2 bouncers scanned John, with 1 of them searching if he had any weapons on him.

John knew all too well that he couldn't bring a gun on him into the club.

After he was done, the first bouncer nodded to his partner "He's clean."

The second bouncer gave John a nod "You can go in. But don't cause any trouble, got it?"

John gave a simple nod, knowing the rules all too well as he'd been here before.

Walking inside, he saw many sexy kinds of demons pool dancing, showing and dancing their bodies in front of many male demons as they either wolf whistled at them or spread a bunch of Hell-Dollars to them, while on the big stage the best strippers were performing.

John admitted that they all looked very sexy but felt more or like pity on them as they, just like on earth, many women did this kind of work out of desperation for money or get too much into it that they can't or won't do anything else with their lives.

At the bar, John asked for a beer, which was given by the bartender and paid him a few Hell-Dollars.

John just sat at the bar, watching the girls dancing and showing, hoping that maybe Liz would show up.

As the strippers on the big stage had finished and all the men wolf whistled and cheered, the DJ then said into his mike, announcing the next performer as he played a different sexy song "Ladies, gentleman, sinners and demons! Bring it up for the best of the best… LIZ!"

Through the curtains, Liz walked on the stage, wearing a sexy black leather bra and string. All the men in the crowd cheered and whistled as Liz started her performance.

Seeing Liz performing like that made John's heart skip a beat, making him form a small smile 'Man… she's amazing…'

Liz performed many erotic and very agile using the pole while stroking her breasts and moved her tongue over her lips, making some of the men go wild, wanting to have a piece of that.

John tried to get closer to the stage, though the seats were already taken. But as a demon was about to go quickly to the bathroom as he was about to puke cause of drinking too much alcohol, John took his chance and was able to stand at the first row.

John cheered for her "Yeah! You get it, girl!"

Liz gave as small gasp as she moved herself around the pole, spotting John in front of her.

It was like time slowed down as their eyes met… making Liz form a sweet smile, being both happy and relieved to see him.

'John…' was all her mind could say.

Liz got a sexy idea for a greeting and quickly resumed her show before finishing after a minute, making the men cheer for her as many threw Dollar-bills to her, which Liz quickly gathered and left the stage.

The DJ then called out to the crowd using the mike "How do you like them peaches, huh?!" the men cheered and raised their glasses, except for John "Now, give it up for… Classi!" another succibi-demon walked on stage, wearing a dark blue skirt and bra and started to perform as John left his spot, standing close to the dressing room of the strippers, where they would come out in search for anyone wants a private dance.

John waited patiently for 10 minutes till he saw Liz walking out, wearing a grey see-through dress where you could see her black bra and string.

Liz saw him and walked up to him "Hey, John. It's great to see you."

John smiled "Hey, Liz."

Liz then said to him seductively "Follow me, John…" taking his hand and lead him into a private dark room before closing the door.

In an instant, Liz hugged him, which John returned. She sighed with relief and happiness "I'm so happy that you came, John. If I had to perform another dance for those filthy beasts or dance on their laps, I was gonna get sick."

John ensured her "Well, now that I'm here, you don't have to bother yourself to work to pleasure 'them'."

Liz chuckled "Right. That's exactly what is was thinking."

He sighed as he held her hand "I really wanted to see you, Liz."

Liz smiled at him "Me too, John…" and planted a kiss on his cheek. She then gently pushed him back so he sat down in a sofa and said seductively in his ear "I can't thank you enough for… saving my afterlife. So, as a reward… I'm giving you an amazing lap dance… on the house."

John blinked his eyes in surprise for a moment but then formed a small grin "Well… that's certainly a great reward for your savior."

Liz giggled and gave him another kiss on the cheek "You bet your ass it is, cutie." And clapped her hands twice, dimming the lights in the room.

As Liz puts on a small speaker that was on the table in the room, it began playing some slow sexy music. Liz stood in front of John, ready to give him an amazing lap dance.

Moving on the slow rhythm of the song, Liz softly stroked her body, slowly dropping her see-through dress. She then turned and slowly bend over, sticking her ass in John's face while stroking with her right hand on her butt cheeks while stroking her pussy with her left hand.

John gave a soft moan, loving the sight of that 'Ohh… man…'

At first, John wanted to talk with Liz how things have been going for him since the last Extermination. But as he loved the way how Liz performed her special private dance for him, he figured he could wait until she was finished.

Liz giggled while stroking her ass with both her hands "You really love my ass, huh, John…?" she lustfully asked while her devil tail strokes across John's face "I saw the way you were looking at my butt when I left."

John couldn't deny it and said, "Yeah… yours is…" he sighed "Fuck, I can't even describe how good it looks."

Biting her bottom lip, Liz said very seductively as she turned herself and faced John "Well… Then what about this, baby…?" She unhooked her bra, holding it against her breast while she slowly swings her hips, before she slowly dropped her bra, revealing her Double-D tits to John, making his eyes go wide.

Liz strokes her breasts while twisting her nipples and her devil tail strokes softly around her body "Do you like my tits, John…?"

This was the first time that Liz revealed her naked chest to him. John thought they looked even way better than he could've imagined.

"Wow… Liz… They're so…" John tried to say, but was enchanted by the look of Liz looking so sexy and gorgeous.

Liz giggled as she sat on his lap, riding while stroking his face "He looks so cute when he's speechless…" a soft moan escaped her mouth, feeling turned on to give the guy she likes an amazing lap dance.

"Hmmm… you like that, baby? You love it? Ahhh…" Liz asked with a bit of horny face.

"Yes…! I fucking love it, Liz…!" John moaned as she stroked him between the legs with her genital area so good.

Liz then stood up, turning herself and pressed her ass close to his face as she bends over.

John, feeling weak to hold himself for a moment, gave a gentle slap on her right but cheek, making her gasp and looked back at him surprised, but then lustfully smirked as she bites her lip, loving the feeling of him slapping her ass "Hmmmm. I like that…"

John formed a grin and slapped her other but cheek.

Liz moaned "Hmmmm…!"

She then pressed her ass against his crouch, moving her hips between his legs, riding his lap in the reverse cowgirl position.

"Ohhh… Liz…!" John loved it as he felt his dick got hardened by her amazing lap dance.

Liz could feel his hardening penis in his pants, making her lustfully grin 'Hmmm… he's so… big…'

John's heart was like he just wants to grab Liz and make passionate love to her, wanting to show her how much he likes her, but he tried very hard to keep himself restrained as he didn't want to cause her any trouble.

Liz gave a short glance at John, seeing on the look on his face that he was trying hard to hold himself. Though she was a bit disappointed that he didn't took the next step, she did formed a small smile and mentally told herself while keeping performing her special lap dance to John, 'Hihihihi. He's such a gentleman. It's a pity that he doesn't want to do it with me now,' she formed a bit of sad disappointed face, but then smiled again as she turned, facing John while riding his lap and holding her arms around his neck 'But… that's 1 of the things what I like about him the must. And he's also very cute…' she finished while giving him a sweet and lustful smile as their eyes met.

After a few more minutes, with Liz performing a few more lap dance tricks for John, the music slowly died out, ending the private dance.

Seeing she was finished, John sighs while he formed a little smirk "Man, Liz… that was awesome…"

Liz giggled as she clapped her hands twice, turning the lights back to normal and picked up her bra "Glad to have amused you, my dear savior."

John chuckled while stroking his hair for moment.

After Liz had put her bra and see-through dress back on, she walked over to a small fridge in the corner, taking out some drinks "You want a drink, John?"

He shrugged "Sure, Liz."

"I know you don't usual drink strong ones, but I'm sure you'll like this," Liz said as she puts 2 glasses on the table and poured in the alcoholic drink from the bottom.

