Chapter 7: Spring Broken Part 1

Summary:

Lincoln meets Blitz's ex and things sure do happen.

"Okay, boys, get the new supplies! No time for dilly dallying!"

Sighing, Lincoln went out of I.M.P's van alongside Moxxie. "Fine."

In the very extensive amount of time that he's been in Hell so far, Lincoln sometimes found it hard to keep track of exactly how long he's been here with the imps and hellhound of the assassination company that he now finds himself working in as their unpaid and magic-using intern. He knows that it's way past one month already, but with all the usual daily brands of pandemonium that only Hell was capable of brandishing, it shouldn't come as a surprise. Luckily, time seems to move past here the same way it does back on Earth and if he was correct, it should be spring break right and if so, it jarred his mind that so much time had passed by since his arrival in the land where the damned go down for an eternity of suffering. The last place a human, much less a child, would ever be while he's still alive.

He had hoped that by this point, he would have managed to break that stupid Stillman's cruel curse and go back home without trouble and spend the rest of his days back to normalcy with his beloved family.

A dream that had seemed to be slipping further away from him as every day kept on rushing by, but Lincoln still kept his conviction in finding a way to break the curse placed on his soul, getting lessons in demonic magic from Stolas helped, but he wasn't getting into the really deep stuff that could fix his problem. Until some actual progress is made, he has to be content with where he is right now.

It took quite some time and it wasn't that perfect, but he was actually starting to get used to being an intern for I.M.P, getting along swimmingly with his coworkers and getting more involved with the company's inner workings.

Such as how old Blitzo would constantly honk on the horn of the company's van to get Moxxie to hustle it when the team was out doing a supply run to re-stock their arsenal of weapons from a shop that sells them.

It was a huge miracle he hadn't been completely corrupted yet.

Lincoln often wondered just how long that would last, though.

If he will be the same person as he was or something far different.

"Come on, Moxxie! Move that little ass!"

Moxxie grunted in annoyance from Blitzo barking out demands, not caring that the duffel bag the shorter imp was carrying had a lot of supplies in, making it hard for someone with a physique like his to lift and carry. It'd be no trouble for Millie, but Blitzo knew that, he just wanted an excuse to see Moxxie struggle with his little arms. "I got you, Moxxie." Lincoln was less heartless than his boss, choosing to assist the weapons expert. It was heavy for him too, but the combined efforts of both him and Moxxie made it less hard to load into the trunk.

"Thank you, Lincoln." Moxxie wiped away sweat. "At least you were considerate enough to help."

"Which will get you a paid deduction, intern!"

"Blitz, you don't even pay me period." Lincoln retorted to his boss's threat.

"...Oh yeah, I don't. What I really love about having an intern. I don't pay them shit!" Lincoln rolls his eyes at the laughs Blitzo got out of that.

Millie called out to her husband and surrogate son. "Come on in, boys! Day's not over yet!"

Lincoln and Moxxie were in the back with her while Blitzo kept his usual spot as the driver with Loona riding shotgun with a lazy frown as she looked at her phone and they went off back to the building. It was a silent drive which Lincoln enjoyed as it was one of the rare times he felt calm and in Hell, which wasn't a usual luxury, so he was greatly thankful for it. The building wasn't that far away, so it was a relatively short drive continuing to be silent, until Blitzo decided to ruin the silence by blasting the space of the van with radio music.

He perked up when he heard the first song playing on. "I love this song!"

He sang along to the lyrics while getting the words all mixed up and wrong.

But it nonetheless spoke to him in many ways and he still rocked out to it.

It resonated with a deep longing he's had but never seems to be able to obtain.

Blitzo kept on singing when they made it to the very crowded parking lot of the building, annoying Loona who couldn't focus on her phone and Moxxie had to cover his non-existing ears and advised Lincoln to do the same due to the heavy amount of volume the song involved. Millie was the only one in the van that didn't mind the singing, she actually rolled down the window with a smile. Just as they were about to park at I.M.P's own personal exclusive parking space, a pink car suddenly drives in and takes the space for itself.

This completely blindsided Blitzo. "Unholy shit! Hang on, fam! Fuck! He steps on the brakes to make the van skid to a stop and Millie had Lincoln hang onto her, even though he had his seatbelt on. Turning off the radio, Blitzo glares at the person who was driving the car, wanting to know whho thought they could just take his parking space. "Oh, 'you suck for life', huh?!" Pulling out a megaphone, he yells angrily at the driver of the car. "Let me tell you something, you unoriginal pink cum dump! You have about three goddamn seconds to get that eyesore tampon race car out of that spot..."

