“Bloody hell” Luc. I muttered as I rested my hands on my knees, I leaned forward and tried to draw breath into my burning lungs. My long dark hair had escaped its band and was framing my face, brushing against my cheeks. I closed my eyes as I pulled slow deep breaths into my lungs. My body felt abused yet again blood was all over my black vest top and my leather trousers. Thankfully none of it was mine. I heard footsteps directly in front of me, I lifted my head up just a fraction to see my brother Lucas in front of me and in about the same blood stained condition that I was in.
“If I had got the energy I would knock you on your arse” I informed him. I straightened to my just over 5 foot height, my brother still towered over me which had always annoyed me, but what had annoyed me more at this moment was the fact that my brother had a stupid lob sided grin all over his face.
“You know you enjoyed it sis.” he replied not at all impressed with my threat and to be honest he did have a point.
“Luc it’s not my job this one was yours. Any way all I want to do is retire get married and have babies.” I countered.
“Mom told me to call you, and the retiring thing, good luck with that, oh and when we see the folks again I think you should run the babies thing passed them” he smirked.
I groaned but chose not to answer as I looked around me at the carnage that surrounded us.
“So what was going on here” I asked “if mom wanted me to come with you?” I asked him.
“You know the usual” he replied.
“That still doesn’t answer my question does it?”
My brother shrugged his shoulder and then said “ask mom” as he started a search of the area. I stood watching the familiar movements of my brother not wanting to become part of this again. We’re twins of the strangest parents ever, a female demon and a male angel. We are the only children of such a union to have ever existed that we know of, we are feared, envied and hated. Our parents believe it or not are still together and relatively happy, both sides allowed the relationship to continue I think only through curiosity and the fact that she was pregnant and both sides wanted to see what would become of us.
We grew up with both parents loving us our fathers love was evident and clear for us to see for a time, I mean his an angel it’s expected. Our mother is a high level demon who was never the hugs and cuddles type mom but she has always been very protective and has beaten and maimed many supernatural beings for threatening us. She also was the one whom chose to teach us to fight, behind our father back until our father gave in and supported our mother’s decision. We have magical abilities from heaven and hell, both of healing and destruction and even now 200 years of existence none of us still know the extent or limitations of our powers. All our senses are heightened, we have speed and strength to surpass any of the other races, we both have are the dark looks of a demon in human form from our mother and once we set them free the wings of a angel inherited from our father and the combination of the two is what sets us apart, what sets Luc and I apart is that Luc has pure white feathers on his wings and mine are a raven black. I often thought that it represented both heaven and hell, but who knows?
Once declared proficient with our powers and with mortal weapons both sides made a decision about our future. We are considered neutral being that we have blood of both sides and we were given the job of policing both sides. In all fairness mainly our mother’s kin after all they are evil, I mean they are demons hell bent on causing trouble, death and chaos its their very nature and truth be told it in ours too. Occasionally there is a fallen angel but not often.


We were in an abandoned factory that had clearly become a vampire’s nest. There were human corpses rotting in amongst the vampire ashes from our kills. From the amount of bodies and remains here this had been a nest and had been in operation for a while, Luc was sent to shut it down as the human authorities had started to notice the amount of people who had gone missing in the area. What I didn’t understand was why I was here as Luc was more than able to clear a vampires nest out alone.
“Why am I here Luc?” I asked again as he continued his search, I didn’t think he was going to answer me until he swung round to face me. He slowly approached me and wrapped me up in his arms and hugged the life out of me, I returned the gesture and embraced him back and held on tight.
“I missed you little angel” he whispered.
“I missed you bad ass demon” I answered him. He laughed at our usual greeting. I pulled out of his embrace to look up into his eyes.
“It’s only been 6 months Luc” I told him as I could go years without returning home.
“I know but something feels wrong, I don’t know whether it was to do with you or me.”
“What do you mean wrong?” I asked him.
“I just feel that something is coming and I don’t know what, I don’t know if it’s from heaven or hell but its bad sis” he replied. I opened myself up to feel the environment around me, I felt the human and vampires deaths, I felt the torture of there victims. I sensed the life of humans and supernatural being within in the city. On the edges just out of reach I felt the wrongness, not wrong exactly powerful, maybe that was what my brother had sensed and it was coming. I came back to myself and faced my brother.
“Your right and I can’t sense what it is, or if it’s good or bad it just is and whatever it is its very powerful. We need to go home” I stated.
“We need to get this mess sorted out first” as his indicating the corpses and ash that was littered around our feet.
“Dad!” I yelled, we waited a few moments and there was no answer.
“I hate clean up” I groaned.
“As do I” my brother agreed with me. “Give me your hand Lily” I placed my hand in his and felt the hum of his power overlap mine and in the next breath the factory was clear. Our father could have done this with no effort and that is why we always called him. When we do it, it’s like we have run a marathon and leaves us both out of breath, combining our gifts still makes us tired but not as bad as when we have to do it alone it would usually leaves us vulnerable to attack as we literally need to recharge our batteries.
“Let’s go home” I said to Luc once my breathing had settled.
“Lets” he grabbed my hand and shifted us there.


We arrived out side our mother’s home, oh by the way it’s in hell. All the fire, smoke and darkness that’s all true but it felt like home to us as we had spent as much time down in hell as we had on earth, but not once had we been to heaven. We walked through moms cave that might I add is full of all the modern gadgets and the best quality comforts. Mom might be a demon but she likes her comfort and dad likes to get them for her. We head down towards the left where the usual meeting place is, both of us so lost in our own thoughts that we didn’t hear the grunts and groaning as we walked into the living space to see our father doing a sexual act to our mother that I’m sure is banned. I throw my hands in front of my face as my brother swings me round so my back is towards them. My brother cleared his throat to get there attention.
“No wonder he hadn’t heard us” Luc leaned down to whisper to me . This is also not the first or certainly won’t be the last time we have caught our parents in the act. I still get embarrassed but Luc just ignores it.
“Children” I hear father say followed by the sound of his wings moving.
“It’s safe” Luc bends down again and whispers in my ear, I turn round to see both my parents still naked but covered by our father’s wings to hid their nakedness from us.
My mother is a petite dark haired women, beautiful curves, and the most chocolate coloured
eyes you will see whilst she in human form. My father looks like a pro wrestler with his build, shoulder blonde hair and his huge white wings that are attached to his back and that were currently covering their nudity.
“Luc, Lilly what brings you here” father asked.
“Michael” my mother snapped “they live here” she reminded him.
“Strictly speaking we don’t we both have our own homes now” my brother informed her.
“Shut up Luc” she said as she turned back to our father.
“I don’t mean anything by it but they have the worse timing love” Michael told her as he gave her a passionate kiss.
“Mom please” I interrupted this time as Luc chuckled at my side. “If you had heard me call you dad you would have known we were looking for you” I said as they broke apart “and I thought you would have got bored of this by now.” I added.
“Not likely” my mother replied.
“Sash” Michael complained.
“Michael their over two hundred years old I think she is old enough to deal with her parents having a sex life especially when it more interesting than her own” she said as I rolled my eyes.
“Mom it’s not your sex life it’s the fact that I don’t really want to see it” I snapped back.
“Don’t look then”
“Enough” my father bellowed “why are you here and Luc take that grin off your face” he added.
“Sir” was Luc’s reply.
“You asked me to go and help Luc deal with a rather straightforward vamp nest” I said directing it at my mother. She nodded in agreement but remained silent. “Why?”
“I sent you to Luc to see if you could sense what he had as you have been avoiding us and it was the only way I could think of getting you here” she said giving me a hard look “did you?” she asked.
“Yes”
“What is this you speak of?” Michael asked. Sash held her hand up to stop his question.
“Do you recognise it?” she asked next.
“No, but I feel that I should” I replied.
“What about you” she addressed Luc next.
“Nothing, I know its there but Lily says
it’s not good or bad just very powerful. Which is more than I got from it” was his answer.
“Michael” my mother said now talking to our father “there is something not right with the world, I don’t know what or why. Lucas sensed it and passed on these senses to me. Lily was called back to either disprove or confirm Lucas readings”
“How long” he asked my mother through gritted teeth.
“I don’t know, I have tried to sense this thing but I am unable to, I have only sensed it through Lucas. I am worried Michael for us all but mainly I am worried for them as they am the only ones that can sense this thing.” she leaned forward and kissed him lightly “this is not a heaven and hell thing Michael, this is a family thing” she pleaded.
