Chapter 15: When the claws come out

A/N: Oh boy, as you can tell by the title things are gonna get heated up. And I'm sure you can guess who's going to start it.

I'm starting another poll for you guys to vote on! Next chapter I was thinking of having Jenny sing again and I wanted to see what you all would like her play.

Anyway, let's get on with the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss, I just own my characters.

Enjoy!

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Jenny sipped on her morning coffee as she ignored Angel and Vaggie's bickering. With Tony fixing up the rooms, that meant they could be painted. Angel of course wanted to paint his room an obnoxious color and Vaggie put her foot down about it.

The human didn't care. Staying here wasn't going to be permanent for her so she didn't mind what color the rooms were painted. Charlie had the final say about the place anyway. Instead, she was going to focus on which one of the nine circles she was going to look at next. She still hadn't found Imp City but she knew she was getting closer.

"Toots, back me up on this!" Angel snapped.

Jenny lazily looked up from her paper to see the spider demon standing in front of her.

"Say what now?"

Angel waved an arm at Vaggie's direction.

"Tell this stuck-up prude that pink is a prefect color for bedroom walls!" he said.

"For the last time, you're not paining your own room! This is a hotel not an apartment!" Vaggie yelled.

"You should be letting me since I volunteered to be a part of your stupid little project to begin with"

Angel looked back at Jenny expectantly.

"Come on, Jen. Tell her I'm right"

Jenny sighed as she rubbed her temple. Since when did it become her job to babysit everyone in this place?

"I'm staying out this" she said.

"Oh, come on! You're the only one here who has brains!" the spider said.

Jenny stifled a yawn behind her hand.

"There's a number of reasons why I'm not siding with you. 1) I don't care. 2) Charlie is paying for your food and other essentials here so why ask more from her? And course 3) it's not my hotel"

She got up from her seat and took her paper and coffee.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to be enjoying my day off"

"Day off? We're not even open!" Angel argued.

"It's my day off from babysitting you lot. Be a good boy and stay out trouble today, okay?"

She turned around and waved behind her.

"Byeee!" she sang.

She could hear Angel and Vaggie picking up their bickering as she left. Those two bickered as bad as Blitzo and Moxxie did.

Since she couldn't relax in the lobby it seemed she had to do it in her room.

"Hello, Miss. Firecracker"

Jenny halted in her tracks when she heard that static voice. Slowly looking over her shoulder, she saw Alastor strolling up to her. The radio demon wore his usual creepy grin that made everyone's skin crawl.

"Fancy seeing you here"

"It's the hotel lobby. Where else would you run into people?" Jenny deadpanned.

Alastor ignored her and got a little too close to her.

"Where are you off to on such a lovely day?"

Jenny took a step back. She was trying to keep on a brave face, but that didn't mean she had to deal with him making her uncomfortable.

"Just heading up to my room to relax" she said dully.

"Haha! Now why would you want to do that?"

He got closer to her face, his eyes glowing red as he did.

"You're not hiding from someone are you?"

Jenny glared at him and held her coffee mug up.

"You have three seconds to get out of my face before I throw hot coffee in yours" she warned.

"One..."

Alastor took the hint and stood up straight.

"And to answer your question, no I'm not hiding from anyone, I just need to some peace and quiet. It's too noisy down here"

She didn't enjoy that she had to explain herself to him but she figured if she gave him an honest answer, he would leave her alone.

"Oh, come now dear, it's a hotel. Places like these are supposed to be noisy" Alastor said.

Jenny rolled her eyes and walked away. He could find someone else to entertain him.

"Hotels are supposed to be relaxing and hearing two people arguing about painting the rooms is not relaxing" she called out.

Much to her dismay, Alastor followed her out of the lobby and up the stairs.

"That should be a fun activity. Talking about colors and what goes well together is a great activity"

"If you think it's fun, then by all means go join them" Jenny said flatly.

Why was her room so far away?

"You should join them since everyone goes for your input" Alastor teased.

