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Angel Dust ([personal profile] itsytitsyspider) wrote2021-10-14 12:22 pm
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[personal profile] lonelysmiles 2021-11-01 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Without the support of Angel's hands, Alastor stumbled as the gently swaying room made it difficult to find his footing. His smile thinned to almost non-existent as he looked up at Angel, eyes filled with confusion and hurt, ears slowly lowering in distress.

They were having such a good time! They'd been dancing and Angel had even stroked his ears! What had happened?! What had he done wrong?!

Alastor's internal receiver swung wildly through the stations as drunken understanding hit Alastor:

He wasn't just some sinner. He was Alastor the Radio Demon. Feared by all in Hell. Nobody wanted to talk to him, much less dance with him. What had he been thinking?

Angel's radio switched stations mid-song as it synced with Alastor's internal receiver. Nat King Cole's voice began crooning away:

♪♫ Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You'll get by
♪♫

"...I understand."

Alastor's face spread into a wide smile before he turned away from Angel. He stumbled and nearly fell but he caught himself with the nightstand.

He was still very, very drunk but he was no longer the bubbly, happy-go-lucky drunk of only a few moments before. His mood had crashed. Now he wanted nothing more than to go back to his room and drink until he blacked out, hoping that Husk's prescription to numb any and all pain would work.
lonelysmiles: (Oh Please)

[personal profile] lonelysmiles 2021-11-16 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
A sober Alastor would've understood. It was always so easy to give into one's inner demons here in Hell. There was no incentive not to. Honestly, he'd likely share the act with Charlie just to watch her squeal, beam, and annoy the ever-living hell out of Angel about his progress in resisting temptation.

Only Alastor wasn't sober. Thoughts he'd drowned earlier had risen to the surface again with a vengeance, coiling their dark tendrils around him and dragging him down towards the abyss now that Alastor was far too drunk to resist.

But he smiled at Angel. Smiled and laughed and spun on his toes in a grand sweeping pantomime of amusement. The laugh track that accompanied his stumbling was slow and twisted, like a cassette tape being played on a tape player whose batteries were running low. "Oh, my dear, there's no reason for excuses! I do understand! Truly!" He hiccupped and danced a few uncertain steps to the melancholy tune, not-very-subtly putting distance between himself and Angel. "Thank you for such a del-delightful evening but you're right: I'd best be on my way!"

His head swam as the shadows began coiling around him like chains. He belonged to them and the empty, freezing, lonely darkness. He'd had his fun. It was time to go.
lonelysmiles: (Face Half In Shadow)

[personal profile] lonelysmiles 2021-11-16 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't hate you."

Once more, there was no static in his voice. He was "off the air" for a moment. In vino, veritas.

"I hate a lot of people, but you're not one of them."

lonelysmiles: Pass the courvoisier! (Drunk)

[personal profile] lonelysmiles 2021-11-17 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mean it," Alastor slurred. He took a stumbling step towards the two Angels in front of him, the shadows tugging insistently at him but not enough to get him to stop. He started poking the chest fluff of the one slightly to the right. "I don't like your propositions. You're vulgar and irritating. And you seem to think it's funny to wind me up to the point where homicide crosses my mind."

Alastor's drooping ears twitched as he lowered his hand. He lowered his eyes, giving a wry chuckle interrupted by hiccups.

"But ironically that's...that's why I don't hate you. You didn't run away or slam the door in my face or attempt to threaten me when we first met. You...you actively seek me out to annoy me. It's not just me, the quiet in my ears, and the radio in my head."
Edited 2021-11-17 13:54 (UTC)