"What do you mean you haven't found anything?"
"It's only been a week,"
"'It's only been a week' AND YOU HAVE NOTHING?"
Voe puts her hand up "Whoa, first of all, you refuse to tell me what kind of information you want, plus it's been a week. He's not going to start baring his soul to me,"
Vox paces around the room "What are you even doing over there? Eating shit?"
"I'm pretending like I want to be there!"
"W-w-what's pretending? Huh? What does that look like?"
"Eating breakfast, going to activities, being...nice,"
"No wonder you're not getting anything! You're faking it! Heknowsyou're faking it
She waves him off "I don't think he knows anything,"
Vox groans and holds his head, continuing to pace around the room.
"Vox relax, I've got this,'
Velvette interjects "Vox calm down, the girl says she's got it, she's got it,"
His neck snaps over to the doll "Why areyouhere?
"I'm trying to make sure you don't implode on yourself!"
"I think you're just paranoid Vox," Voe reassures him
"PARANOID?"
She nods "Yes,
"All I know is you better have something by the end of this upcoming week, or else you can kiss your future goodbye and you'll go back to being my assistant!"
Voe huffs "Fine,"
"Can't believe this, seven whole days with nothing!"
"If you're so good at it, why don't you do it?"
He glares at her "Because I'm not the one who wants to remain 'Voe, the Billboard Doe', unless that's not what you want,"
Voe rolls her eyes "You know, it would be very helpful to describe the kind of thing you want. Like, I know that he cooks, but is that the kind of thing you want?"
"No! I don't give a fuck if that guy cooks. I don't know, something embarrassing!"
"Define embarrassing! We're from different times, so I don't know what that means to you,"
"I don't know Like if he's gay or something!"
She raises a brow "Why is that embarrassing?"
One of his eyes gets bigger and he grabs her by the shoulders, hypnotizing her "I want something by the end of the week. Whatever you think is embarrassing, give it to me,"
She stares into his large swirling eyes and smirks "Wanky,"
"I'm serious, or you can go back to being my assistant,"
She shakes her head "Okay, yes, got it. Shit,"
"Good," he drags his hands down to hers "I've got big plans for you Voe, just do this for me and you'll be on your way,"
Voe looks up at him "Okay,"
She arrived back at the hotel with a revived fervor. She wasnotgoing back to being an assistant. She enters the doors and wipes off her dress, seeing that there is no one around the parlor is dark she shrugs and marches toward the stairs when she feels a cool rush behind her.
"What the fuck?"
"Do you think I'm an idiot?" She hears a voice ask behind her
"Excuse me?" she turns around to see Alastor's glowing red eyes.
"Reveal your intentions immediately,"
Voe crosses her arms "I have no idea what you mean,"
Alastor lets out a small angry bleat "Little girl, I donotlike being lied to,"
"Okay, first of all, stop calling me 'little girl', and second if Iwereup to something, why would I tell you?"
"Or what?"
"What?"
"Stop calling you 'little girl'...or what? What are you going to do?" he steps closer to her
She blinks "I don't know, but I can't be held responsible for it,"
"Oh my, I am positively frightened...of a little girl,"
Voe clenches her fist "Did you come here to scare me?"
"No, I came here to tell you to leave me alone. Or there will be consequences,"
She mimics his tone "Like what?"
"I don't know, keep it up and you might find out," he pats her head and she swats his hand away
"Don't touch my hair,"
He pats her head once more and she slaps his hand away "Oh! How scary! Is that what you were going to do?"
"Odd that you're telling me to leave you alone, yet you found me in this dark room,"
He shrugs "Hmm," he pats her head once more "Have a good night," and he dissipates into shadows leaving her standing there alone. Now this was personal.
"I do whatever the fuck I want," she huffed mostly to herself.
Lucifer on the other hand was a lot easier to get information out of, he was like an open book. Like if a book told you its story, instead of you having to read it. All her tricks worked on him, she didn't really know what he was talking about, but he felt listened to.
"You know I just love to sing, and I love to make things as well. Like, I made a thing," he reaches behind him and pulls out a rubber duck...in her likeness.
She takes the duck and is unsure of how to react "Wow," she says, betraying no specific emotion
"It doesn't really take that much to make them, but I was thinking about you and so, there it is,"
This is definitely weird.
It's kinda cute though
Nope, weird.
"Thank you Lucifer,"
"No problem," he grins, seeming proud of himself "And if you need anything then you can just tell me. I'll get it for you,"
Yeah, he totally has a crush on me.
"Anything?"
