Chapter 7

Someone In The Past

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"I'm going back to the hotel, Charlie might start looking for me." Melody says as she stands up and grabbing her umbrella with her as she dusts off the dirt off her dress. She opens her umbrella and hovers it over her head, Sin and Angel also got up from their spot and dusting themselves off too. Melody waves at them and starts to walk away, but before she was far she stops and turns her head to the side.

"Angel, make sure you're back before the clock hits 8 or I won't be nice." She says as she gives the two a threatening smile and starts walking away again. Angel shivers as he rubs his arms,

"Your fuckin' friend gives me the creeps." He muttered under his breath. Sin burst out laughing and walks off into another direction, Angel following close behind.

"Sucks to be you, thot." Sin chuckles as Angel did the same towards the nickname. As the two walk off on the streets, Sin glances up at Angel who's once again talking away to her. She watch as he laughs when he delivered his punchline on a joke, made faces of reactions when telling a story — a lots more that nobody can list off. Without even noticing, she smiles softly, 'oh, I wish this could last forever.' She thought to herself, but of course, it couldn't. Angel was on a whole another level, he's a popular gay pornstar and her? She is popular, even earning the title 'The Deceiver' but she can't even compare that to him.

And besides, he would never look at her like how he does to the men he sees. She's—

"Hey, princess. You listenin'?" Angel snaps her out of her thoughts, the girl jumps as she blinks and looks up at him.

"Huh, what?" She blurts out, obviously confused. She looks at where they had stopped and it was an ice cream shop.

"I'm askin' ya kitty, you want some ice cream?" He asks as he chuckles when her eyes lit up at the mentioning of 'ice cream'. The girl grips her hands in excitement as she jumps,

"Fuck yes!" She cheerfully squeak, making Angel chuckle and walking inside the shop.

"Alright, Clutz. Wait for me out here, I'll go get ya favourite." Sin nods as she watch him disappear inside the shop. The girl had a smile on her face the whole time, visibly showing off her sharp rows of teeth. Sin was too much in thoughts about Angel but was pulled into reality when someone bumped into her and said nothing. The girl glared at the man that have a hat covering his features,

"Fucking prick." She cuss out as she crosses her arms and glare down at the man who's walking away. He looks kinda sketchy to be honest, but hey, it's hell. What the fuck is normal anymore? Sin shivers as she glares away from the man, Angel later comes out and hands the girl a chocolate chip mint ice cream as her face lits up. Angel laughs at her childishness as they walk back to the hotel.

The man from before watch as the two disappear from his sight as he walks away, noting things down on a notepad in his hands with a pen — mumbling things under his breath. The notepad is filled with messy hand writing, but it was clear he was after something. But instead of targeting Sin like some would think; on his notepad was a little-to-no information about Melody. But he only wrote 'Mel' because it was the only thing he heard Sin called her.

Things weren't going to be pretty, he chuckles as he puts away his notepad into his jacket as he walks back to his house.

"Do you ever try to, uh, laugh?" Husk's deep voice asks Melody who's sitting on the bar stool, sipping on her strawberry milkshake with her blank face plastered on her features. She blinks and shrugs making Husk make a wtf face. "Then what the fuck makes you laugh or at least smile?" He asks as he chugs down his cheap booze in hand. Melody sets her cup down on the counter as she hummed quietly, thinking about it herself.

"Well, I used to like Dad Jokes, Dark Humour and sometimes, sometimes dirty jokes." She presses her tone on 'sometimes', repeating herself to make it clear. "But mostly things that make me laugh or smile is people suffering." She says as if casually and sips back on her milkshake only for her straw to make a noise, realising she had finished it. She flatten her lips as she stare at the cup and sets it down on the counter, sighing with a blank face the girl buries her head onto her arms. Husk only grinned looking at how 'sad' she looked when she finished her drink.

"You want another?" He asks, Melody shakes her head — not looking up.

"I can't, I might pass out." She reply as if her drink was an alcoholic beverage. Husk managed to chuckle as he continue to drink his booze. "I just want to sleep and not deal with anyone right now." She muttered as she peeks out of her arms and stare off into the shelves of alcohol and beverages behind Husk. He nods, agreeing.

Melody sits upright as she looks to her side, to the clock that's right behind the reception counter where Alastor is standing behind of. It's 8 and almost 9, Sin and Angel is still not back. While she stared at the clock and resting her cheek on her arm and elbow on the bar, her eyes caught Alastor's. He smiled at her which made her felt something in her heart but her face stayed blank and unmoving. But it was enough for her to avoid eye contact and look away to the front door. As if they heard Melody's thoughts, Angel and Sin walks in through the front doors with ice creams in their hands.

