Chapter 19: A plate filled with kindness

A/N: Since it's the Holiday season I thought I'd treat you all with a new chapter! And it's a special one cause it's a Jenny/ Alastor focused one!

I hope you all have a safe and wonderful Holiday!

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

Enjoy!

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"Did you really have to buy all of this?"

Jenny struggled to carry all the bags that Angel dropped on her. True to his word, after they had drinks at the bar, he took her out shopping for new outfits and accessories. Both he and Cherri tried to get her to model some of the outfits and she had to refuse. Some of the things Angel got were very revealing and since she didn't paint anything else besides her hands and face, she didn't want to risk being exposed.

"Of course, I had to buy all of this! Have you noticed what you're wearing? Those baggy clothes make you look frumpy. I know you have curves hiding under those layers so we gotta flaunt them!"

Jenny scowled as she shuffled the bags on her arms.

"Not everyone likes to show off what they got. Sometimes it's fun keeping everything a surprise. Besides, I actually like my baggy outfit, it's comfy"

"Yeah, well what you call comfy I call an eyesore" Angel replied.

"You think people will wanna see you perform looking like a homeless person?"

"Whoever said I was going to perform?"

"Uh, I did just now. Seriously toots, you should think about performing around here. You keep talking about getting a second chance because of the hotel, now here's your chance"

Jenny sighed as they went up the steps to the hotel.

"I said all that shit to convince you to give this place a chance. I meant you had a second chance at redeeming yourself, not pursuing old dreams"

"Yeah, well maybe you not pursing your dreams is the reason you're down here" Angel teased.

"You gave up being a star and became a boring teacher. That was your punishment in life because you took the easy, submissive route"

Jenny stopped dead in her tracks when she heard that. Turning around, she gave the porn star an icy glare.

"Shut the fuck up" she hissed.

Angel raised an eyebrow amused.

"Ohhh, someone's sensitive" he teased.

"What's the matter? You chew people out when they've done something wrong but the moment someone does it to you, it's considered bad?"

He placed his hands on his hips and gave her a shit eating grin.

"Doesn't feel great, does it?"

He just cackled, finding the whole thing amusing.

"You don't know what happened to me when I was alive so shut your mouth" Jenny snapped as she slammed the bags to the ground.

The rest of the group slowly entered the lobby when they heard them bickering.

"I didn't do anything horrible when I was alive so don't you dare try to compare me to you" Jenny barked.

"Oh bullshit, you had to have done something otherwise you wouldn't have ended up down here" Angel argued.

"No one is ever really good. You may try to be, but deep down you're just nasty like the rest of us Sinners"

Jenny slowly cracked her knuckles the more Angel spoke. She rolled up her sleeve a little as she stomped over to him.

"You're in Hell, toots, so why don't you just accept it and embrace your inner bitch like the rest of-ACK!"

Jenny swung her fist out and rammed Angel square in the balls. The spider demon collapsed to the ground holding his crown jewels. The guys flinched in response while the girls simply gasped. Angel gasped and dry heaved from the pain. He didn't expect someone as petite as her to have a nasty right arm.

Jenny grabbed him by the front of his shirt and brought him face to face with her. The glare she gave him actually made him shiver a little, but he wouldn't admit that to anyone.

"Listen here you little spider slut" she hissed.

"Unlike you, I didn't do anything wrong when I was alive. I didn't kill, steal, cheat, do drugs, harm anyone, hell I didn't even sleep around. I did nothing! I was a good person not because it was expected of me but because there are enough assholes in the world, and I didn't want to be one of them. The only reason I'm down here with the rest of you is because some psychopath kidnapped me from my job and used me as a human sacrifice for their Satanic ritual. That's the only reason I'm here!"

Tears pooled up in her eyes as she thought of her predicament. She really was a good person. She never judged anyone, she wasn't selfish, she treated everyone fairly. She thought she was a decent person.

So why did she still end up here?

"I never did anything wrong" she said quietly.

"So why was I punished like I did?"

Angel was speechless as he saw her tears.

"Toots"

Jenny let him go and stormed away.

"Jenny" Charlie pleaded.

The human pushed past her and went up the stairs. Moments later, they could hear her door slam shut.