“I know Sash, believe me I know” he hugged her to him.
“Dad” Lucas interrupted. He turned his head away from Sash to look at us.
“What now?”
Michael closed his eyes and I could feel him open up to the world to see what he could sense. I travelled along with him and immediately felt it, but my father travelled past. I could feel Luc with me as father moved on.
I felt around its edges and gleamed no more information from it I strained my senses over stretching myself and that’s when I heard this thing whisper my name causing me to slam back into myself. I opened my eyes and was found myself on my hands and knees Lucas was knelt down beside me and my parents was looking at us.
“I felt nothing” Michael told us.
“You went passed him” I told them.
“Him?” my mother asked “you know its male then”
“It feels male” I replied unwilling to say anything else but not knowing why.
“Lucas” Michael asked.
“Nothing new” he told them.
Our fathered waved his hand and clothed himself I am going to consult with my brethren he kissed my mother and disappeared.
“I love that man” my mother growled before her attention returned to us.
“Stay together” she instructed “and we will be in touch” she manifested herself some clothes then to my surprise she came and wrapped her arms around us giving us a quick hug and in the next breath disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
“Want to bet she gone after dad to finish what they started” he laughed.
“Probably” I replied not really paying much attention.
Lucas grabbed my hand and took us back up to the factory. I looked round nothing had changed and I couldn’t feel anyone nearby.
“Clear” Luc informed me after he done his own checks I looked over at him in annoyance.
“What now, carry on as normal then?” I said to Lucas.
He unfurled his wings and I followed suit. I stretched them out and folded them back in against my back.
“Want to come back to mine” he asked.
“No I feel like kicking the shit out of someone I might look around for a bit. I’ll drop by when I’m done” I replied.
He walked over to me and dropped a kiss on my forehead “I‘ve missed you“. We walked to the door together, once outside Lucas took flight leaving me alone. I stood there not sure what I was going to do, I know we had been told to stay together but we both like and need our own space and as much as I love my brother I would end up seriously hurting him bieng in close confinement with him for to long. I felt like getting into a brawl but how tired I was I’d be the one who would end up on the end of the beating. I glanced around me taking a look at the now empty warehouse, knowing that my mother had sent me to Luc knowing that was the only reason I would willing come to them, also so I could feel this thing that they had sensed. What they didn’t know was that I had been dreaming about him for years, the presence had been in my dreams, soothed me night after night when I had done some really unpleasant things. I have known him for years yet I had felt like it was always part of my imagination and not real. Now I find that it isn’t and I felt excited and very nervous. I am of course worried but also a little excited, with that thought I exited the warehouse spread my wing and took to the skies.
The night was cool and the wind had a bite to it as I flew home. I had always enjoyed flying and built my speed up feeling the rush of air across my face and my adrenaline building as I streaked across the sky. All too soon I came to a wooded area with a clearing where a small old fashion cottage was situated. I flared my wings out and checked my flight then glided down to the ground.
My parents are centuries old and believe it or not myself and my twin brother are the only children of thier union and neither of our parents had children with any other demons or angels. Our parents or actually our mother is rich, because dad does not require physical possessions, it’s the angel thing, but mom is filthy rich and has land and property all over the world. Luc is also like our mother and has a good head for making money and over the last 150 years has made us both rich in our own right so that we don’t have to rely on mom even though we could have what we wanted no questions asked. We both liked to be as independent as possible.
I however follow our father and don’t want or require anything, as long as I have somewhere to lay my head, and a full stomach, I’m happy. I looked towards the cottage and felt my chest fill with remembered happiness. The cottage was where we all lived when we were growing up. Luc and I had a normal childhood until our powers became known and father was called back to heaven. We were only 11 years old when he left and it broke my heart.
I missed my father but Luc and Mom tried to compensate and I am grateful to them for it, but they weren’t him. I prayed for him to come home every night but he never did. Nearly 20 years passed before he returned and we both had grown into adults and I had long stopped praying for his return. He came to tell us both heaven and hell had agreed to appoint us a job and that we had no choice. Mom and Luc quickly forgave him and their relationship continued on as if nothing had changed, I never could forgive him, though and even now at times I still feel resentment towards him for leaving us, this was also why I had remained distance from them. I know my staying away caused mom and Luc pain but I was also pissed at them for forgiving him so easily.
I gave myself a shake throwing away the hurtful feelings and the sadness of losing the warm father that I remembered him to be from my childhood. I’m not saying that he doesn’t love us he does, but its cold love sometimes clinical, a love that he shows to everyone again its another angel thing but my mother being the exception to the rule. I took a deep breath and let it out slowly before I entered.
None of them use this house anymore all of them moving on except me, this is my home and always will be my home. I had folded my wings to my back and thought them away so I could enter. Our wings where huge so we had learnt to hide them by pulling them tight into our bodies and sort of dissolving them so they become invisible and don’t interact physically with our environment. Luc could probably explain it, all I know is I want them gone and with concentration they go and that is all that mattered to me.
The cottage was in darkness but I didn’t stop to turn the lights on and carried straight on to my bedroom which used to be my parents room. I lay on the bed without even bothering to take my clothes off. I lay still and called out mentally to Luc to let him know where I was, I felt his reply by a feathered kiss to my forehead, I smiled closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.
I knew I was dreaming as I was out in the woods instead of asleep in my bed. I looked around me and noted that I was in a clearing in the wood, trees surrounded me. I opened my dark wings and flared them out to there full length ready to take flight if I needed to. I heard a noise behind me and swung round to face it, I took a fighting stance and awaited its approach. I felt fear for the first time in a long time and silently tried to will myself to wake up to no avail I even pinched myself but i stayed put.
A petite figure approached until she was about 10 meters away from me. Long dark wavy hair cascaded down her back and framed a beautiful oval face with a pair of the eyes with the bluest I’ve ever seen. She was dressed in an almost transparent white gown that clung to all her curves in all the right places. She was the most beautiful women I have ever seen. I could also feel the power radiating from her and I had never felt anything like it in heaven or hell. It also felt similar to what Luc and I had sensed earlier on.
“Who are you?” I ask. Smiling she closes the distance to stand directly in front of me and looked up into my face.
“So beautiful” she tells me.
“What?” I stutter. She smiles and circles me until coming back all the way round to face me again after her inspection of me.
“You’re remarkable really. I never thought that they would ever do it.” she told me.
“Do what, who?” I snapped.
“Good, bad, heaven, hell, up, down whatever you wish to call it” she whispers taking her hand and running it down the edge of my midnight black wing. Her touch felt wrong making me shiver forcing me to take a involuntary step back and pull my wing tight against my back. She laughed at my obverse discomfort, but didn’t thankfully try and touch me again.
“Who are you?” I asked again I didn’t think she was going to answer me but I was wrong.
“We were the first; we were here before god, before your devil, before light and dark before life.”
I was numb completely out of my depth. “ if thats true why have I never heard of you?” I manage to whisper,
“Why should you have?” she replies. “Your gods and devils don’t want you all to know that they weren’t always the most powerful beings in exsistance, in fact they don’t come close to us.”
“How many of you are there then surely not just you?” I ask.
She smiled a slow smile at me and shakes her head clearly telling me she weren’t going to answer me.
“Why are you here?” I ask trying to get at least that out of her.
“We have watched you destroy yourselves, your god is greedy, your devil is worse. We have come to cleanse this world and return it to what it should have been.”
“Bloody hell, and what is that?” I let slip as I took in what she had told me.
“Paradise, not the bloody war zone you vermin have turned it into.” she said answering me to my surprise.
"vermin, who are you calling vermin?" i demanded.
"all that inhabits our world" she answers me.
“What about the mortals” I ask “what is to be done with them?” I added.
“They will also be cleansed” she replied no hesitation in her voice.
“Immortals and supernatural beings?”
“Depends on what side they choose and they must obey us” she says smiling.
“What’s the choice?” I ask my voice was smooth and unemotional having finally gotten myself under control even though my heart was heavy.
“Death or assist with the cleansing” she answers all friendliness gone from her beautiful voice.
I step back again from her to get some distance, I never took my eyes off her and watched her as she watch me.
“I guess I know what side you’re on” she said and lifted her hand sending a bolt of ice at me I barely had time to prepare myself before it hit. I felt it hit me squarely in the chest and my god it hurt, but I managed to stay on my feet, thank god I thought.
“Impressive” she said and threw another at me, this time I surround myself with fire and insulated myself from the next bolt of ice but it still hurt as it hit. Again I managed to stay on my feet.