When handing him over a glass as she sat next to him, John took a sip. Though it tasted a bit strong, he liked the taste "Hmmm… it tastes nice. What is it?"

"It's Tequila," Liz said before taking a sip from her drink, and asked him "So, how are you doing, John?"

He shrugged as he stated while narrowing his eyes "I, uhm… got kicked out of the motel after coming back after the Extermination."

This surprised Liz "What? Why? Was it because you didn't had enough money for the rent?"

John shook his head "Nope. The previous owner, Boxer, was killed during the Extermination. Now this big muscled asshole is owning the place, and gave my room to some dealer who turned it into a meth lab!"

Liz felt bad for John, knowing how it's like to have your home being taken away from you and there is no law enforcement in Hell that will help you, leaving you for dead for all they care.

But John then ensured her with a smile "But, I got a new job yesterday."

"Really? Wow, that's fast, John. Where are you working at now?" Liz asked, interested where John was able to get a new job so quickly after being fired and kicked out of his motel room.

"Well, I'm now working and living at… the Hazbin Hotel." John revealed.

Liz was surprised by this, as she, like many other sinners in Hell thought that Charlie Morningstar's idea to redeem others so they can get into Heaven "Really? But, John… Everyone is completely against the princess' little redemption plan for sinners. And honestly, I don't see the point of it too as nobody has ever been able to leave Hell and go to Heaven, let alone being able to redeem themselves. Why are you embracing the idea that she can do what has never been done before?" she asked.

John thought about it before he sighed and puts his glass down "Liz… there's something I haven't told you before."

"What is it?" Liz asked, showing some compassion as it must be something that was hard for him tell her.

"I… have a daughter," John revealed.

Liz was very surprised "A daughter?"

"Yeah. A little girl," John explained, trying to tell what happened despite it was a painful memory "She and I both died the same day, but… while she went to Heaven, I… was cast out, and I don't know the reason why."

Liz was shocked to hear this, not having expected that John had a daughter when he was still alive and died together with him, only losing her in the end while she rose to the heavens while he fell into Hell.

"After I got here, I had to adjust to these new living conditions because, like everyone else in Hell, I had no other choice," John gave a sad sigh "I always kept thinking about my daughter, wanting to see her again… but I lost all hope that I would because I can't leave this place… But when I heard about Charlie's idea to redeem sinners to get into Heaven, even though it might seem impossible… If there is even the tiniest bit of hope of reuniting with my daughter in a much better place, I would take it, so that at least I can be… reunited with the one that made my life worth back on earth… and meant to me more than anything in the whole universe." He said as tears formed in his eyes.

Liz's eyes got teary after hearing this, never knowing that John had to enduring so much suffering because of the thought of never being able to hold his daughter in his arms again. She gave him a hug, comforting him "Oh, John, I'm… so very sorry for you. I really am." She said with sadness as a tear fell from her eye.

John gave a soft sob as he embraced her.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, making the both of them gasp.

However, from the door, there was a whisper "Liz, are you in there? It's me, Ursula."

John glanced at Liz, seeing her worried face vanished with relief. Liz rose up from the sofa and walked to the door, unlocking it and peeked out, seeing it was indeed her friend, Ursula, who was a blue coloring Spider-Demon with 4 arms like Angel Dust and worked at the strip club as a waitress, wearing a bit of a revealing dress that only partly covered her breasts and pussy.

"What is it, Ursula?" Liz asked.

Worriedly, Ursula told her "Valentino is arriving at the club. If he notices that you're not performing, there's no question in what he'll do to you… and your boyfriend."

John looked surprised for a second, seeing that this Ursula knew about Liz's secret meetings with him.

Liz sighed and nodded to her, "Right. I'll be right there. Just… stall Valentino long enough till I come back."

"Okay." Ursula said before leaving.

"Oh, and Ursula?" Liz asked, making her stop and turn back to her "John isn't my boyfriend."

Ursula gave a small giggle and teased her friend as she whispered "But you want him to be, right?" and then left, going back to serve other people's drinks and try to distract The Moth-Demon Pimp long enough for Liz to get on stage.

Liz closed the door and told John with a bit of sadness "I'm sorry, John. I have to get back."

John nodded as he rose up and ensured her "I understand. I'll… just do something else in the meantime. What time will you be finishing?" he asked, hoping he could spend some more time with her after her work.

Liz formed a small smile. He held his hand as took him out of the room and whispered in his ear "Meet me at the back of the club at 1, okay?"

John nodded at her and whispered back "Okay, I will."

Liz planted a soft kiss on his cheek "See you later, John." And then left, going back into the main stripper dressing room to quickly prepare herself for her next show.

John, pretending to look with a satisfied, walked passed the other guests to head for the exit.


At the VIP section, he saw the moth-demon Overlord, Valentino, with Ursula distracting him about an important issue that's troubling her and the staff. Just by looking at him, John felt his hatred rising for this heartless pimp overlord as he knows how badly he's treating those he owns, including Liz. But, not wanting to make a scene or endangering Liz, John left the club.

Annoyed, Valentino told Ursula "Yeah, yeah, whatever, hon. I'll look into it tomorrow, but now I want-" but as he pushed Ursula aside, he saw that the stage was empty and that Liz wasn't performing as she was supposed to at this time.

Some of the guests began to be impatient and began to boo to the DJ.

"Boooo!"

"Where's the hottie, dickhead?!"

"We wanna see some boobies!"

Valentino glared at the DJ who gave his boss a shrug, not knowing why Liz wasn't on stage yet.

"The nerve that whore has!" Valentino angrily called and pushed several people aside, marching towards the dressing room, ready to teach Liz a lesson if she wasn't on stage on purpose.

Ursula gasped in horror seeing Valentino angrily walk towards the stripper dressing room "Oh no…!" but, knowing she couldn't do anything, she went to serve more drinks while regretting herself for not distracting Valentino longer "I'm sorry, Liz…"

Inside the big stripper dressing room, where over a dozen strippers were either preparing themselves for their turn to go on stage, taking a small break or preparing to go and offer people private dances, Liz was sitting at one of the makeup tables doing her makeup.

1 of the strippers, who was a sloth-demon, asked Liz curiously while she took off her see-through bra because she was sweating for just finishing pole dancing, "Where the hell were you, Liz?"

Liz gave her a shrug while putting on some lipstick "What do you mean, Heather? I was performing a private dance to a costumer, as usual."

"Well, I hope he paid you well for coming back late," Heather said while drying the sweat of her neck, chest and breasts. But then, she give a small gasp in shock and all the room was quiet as someone entered the dressing room.

Liz frowned as she already knew who it could be as she could recognize her boss' special cigarettes from a mile away. She turned and saw to her confirmation that it was Valentino, smoking a cigarette and walked over to her while the other strippers moved out of the way or kept their distance from the one who owns their souls.

"Hey Liz." He greeted her with a gentle smile, before demanding as he frowned "I'd like to know why you didn't show up for your next show. Mind explaining?"

Liz told her employee and owner of her soul while she simply shrugged. "Sorry, Val. I was performing a private dance for a costumer and he paid me well for doing it longer."

At first, Valentino seemed to buy her little lie "Really now? Well, aren't you the lucky one, my precious," but then asked her "How much did you make?"

Liz nervously answered, "500 bucks?"

"500 bucks, you say?" Valentino raised an eyebrow at her, but not taking her word for it, he demanded "Show me."

Liz almost sweat because she was scared that Valentino would find out her secret bond with John. But she nodded and opened 1 of the drawers of her makeup table, taking some money out of it, which she secretly got from a different job without Valentino's knowing and showed it to him "Here it is."

