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It was 12:03.
Angel was late.
The good thing was that he knew he was already late and ran as fast as he could. The bad news was that he knew Valentino would not care for his excuses and punish him just the same.
Nevertheless, that didn't make having to get to work any less stressful. He'd rather waste 5 minutes of his time instead of 10 or 15.
Angel had gotten caught up with talking with his friends at the hotel. And when he finally noticed the time, his heart sank. He had to quickly rush to get ready before essentially bolting out the door.
By the time he actually got to the studio, it was thankfully only 12:10.
He hurriedly entered the building before finding it strangely quiet and not busy. Angel looked around a bit confused as to why he wasn't being yelled at for being late.
That's when he noticed what was missing. Everyone was just waiting around and talking to each other. It was strange to see them not yelling and just talking normally. Strangely enough, this only furthered Angel's assumption that something was wrong.
"Hey uh, any news in where Val is?" He asked one of his costars.
"No idea. He's been absent all day." One of them answered him.
Angel wasn't sure wether to be happy or nervous.
Happy that he might not have to deal with Valentino's wraith today. But anxious that he might have to make up for the time lost tomorrow.
He eyed Val's dressing room.
He wanted to go in there. Just to see if he was in there. As far as he could remember, this has never happened. He's never just randomly canceled the shoot without saying anything or having Vox spread out a message.
He couldn't stop the thoughts that plagued his mind surrounding what might be happening. And despite his better judgement, he started making his way to the door anyway.
Gulping nervously, he gently put his hand on the door knob. Thankfully no one really payed attention to Angel as he slowly and gently opened the door.
The room was relatively dark, strangely uncharacteristic from the moth that loved the light.
“V-val?” Angel’s voice echoed around the room. That’s when he noticed the faint sound of what sounded like.. whining?
Whining and.. crying.
But somehow, it didn’t sound like any adult Angel has ever heard cry. No. This sounded a lot more.. childlike. Almost like a baby.
“What the fuck? What’s a baby doing in hell?!” Angel exclaimed surprised. He quickly started to use his hands to look around the room for the source of the noise.
Then finally in one corner of the room where sat a pile of clothes, sat a little baby moth.
Said moth that had little baby wings that looked like they wouldn’t even be able to carry him. With little droopy antennas and a tear streaked face.
The little moth whined while making grabby hands towards the spider.
“Holy shit!” Angel yelled, jumping back from surprise at the little moth. Unfortunately this only caused the moth to cry even harder. Big, fat tears rolled it’s way down his little cheeks.
“Waaaaaaaaaaa!” Val cried even harder.
Angel, panicked and still quite unsure what to do.
Sighing and figuring that there wasn’t much he could do right now, he decided to pick up the moth.
“Shhh shhhh it’s ok. I’m sorry I scared y’a.” Angel gently rocked the little moth side to side to calm him down.
“Shh calm down bud it’s ok shh shh” he kept shushing him till the moth was reduced to small whimpers again.
“Now to see what happened…” Angel thought to himself.
Angel looked around the room before spotting a mysterious bottle on the floor that had a baby pacifier on it.
“Baby potion?” He read outloud.
“Ah.. potion baby” he said holding up Val.
The little moth couldn’t help but giggle.
“What am I gonna do now?” Angel thought out loud.
He wasn’t sure what to do with the baby moth demon in his arms.
How long would Val stay like this?
What would happen to him with his contract?
Oh Satan..
What would happen if the other Vee’s found out?
Angel sighed before looking at Val. The baby moth was playing with the fluff on his chest.
“Maybe it won’t be so bad.. and you’re kinda cute like this.” Angel gently booped Val’s little face causing the baby to break out into giggles.
Angel smiled.