Never Enough Time | Huskerdust

Chap 4 - The Hotel

A/N:     Hey everyone! Sorry for the late chapter, I really want to keep to a schedule to perhaps help with my loss of ideas after short periods. Love your support!

Angel Dust POV

"God Angie! I thought you said you said no more!... but hey~ I ain't complainin' just... get back to yourself soon. That hotel is really takin' a toll on you bitch." She rambles and I chuckle.

"Never change Cherri." She scoffs at the thought.

"Bitch, I will never change!" She laughs.

I roll my eyes, "besides, it is funny to make fun of people... and flirt with them." We laugh together for so long that people start to turn and look at us weirdly.

She puts up to hand to get us both a drink and I sit back and look through my phone. I frown as I see a text from Val to come back. I ignore them and go to Instahell, the hellish version of Instagram, and look through all of my pictures and my for you page.

I pull Cherri into a quick photo to which she sticks her tongue out doing a "let's rock" hand signal. She hands me another drink.

"Hey, what was that that you wanted to talk to me about? Earlier?" I ask, taking a sip of my drink.

She looks at me, "well..." she starts, her voice changing as if she were telling a scary story. "The radio demon supposedly is getting back into his killing of overlords."

I almost spit out my drink but with the effort of not, I start to cough... and laugh.

"So what you're saying is, is that the radio demon, aka, Alastor, is going back to his broadcasts to start up that shit again. Hah!" I know Alastor from Charlie and the Hotel. Not gonna lie, it wouldn't be surprising, "and what? You didn't think he would?"

She rolls her eyes, "Just saying, I thought you would know better than a few drunkards."

"Yeah, well, I think he would definitely do it again if it meant getting rid of people who don't appreciate their lives enough to stay out of his business." I shrug and Cherri nods in understanding.

"Alrighty, that's all I needed, thanks bitch! I'm off to go fuck the next person I see!" She says in a sing-song voice, walking away.

I smile and shake my head. Oh, Cherri, you will never change.

I soon get up from the lounge and head out. The Hotel's not far so I go there.

As soon as I push the doors open I get bombarded by Charlie who gives me a big hug. "I'm sooo glad you're back! How was your night? Did you have fun with Cherri Bomb? Where did you go?—" She starts to ramble on asking a bunch of questions, although not giving me any time to answer.

I look at her weirdly and that's when the moth, angel thing comes over. "Right Charlie, I think he gets it. Let's let him sit down and get comfortable, I'm sure he's had a long night."

Charlie facepalms, "Oh, of course! Sorry Angel." I give her an awkward smile and she leads me to the sofa. "Do you want anything to drink or eat?"

"Eh, No thanks. You're good Charlie." She smiles sweetly and sits down on the sofa to my right, Vaggie, the moth, sits beside her.

"Are you going to stay the night Angel?" Vaggie asks, putting her arm around Charlie.

I ponder the question, "Perhaps, I dunno. I just came 'cause I got some downtime before Val calls me back to the studio." Technically he already has, but... I think to myself. We sit in silence for a while before a question pops into my head, "Has the snake come back to visit recently?"

"Sir Pentious?" I nod at Charlie, "No, not since you both were back a few days ago. He wanted to go check out the beach. It would've been great to go on vacation for all of us, but oh well.."

"Ah, if it isn't the lost soul of the Vees." I hold up the middle finger at Alastor who is now behind me.

He moves over to stand beside Charlie and Vaggie. "Says you Freak Face," his freaky smile never wavers but his eyes narrow.

"Haha," Charlie laughs awkwardly, "how was your evening with Cherri Bomb, Angel?"

"Do we even want to know?" Vaggie gives me a knowing look and I just smirk.

"Vaggie." Charlie hisses a warning at her girlfriend.

"We just shared a few drinks." I didn't dare tell them about my interaction with another overlord, Charlie already has her hands full with heaven, let alone me and my spiels about work and shit.

We talk for a few hours before my phone dings with a notification.

I let Charlie continue her story while I check my phone.

Fuck... it's Valentino. "Hey, Charlie," she pauses her story, "sorry," she smiles softly not taking any mind to the interruption, "uhm, I have to go back, thanks for letting me stay. Also, I see you have a few new sinners here than last time."

Her smile widens as she stands up with me to help me grab my stuff and walk to the front door. "Yeah, remember that one overlord I was talking about when Sir Pentious was here?" I nod, "Well, he's helped us a lot, getting us more sinners to come and work. We're getting there, they're mostly just here for work though!"

She gives me some parting words and then I'm off.

I rush down the streets and wave for a taxi. The driver waves for me to come in and I'm barely in the car before the driver speeds off.

"So where you going, hot stuff?" The driver looks back at me through the rearview mirror.

"To the V's Studios," I say quickly scrolling through my messages from Val.

The driver grunts at my disinterest, but I really couldn't care less.

We get there in less than five minutes and I hand him the money before rushing out and into the studios.

"Angel! My amorcito! Finally, I've been waiting for you." Val does his sickly-sweet voice like he does when he's angry, what the fuck is it now?

He pulls me into the elevator, "See mi amor? See how much faster and on time you would be if you just stayed here with us?" He clicks the button to the top floor, so... not an emergency shoot?... We only ever go to the top floor to either go to his bedroom or when he's having one of his rants to Vox and/or Velvette.

The elevator stops at the 23rd floor and Val pulls me to Vox's office. Why? I have no idea.

Val slams the door open and we both walk in to see Vox sitting at the table working on a security camera of some sort, Velvette waiting scrolling through her phone, and... the cat from the Casino? What was his name? Huff? No... Husk! That was it. What is he doing here?

"Vox," Valentino uses his sickly sweet voice again and everyone turns to look at us.

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A/N:     Thanks for reading this chapter! I was kinda losing ideas halfway through the chapter, but as you can tell, I was able to finish and find an idea(s) for at least another chapter (aka Husk POV).

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