Valentino snatched the money out of her hand and counted it. As he finished counting, seeing it was indeed 500 Hell-Dollars, he looked satisfied "My, my. Your costumer has been very generous it seems," he chuckled as he took half of the money, as it was his rule that all his strippers would hand over half of their earned money over to him.

He gave the remained 250 dollars back to Liz, "Nice job, Lizzie. I'm proud of you."

Liz took the money and puts it back in her drawer before closing it and locking it "Thanks, Val-" but her words were cut short as Valentino holds her neck with chains created from the pink cigarette smoke, shocking her and the other strippers gasped.

Valentino raised Liz up in the air, reminding her with a very serious tone "BUT… next time you better charge your next costumer more whenever you're late to perform another show on stage!" he made the chains squeeze tighter, almost chocking her, making the other strippers scared for Liz's safety "Understand?" he said with a gentle toxin voice.

Liz, scared of Valentino, nodded and ensured him. "Yes, Val, it… won't… happen again. I promise…"

Valentino formed a sinister smirk and said in her ear "Good girl," and licked her cheek, disgusting her. he then freed her from the chains and angrily told her "NOW… YOU GET YOUR FUCKING ASS ON THAT STAGE WITHIN A MINUTE AS THERE ARE COSTUMERS WAITING! AND LOSING TIME MEANS I WILL LOSE MONEY!" before he left and yelled to the others "Now… GET BACK TO WORK, BITCHES!"

Liz caught her breath before secretly flipping him off without even the strippers noticing "Fuck you, asshole."

Heather went back to Liz, and softly rubbed her back "You okay, Liz?"

"I'm fine." Liz ensured, being used to Valentino's outbursts. Seeing in the mirror that her nervousness messed up her makeup again. Not being in the mood to be in the big dressing room, Liz took her new lingerie for her show and went into a private dressing room and stripped quickly out of her previous outfit and puts on the new one while quickly readjusted her makeup.

But as time felt like slowing down, Liz thought back of having suffered throughout all of Valentino's abuse ever since she signed that contract with him, giving him ownership of her soul just so she would have a better chance to survive in Hell and make money for him.

"I hate him…!" she angrily said to herself, hating her employee to the core "I hate him… I hate him… I fucking fucking fucking hate him!"

She was on the brink of tears, but quickly pulled herself together, not in the mood to waste her tears on that monster.

As Liz walked out of the room wearing her new dress and went behind the stage, readying herself for her performance, she thought back when she arrived in Hell… meeting Valentino… and foolishly sold her soul to him…


Flashback

26 years ago

Liz, wearing a long, old and dirty trench coat, while wearing underneath barely anything, was standing on the streets, waiting for a costumer. Her hair was a mess and had bags under her eyes of being barely able to sleep. She was also very skinny as she'd barely been able to eat and had no money to buy some.

Having become desperate for money, she decided this very day to… stand on the street… soliciting as a prostitute. It made her sick to have reached this level of desperation.

A car pulled over, with the driver, being a shark-demon, rolled down the window and whistled to Liz "Hey, baby! Come over here." He gestured her to come over to him while he smirked.

Liz sadly sighed and walked up to her 'costumer', leaning to the open window "Yeah? You… want a… good time?"

The guy chuckled "You bet I do, slut," he then grabbed her coat, dropping it to see her boobs "Nice tits you got there, skinny. I would love a taste of that-"

But then Liz punched him hard in the face, making his nose bleed!

"OW! You…" the shark-demon angrily glared at her while he held his bleeding nose "You FUCKING WHORE!"

Liz, so angry and disgusted, grabbed him by the collar and dragged him all out of the car before she punched and kicked his ass! "FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! FUCK YOU! FUCK! FUCK! FUUUUCK!" she then kicked his face so hard; she knocked out almost all his teeth out! She then left, leaving the demon nearly-unconscious on the ground while he moaned in pain.

Liz cried while she ran away fast from the street, heading into an abandoned alleyway. However, unknown to her, she was watched by someone in his limousine, rolled the window down, revealing to be Valentino who was looking for some new souls to add to his staff, making him smirk as he saw something in Liz.

In the alleyway, Liz cried her tears out while sitting in corner "Fuck…! Fucking hell…!" she looked up at the sky, to the shining dot that was Heaven, asking herself while tears fell from her eyes "Why? Why me?! Why here?! Why…?" she felt deep down that she didn't deserved to be cast to this eternal torture in Hell despite the few mistakes she made in her life.

"Aw, you poor thing," a sympathetic voice told her, making Liz gasp as she looked behind her, seeing the Moth-Demon "Having reached to this stage that you don't know what to do."

Wiping away her tears, Liz rose up and glared at him "Fuck off, asshole! I'm not for sale!"

Valentino chuckled, ensuring her "Oh, trust me, darling. I'm not for that kind of kink. No. I just saw you in the street, refusing to give that man the kind of comfort he asks for," he then offered her "but you see, even here in Hell, there are far more better alternative ways to make quick cash, without having to sell your body on the streets."

Liz winked her eyes in surprise "Wha… what do you mean?"

Valentino took a drag from his cigarette, blowing out pink smoke that morphed around Liz, creating a small stage for strippers "I'm talking about the way you're still in control. You can touch the costumers, but they can't grab you while they just blindly spend their money on watching you."

Liz began to understand what this Moth-Demon offered her "You… you mean I would… perform as a stripper?"

"Aw, don't see it like that, dear," Valentino told her as he chuckled, trying to convince her that she doesn't have to see it like that "See it more like being a… exotic dancer. You have all the freedom on stage. No man getting on top of you, but you being in total control and they pay you big cash. No BJ's or any intercourse stuff. Just pure dancing." Valentino then smirked at her, knowing the look in her eyes "And I can see that you're not unfamiliar with this kind of work."

Liz sighed sadly while closing her eyes, and shook her head "No. When I… was still alive… I used to… perform on stage too."

That got Valentino's attention "Ahhh. So you're already an experienced one, huh?" he then offered her while putting his lower left arm around him "Why don't you come over to my club around the corner, then you'll see for yourself how much money you could earn on stage."

At first, Liz was hesitant as he never met this man before. But being desperate for money, and having lost all hope of ever leaving Hell… she gave a small nod "Well… okay."

"Excellent." Valentino said as he led her to the Desire Den Strip Club "What is your name, my dear?"

"I'm… Liz… Liz Simmons."

"Hmmm…" Valentino liked the sound of her name "Liz. Such a nice name. My name is Valentino." He introduced himself.

As he lead her inside the club, sitting with her at the VIP section, offering some of his best drinks as they watched together how all the strippers were performing while the men cheered and whistled while throwing lots of dollar bills on stage. Liz looked with fascination, as she hadn't seen this kind of attention when she was still alive and worked in a smaller strip club back in New York.

Valentino smirked as he saw how enchanted Liz was seeing the other strippers' performances and the addiction of the fame.

"It's… amazing…" Liz said, but then frowned at the owl-demon stripper that performed "Pff! I can dance way better than here!"

"Ohhh, really?" Valentino asked with a smirk "I think I could help you with that."

Liz glanced surprised at Valentino.

He then offered her "You come and work for me as a dancer her in the Desire Den. And if you perform well, you'll earn not only good money, but also have a nice place to stay with the other girls in my district of the Pentagram."

Liz, though tempted by this, doubted about this offer as she was a bit scared that if she won't perform well that she won't be able to afford staying at whatever place Valentino offered her "But… if I don't make enough money, how am I supposed to-"

Valentino cut her words and ensured her as he pulled her close to him "I don't ask much, Lizzie. Just a little tiny thing of you to ensure thing will go smooth for you in this afterlife."