"As I've told Angel, it's not my hotel it's Charlies so she gets the final say" Jenny said.

"Is it now? I thought it was starting to be yours with how you're always taking care of things around here" the demon said.

Jenny stopped walking and glared at Alastor over her shoulder.

"And what the fuck is that supposed to mean?" she growled.

Alastor wore a shit eating grin. Finally, he got her attention.

"Think about it: who's the one who stopped everyone from laughing at Charlie on live tv? You. Who's the one who took cleaned this place up so it can be opened to the public? You. Who's the one who has been fixing this building and finding a contractor to repair it? Why, it's you again! For someone who owns this place, Charlie certainly hasn't done a lot"

The more Alastor spoke the more Jennifer became pissed off. Who the fuck did he think he was for bashing Charlie like that?! She accepted his help even though she knew he didn't believe in her cause.

Husker told her to watch herself when she was around Alastor but she didn't give two shits about that now.

"You know what? You're right. I think it would be fun to discuss paint colors for the hotel. In fact, I know the perfect color that'll work well for you" she said.

She threw her coffee right into his face and watched with satisfaction as it dripped all over his clothes.

"Remember when you told me to be careful with what I said? You should follow your own advice. You just never know what's going to set someone off" she repeated.

Alastor's eyes glowed blood red as he glared at Jenny. His smile grew wider and sharper as shadows started to appear around him. Jenny held her ground and her mug tightly, ready to throw it at him. She was done with him scaring her.

"You insolent, little-"

"Alastor, what did you do to the hotel sign outside?"

Both Jenny and Alastor turned to see Charlie coming up the stairs.

"What happened, Charlie?" Jenny asked.

The princess gave Alastor an annoyed look.

"Someone changed the name outside of the Hotel. Instead of saying 'Happy Hotel' it now reads 'Hazbin Hotel'. I know for a fact Tony didn't do it since I asked him not to so that only leaves one other person who's capable of changing things super-fast"

Jenny looked at Alastor with disgust. He really didn't care about this hotel at all and wanted to see Charlie fail.

"Man, you really are on a role with having everyone hating you today" she spat.

"You should change your name to Asstor instead of Alastor. It fits better"

She spun on her heel and stormed away. She would let Charlie deal with him since this was her hotel and it'll show that stupid demon, she's capable of taking care of her hotel.

Reaching her room, she went inside and slammed the door shut. Locking it for good measure she went over to her bed and flopped onto it. She groaned into the covers then flopped over to look at the ceiling.

This was getting to be too much for her. She had hoped that she would have found Blitz and returned home by now but that wasn't the case. It was like some type of divine force was preventing her from returning to her best friend and her life. This really was Hell.

She turned on the TV to have noise in the background. Her mind was all over the place. She wanted to get away from this place as fast as possible. She didn't belong here and the longer she stayed here the higher the chance someone would realize she was a living human.

A tear slid down her face as she gripped the comforter. She wanted to go home. She wanted to go back to her boring life, back to the job that she hated, back to planning her wedding. She was tired of waking up every morning, worrying that someone would see past her disguise. Tired of checking every hallway to make sure Alastor wasn't around. Tired of being afraid.

She just wanted to see her loved ones again.

"Blitz, where are you?" she whispered.

"Hey there, I'm Blitzo-the O is silent and I'm the founder of I.M.P!"

Jenny's eyes shot open when she heard an oh so familiar voice. Shooting up, she looked at the tv to see Blitzo was on the screen. It was his ad for his business!

Gasping, she covered her mouth in shock. It was Blitz! Well, it was a commercial of him but still! Tears welled up in her eyes as she watched the ad. It was cheesy with the little jingle he made for it, but it was fitting. When it reached to the end of the commercial, it showed the address of where his office was at. Quickly jotting down the location, Jenny pulled out the map she had stashed under her pillow to see where it was in Pentagram City. It wasn't far at all! It was only two circles away from where the hotel was but now, she knew where to find Blitzo!

