Fawning for You [A Hazbin Hotel Fanfiction]

True Love

Ignoring Alastor was a whole lot easier said than done. He was everywhere, and he was so beautiful. He was at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He even started attending all the activities, just sitting there looking pleasant. What was up with this guy? One day he's nibbling on her toes and the next, he acts like she doesn't exist. He's insane! What do men want? Voe sat there, staring at him, wondering what was going on inside of his sick mind. Was this some new kind of torture that he was trying out just for her? Or was this what he did with everyone? Why had he said they were okay when they very clearly were not?
"Good morning Charlie," she greets the Princess at breakfast
Charlie looks up "Oh! Good morning Voe, very nice to see you here,"
"Yeah, you'd think so huh?" she said glancing at the unperturbed Overlord.
They sat at the table and Alastor placed plates in front of each one of them, saying nothing to her in the process "Pancakes and eggs my dears, with a little something special added in. Eat up!"
"Aww thank you Alastor, you're quite the chef!" Charlie praises him
"Don't praise him he deserves nothing," Voe mumbles under her breath, crossing her arms "Like, you should be used to it by now, he cooks all the time. Big whoop,"
"You are so good at what you do Alastor!"
Angel pipes up "Gotta admit," he shrugs "He can cook,"
"Okay, he can cook, what about it? It's just pancakes and eggs, I could do that too," she mumbles
"What do you think Voe?" Charlie turns the conversation towards her
They watch and wait as Voe takes a moment to gather herself before responding "It's okay," she says without looking up
Alastor gives Voe the side-eye before facing forward once more.
"Can't just be okay," Charlie responds "There's so much love in it," she smiles sweetly
Voe shrugs.
"Okay..."
"Well, she clearly can't appreciate love in anything..." Alastor mumbles under his breath
"Hmm?" Voe sits up ready for battle "Was something said?"
Alastor turns toward her "Perhaps you didn't hear me, 'you can't appreciate love in anything' because you have no heart,"
"What?!"
Alastor hums "I shall be off!" and dissipates into a shadow
"Wow," Angel said "These pancakes are good! What's the secret ingredient?"
"Hmm," Cherri Bomb tastes the pancakes again "Tastes like coke,"
"I don't think I'm hungry," Voe backs away from the plate and the table going back up to her room.
Sitting at her laptop Voe brainstorms ideas for the theater, what kind of vibe would it have? Old school? Golden Age? Or modern? Probably modern, she thought to herself, writing it down. Modern with a rustic feel? Something minimalistic? Or something sleek? But she didn't want the bare minimum, she wanted everything! The pit, the orchestra, the mezzanines, the balcony, the works. She didn't want any corners cut for her theater. But before she could worry about any of that, it was her job to plan it. What did she want?
Well, what she wanted was for Alastor to stop ignoring her, she wanted to sit down and have a conversation with him and live in bliss like normal partners do! But that had nothing to do with the theater.
For the theater what she wanted was white walls, a chandelier (a simple one), stands to buy merch and food, and bathrooms (obviously) all in the lobby. At least 500 pink felt seats (to be on par with a Broadway theater), and a black carpet on each floor. High ceilings and at least 3 floors. A pit for the orchestra, tech rooms, dressing rooms for the actors, and of course a stage. She could figure the rest out as she went along, well she would have to considering she couldn't think of anything else.
"Do I have to buy a building? Or is Lucifer's approval enough? Who would I even be buying from? I don't know anyone who sells buildings," she pulls her permit out of the drawer and reads it again, she sighs thinking of Lucifer. She looks online, finding that the average building costs about $10,000,000.
She jumps back in her chair "What the fuck? I can't spend that much money! I'd be flat broke!" She drops her head on her desk over and over. Why is having a dream so difficult?
She skips down the stairs and rushes toward the girlfriends when she sees them.
"Charlie, how does the Princess feel about sponsoring one of her people's projects?"
"What do you mean?"
She puts on her people-person voice "I need someone to sponsor my work in the theater so I can pay for things that I need and for the manual labor that I need from people to build it.
"Well, sure! How's 15%?"
Voe looks around and takes out her phone to calculate 15% of 10 million "That's it? I know you have more than that,"
"I'm sorry, but my dad doesn't want me giving too much,"
"Since when does he have all these rules??"
"He doesn't want any sinners using me for my money,"
Voe scrunches her brows "You're a grown woman!"
"So are you!"
"What's your point?" Her eyes dart around
"A grown woman should take care of her own things,"
Voe groans "It feels like your dad is doing this on purpose,"
"What do you mean, no?"
Lucifer shakes his head "I'm sorry, I can sponsor, but no. You can't get the whole thing,"
"Okay, so can you use your King status to make it so I don't have to pay?"
"No. I will donate, but you have to pay,"
Voe is exasperated "Why are you doing this?"
"What am I doing?"
"Making this harder for me,"
He sighs "This is literally a rule for every sinner,"
"Really? Because it seems like it's only negatively impacting me,"
"It's not. I've had sinners come up to me and Charlie lying about getting redeemed to get money from us!"
"You literally have infinite money!" she laughs in disbelief
He groans "Yes, that infinite money is for me and my daughter!"
Voe puts her head in her hands "Are you serious?"
"Look, if you want to get redeemed you have to work hard, at everything,"
"Okay is this like a punishment or something?"
"What? For what??"
She looks around "Hurting your feelings?"
