
Birthdays and Learning of Friends
"Happy fifteenth birthday!" was the first thing that Harry heard that morning.
A pillow hit him in the face and he frowned, of course Ilvymore wouldn't let him sleep in, even when it was his own birthday.
Harry wasn't sure when his real birthday was, he knew that he had been found on the 31st of October, but Lilith had been sure that that wasn't his actual birthday. After some digging Lilith had found out quite a bit about her adopted son, including his actual birthday which was on the 1st of July.
Harry got up and threw a pillow right back in her face, "goddamit Ilvy, it is too early in the morning for you to be throwing jack shit in my face," he said angrily.
She smiled happily, "it's your biiirrrtthday, your fifteenth to be precise, there's so much to do and so little time to do it!"
"God you're acting like I'm turning eighteen, or twenty one or something, I can't even start learning to drive or drink at this age weirdo,"
"Yeah but, thirteen and fourteen, people are still seeing you as kids or preteens, eighteen and nineteen people see you as an adult and expect you to start acting all... adult-y but fifteen to seventeen is right in the middle of your teen years," she said making a weird little hand movement, "it's very important!"
Harry rolled his eyes, "Why is it that I'm friends with you again?" He asked.
"Well, cause you picked me up off the street one day and then I latched onto you after you gave me food, and if you're honest with yourself it's partially cause you were the only one your age and wanted a friend that was more like you," she answered cheerfully. She then gestured at herself, "and here I am."
He smiled, she was in fact, correct. He had been pretty lonely before he met her, though she could be extremely annoying sometimes he still saw her a bit like a sister.
"Well if you want me up so much get out of my room, I need to take a shower and I don't want you hanging around or seeing me naked."
"Ok, I'll get out," she made a weirded out face, "seeing you naked would be weird and awkward."
She got out and Harry went over to the bathroom, he was still staying in the hotel with his older sister and the rest of the staff (they hadn't actually gotten any customers yet, unless you counted Angel Dust that was) which meant that all of the bedrooms had their own bathroom attached.
He took a nice long shower, yeah it would annoy Ilvymore, and possibly anyone else that was waiting for him (he just knew that Alastor would be pissed) but it was his birthday, he was allowed to relax wasn't he?
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When Harry actually got downstairs he hadn't expected very much. Maybe one or two sad banners and a couple of party hats, he had been very wrong to think that.
Apparently whoever had been in charge had done a lot in the night that he'd been asleep. The lobby and bar were squeaky clean, a birthday banner over the bar and confetti, party hats and plenty of other types of party decorations were all over the place.
"Happy Birthday!" Charlie cried happily.
Ilvymore was sitting on the side a smile on her face and a hat on her head. Her look practically said, 'told you so.'
"Harry moved down and hugged his sister, "thanks sis," he turned so that he was facing the whole room, it was really nice of you guys to do this for me."
"Aw, it's fine doll, I'm just glad that princess'll lemme drink more cause of this," said Angel Dust with a wink, Harry chuckled, Angel really was a unique character.
"Happy birthday! I made sure everything was extra squeaky clean for this!" said Nifty happily.
"I was forced into this kid, I couldn't care less what age you are, but happy birthday I guess," muttered Husk.
"Awww, even you, that's so nice Husky∼"
Husk glared, Harry moved away from the angry demon before he could do anything that would permanently damage him.
"Ah, happy birthday my dear boy! I do hope you have a wonderful day!" Came the voice of the radio demon, also known as Alastor.
Harry wasn't quite as suspicious of him anymore but he still kept an eye on him all the time (though the fact that he was helping Ilvymore and him control their powers really helped him soften up to the demon).
"Thanks I guess Alastor," he muttered, a small smile on his face.
"Happy birthday, Hermano," said Vaggie a fond smile on her face as she ruffled his hair.
Harry laughed as he tried to get her hand off him, "thanks Vaggie."
The hotel staff was like a large family to him, and from the way that Charlie was smiling too, this was actually quite a lot nicer than how their parents had acted a lot of the time.
Harry ended up getting dragged around to different places during the day, but it was really quite enjoyable, and not as bad as he thought it was going to be.
By the time that they got back to the hotel he was completely exhausted.
"You know, if this is what my birthday was like and you helped plan this, Imma make yours just as fucking big and fun, ya know that right?" He asked Ilvymore, as he splayed himself on the couch.
"Do your worst Harry, it's in a week and I'm not above hiding in my bedroom in order to escape too much social interaction man," she responded with a smirk.
He laughed, sometimes it was almost difficult to remember that Ilvymore was so anti social, especially when she pulled something like this, but it was honestly her own weird little way of showing that she cared. Considering that Harry was very much an extrovert that was.
"Hey Harry, ya know most of us don't know jack shit about you, or how you were before ya came down to hell," said Angel. He was sucking on a lollipop, he supposed it was better than getting high, though he was going through their stacks of food real fast, for someone so skinny he ate a whole lot of food.
"Yes my dear boy, I must agree, we barley even know what your human name was," added Alastor.
"Well I don't know a whole lot myself," he said with a shrug, "my mum told me that she found me in a big old house when I was one year old on Halloween, apparently my parents had already been dead when she got there. At first they knew nothing about me but after some digging from my mother she found out that my name used to bee Harry James Potter and that my birthday was on the first of July, oh! and that I'm from England too, I guess."
"That's not a whole lot ya know that right?" Said Angel.
"Yeah, but it's enough for me, I honestly couldn't care less."
Alastor was looking thoughtful, Ilvymore looked over at him, "you gonna add your two cents deer man?" she asked.
Harry and Angel both snickered quietly at the nick name she insisted on.
"Why yes actually, dear girl, I believe that I have indeed heard the name 'Harry Potter' amongst certain people in the British community before, I believe that this could be you could it not?"
"Well Harry and Potter are some awfully common names there buddy, you might wanna narrow down your options there," he said with a roll of his eyes. All of them just ignored the fact that he'd been up on the human world, Alastor could do whatever the fuck he wanted, so of course he had been to the human world after death.
Alastor still frowned, "we shall see Harry, we shall see," he said it with a smirk. Harry just knew that the radio demon was probably going to go meddle with something that had nothing to do with him, but he couldn't care less, today was his birthday after all, he was going to relax.
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The night had ended greatly, with a fun dinner, in the end Angel Dust had even gotten extremely drunk and flirted with Alastor, an obviously freaked out se repulsed asexual, who from the look on his face, had never had half of the things that Angel said to him, well, said to him.
Angel had also had quite a few fun stories about his time out and about, him and Husk had ended up singing songs together drunkenly. A still scared and freaked out Alastor staying well away.
In the end Ilvymore had sneaked up some alcohol into his room and they'd drank a bit of it, they'd gotten drunk a while after and fallen asleep saying who knows what, spending the next day feeling quite sick.
Alastor still smiled creepily and spent time in his study looking through some stuff, though he ignored that. And when Ilvymore's birthday came up he also made a birthday arrangement, though it was a lot smaller, it did involve a lot of the things that she enjoyed doing and they ended up once again sneaking alcohol Ilvymore's room this time and once again getting drunk for no reason what so ever.
All in all Harry was living a great life, and who knew what would come next?