Plot
Conrad is now a teenager of 19, he's in need of comfort after a recent deal of trauma.
(Conrad is the kid who had the cardiac arrest in "your not alone") (spinoff idea)
Angst warning!
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Alastor walked down the hallway of the hotel heading towards Conrads room, it's been nearly 2 weeks since he has actually seen him and it was starting to really worry both him and lucifer. Conrad had been dealt a rather tragic blow when one of his best friends had unexpected passed away, stopping at his door Al gently knocked on it like he does every morning.
"I have some breakfast for you if your up for it" he called out through the door.
"Its open..." came a soft reply from Conrad, Alastor was relieved when he heard this, expecting to just get met with silence once more, reaching down he grasped the door handle and twisted it open and stepped inside. The room was a disaster, piles of stuff knocked over into the floor and a few shredded up pillows, looking around quickly his eyes landed on his son in the corner of the room. Conrad was sitting with his knees pulled up to his chest and trying to make himself as small as possible, as if trying to hide away from everything.
"Oh son..." Alastor said softly as he sat the plate down and made his way over to him.
"D..dont..t..touch me" he said in a broken voice, Al slowed his pace down and stopped infront of him and thought for a moment before moving and sitting down on the floor beside him, but with a little space.
"I won't" Alastor said as he sat there in the floor, he couldn't begin to imagine what Conrad was going through at the moment.
*2 weeks earlier*
Conrad was walking down the streets with his best friend Ashley. She was a girl of his age and they was best friends since age 6, nearly inseparable since school, they was constantly hanging out together and making memories. Like today for example, they was on their way to the amusement park to try the new ride that his dad had put in.
"Its supposed to be the fastest roller coaster in hell!" Ashley said excitedly as Conrad was on his phone looking at the details.
"Yeah, says to have a 9.9G rating. 10 Gs is enough to kill you, so it puts you right on the edge!" He said while walking. Neither of them was really paying attention to where there surroundings, to excited about the new Rollercoaster. Conrad was reading more information about the ride before a hand shoved him on the back, he was sent forward and fell face down onto the road with a thud and a groan, picking himself up and grabbing his phone now he turned around now.
"What was that for Ash....ley" he stopped and stared at her body laying in the middle of the road, the place he was just standing at, they hadn't even noticed that they walked out into the crosswalk without waiting for the light to turn, in the midst if his fall and trying to catch himself he didn't hear the car or the tire screech while peeling away, rushing over to Ashley he got down on the ground beside here.
"Ashley! Come on open your eyes!" He cried out desperately as he tried to wake her up, but sadly nothing he did was working, putting a hand up on her neck he went still to try and find a pulse, taking a shaky breath as he felt one, he didn't waste much more time to call a ambulance.
"Whats your emergency?"
"M..my friend was just hit by a car..pl..please hurry!"
"All companies are busy, expect up to a 20 minute wait" the operator said through the phone.
"Th..that won't work!" He said in disbelief almost.
"Well unless you can change it, deal with it" the operator said with a rather bored tone. Conrad wasn't sure what to do before thinking a second.
"My name is Conrad Morningstar, and If I don't see a ambulance here within the next few minutes I will make your life miserable, do you understand me!" He shouted into the phone, his parents had talked to him about using his name like that, but he didn't care at this moment, the other end of the line was quiet and he soon heard sirens approaching and promptly hung up the phone, the medics hoped out and quickly loaded her into the back of the ambulance.
"P..please, let me go with you, she's my friend!" Conrad pleaded with them, they hesitated as with the condition fearing that she wouldn't make it but nodded.
"Ok, get in" one of the said as he climbed into the back. Grabbing the doors she leaned down to her partner.
"Drive fast" she said before pulling the doors shut.
The ride to the hospital was a tense one as they fought to keep Ashley's vitals.
"Bret! I'm loosing her!" Stella called out from the back, Conrad was in the corner nearly yanking the hair out of his head.
"Come on Ashley please..d.dont do this to me!"
"Ambo 61 to main, tell them to have a crash cart ready when we get there were coming in hot!" Bret called over the radio as the tires squalled rounding the corner, roaring up the drive the ambo skidded to a halt as the team rushed out with the cart to get the patient.
"Hit and Run, Ashley, 19 possible internal bleeding"
"Trauma bay 6" the doctor called out as they wheeled her in.
"Sorry kid, but you need to stay here" he said before taking off to the room, Conrad just stood there frozen, his entire life had been flipped upside down and he wasn't sure what to do.
Looking down at his phone he opened it and went to the contacts and clicked on Alastor since his name was first to appear.
Al and lucifer where sitting on the couch enjoying some quiet, Al was reading his book and Lucifer was scrolling through his phone. Reaching into his pocket he grabbed the phone and hit asnwer.
"Hey kiddo, what's up?" He asked with a smile, the moment Conrad starting talking he could tell something was wrong as he tossed his book carelessly off to the side.
"Hey hey calm down, who got hit" he asked, by this point lucifer had sat up from the couch and was now listening.
"Dont move, we are on our way" he said as he hung up the phone and stood up.