During his tirade, the driver steps out, planting her pink heart designed high-heeled footwear on the ground with her hands on her hips.

If there was one phrase to describe her, it'd be drop dead hot. She was a tall pink skinned demoness with a curvaceous build, uniquely shaped horns with the left one being taller than the other, but both were marked with stars, a heart mark on her cheek like a mole, and a pink tail with an end that looked exactly like a heart. Long light pink hair traveled down to match her luxurious pink coat and over a short black and white dress that showed off her cleavage and curvy hips, made with an X, O, and star design. Her boots were long and had sharp stilts adorning hearts.

Her sunglasses with heart lenses hid her nasty glower.

Lincoln watches curiously and suddenly couldn't resist breathing in awe of the gorgeous creature laid before him. "Buh..." he mumbled, slightly blushing.

Blitzo stopped his own tirade once he got a good look at her and couldn't believe his rotten shitty luck. "Holy shit! Verosika!" Of all the old faces from his past, it just had to be her.

The fetching female demon now known as Verosika blew a bubble of pink gum before popping it. "Blitzo. Figures." she greets very coldly, carrying a lot of bitterness.

He didn't even bother to correct her on how the "O" in his name was silent now and instantly flew insults to voice the displeasure of having to see her again. "Hmph, well I know why I'm smelling fish for miles. Kinda odd, since the nearest ocean is..." Her eyes behind her shades roll in exasperation when Blitzo falls and faceplants to the ground while getting out through the window, but he stands strong. "...only three rings down!" he pointed downwards.

Verosika retorts with her own insults. "And you being here must be why I heard all those Amber Alerts."

Hearing that made Blitzo look back inside his van and sees Lincoln then motions Millie to keep his head down so Verosika couldn't see him and resumes mouthing off to her by pointing out her usual alcoholism after seeing the flask in her hand. "Oh, yeah? What's more shocking about seeing you again is that they let your fat ass out of rehab. Which seemed like a waste of time as you're still a drunken whore, having that Beelzejuice bottle like it's the last cock in Hell! Not really working your program, V. One call from me and you'll be put back."

Smirking, Verosika flips her long hair back in a vain arrogant fashion."Still being a beloved famous demon turned out to be a free pass. And as if they'd take the word of a fucking old flame like you. Besides, rehab's for sad, loser washups." She took a drink from her flask and wiped it off her mouth with her thumb. "BTW, your sister says hello." She mockingly remarked, hoping to get him furious.

Which worked as Blitzo angrily marches up to her. "Why are you even parking here?!" he demanded, with a heated glare. "This parking spot belongs to my company. So take your piece of shit beater somewhere else!"

"In case you didn't see, prick. It has my name on it." Verosika condescendingly said, leaning forward to point down at her name being spray-painted over I.M.P's name to cross it out. Blitzo seems to have missed the memo from the building manager. "See, I was called to do a little freelance for one of the infinitely more successful companies in the building..."

As they argued, Loona watched from her seat and couldn't believe her eyes. "No way, it can't be..." the hellound breathed in awe, wondering just how Blitzo knew her out of every demon.

"Loona, who is that?" Lincoln asked from his hiding spot.

The receptionist stared at him incredulously. "Are you fucking serious?! That's Verosika Mayday for shit's sake!" She looked at the married imps. "You two didn't tell him about one of Hell's most famous Succubus popstars?!"

"We didn't think we had to!" Moxxie defended.

Lincoln was now even more curious. "Verosika Mayday..." For some reason, that name sounded familiar.

Back to Blitzo and Verosika, the latter finished explaining the reason for her abrupt arrival. "...so,they needed the best Succubus to take over for a week to lead their team during spring break."

"Did you just say a week?!" Blitzo exclaimed in outrage and vehemently voiced his denial. "You're drunk if you think I'm letting you park here for a fucking week!"

Verosika takes her shades off to show her hot pink eyes and teasing expression. "Aw, is that getting you mad, Blitzo?" Her teasing nature was then replaced with a more furious disposition, recanting a previous incident that contributed to their shared animosity. "Is this the part where you run off, force someone else to pay for the hotel room, steal their car..."

Blitzo's eyed did their own eyeroll having heard this before and recounts the events together with Verosika in flawless unison. "...and then drive three rings all the way to Wrath and max all of my credit cards on shitty horse riding lessons?!"

'Goddamn it, whore, you gotta learn to let things go!" Blitzo unsympathetically yelled, feeling she was being very petty right now.