She smiled as she wiped her tears away. Finally, after all this time, she found a way to get home!

'I finally found you Blitz!' she thought.

She stuffed the papers in her hoodie and hopped off the bed. She had to tell Charlie the good news! Once she knew, she could drive her over to Blitzo's office and she was home free!

Bye, bye Hell and hello freedom!

She opened her door to find Alastor standing on the other side.

"There you are, you little brat" he hissed.

Jenny rolled her eyes and shut her door.

"I don't have time for you, now get out of my way"

She squeezed past the demon and hurried down the hallway to find Charlie. Alastor narrowed his eyes at her and was hot on her heels.

"I should tear you apart for throwing your coffee at me" he threated.

"I warned you I would if you wouldn't get out of my face. You play stupid games; you get stupid prizes" Jenny retorted.

Alastor zipped past her and stood in front of her.

"I believe I warned you to watch that mouth of yours. If you keep pissing off people, you're going to end up with more than just a scratch to the face" he warned.

Jenny glared at him and crossed her arms. She didn't have to worry about staying quiet anymore. Now that she knew where Blitzo was, she could be ballsy. She wasn't going to stay down here anyway to deal with the consequences.

"You're such a fucking hypocrite, you know that?" she said.

"You have no problem at all talking down on others but when someone does it to you, you act like it's a taboo. If you don't like being treated like crap then don't do it to others. It's just that simple"

Alastor just laughed as shadows appeared around him.

"You have guts talking to an Overlord like that, dear" he said.

"That title doesn't mean anything to me. You're just an asshole and I'm calling you out on it" Jenny retorted.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I have things I need to take care of"

The sound of Vaggie shouting in the distance caught their attention.

"Like that"

She shoved Alastor out of the way and ran down the hallway to where the noise was coming from.

"I can't have one quiet day around this place" she growled.

She reached to the sound of the noise to find Vaggie standing out of Angel's room.

"Vaggie, what's going-"

She froze when she saw what Vaggie was screaming about. It seemed that Angel had decided to paint his room anyway and went with a hot pink color.

"Holy shit"

Angel smiled when he saw Jenny.

"Hey Toots, what do you think?"

"I think you better dig a hole in the back cause Charlie is going to murder you"

Everyone else came over to see what the commotion was about and had similar responses.

"God damn" Husk said.

"I never knew pink could come in such a shade" Alastor said.

Charlie looked at the room horror. It was a complete mess. Angel did such a sloppy job at it that it got all over the carpet and furniture she bought for the room.

"Angel, I never said you could paint your room. All the rooms are going to be the same color" she said seriously.

Angel shrugged showing he didn't care and dunked his brush into the paint can.

"I'm giving this place the Angel vibe. If I'm staying here, I want it to match my tastes"

Vaggie growled and stormed over to him, grabbing the paint can.

"You're about to be kicked out in the next five seconds. Clean this up right now!"

Angel got angry and yanked the can back from her.

"Back off, bitch. I'm doing you all a favor by making this shit hole look pretty"

The two of them fought over the paint can, sloshing paint back and forth.

What happened next was a huge cluster fuck.

Some paint flew out and landed on Fat Nuggets. The pig squealed in fright and darted across the room, zipping between Vaggie's legs. When Nuggets bumped into her, it caused Vaggie loose her balance and throw the paint out in the group's direction. Within seconds, everyone was covered in bright pink paint.

Shrieks and swearing echoed the hallway. Jenny, who was closest to Angel's door got a face full of paint. She took a step back in shock, not seeing that there was paint on the floor and slipped on it. Flailing her arms around, she grabbed the closest thing to break her fall, which unfortunately was Alastor's jacket. As she went down, everyone could hear the sound of fabric ripping as Jenny tore off the tailpiece revealing a very fluffy deer tail.

After that, everything went stone silent. Charlie, Vaggie and Angel were shocked by what just happened while Nifty and Husker paled for other reasons.

They both knew Alastor hated having his tail shown. Whenever someone tried to look at it, he became very violent.

