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"alright Abaddon I just got a call from Katherine, she's going to be here soon" Nathan walked up to Abaddon who was trying to climb onto the cabinets "so please be on your best behavior"
"Oh please when have I ever not been on my best behavior"
"Yesterday when you brought in a dead half eaten raccoon into the living room"
"Oh, that"
"Yeah that, no more of that"
"How dare you command Abaddon the prince of the black realm, the gatekeeper of hell!" The demon yelled offended, how dare he
"Ok, so I'm asking you to be as calm as you can be when Katherine and the kids get here, at least for the first few weeks so they can get used to everything. Can you do that?"
"Hmm I accept your deal" Abaddon hopped down onto the floor "when will your sister be here exactly?"
"In about fifteen minutes, I really need to prepare some rooms for her and the kids" Nathan was silent for a moment "speaking of rooms go clean yours"
"What? I don't have a- oh yeah right" he did have a room, Nathan gave it to him when he first started living with him, he just barely spend any time there spending the days wandering the hotel and the area around it and the nights in a cabinet under the sink. The room was probably really dusty now "but why do I have to clean it?"
"Because I don't have the energy to explain to Katherine on why are you sleeping under the sink" Nathan crossed his arms over his chest
"I don't sleep" Abaddon interjected
"Yeah ok whatever go clean the room"
"You do not posses the power of making me do anything I do not wish to do"
"Go clean or no yogurt for a week"
Abaddon gasped "how dare you!" Nathan was a cruel man, withholding Abaddons delicacies to force him to do his bidding. Abaddon respected that "fine"
The demon turned around to leave to kitchen and make his way into his assigned room when a wet rag hit him in the head
Abaddon turned around enraged only to see Nathan standing there with that annoying on his face
The demon grumbled to himself as he walked out of the kitchen taking the rag into his hand
Abaddon opened the door to the room he hasn't stepped a foot in in months and was immediately hit with a stale smell of the dust
He was right about the room getting dusty
He really should open a window
He walked up to the window on the other side of the room, he grabbed the knob of the window and twisted it pulling it at the same time
Abaddon didn't exactly know how to open a window but that always does the job
After a few tries the window opens letting a gust of fresh air in
Well time to get to work. For his yogurt
As he worked Abaddons thoughts drifted, that timeline was surely an odd one and he really wanted to see how it played out, he never really got to see Katherine and Nathan interact before the mans death
Maybe Nathan will finally survive the few months they always spend together
Abaddon placed the wet cloth on the dresser and wiped it, gathering all the dust, when he was satisfied with the progress be moved to the bedside table, then the wardrobe, then the shelves and finally grabbed the blanket off the bed and shook it as hard as the weak arms of the vessel allowed him, sending all the dust settling there into the air
It actually looked nice now
"Abaddon! Katherine's here!" Nathan called him from the hal of the hotel. Has it already been 15 minutes? Time sure does pass fast when you're cleaning
Abaddon left the now dirty wet rag on the bed and left the room, making his way into the hal
When he got there he saw Ben dragging his suitcase into the building, Esther marveling at the anything in sight and Nathan talking with his sister
He walked up to Nathan's side and a warm hand immediately came to his upper back
"There he is" Nathan smiled brightly at the demon
"Ben, Esther this is your little cousin Abaddon" Katherine introduced the demon, it felt wierd being called a cousin, a familiar term he never got to have. In all other timelines he's just been this wierd demon roommate thing that came with the building
Ben came closer to Abaddon first with that wide toothy grin he always had plastered on his face
"Hello Abaddon it's nice to meet you, my name is-" before Ben could finish his introduction Esther pushed him to the side getting uncomfortably close to Abaddons face
"So you're the one who they call Abaddon" she narrowed her eyes as if she was studying him, and knowing Esther she probably was
"And you're the one they call Esther" the demon mimicked the girl, he liked doing that it always either made her laugh or made her want to strangle him to death. He loved the outcome of both
They stared at each other for a few moments before Esther smiled
"Cool name"
"Thanks, cool coat"
"Thanks"
"Want me to show you around the hotel?"
"Uh duh, of course I want to" Esther bounced in place from excitement, Abaddon turned to look at Ben
"You wanna come with us?"