“Very impressive” she noted and then bombarded me again and again with ice and now fire.
I stayed on my feet as she relentlessly pounded me, the ground beneath my feet began to move, I looked over to my foe who had a sly smile plastered across her face and it grew as I staggered. The rumbling under me increased causing me to fall winding me and breaking my concentration resulting in my fire distinguishing. Helplessly I lay on my side on the ground my wings fanned out behind me; I drew them close wrapping them around me.
I felt her approach me and I turn my head to see her look down on me,
“Again impressive but I’m afraid just not good enough” she raised her hand “pity” and aimed another bolt but more powerful at close range directly at my heart, it was going to kill me. I closed my eyes and in some strange way welcomed my death.
It never came.


After a few seconds I opened my eyes and saw her looking away from me over towards the opposite end of the clearing. I turned my head to look at what had got her attention. He was magnificent broad chest, strong jaw line, strength and power radiated off him too, but he felt stronger than my female opponent, He was the presences that I had been feeling since I had been young. What grabbed my attention was his eyes the purest and greenest colour that I have ever seen and in contrast to my female attacker he was dressed head to toe in black.
Not once did he look in my direction but I felt he was watching me very closely taking in every detail about me the same way as I had him.
“Enough” he thundered clearly not happy about something.
I looked up at my opponent and noticed the small thinning of her lips before backing off from me. I relaxed for a moment shutting my eyes to open them again to have his green ones look down at me.
“She chose” I heard her grumble in his direction.
“Stretching the truth again Eve, i told you she was not to be approached” he replied cutting her off with a glare as she opened her mouth to speak again. Satisfied that she was going to keep quiet he looked back at me and lowered his self to kneel beside me.
“Lily wake up” he whispered and placed his hand on my forehead.”

I jolted up in bed letting the covers slip from me. I looked down and was in my nightclothes, I wouldn’t mind but they were the silk ones my mom had got me for when I finally found a man she told me when she gave them to me. I stood and noticed my clothes had been folded and placed on the chair that occupied the corner of my bed room. Baffled I continued to look around me for clues of my apparent change of clothes. The details hit me of my dream and so did the aches and pains of my dream beating, my god was I sore as I gingerly stretched trying to work out the knots in my muscles. Taking a closer look at myself I noted that I was bruised on my arms, legs and chest. I was shocked it was just a dream and Luc and I was to powerful for the other supernatural being to invade our dreams.
I stood ridged thinking things through when I felt him. I rushed to the window and saw him standing there gazing up at the window at me, and in return he was captured my full attention. I threw open the window and stepped out on the edge and willed my wings back and opened them before I jumped and sailed to the ground directly in front of him. He was so beautiful I thought my heart would break, sensing my thought he gave me a small smile.
“I dream of you” I told him. I remember even as a child his face and voice and how it had soothed me when my father had left, also when I had been forced to abide by heaven and hell orders. Even after my first kill and I hated my self his voice had been present in my dreams making me feel safe. I had never told anyone about him as he was mine and mine alone I never imagined he would be real. Looking at him now, seeing him in the flesh he still felt like he was mine.
“I know” he said interrupting my thoughts.
“Who are you, cause if you going to come here and give my ass a beating have at it because I’m tired” I told him.
“No Lily I’m not here for, what you say, to beat your ass” he said smiling at me.
“Ok” I said not really believing him for a second.
“Jonah” he said “my name Is Jonah and you are Lily” he stated. I folded my arm and across my arms across my chest and waited him out.
“Lily” he said again and cupped my cheek with his hand, warmth spread from his touch through my whole body, I felt safe even if deep down I knew it wasn’t true. I close my eyes allowing the touch for a few more moments before I step back breaking contact. His expression never changed making me think he didn’t feel anything except his longing for something was easily seen in his eyes for anyone who was looking.
I remained silent, realising I wasn’t going to speak he did “you fascinate me you always have” he told me and my body shivered and not in a bad way in answer to his words.
“That’s great” I pointedly told him “who’s that bitch that invaded my dreams and then tried to kill me?” I demanded “oh and thanks for the save” I add.
“Eve” he stated and I could see him shut down to me in his stiffness of his stance and set of his shoulder and the blank expression now plastered on his face.
Again we silently watched each other, my wing flared and stretched catching his attention before they stilled once again.
“Is what she said true?” I ask him.
“Yes”
“Why? For them stupid shitty answers that Eve gave.” I said “oh and is she the Eve?”
“Yes and no Eve was named after her” he replied.
“Oh” I looked down at my feet my whole body tired aching and defeated.
“Is there anything we can do to stop this” I begged not looking up at him. To be honest I didn’t think he was going to answer me until he put his finger under my chin and lifted my head so our eyes was locked to one another again. “There is always a way Lily” he replied and gently brushed his lips against mine. I closed my eyes and lost myself to the feel of this man, his lips lifted mine.
“Why are you here with me?” I asked before I could stop the words from leaving my mouth.” why have you always been with me?”
“I don’t know” he simply replied and I felt him leave. I opened my eyes and he was gone. A shiver ran through my whole body making me aware of my surrounding once again. I look around quickly and jumped back up to my window to step back into my bedroom and closed the window behind me. I got back into bed and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow I dream of greenest eyes I’ve ever seen.


I opened my eyes to my bedroom being flooded with day light. I look across to the clock that told me it was mid morning. I raised myself looking at my arms to see that my skin was still slightly discoloured from the bruises Eve had given me. I washed and dressed quickly and mentally called Luc.
I just made my way down to the country style kitchen; however at least it was equipped with all the modern compliances. Luc walked through the door. I had dressed in sweat pants and a hoody to keep my battered body hidden from Luc as he tends to over react sometimes especially if I‘m injured. I sat him down and went over the events that had happened whilst I had slept. I didn’t tell him about mine and Jonah meeting afterwards it just felt to personal to repeat. Plus it never good to let your family know your lusting after the enemy.
“What do you think?” I ask once I’d finished.
“I think the shit has hit the fan” he said with a smile.
I rolled my eyes and silently agreed with him. I go and wrap my arms round my brother wanting the physical comfort, but secretly wishing that it was another set of arms holding me. I pulled away from him and poured us both a mug of coffee.
“Should we tell them?” I ask him knowing he knew who I meant.
“No” he answers “we got no proof, no Eve or Jonah, we got nothing we should wait and see if they appear again to you or maybe both of us”
“Fine” I agree.
“They want to see us” Luc informed me “ready” he then grabs my hand as I nod and we teleport to moms cave. Great I thought they better not be doing what we caught them doing last time I thought to myself. Luc must have guessed my thoughts as he was chuckling away and wrapped his arm around my shoulder giving them a quick squeeze before dropping his arms. Our parents were sat waiting for us, which is unusual. As we entered they both stood in greeting. Luc frowned at me also noticing the odd behaviour.
“Is everything ok here?” I ask looking at both of my parents.
“Yes love” our mother said and hugged us both to her. “His being an idiot angel again” with that she disappeared leaving a smoke trail behind her.
“up set mom again then dad” Luc said as he smiled at me, dad turned his back to us, I imagine getting his temper under control and yes you guessed right its another angel thing as they are to remain calm and peaceful at all times.
He turned back to face him, “I need you both to go and clear out another nest” he states. I looked at him, really looked and he still seamed off he looked back at me but quickly looked away from me as if he couldn’t meet my eyes, his hiding something I mused.
While I was lost in my musing Luc must have agreed to go because dad was gone in the next instance.
“Where we off to then” I ask.
“About 10 miles out of London, and not far from the factory from yesterday.
“Ok one second” I concentrate on my clothing and imagine my normal leather trousers and vest top but with long sleeves to keep my bruises covered. I felt my power flare over my body and looked down to see that my joggers and hoody were gone to replaced by my combat gear.
“Cold?” he asked noticing the change of outfit from vest to long sleeve which would be my usual choice.
“Shut up” I reply. Grinning we teleport to our next job.


We shifted to the corner of the factory to witness Eve having totally butchered everyone in the building. The machines were still powered up as the engines continued to work in the deserted factory. There was piles of ash which were vampires remains, there were also human body parts scattering the room. It looked like they had been ripped apart, there was blood everywhere. I kill for a living and blood and dead bodies have not bothered me in a long time, but this was brutal, I felt sick. Luc had gone stiff beside me and I could feel the anger radiating off him. We must have stood there for a second to long, as Eve swung round suddenly to face us.
