The train to Pentagram City is still setting off along the tracks across the countrysides of what is now known to Y/n as Hell.
He still sits at the bar in the buffet car looking through the windows, staring out into what is a surprisingly beautiful view of said countryside, as he sits next to the wise old bum as he smokes a bubblegum cigar.
He stuffs a gram of the spat-out bubble from eating the gum into the rolling paper and takes a puff of the candied drug before blowing out the pink smoke.
BUM: "Wanna puffy?"
Y/N: "No thanks. I don't smoke."
BUM: "What? You're not a drinker AND a smoker? Sad life you must be leading."
Y/N: "For your information, I'm a P-plater."
BUM: "At least you get to live from three things related to death. You do know you can't get lung cancer in Hell, right?"
Y/N: (inside his head) "What the fuck, is that possible?" *out loud* "No, just goddamn it, no. I can't do it."
BUM: "Why not? You a driver or a puss?"
Y/N: "I'm both those things, combined into the type of creature who is still cursed with the chance of lung cancer!"
Y/n then pulls off his hoodie to reveal his face to the bum, which doesn't leave him stunned at first.
BUM: "Hmm. You're a brave one. Who knew your demon form would look so much like your human one." *eats the cigar*
Y/n then facepalms in annoyance.
Y/N: "No... well... take a good guess at why."
BUM: "Oh... I see... that is actually very surprising."
Y/N: "Why... thank you?"
BUM: "What's a living one doing down here in the living dead?"
Y/N: "That, my friend, if you were my friend, involves a story of questioning my existence, family drama, and a hotel with a shit-crazy swimming pool."
BUM: "So if I combine those together... you arrived here from a hotel you were staying at to get away from your family?"
Y/N: "Huh. You're quite street-smart for a demon, aren't ya? ...A-And, I'm not just saying that because... you know."
BUM: "Ah, no offence taken. I mean, I've come to learn that once you've died as a human, down here, you remember the tricks you've made and learnt as you lived. Because after the last one, the thinking stops."
Y/N: "Evidently not. I mean, down here, it looks like you guys are capable thinkers. I think demons are just as smart as my kind are."
BUM: (Surprisingly... surprised) "You really think so?"
Y/N: "Well, yeah. I've always wanted a demon as a friend since I turned 18, and having witnessed what I just witnessed... I could get used to having you as my first one after all. If you'll let me."
BUM: "Then I guess the next... 37 minutes of this train ride should get us quite acquainted."
The two then shake hands before Y/n takes a couple more deep breaths as he skulls down a drink of strawberry milk.
BUM: "Christ-on-a-stick, I know heavy breathing whenever I drink. At least, 6 hours after I drink. You okay?"
Y/N: "I'm okay. I'm okay." *breathes again* "It's just... you wanna know another reason I'm heading to this... place you described as the Happy Hotel? Family drama AND a fucking werewolf that just tried to kill me."
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My One Helluva Life with Her (Male Human Reader x Loona the Hellhound)
FanfictionY/n L/n has been different his whole life. After a long time of being underestimated by his friends and family for who he is and what he can/wishes to do, he's slowly about to lose his faith. One sad night, when his parents kick him out for the nigh...