"Then… what is it?"

Valentino chuckled "What I want from you is…" he took a drag of his cigarette and blew out the smoke in her face as he said with a smirk, "… your soul."

Liz blinked in surprised "You want… my soul?"

"On lease-lend, of course," Valentino ensured "You still can do whatever you want, you can still speak, think, hear, eat, breath and whatsoever, not like turning into a mindless controlling zombie or something like that. I will just have ownership over your soul, on paper," he used the pink smoke to show her a long contract "You work for me here in the strip club, make money for me on the costumers and you can keep 50% of your earnings. Which is the best thing you can get in this underworld," but he then shrugged "But, I understand it's too much for you. I'm sure you're more of a gal that wants to earn her money the hard way," he then smirked at her while leaning close to her face "by soliciting on the streets and let lowlifes take you up the ass for a very low payment."

Liz, not wanting to go back to that again, asked Valentino, "And… I'll have a place to stay?"

Valentino shrugged "If you want to of course. You can still decide wherever you want to sleep, where or what to eat, etc." he then held out her hand, offering a handshake deal to her while it gave a pink glow and Valentino's eyes glowed as well "So? Do we have a deal, Miss Simmons?"

Liz, already seeing that there was no way out for her out of this misery and being offered the best things to survive, made her frown determined and said "Valentino… my soul… is yours. Deal!" she grabbed his hand, sealing the deal and thus give him ownership over her soul.

Pink energy surrounded Liz as she gasps and her eyes and mouth glowed. On the contract, Liz's name was written on it automatically.

As the energy glow died out, Liz gasped as she released Valentino's hand, feeling dizzy while Valentino formed a big smirk as he inhaled the newly energy from her soul while the contract materialized back into pink cigarette smoke.

Valentino ensured Liz "Don't worry. The effects will wear off shortly." He then guided her to the strippers dressing room "Come. Let me introduce you to your new coworkers."

Liz sighed and went with him inside the dressing room "Yes… Valentino…"


Back to the present

Remembering how things went okay in the first few years for her working under Valentino as a stripper, showing she was very talented and became 1 of the big stars of the Desire Den, Liz made a lot of money as she stayed in an apartment complex for all of Valentino's workers.

But, as the years went by, she began to see Valentino's true face as he abused her and anyone whenever they fell out of line, showed up late for work or didn't made enough money as expected, or worse… being killed in the most gruesome way.

Liz began to feel the consequences of selling her soul to a psychopath demon that desires control and wealth that brought either his porn vids, his clubs or his prostitutes.

Liz began to curse the day she ever sold her soul to Valentino, regretting the choice she made as she was too naïve to see the truth and just did it for the sake to survive.

Having met John, Liz began to feel her strength was coming back to fight back and not given up on her afterlife.

As she was ready to walk on stage, Liz thought back of what John said to her earlier, as Charlie's plan to redeem souls in her Hazbin Hotel to escape Hell gave him hope. Slowly she began to see that perhaps, if it is possible to redeem sinners and enter the gates of Heaven… than maybe she also could escape this place.

"And now… your all-time favorite, the Desire Den number one stripper and queen of the stage… LIZ!" the DJ called through his mike, making the men cheer as they were ready to see another show of one of the best strippers of Hell.

Liz walked on the stage, standing in the middle. She looked, seeing Valentino with a smirk on his face to see her do as she was told.

Liz hated her boss to the core of having endured his abuse for years and manipulating her to sell her soul to him, only for profit. But then, as she was ready to dance, she mentally called out to the heartless moth-demon overlord 'Valentino… you may own my soul… but you will never control my will or my mind! Ever! I'll… never be truly yours! NEVER!'

She began to perform on stage while she began to sing deep inside of her soul, fighting against Valentino's influence…


I'm not a toy for you to cash in

Another whore underneath these flashin' lights

Takin' in more of those ruthless nights

Yeah, yeah, yeah


Liz then had to dance in front of Valentino and the other Vees for entertainment while they had a business meeting, with Valentino holding her by some chains and pulled her close to him, licking her cheek, disgusting her and pulled herself away from Valentino.


I should have known that this would happen

I should have known it when I looked into your red-hot eyes

Listen to your red-hot lies

Yeah, yeah, yeah


Liz then saw Valentino beating up one of the strippers for performing bad. She hated everything about the monster, wishing him dead as she was surrounded by pink smoke, consuming her.


What's the worst part of this hell?

I can only blame myself


Liz then performed another amazing pole dance while wearing a black leather sexy lingerie, dancing like nobody was going to stop her or controlling her as she glared at Valentino and even kicked 1 of the costumers hard in the face for daring to try to grab her and drag her off stage.


'Cause I know you're poison, you're nothin' but poison

Not given into this feelin', as it's always hallow, full of poison

I made my choice, and every night, I'm fighting to wake up tomorrow

Oh-oh, oh-oh

Any way you wish for, baby, I will never and ever be yours

My journey's gonna end with me throw out your poison


Liz then later on performed a private dance for a fat lizard-demon, pretending she enjoyed it, while Valentino watched her perform with delight.


I got so good bein' untrue

I got so good at tellin' you what you wanna hear

I dissociate, disappear

Yeah, yeah, yeah

So far taking your insults to not take another gulp


When the Lizard-Demon demanded to give him a blowjob and would pay her 2,000 Hell-Dollars, Liz angrily crushed the guy' balls with her boot, making Valentino pissed. While he wanted to beat her for not taking so much cash from the costumer, Liz angrily pushed him aside, which results in him punching Liz in the face, dragging her into his office to teach her some manners.


Yeah, I know it's poison, you're nothin' but poison

Not given into this feelin', as it's always hallow, full of poison

I made my choice, and every night, I'm fighting to wake up tomorrow

Oh-oh, oh-oh

Any way you wish for, baby, I will never and ever be yours

My journey's gonna end with me throw out your poison


Despite Liz had a few bruises and a bleeding lip from Valentino's beating, she was able to hide it with some makeup and finished her work until it was 1 AM and Desire Den was going to close. Liz, now wearing her normal clothes, left the club with the other strippers and Ursula, with Liz glaring back at Valentino who was counting all the money they girls made for him tonight. Valentino gave a short glance at Liz, giving her a smirk before walking over to Velvette.

Liz left, vowing in her mind to never let Valentino control her ever again, before she formed a smile and went to find John.


Poison, you're nothin' but poison

You're fillin' up my glass but it's always hallow

Full of poison, so sick of your poison

Now I found somethin' to live for tomorrow


John was playing on an old pinball machine in a near-empty bar. Since he got a bit bored of just drinking a few beers at the bar, he was tempted to try out that old pinball machine, not having played on one of those since he was a kid when he was still alive.

John did his best playing on the pinball machine, with the theme 'Aliens VS Predator'.

"C'mon. C'mon!" he almost yelled while pressing the flipper-buttons on both sides fast, hitting the ball and hit extra bonus points for killing the Alien Queen "Yes!" but then missed the ball and the game was over "Ah, man."

But then John saw that he'd beaten the high score, making him smile.

He typed in the first 3 letters of his name before he noticed that it was already 1 AM and left the bar.

As soon as John went out of the old bar, he saw Liz waiting at the back of the Desire Den together with Ursula, looking for him. He walked over to her.

Liz saw John and quickly walked over to him, embracing him, which he returned.

Ursula smiled at them "Well, have fun, you two. Later, Liz!" and said began to leave for her place.

When John looked into her eyes, he saw the few bruises on Liz's face, making him angry and asked, "Valentino did this?"

Liz nodded as she stated, "Yeah, but only because I finally started to fight his ownership over me," she told John with such a determination on her eyes "I'm don't wanna go back to that place, John! Never!"

