#i actually tried writing a snippet before but i. urh

[hiemaldesirae]

Thorn here:

One day the entire hotel crew are watching TV (Alastor included Charlie somehow got him too) when there show is interrupted by an emergency broadcast.

It's Valentino and Velvette with someone dressed up as Vox, and they start singing a showtune announcing Vox's death.

Alastor....*FREAKS* his antlers start growing, and static erupts from his staff as bellows of grief erupts from his mouth--Husk instantly Pat's his back, trying to comfort him while Angel turns it up.

Only for Papermint's grasp of "Sir!" Is heard over the T.V. and the camera swings to see a very groggy but alive Vox blinking at everyone in the studio And then:

Valentino: "I thought you were dead!"

Vox: "No, I was just down here taking a nap. What the fuck going on?"

Valentino: "You were very still i---"

Vox: proudly: "I'm a very sound sleepe--SORRY," *He lifts up a hand, sparks flicking off his antenna.* "You thought I was DEAD? And instead of calling for help or, using some of the souls we have for medical care you got someone to dress up as a shitty oversize version of me and started singing fucking SHOWTUNES ON LIVE TELEVISION?!?"

Velvette: "Well we had to let Hell know of your death."

Valentino: "The Show must go on?"

Vox: "Oh this is BULLSHIT!"

Alastor: *warps into the shadows and into the Vees tower and snatches Vox while decapitating Valentino and Velvette.* "MINE!"

wait oh my god this would be perfect for an atticwife adjacent oneshot (you guys really. like that concept huh). vox accidentally conks out on set after pulling a few all nighters too many and then when he wakes up again his (second) eulogy is being broadcast on live television, and before he can even start to chew them out and wipe the airings of the broadcast, the shadows in his room coalesce and, oh god, fuck, is that fucking ALASTOR-

vox can barely even scream before he watches alastor kill his best friends right in front of his eyes (its not PERMANENT, of course, but still, the fact that he just broke into the office room and murdered them in front of his fucking eyes- well, for one, it's Unnecessarily hot in just how deadly and efficient he was with the action, but also... what the FUCK does alastor want with him??? did he piss him off somehow???) vox goes through like 60000 different scenarios in his head in the minute or so it takes them to get back to alastors penthouse on the top floor of the hh, and he can hardly process anything at all when instead of saying anything, alastor just simply puts him down and tucks him into bed w/o saying anything