Seeing that he was unapologetic about that fiasco, Verosika walked past him while flipping him the bird. "You haven't changed a bit. Choke on a sandpaper cock." She insulted, passing by the van making Loona lower head nervously and widened her eyes after a looming shadow followed suit, feeling her heart skip a beat. Verosika briefly stopped and looked at the van, there were obviously imps and a hellhound inside who no doubt worked for Blitzo so she didn't pay them any heed, but she felt something else in there, a familiar scent.

One that invoked a very keen interest in her and felt the need to go there.

Blitzo disrupted her musings, though, not finished with his complaints.

"We're not done here! If you don't move that pussy wagon right now, I'm gonna..."

Deep growling made Blitzo freeze up and turn around to see a towering muscular lupine hellhound glowering down at him. His fur had a grey color scheme similar to his adopted daughter's only much darker and had similar eyes, but his left eye was blind due to the scar on it and slightly tattered ears, along with a black fur pattern on his left arm that looks like a wolf's head. His clothing was also threatening, as it included a sleeveless jacket with red spikes over a black shirt and ripped grey pants. "You'll do what, bro?" He challenged the imp.

Blitzo glances at a smug Verosika then back at the hellhound, clearly intimidated. "Or I'll...um...I'll make a quick call to H.R.''

The two stood silent until they shared an amused laugh over the absurdity of Blitzo's comment, even Blitzo found it hilarious and joined in on the laugh until composing themselves.

"So anyways, say hello to my new hellhound, Vortex." Verosika introduced. "Unlike you, he actually does his job like a pro." Vortex leaves with his boss and she bids farewell with one last middle finger to Blitzo. "Ta ta, fuck stain I'm sure you can handle a week." Nearing the entrance, Verosika looked back at the van once more, the scent was still there and she was tempted to see what it was.

"Something wrong, boss?" Vortex asked.

"...Nothing to worry about, Tex." she dismissed, walking inside and heading to the nearest elevator to meet up with her crew.

Blitzo groaned tiredly. "Ugh, why did I ever waste time with a bag of holes like that."

Loona, wanting some answers, stepped out. "You and Verosika Mayday know each other?!"

Getting over his shock, Blitzo answers. "Huh? Oh, her, we dated for a bit." he simply stated, not treating it as a big deal. But it was to his employees.

"No offense, Blitz, but was it before or after she became a pop star?" Millie asked, genuinely confused.

Moxxie jumps out to express his own disbelief. "You're telling us that You dated a pop star?!"

Lincoln himself was understandably surprised by this. "How did that even happen?"

"Okay how exactly in Satan's name is that such a shock?" Blitzo asked, not taking kindly to their befuddlement of him having dated the likes of Verosika.

"Because it's Verosika Mayday?" Loona pointed out how unbelievable it is to be in a relationship with an actual celebrity.

"And it's you?" Millie liked Blitzo as her zany boss, but even she couldn't help but be puzzled at the unlikelihood of a successful pop sensation giving someone like Blitzo a chance at a relationship.

Moxxie's head was hurting just by trying to figure it out. "It'd make sense if she were blind. Or is it some form of brain damage? That makes way more sense."

Lincoln wanted to say they were being unfair, but admitted that they were right to be flummoxed. "Sorry, Blitz, but we just can't see it. At all."

Didn't make Blitzo any happier. "Okay, look, there's really no need to make this a big thing than it needs to be. You don't see me ever prying into your stupid personal lives." he offensively claims.

A lie they just had to call out on.

"You do that regularly, sir!"

"Come on, boss, that's your whole thing."

"It totally is."

"You keep asking me about my sisters!" Lincoln finally realized why Verosika seemed so familiar when he pieced together her and his older sisters. "Wait...Verosika Mayday? Back home, my two older sisters, Lori and Leni listen to a pop singer with the same name! Our parents keep telling them to stop, because of her reputation and don't approve of her songs. I'm not that into pop, more of a rock guy."

"That means you have way better taste than your sisters." Blitzo points to the intern. "And yeah, that's the same slutty Succubus bitch we just saw."

"But...how...?" Lincoln was sure that the posters his sisters had of her showed a completely human woman, but then remembers one bit of info from the books he read about demons of Hell and more info he got from the married couple. "Wait, so the way she looks on Earth is a human disguise?"

"Got it in one, Linc." Loona confirmed his suspicions. "She gets special access to topside since she's one of the more famous and well known succubi."

All this time, his sisters have listened to the music of a Succubus demon, which was slightly unsettling.

Millie mischievously asked a rather shameless question, but made sure to cover Lincoln's ears. "Sooo, what was sex with her like?"

"Millie! Boundaries!" Moxxie cried in admonishment.

"What? We're talking about a pop star!" Millie knew full well that Moxxie was in no room to judge her and felt she deserved some props for making sure Lincoln wouldn't hear. "You'd want to know what sex with your favorite opera singer was like."