"You idiot!" Vaggie snapped. She and Charlie hurried up the stairs to comfort the poor girl.

Everyone in the lobby felt awkward by what they saw. Charlie and Vaggie of course knew about Jenny's backstory but now that the others knew, they didn't know what to make of the situation.

Husker glared at Angel.

"Nice going, jackass" he grumbled.

Nifty didn't know what to say and just scurried off to clean something.

Alastor looked up the stairs for a moment with a raised eyebrow.

"Hmm" he said.

Shrugging, he turned around and headed to the kitchen.

Angel slowly sat up and rubbed his arm. He was used to making others angry. He got a good laugh every time someone yelled at him for a rude comment he said. He was a jackass, so he thrived off of seeing people agitated.

But that just now…. that wasn't fun. He had never made anyone cry like that before. He didn't like seeing Jenny's tears. It didn't look right seeing a tough chick break down like that.

Seeing her tears seemed to have been more painful than getting hit in the balls.

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Jenny pressed her head against the door. Charlie and Vaggie tried to cheer her up, but she just wanted to be left alone right now.

She shouldn't have harmed Angel like that but all of the anger and frustration she bottled since coming here just spilled out and poured everywhere.

She was angry and upset about her predicament. She was angry that she ended up here when she didn't do anything wrong. She was upset that some nut job decided she was a perfect sacrifice for their little ritual and tore her away from the life she knew.

But what really got to her was deep down Angel was right.

She threw away all of her dreams for a life with David. Instead of following the dream she had since she was a child, she followed the one that was expected of every woman. She traded the life of a dazzling star loved by millions for the life of a housewife and be loved only by her husband. She gave up to support David's dream life, yet he couldn't do the same for her.

The sad part was when she was able to go back to the living realm, she knew she was going to go back to that boring cookie cutter life. David would for sure forbid her from chasing her dream in fear of someone spotting her thanks to her getting kidnapped.

A lone tear slid down her face.

There was no second chance for her.

The sound of knocking pulled her out of her loneliness. Thinking it was Charlie again, she groaned.

"I just want to be left alone, Charlie" she called out.

It was quiet for a few seconds before the knocking continued. Jenny just ignored it and figured the princess would take the hint after a while. The knocking stopped shortly after that. Smirking, Jenny rested her head against the door again.

BANG BANG BANG

Growling, she jumped to her feet and grabbed the handle. She knew Charlie just wanted to check on her, but this was ridiculous even for her.

"Charlie, will you just let me have some fucking- "

She stopped when she saw it wasn't Charlie on the other side of the door, but rather Alastor.

"Oh good, seems like you're in a better mood now"

Jenny made a face and started to close the door on him. The Overlord stuck his foot out to stop it.

"Now, now, is that anyway to treat someone?" he asked.

"For the others? Probably not. For you? Most definitely" Jenny said dryly.

"Aren't you the charming one" Alastor jest.

Jenny sighed and rubbed her eyes. She didn't need to deal with Angel and Alastor's bullshit in one day.

"What do you want?" she sighed.

The radio demon pulled out a platter that was behind him filled with food.

"I just noticed you never came down for dinner and I figured you wanted to eat" he offered.

Jenny eyeballed the food then back at him.

"Thanks, but I'm not really hungry"

At that moment her stomach decided to growl. Her eye twitched in annoyance.

"Sure, you are" Alastor said.

He gently shoved passed her and entered her room.

"I never said you could come in" Jenny snapped.

"And I don't seem to recall asking if I could" Alastor replied.

Jenny growled in frustration. She secretly made sure all of her costume makeup was put away. It was a good thing she didn't take it off yet.

"Whatever, just put it on the bed and get out. I'll bring down my dishes when I'm done"

"Come now, dear. I worked really hard on this meal. I want to see you enjoy it"

"Why? Did you poison it or something?"

Alastor laughed.

"Now why would I waste such perfectly good poison on you?" he taunted.

"It ruins the taste of the food"

Jenny rolled her eyes.

"If I eat, will you go away?" she offered.

"Hmmmm, I suppose"

Sighing in defeat, she went over to her bed.

