Emily's Fall 2: Rising Above

Ch. 30: Back to Business

At the hotel, Emily was working well into the night. She grabbed and tossed the empty box of donuts into the trashcan behind her, with the nine others that she ate that night.

"Once again, I really need an assistant manager." Emily said, using a napkin to clean her mouth of any donut frosting.

She was eating a bit of everything. Cream filled, eclairs, plain, sprinkle covered, frosted, jelly, donut holes, apple fritters.....

'Thank god angels can't get diabetes.' Emily thought as she opened her tenth box of donuts out of thirteen.

A baker's dozen boxes of 12 donuts each, that's 156 donuts all together...A big snack.

"Oh sweet chocolate glazed, give me strength." Emily said as she took a big bite of the chocolate glazed, humming from the sweet and rejuvenating taste as someone opened her door.

"Burning the candle at both ends, I see?" Alastor asked with a grin as usual.

"Well aren't you a sight for sore eyes." Emily said, pointing at him with her donut.

"Yes, I must apologize for being absent as of late, being an overlord can be quite time consuming, especially with one being found dead. An unsavory one but still." Alastor said, tilting his head. "You wouldn't happen to have been involved, hmm?"

"Oh, not really... but I do know he messed with a dear friend of mine." Emily said, giving a sinister smile that matched Alastor's.

"Ah, you cryptic little enigma." Alastor said, walking up to her and patting Emily's head.

"Back at ya, Al." Emily said, patting Al's back. "So, what do I owe the pleasure of this late night visit? Have you come to actually help with this paperwork?"

"Oh! Ahahahahahahaha.....no." Alastor said with a laugh.

"Figures." Emily said, rolling her eyes.

"I just came by to say hello and wonder where our newest resident is." Alastor said.

"You mean Velvette, former member of the Vs and 3rd cannibal resident of the hotel?" Emily asked.

"The very same." Alastor said with a swift nod.

"She's out on the town with a certain succubus running the new lust club that used to be the Vs headquarters." Emily said with a grin.

"That Fizzarolli fellow?" Alastor asked.

"...That's not funny." Emily said, losing her grin.

"I beg to differ." Alastor said.

"So you're a beggar? I knew it." Emily said as she regained her grin, chuckling.

"Hahahahaha, oh if we weren't friends and you weren't a woman, I would slap you for that." Alastor said, his grin becoming small.

"I'll give you a freebie if you BEG." Emily said as she chuckled again.

The two enjoyed another good laugh before Emily got a message on her phone.

"Sorry about that." Emily said, pulling her phone out, "Huh, it's a text from Uncle Fizz."

'OMS! CALL ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE THIS!'

Emily tilted her head in confusion. This is very... strange... usually Fizz will start a text with a joke that leads into the reason for the text.

"Everything alright, my dear?" Alastor asked.

"Everything is fine, it's just... my uncle is not acting like himself." Emily said, pressing the call button.

"Which one?" Alastor asked.

"Uncle Fizz." Emily said quickly before putting the phone to her ear, waiting for Fizzarolli to pick up.

And it didn't take long for that.

"Emmy! You will never believe what just happened!"

"What? Did you and Uncle Ozz finally get pregnant? Oh, am I getting a cousin!?" Emily asked, getting excited at the thought of a cousin besides Bee's future baby.

"No... I mean, we have been looking into it." Fizz said, "But it's better than that... I was walking the quieves, and as I did, I walked passed one of Lust's many restaurants."

"Uncle Fizz, if this is about another pair of succubus going at it, I'd rather not discuss that. I'm aromantic and Asexual, remember?"

"It's not that... I saw... Mammon... on a date!"

"No way!" Emily said, "Who was it?!"

"I don't know, both him and his date were disguised." Fizz said, "But I recognize all of his little disguises, I worked with him for a decade after all."

"... I am heading to Greed, first thing tomorrow." Emily said.

"Great! I'll tell the others because this is a code green and we gotta make sure it stays green!" Fizz said.

'If I remember correctly, code green means "Help uncle Mammon not fuck this up."' Emily thought.

"Alright, I'll let Charlie know on my end. Goodnight, uncle Fizz." Emily said.

"Goodnight, Emmy, have some bad dreams!" Fizz said.

Emily put her phone away and looked at Alastor.

"My family is a bit strange at times." Emily said, "My uncle Mammon got caught on a date."

"The portly greedy one? I thought his one true love was money." Alastor said.

"He's big boned but yes, it concerns him. And I'm just as surprised as you but I'm happy for him." Emily said as she moved to pick up her reamining donuts. "I'm heading there tomorrow to see what I can find out. Think you can keep an eye on the hotel while I'm gone?"

"I do believe I can manage." Alastor said as he nodded.

"Well, then I believe I should be heading to bed, I do have to travel about three rings, it's going to be a bit of a journey." Emily said, leaving her office and heading up the stairs.

Once she was gone, a large number of eyes formed on the walls and gazed at Alastor.

"What an obedient killer you are." A voice said as the chain formed around Alastor's neck, "So well behaved and even tempered... like a good slave should be."

"... You only live because I am bound by this chain... the day it comes off is the day you end." Alastor said as he growled, his smile turning feral.

"Oh, and I look forward to that." The voice said as Alastor felt someone patting his cheek condescendingly. "Now try not to destroy the place and remember, I'm watching you."

The chain and eyes disappeared and Alastor looked at the floor for a bit.

'I'll get this chain off me one day.' Alastor thought, gripping his staff as his shadow became giant and furiously angry.