Moxxie looked like he was going to argue back, but conceded to her good point. "...Touché, my love." She smugly smiled in victory.

"Just drop it!" Blitzo wanted his time to be entirely focused on this act of aggression against his company that he felt was unwarranted. "Millie, find the van a temporary spot" She tossed her the keys which she caught by jumping as if she were in a video game. "Loonie, Moxxie, Lincoln, we'll go ahead and handle this shit."

Unlike Blitzo who was on the warpath, Loona was shaking in her metaphorical boots. Verosika Mayday, a top singer of Hell with an unlimited amount of blog posts that she's seen on her phone and has been in the wet dreams of her many fans was in the building she worked in. Not only that, but she was accompanied by a brawny hellhound bodyguard, one that was very easy on the eyes for Loona and she's not used to talking with others of her own kind. Blitzo practically keeps her close to him at all times. "You think they noticed me?" An embarrassing thought came to mind. "Fuck! I shouldn't have made my makeup shitty today."

"Why does that matter to you?" Lincoln asked, stepping out of the elevator with them. Loona hardly gave a damn about what others thought of her, opting to kick them either in the nuts or break them down through insults, the main target always being Moxxie.

"We're talking about demon celebrities here!" Loona brushes her hair bashfully. "You can't look like crap in front of them! Succubi aren't like demon royalty like that owl perv, but the ones that make it big are the real shit! And I probably looked like a tool."

"Aw, you looked fluffy and adorable, Looney." Blitzo complimented in his usual doting manner that annoyed Loona. "Just as always." he adds in baby-speak.

Loona groaned. "Be quiet, da-" Blitzo looks at her with an overjoyed expression, expecting this to be the first time she'd address him as 'dad'. Catching herself, Loona pushes him aside. "Urgh! Blitz!" She checks her face in a handheld mirror, stepping over Blitzo before bumping into Vortex's arm, making her take a step back. "Oh. H-Hi there..." Vortex stoically glances down at his fellow hellhound who started blushing and wagging her tail, a sight that was downright adorable.

Blitzo would've gushed if his protective fatherly instincts didn't take in as he gasps in panic over the close proximity between the two and quickly got in between them. "Okay, big man. Point to where your bitch bag of an employer is." He wasn't going to let the day end without him getting that spot back.

"She's with her posse in her office.." Vortex motions to a nearby room with neon pink hearts over double doors. "V" and "M'' are spray painted on it, signifying that it belonged to Verosika and of course, it was right across from I.M.P headquarters. "There wasn't much room on the Succ Inc floor, so they had to rent one on yours, a lot cheaper." He explained.

"Are you-?! That's just being petty!" Blitzo shouts indignantly.

Vortex scoffs nonchalantly with a helpless shrug and gets back to his duties. "Sorry, man That's just how it is." He felt a little bad, but hey, a job's a job to Vortex and whatever mess is going on between her and her ex wasn't in the job description.

"Bad enough that slut of an ex of mine stole my parking space, now she steals half of my floor with the rest of her fellow hoes?!" Blitzo growled dangerously, now having more reason to go to war with his ex-girlfriend. "I don't think so, bitch."

"Blitz, just hang on. Isn't there any way to, I don't know, talk it out with her? I get that things ended badly between you, but maybe apologizing might make her go easy on you." Lincoln suggested.

Moxxie agrees with his idea. "Lincoln makes a good point, sir. A good civilized attempt to reason with her is all that's ever needed. Now, I don't really think of myself as a follower of what's classified as pop genre music," he says that in a hoity manner. "so, I'm not fazed by her status-" Blitzo's rage tuned out Moxxie's lengthy criticism of Verosika's music as if he were one of those reviewers. "No offense to her, but her music is a bit derivative of-"

"Moxxie, you better shut the fuck up. This day's already going to shit and your crap ideas are only making it worse." Blitzo then took Lincoln's shoulder and gave him some sage advice. "And kid. You're young so you don't know shit, but as you get older, you'll come to realize that bitches be crazy. There's no negotiating with them, especially when they're a fucking space-stealing harlot with a lousy credit score...at least it did turn lousy when I was done with it." he gets back on track. "Bottom line is that you'll never get anywhere with her, and don't even think I'm just gonna roll over and fucking apologize. That'll only give her a lot of mileage and I refuse to give her the satisfaction."

"Not that you could give her that anymore, anyway." Loona snidely remarked.