"Anything," he nods, sure of himself
Voe puts on her small, warm smile and reaches out to lightly grab Lucifer's bicep "That's really generous, thank you so much,"
Lucifer blushes and coughs slightly "My pleasure,"
She squeezes his arm "Really, thank you. I don't anyone down here who's been that nice to me," she uses her 'sad' and 'pitiable' voice and looks up at him, eyes wide and innocent
Lucifer lightly caresses her face "I'd do anything for you," he breathes out. He then coughs and pulls back "I should go,"
Voe leans back and watches him stand and exit "Okay," she says in her small voice, twirling a piece of her hair as he goes
"Trying to get in the Devil's pants I presume?" Alastor appeared to the side of her sounding and looking judgemental
Voe drops her expression in favor of an annoyed one "What's it to you?" the pitch of her voice lowered
"Just curious,"
"Why?"
"Why not? I love seeing children play games,"
Voe groans and turns away from him "I'm not doing this with you,"
His grin grows "Aww, is the little girl getting mad?" Voe looks at her nails and ignores him "Hmm being childish? I guess that's normal behavior for you,"
"Listen, did you want me to leave you alone or not? You appear in the darkness telling me to leave you alone, then you show up here and get mad when I ignore you,"
Alastor steps forward and ruffles her hair "Aww I'm not mad silly,"
"Stop that!"
"Stop what?"
"Touching my hair!"
"Is it bothering you?"
She frowns "Obviously,"
"Aww, I'm sorry," he says while patting her head
In retaliation, Voe quickly reaches up and pulls her hand through his hair. It was thick, soft, and fluffy, which she was not expecting at all. She was expecting even less for Alastor to 'short circuit' in a way, frozen for a quick few moments, eyes wide and somewhat shocked. He then grabs her hand and yanks it from his scalp, pulling her by it and throwing her up against a wall. The room is filled with loud static, and Alastor changes into something monstrous. His neck and antlers get longer, his eyes turn black and his body turns bony as he gets larger and crawls over to her.
"I̸'̴l̷l̵ ̷g̵i̸v̵e̵ ̵y̷o̴u̴ ̶a̵ ̸w̵a̴r̵n̸i̷n̶g̷.̷ ̷I̴f̵ ̸y̸o̴u̷ ̵e̶v̴e̷r̶ ̸t̴r̶y̶ ̵t̸o̴ ̵s̵t̵e̵p̸ ̶u̶p̵ ̴t̶o̴ ̸m̸e̸ ̸a̵g̴a̸i̵n̶,̷ ̸I̴ ̶w̷i̸l̴l̶ ̴r̸i̸p̸ ̴y̴o̸u̵ ̶t̵o̶ ̶s̶h̶r̶e̶d̵s̶ ̴a̸n̴d̷ ̶d̷e̴v̷o̶u̶r̷ ̴e̶v̸e̴r̷y̸ ̸p̴i̸e̸c̷e̵ ̸o̷f̷ ̸y̶o̷u̷.̶ ̸A̶r̸e̸ ̵w̸e̴ ̵a̴t̶ ̵a̸n̷ ̷u̷n̶d̴e̵r̶s̵t̷a̴n̵d̸i̵n̵g̷?̴"
Voe simply smirks in response "Wanky,"
"Watch yourself, you're not as important as you think you are. No one would miss you,"
"All this because I gave you a taste of your own medicine?"
"No, because you think you're better than me,"
"Who said that?"
"No one, but you clearly think it,"
"So you can think that you're better than everyone else then?"
"Correct,"
"Why?"
"Because I'm classy,"
"You're giving trashy,"
He scoffs "Doesn't matter, you can't overpower me,"
"Don't need to," she strokes his chin and he grabs her arm again
"Stay away from me," he says before shadowing out of the space.
Voe is a bit shaken from the experience, but dusts off her dress and pulls out her phone nonetheless whispering,
"Hey Velvette, I think I got something,'
Alastor's body burned. He burned with rage, discomfort, and oddly enough something else that he was having difficulty describing. No one had dared to touch him, especially not as...intimatelyas she had. An immature smart ass is what she was, having the audacity to challenge him, and call him trashy? He shook his head, none of it mattered, he couldn't lose his cool again, that would just give her what she wanted, a reaction. But what was that feeling that he'd had alongside the fury? He'd felt it at the breakfast table and again now. His smile never faltered, but he furrowed his brows, he had no time to discover new things about himself, nor did he have time to develop new things within himself. Alastor needed to send a clear message that he was no average sinner, and was not to be toyed with.