John formed a small smile, feeling happy that she didn't showed any fear to Valentino's threats or taking in his abuse anymore.

They walked together hand in hand through the street.

John felt bad for possibly causing trouble for Liz "I'm so sorry that you had to go through all of that with Valentino, Liz."

Liz ensured him, "Hey, you don't have to feel bad about it, John," she then sadly said "If there's anyone who's to blame, it's me. I never should've sold my soul to Valentino in the first place, making me do things only to please him and make him money, not caring for me or anyone else."

John held his arm around her waist and pulled her close to him "I wish there was some way I could help you to break that contract you have with that Moth-pimp."

Liz thought it was cute that John was so concerned about her and wanting to help her "I know you do, John. Maybe… somehow, we will find a way." Then she asked him "You truly think that the princess' hotel will help you to get to Heaven?"

John shrugged "I… I don't know. But if it's a chance for me to escape this place and…" he looked up at the sky, to where Heaven was "be with my daughter again… why shouldn't I take it?"

Liz formed a sweet smile and held his hand, intertwining her fingers with his and rested her head on his shoulder.

John smiled at her and planted a kiss on her forehead, making her blush.

Curious to the Hazbin Hotel, Liz asked John "Could you… I don't know, maybe show me the place?"

That made John stop in surprise and looked at Liz "You mean… you too want to live at the hotel too?" his smile grew with hope that Liz wants to live together with him at the same place.

However, Liz gave a shrug "I didn't said that. I'm just a bit curious to see your new place of living," she leaned closer to him "So? Would you give me a…" she then asked with a seductive voice "little private tour?"

John blushed before he gave a nod "Uhm… sure I can."

Liz gave a sweet smile and walked together hand in hand to the hotel.


After they walked through the bit of chaotic streets, John and Liz made it to the Hazbin Hotel.

Liz raised an eyebrow as she checked the place, finding the structure of the building quiet odd as it had a sailboat, part of an ocean liner and a carousel incorporated into the building, along with some train tracks outside the first and second floor "It, uhh… looks kinda odd for a hotel, not like any of those hotels on Earth."

John shrugged as they walked to the front door "Yeah. From the outside it might looks weird, but the inside is way better."

Liz formed a small grin as she followed him, with him opening the door "Then, by all means, show me."

Inside the lobby, with half of the lights being dimmed, everyone had already gone to bed. All except for Charlie and Vaggie, who were watching a lesbian movie together called 'Below her mouth', sitting together on the couch very close to each other.

While watching the movie, Charlie had to blush deep because of the few sex scenes she and Vaggie watched, but then sweetly smiled at her as it was okay as long as she was watching it together with her girlfriend.

Both then heard someone entering, with Liz saying as she was kinda impressed by the interior "Well, the lobby sure looks more lovely, John."

John nodded "Yeah," he then pointed out "There's the bar and through that door is the dining room and the hotel's kitchen."

Charlie and Vaggie looked, seeing it was John.

"Hi, John!" Charlie said with a big smile, before she looked surprised to see that John had brought someone with him.

Liz gave her and Vaggie a small wave "Uhh… Hello."

Charlie and Vaggie rose from the couch and walked over to them "Hi," Vaggie said "Who are you?"

John stated, "Oh, this is Liz. She is…" he blushed a bit "… a very close friend of mine."

Liz gave a giggle.

Before Vaggie wanted to introduce herself, Charlie quickly ran to her and held her hands with a big smile "Well, hello there! I'm Charlie Morningstar and this is Vaggie!" she introduced herself and Vaggie "Have you come to join the Hazbin Hotel too?!"

Liz was a bit surprised by the princess' reaction "Well… I…"

John explained to Charlie "She's just here to see how I'm living, as she was curious to the new place where I work and stay."

Charlie understood, but still was delightful to show John's 'special friend' the hotel and rehabilitation center "Well, I am happy to show and tell you all about the Hazbin Hotel!" As she was this close to drag Liz and show every detail, Vaggie calmed down her girlfriend "Babe, it's… a little late to give a big tour, don't you think? And besides," she glanced to the movie they were watching, making her hold Charlie's hand softly "I really want to finish watching this movie with you."

Charlie thought it was so sweet what Vaggie said. Though she wanted to show Liz around, she couldn't bear to ruin their movie-night.

John ensured Charlie "It's okay, Charlie. I'll show Liz around a bit and tell her all about this place."

Charlie smiled, seeing that John had possible convinced someone to look at the hotel to perhaps consider to join.

But as John looked at the movie she and Vaggie were watching, he was surprised to see on the screen the two lesbian actresses were having sex "Whoa… Are you 2 watching a porn, or something?"

Vaggie narrowed her eyes at him as she stated "It's not a porn, John. It's a lesbian romantic drama called 'Below her mouth'."

"Below her mouth?" John asked with a raised eyebrow "Never heard of that movie." But then shrugged "But if this is the kind of movie you both want to watch, I won't judge," he then held Liz's hand and guided her up to the stairs "There's more to see upstairs."

Liz smiled at him, letting him guide her up while both shared a smile.

Charlie instantly recognized the looks on their faces as they went upstairs, making her smile bright "Oh my gosh…! Could they actually be… in love, Vaggie?"

Vaggie shrugged "I'm not sure. But they do seem to like each other as John states that this 'Liz' is a very close friend of his." He then softly held Charlie's hand and asked her with a sweet voice "Let's finish watching our movie before going to bed."

Charlie nodded and sat back on the couch and continued watching the lesbian movie. They shared some popcorn together, with Charlie romantically putting a popcorn in Vaggie's mouth, with the both of them looking at each other with nothing but love.


Back with John and Liz, he showed her around the hotel while telling all about the other Hazbin staff members, Husk and Niffty, and also telling about the other resident Angel. Liz was surprised that the rumor she heard that Angel Dust had joined the Hazbin Hotel were true.

Liz told John that she and Angel worked together from time to time, much to John's shock, in which Liz ensures him that they only worked together in the strip club a few times but she never played in any porn, especially not the ones made by Valentino.

John sighed with relief "Pfew! Sorry… I thought for a moment that you…"

Liz shook her head, ensuring him as they further walked up the stairs "No. I'm not that kind of a worker for Valentino, and never will be!" she finished with an angry look.

As they almost reached to the top, John had been talking a bit about jobs he did today. Both then made it up to the observation deck, looking over Pentagram City.

"Wow…" Liz said "From up here it's even more beautiful."

John nodded as he stood close to Liz "Yeah…" in his mind, he added 'but not as beautiful as you…'

They stayed on the observation deck for a few more minutes, enjoying the view, before Liz asks while biting her bottom lip "So…?"

"What?" John asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Do you wanna… show me your room already?" Liz asked with a lustful smile.

John blushed instantly, before he scratched the back of his head and gave a nervously laugh "Hahahaha. Sure, Liz." He lead her down the stairs, leaving the observation deck.

A few minutes later, he opened the door to his room using the key.

As they entered, Liz was impressed how big John's room was "Wow, John! Is this your room?"

John nodded "Yeah, it is."

Liz checked his king size bed, stroking over it while bending over, sticking her ass in the air for John to see "Such a big and comfy bed…" John blushed at that, making Liz giggle before checking the balcony and then the fancy bathroom "Oh, wow. Look at this," she smiled at John "You really are lucky to have such a luxurious room, John."

John shrugged "I sure am. But, I'm more thankful to Charlie for allowing me to stay in this amazing room… and staying here rentfree."

That surprised Liz, but then smiled at him.

She then gave a small moan and looked at the bathroom before looking back at John, asking him kindly "Is it… okay if I take a shower here? I'm always in the need of a good shower after a long night of working."