"Loona, you know I love you, but don't think you can sweet talk your way out of getting busted for cozying up with her attack dog." Blitzo shudders. "Who knows where he's been, especially with a group of nymphos and I refuse to let anyone working for me talk to one of her people!" he sternly tells the female hellhound.

"We didn't do anything." Loona bitterly frowns. "You got in the way."

"And I'm proud of it!"

"I don't need you holding my hand through everything!"

Despite Blitzo blowing his idea down, Lincoln still thought about settling the matter diplomatically. Granted, it took a while for him to stomach the fact that unsavory individuals was normal for Hell, because well, it's Hell. But in his time here, he did meet demons that showed not all Hell denizens were inherently bad and rotten to the core. Mrs. Mayberry and Octavia came to mind and one was a Sinner while the other was royalty that was born native to Hell and of course, there's the employees of I.M.P that took him in. Demons are shitty to fellow demons, but may be decent enough to treat those they value as close confidants considerably well.

Sneaking away from his coworkers, Lincoln headed to the doors to Verosika's office which was a recording studio that blared pop music and the pop star was chatting it up with her personal entourage made up of fellow Succubi and their male counterparts, Incubi and all shared traits such as horns, shades of red skin, small bat wings and spaded tails. Three of these males were Ace, a tall muscular male with an ace of spades tattoo on his neck, short spiky black hair, facial hair on his chin, a torn top with a cut off pentagram star and exposed his abdomen, black jeans, shoes, and black finger less gloves. Next to him was Josh, an incubus with light gray colored hair, black v-neck shirt with burning forest on it, choker with an upside down cross, simple pants and shoes. The final male was Kat, a slimmer guy with spiked up hair, a red sleeveless hoodie, blue plants and white shoes.

The three noticed Lincoln and instantly glared, wondering what a runt was doing here.

The Succubi portion of Verosika's crew were equally as attractive as their leader with bodacious sensual bodies. First off there was Apple, a blonde haired Succubus tied into a ponytail, blue overalls with rolled up legs, pentagram star zipper, black ring bracelets on her right wrist, a tattoo on her left leg, and sandal heels. An arm was slung around her and she held the hand that belonged to another female Succubus with her hairstyle done in an afro and wears a shoulder less crop top with a skull over a top with slings, blue shorts over fishnet pants, and boots, this was Apple's girlfriend, Coco.

There stood a Succubus that was shorter than the rest, but still taller than him and was gifted with thick curvy hips and had wavy black hair, left armed top that exposed her belly and left her right arm bare, blue denim jean shorts that exposed her black lace and black knee high heeled boots, her name was Milky. The last member of Verosika's crew was the long bluish haired Kiki who was a tall and slender being clad in a transparent mesh shirt with heart shaped, dress skirt, earrings that were upside down crosses, and black leggings that were different in length, one exposed her slender thigh.

He looks to Verosika who had taken off her coat to reveal arm white harm gloves with pink X's and he can see a heart tattoo on her right arm with a name that's been crossed out with an X, that was most likely Blitzo's, showing that she's still very embittered after they broke up.

He was in a room with very attractive demon women, it took a lot to not act like Clyde or Rusty right now.

Clearing his throat with a blush, Lincoln called to get Verosika's attention. "Excuse me. Miss Mayday?" The Succubi turned and didn't expect to see a human boy right in front of them. "I work for Blitz at I.M.P a-and he's a little mad about the parking space that belongs to us, so-"

"Well, what do we have here~?" Verosika cooed as she and her gal pals strutted over to surround him and they all had lidded eyes and suggestive smirks that set off a lot of alarms in her head. "Thought I caught a whiff of a human in Blitzo's shit-tastic van and to think I was joking about the amber alerts." she laughed to herself and looked back down at the boy. "Got a name, cutie?"

"Y-Yes, I'm Lincoln Loud." He respectfully greeted, slowly becoming a nervous mess which made them giggle and whisper among themselves. Clearing his throat again and getting back to the reason why he's here. "So anyway, I was wondering if you'd kindly consider finding another parking spot-"

"Aw, look at him all dressed up in his wittle suit." Coco said, playfully pointing at Lincoln's attire teasingly. "Trying to look all professional in front of the grown-ups, wittle fella?"

Lincoln frowned slightly at her playful tone. "Please don't talk to me like I'm a four-year-old, ma'am. I-"

Apple bent forward to get a good look at his appearance. "You got a cute little chipped tooth there, don't ya?" she giggled cutely, then pats his snow covered head. "And is that really natural? Looks way too real to be dyed."

"Got that right. You part bunny or something, kiddo?" Milky commented, ruffling Lincoln's hair. She may have been the shortest among the crew, but she was still taller than the boy.