"Voe. Not everything is about you, every sinner has to follow these new rules,"
"That just happens to become rules when I want to do something,"
"Well, I'm sorry. Those are just the rules now. Many have come before you and many will come after,"
Voe throws her hands up "Wow, just wow. Thanks," she says sarcastically
"Voe. I said I would still help. I'll give you more than I gave the others,"
"I just thought we were friends," she shrugs
"Voe. This is business, it's not about friendship. I can't just not enforce rules for one person,"
"Why not?"
His volume increases "Because Voe, you are a sinner. You did wrong. You do not get everything handed to you now," In this tone, she could almost see him as an actual King. "You fucked up. And now you're here. It's not about how I or you feel. You-" he sighs "Yes, you hurt me. I was in love with you and I'm not over it. I'm not even over Lilith,"
Voe is taken aback by his sudden confession
"I'm sorry, look I'll send you the money but you need to leave," and he exits the room, leaving the doe flabbergasted in her frustration.
"Well, he's not wrong. You were just so lucky that as soon as you dropped into Hell you were the number one baddie on the block,"
Voe scoffs "I still am,"
Angel looks at her "Yeah. I had nothing and no one before Val. Imagine being me. I can't even tell which life was worse. You got things handed to you, and now you gotta work for 'em,"
Voe looks up at the ceiling and sighs "Apparently the King of Hell was in love with me,"
Angel sighs "It happens. Look, I've fucked so many guys and 98% percent of them fell in love with me. That's why you gotta nip it in the bud before ya smash,"
"You couldn't wait to brag about that could you?" she laughs
Angel Dust smirks and shrugs
"I didn't even know until he told me,"
"That's why you gotta ask, you gotta be careful,"
"And how was I meant to ask, 'Hey are you in love with me? 'Cuz I'm not in love with you.'?"
"Well no. You're supposed to just tell 'em 'This isn't a relationship',"
She fiddles with her fingers "I just thought it was fun,"
"Then you should've told him that! You're telling me that none of the women you fucked on Earth divorced their husbands for you, but you don't wanna be with her, and now she's in a custody battle over her kids!"
Voe cuts her eye at him
"Sorry, just got personal,"
She looked down at her phone, that went off saying that Lucifer had sent her 30 million, she sighs "I don't know what to do,"
"I think you need to go and apologize,"
"I did!"
"Yeah, and then told me about how you got all entitled,"
She looks away "Okay, that's not what I said,"
"You didn't have to say it. You went up to the King of Hell and demanded money. You might as well have tied up his whole family and put a gun to Charlie's head!"
Voe does a double take "Wait, what? What are we talking about?"
"You!"
"I-I think you just got personal again,"
"Besides the point, you need to go back there and apologize for that tantrum,"
She scoffs "I'm not a baby,"
"Then stop acting like it! You did wrong, you need to go back and apologize!"
"He doesn't want to see me,"
"No no, did he say that? Or did he just say leave?" Angel purses his lips
Voe rolls her eyes "He said to leave,"
"Then you need to go back up there and apologize for everything,"
"How would it look if I came right back?"
"Like you wanna fight for this friendship that you claim you had with him. Is he actually your friend?"
"Yes,"
"Do you care about him?"
"Yes!"
"Do you care that you hurt him?"
"YES! It hurt me to hurt him like that!"
Angel gets in her face "Did you tell him that?"
"I didn't know I had to,"
"Well, ya do,"
She looks away "Okay,"
"Honestly? I'd give myself to an Overlord who can admit when they're wrong,"
Voe's eyes glisten in the light.
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"Charlie! Didn't you say that you convinced Cannibal Town to help you fight the angels with you with a song?"
She nods "Yup! They really adore the theatrics!"
Voe clings to her clipboard and hatches a brilliant plan
"So you want me to help you with your theater idea?" Rosie reiterates for clarification
"Not just you, but your cannibals as well. I need a crew to help build and set things up. If that's okay with you,"
The Overlord puts her hand on her chest "You have to ask them, not me,"
Voe throws her head back "Rosie...."
"You know you sinners say you want redemption, but you want us higher-ups to do the work for you,"
"How should I do that?"
"Just be yourself!"
Voe rolls her eyes "Apparently that's a problem,"
"Huh?"
She shakes her head "Never mind. Would you like to be part of it?"
"Ah ho ho ho," Rosie laughs, flattered "I'd wanna be the lead," she and Voe laugh alongside each other "I'm serious," she says with a straight face and then a smile
Voe's eyes dart around "Sure!" she agrees "Sometimes," she mumbles under her breath, knowing she would certainly be the lead "So may I use your cannibals?" she asks, holding the clipboard close to her chest. She psyches herself up to talk to multiple cannibals.
She approaches the children, waving "Hi! Remember me?"
"Hi! Guys! It's the lady with the tail!"
She nodded as the other children she had met came to see her
"Hi, deer lady! This time we have an arm for you!" the little girl offers it to her
Voe respectfully declines "I wanna ask you something," she kneels on the ground, her skirt over her knees "Have you ever played pretend?"
"Yes!" the kids shout
"Just yesterday I pretended I was killing David with a shark!" the little girl shouts
"Good job," Voe pats her on the head "What if you could do that for an audience? Like if you do it in front of people,"
"So people would see me killing David with the shark?"
She nods "Yep! That's theater!"
"I love theater! I want to do it!" The boy shouts
"Good!"
She gathers them together into a group "Theater can do all this and more for you"