They chatted casually as they enter, Sin looks towards Melody and suddenly fast walk towards her — offering some of her ice cream. Melody looks down at the mint chocolate chip and literally chomp the ice cream. Sin blinks in bewilderment, she bit into it like it was nothing and wipe away a bit of cream from the end of her lips. Sin chuckles and smile down at her and Melody only blinked. She sits down beside the girl on the stool as Angel joined after, they chatted away as Angel tries to flirt with Husk who's clearly uncomfortable.

The second the clock hits 9:00, Melody suddenly stops talking and stands up from her seat. She turns her head to see it's perfectly 9PM, it was time for her to go home. Like Charlie knew it was time, her and Vaggie walks out of the office while discussing some things about the hotel. Melody walks towards the reception counter and into it, kind of ignoring Alastor who have his eyes glancing at her. She takes out her umbrella and was about to walk up to Charlie to make sure she knows that she's leaving—

"Dear, are you leaving?" Alastor asks, his hand found its way to her wrist; softly gripping it. It caught Melody off guard as she turns to him,

"Yes, I am." She says as she tries to pull her hand away but Alastor squeezed it lightly. "Is there something you need?"  She asks, a bit aware that he needed or wanted something. He smile and nodded,

"Well, dear, let me walk you home! I am about to head out soon too! You wouldn't mind that, would you?" He asks, his smile turning into one that hid his teeth. Melody was speechless for a second but she manage to croak out some words.

"Uh, of course— sure. I'll be waiting for you outside." She say in hopes of he'll release his grip which he did as he smiled at her. The girl only nodded with a blank face and walk towards the front doors. Sin was watching the whole thing, but she gotta be honest — she doesn't know what Melody is actually feeling. Her face looks like a mask, a porcelain one too. Alastor noticed that Sin been watching them as he smiled at her, the girl only grinned and holds her hand up to give a thumbs up.

As funny as it sounds, Sin actually feels worried of how things would go. The purple black ombre haired girl turns to Angel who's a bit tipsy from drinking and Husk standing a few feet away from the drunken spider. She smiled lightly but honestly, deep down — Sin could feel as if something was going to happen.

Melody steps off the porch as she opens her umbrella and hovers it over her head, casting shadows upon herself as she looks ahead to the cities of Hell. The bright lights and 'colorful' words on the sign boards. The last extermination was only recently and some places are really empty due to sinners being killed, and only Melody knew how suffering it must of felt. Once they're dead, wiped out of existence — their soul are sent to her. They serve her.

Talking about that, she haven't visited the dead realms and human world in quite a long time. It's not like she's needed there most of the time, Death Reaper does his work for her most of the time. The girl looks down to her boots as she leans on her tippy toes and rock backwards and forwards, the girl stops doing so when she hears the front door of the hotel opens up. Knowing that its Alastor, she didn't turn to look at him. She only look up in front of her as he walks up beside her, the two look at each other as they nodded and start walking.

Like it always has been, the two walk quietly you could hear a pin drop. But Alastor turns his head to her but could barely see her due to her being shorter and having a big umbrella over her head.

"Dear?" He calls out to make sure she was listening to him, she hummed as she tilts her umbrella on her shoulder and looks up at him. "Did something happen? You looked a bit down earlier." He asks, his smile suddenly softening. The girl purses her lips barely as she averts her eyes away from his and back to the front as they walked. It took the girl some time but then her eyebrows suddenly creased, the same kind of confusion from before crept up to her face. She gripped the handle of her umbrella tightly as she shrugs her shoulders,

"I-I don't know." She stutter as she travels her eyes around to try and look for the right words to explain, but couldn't. Alastor raises his eyebrows but his smile is (of course) still on his lips.

"Oh, deary!  I wouldn't know how it must've felt when you, yourself don't even know what you're feeling!" Alastor chuckled which made Melody smile barely but it fall back into a flat line seconds later.

"I'm not used to emotions." She confessed, Alastor tilt his head.

"Melody, dear. Did you used to be emotionless?" He asks, Melody shook her head.

"No, I'm actually used to be really happy and cheery. You could day I was like Charlie." She smile a little. "But I'm not sure why after I fell into hell, I couldn't feel anything." She shrugs her shoulders as her smile dropped and sighed. Alastor suddenly laughs out as he stops walking in front of Melody's house and turns to look at her. She looks at him with raised eyebrows, but then he holds her chin up to look up at him as he smiles.

"You're never fully dressed without a smile, dear! A smile suits you better." He says as he pulls his hand away, Melody could only stare at him as he walks past her and wave towards her. Without even letting her say something he walks away and out of her sight. Melody was still speechless as she stood there like an idiot, she blinks multiple times. When he said that, something in her felt warm. She doesn't know whether to say it's a good kind of feeling or not since she forgot how to even feel.

