Alastor and Isadora's six month anniversary was coming up and Alastor wanted to celebrate with something really special to commemorate their milestone anniversary; they were at the halfway point of being together one year, and to him it warranted a celebration. He got a reservation at Genghis Bistro and told Isadora to buy a dress for the occasion. Isadora said he didn't need to make a fuss over her or it and she was just happy to spend time together but Alastor said she and their six month anniversary was worth celebrating and gave her money to buy the nicest dress she could find. Alastor loved spoiling Isadora because she didn't expect to be spoiled, he knew no matter what they did together she was truly just as happy no matter what. He loved how she was not high maintenance and demanding and expecting him to constantly spoil her and buy her expensive things. The women in his time had ridiculously high standards and there was never pleasing them so in his life on Earth he gave up dating all together and just told himself the right girl will eventually come along and he will be ready for her. And he was right, even though it did take well over a century.
Isadora was out with Angel finding a dress to buy, Nell had work and Raemon was attending a wedding in the gluttony ring so weren't available, but she and Angel became good friends over the last six months and he had a good fashion sense so she was happy to bring him along. They made a day of it, they got lunch, went to some boutiques and found a beautiful dress that was Isadora's style, it was a lovely spaghetti strap with a cinched waist style that had skulls made from little pink Swarovski-style crystals decorating the bottom of it. When she tried it on she felt beautiful. She normally didn't wear ' girly' things but she felt like such a girl wearing it and knew Alastor would like it cause it was in a style she would wear. Angel and Isadora had just left a shop when Angel noticed someone and loudly exclaimed ' oh shit.' When Isadora asked what's wrong he said he just spotted someone named Mimzy and was walking this way. Isadora looked in Angels direction and saw a short, stocky, blonde woman in a flapper outfit strutting her way towards them.
" Angel sweet cheeks long time no see! I haven't seen you since those loan sharks attacked the hotel!" Isadora noticed that Mimzys voice was grating and shrill, she looked at Isadora up and down and gave a 'humph' noise and veered her direction back at Angel.
" Yeah loan sharks who attacked the hotel because you and Alastor had to clean up your mess for you." Angel retorted with annoyance and disdain.
" Alastor fought off loan sharks at the hotel?" Isadora asked and Mimzy turned her attention back to Isadora.
" And ate them." Angel said laughing.
" Ha! Nice!" Isadora chuckled.
" Only you would find that funny Isadora and not be horrified at the fact your man went all giant and ate a bunch of loan shark demons!" Angel chuckled and Mimzy's gaze shot up and she had to restrain a look of jealousy and anger at Isadora.
" Oh so you're Alastor's new lady?" She said trying to be coy
" If you mean girlfriend then yeah I am." Isadora said and shrugged.
"The names Mimzy and my aren't you the lucky one, you're very lucky you know, back when Alastor was alive he was quite the heartbreaker in his day. Him and I used to have a thing back in the day and I can say you are quite the lucky girl between us. He was one hell of a lover!" Mimzy said winking trying to hide her smile cause she was hoping that hearing that would make Isadora mad.
" Hmm you don't say, well cool story bro." Isadora said flatly cause she knew the game Mimzy was trying to play and was not buying into it.
" Alastor is still quite the heartbreaker now although it seems his taste has gotten strange since being in hell" Mimzy gave a patronizing shrug.
" It seems his taste was even stranger when he was alive." Isadora replied and looked Mimzy up and down. Mimzy looked back in shock before Isadora continued
" Well we got to go, it was nice meeting you Mumford." Angel tried not to laugh as they began walking away.
" It's Mimzy!" She replied angrily.
" No one cares who you are." Isadora replied over her shoulder as her and Angel walked away.