We stepped out of the darkened corner to face our probable death if Eve had her way and I knew from my meeting with her last night in my dream we were seriously out classed.
Side by side we faced her. “Hi” I acknowledged her.
“Well well, there are two of you precious dears” she said ignoring my greeting.
“Yeah well you never asked last night” I reply.
“You want to show me some respect you pathetic creature” she hissed.
“We’re at name calling now” I told Luc who had yet to say or do anything.
“Your on your own this time, you little bitch so I suggest you shut your mouth Lily” she was livid.
“Do not speak to my sister like that” Luc quietly snarled at Eve.
“Sister” she repeated a slight sense of doubt entered her voice for a second before being replaced for her usual tone. “No matter”
At that the ground began to shake learning my lesson I took flight with Luc a second behind me. But instead wind hit us causing us to fall back to the floor. “Their elementals” I sent the thought to my brother who answered aloud. “No shit”
We both got to our feet and split Luc to the left and I was to the right, Luc signalled me forward and I attacked with my sword only to be deflected away with a sword of her own. Luc joined in and all three of us danced, thrusting, slicing and blocking no one was getting the upper hand. Eve broke the stalemate by slicing my arm and Luc temper broke causing him to make a mistake and resulted in him being blown across the room.
“Again I am impressed, you have done better than I thought you were going to do” Eve informed me as she turned her full attention towards me. I glance over her shoulder to see my brother out cold but still alive.
“No witty come back or juvenile remark” she enquires.
“No sorry” and I shrug my shoulder.
She stalked forward and unleashed her real skill on me letting me know she had only being playing with us. Within moments my sword was out my hand and she had got her hand round my neck pressing me up against the wall.
“Now you die” she then thrust her sword through my stomach till it hit the wall behind me and she dragged it out twisting it as it came slowly out of me, the twisting would increase my suffering and make the pain worse. I fell to my knees I pressed my hand to my wound. I could feel the wet hot blood seep through my clothing and between my fingers to pool beneath me as she stood above laughing down at me
“Told you there was no one to help you this time” she laughed again.
I looked over at my brother and so did she. My body trembled with pain and I knew I was going to pass out soon from blood loss but I wasn’t going to give her the satisfaction of seeing me scream in pain, I clamped my jaw tight and remained silent.
“I was only told to get rid of you as you’re the trouble maker. I might play with him awhile before I get around to the killing part. What do you think?” she asked.
My heart screamed no but I remained silent knowing that she wanted a reaction. In disappointed because of my silence or in punishment she gave me a swift kick to the side of my face causing pain to bloom all over the right side of my face and blood to drip from my now broken nose.
“Lets go look at him then” she said sweetly and off she strode with a bounce in her step towards Luc.
The hand that wasn’t holding my insides in I used to dip in my own blood and drew a triangular symbol with Egyptian symbols across it and around it. Demons power is stronger and most successful with blood and because I was half demon I had access to this form of magic. Humans in their limited understanding call it blood magic but basically it uses the user’s life force to activate the spell or incantation. I was going to die anyway so I was going to take the bitch with me and save my brother hopefully. She was at my brother side looking down on him as I blooded my whole hand ready to activate my death spell.
I felt him beside me causing me to hesitate; I turn slightly to my right to his green eyes look back at me.
“You don’t have to do this” he gently tells me.
I look towards my brother and the bitch standing over him. “Yes I do” I slammed my hand down to my marking but he caught it before my hand could complete its journey I gasped in frustration.
“Please” I begged “don’t let her take him”
He looked torn and uncertain for a few moment until it seamed the, decision was made he waved his hand across my work making it completely disappear probably thinking I would use it the minute his back was turned and to be honest I would have. He stoked his hand down my hair as he stood and went and approached Eve.
“Eve” he called.
Eve stood up straight and turned to face Jonah she watched him approach her they appeared to be having a heated discussion that I couldn’t hear as he had magically blocking me so they could speak in private. One thing I could tell was that it was defiantly about me as Eve kept looking at me and throwing her arm in my direction. With one final hate filled glance from Eve and a strange look from Jonah they both disappeared out of sight.
Glad in one way that they gone and desperately wanting to see Jonah again my mind returned to the task in hand. I lift my hand to look at my wound to find that it had stopped bleeding. Confused I pulled up my top to see perfectly healed skin, I was just covered in my own blood. Now knowing it was safe I removed my hand and twist my arm behind me to feel my back where the blade had come through to find that it had also healed. I moved my hand to my nose touching it as I’m sure it was broke and again there was no pain. Gingerly I got to my feet realising I was as good as new. I raced over to Luc who was just coming round.
“Hi demon” I greet him as his eyes open.
“Hi angel” he replies and drags me down to hug me close and check for injury.
“Get off Luc” I protest and push myself off him.
“What happened I thought we were off to see uncle death” he asked.
Not wanting to tell him of Jonah’s part I answered as honestly as I could “some one came and fetched her away”
“Who?” he asked.
“Didn’t see” replied “unconscious” I added.
He paused and looked at me trying to see if I was telling the entire truth, I kept eye contact and he must have been happy with what he saw as he dropped his eyes and tried to move, causing his face to wince in pain.
“I think I’d better call the folks” I say as I heard Luc groan probably imagining what they were going to say.
I silently began to call dad, I paused thinking about his odd behaviour earlier and changed my mind and summoned mom instead. She appeared immediately looking at both of us in horror that was finally replaced with true demon anger.
“Who did this she” bellowed the temperature rising several degrees around us to match her anger.
“Mom” I said softly getting her to focus on me “Luc needs you, his hurt” she glanced at me and Luc and quickly managed to get her temper under control.
“I am unable to heal this” she noted as she prodded and probed at Luc’s leg that taking a second look was badly twisted. “I’ll take him home and call your father” she stood with intension. “And you?” she asked.
“Fine” I said looking around the room before looking at her confused face “just sore and probably a concussion” I added. She looked at me a little longer before dismissing what ever thought was in her head.
“You go” I addressed mom “I’ll clean this up” I said sweeping my arm around me to indicate the bloody mess of ash and body parts scattered around us.
“You sure” she asks “it will drain you”
“I know” I acknowledge “dads going to be healing Lucas and you tend to set things on fire to clean things up” I added with a smile.
“True” she kissed me quickly on the cheek “be home as soon as your able” she adds giving me the will do what your told look or else. I nod in agreement as she knelt down placed her hand on Luc’s arm and vanishing.
I let a sigh escape, I hate lying to them and to be honest I don’t even know why I am lying. I close my eyes and pinch the bridge of my nose; I take a deep breath readying myself, and turn to then see a spotless factory. No dead bodies or body parts, no blood or ash. Struck dumb I stand there in confusion.
He was behind me, I felt him just before he placed his hand on my shoulder. “Hello Jonah” I said as I turned to look at him. His eyes had lifted in surprise.
“I can feel when you’re near now” I said answering the unanswered question.
“So it would seam” he agrees not looking happy.
“Why?” I asked pointing at the factory before us.
“I wish to speak to you I didn’t want you distracted” he informed me. I turn so I could look at him fully.
“Thank you” I near him and lean up brushing my lips across his lightly “for healing me” I kiss him again softly “and for saving my brother” I kiss him a third time. I didn’t think he was going to react and made up my mind to pull away when I felt his hands on my hips pulling me closer to his body. As he took over the kiss it changed in to raw passion and not just the thank you I had intended it to be.
I felt something cold against my back and realised that he had trapped me against the wall. He had broken the kiss off and was looking at me as if he was looking for something. His eyes entranced me and held me captive. I could feel my own heart hammer in my chest; I could feel his heart pounding in time with mine. I decided he wasn’t close enough, I freed my arms and took his face in my hands bringing his lips firmly against mine and he kissed me back this time without any hesitation.
I don’t know how long I was locked in his arms but it was the most passionate kiss I had ever experienced in my two centuries of life. He pulled away but not far, and I was glad to note that his breath was also as unsteady as mine.
“You fascinate me Lily” he whispered into my mouth dropping a small kiss to my lips immediately drawing back “you always have”
“I lust after you, and I feel safe with you” I reply with a half smile.
“Good to know” he says as he steps completely away from me. My body missed his as soon as it was gone, but I remained still not wanting to give my yearning for him away.
“I mean it thank you for saving us”
“I don’t know why I did” he replies open confusion on his gorgeous face.
“Well I don’t know how to answer that” I tell him “what did you think when you did it?” I ask.
