Angel x Reader stories

HIDE & SEEK Angel x Reader

~request by 22kats~

You and the rest of the gang are currently in the hotel lobby waiting because Charlie has to tell you all something . Even if certain individuals didn't want to join it just so happens that there is currently a power outage and nobody has anything better to do. Nifty offered to try and fix it, but Charlie said it would make playing hide and seek more interesting. Alastor agreed even though he refused to play. He had no choice but to agree when he saw how it soured everyone's mood and made Charlie super nervous as she tried to fix it. You're pretty nervous because you were pretty new to the hotel and didn't really know anyone except Angel. He's the whole reason you're at this dump of a hotel. He had found you on the streets homeless and owning practically nothing. You were getting harassed by other demons, he couldn't just walk away from you. He gave you a place to stay until you got back on your feet. You helped take care of Fat Nuggets and did all his house chores when you couldn't afford to help him pay rent. He told you about the hotel because he knew how you were struggling financially. You have no idea if he believes in Charlie's redemption project, but you hope she's right because you feel your friend deserves to go to heaven.

Charlie allows Alastor to be the seeker first because he didn't want to play, which just isn't fair. Everywhere you attempted to hide was taken by someone else where there wasn't enough room. You internally curse choosing to hide under Husk's bar. You see shadows lurk across the walls and hug yourself tighter under the bar. Nope. Not fair, not fair at all. Heck, she couldn've said he couldn't use his stupid shadow powers.

"Found you~" Alastor sings in a sinister voice his whole body caged against the bar. You let out yelp clearly scared by his sudden appearance. He was definitely enjoying this too much almost like he was hunting you all down one by one. Unlucky for you you were the first to be found. Or maybe you were lucky because that means nobody else had to see your ridiculous scared face. Your mind wanders to Angel laughing at you and you're suddenly glad you were first. You like that he cares, but sometimes he acts like you're the same newbie he found on the streets. You don't mind that he cares for you, you just wish he'd treat you like more than a friend or a sibling.

Alastor leaves you in the lobby to go search for his other victims. There's a steady stream of your fallen comrades into the lobby until you're all accounted for. You greet all of them as they enter, but are too shy to actually try to start a conversation. Maybe this is why it's so easy for Angel to treat you like a kid?

"Hey! We're you found first? That sucks," Charlie starts a conversation with you being the third found.

"Ugh yeah," you laugh awkwardly, "I couldn't find anywhere decent to hide, not that it'd matter," you say the last part in a quieter tone.

"Awe, well maybe you can hide with me next round," she offers, but before you can answer her Vaggie walks in and she runs off. You watch them for a moment waiting for an opportunity jump into their conversation, but Charlie seems to have forgotten about you.

You don't get to mope for long after Angel walks in and sits beside you.

"It's been less than five minutes, but it feels like you've been gone for hours. Al found me first," you complain and Angel laughs. You smile, you love it when you're able to make him laugh.

"Well you're like a pup sweetheart, maybe it do ya some good tah be away from me, hm?" He's not serious, but it doesn't stop it from hurting you a little.

"I did talk to Charlie...a bit," you sigh sadly. You really were trying.

Vaggie volunteers to be the seeker next and you end up finding Charlie who keeps up her promise to let you hide with her.