Burning Desire (Alastor X Reader)

Chapter 24 The Day You Laughed

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You were eating a meal very quickly prepared in front of your television set, a strange demons wave had arrived in hell, the news spoke of a wave of death on earth but for the moment he had no more information.

Certainly perhaps a wave of attacks, who knows? Only few things could surprise you on this subject.

You picked up your plate and began to do your dishes silently. You hesitated to get dessert, but you weren't very hungry. All you wanted to do was go to bed.

Suddenly someone knocked on your door. You rolled your eyes in annoyance. It must have been the neighbor this time. You sighed and dried your hands before you went to open your door.

"Yes ?" you asked wearily.

But the only answer you got was some kind of red package that seemed to contain... uh... some kind of flowers right in front of your face.

Mechanically you picked up the package and looked up to see who was in front of you. Unfortunately, whatever that thing was, it was now gone.

You raised an eyebrow in confusion and then looked at the package in a confused state and went home.

You went to your kitchen rather dubious about the contents of the package.

"Why rose stems? "you asked yourself as you looked at them in more detail.

The rosebuds were completely burnt, there was nothing left of them. After a moment's reflection, you wondered if it was a stupid prank by Alastor.

Suddenly you saw a little paper stuck in the stems.

You gently pulled it out and your eyes wandered boredly over the little note.

... Wait ... Did you read it right?

"Is He serious?" You asked aloud as you read the word again.

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"My dear,

I anticipated what you were going to do, so I took the liberty of relieving you of this arduous task.

Hoping it might soften our "thorny" relationship.

See you soon,

Alastor"

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You read the letter again.

Meanwhile, a certain shadow was discreetly watching your reaction. It was quite surprised, why hadn't you torn the bouquet yet? What could its master have written down?

Suddenly it noticed that your shoulders had started to shake... What happened to you?

The shadow slowly approached you hoping to read the note its master had left for you, but suddenly you burst out laughing. The shadow became frightened and hid under a piece of furniture, oh Lucifer, had you seen it? Why were you laughing out loud?

"Excellent! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! "You laughed " what a- ha ha ha... ho fucking... moron!"

You had to lean back on your kitchen counter to calm yourself but as soon as your eyes looked at the letter again you couldn't stop laughing again, so much so that you started crying and your cheeks started to hurt like hell.

The shadow looked at you completely bewildered. Yes ! you were really laughing! It saw you laughing! And from all the laughter it had heard with its master, it knew it was not a false laugh. No, it was a sincere laugh, even if it could feel a bit of mockery.