"What happened?" Lucifer asked now with a bit of worry.
"Conrad and Ashley was on their way to the park. She got hit by a car, they are at the hospital now" Al said with a bit of worry partially relieved that it wasn't Conrad who got hit. The 2 of them wasted no time as they took off towards the hospital. Arriving in record time they quickly went inside and was looking around the waiting room where they found him in the corner.
"Son!" Making their way over they got down on the floor near him.
"Are you ok?" Lucifer asked only to watch him shake his head.
"What hurts?"
"Sh..she..didn't make it" he forced out, lucifer and Al stopped and looked at each other for a moment.
"Oh son...im so sorry" Lucifer said as he put a hand on his shoulder, Conrad moved and planted himself against lucifer, holding onto his body which was quickly returned.
"I got you" he said softly.
They stayed there for a little before taking Conrad home now, Ashley's parents had already been notified and Conrad had personally talked to them. Upon getting back to the hotel Charlie was waiting and gave him a hug the moment he walked inside, everyone said their sorries but Conrad was in a different realm, not really listening, he made his way up his room and never left.
Everyone had been starting to worry about him, he wasn't eating or talking to anyone about this, and they wasn't sure how to handle it.
*back to present*
"Do you want me to get Lucifer here?"
Al asked only to receive a shake of his head.
"Alright..can you talk to me?" Al asked trying to make some head way, see if there was anything that he could to do help.
"Can...you do me a favor"
"Yes, anything for you"
"Can you kill me permanently?" Conrad asked as Al's brain screeched to a halt as he stared at him.
"No...no I can't do that son" he said now as he tried to shake that thought.
"Why would you want that?" He asked now. Conrad went quiet for a bit and Al thought he wasn't going to answer and was about to say something.
"W...w..we traded places" he finally said as Al looked at him.
"What do you mean?" He asked as they had never really gotten the full story.
"The car...it came out of no where..a and when she pushed me, she was standing where I was...it..it should've been me" he managed to get out while the tears were starting to flow again.
"I..If I wasn't created, this never would've happened, she never would've been in that street to save me!" He cried out, Alastor disregarded what he was told earlier as he moved to pull him into a hug.
"Dont talk like that son, it was her choice to save you, none of that was your fault" He said as he held onto Conrad tightly. Hearing him think and talk like this was breaking his heart.
"I..I dont know what to do dad" he muttered out.
"You need to find a way to cope with this"
"You think I'm not trying to!?" He cried out again as he pushed Alastor away and stood up quickly, his emotions all over the place as he tried to cope with the loss of his best friend.
"I was the last one to see her alive! You don't think, ive wondered over and over again, what I might've done differently! What would've kept her alive!" He shouted out now as Alastor looked up at him, his face filled with concern and worry as he watched Conrad have his breakdown.
"Its all on me! Everything is on me and I'm just...so..tired of it, I'm so tired of everything...even myself..and...and it hurts" he said as the tears were flowing freely down his face now as he wrapped his arms around himself. Alastor stood up from the floor and stepped over to him.
"Come here son" he said gently while holding his arms open. He wasn't going to force a hug onto him, sensing it would be best to get Conrad move at his own pace with this thing. He watched as Conrad hesitated some before he moved over, burying his face against Alastors chest as he kept his arms around himself, Alastor wasted no time putting his arms around Conrads body and rubbing his back some as he tried to think of what to say.
"You came into this world early...so small and frail...the doctors feared that you wouldnt survive the night, but we knew in our hearts that you would survive, and become one of the strongest, we never lost hope or gave up believing" he said as he took a break, feeling Conrad going quiet as he listened.
"You have endured more pain and suffering in life then most adults have and your only a teenager with much ahead of you. I wish I can take that pain away for you son, but this is a battle you must face" he continued before he pushed Conrad back some and lowered himself a little to look into his eyes.
"But it is not a battle you must do alone son. Let us in, let us help you" Al said as he looked at him.
"I...I dont know how to dad" he said softly while looking back.
"We will figure this out together son, your not alone anymore in this" he said as he watched Conrad slowly nod his head before moving back into the hug.
"I..im..sorry.." he stuttered out now.
"Its alright, you've been through a lot, there is nothing to be sorry for" Al said with a soft smile as he calmed him down.
"Can you eat something, for me?" He asked as to his current knowledge he hasn't eaten since being locked in the room. He watched as Conrad moved and grabbed the plate of food while he pulled out his phone and texted Lucifer.
*Drop what your doing. Our son needs us*
He sent and almost instantly got a text back.
Later that night the parents were sitting in the room with him with Conrad between them sleeping on the bed, the bits of food he ate quickly took what little energy he had left in him, Lucifer sat there on the bed coming his fingers through his hair.
"My precious little apple" he said softly with a little smile. He was still hurting but was starting to let them in which was a major step, it would take some time to get through this but they wasn't gonna let him do it alone, they was going to be with him every step of the way.
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Hazbin one shots
Fiksi Penggemara series of one shots of hazbin hotel. based off pictures I see or random ideas I get. some short, some long. Just whatever comes to mind My goal is to reach 160 of them and set the bar high for one shot books
