It had been two weeks since Alastor and Isadora told each other they loved the other, Isadora noticed a change in Alastor's demeanor; he seemed lighter and a bit more happy, his eyes looking less harsh behind his smile. She felt closer to him too physically they have been almost inseparable but not in a smothering way she loved waking up next to him they slept in the same bed each night they haven't made love since Valentine's Day but they slept together every night, sometimes just laying in bed talking or just being in each other's arms. She loves watching him sleep. She thought beforehand Alastor was the type to sleep in a set of elegant men's pajamas but thought it was cute when she learned he didn't like the confining feeling of them and preferred sleeping in his boxers and a ' wife beater' she told him one day what a sleeveless undershirt was referred to when she was alive. She liked the way he slept on his stomach and his ears would stick straight out and sometimes twitch in his sleep, when he slept was the only time he didn't smile and he always looked peaceful. She almost forgot he was one of hells most sadistic overlords and loved that she felt privy to see a side of Alastor that was only shown to her. He almost looked sweet but she never forgot who he was and what he was capable of. Lots of mornings she would awake to Alastor having an arm around her and that made her smile. She decided that tomorrow she was going to tell her secret to him, and show a side of herself that only he would be privy to see.

Alastor and Isadora were in the lobby with the other staff, Charlie decided she wanted to have a weekly staff meeting with them half the time she didn't pay attention to them- come to think of it she didn't think Husk, Nifty, or Alastor paid attention to them either. They were in the middle of their meeting when Cherri Bomb ran out from the TV room

" Hey the guy on that art show who paints landscapes went to his dark place again!" Everyone but Charlie stopped what they were doing and ran to the TV room. Happy painting was a boring show about a guy who just painted landscapes but every once in awhile he would go to what Cherri called his dark place and start painting something demented in a trance-like state, it was entertaining to watch cause half the time he would end up attacking the executive producer or the camera man. Alastor was not big on TV but thought it was entertaining to see an opportunity to see blood lust or sadism.

Everyone was crowded around the TV fixed on the screen. Russel the show's host/ painter was staring at the canvas in a trance-like state aggressively painting a black circle on the canvas.

" Man, he's really going at the canvas hardcore this time!" Angel said hunched over on the couch looking at the TV in amused disbelief.

" I don't think he's blinked the entire time has he?" Alastor asked amused also hunched over on the couch next to Isadora transfixed on the scene before him.

" I didn't know that a paint brush can hold so much black paint!" Isadora mused as she clasped Alastor's hand, also not taking her eyes off the screen. Off screen the camera man asked Russel if he was okay.

" Oh shit! The camera mans got his attention!" Husk said standing behind the couch Vaggie was standing next to him, and asked if they thought Russell was going to attack the camera man this time or the executive producer, Suddenly Russell stared up from his trance and blankly looked at the direction of the camera. Suddenly everyone in the TV room was goading towards the TV for Russell to attack the camera man. Before they all chanted ' Do it! Do it!" In unison. Suddenly with a stone face Russell ran towards the camera and started viciously attacking the executive producer and everyone in the room laughed and cheered.

" Brutal!" Nifty laughed

" Come on! Get his ass!" Vaggie cheered, she may have been a fallen Angel but shared the blood lust the others had. Suddenly the screen cut to a ' technical difficulties' sign and everyone groaned. Charlie walked into the TV room and asked how everyone could find something so sadistic entertaining.

" Hey, you said you wanted there to be more camaraderie between the staff and we have a shared camaraderie of watching a TV host go into his dark place before brutally attacking his executive producer!" Isadora said and shrugged everyone dispersed from the TV room and went their separate ways, Alastor and Isadora decided that they were going to go out for lunch and say hi to Rosie in cannibal town and pay her friend Nell a visit at her job and say hi to her for a bit as well. The day was pleasant and Isadora could only think about the secret she wanted to finally share with Alastor, she was nervous about how he would see her after this, but it was a side to herself that she wanted to share because like him she had a very dark side too. She decided she wasn't going to wait until tomorrow that she was going to tell him tonight more like show him tonight because her nerves were starting to get a little frayed and she just wanted to get it over with. After spending the day together they decided to turn in for the night and just have a low-key evening they like to listening to music while they either read or they would have a conversation and Alastor liked watching Isdora crochet because she made beautiful pieces and thought it was endearing that a modern goth girl like her had such an old-fashioned hobby.

They decided to be in Alastor's room for the night as soon as he closed the door he noticed she had a look of apprehension on her face and seemed far off.

" What's wrong my little blue devil? You seem far off this evening?" Isadora looked up at him and nervously bit her lower lip and took a deep breath.

" There is something I need to tell you, it's kind of big and I don't know how you may see me after this but I don't want to hide anything from you." She said Alastor held his breath because he didn't know what she meant by this and it could have meant anything, was she going to break up with him? Was she seeing anyone else? He highly doubts that because he was basically with her all the time. he didn't like the fact that she had something she was withholding from him but tried to keep in mind that she didn't want to hold it from him any longer and waited for her to continue.

" It's something that I have to show you and I really hope you don't look at me like I'm a horrible person but if I explain everything and why I do it I hope you understand." She said her voice quivering a little, Alastor stood rigid and took in what she said could potentially be really bad or change the dynamic of the relationship it was a moment before he said something.

" What is it? And why did you wait this long to want to tell me?"

" Because I wanted to wait until I knew we could trust each other that you would know me well enough to hopefully understand." She said and gave a half smile.

" Okay well what is it?" He asked and Isadora snapped her fingers and in an instant the room changed into a green world that looked like an alternate reality of hell everything in the room was the same but now everything was Green, in the air floated voodoo symbols and the lwa floated by. He could see his breath and he took it all in and before he could say anything she spoke first.