“I didn’t want you to hurt” he answers and with that disappears leaving me alone to muse over his revelation.
“I feel the same” I mutter under my breath into the now empty building. I gather my focus ready to teleport to my mothers when I heard him whisper to me as if on the wind “dream of me tonight.”
I smile to my self and raise my fingers to my lips to feel where his had just moments before been “don’t I always” I say to the air as I willed my self home.


I arrive back at me cottage safe in the knowledge that mom wouldn’t expect me for a few hours knowing that the clean up would tire me and I would need time to rest, I had at least two or three hours before dad comes looking for me. I walked through the front door and looked round; it looked like typical cottage floral wallpaper wicker furniture, family pictures across the wall and above a huge fire place.
I threw myself onto the sofa and closed my eyes, feeling a little happier that I was home. I opened my eyes and looked at a picture of me and Luc laughing and joking, we looked happy, we were happy. I missed the family life we had and I’m sure Luc misses it too, but just not in the same way that I do.
The problem is I have always wanted a family of my own, but I live a warrior life and I would never want to risk my children’s lives. Heaven and hell would both have to give permission or they would end me, or I would have to go into hiding. They would try and take the child and do what they did with me and Luc and make them like us unchained slaves. I couldn’t do that to anyone especially someone of my own flesh and blood. I closed my eyes again and a silent tear of loss of a life I would never have ran down my cheek.
“Why do you cry” he asked.
“Why are you here?” ignoring his question to ask one of my own
“I don’t know” he answered.
“What do you want?” I sigh “and if you say I don’t know I swear to god and the devil I’ll kill you!”
“I’m sure you would try” he said looking at around the room.
“Well” I say as I stand.
He looks down at me, I feel the spark that consumes me every time he is close by, I step back causing him to frown but he remains still.
“Why are you against the cleansing?” he asks.
My ears couldn’t believe what I had heard “are you joking with me” I bellowed at him. “You are seriously asking me this”
“I am” he replies calmly.
“I think you should leave” I growled as I pushed him out towards the door “you should stay away from me” I added, we were both outside now as I continued to push him. He let me push him and now we both stood facing one another, he was still calm and I was radiating anger the most intense anger I have ever known my wings flared out without my consent due to my temper, His eyes briefly glance at them.
“You have no right to come here and kill us.” I growled “you and Eve have been gone for who knows who long and now you come because you don’t like what you see. Well fuck you” I roared. I was already feeling emotional about a life I couldn’t have and they were going to take the one I had got, I was furious.
Jonah didn’t move a muscle and continued to look at me “I very much like what I see” he told me as his eyes looked me up and down. I could feel his stare travel along my body and I trembled within with a little bit fear and a lot of lust.
“good for you” I fold my arms across my chest and bought my wings down and wrapped them around me to hide most my body as his look was becoming passion filled making me uncomfortable wanting to fidget under his scrutiny. He gave a small frown and his eyes returned to mine.
“We are not killing we are cleansing” he announced “just the lesser races” he added.
“Well that makes it ok then” sarcasm dripped from my mouth.
“Yes we wish to make this world what it is supposed to be” a puzzled look on his face as if was not understanding my anger, and maybe that was the whole point they just didn’t get it. I sighed deep from in my chest and released trying to calm down and let go of my anger.
“Look, I get you don’t understand what I’m trying to say. This world is full of good people and down right evil scum bags.” I unfurl my wings and step closer to him keeping eye contact to get my point across. “And that is across all races. Why should good people from the lesser races be punished for the rest of them. Why should the evil and cruel people of the saved races be spared and who are you to decide this when you been missing the last few millennium” I finish looking at him closely for his reaction.
“What are you trying to tell me?” he asked in an unemotional voice.
I swallow my frustration before answering “I am saying that perhaps this world and the races on this world have developed and evolved in the way they have for a reason” I step closer raising my lips to his ear knowing what I was going to say next was going to provoke him. “Or maybe they have evolved the way we have because you abandon them and failed us all, basically you fucked up pal.”
I automatically felt his whole body fill with tension and hastily step back out of arms reach. He remained silent and his eyes were fierce as he looked down at my retreating form, the ground beneath my feet began to shack making me stagger I open my wings to take flight when I felt vines erupted around me wrapping themselves around my legs holding me in place. I struggled in panic for a few moments until I realised that it was useless. I invoked my fire and aimed them round my feet, they burned only to be replaced quickly. I tried teleporting but they held me in place. I willed my sword to my hand and hacked at the vines and they just grew back, I released a scream of frustration and fear. I felt my body swell with warmth that grew hotter and hotter until I was ready to explode which I did or should I say it felt like I had exploded. My body was stretched out flaring out my limbs and wings I was also surrounded by a brilliant white light that emanated from deep with in me. I felt this energy quickly leave me. I then fall to the ground on my knees and noted that the vines had been completed obliterated to nothing, also the ground was scorched around me in a perfect circle.
I felt drained my wings hung limply to the floor, I raise my head and looked up. Jonah was stood still exactly where he was before I provoked him still looking unemotional. He slowly walked towards me his eye never leaving mine. He came to a stop in front of me and knelt down beside me.
“You are magnificent” his voice husky, making me tremble with something else other than the fear.
“Thanks” I panted.
“I suggest you think about the consequences before you try and provoke me again, I am new to my emotions and tend to have strong reaction as does the others” he told me “its only the fact that you fascinate me that I didn’t try to really hurt you rather than just frighten you” he stroked his hand down my face leaving it cupping my cheek “your grace was beautiful” he kissed me gently and quickly on the lips “as are you” he said as he was straightening up and stepping away from me.
“I will think on what you have said” with that he disappeared. I sighed in relief and longing. I stand up on very shaky legs and stumble my way to the cottage, I dragged myself to the sofa and threw myself onto it and promptly pass out as the blackness over took me.


I open my eyes as pain stabbed through my head, I had one hell of a headache. I groaned and pushed myself up on my elbows and gingerly opened my left eye.
“Hi angel” my brother said as he was smiling at me.
“Hey demon” I answer smiling back at me. I loved my bother and would do anything for him even nearly getting myself killed by mister hot and scary.
“What time is it?” I ask.
“Mom will come looking for you anytime now, so I slipped out to come and get you before they do” he replies.
“thanks Luc” I stood and thankfully was more steady on my feet “let me shower and dress and I’ll be good to go” I race up the stairs washed and dressed in my usual leathers trousers and vest tops complete with my knives and sword strapped on all within 15 minutes a record for me.
I joined my brother and step outside, fly or teleport he inquires and I opt to fly to give me more time to think what I was going to say to our parents. I flare out my wings to hear Luc gasp.
“What have you done Lily” shock evident in his voice.
“Why?” I ask and turn my head to look at him, he nods towards my wings, I swing round to look at what Luc has seen to see that my once black wings now were streaked with red. “Holy crap” I exclaimed.
“What the bloody hell did you do” he asked me running a finger along one of the many now red feathers to then quickly pull his hand away. He reached out again to touch them again only to swear and pull his hand away again.
“What you doing that for?” I ask and touch one myself, it felt a little warm but exactly the same except for the colour.
“They shocked me” he answered.
“Really, they feel no different to me” and stroke down my wing again
“Well your shocking me” he grinned but worry etched his face. “What happened?” he asked again.
I quickly tell him of the conversation with Jonah minus the kissing and the complements, I also edited my reactions to him. Luc remained silent as I told him and remained that way as I finished.
“Well” I prompted.
“I think we’re screwed” he told me. Which I nodded my head in agreement. “Did they give you a time scale” he asked.
“He didn’t but I don’t think they think of time the same as we do or they would have been back before now” I answer as Luc agreed with my reasoning.
“Which races are the ones to be saved I wonder” he mused.
“Remind me to ask next time I have my ass kicked” I grunt.

“How come you survived anyway, if his out to cleanse us all why not get you out the way now?” he wondered “especially with that smart mouth of yours, I would have killed you for that alone!” he laughed. Unable to tell the truth knowing it would lead to a bunch of questions I didn’t want to answer I shrugged my shoulder.
“So” he said as he looked at my wings again before he spoke “you used your grace” he asked me. Angels grace was a power that comes to them at a time of trouble that god himself gives them it’s a last defence kind of thing. It is given to them to either protect themselves or their charges. I had been blessed by god only I didn’t know which one and I wasn’t about to let Luc that I didn’t know.
“It appears so” I reply wondering where he was going with this.