Embarrassment washed over Lincoln at that remark, he was once again mistaken for being some kind of bunny creature. He became very put off when Kiki crouches and peered in closer to look at his eyes, as if reading him and she hummed. "Pure unspoiled chastity. Our favorite flavor. It's like candy to us." She could tell just by looking. She looked at her leader. "Think your little goblin-ass ex-boyfriend sent this boy as a housewarming gift?" she joked.

"Oh, I hope so." the demon pop star grinned. "Though, I seriously doubt it."

His danger senses kept buzzing, he got the feeling that venturing into a den of Succubi may not have been the wisest decision, which in hindsight, should have been a given and if he were smart, he'd leave. "Okay...um, you know what? You're probably very busy right now and a parking space isn't really all that important. So, I'll just see myself out..."

He attempted to scoot back, hoping to ger some distance, but Coco caught his shoulders. "What's the hurry, Cottontail?" she asked. "Sure you can't spare a couple of minutes just for us? Maybe also for some fun later?"

"Fun?" Lincoln felt they had a different idea on what counts as fun. "What kind of f-?" Lincoln didn't get to finish as Verosika got down on her knees and cupped Lincoln's chin. He had no idea what she was planning before she planted one big sloppy kiss on his cheek. "Gah!" he shouted in both shock and surprise, he swiftly backed away, now on his toes. "Uh, don't you think you're moving a bit too fast? I just came to talk."

"Mmm..." Verosika hummed in intrigue over him. "You're not like most humans. You got something special. Why I never noticed is beyond me.." Dread shot through Lincoln as he didn't like where this was going. "Don't be afraid, a simple little thing never hurts. It's not every day this happens you know. "

Lincoln raised a brow in confusion. "What do you mean?"

That question made the Succubi in the room howl in laughter while the Incubi just rolled their eyes. Inexperienced people who don't even know the concept of a kiss always annoyed them.

"I mean kissing." Verosika elaborated, amused by Lincoln's naivety.

Lincoln gaped. "Wait, what?"

"You heard her, baby boy." Coco purred. "Want me or my girl, Apple, to be your first kiss? . Then, we'll get to the real fun if you're feeling brave." She shares an intense kiss with the blonde Succubus to showcase. Lincoln has only kissed one girl in his life, but something in his head told Lincoln that kissing wasn't the only thing they were interested in.

"A-A kind offer, but I don't think so." Lincoln berated himself for not listening to Blitzo.

"Aw, what's the matter? Afraid we might bite or are you nervous for your first kiss?" Kiki asked, smirking.

Lincoln blushed a bit after remembering the two he's had with his female best friend, Ronnie Anne, which felt kind of nice even if he did get a black eye the first time. "...Not exactly. I mean, it was only twice, but-"

"No shitting?" Milky gave a sound of being impressed. "So we got ourselves a little player?"

"What? No! It was with the same girl!"

"Is that all?" Verosika caressed his cheek with her hand and spoke in a flirtatious tone. "Want us to fix that, sweetie?"

Lincoln managed to keep himself under his own control and not let their flirtations get the best of him, he was here for a stupid reason, but it was still a reason. The way they were looking at him was freaking him out and his mind was yelling at him to run for the hills. "Look, I only came here for Blitz's sake and I understand he may not have been a good boyfriend, miss Mayday-"

"Quit it with the formalities, honey. You can just call me Verosika." She reserved that honor for her really special friends and tickled his face with her tail. "And forget about whatever that fucking asshat, Blitzo said about me. I'm not so bad once you get to know me."

"I'd like to believe that." Lincoln slowly reaches for the exit, but Milky blocks his path.

"What's the matter, sport? You just gonna run out on us?" she cheekily asked.

"N-No! I just think I've overstayed my welcome!"

"Aw, don't be like that, kiddo." Verosika motioned for her gals to block other possible exits. "You don't think we're terrible, do you? Or are we not pretty enough?" she pouted, faking being hurt.

"Not that I don't think any of you are pretty, quite the opposite in fact." Lincoln laughs nervously, tugging his collar. "But, I wouldn't want to disturb you nice ladies since it looks like you're in the middle of important stuff and-WOAH!" Apple hoists him up with her tail and hugs him close, nuzzling his face with her own with a bright smile.

"You hear that, ladies? He thinks we're pretty and nice!"

"Well-mannered, too." Kiki noted approvingly. "Looks like we got ourselves a keeper."

Lincoln needed a way out, pronto, but they got all the exits blocked.

Except for an opening through the air vents. "Excuse me, ladies." he jumped out of Apple's hold and onto a stacked box that he used as a means to reach the vent.

