Fired! Part 2

Lu sat behind his desk, talking on his phone. "So when can I expect that monkey?" he waited a response but received only silence. "Hello?" he waited several more seconds. Only static was his answer. The Devil slammed his fist onto the console in anger, which didn't help matters either.

His stepdaughter Rosie appeared by this desk. "Ah shoot." she innocently said. "Looks like the phone's out. Too bad you don't have someone to fix it."

A light flashed on Lu's intercom. Lu tapped his finger on the button and spoke. "Electric department," a scratchy demonic voice answered.

"It's me," Lu informed. "Phone lines seem to be down. Might be a problem with the new antenna."

"Understood, my lord. We'll get them up and running in about five minutes."

"Good to know." The Devil ended their conversation and pressed the intercom off. His signature sneer made Rosie uncomfortable, as if he knew what she was trying to get at. "You were saying?"

Rosemary sighed and walked away.

An hour later the Devil made his way to the tower's break room. An empty coffee mug occupied his hand. His dry throat required a fresh batch of coffee. Once inside break room he snapped his fingers, which automatically activated the coffee maker. It vibrated and jumped around in its spot like a rabid rabbit. Violent noises of broken nuts and bolts rattled inside it. Black smoked then puffed out of its filter.

Lu stood and watched as his precious coffee maker malfunctioned, muttering a low pitched, beastly growl. This was the third time this month that machine had been acting up. "Dang. Is your coffee maker broken?" Lu glanced to his left and saw one of Rosemary's friends, Krystal, next to him. "Wish there was someone who knows how to fix that, right?"

Suddenly Lilith appeared behind the two. "Oy, is the coffee maker busted?" The smoke cloud migrated its way to her desk. The violet secretary approached the coffer maker and worked a little magic of her own. Not real magic but utilized her mechanical skills.

She pulled out a tool kit from the cupboards below. A few screws in and a rotation or two with a socket wrench and Lilith quickly fixed it. The machince spewed out some fresh coffee and operated like it was brand new.

"Great work, Lilith," the Devil complimented. Krystal remained silent and walked away.

Later in the day, after his fourth cup of coffee, Lu hurried over the office bathrooms. He pushed open the door and was met by a small flood of toilet water. "WHAT THE-" he screeched when that same water splashed over his feet.

Lu peeked inside and saw all the toilets had water overflowing out. The floors were flooded.

"Bummer." Another voiced cried. This time it was Dominic who approached his father's boss. "Looks like the toilet is clogged. Bet you wished you had someone who could fix that?"

Lu now grew irritated. Still he kept his sinister grin. "Oh, but I already do." He then laid out his hand in front of the young demon. A small flame shot up from his palm, which formulated into a plunger. "Get to it!" he ordered.

Dominic sighed and took the plunger. Lu watched as the boy dragged his feet through the sanitary waters so he could undo the mess he created.

Both Rosemary and Krystal stopped outside of the bathrooms. "You know you didn't literally have to go and clog the toilets." Krystal called out to Dominic while he tried to unclogged each toilet.

"Hope you kids are learning by now that anyone can do Scrugs' job," Lu teased.

"Then why did you have him work for you all this time?" Rosemary asked.

Lu shrugged. "Don't know. Don't remember. Don't really care anymore." he laughed his horrible laugh that could be heard through the whole tower. "Now let's see how long it would take for that money to arrive."

Lu walked away and laughed some more. The three friends were left saddened that they couldn't convince Rosie's stepfather to hire back poor Scrugs.

"This sucks!" Krystal cursed.

"Agreed," Rosemary said. "Well I guess if we can't get Lu to hire back Scrugs then we'll need Scrugs to do it."

"But your stepdad, like, threw him literally out of this place. How are we even gonna find him?"

"I can find him." they heard Dominic's voice call back. "Rosie, your stepdad gave me his plunger. I can use it to perform a tracking spell that'll lead us to his exact location."

"Sounds like a plan!" Rosemary said. "Let's go get Scrugs back."

The girls raced off. Dominic was still alone with the flooding toilets. "HEY!" he cried. "Who's gonna help me!?"

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