Vox laughed chaotically as Valentino smirked
"Hmm, why does that make him seem even more hot?" Val asked "I'll touch you anyway baby," he licked his bottom lip
Voe scrunched her eyebrows and decided to ignore that comment "Is that something you like?" she turned to Vox
"Oh yes, I LOVE IT!" he continues to laugh, coming from the bottom of his belly
Voe smiles, lit up with validation. Velvette comments "I was thinking something stronger, but that works I suppose,"
"It must start small, my dear. The little embarrassments are key," Vox turns to Voe "You've done well," He lifts her chin with his finger "Good girl,"
Her body burned with flattery and she grinned from the external validation that he gave her "Yeah, well," she waved it off with faux humility
"Keep it up and you may be one of us before you can fuck yourself,"
It was as if a record scratched in the room. Voe's smile fell and she furrowed her brows "Hmm?" she questioned him
Velvette and Valentino shared a similar sentiment with their facial expressions, looking back and forth at one another. "I guess that just means, keep doing what you're doing," Velvette tries to read between the lines
"Alright, but there might be some issues,"
Vox's smile faded gradually "What do you mean issues,"
"He doesn't like me and I don't like him,"
Vox scoffs "I don't give a flyingfuckif you like him. Gethimto likeyou. In fact, Vel you got the stuff?" Velvette reaches into her shirt and pulls out a small bottle filled with pink liquid that she tosses to Vox, who hands it to Voe "A couple drops of this and he'll be all over you,"
"You want me to drug him?"
The Vees look at each other and shrug "Yeah," they all agree
Voe slowly wraps her fingers around the bottle and removes it from Vox's hands, staring at it and thinking of the implications of what it would mean to use it. She tightens her digits around the bottle, looks up at Vox, and nods.
"Do this and then tell me how the Radio Demon is in bed," Vox cackles
"You're going to feel really dumb if she comes back and says that he's good," Velvette puts her hands on her hips
Vox gives Velvette a knowing look and turns back to Voe "Make sure you use the wholefuckingbottle,"
All the residents were gathered in the parlor, along with Alastor. Voe rolled her eyes as she heard him bragging about himself
"I was quite the celebrity my dears," she heard him say as she made her way into the kitchen, sinners were eating out of the palm of his hands, especially women. That's something he and Vox had in common she supposed. She wondered why they hated each other so much, they were quite similar. Attention-seekers and braggadocious; was it really the type of medium that tore them apart? Voe shook her head and groaned
"Ugh, men,"
For dinner, there was a huge pot of spaghetti sitting on the stove. No one had taken any so it was filled to the brim. Voe removed the lid from the pot and looked in, it looked good, too bad she had to ruin it. She placed the lid to the side and checked over her shoulder to make sure no one was watching her pull out the bottle as she uncorked it and raised it above to pot-
"Uh, what thefuckare you doing?" An Italian accent cut through her concentration as two hands pulled her back from the pot and another yanked the bottle from her hands. She was face to face with Angel Dust, who looked less than thrilled about someone trying to add asecret ingredientto his spaghetti. "I want an answer, what are you doing?"
Voe wasn't really sure what to say, she thought that if he had seen her then he would know what she was doing. She simply looked around the kitchen, trying to avoid his eyes.
"I know you like Smiles and all that, but this is just wrong. And also, you about to drug everybody in the Hotel! You really wanna hear all that fuckin'?"
Voe pouts her lips "I guess not,"
"Geez, it's calledconsent.Ask! Trust me, I've been under one of these, it doesnotfeel good! And I've had to do it to other people, andthatdoesn't feel good either!"
Voe swings back and forth on her feet.
"Are you gonna stand in here all awkward or do you wanna come out here and interact with us like a normal human being?"
"Okay," she says lowly as she follows Angel into the parlor
The bright lights hurt her eyes for a moment as she walked into the lit parlor. Charlie gasps "Hi Voe! We're playing 'Charades: Musical Edition'! come and join us!"
Voe sat on the floor in the front, placing her skirt under her. She happened to be right in front of Alastor's legs and she glanced up at him for a moment.
She preferred to act without thinking because when she began to think about her actions, she suddenly began to feel bad about them. After talking with Angel she thought about what it would have meant to have love potioned Alastor. What would she have done next? Would she really have gone through with havingsexwith him after that? That would be vile, and disgusting. She may not have been the most morally upstanding but she wasnota rapist. She glanced up at Alastor again, and this time he was looking down at her with an eyebrow raised. She turned and looked in the other direction, seeing Angel giving her the same look. She shook her head. No, no love potion. She would find another way.
