Once Vaggie was able to approach Charlie, while Alastor looked around at family photos and all manner of decor around the hotel, Vaggie grabbed Charlie by the shoulder with a worried expression. "Charlie, listen to me. You can't believe this creep!" She exclaimed while making a side glance with Charlie at Alastor in the distance.
"He isn't just a happy face! He's a deal-maker!" Vaggie protested as she looked back at Charlie, who in turn stared back at her to give her attention, as Vaggie stared up at her with her lone eye, "Pure evil! He can't be redeemed!" she remarked, before making a momentary glance to the side, before looking back at Charlie to continue her train of dialogue.
"...And is most likely looking for a way to destroy everything we're trying to do!" Vaggie finished speaking her mind on the matter for the moment.
"I…" Charlie looked off to the side with an unsure look on her face, "we don't know that!" she said, before shaking her head and looked back at Vaggie, "Look, I know he's bad, and I know he probably doesn't wanna change." she presumed while making a passing glance at the topic of their discussion, "but the whole point of this is to give people a chance!"
"To have faith things will be better! How can I turn someone away?" Charlie asked more to herself than Vaggie, and looked down a bit with a bit of a downcast look, before shrugging a little, "I can't. It goes against everything I'm trying to do." she said as she looked back up at Vaggie and reached out to place her hands on her friends shoulders, who looked back at her with an unsure look on her own.
"Everything I believe in. Just... trust me. I can take care of myself!" Charlie tried to reason with her friend with a smile.
Vaggie only frowned back, "Charlie, whatever you do, do not make a deal with him!" she reasoned back.
"Don't worry!" Charlie tried to placate her friend and gestured to Vaggie and Joshua in the distance, who was leaning idly against his table of guns and literature with his arms crossed, while making a momentarily glance back at them, "And besides, I got you two to help me!"
Vaggie let out a discomforting sigh, before gesturing at Joshua, "If so, then why don't you ask him ? You're the one that brought him here for council and guidance after all. Maybe he'll talk you out of accepting help from that demon!"
Charlie smiled back with her fists at her sides, "Fine! I will!" she answered back, before marching herself over to the man in question
While still leaning back against the table with his arms crossed, Joshua glanced between Charlie and Vaggie, before looking directly at Charlie with a pointed look, "So you wish me to weigh in on the matter? Hmm." he presumed as Charlie stood in front of him with her hands clasped while Vaggie stood to the side of her with her arms crossed and a dour look.
"Yeah!" Charlie rolled her eyes a bit a in a playful manner before looking directly back at Joshua, "I don't want to turn away someone in need, or one wishing to help in any way,"
"Oh please!" Vaggie threw her hands up in exasperation and wedged herself between Charlie and Joshua to look up at the man and gestured at Charle with a pointed look, "Tell her why it's a bad idea to trust that Demon! I just told you the story about the Radio Demon!"
"Curious…" Joshua noted as Charlie reigned Vaggie in by pulling her to her side so that she wasn't in Joshua's face, he stared back at the two with a firm look in his eyes, "While I can quote a few verses from the bible on the matter, I've also come from many experiences in dealing with untrustworthy people, be they from whatever backgrounds they are."
"Feh…" Vaggie glowered a bit as she glanced to the side while muttering to herself, "I've read enough of the drivel to last me a lifetime." she unknowingly said a bit loud at the end.
Joshua slowly glanced at Vaggie, before speaking his mind on the matter of her choice of words, "Drivel you say?" he said while Charlie looked smiled in hopes the two weren't about to be at each other's throats, "That's quite an observation if all you did was read the text and not study it to the full extent of what it teaches."
"Calling it drivel, now that's a word I've heard many call it during my life on Earth, but for many others it has provided comfort and so much more." Joshua expression with a soft tone, all the while staring back at Vaggie who didn't want to look back at him.
"Well, that's beside the point!" Charlie waved her hands in front of the two and stood between Vaggie and Joshua, before collapsing her hands behind her back, "We just came over here for you to weigh in on your thoughts on the matter!"
Joshua looked into the hopeful eyes of Charlie with his own as he mulled over the words of the hellspawn, before choosing to speak back after settling his thoughts, "If you truly seek my counsel on the matter, then know this…" Joshua said as he breathed in a bit before speaking once more, "I bare no guile in my words, Charlie, so hear me well. I know not the type of man that sinner is, nor his character as of yet, but know this. Keep an open ear in your wits about you."
After a few seconds of silence between the three, Vaggie was the one to break and speak aloud, "That's it?!" She threw her arms up in her temper, before she walked around Charlie once more to stand beside and looked back at Joshua with her fist clenched at her sides, "We can't trust him, he isn't even here to be redeemed, he doesn't even believe in it!" she protested.
Charlie glanced between the two while thumbing her chin, before palming her fist, "This is what Happy Hotel is all about! Giving someone a chance, and as many times as it takes! And I can't turn away help either from someone that is willing to help!" she declared, before giving her thanks to Joshua and excusing herself from the two to speak with Alastor.
While Charlie left the two, Vaggie looked back up at Joshua with annoyed look, "What was that about, you could've help steer her away from that dangerous demon."
Joshua simply stared back with a simple look in his eyes, "Make no mistake young nephilim, I'll see to it that the demon does not bring harm to Charlie, on that I promise."
At the mention of being called a certain type of being, Vaggie lone eye shrunk in fear at being called out, "Wha-how-"
"What? Did you believe yourself to be seen to all in hell as a common sinner?" Joshua remarked with a dry tone why his arms were still crossed.
"Just…just don't tell Charlie…" Vaggie sigh with a downcast look, "I-I don't know how to break it to her just yet." she pleaded.
"Then heed my advice." Joshua instructed with a firm look in his eyes, to which Vaggie looked back up at him, "The longer you wait, the more chances someone else will. I'll abstain from speaking on the matter anymore than this, but know that the truth will come out sooner than later. So it's best if you break the news yourself.."
Vaggie let out a sigh of discomfort, "That's what I'm afraid of."
"There will always be a time when we must do things we are not comfortable with, such is the harshness of life, as it is in hell, so to speak." Joshua remarked back with a soft tone.
Crossing her arms with a pout, "Doesn't mean I have to like that notion either!" Vaggie spoke back with an annoyed grunt. Before excusing herself to exit out of the conversation she had with Joshua.