Jenny groaned as she held her head. She realized her was holding something in her other hand and looked down to see she was holding part of Alastor's jacket.

"What the?"

The sound of loud radio static filled the air as shadows seeped underneath her. Slowly looking up, she saw Alastor hunched over her with a very, very demonic look to his face. His eyes sunk to black hollowed holes, while his antlers grew and his teeth sharpened.

Jenny gulped and slinked back as he started to approach her. Husker quickly got in front of her and drew his wings out to cover Alastor's view of her.

"Don't even think about it! Don't be pulling that shit here" he ordered.

Nifty went up to him and grabbed his clawed hand to draw his attention.

"It was an accident. She didn't mean it"

Both of their pleas fell on deaf ears as Alastor tried to get to Jenny.

"ENOUGH!" Charlie screamed.

That caught Alastor's attention and made him revert back to normal. Husker and Nifty stayed close to Jenny just in case.

Charlie's eyes were bright red as tears formed in them. She turned to Angel Dust and pointed a finger at him.

"You have until tonight to clean this god damn room up! I don't care how you do it or if Nifty helps you but I want this paint gone or else you're gone! Just because you're doing me a favor with helping me and my project doesn't mean you can take advantage of my kindness. I can easily find someone else to take your place. And Vaggie, you should have let me handle this instead of fighting with him. You know he does this on purpose so why do you take the bait?"

She turned to Alastor and growled.

"You're going to fix the sign outside and put it back the way it was! When I said I would accept your help I didn't mean you could make a joke out of it! If you're not going to take this seriously then just leave!"

She wiped the tears from her eyes.

"And for the record, I am doing a lot for the hotel. It's not noticeable like what Jenny's doing but I'm handling all of the dirty work while she's taking care of the other things that Vaggie and I don't have time for, so the next time you make snarky comments make sure you have all your facts straight"

It dawned on Jenny that Charlie had heard everything Alastor had said earlier. That explained why she looked upset.

She smirked a little when she saw the princess take control of everything. This showed that just because she was sweet and bubbly, she was still the princess of Hell and she wasn't going to take crap from anyone. That was why she was in charge of the hotel.

Charlie turned to Husker this time. The redness of her eyes fading as her anger subsided.

"Take Jenny back to her room so she could wash up" she asked.

Husk knew she wanted Jenny away from Alastor in case he lashed out again.

Turning around, he helped the human up and draped a wing over her body to block her from Alastor's sight.

"Let's go kid" he mumbled.

Jenny looked out the corner of her eye to see Alastor still glaring at her.

"How dead am I?" she asked.

"Just stay in your room for the next couple of days. He'll calm down once Nifty and I talk to him" Husk said.

"I didn't do it on purpose! I literally couldn't see anything!" Jenny insisted.

"Everyone knows that. It's just he's a very prideful demon and the fact that everyone saw his tail is a big deal to him"

"Why would it be a big deal that he has one? You've got wings and Angel has extra arms"

"It's Alastor, kid. Nothing makes sense with him" was Husk's only answer.

"And if you value your 'life', you won't say one fucking word about it to anyone. I mean it. I won't be able to defend you next time"

Jenny nodded frantically. She didn't know what Alastor was going to do to her if Charlie hadn't stopped him but she didn't want to find out.

"Don't worry, I won't spread any gossip to anyone"

She wasn't going to. After seeing what could have happened, she was planning on getting out of here. She touched the map that had Blitzo's address on it to make sure it didn't get ruined by the paint.

Now that she had a way to escape, she would finally get away from the radio demon for good.

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A/N: Jenny found out where Blitzo works! Now she can go home! And perfect timing too because she's really pissed off Alastor now.

And way to go Charlie for putting everyone in their place. I noticed that it seemed like I had Jenny taking care of the hotel a lot more than Charlie and I wanted to fix that lol.

And like I said in the beginning Jenny is going to sing so let me know what you would like her to sing!

Please review and tell me what you think!

Take care!