Let the Floods Cross // Closed RP
One would think that being a) the most powerful being in Hell besides its King, and b) the intimate partner of said King would combine to mean that one was never relegated to something as trivial sounding as babysitting. That the princess of Hell was not a child was irrelevant, it was still precisely what Alastor considered the task to be when his lover explained that he needed someone watching over Charlie, and he couldn't go himself.
Then again, despite their recent estrangement, Lucifer did know his own child. Alastor did not. And that negated some of his sulkiness about the entire business when he paused on his way to the dilapidated Hotel, finding young Charlie Morningstar's face plastered on the enormous televisions in a downtown windowfront.
She really was her father's miniature. But there was a softness around her enormous eyes that Alastor recognized as innocence, and an animation in her movements that he did not often see in Lucifer. Not because it was nonexistent, but because the man was weary.
Alastor understood, if only at a distance, why this mattered to his partner. And he could do this for him, to ease his heart.
He did not go to the television studio. Killjoy and Trench were as unbearable as most in Hell, and Alastor was not going to waste his valuable energy even being in their irritating presence. Besides, it looked as if poor Miss Morningstar's plea for her Hotel was not going well on-air. Meeting her at the place itself would do far better.
Or it would if she did not look as if she'd seen the Grim Reaper, and slam the door on his face. She did this twice before Alastor was able to get a word out, and then both her oddball fallen Exorcist--and lover, he realized very quickly, she was her father's daughter--and her seemingly reticent single resident were armed and ready to drive Alastor away. He had to hand it to her, it was rather an endorsement to already be hosting someone famous in Hell, even if this boy, Angel Dust, seemed incorrigible in his irredeemable hobbies.
Still, despite Vaggie and Angel Dust's extreme distrust, Charlie herself was....well, eager might be a kind word. Desperate, really, for support of the place. She accepted his offer of sponsorship, and in less than a day, there was a radio tower attachment added to the top of the run-down place, and Alastor made himself at home.
Once he was content with his wardings, including soundproofing, and had ensured that the assistance he brought along was settled in--Husker was not happy, but he never was, and Niffty already had a war waging with cockroaches--Alastor settled in at his desk, toying with the radio dials to find a specific, private frequency. "Well, you certainly were not exaggerating when you said that your child takes after you," was his opening greeting to his lover, learning back in his chair and propping his boots on the desk corner. "In looks and in enthusiasm for her passions."