She sighs as she walks up to her porch and closes her umbrella but before she could grab the doorknob of her own house, someone grabbed a hold of her shoulders and smacked a cloth over her nose and mouth. The sudden act made the girl gasp as she accidentally breathe in the chloroform on the cloth. Her eyelids grew heavy as she slips out of consciousness.

'It's cold.' She thought to herself, her whole body is freezing cold from her own sweat and how chilling the room is. She tries to pull her hand to wipe away the sweat on her forehead but realized that it's being tied on an armrest. Remembering and realising what had happened the girl opens her eyes to find that she's actually not blindfolded, the light in the room is dim and the windows are barricaded, letting no light from outside pouring in.

The girl looks around to find a door directly in front of her, there's a table nearby her and she couldn't see what it really was but the dim light that shines on it was enough to tell her that it was something sharp and painful. She looks around to try and get to know her surrounding, the walls are dark grey and concrete. Its chipped and looks really old, the room reeks of dried blood and metallic. She looks down to herself to see her hands being chained rather than tied up with a rope on a chair's armrest. Her legs are also chained on the chair's legs and her torso is also chained.

Whoever is keeping her here, really didn't want her to be free. She eyed the chains on her hands and noticed an opening, well, at the same time whoever didn't want her to be free is also stupid. The sounds of her moving her chains around probably alerted the kidnapper as the door of the room opens up to reveal a man, despite this being hell and looking totally inhuman — he looks completely human. He has light fair skin, dark blonde hair and blue eyes. When Melody landed her eyes on him, she cringed inside — he kind of looks like her dad. Those disgusting blue eyes, that is filled with anger and frustration.

"Looks like someone finally woke up." He chuckles as he walks inside the room, closing the door behind him in a slam. He walks closer to Melody as he peered in her face, making her lean backwards. "Took you long enough." He grins. She held back the urge to just spit in his face and for him to back the hell up. He stared at her eyes for a couple of seconds before backing away and standing straight up.

"How long exactly?" She speaks out, it made him turn his eyes right back at her after he glanced away for a moment. It made him amused that she was more concerned about the time than where she is.

"It's been the next day, precisely." He hummed as he holds up his hand to look at his hand watch. "8:24AM." He smiles up at her, if she could show emotions right now — her eyes would widened in shock. She usually arrive by the hotel before 6 just so she could help Charlie and Vaggie set things up. They're probably wondering where Melody is by now. But instead of showing that to him, she only sighed as looks away.

"I'm hungry." She blurt out with the most annoyed tone laced in her voice. The man creases his eyebrows in bewilderment. "Anyways, the fuck do you want from me? If you want 'that', sorry dear I don't do that. But I know someone who would and I'm sure they're pretty good at it too." Melody grins as she chuckle lowly to herself. But stopped when the man slammed his hand on the chair back, making Melody look up at him with her grin still on her face.

"Shut your fucking mouth, you fucking bitch." He cuss out. Melody only smile wider, which made him pissed off even more and reach out to strangle her but when he did so, the moment he reaches out; not even that close to her yet — his hand backed away as he hisses in pain. It felt like there was an electric shock that went through his hand.

"Don't touch me." She sneered as she glares up at him. The man grits his teeth as he kicks the chair forcefully to the side, making the girl fall onto the floor with a loud crash. Melody grunt from the impact and glares up at him, barely could see him due to her hair blocking her view. But right now she isn't even worried about herself, she's worried about the others. She's afraid that this man might have something up his sleeve, all she could do right now is hope the others are safe and find away to kill this asshole.

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"It's almost past 8, Mel is still isn't here. I'm starting to honestly get worried." Vaggie mumbles out as she walks back and forth, Charlie is nearby as she holds her hands together in concern.

"Didn't she walk home with Al?" Sin points out as everyone looks towards Alastor, he only shrugs his shoulders.

"I dropped her in front of her house, I can assure you that." He states the truth as he looks at his microphone cane in thought. Suddenly someone walks down the stairs, making everyone look at the person — Slither looks up at everyone. The room is filled with intense air, he raises one of his eyebrows up in question.

"Melody is missing-" Angel was cut off as Charlie jumps in,

"She isn't! Um, I think she's just a bit..late." She's only trying to reassure herself than anyone else. Slither looks around the room and walks up to the front door, he stood there for a second before pulling the door open like someone was there. But instead there was a letter on the floor. He bends down as he picks it up, turning around the male holds the letter up with his index and middle finger.

"We have a letter." He announces as everyone looks at him, Vaggie runs up to him and snatches it from his hand. Opening the letter and reading it out loud,

'If you wish to have your lovely gal back, bring me 'The Deceiver'."

