Hazbin Hotel 31 Day One Shot Challenge

Day 30 - Leaving Her Behind

Let's be honest.... Charlie will never go to Heaven. She was never a sinner or an Angel. In the end, she will lose everyone. This one shot is the idea around that.

Almost all of the souls here at the Hazbin Hotel were redeemed. It was a thing no one thought was possible. But, in this act of redemption, no one realized just how hard it would be to leave once you care about behind.

The one thing we didn't think about, what's that while all of us can be redeemed, Charlie will never be able to walk in the heavens. I don't think she realized that but she started to help us. But if she did, she was sacrificing never seeing the people she connected with ever again.

At first, none of us thought about it, that was until one by one we all managed to get to heaven and Charlie was still there. We never thought about how Charlie was a hellborn and that even though she was one of the purest souls in hell, she would never be able to come up here because of who her father is. She was never born on earth, so she was never a sinner. She was born to an angel and a demon.

Even if she had been born on Earth, would she have been able to go to heaven? None of us were certain. I thought maybe I would be able to go to heaven with her.

The only reason why I didn't care much for heaven in the first place was because they turned their back on me when I couldn't bring myself to kill a child. Even if the child was a sinner, that's what he still was. A child. In my eyes, anyway.

I know that people make mistakes, but no one deserves to die twice. That's why I always believed in Charlie. I believe that maybe even if there wasn't good in people, they deserved a second chance to try. Who would have thought that this put me then even fallen angels can make their way into heaven? I thought because I had gone against heaven and became a fallen, I would never see the golden city again.

I always thought that once I was with Charlie, I would be by her side forever. That I would help her in her endeavors. And when the other souls started to get redeemed, I never expected that I would be one of them. I saw her face looked surprised as I was leaving hell. The thing about being redeemed and being placed back into heaven means that you don't exactly get a choice in how you get there. Typically ends in a ring of angelic light around the soul, their form changing, and then being teleported to who knows where in heaven.

When that happened to me, I looked at Charlie and for a moment I saw a look of shock, confusion and heartbroken. But then she quickly changed her face to a forced smile. She was pretending to be brave as her own girlfriend was being brought back into heaven. She said that she was happy for me and wished me well in my endeavors, but I knew she was hiding the truth of her feelings. She never wanted me to leave but knowing her, she just didn't want to appear selfish. That's something I always loved about her.

When we went to the council with angels, we asked if Charlie ever had a chance of coming up here, and they said no. She may have been half angel, but she was half demon as well. She was a hellborn, and they're kind were definitely not allowed in heaven. If she had been born on Earth, then she would be allowed in heaven through redemption. But she wasn't. How did that make it her fault that she couldn't be here with us?

It made me sick. She was still a pure soul in my heart, and she belonged up here with her other family. Her father was an angel, that made all of the angels up here her family. As hard as that sounds, she deserved to be up here.

I found myself hanging around the old crew, and I realized just how much Charlie's dream really meant. If this was how things were going to end, I would have tried harder to stay down there. I would have tainted my soul so much that I could never come back up here. I even thought about renouncing heaven, going against their rules. I doubted Charlie would have wanted that, so I held myself together, and decided to work with the angel council to help with the centers that were being rehabilitated. I lived in both worlds, so they decided that I would be the best patron for the job. I could command both sinners and angels. I would be the balance in between.

I decided I would do that for Charlie. Show that her people do belong up here and that they are not dangerous. I had to prove that these people belong here, and I had to prove that I belonged back up here. After a long few months of me working with heaven, Emily, someone I learned to get along with, said she had a surprise for me.

She brought me to a place that was on the outskirts of the main city, it was a little cottage. She brought me inside and said that this was a new place for us and the other sinners to recuperate and there was one more surprise within it. There was a room that had a key. A key she gave to me and said that I could use this however I wanted.

I was confused at first until I actually unlocked the door. It was a portal to hell. Specifically a portal to one of the rooms in the hotel. Emily said that I now have access to travel between the two worlds. I thanked her before I knew it, I was running through the halls just to find my girlfriend. The second we locked eyes, she ran to me and gave me a hug. I embraced her, kissed her, and told her that I would never leave her again for that long.

A/N: I thought it would be nice to end on something kind of cute. At first I was going to end on something sad, but I decided to change it where Vaggie can now travel throughout the world. And if she so wished, she could get the other sinners to go with her. I'll see you tomorrow for the last day.

~Akira

Posted: 3/21/2024