“Isn’t being blessed and using a your grace mean that you’re a archangel now” he inquired, not sure I again shrugged. “This must have triggered the change with your feathers. I wonder why, what were you doing again?” he asked.
“I had just told him that he’d fucked up and he attacked me” I said rolling my eyes as I was now repeating myself. He smiled at my words knowing me well enough to know that I wasn’t the most tactful of people.
“And” he prompted.
“And nothing” I was getting annoyed by him “he attacked me and I survived” I snapped.
“Ok, ok” he held up his hands at my annoyance in surrender.
“Let’s go” I stated as I prepared to launch into the sky.
“Lil I don’t think you should go in there with those showing” he said gesturing at my wing “well at least until we have prepared them” he added.
I silently agreed and willed myself to my mother’s home.


We entered and quickly made our way through to our parents whom seamed to be having a heated debate which stopped in mid flow as soon as they realised that we were there.
“How did it go?” Michael asked. I looked baffled at him not sure what he was talking about “the clean up” he prompted.
“Fine” I muttered remembering how Jonah had done it for me.
“We have something we need to discuss with you” Luc announced. They both took a seat and waited. Luc stood by the door and gestured for me to begin; quickly and as truthfully as I could I repeated what had happened with Eve and then gave them the edited version of mine and Jonah meeting.
My mother began pacing and swearing clearly demonstrating her displeasure of the situation. I watched her a few minutes to look at Luc who was fixed on our father; I frowned and turned to look at Michael to see why Luc was fixated. Michael was sat there calm and nodding in agreement.
“Dad” I ask. He turned towards me “dad” I ask in confusion. Then it dawned on me “you knew didn’t you” I stated.
“Dad” Luc interrupted “how does an angel use their grace to become an archangel” he asked.
“Why?” he replied never taking his eyes off me.
I could sense my mother’s form still moving around the room, but I was locked onto my father.
“I want to know” Luc growled.
“What’s going on?” Sash asked noticing the stand off between father and son then coming to stand to my father’s right.
“Father was going to tell us how an archangel is made” he said his voice flat.
“I don’t see the relevance” Michael started to say before being cut off by luc.
“Just humour me” Luc demanded.
“They are usually tested or it’s a last line of defence for angels it usually takes their lives, or it is bestowed by god as the grace is ignited a sort of blessing from god” he tells us.
Neither of us said anything as we took in the information.
“What do you know about the cleansing” I ask.
He looked us both in the eye and took a breath before answering. My heart felt like led in my chest as I knew what the answer was going to be.
“You knew” I said again.
“Its gods will” he said, at that Luc threw himself at Michael in a rage. I stood there unable to move as did our mother who was still unaware of that was going on.
“Stop” she bellowed raising her arms using a wall of fire to separate father and son. “You will explain this” she demanded. She kept her focus on them but addressed me “Lily please” she whispered pain evident in her voice.
With a heavy heart I told her that Michael knew about the cleansing, the fire wall vanished as mom slowly approached her lover.
“Is it true?”
“Yes. Its gods will” he replied.
“You idiot” she roared “I’m a lower race, your children are part of the lower race, you would sacrifice us”
“Sash, its gods will” he said “you and Luc will be safe they have promised” he added.
“And lily” she asked him.
“I could only choose one, she is reckless and wild, and Luc is more angel than she” he tried to explain.
“How can you choose between them” she demanded “they are our children and yet you are willing to condemn one of them to death. You go on about love and god’s forgiveness and mercy and yet you have known for your own children and willing to cause me pain by losing one of them.”
My heart broke for her she was not always the soft cuddly mom, but she loved us and would die for us. Michael was not the same when he came back from heaven at least we know why he had been prepared for Eve and Jonahs coming and he had orders from above.
“Lily show him your wings” Luc demanded of me. I didn’t want to I just wanted to escape and rewind back to about a week ago where the world was right and I knew my place in it even though I hated it.
I willed them into being and opened them wide, I heard my mother shocked gasp pretty much like how Luc had first reacted.
“How can this be” Michael asked.
“You go on about me being more angelic than her and yet here she is with the wings of an archangel and blessed by god” Luc announced. “And not yours, but by the one that predated your god by one of the original gods.” he added.
Dad or now Michael to us stood there unable to speak shocked into silence. “Does that make her more god blessed than you Michael” Luc demanded.
“Well” my mother whispered “does it” she said her heart now shattered. Michael remained silent.
“Michael I think you should leave” Luc spoke slowly and clearly so Michael knew he wasn’t asking.
“You are no match for me son” Michael told him.
“But I am” mother interrupted. “And you are no longer welcome here any longer; I will never welcome you into my bed or heart again Michael. No one and I mean no one threatens or betrays my children and no one betrays me!” she told him.
Michael face was a picture I’m sure that he didn’t think mom would side with us. “No one threatens my race, you can try and kill us you and your gods but it will not come to pass!” she added.
“Leave Michael” she said repeating my brothers demand “as I am showing you the mercy you were not going to show to my daughter.” with a wave of her hand Michael was gone.
“How did you do that to him” I said my voice full of respect. Go mom I thought.
“Lucifer is not just my lord he is also my father and your grandfather and I’m half angel even though he is fallen one” she told us as she sat down.
“That explains why Michael was allowed down here then” Luc said more to himself than actually asking us.
“What now?” I ask of no one particularly.
“I must go and see you grandfather, this Jonah told you about the cleansing and Michael has just confirmed it and more or less confirmed a war is on the horizon. We must be ready” with that she disappeared.
“Lets get out of here” Luc said giving me a brief hug whilst making sure that he doesn’t accidentally brush up against my wing shocking him again.


We flew back this time to the cottage, neither one of us wanting to talk much after the family revelation by our unconventional parents. To be honest I didn’t really want to go back there to many good memories that felt now were all lies, my heart would ache for what we had now lost. Luc flew with me until the cottage was in sight and veered off promising to see me again in a few hours with a heavy heart I landed.
“Lily” I heard from behind me, swinging round I faced Jonah.
“Bloody hell” I moaned “do you wait till you can scare the shit out of me?” I ask.
“No, but I do wait until your alone” he smiled. I flung my hand up in disgust and walked into my home keeping the door open waiting for Jonah to follow me in.
“What do you want now?” I ask as I sat down resting my foot on the small oak coffee table.
“Nothing this time” he answered “really” he added.
“And what does that mean exactly”
“I was worried” he told me. I just looked at him waiting for him to elaborate. “The blessing can be traumatic”
“You did that to me” I stated menace lacing my voice.
“Yes”
“Why?” I growled.
“It needed to be done” and that was the only answer I ever got.
I closed my eyes, my headache still pounded away in my head I grimaced as it stabbed it’s way across my head. I felt his hand on my forehead and felt the pain in my head fade into nothing.
“Thanks” I muttered refusing to open my eyes to look at him at the moment. When I heard no reply I opened my eyes to see Jonah with his back to me looking out the window.
“Jonah” I say softly, he turned his head to acknowledge me but his attention was still outside “how long do we all have before this cleansing starts” I ask.
“The answer will bring you no peace Lily, so why do you need to know” true confusion evident.
I remained calm as I think about my answer “so I can prepare so I can say goodbye, so I can decide what I must do to fight it” I answer honestly.
“So I can die happy, so I can die knowing I tried” I add.
“I don’t want you dead” he told me “I will protect you if you allow it.”
I knew he would, I felt the truth to his words.
“What about the innocent, what about my mother and brother, what about my future I could have had with them.” I reply.
“What about man kind, what about the vampires, witches, weres, shifters, and gnomes, what about them all” I start getting irritated by his very presence at each word I spat out. “not all deserve this fate you elders gods have decide for them and I will fight you with every breath in my body if you try and wipe them off this plant” I stood holding his eyes to mine drawing my literal line in the sand, making sure he knew that I meant every word.
“Lily” he whispered as he closed the gap between us firmly placing his mouth on mine, kissing me hungrily, I kissed him a few moments before coming back to my sense I angrily pushed him away.
“I can not do this” I say to him touching my swollen lips with my shaky hand. “I cannot accept what it is you want to do to us, I feel that I know you in my soul, but its not enough” I tell him.
“I am conflicted” he replies.
“Oh” was all I could say my anger quickly gone making me tired again. I sat back down watching him. He walks to in front of me to kneel between my knees, I presume so that he could face me. I feel his hands rest on my thigh and sent a delicious shiver through my body; I looked at him and noticed his smile at my reaction.
