Leave It To Heaven Season 1

Episode 5: Depths of Despair Part 1

Depths of Despair

Part 1

By TalosLives & CrackedInkWell

Based on EMositeCC's AngelAUSeries

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A car comes to a screeching halt. "Hey! Watch it!" The driver yells out from the window.

Keep moving! Keep moving!

A lady was shoved out of the way. "Excuse you!"

C'mon! Hurry! Hurry! Where is it?!

It wasn't entirely unusual for souls recently arriving in Purgatory to be rude or panicking. Dying was indeed a major shock for one recently transcended Margret Ascroft, but not for any typical reasons. The car crash was already bad enough, but the fact that she died was terrifying because of who she was involuntarily leaving behind. She knew that time was of the essence, and the sooner she could find H.O.P.E., the better the chances were for one other soul.

Then she spotted the building and hurried even faster. Leaping over traffic, much to the ire of drivers, she rushed inside the skyscraper, hammered at the buttons for the elevator, and found it too slow, so she jogged up to the seventh floor.

Meanwhile, the office was having a slow afternoon. They hadn't received client requests for the past few days, so things were now more casual. At least, as casual as things get around here.

"All I'm sayin' is that we should probably go somewhere remote for Loona to really cut loose," Millie said. At this point, only she and Moxxie were in the lobby, sitting on the edge of the front desk while her husband was inspecting his weapons.

"Like where? I'm not exactly interested in maybe her causing a mass extinction on Earth or maybe blowing up a planet." Moxxie looked down at the barrel of a disassembled rifle.

"Hun, I doubt Loona is that powerful. Besides, we don't know the full extent of what she can do."

"Wasn't that the same line of reason that the Russians had to test the Tsar bomb? Where if they increased it by a little, they would have ended the world."

"I don't know, I don't keep up with politics on Earth. You know that."

"Yes, but the point is that there's a real possibility that she might be way more powerful than we thought. And I don't want her to test it out when souls are nearby - or cause a cosmic imbalance."

"Well, there's always Pluto, I doubt anyone would notice if-"

It was then that the door was slammed open with a bang. There in the doorway was a woman who was heaving as though she had run all around Purgatory in a hellish marathon. She looked to be somewhere in her mid-thirties with black hair that draped over her neck. Her jeans and purple top were ripped like she was running from a feral pack of wolves. And when she tried to speak, she was barely coherent and completely out of breath.