John blushed for a moment, but nodded "Uhh… sure. yeah, of course you can! Make yourself at home."

"Thank you." Liz said softly while stroking his cheek before going into the bathroom, only leaving it ajar.

Liz stripped out of her clothes before stepping into the warm shower, feeling the warm water falling on her felt great.

The few bruises on her face stained a bit as she tried to touch them, making her see the images of Valentino abusing her, making her angry. But not wanting to spoil her good shower, she left those things aside and began to wash herself with some soap.

Liz glanced back at the door she left ajar, hoping that maybe John was there peeking at her. But to her disappointment, she didn't saw him, making her look sad as she turned her back and thought while stroking the soap across her body, 'What am I doing wrong? I mean, he does like me, right? And I like him too… But why is he so hesitant?'

In the bedroom, John watched the bathroom door being ajar. He was tempted to just peek inside and watch Liz's full naked body, or just… go in there and…

John sighed while burying his face in his hands "Ugh! Why is it so hard for me to just admit I love her…? Why can't I just be a bit more… bold?" He asked himself "What's stopping me…?"

Thinking back how badly his previous relationship went before he died, John remembered something that his daughter Lucy told him…


Flashback

10 years ago

Inside a small apartment deep in the city of Philadelphia, at 10 PM, an African-American woman with long curly hair and wearing exclusive fashion clothes stormed out of the place, yelling "That's why you're nothing but a fucking loser, John! Because you're so fucking stupid that you can't even keep a simple job to provide money on the table! I need a REAL MAN in my life, not a wimp that can't even think about his family and do your best to keep a fucking job!" she then marched through the hallway, going to the elevator.

John, wearing a simple shirt, jeans and white socks ran after her, trying to explain what happened "Brianna, please! It's not what you think, I-"

But as John was about to grab her shoulder, his girlfriend Brianna slapped him in the face "Don't you touch me! Who's gonna have to provide for us again, huh?! ME!? I did already so much for you and that fucking little brat, and all I get is more and more headache of every day to look at the face of such a fucking retard like you!"

John, hurt deep in his spirit by Lindsey's words and also how hard she slapped him in the face with his cheek burning red, shook his head, feeling sad for her to say such things about him and also their daughter "How… how can you say something like that about Lucy? She… she's your daughter too!"

Brianna flipped the bird at him as she stepped into the elevator "I don't have time to listen to your bullshit preaching, John. I'm going out, for a fucking long time. Finding myself A REAL MAN!" she pressed the button to go down "Don't expect me to come back soon. And whatever bills you're about to get, you're on your own to fix them yourself! You fucking retard."

The doors of the elevator closed, leaving John in a sad state. He'd failed her and Lucy again by losing another job despite he tried hard, only to be fired for something he hadn't even done.

John slowly walked back to the apartment, seeing his 6-years-old daughter, Lucy standing at the doorway wearing her pink kitty-cat pajamas while holding her bunny plush toy. She looked sad as tears fell from her eyes, having heard every word that her mother said.

It broke John's heart to see his daughter in this state.

"Where's mommy going, daddy?" Lucy asked sadly.

John sighed as he pulled Lucy up, taking her in his arms as they walked back inside and sat on the couch in the living room, saying sadly while he shook his head, "I don't know, sweetheart. I don't know."

"Why doesn't mommy love you anymore, daddy?" Lucy sobbed.

"She…" John tried to explain "She's angry with me… because I lost my job again."

Lucy was confused and told him as she'd heard her father trying to explain to her mother what happened at the factory, "But… you said that someone else destroyed that machine in the factory on purpose?"

John nodded, "Yeah… sadly… he wouldn't believe me… and fired me on the spot," he softly stroke Lucy's back "I'm so sorry, Lucy."

"But…" she then got sad again "Why does mommy hate me too?"

John sighed deep, feeling deep down he was to blame for all the problems and for his girlfriend to have changed into… this different woman than he met. Or did their financial problems caused Brianna's true personality to emerge in which he failed to say in the first place, revealing she wanted to live a rich life and not a poor life, seeing his failures in their daughter.

"I thought mommy loved me…"

John embraced her "Oh, sweety…" he then softly told her "Things may become difficult for a while, but… Know that I will always be there for you. You know that, right?"

Lucy, wiping away her tears, nodded, but then asked, "If mommy's going to leave forever… will you be looking for a different mommy for me?"

John shrugged "I… I don't know… Maybe, but… I just don't know if I'll ever find that person… if your mother doesn't want me anymore."

Lucy shook her head and told him "There are so many other mommies in the world, Daddy. I'm sure there must be a mommy out there that will love you and me no matter what, and won't ever leave, even when you lose a job."

John chuckled, being surprised that his little girl was already that smart at her young age "You sure have a brilliant mind, Lucy. And I'm very proud of you."

Lucy then hugs her father "You're the best daddy in the whole wide world."

John was touched by her words and hugged her back, planting a kiss on her forehead "And you're the best gift I could ever have in my life."

They remained in embrace for a few more minutes until John carried little Lucy in his arms and brought her back to her room, putting her on her bed and put the blanket over her.

"Daddy?"

"Yes, sweetheart?"

"Can you promise me something?" Lucy asked with a bit of uncertainty.

John sat on the bed "What is it?"

"If you… ever find someone else… and know that she's the best… can you promise that you will tell her and show you like her, and not let mommy hurt you or keep you from being happy?"

John raised an eyebrow at her, but then smiled "I promise." He vowed her.

Lucy held up her right little finger "Pinky promise?"

John gave a nod and held her little finger with his, sealing the deal "Pinky promise."


End of flashback

John's eyes blinked, remembering the promise he made to his daughter. He stood up from the bed and walked up to the balcony window, looking at the Heaven spot in the sky. John then looked at his right little finger before looking back up at the sky.

John then looked back at the bathroom door, asking himself if Liz is truly the one he would be truly happy with. He closed his eyes, thinking back how much their relationship has changed every since they first met 4 years ago. John felt the burning in his heart, knowing now deep down that Liz was truly everything he wanted, the woman that could be the one true love he's been waiting for all this time.

John opened his eyes, looking determined, forming a smile on his face.

Back in the bathroom, Liz had just finished washing herself with the soap and just stood in front of the shower, looking down with a sad face, wishing that John would just open himself to her… wanting to feel being loved.

That was when she heard someone entering the bathroom, making her look back and gasped when she saw it was John, now completely dressed naked and opened the shower door.

John, with a grin on his face, said to her seductively as he walked into the shower "Hey, there…" before Liz could say anything, John immediately embraced her into a passionate kiss.

Liz's eyes went wide in surprise the first few seconds, but then gave into the kiss and returned it with kind "Hmmmm! Mmmmm! Mmmmm!"

He pinned her against the wall while their tongues danced like an amazing tango in their mouths and his hands stroke her across her back and ass.

When John and Liz separated, leaving a trail of saliva, John sighed before telling her, "I love you, Liz."

Liz stared at him with wide eyes.

"I always have. Ever since the day you and I met I love you."

Liz's eyes got teary out of happiness, as her patience has been finally rewarded and John finally took the initiative to tell her how he truly feels "Oh, John…" she puts her arms around his neck "I love you too…" she stroke her devil tail over his back "The minute I saw your eyes the first time…" she then pressed her lips against his, with her tongue penetrating his mouth, and both fought an amazing tongue kiss in their mouths.

He then stroke her boobs and twisted her nipples before slowly breaking the kiss and kissed her down from her neck to her breasts, sucking and nipping her nipples, making Liz very horny

"Ahhhh…!" Liz moaned "Yes…! Hmmmm…! Oh fuck…!"

