I walk down the hall large hall of the council building. I reach the large conference room doors and I already hear someone yelling. I sigh deeply and open the doors with my eyes closed in irritation. When I open my eyes I'm not surprised to see Colin yelling at Rosie about his books, and Azra out cold, not a coffee cup in sight. Ten other apathetic people sit at the table.
"Colin shut up, no one cares about your books!" I yell in annoyance. It's too early for this crap. "Azra wake u-" he glares at me and I shut right up. Scary guy. I take my seat next to Felix at the unnecessarily big oak table that we use for our dysfunctional council meetings for our special section of hell. Hazael clears his throat still after all these years trying to be polite. However this doesn't hinder him in being the most prepared person I know. I decide to plug my ears when I see him pull out the small chalk board with quiet indifference.
"The hell are you-" Felix asks me starts to ask me but he quickly covers his ears when Hazael starts dragging his knife along the chalkboard. "ooOH GOD!" I quietly laugh to myself and he leans his forehead on my shoulder. I smirk and shrug him off of my shoulder and his head falls into my lap. I roll my eyes and unplug my ears when I notice that everyone is quiet.
"Hazael what the hell?!" Colin yells at him angrily. He takes his book and he had in his hand and smacks him across the shoulder. "That was very unnecessary!" It is very rare to hear him yell…it's kind of shocking every once in a while when It happens. "….jeeze…" he opens his book back up roughly and puts his glasses on.
"Ok council now that we're being nice and not annoying or yelling irrationally or napping at ten in the morning" he glances at Azra "Mostly" Azra raises his hand and flips him off. Hazael rolls his eyes and continues his talking. "Anyway we need to talk about new souls that will be joining us." I can almost feel Rosie light up and Hazael notices too. "And that is the sole purpose of this meeting, Rosie, not to fawn over children." Rosie slumps in her chair with a huff and sticks her tongue out at him. "Grow up." He says with disinterest. "Anyway I just want to discuss who will be taking who. Pick names out of a hat and such. Also we have and Annie and Felix you two will be getting one kid between the two of you like last time because of all the things you can't do together, parenting is not one of them."
"Yeah it's almost like we're married and have three children." I say smugly. "Funny how things like that work." Hazael gives me his most modest smirk and turns his head back to everyone and continues talking.
"Anyway you all know the way this works. Train them in your respective specialty." Hazael gestures with his hand and starts slowly pacing around the front of the room. "Annie and Felix, the cowardly art of poisons. Colin, how to be a 20 year old librarian girl. Vincent, how to create alchemy circles and sacrifice your brother to a child in fake heaven. Ect. You all know the drill" Hazael takes a moment to realize all of the venomous gazes he has on him so he quickly changes the subject. "So!" he says nervously loud. "Now let's move on to the complaints portion of our meeting!"
"Yeah because that will alleviate the angry tension you caused." Lex says sarcastically under his breath. He brushes his shaggy blonde hair out of his eyes. "I'm going first. I don't care what any of you think. Sucks to suck." For a therapist for emotionally hostile demons he is really smug and cold. "Let's start with my first point." He pulls out a sticky note. He loves his damn lists. "Colin," Colin closes his book and takes off his glasses. "You're a precious sweetheart, but if you want us to respect literature." Colin gives Lex a look of pure death, but Lex is not deterred. "You have to let us actually take the damn books and read them."
"Yeah, I'd like to agree with Lex, because some of us actually need to look up references for some of the work we do." Vincent says in a sincere voice. "Mostly because there are innumerable amounts of special symbols that past demons have created that are necessary for most rituals that I can't be bothered to remember." He scratches his head. "So when little hotheaded children say I'm not allowed to look some of those things up, so I can get the tasks I need to get done, I sometimes can get a teensy bit testy."
"See what I'm talking about?" Lex looks at Hazael pleadingly. "His overprotectiveness of the texts is hindering the rest of us." Lex brushes his hair out of his eyes and his voice drops into a slightly more sympathetic tone. "Look, Colin, I understand why you're so protective of your library. If you let anything happen to most of those texts they'd be gone forever, but you have to trust that we respect that too. You need to let us use them." I watch Colin throughout this whole conversation. I watch his face change from angry and stubborn to softer and then to a face that I can only describe as subservient. He's such a sucker for Lex.
"Ok, fine." Colin tries to keep his stern inflexion as he says this. "But I swear…if I find out that any of you have even folded a page in one of my books I will lock the library away from all of you for twenty years." It is unwise to think that Colin jokes about anything. "Think I'm kidding. I dare you." Such a sweetheart. "Anything else Lex?" Lex folds his arms and huffs.
"No that's all I had to say…" He thinks for a second and I wait for him to say the one thing he says every week. "Oh and you rude idiots need to be nicer to each other!" he points to me and my eyes widen in shock. "Annie has to take care of you guys when you people fight and she's probably running out of stitches wire string by now!"
"I'm not but he has a point, however ironically he puts it, but seriously I get one of you clods in my room everyday asking to get….'fixed up' seems to be the most popular method of politely asking me to sew up your gashes that were given to you because you came out on the bottom when you decided to pick a fight with someone." I put my hands together in front of my face and take a deep breath. I squeeze my eyes shut and put my hands back on the table. "Seriously, we've all known each other for literally millennia. We have to at least try and get along so we can function as a symbiotic unit in the chaos of hell."
"Well she's not wro-" Azra stops talking and shoots up in shock when a loud booming noise sounds from down the hall. "Jesus Christ! What the hell was that!?" Everyone jumps out of their skin when they hear the loud boom and again when Azra starts yelling.