“It’s because of you” he told me “I have been thinking of your last words to me and I am unsure as to what my purpose is here.”
I was finding hard to keep still with his hands on me and be able to listen to his voice.
“I will speak to my brothers and sisters but that is all I can and will do, I am unsure of even doing that or even if its right thing, but I will do it for you.”
“that’s all I ask” I lean forward and throw my arms around his neck drawing him close to me, I feel him put his arms round my back and hugs me back. I close my eyes and hold tight for a second longer and lean away.
I lean back so I could press my lips to his, and he kissed me back with an intensity that surprised me. He deepens the kiss and pushed me back into the chair so his body is pressed into mine. My hand of their own accord snaked up into his hair holding him to me. He pulled back and I was glad to see that he breathing was as unsteady as mine.
“Until next time” with that he vanished my arms dropping into my lap.
“What the fuck am I getting into” I mumbled to myself.
I rise from my chair go into the kitchen and grab myself a drink of water. Glass in hand I head up my bedroom and lie down, I close my eyes and dream of a dark haired sex god who just so happens wants to kill us all.


“what the fuck” I shouted as I have opened my eyes to see my brother looking down at me “that’s just creepy” I add as I pull my duvet to cover my head blocking the sight of my brother.
“Time to get up sleepy head” he says as he pulls the duvet back to remove it completely from my body to dump it on the floor at the foot of my bed.
“Time?” I ask.
“You’ve been asleep about 10 hours, its mid morning” he replies.
I jump out of bed a race to the window to confirm what my brother had said. The sun was bright in the sky not quiet at its zenith. I was shocked I hadn’t slept for this long since I was a child.
“Why didn’t you wake me?” I ask him as I sat down on my bed running my fingers through my mass of hair.
“We thought you might need it after the beating we took and” he pointed over my shoulder to where my wings would normally be I immediately understood what he was saying about my wings. “Come on moms waiting” he strode out the room.
“Great” I muttered. I looked down at myself dressed in my silk night shirt sure that I had gone to bed fully clothed “perv” I say blushing of embarrassment realising that Jonah had yet again dressed me for bed. I quickly dress to meet my remaining family downstairs. As I entered the lounge my mother rushes over to me and hugs me tight, I look over her shoulder to meet Luc’s eyes and he smiled.
“Mom I need to breath” I say as she then releases me.
“Sorry” she says.
Luc stood leaning against the kitchen counter watching me closely, to the point it made me feel uncomfortable. Mom starts to make tea, for a demon she is very domesticated. A few minutes has passed and all you could hear was the teaspoon hitting the side of the cups as she stirred our tea, she handed us both a cup and takes her own to hold in her hands.
“Are you going to tell me about your wings?” she asks breaking the silence. Quickly I tell her about my encounter with Jonah except the kissing part. Luc remained silent and watchful.
“And” she prompted.
“And nothing” I answer her.
“His took a bit of a shining to our archangel” Luc told our mother.
“Really” she says as she swings her head round to look at me.
“No, not really” I tell them both before I take a long drink of my tea; dam my perceptive brother I thought.
“What now?” I ask them both changing the subject away from me and Jonah’s fascination for me.
“I have organised a meeting in about 4 hours time with the leaders of our people to discuss the situation and try and establish what side of the fence everyone is on” she informs us.
“What about dad?” I ask unsure how mom was going to react.
She sighs deeply and her eyes fill with tears before answering me “he made his choice, and lets be honest it never been a choice it’s always been him upstairs” tears trailed down her cheeks but her voice remained strong. Luc came up behind her and wrapped his arms round her pulling her into his body to offer comfort, seeing them like this my heart also ached for her and I too went over to them and held them to me. We stood wrapped up in our tight family circle for a few moments before she pushed us away laughing.
“Enough of this nonsense” she told us.
“And what has granddaddy had to say about our situation” Luc asked.
“Don’t ever let him hear you call him that” mom told him smiling brightly.
“Ok” he both answered together.
“He as always is on his own side but has promised to help us as long as we don’t interfere with his own plans” she tells us.
“That Lucifer for you” Luc replies.
“Is he attending this meeting?” I ask.
“No I am representing him” mom tells us.
“You do know that he will probably be there” I say softly meaning my father and seeing the brief look of sadness she knew who I meant.
“Possibly or it could be Gabriel but angels aren’t officially invited anyway” she said.
“There going to gate crash then” I state.
“That’s about the size of it” mom agrees. She collects the cups up and rinses them in the sink. She turns back to us “I want you both there, united front.” we both nodded in agreement as she disappears.
“What a mess” I exclaim as I walk into the front room followed by Luc close behind me. I sit down heavily on the coffee table whilst Luc takes the seat directly in front of me.
“Are you going to tell me the truth about Jonah now” he asks gently while taking my hands in his.
I look down at our joined hands, I have never lied or kept secrets from my brother before we have always been very close, but I didn’t want to share Jonah with him just yet.
“I don’t know what’s going on its just that he always seams to be there” I tell him not out right lying but not completely honest either.
“Fine don’t tell me” hurt lacing his voice “but when the shit hit’s the fan don’t come running to me, see you in 4 hours” he adds then turns his back and leaves.
“Dam” I scream. I don’t know what I’m doing.
“Get a grip Lily” I say to myself as I prepare for the meeting.


The time I had before the meeting I used to test my powers nothing had really changed I felt a little stronger and I didn’t tire so easily but that was about all. I examined my wings and they did really look beautiful black flecked with red feathers.
My mind also kept wandering back to Jonah and what his plans were for me. The thing is that he keeps telling me that I fascinate him, the feeling is mutual. He had appeared the last few times I had been on my own and silently I hoped that he would again this time but he didn’t and my heart ached with disappointment. I had changed my clothes into my usual hunting leathers and armed myself. I strapped my last knife to my ankle when mom appeared.
“Ready” she asked looking me up and down then nodded in approved.
“Yep” I reply, she takes my hand and we disappear to reappear in the meeting place. For the meeting they had chosen a clearing in a wooden area not to far from my cottage. Looking around me it looked like the clearing from my dreams where I had first met Jonah and Eve, dismissing it as coincidence I look around me again. Mom was here and so was Alexander. Alexander is the current leader of the vampires. He is tall narrow build but full of muscle, shoulder length blonde hair. A real smooth talker and a ladies man. He had also been my lover about 100 years ago and my brother hated him with a passion. Mainly because of our break up and the fact that I found him in bed with several other women all at the same time. Luc would have staked him if not for me begging for his life and the fact that Luc would have then been sentenced to death under our laws for an unlawful killing, especially since he is a major player in our world. He smiled hesitantly at me before resuming his conversation with Tobin
Tobin was a middle aged looking man military hair cut, square jaw, well built, shorter than Alexander but only just. Tobin was also a shifter, I didn’t know him well but he had always been friendly.
Sebastian was here and on seeing him I walk over to him, he was beautiful to look at but not as beautiful as Jonah. He was a mage who I have known my entire life and was a close friend of our mother. I also had a huge crush on him for most my entire adult life. As I approach he opens his arms and embraces me.
“How’s my favourite girl” he asks and I hug him back. His words always used to make me feel special but not this time another thing that Jonah has taken away from me.
“Fine Seb” I tell him pulling back from him. He looks over my shoulder to my wings which were pulled in tight but still could see the new redness to them.
“what’s this then” he said as he stroked down my wings this always made me tingle and I’m sure he knew it and did it on purpose, he quickly pulled back if shocked. I remembered that I had shocked Luc as well when he had touched them.
“Open them” he instructed. I huffed but complied spreading them wide.
“Beautiful” he said huskily and reached out to touch them, he must have changed his mind because he quickly withdrew his hand. I turned to look at him and he was staring up at them in wonder. Please don’t like me back now when it’s too late I think to myself. He eyes run down my wings edge again making them shiver in response to his stare. Realising I was responding to Sebastian I step back putting some space between us, causing him to frown at my retreat.
“How are you?” I ask.
He looked at me a little longer before answering “fine love” he replies “what’s happened to your wings Lily” he wonders.
“My powers have grown that’s all” I reply not wanting to get into the full storey with Sebastian. He didn’t seam to believe me with the doubtful expression on his face but didn’t call me out on it.
“Who else is coming?” I ask looking around me seeing Luc and waved him over to me.
“Elizabeth, Vince and the usual entourage for us fearless leaders” he says whispering in my ear making me laugh. Luc approaches as I get myself under control and chuckles along side me clearly having heard what Sebastian had said, see super hearing comes in useful sometimes.