Verosika and the girls grinned in amusement at his efforts. "I do love it when they play hard to get. Milky, fetch." Adhering to her boss's order, the short Succubus flapped her bat-like wings and flew towards Lincoln as he was trying to get into the vent. He was halfway through when Milky closed the vent , making him fall back down where he fell into Verosika's suffocating embrace in her cleavage. He found himself staring right up at her beautiful pink eyes blushing heavily. "Why in a rush to leave, little boy? We're way better company than those little imps." she tapped his nose and she hugged him close. Soon enough, the other four women advanced.

The boy found himself bombarded with kisses on his face, and he truly regretted entering this office alone. While most would be green with envy, he didn't come here to get kissed but to get a space back and leave things civil. Though, it was fortunate they didn't take things any further, they at least held some restraint there. He got so red, he could easily be mistaken for a young imp only without the tail and horns. "I just came here to ask for the parking space back." He said when they took a reprieve from their kissing actions. "That's all, it's not too much to ask you know...should I take your kisses as a yes...?"

Apple took Lincoln away from Verosika and she and Coco hugged him like a doll between them. "You are just too cute!"

"My girl's not wrong, baby boy." Coco complimented. "We might just keep you around later, if you play your cards right."

Little did Verosika or her posse know, Blitzo was watching the entire commotion from the other side of the window panel.

After lecturing Loona, Blitzo took notice of Lincoln's sudden absence and looked through the mirror showing the inside of his one-time romantic partner's office and he quickly put two and two together.

"Oh, crumbs." Moxxie paled, also observing this. "Sir, we still have time!"

"Those back-alley, two dollar, crack whores!" Blitzo snarled in rage. The doors were kicked open, forcing Verosika and her crew to turn and saw Blitzo march up to his ex. "Alright, all of you skanks! That is it! You can take my parking space, half my floor. Hell, you can go ahead and take my limited edition horse figurine collection, but I draw the line at you band of hussies messing with my employees!" he bravely proclaims. "I wouldn't even let you have your way with Moxxie!"

"Really, sir?" Moxxie then addresses Verosika. "Miss Verosika, was it? Look, let us kindly collect our young friend you have there and perhaps allows us to retain the singular parking space that was assigned to us, that way, we may be on our-"

Josh moved closer to him. "Want a kissy, little guy?"

"I'm...very flattered, but I'm married." Moxxie bashfully denies.

"Don't even think about it, you walking condom! Mox, go wait outside with Loona!" Blitzo glares hatefully at Verosika. "I can handle this myself."

"Blitz, is that you?" Seeing his coworkers come to his rescue just in time, Lincoln slipped away from Coco and Apple, to their shared disappointment. His face was covered in red lipstick marks. "I tried talking to them, but uh, things didn't go as planned." he said, disappointed that he failed.

"Don't worry about it, buddy boy. Let the boss deal with it." Blitzo pats his shoulder comfortably and faces Verosika who scoffs.

"Try not to bitch and moan, Blitzo. Is it wrong to want to get to know a new special friend?" Verosika remarked, still grinning at the boy. "Especially when they're a little cutie."

"You know what?! You nearly crossed a line and that's enough for us to settle this, bitch!" Blitzo announces. "If you want to keep messing with me, then I challenge you to a fucking..." he struggles to find the words. "...challenge!" He immediately regrets his blunder. "Fuck, I said that twice."

Kiki hums, entertained. "Sounds to me like this imp boy's starting a demon duel."

Verosika chuckles. "I think you're right, Kiki." She might as well see what kind of challenge Blitzo has to offer and lowers close to Blitzo's height to humor him, giving Lincoln after getting an eye full of her cleavage, making him look down. "What game are you thinking then, Blitzo?" she asked, a little curious.

Blitzo decided to outdo these demons by intending to prove that his skill set was far better than theirs. "Every spring break, Asmodeus lets you STD spreaders go up topside for easy pickings, but its still a prime time for other crimes." he surmises and gives his own confident smirk, laying down the challenge. "So, here's the challenge. I bet you Succu-bitches can't fuck as many people as we can off by the end of the day." he presses his fingers to his head to mimic a gun for added measure.

Verosika, the other Succubi, and the Incubi collectively laughed out loud after hearing the challenge. Her friends were like I.M.P, stumped that their leader actually dated this delusional imp at any given time in the past. His obvious idiocy must have been why she broke it off. Verosika thought he was just joking, until seeing his determined glare. "Oh, you're being serious?"

"Fucking right I am! If my team and I win, we get that space back!" Blitzo adds.

Verosika taps her chin in contemplation and shares knowing glances with her girls who nodded in agreement. "That's fair. But if we win, then the ladies and I get to have little snowball there hang here for the rest of the week." She confidently smirked at a shocked Blitzo.