"Que mierda?!" Vaggie cusses in her native language as she grips the letter tightly in anger. Sin perks up from hearing her nickname, she shots up from the couch and takes the letter from her best friend.

"What the fuck." She breathes out as she looks on the bottom of the letter to see there's a location written down. Angel stands up as he walks over,

"It could be a trap." Slither voices out before Angel could even say it. Alastor watched as everyone was worried and anxious about a demon's safety. He's sure that she's not that weak to be worried over. But Alastor couldn't help but feel a little pang of guilt, if only he didn't leave so soon maybe it wouldn't have happened. His instinct was right about someone hiding behind some of the trees around her house, but he thought it might be some mere demon.

"Trap or not, I'm going to get Mel back." Sin decides as she walks pass Slither and out the door, making Angel quickly following behind her. Charlie didn't have a second thought as she follows after, making Vaggie tailing behind — worried for her girlfriend's safety too. Alastor turns to Husk and Niffty who's been watching the whole thing and also having the same worried faces.

"I'll be going, take care of the hotel." He says smiling, Husk only scoffed and Niffty nodded. Before Husk could cuss him out, Alastor fades into a shadow as he disappears from sight making Husk cuss. Niffty had a slight frown as she holds the broom in her hand tightly.

"Do you think she'll be okay?" Niffty asks, her voice squeaky and pitched as ever. Husk glances down at her and shrugs,

"She seems like the tough type, I don't fuckin' know." He says as he rests his elbows on the bar counter.

Everyone and that is Sin, Angel, Vaggie, Charlie, Slither and even Alastor arrives by the location. The house in front of them is made out of full bricks and concrete. There's plants and vines growing out of the cracks all the way out. Sin gripped tightly on the letter, it scrunches up in her grip as she opens the wooden door that's unlocked as she pushes it open, inside the house is dusty and dark.

The windows are boarded up as a single bulb hangs on the ceiling, barely lighting the room up. When she enters the room, she suddenly could hear a loud crash and a man cussing out to someone in a room down the long hallway. Everyone froze as they listened, there was hushes as suddenly they hear someone walking up stairs from a basement. A loud door closing is heard as someone walks out with a big smirk on his face, his blonde hair illuminating by the single light bulb on top of him.

"Well I see you're here." He smiles at Sin, which the girl smiles back.

"Oh, were you waiting for me babe?" She teases as she holds a hand up to her face to make herself look seductive. The man only stifled a low laugh, everyone looks at him. He scans the faces in the room, there's Vaggie, Charlie, Sin and Angel. Slither and Alastor was nowhere to be seen.

"Not quite, darling. You're such a slut and seems like you bought more toys for me to play." He smirks as he looks at Vaggie and Charlie, Vaggie immediately pulls out her spear as she gets in front of Charlie. Her eyes glares at the man in such hatred.

"Oh hun you can just play with me." She cooed, the man suddenly laughs out loud as he holds his chest,

"Oh please! You've played with me a lot already, Ava!" He smiles when he said the name out loud, Sin widens her eyes.

"How the fuck-?" She was cut off as the man waves his hand to her,

"Oh, deary. Don't you remember me? That night you came to me only to repeatedly stab me in the heart? You really hurt me." He grins as he rubs where his heart was supposed to be. That's when she noticed, there's a little bit of dried blood on his hands.

"That's blood-! What did you fucking do to her?!" Sin shouts, he only laughs. As he walks closer, making Angel pull Sin to be behind him.

"Watch it buddy. I don't fuckin' know what bull you have with her but you're not getting anymore closer than that to her." He says out protectively, Sin looks up at Angel. The man looks up at him as he grins,

"Oh? Who's this? Your new boyfriend, babe?" He grins as he looks at Sin who's behind Angel. "Answer me, sugar plump. Do you know I am?~" He asks, Sin pursed her lips as she holds Angel's arm to tell him that it's okay. He glances at her and she only smiled up at him, slowly he let's her go as she walks up to the man.

"Leave everyone else out of this, they don't deserve it." She hissed out, "Or you'll regret it, Johnny." She hisses out his name, he smirks as he holds out his hand and pulls Sin by her chin.

"Oh, my darling. You finally said my name." He grins, he then holds up his free hand and snaps his fingers — making Charlie scream, Sin looks at them to see that her and Vaggie disappeared in a puff of black smoke. "Now that you're here, I think it's best if I show him who you belong to." He darkly says as he glared at Angel, Sin widens her eyes in pure disgust. Sin's eyes glows a bright lilac as black feathery wings grows out of her back in thin air as she kicks the man on his stomach and sends him to wall.

"Karma will fucking get to you." She growls.