Liz's eyes then went wide as she felt his fingers snaking down to her pussy, with his fingers entering her wet vagina.

"Yes…! Oh fuck, yes…! Fuck me…!" Liz moaned out, loving him fingering her.

"Oh, Liz…" John said as he licked her nipples.

They continued for a couple of minutes with John fingering her, going faster as Liz's pleasure increased.

"Yes, John! Oh, John! Oh, John! OH, JOHN! YES YES YES YES… I…! I'M GONNA-" she moaned out loud before squirting her juices out "CUUUUUUUUUUUM!"

John felt she'd climaxed on his hand. He held his fingers to his mouth, tasting her sweet juices.

Liz then softly told him while she recovered from her climax "Baby?"

John looked at her.

"Please… take me to bed…" Liz requested before she took John's hand and licked his fingers, tasting traces of her own juices and held his hardened cock with her other hand, stroking him "Oh my… your cock is so big…"

John nodded with a grin, putting off the shower and quickly took a few towels for each other.

While drying themselves, John could see her perfectly shaved pussy, making him crazy inside his head 'Oh my fucking God! Her pussy is even way better than I could've imagined!' he mentally yelled.

After they were done drying each other, Liz smiled at him and took his hand, leading him out of the bathroom and lay together in bed while sharing passionate kisses, with Liz on top.

Liz then began kissing down his neck, getting to his nipples, bringing them between her teeth, making him moan "Ahhh… damn, Liz. Quite the biter, aren't you?"

Liz licked his other nipple and grinned with lust and love "Damn right I am, baby." She said seductively before grabbing his cock "Now, just lay back… and I'll give you some real good pleasure." She then got to his hard cock and licked it, running her tongue along the head while jerking him off "Aaahh. Ahhh. Ahhh. Ahhh." She moaned before taking into her mouth and blowed him "Mmmm. Mmmm. Mmmmmm. Mmmmm. Mmmmm."

"Ahh. Ahhh, shit. Oh, fuck yes. Fuck, Liz, I… love you! Oh yeah…!" John moaned, enjoying this pleasure while holding her mouth.

"Liz then deepthroated him, wanting to take him down her throat "Uuugk. Ugggk. Uuugk. Ugggk." She gages as spit came from her mouth.

John's eyes rolled backwards, loving the amount of pleasure Liz gave him 'Holy fuck! She gives me way better pleasure than Brianna ever did. Heck! She never even wanted to blow me.' John mentally told himself, remembering how Brianna barely would give him any pleasure, letting him do almost 'all the work' when it came to sex.

But now… John didn't wanted to think about that part of his life anymore, as he'd finally found his true soul mate, in Hell itself.

After a few minutes, John felt his climax coming "Oh fuck, Liz, I'M GONNA… I'M GONNA… CUUUUUM!" before he climaxed, sending his sperm down her throat as she swallowed every drop before she sucked his dick clean till he was dry.

Liz took his cock out with a pop while catching her breath. She then formed a lustful smile as she looked down at him, asking him, "I bet you wanted that for a long time, huh?"

John smiled back at her "You have no idea, Liz."

Liz gave a small giggle before leaning over to him and planted a kiss on his lips "Truth is… I too have desired for a long time to just… take you, John… But I wanted to wait for you to make your move."

John sighed as he softly stroke her cheek "Sorry for keeping you wait for so long."

"It's okay, baby… I forgive you…" she planted another kiss on his lips before forming a lustful smirk "… if you're still ready to go that is." She teased his cock with her devil tail, feeling that his cock was still hard "Ohhhh. Looks like your big stick is still ready to go."

Liz used her hand to masturbate herself a bit, making her more wet before moving herself down, sitting on his lap. She took his cock and moved it inside her wet pussy "Hmmmaaahh…!" she moaned the moment he slides his cock inside her.

John sighed with lust "Oooh, fuck, Liz…!"

She began riding his penis, making them both feel good "Hmmm…! Ahhh…! Oh, John…! Oh, John! Your cock feel soooo big! Fuuuck!"

John grabbed her breasts, massaging them and twisted her nipples "Oh yes, Liz…! Your… pussy feels so fucking nice!"

"That's right, baby! The best, baby! The best pussy you could ever have! Aaaaaaah! AAAAH!" Liz moaned out loud, not wanting to waste a single second of finally having sex with the guy she truly loves.

After a few minutes, Liz turned herself, doing the reverse cowgirl position and continued fucking him. With their pleasure increasing even more, John sat straight while grabbing her breasts, moving his own hips faster "Ooooh, Liz! Fuuuuck!"

"OOOH JOHN! OOOH BABY! FUCK ME! YES! YES, FUCK ME!" Liz moaned while her tongue hanged out as spit drops from her mouth. Both then gave each other a passionate tongue kiss without stopping their very passionate sex "Hmmmm! Mmmmm! Mmmmm! Mmmmm!"

Feeling his climax coming, John moved even faster as he said when breaking the kiss "I'm gonna cum again, Liz! THIS IS GONNA BE A BIG ONE!"

Liz nodded heavily as she too was close "ME TOO, JOHN! OOOH FUUUCK! LET'S CUM TOGETHER, BABY! LET'S CUM TOGETHER!"

Less than a minute, both were on the brink to climax at the same time "LIZ! LIZ! LIZ! LIZ!"

"JOHN! JOOOOOOHN!"

And with one big thrust, John released a big load of sperm, going straight into her womb while Liz simultaneously climaxed her juices out.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

As their climax slowly died out, with Liz feeling his warm sperm inside her while it dripped out of her vagina, she said while catching her breath "Ooooh John… that was… so good…"

John didn't said anything and rested his head on her shoulder while he panted, seemingly recovering from his climax.

"John?" Liz looked back at him with a bit worried face "You okay, baby?"

"More…"

Liz looked at him surprised "Huh?"

John panted while holding his right hand on her neck and the other to her left boob "I want…" his eyes glowed red for a second "More!" and thrusts his still hardened dick deep inside her, hitting her cervix!

"OOOOOH!" Liz moaned out loud with wide eyes, not expecting that John was still good to go. He grabbed her and pushed her down the bed, making him on top of her now while she looked at him with a surprised and lustful face, with his dick still inside her.

She saw the look on his face, wanting her… desiring her.

"I'm not gonna… waste a single second of this moment, Liz." He panted while holding up her legs, readying to take her on the spread eagle position.

He then thrusts hard into her vagina, hitting her cervix again!

"AAAAAAAAH!" Liz moaned as John continued moving his dick in and out, hitting her cervix each time, increasing her own pleasure even more "AAAH! AAAAAAH! FUUUCK! YES YES YES YES YES! OOOH FUCK ME, JOHN! YEEEES! YEEEES! OOOH FUCK YEEEES! AAAAH!" she stick her tongue out while spit came out of her mouth, with her eye pupils forming pink hearts, having totally surrendered to this lustful pleasure.


As their lovemaking went on and on as time passes, their loud moans and sex was actually heard throughout the whole hotel, making nearly everyone annoyed.

Husk, in his room on the second floor, angrily growled while pressing his pillow against his ears, being unable to sleep "Oh for fuck sake! KEEP IT DOWN, WILL YA!?" he yelled.

"YES JOHN! FUCK ME! FUCK ME! FUCK ME HARD YEEEEEEES! AAAAAAAH!" Liz moaned out loud from upstairs.

Husk growled and hide his head under his pillow.


In Angel's room, the gay spider-demon porn star tried to blur all the sex noises by putting paper in his ears, groaning with annoyance while holding his ears as he lay in his bed with his little hell-pig pet, Fat Nuggets.