"This better be good"

"Trust me, my dear. I never slack off when it comes to a home cooked meal" Alastor said.

Jenny ignored him and looked at the food he made. She noticed a theme with his cooking. Shrimp gumbo with sausage, catfish, fried okra, corn bread, sweet tea and for dessert beignets with a ton of powdered sugar poured on it.

She had to admit, everything looked amazing.

"Looks like someone is a fan of southern cooking" she joked.

"I used to live in New Orleans when I was alive. Cooking decent food wasn't taken as a joke" Alastor said.

"Well, that explains why your jambalaya was pretty good when you first got here" Jenny admitted.

"What's this? Miss. Firecracker is actually complimenting me? Someone call the press!"

Jenny snorted but didn't say anything. It was quite between the two as Jenny ate her meal. Alastor just watched as she tried everything he made and noticed she enjoyed tasting everything.

However, there was something on the demon's mind and he had to ask.

"That day when you, Charlie and I went shopping, I remembered you panicked when we passed a weapon's shop" he suddenly said.

Jenny paused eating when he said that.

"I found it rather odd you would get scared at seeing a couple of knives and run off like that" he continued.

"But after what you said downstairs, I think I figured out why you got so scared back then"

Slowly Jenny lowered her fork. She closed her eyes tightly to stop the tears from forming.

"So, are you going to wave knives in my face just to get back at me?" she asked.

Alastor laughed but she could hear no humor behind it.

"That's just in poor taste. It's never fun remembering how you die" he admitted.

Jenny looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

"Why are you being nice to me?" she had to ask.

Alastor shrugged as he looked at his nails.

"There are enough assholes down here, I didn't want to be one of them" he repeated her littke line.

Jenny chuckled dryly.

"Little too late for that"

Alastor smirked.

"But if you want a serious answer, I agreed to be on better terms with you so I thought this would be a start" he admitted.

"I may be blunt and harsh, but I'm not that heartless. Cruel? Yes, but heartless? No"

Jenny looked at her plate of food that was still in her hands.

"I guess it's a nice start"

They were quite for a moment when Alastor pushed the plate closer to her.

"Eat up. I didn't make that so you could just look at it. That's a waste of good food"

"Alright, alright" Jenny argued.

She finished off the last of her food and put the plate back on the platter.

"It's been a long time since I had Southern food. Think the last time I did; I went on a road trip to Kentucky with Blitz. He almost got us banned from the state with his crazy antics. But it just made the trip even more fun" she said lost in thought.

Alastor raised an eyebrow.

"And who is…Blitz?"

Jenny paused for a moment wondering how she would answer without revealing who Blitzo was.

"He's my best friend" she just said.

"He was always there for me when life got rough. He knew how to make me laugh, taught me life lessons, never thought my dreams were silly. He was my family. If the world ever turned it's back on me, I knew he would be there for me"

Her smiled dropped a little as she thought of him.

"He was the last person I saw before I got killed. I was planning on celebrating my anniversary with my fiancé that night and I promised him I would tell him how my date went…but…I never got to"

She always wondered what his reaction was going to be. She could just imagine him being confused that she wasn't home or at work. How scared he would be when he realized that she was missing.

"I miss him so much" she said quietly.

Alastor was oddly quiet. He didn't say anything while she was talking. He found it a little odd that she would talk freely about this random friend but not about her fiancé.

"Well, I promised I would leave you be when you finished eating so I'm going to keep my end of the bargain" he said.

He picked up the platter of dishes from her bed.

"I'll do you a favor and take these down for you. I'm sure you don't want to run into Angel right now…though I have a feeling he'll run away fearing you'll go for round two on your attack on him"

Jenny winced a little. She shouldn't have punched him like that, but he was asking for it.

"That's probably for the best" she admitted.

Alastor headed for the door. He knew Nifty didn't like dirty dishes in the sink, so he wanted to get them taken care of"

"Hey, Al"

Alastor stopped by the door and looked back at her. Jenny gave him a small smile.

"Thank you"

Alastor bowed his head in response.

"My pleasure"

With that, he left her room and walked down the hallway. As he did, shadows started to appear behind him. His eyes glowed red as his smile twisted a little.

"Blitz, huh?"