" This is the supernatural realm, I can go in and out of it freely I can make the lwa do things for me, I can pull their power from this world. But this isn't the thing I wanted to share, come with me." She said opening the door and walking down the hall it looked like time stood still the whole realm was just shades of green with an occasional lwa floating by like a wisp, they got down to the lobby and he saw everyone in the lobby but they were frozen as Stone, their eyes look like they rolled in the back of their head they were looking up towards the ceiling and it looked like clouds of smoke werebillowing out of their mouth.

" Don't worry they are not hurt or aware in this realm, it's almost like time is still I can't explain it." Isadora said as she walked out the hotel doors with Alastor following her, the sky was Green and in the sky there were eyes and a huge symbol of Papa legba and voodoo symbols, he noticed that in the sky on each side of the symbol seems to be two creatures that looked like an alternative form of Isadora but their eyes were closed and they almost looked like they were in a comatose-like state. Alastor asked what they were.

" In this realm that's how my full demon forms present themselves." She said and continued walking Alastor looked up at them again and he noticed the one looked as big as the heaven embassy, and instead of legs it looked like it had smoky tendrils that also served as a skirt, and a black leather jacket and her torso was bandaged and she had a hat with a skull on it, and two large horns and in between her two large horns floated the symbol of Papa legba. He looked around asthey were walking through pentagram City, everything in a shade of green, everyone Frozen as Stone looking up at the sky with their eyes rolled in the back of their heads with the same Smokey mist coming out of their mouth.

" How are you able to access this world and hold Papa Legba's symbol in your possession?" He asked, Isadora looked over her shoulder, and said she didn't know but even in her life he was always there for as long as she could remember and when she died he presented himself to her full form and said they are tied together and bound. Alastor's mother practice voodoo and she said in the voodooism that Papa legba was not a force to be reckoned or messed with that he was the catalyst to Bondye and that he is the crossroads of death and the spirit realm and that in the mortal realm all use of Bondye and the lwa go through him. But how was she able to use it to this capacity? His thoughts were interrupted by Isadora telling him they arrived. He looked around and saw nothing until Isadora held up her hand and made a ' come here' motion and out of the ground appeared a giant head, it looked like the head of a tortured woman.

" Open the gate." Isadora said coldly and the giant head opened its mouth painfully wide, black stringing hair flailing in the wind and her eyes rolled into the back of her head as she groaned opening the gate.

" Come with me," she said and walked through the mouth of the ' gate' as she called it as they walked through the giant head serving as the mouth of the gate seemed to groan in pain. they didn't walk far until he saw what felt like a sea of demons, demons who looked like they were rooted to the ground, roots growing out of their mouths, poking into their eyes, and growing into their ears. All of them groaning trying to move but they were rooted to the ground with roots growing out of them and enveloping them. Alastor couldn't say he felt horrified just confused by what he saw, he kept his composure and smile.

" What are they?" He asked not taking his eyes off the sea of rooted demons.

" It's who they were and they are the souls I have stolen." She stated not taking her eyes off the sea of wretched souls, her eyes narrowed and a smile turned up on her lips.

" You stole them?" He asked, looking at her.

" Yes, unlike the overlords in hell I don't need to make a deal to own a soul." She said and looked at the sea of demons with hatred. Alastor was taken aback, she doesn't need to make a deal to acquire souls for more power like an overlord she can take them as she pleased and gain power like they could, and with the sea of them planted in the ground her power is of equal footing to that of one of the more powerful overlords. The realization of that first night he almost attacked her hit him, if they didn't end up making love that night he could have been there with the rest of them.

" Are you trying to acquire power like an overlord?" He asked

" No, I don't want power and I don't want to govern anything if I wanted to be an overlord I would have been one pretty much the moment I got to hell just like you" she said breaking her gaze away from the sea of horror that was in front of them and looked right at him.

" Then why steal these souls then?" He asked looking back at them.

" To punish them to make them pay for the Justice they escaped in life, and the punishment they thought they escaped from in hell. Hell is not punishment enough. These are the souls of pedophiles, child pornographers, child rapist, rapist in general, child traffickers. They need to pay for what they did hell is not a punishment enough because they can still do the vile things that they do, still hurt the children that are down here, still satiate a sick desire. They need to pay and I am the eternal punishment. Being planted is agony, they're in constant agony. They can't move they can't see they can't talk they can't hear. So they will spend their eternity in agony screaming into a silent dark world and even then I don't think that that's a harsh enough punishment." She said her voice raising to anger.

" So you do this because of a moral code?" He asked Isadora looked back at him.

" I am a mother, if I can't keep my daughter safe because heaven separates me, at least I can keep the children here safe so their existence is less of a hell. You're supposed to protect children, you're not supposed to hurt and exploit them. I'm doing for these children what was not done for me. People like them need to pay, children need to be protected like I wasn't. I wanted to show you because I know you have some semblance of a moral code like I do. I knew of all the people you would understand." She looked up at him and smiled, he took her hand and looked back at the sea of filth that writhed before him.

" They are filth and you are doing hell a favor, I knew there was a reason I was so attracted to you I knew you were just like me. You are cunning you are vicious you are beautiful you have a moral code like me and you have an incredibly dark side to you, and you have really impressed me with this." He said waving out his hands to the monsters she planted. She smiled and gripped his hand

" I knew you would understand." She said and hugged him, he cupped her chin with his hand and smiled at her.

" You my dear are quite the adversary and are worthy for me to say you are on equal footing with me, you are not a force to be reckoned with and I knew I found a kindred spirit in you!" He said and leaned down and kissed her. She smiled at him she felt so much better knowing he understood, they left the gate hand in hand and Isadora turned around and coldly and sternly yelled

" Close the gate- mom."