"I know that I'm doing a lot of porn and I'm more of used to it, THIS IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS! There are people trying to sleep here, you sick fucks!"

Even Fat Nuggets was getting a bit uncomfortable cause of the loud sex noises.


Up in Alastor's room, the Radio-Demon was actually sleeping peacefully, until he heard a loud sex noise coming from down Joh's room.

"CUM INSIDE ME! FUCK YEAH! RELEASE ANOTHER BIG LOAD RIGHT IN MY WOMB, JOHN! YEEEEES!"

Alastor opened one eye, reaching out for his staff and turned a button, muting all the noise, making everything in his room peaceful and quiet, showing he too has the power to mute out noises if he wishes.

"Ahhh. That's better." Alastor sighed and went back to sleep.


In Niffty's little cousy bedroom, the little cyclops-maid demon had heard everything what John and Liz have been up to. But instead of her being annoyed and couldn't sleep because of it, Niffty was actually rather enjoying the noises and touched herself a bit while biting her bottom lip.

Liz yelled out her lungs as she and John climaxed together again "OOOOH FUUUUUUCK!"

Niffty giggled maniacally while fingering herself "Ooooh. Hihihihi. Someone's being a very bad boy."


Meanwhile, Charlie and Vaggie had just gone to bed. But because of the passionate lovemaking between John and Liz, neither of them could actually try to sleep.

Vaggie groaned while covering her ears "Fucking hell! They've been busy for almost an hour." She turned to Charlie, asking her "Hun, can we-" but then noticed that Charlie gave some soft moans while moving her hand down under the blanket.

"Charlie?"

Charlie looked at Vaggie while biting her bottom lip "I'm… sorry, Vaggie. It's just… well… hmmmm…" she tried to say with a mixture of embarrassment and pleasure.

When Vaggie removed their blanket, she saw to her surprise that Charlie was using her hand in her pajamas, fingering herself, making Vaggie blinked her eyes "Are you… touching yourself?!"

Charlie shrugged while looking away while blushing deep "Maaaaybe…" she then sighed and tried to explain as she sat straight and looked at her girlfriend, feeling guilty about it "I'm so sorry, Vaggie. It's just… their sex sounds so… rough and yet…" sparkles were showing in her eyes "so passionate… I could like… feel the love…" she then looked with a lovely smile at Vaggie "Reminding me when you and I had our… first time…" she said while holding her cheek and softly stroked it.

Vaggie thought it was sweet. But then looked surprised as Charlie reached out her own hand under her nightgown, to her pussy "Hey, what…?"

Charlie gasped when she fingered her girlfriend a bit "Vaggie… you're wet too?" she then formed a smirk when looking back at Vaggie "Are you enjoying listening to them?"

Vaggie blushed deep "I… well…"

Charlie then had a naughty idea and instantly removed her pajamas top, exposing her breasts, making Vaggie blush even deeper. "Wanna do some 'fun fun' in the bed while listening to John and Liz's mating, honey?"

Vaggie was unsure, but then heard from upstairs "OH LIZ! YOUR… YOUR ASS FEELS SO NICE!"

"OH FUUUUCK, JOHN! I LOVE IT…! I FUCKING LOVE IT WHEN YOU TAKE ME UP THE ASS! YEEEEES! FUCK MY ASS, JOHN! FUCK ME HARD!"

Not being able to resist, and also because Charlie's cute and sexy body was impossible to resist, Vaggie sighed before she said with a lustful grin "Oh, what the fuck." And quickly took off her nightgown, revealing her full nakedness before instantly embracing Charlie into a passionate kiss "Mmmmm! Mmmmm! Mmmm"

"Mmmmm! Ooooh, Vaggie! Mmmmmm!" Charlie moaned as their tongues dueled in their mouths and began to make love too.


Back in John and Liz's room, John had picked up Liz's lower body while doing both her pussy and asshole, much to Liz's horny delight.

"FUCK YES! OOOOH! AAAAAAH! FUUUUCK YES!"

John kept doing it for more than 15 minutes before he was about to climax again.

"I'M CUMMING, LIZ! I'M CUMMING I'M CUMMING!"

"YES BABY! FUCK ME! FILL ME UP MORE! MORE! MOOOOORE!"

And with one big thrust, he penetrated Liz's vagina so far and deep that part of his top part of his penis entered her womb, thus releasing his entire load straight inside her womb, filling it up even more!

"OOOH FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" Liz moaned out as she climaxed the biggest one she'd ever had, feeling how very good it was as John's sperm filled her womb.

John kept holding Liz's lower body tight, till his climax died down and every last bit of his climaxed sperm was inside Liz.

But then, feeling the effects of how many times he'd come, he fell down on the bed next to Liz.

Liz, with her mind having gone almost crazy cause of the huge amount of pleasure, panted while her tongue still stuck out other mouth, smiling with a lovely and very lustful grin. All of John's climaxed sperm fell out of both her vagina and anus like a waterfall.

After both had recovered some after some minutes, John and Liz looked at each other, smiling with love while John softly stroke her hair.

"Oh, baby…" Liz said "That was… so… so good…" she then sighed with a smile "Best… sex of both my life and afterlife."

John chuckled before he nodded "Yeah… mine too." He then leaned closer to her "I love you, Liz Simmons."

Liz gave him a soft kiss on the lips "I love you too, John Randell."

Both shared a few more kisses while they embraced.

"John…?"

"Yeah, Liz?"

Liz then looked at him with a lovely smile "I want to stay here with you… at the Hotel."

John was surprised for a moment before he smiled "Really?!" Liz nodded "So… does that mean you want to give Charlie's plan for redemption a chance?"

Liz shrugged "I'm not so sure if her plan would even work…" but then smiled back at him "But I want to give it a shot. And… if you trust Charlie to help you get redeemed and be reunited with your little girl in Heaven… then I trust her too."

John embraced her before both shared another kiss.


Meanwhile, back in Charlie and Vaggie's room, both the princess of Hell and her girlfriend were scissoring each other, rubbing their pussies together and climaxed hard.

"OOOH VAAAAGIE!"

"CHARLIEEEEEEE!"

Both squirted their juices out, wetting their pussies and the sheets.

While they recovered from their own sex and held each other in their arms, with Charlie resting her head on Vaggie's shoulder as she was on top, Vaggie then noticed that the sex noises from John and Liz had stopped.

"Huh. It looks like they're done too."

Charlie however muffled a bit while saying to her softly, having loved the sex so much that she just want to enjoy this moment of recovery and be in embrace "Please… no words… please…"

Vaggie formed a sweet smile and planted a soft kiss on Charlie's forehead. She covered themselves with the blanket "Good night, Charlie."

"Night… Vaggie." Charlie said softly before both closed their eyes and fell asleep.


Back with John and Liz, with the new lovers having fall asleep in embrace with their blanket covering them, John looked out the window, smiling at while looking at the shining dot that was Heaven.

"Pinky promise, Lucy…" he softly said, having fulfilled the promise he made to his daughter that if he'd truly found the right woman he could be truly happy with. And just maybe… Liz would be a great mother figure to Lucy… if they ever meet someday, if Charlie's redemption plan is going to actually work.

A/N: And that's that for chapter 2, everyone!

I really hope this new chapter has exceeded your expectations? And I sure hope you all liked the flashbacks I added, telling some about both John and Liz's life/afterlife. I also hope you all loved the alternate version of 'Poison' that I made for Liz's part, as I could clearly imagine her being an alternate version of Angel, fighting like hell to keep her freedom despite she's sold her soul to Valentino.

So, I think you could guess what the next chapter will be about? That's right! Chapter 3 will be the actual starting point of the series, which will have a few of my own changes as the story progresses.

Until then… Cheerio!