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The next couple of days were very quiet. Everyone stayed in their rooms and hardly left the hotel unless it was to get supplies. Charlie made sure the hotel was stocked up and that the windows of the building were locked up and drawn closed.

Jenny really didn't pay attention to what was going on with everyone. She mostly stayed in her room after her little fight with Angel and decided to pour her time and energy in figuring out how to reach Blitzo's office without getting pulled away by everyone.

Alastor left to go broadcast something at the radio station and Charlie and Vaggie were doing stuff around the hotel. She knew Nifty would be busy cleaning the place and Husk would probably be too drunk to notice her leaving.

Today was the perfect day to do this.

Grabbing everything she needed, she left her room for the first time in days.

"This time for sure I'm going to see Blitz. I have to get out of here" she thought.

She jumped down to the last step of the stairs. Today she wasn't going to let anything distract her.

"Toots!"

She growled when she saw Angel hurry over to her. The spider demon actually looked tired and worn as if he hadn't slept in days. That wasn't her problem though.

"I don't have time right now. I'll talk to you later" she said flatly.

She walked past him and headed for the hotel entrance. Angel quickly followed after her.

"Listen, I just want to talk about the other day" he said.

"I didn't know that's how you got down here"

"Of course, you didn't know because I didn't want to talk about it!" Jenny snapped.

"Come on, toots. It's not that big a deal. Nothing to be embarrassed about. Everyone dies in some crazy way" Angel offered.

Jenny stopped in her tracks and whipped around to glare at him.

"How the fuck is being used as a human sacrifice embarrassing?!" She yelled.

"It wasn't embarrassing! It was terrifying! No one should be killed like that!"

She spun around and continued walking.

"I could tell you how I died, would that make things better?" Angel offered.

"No, it wouldn't. Now will you please go away?" Jenny said.

They walked past Husker who was in the middle of making a drink. The bartender looked up to see Angel chasing after Jenny.

"Just leave her alone, asshole. She doesn't want to talk" he said.

Angel glared at Husk and threw his hands up.

"Why is everyone ganging up on me?! I'm just trying to make her feel better!" he said.

"How has anything you said made me feel better?" Jenny asked.

"Because now that you're dead you can do whatever you want" Angel said.

"It obviously didn't pay off that you were good when you were alive so you might as well do all the sinful stuff that you wanted to do now. You can do drugs, steal, you name it. And since you're dead and your fiancé is still alive you can follow your dream without him crushing it for you. I say you made it out big"

You could hear the sound of a cricket chirping it was that quiet. Husker dragged his claws down his face and groaned.

"You fucking idiot" he grumbled.

Angel looked at Jenny to see her shaking with anger. She looked like she was ready to attack him.

"Uh oh"

Jenny balled her hands into fists and took a deep breath to calm down.

"I'm going to go out before I do something worse to you than punching you in the dick" she said.

"Unless you want to know what I have in mind, I suggest you don't follow me"

She turned around and headed for the door. Husker actually panicked when he saw she was going to leave the hotel.

"Kid, wait!" he called out.

Jenny waved without looking at him.

"Tell Charlie I'll be back. I just need to get some fresh air" she said.

Husker jumped over the bar to go after her.

"You can't go outside! It's- "

It was too late. She already left, slamming the door behind her. The two men looked at the door in shock. Husk quickly shook himself out of it and glared at Angel.

"Go get her, you idiot!" he growled.

Angel looked angry. First Jenny was yelling at him and now Husker?

"No way! I don't want to find out what she'll do to me! That punch really hurt"

"And do you want to find out what Charlie is going to do to you when she finds out you let the kid go outside?" Husker asked.

"What's the big deal if she went out? She's a big girl"

Husker growled and pulled at his fur. His wings spread out showing ruffled feathers.

"You're such a fucking idiot" he growled.

"Did you forget what today is?!"

All the color left Angel's face when he realized what day it was.

"Oh fuck"

Extermination Day.

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A/N: Yeah, Angel better find Jenny before the Exterminators do…and before Charlie finds out.

That was oddly sweet that Alastor was trying to cheer her up. But now it seems like he might be jealous of Blitzo.

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter!

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