The Impish Mage Season 1

Chapter 40: Dad Beats Dad Part 1

One morning, Vaggie is sleeping in her bed. She squirms before waking up, yawing, and rubbing her eyes. She soon turns to the left side to see Charlie is not in bed.

"Charlie?" Vaggie questions.

Downstairs in the lobby, Charlie is panicking and planning out everything with lots of paper with strings attached with everyone else watching her, disturbed by her behavior.

Charlie says to herself, "I'm just not quite understanding why it's not working. Okay, okay, think Charlie. Think, think, think, think, think, think, think, think. Okay if I do this, it's going to be-" She gasps, "I have trust falls every single morning. We can do-" and lets out another gasp, "Come on, come on, come on, come on."

"Yikes," Angel says.

"How long has she been like this?" Keenan asks.

"I found her like this this morning," Blitz says.

"Char Char, "Tilla sadly says.

Finally, Vaggie speaks up, "Charlie? Sweetie? You, uh, you good?"

Charlie looks back, "Nope!"with a sleep-deprived, insane look in her eyes that red veins were shown in the sclera, "No, not really. Ha ha. I've been up all night trying to figure out why the hotel isn't working," And crushes paper with hand, "We've done trust falls, we've tried sharing our feelings, we only have a couple months left before the angels come," And turns into demonic form and laughs maniacally before turning back to normal, "And at this rate-"

Vaggie then speaks up, "Maybe it's time-"

"NO," Charlie denies.

"To ask-" Vaggie continues.

Charlie gets up close to Vaggie's face, holding her cheeks desperately, "DON'T SAY IT."

"Your dad," Vaggie concludes.

Charlie groans, knowing what this means for her.

"Charlie, I know you don't want to, but we need every advantage we can get," Vaggie says.

But Charlie says, "He let the extermination happen to begin with. They just had a meeting and said, 'Go ahead and kill everyone,'"

Suddenly, Charlie gasps in realization, "Wait, that's it!"

"Kill everyone?" Vaggie questions.

"No! He could get me a meeting with Heaven!" Charlie says.

"Didn't you already try that?" Aurora asks.

"Well. yeah with Adam, he was an a-, uh, jerkface..." Charlie says, "But he isn't in charge of all of Heaven. We could go to the top. There's sure to be some angels who will listen."

Charlie scrolls through her contacts. In her contacts, she has Egg Boiz 1, 2, and 3, before her thumb lingers on top of her 'Dad'. However, she's hesitant to call her dad.

"What's the holdup? You got daddy issues?" Husk questions.

"No, we just have never been close," Charlie answers, "After he and mom split, he never really wanted to see me. He calls sometimes, but only if he's bored or needs me to do something."

"Daddy issues," Husk says, aware of Charlie's problem.

Then Angel says, "Well I'd like to meet the big dick in charge."

Holding a knife, Niffty says, "The ultimate bad boy, " And laughs like a gremlin with excitement, holding a knife while Angel takes her knife away without her knowing, "I bet he's scary."

Tilla begins to whimper in response.

Blitz rocks Tilla, "It's okay, Tilla. It's okay."

"Don't worry, my dad isn't as bad as everyone appears, but he can be scary when he gets mad," Charlie says.