Back at the hotel Isadora was in her room putting her stuff away, aside from her encounter with Mumford she had a nice day and was going to forget all about it she didn't care if Alastor fucked that woman literally a hundred years ago, she was barely even a footnote in her day and Isadora was going to forget about it until she left the room and headed downstairs and heard Angel talking to Charlie, Vaggie, Nifty, and Husk and they were laughing about something
" And then she said ' his taste seemed even stranger when he was alive too and then called her Mumford and when Mimzy said that wasn't her name Isadora said ' no one cares who you are!' and walked away!" He said and the others laughed Isadora instantly got flashed with anger and annoyance, she didn't like her business being brought up and wasn't even going to mention running into Mumford at all but now everyone knew and it could potentially turn into a 'thing' that she wasn't in the mood for.
Isadora came downstairs and told Angel that he wished he didn't even bring it up cause to her it was not worth mentioning and just as she said that Alastor came in and asked ' What is not worth mentioning?' Before Isadora could reply Nifty interrupted by saying that her and Angel ran into Mimzy today. Alastor rolled his eyes at hearing this and Isadora said she didn't want to talk about it anymore and didn't appreciate Angel regaling the story and walked away to the kitchen, she needed to be alone cause her irritation level rose to an all time high and she needed to decompress. She hated gossip and hated it more when it involved her. She decided she was going to prepare a pan of vegetables for a mir poux to have on hand. She was chopping carrots when she heard the sound of radio static. She didn't feel like turning around and kept chopping.
"I can feel you staring at me, Alastor." she said not looking up from the cutting board. Alastor walked to the other side of the prep table to face her; she didn't look up and kept chopping.
" So you ran into Mimzy today?" He asked and Isadora started chopping faster.
" I don't want to have this conversation." She said sternly, trying to not be annoyed.
" Are you mad at me?" He asked as he took the knife from her hand and walked to the other side and held her arms, she didn't look up at him.
" Why would I be mad at you? You didn't do anything wrong."
" I feel like I did because of the way you are acting." Isadora looked up at him for once Alastor wasn't smiling. He looked confused as to what could be wrong not seeing him smile really caught her off guard cause he always smiles.
" I am annoyed because I don't want to have a conversation about Mimzy, I wanted to forget that part of my day cause she was barely a footnote in an otherwise good day but Angel had brought it up and I hate gossip pertaining to me. Like I don't like being put on display like that." She said and sighed.
" May I ask what did she say to you?" She looked up at him and gave another sigh.
" Well she brought up the fact that you were a heartbreaker when you were alive and that you and her were an item and you were an amazing lover." Alastor frowned and let go of her arms.
" Oh God you can't be serious" he said, closing his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose with his thumb and forefinger.
" Yeah but I honestly don't care if it's true or not I really don't." Isadora said, looking away.
" It was a very long time ago and I only slept with her once, it wasn't even anything meaningful honestly it was a drunken fuck in the back seat of my car and she was screeching so loud like a hyena I couldn't even finish." Isadora gave a laugh.
" That sounds…bad. But honestly you didn't even have to explain yourself, I can't get mad at you for having a life and an afterlife literally for 92 years before I was even born." Alastor unpinched the bridge of his nose and looked at her.
" So you're not mad about that?" He asked and put his hands on her shoulder.
" No. I can't get mad at you for having a whole entire life before I came along, that's like you getting mad at me for the all two people I slept with before you happened to come along. That would be so unfair and it screams of insecurity. I am mad that that woman was so jealous and insecure that she thought it would make me as jealous and as insecure as her. And I'm mad that Angel had to tell everyone I don't like that attention. But no, you are within your right to sleep with whomever and live your life cause you didn't know that a long time down the line we would meet." She looked at him and smiled, he pulled her in for a hug.
" I'm so lucky to have you, the amount of women who would turn someone's past into an argument is exhausting. I love that you wouldn't hold my past against me."
" Why would I? Can't get mad at you for having a whole life before me." She said hugging him tighter.
"I wouldn't get mad at you either. I'm sorry Mimzy did that to you, she is a petty selfish woman." He said kissing the top of her head.
" It's okay ... .so really, she legit sounded like a hyena?" She said laughing, Alastor laughed and shook his head. He pulled her in for another hug and told her to put the vegetables away cause he wanted to go upstairs cause he liked the noises she made, Isadora took the hint and put the vegetables away and Alastor took her hand and they raced up to her bedroom and didn't come out for the rest of the night.