It was the next morning and it was work as usual, Isadora did not feel like being there she kept thinking about last night and could not help but smile to herself and feel a little distracted, she was glad she was usually done with her work day around noon depending on the day today she did not have to make a lunch set up just the breakfast set up so work was not nearly as long and she could not wait to just be done so she can spend the rest of the day with Alastor who was also busy with his day as the facility manager at the hotel, Charlie had a list of bizarre request and Alastor did not feel like like doing them but it was technically the job he volunteered to do according to her, but in reality it was the job he kind of had no choice but to do, but he tried not to think about that now pushing the thought aside. All he could think about was the night before and how he made love to Isadora. That thought made him have a genuine smile for once, cause he never made love before only fucked women at speakeasies and clubs that he cared nothing about and probably would not have if he was sober half the time. Intimacy was more comfortable with her and he liked the emotional feeling that came with it and not the feeling of contempt and disgust he would feel in the past. After both of their respective jobs were done for the day Isadora met Alastor in the lounge he was already seated but saved a spot next to him that was always reserved for her, Alastor put a arm around her and got a few eyebrow raises, she knew they knew her and Alastor were together but never outright asked her or him about it, which she didn't care about cause her life isn't their concern.
" So what is today's topic of Charlie's pseudo therapy today?" She asked Alastor as It looked like Charlie was babbling on about something in rapid fire succession.
Charlie was leading a group with the few guests she had and the staff was sitting there too, Husk looked disengaged and Nifty had her usual vacant creepy grin.
" I think it is about things that make you happy? I stopped following cause she keeps backtracking and getting herself off topic." He said, shrugging his shoulders.
" So who wants to share the things they enjoyed in life that they are glad are in the afterlife too?" Charlie said eagerly, no one volunteered to go first on the subject so Charlie pointed to Angel and asked him what he enjoyed in life that he is glad is in the after life too.
" Dicks." Angel said flatly not looking up from his hellphone. Vaggie rolled her eyes and told Angel to take this exercise seriously and Angel retorted he was being serious and Charlie quickly looked around for a volunteer who may give a non disgusting answer. She asked Nifty the same question and Nifty said she is glad candy still exists.
" That's a nice thing, who else likes candy?" Charlie looked in Isadora's direction
" Isadora, do you like candy?" she asked, smiling.
" Not particularly I am not particularly into sweets but who am I to steal Niftys joy about candy? Speaking of candy do you know that they still make those nasty ass Necco wafers?" Angel, Alastor, and Husk looked in her direction and gave a disgusted and surprised look.
" You mean those weird wafer candy's that have been around since Jesus was a boy?" Angel looked up at his phone with a grimace on his face.
" Yeah somehow those are still around." Isadora said and Alastor gave a disgusted head shake.
" I thought they would have done away with those disgusting chalky communion wafers by now. They were terrible then and I am sure they are terrible now." Alastor said as he moved his arm off Isadora's shoulder and clasped her hand.
" Nope they are still making them hell pucks" Isadora chuckled.
" Who is even eating them? Like who is the market for those nasty things?" Husk asked incredulously.
" I don't know people who hate themselves I guess?" Isadora shrugged.
" I always thought they were sidewalk chalk when I was a kid. I colored with them until someone told me they were candy." Nifty said and giggled.
" What are Necco wafers?" Charlie asked
" They are this gross candy from Earth that have been around since the 1800s and they look like wafers but have the texture of sidewalk chalk and came in weird old timey flavors like licorice, clove, cinnamon, wintergreen, and cigar smoke." Isadora said chuckling and Angel, Husk, and Alastor chuckled as well.
" I am sure the green ones were probably arsenic." Alastor said and everyone laughed.
" They sound gross," Charlie said, shaking her head.
" They were," Angel said, " thank God they aren't being made in hell."
" There has to be some irony in that statement there." Husk said as he took a swig from his bottle of God only knows. They got off the topic off the topic of candy and they continued the exercise for another half hour with the new guest feeling bold enough to volunteer, Charlie noticed the new guest are shy about opening up probably because they've been in hell so long they're still skeptical about redemption but want to get of it a try because they heard of the one soul who got out of hell and into heaven.
After the exercise everyone got up to leave and continue about their day Alastor and Isadora walked down the hall hand in hand having a light conversation.
" So what is the rest of your day looking like?" Isadora asked Alastor rolled his eyes and told her he had a meeting with the other overlords. Isadora said that sounded gross and she was sorry he had to go to those. Isadora is the only person he ever tells about the overlords having meetings every month, he never cared for them but as an overlord he is obligated to go.
" What are you going to do with the rest of your day my little blue devil?" He said giving her nose a gentle bop
" Well me and Nell and Raemon are going to check out stylish occult and maybe grab something light at Mark of the Beast coffee and then I'm coming back here."
" Aside from that annoying hipster coffee place you like sounds fun, would you like to go out later? There's this charming jazz club in the old town district of pentagram city and maybe grab dinner?" He asked, it was his turn to pick what they would do last time it was her turn and they went to cafe Attila because they had vegetarian options Alastor wasn't crazy about going to the cafe but it made her happy so he said nothing and went but he did enjoy the underground revival theater she found that played old movies and did vaudeville acts as well that part he did enjoy. But no matter what they did he always enjoyed being with her which he liked, but also didn't know why no one ever made him have deeper feelings for. He knew he was on the psychopathy spectrum he didn't deny that but for whatever reason this little blue woman had a grip on his heart and he didn't mind that.
" Sounds great I'm down, I'll probably be back around 3 or so, see you then?" She asked and looked up at him smiling.
"It's a date." He said and gave her a kiss on the cheeks before parting ways.
Isadora and her friends found some great stuff at stylish occult and grabbed their order at Mark of the Beast coffee her, Nell, and Raemon found a quiet corner to sit in Raemon was a candle headed ram demon from the Sloth ring but he always was willing to come up to the Pride ring cause he knew that her and Nell were stuck there which was unfair but what can you do? They were having a fun conversation when Nell asked Isaodra how things were going with the radio demon. Isadora smiled and looked down at her coffee and Nell knew that look.
" Did you finally do the deed?" She asked giggling and Isadora gave a sheepish grin
"Ha! I knew it! Didn't you guys have rage sex in the beginning but decided to hold off and properly date right?" Nell asked and Isadora smiled.
" I thought both of you were ace tho?" Raemon asked Isaodra explained to him in the past that asexuality and sex adversion aren't the same thing and that you have sex positive, sex neutral, and sex adverse and her and Alastor fell more into the first two. The reasonings for her having sex with him had nothing to do with sexual attraction, she liked the connection they had, expressing physically how she felt, and hell- sex DOES feel physically good.
" I am but my reason like I stated before has nothing to do with sexual attraction, the first time it happened I think it was because of adrenaline fueled rage and anger and the second time because I wanted to show him how much he means to me and he wanted to do the same. And hell we did it cause we just wanted to. Sex does feel good so we just wanted too." She said and he nodded at least he was trying to understand better the spectrum of asexuality but still seemed lost.
" So how was it?" Nell asked beaming from ear to ear.
" Amazing. And I don't know what it is about him but I've never felt so connected to a person and nobody else has ever made me feel these types of feelings so it just made me want to be with him in every sense of the word." She said smiling
" You think it's love?" Raemon asked
" I don't know, but I do know he started a flame in my heart