"Ah no thanks, I think I'll just get something to eat" Ben rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly
"The kitchen is right over there" Nathan pointed at the kitchen door "serve yourself"
Abaddon and Esther were halfway up the staircase
"Most guest rooms are upstairs" Abaddon explained as Esther followed him trough the corridor
"This place is huge" Esther twirled behind him
"It's not that big once you get used to it trust me" Abaddon shrugged and stopped by one of the rooms turning around to face Esther "there is around 40 rooms that we can explore, there is also a wedding suite but I don't really go in there it stinks and- what are you looking at?" Abaddon tilted his head, Esther looked absolutely horrified pointing at something behind him
Abaddon turned around just in time to see a knife approach his forehead in rapid speed
The knife phased right through
"Hi Paul" the demon sighed, Paul was annoying but harmless
"Sup Abaddon, I see you got yourself a little friend" Paul retracted his knife
"Yeah that's Esther, Nathan's niece" the demon explained
"Oh that's nice I forgot that the guy has any siblings to be honest" Paul rubbed his chin with the butt of his knife "anyways I'm gonna go, see ya around"
"Bye Paul" Paul phased through a wall and then dissapeared, Abaddon turned back to Esther
"Anyways as I was saying-"
"What the heck was that?!" Esther was pointing where the ghost has just been
"Oh that was just stabby Paul don't worry about him" he waved his hand dismissively
"His knife just went through you, do you have some sort of a protection spell on you?"
"What? No" protection spells don't work like that "he's a ghost"
"Ghosts are real?" Esther's eyes widened, bright sparkles in them
"Oh yeah, this place is filled with them it's pretty hard not to find a ghost to be honest"
"Oh ho ho that's so cool!" Esther jumped in place throwing her hands into the air "ghosts are real! How does that work"
"Not sure honestly, if you Die on the property of the hotel you become a ghost" he really didn't know much about how ghosts happen
"Can you show me some" the girl once again got really close to his face, this time with a wide grin on her face
"Oh yeah sure no problem"
"This is Candleheads room" Abaddon pointed at the door
"Why Candlehead?" Esther questioned tilting her head
Abaddon just opened the door letting the girl see the inside absolutely filled with candles to the brim with Candlehead standing in the middle
When he noticed them he charged at them
"Candles!" Abaddon quickly shut the door
"Candlehead"
Next they met Angela, she was standing in the living room staring out the window
"Hi Angela" Abaddon and Esther waved at her as they approached her
"Oh, hello Abaddon, who's your pretty little friend here?" Angela smiled
"Awww thank you" Esther smiled and waved her hand at Angela "I'm Esther, my uncle Nathan is the owner of this hotel"
"Oh you're his niece that's so nice, we all Heard so much about you and your brother, and your mom"
"Really? Does uncle Nathan talk about us a lot?"
"Yes he does" Abaddon nodded "so much"
As they walked past a door to an open room the noticed the tentacle monster who immediately shut the door upon noticing them
"Another ghost?" Esther asked
"No that's just Jessica"
"Alright but what exactly is Jessica?"
"No clue honestly"
They rotated through a few more rooms, meeting other ghosts like the cowboy who got shot in the head or that girl in a blue flapper dress before eventually going back downstairs and joining the others in the kitchen
"Did you two have fun?" Katherine asked with a soft smile
"Heck yeah it was awesome"
"I showed Esther a guest room with a giant spider" Abaddon said proudly, the spider was around the size of his head, truly an impressive feat
"It was gigantic"
"Wait Abaddon there's a giant spider in one of the guest rooms?" Nathan asked the demon, Abaddon nodded in response "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I like spiders" the demon shrugged
"Well most guests don't like them, so next time you see a spider in a room just tell me alright?"
"Alright" Abaddon said dismissively before sitting down on a chair next to Ben
Esther sat down next to Katherine
Soon enough a plate of spaghetti was placed in front of Abaddon and a fork was put into his hand
He looked around and saw that everybody had a plate in front of them and was already eating with delight faces
The demon stabbed the noddles with the fork and shoved some into his mouth
Maybe he could enjoy this timeline while it lasts