That made Lincoln get back to coherency. "...I beg your pardon?"

"Excuse you?!" an appalled Blitzo yells, not believing what she was suggesting.

"I think you heard me." With a sly grin, Verosika decides to have a little more fun to mess with her ex and get some more quality time with Lincoln. Her tail suddenly wormed its way around Lincoln's body and before he or Blitzo could react, he was up like a caught fish in water. "Considering how you seem to have a boner for a parking space, it's only fair I get something in return, wouldn't you agree and what better than time with this one? Besides, you and your nasty pack of gremlins have been keeping this adorable little creature to yourselves for too long." she softly caressed Lincoln's face. "The girls and I should get to play. But then again, if you don't have the balls to take that gamble, I guess I'll just keep your parking spot and we'll leave it at that." she sneered at Blitzo, who was getting increasingly agitated with every word she spoke. "How about it, kiddo? Come over here to me, and I'll show you all the perks of the music business." she sweetly offered Lincoln.

Despite the awkward position he was in, Lincoln tried to politely decline. "I appreciate it, er, Verosika. But, I'm already committed as an intern for I.M.P." They were insane, but they were still good friends and he learned to not be so shallow. Fame was a road of very uneasy paths. "I'll stick to where I am. Besides, as if Blitz would put me on the line just to get his parking space ba-"

"You're on!" Blitzo immediately declared without pause, causing Verosika to smirk at how the prideful imp took the bait, while Lincoln went as pale as his hair.

"What?!" Lincoln shrieked.

Josh turns to his fellow dudes with an annoyed scoff. "Is she for real right now?"

"This is Verosika." Ace reminds him. "You know how she gets when she wants something." When it comes to their species, when one of them sets their sights on something, they do whatever it takes to get it.

"So what? Seems like a lot of trouble to go through to get back at her freaky ex." Kat grumbles.

The complaining from the Incubi gained Verosika's piercing glare and venomous growl, making the guys zip their lips and stop whatever grievances they had over this deal. If they didn't go along with this, they risked upsetting their boss and no one wants to face an enraged Verosika Mayday.

She threw one last smirk at Blitzo. "You got yourself a game,...bitch." The pop star Succubus mocked to show just how sure she was that she and her crew will be the victors of the bet.

Understandably, Lincoln was not onboard with this at all. "Blitz, are you being serious right now?! We can just get a new space! There is literally no reason to wager me off!" the young intern shouted at his boss. He usually doesn't mind affection, though can get a bit timid if it's really blatant, but the way these demon women were all over him, they were showing shameless forwardness that he was surprised at. It made him think that it would be better to lock himself somewhere until the week was up and they were gone from the building and all would be semi-right in the world.

The rest of the Succubi were just as confident as their leader.

"We so got this~." Coco stated.

"Coco and I get him if Verosika can loosen him up!" Apple chirped.

"Why not make it a free for all?" Milky asked.

"Don't wanna tucker the little guy out too much." Kiki pointed out.

"Relax there, sporto." Blitzo reassures his intern, sure of himself. "I wouldn't have agreed if I didn't believe in my team's penchant for dropping bodies like flies. Now, I believe you've had your fun." he tells Verosika, expecting her to release his youngest employee. Glaring back, Verosika does so and the I.M.P boss shouts to his other subordinates. "Looney! Moxxie! Get in the office and wait for Mills! We got a victory to plan!"

Shaking his head with a sigh, Lincoln glumly followed after him, but Verosika took this one last chance to call out to him. "Oh, Linky~."

He stopped with a wince, the chills down his spine returning and slowly looking back. "Yeah?" he replies, cautiously.

"Just so you know, bet or no bet, you're welcome to come back any time and you'll get to see how a real company is run. We'll be keeping a seat warm for you after we take your limp-dick boss down a peg." Grinning seductively, the towering Succubus bent down to Lincoln's level. "Trust me. We've got so many fun plans for you." Verosika told him playfully, her tone hypnotic the more he stared into her eyes.

"Uh..." Lincoln's blush returns. The other females in her group send their own gestures, from winks, to blown kisses, and crossing their legs.

As for the guys, Ace hissed as he slid his thumb across his throat with a threatening glare that was shared with Josh and Kat to send a clear and cut message.

"I'll keep that in mind." Lincoln meekly said, hastily following his boss and coworkers. He spared one angry glare at Blitzo.

Verosika knew if she was going to put Blitzo in his place to get back at him for the downfall of their past relationship and get herself Lincoln, she and her crew needed to pull out all the stops.