“Elizabeth was the most powerful witch in the country, and Vince was head of the werewolf packs and frankly I didn’t know a lot about them, I had never had any dealings with them as they tended to police their own closely.
“Everyone here I think” I say as I look around.
“Not yet the angels have formally asked for a few representatives to be attending to present their case” Luc answers me.
“Shit” slips out my mouth before I stopped myself.
“Yep that’s about right” he agrees.
Elizabeth walks into the clearing followed minutes later by Vince both very series expressions on their faces. I looked around and saw that everyone except perhaps Alexander looked serious and even he looked more controlled than usual.
I look up to see the sky above was dark and overcast, great I thought it going to rain. I was glade Elizabeth was here at least she would be able to cast a spell to keep us dry or I hoped anyway. I noticed 4 specks in the distance and recognised them straight away; Luc had also spotted them as I could feel the tension radiating from him. Sebastian placed his hands on my shoulders offering comfort; I shrug them off turning to look at him in confusion. He just smiled at me and looked back at the now landing angels.
The four most beautiful beings in my life had landed and every person in the clearing stood there in ore of them. It didn’t take Luc and I long to snap out of it to welcome our angelic guest. As soon as we moved towards them it was as if the spell had been broken and our version of normalcy returned to the clearing. Sebastian came with us to great them.
“Uncles” Luc addressed them giving them a slight bow.
“Uncle” I bowed low speaking only to Gabriel as he is the only one I every considered family and to be honest the only one that ever had anything to do with us. “Uriel, Seth, and Rafael I bowed to the other three not so low but enough not to be disrespectful. I glanced over at Luc who was rolling his eyes at me.
“Lily my favourite niece” Gabriel laughed pulling me into a tight hug and I returned it with as much strength.
“I missed you” I whispered in his ear for him alone, his arms tightened in acknowledgement of my words but he didn’t reply. I looked at the other and they had a look of disapproval on there faces, sighing I pulled myself away.
What you have to know about Gabriel when our father was recalled to heaven, he used to visit us when mother wasn’t around to make sure we were looked after, I don’t think he trusted our mother much being that she’s a demon. He replaced our father or should I say filled the gap until he returned. Gabriel is also the most senior of the angels present except for our absent father so basically they have to follow his lead. To be honest I don’t think all of the heavenly hosts are all too happy how close our relationship to him is, god hasn’t intervened so until he does they can all just live with it.
“How are you both” he asks genuine interest in his voice.
“Good” we both answer together making him chuckle.
“I am inclined to not believe you” he replies.
We both grin and just smile.
“Is Michael not attending” I ask him all smile leaving our little groups faces as I glanced across at mother who was in a deep conversation with Alexander.
“We are aware of what has passed between you all” he told us “and I thought that it would be best it Michael for now not be present at this time” he added.
I was relieved for mom sake and deep down my own as well. Also the fact that I didn’t know how Luc would have reacted to him being here.
We stood there a few moments in a silence until it was just bordering on the uncomfortable side when Elizabeth called the meeting to begin.
Our meeting are a little outdated but what happens is that all leaders form a circle and there three guardians or associates what ever they call them stand about 10 meters directly behind them and form a larger circle around them. This is promote a sense of equality, the outer circle is to protect the inner one, because of our unusual parentage and our roles we are always place in between the two circles and are expected to keep the peace. To be honest it’s a bit outdated I would have rather spent it in a nice office building or conference room. The leaders like tradition so here we are in a wood in the middle of the afternoon playing in a circle talking about the end of the world.
Luc and I are not permitted to enter the inner circle and the inner circle is also magically protected so none of us are able to hear what’s being said which I was finding really frustrated. The leader’s followers all seamed to be really quiet so there wasn’t even a fight to break up, I made my way over to Luc who was looking as frustrated as I was and was pacing to and fro.
“I wonder what’s going on” I said sighing heavily.
“Don’t we all” he grunted.
“How much longer” I moaned.
“You know as well as me these have been know to go on all day and all night” so stop moaning he told me.
“Stop wearing a whole in the floor then” I snapped back at him.
“Sorry” he mumbled.
I walked away back to my previous position and flared my wings to stretch them as they had been held tight against my back and they felt stiff. As I did I heard whispering from the outer circle. Oh shit I thought I had forgotten about the change to them, I heard a couple of vampire say to one another that I was a freak amongst freaks and then ask his fellow gossiper what did the changes to my wings mean, I heard a shifter say I should have been killed at birth. That didn’t really bother me much to be truthful as I heard all them types of comments before. What did get my attention was when a little ginger headed witch a Matilda or something was her name, said that Michael had gotten wise and dropped his demon wife and evil offspring and basically it was mine and Luc’s entire fault. I could not directly attack them as I would have broken the covenant that all the leaders had agreed to and what I and unfortunately Luc are also bound by. That however didn’t stop me being as mad as hell. I could feel my temperature rise and the anger build and build, to the point that I wanted to scream. I saw Luc approaching me as he must have sensed my coming explosion. I centred myself and forced the energy down in to the earth not wanting to alert the others.
I forced it down into the ground thinking that it would prevent disaster, but how wrong can I get. Instead of dissipating through the ground it started to cause the ground to shake and this is something I had never been able to do before. I looked around and everyone was still upright which amazed me considering how violently the earth was moving. I briefly consider taking flight but then decided against it because what if I left the ground and the tremors stopped everyone would no that it was me so I stayed put and rode it out with the others. My anger had changed to worry and had distracted me and I could feel the earth calm down as I was calming.
The earth had stilled beneath my feet and I looked up to see the whole of the gathering looking at me.
“What?” I said to Luc “are they looking at me for” I ask.
“Could be the fact that you’re glowing” he said nervously laughing whilst looking at me as if I had grown an extra head.
“Dam” I spit out “Jonah you son of a bitch” I curse to myself under my breath.
“There coming” Luc said making me look up to see the inner circle approach us.
I look at my arm and watched the remaining glow disappear from my skin. Elizabeth as usual was heading the council and they had something to tell me and by the look on my mothers face and Gabriel’s it was something I wasn’t going to like. But before they could say anything we felt the air move above us we turned to see Michael land in the clearing and striding purposely towards up followed closely by a smiling Eve not far behind.
“Has your little gathering here made up their minds yet” sarcasm dripping from every word. Surprising Michael remained silent. I refused to look at him as did Luc beside me instead we focused on Eve.
“We remained divided” Elizabeth announced walking to stand between us and the new comers.
“That’s the trouble with you parasites so undecided all the time, well let me making something clear to you all” she said as she looked at each one of the leaders to emphasize her point. “You go against us you and your race will all die with you”
“And comply and we will basically be slaves” Sebastian added.
“True” she smiled generously at him. “But at least you will be alive to carry on with your pathetic little lives” she adds.
“God has revealed our path my brothers” Michael addressed his fellow angels and pointed refused to include Luc and I “and our way is there way” he said pointing his arm over in Eves general direction.
“God would not want this brother” Gabriel interrupts him.
“How would you know when you take company with those abominations” he said indicating us with a nod of his head in our direction.
My heart broke as Luc took my hand in his to offer his support and I took it and held on tight in return. I glanced behind me and saw my mother’s heart shatter by the look on her face.
“You bastard” I yell and dropped my brothers hand and marched to face our father.
He looked taken back by my outburst probably expecting it from Luc rather than from me, but he remained silent and looked over my head and refused to acknowledge me.
“you say what you want about me and Luc, hate us even, regret we were born but you DO NOT HURT OUR MOTHER WITH YOUR BULL SHIT” I screamed gathered my power and released it flinging him the entire length of the clearing into a large trunk of a oak tree. He grunted in pain as he hit and went down to his knees.
“How entertaining” Eve said as she applauded me as if it was a god dam show. I was moving forward and I felt my mothers hand and Sebastian on my shoulders ready to restrain me if I needed it.
“What is your council decision?” Eve asks as she turns back to Elizabeth as there had been no interruption at all. I had noticed that Michael was back beside Eve wincing in pain a little as he walked, good I thought.
“The vampire race and shifters have agreed to your terms” she announced. I looked over towards Alexander who couldn’t even meet my eyes.
“The rest of us are still in disagreement” she added.
“The clock is ticking tick tock” she replies.
“You patronising bitch” Luc growls at her.
The smile immediately leaves her face as she focuses on to Luc. “If it’s not the other less important twin” she sneers.
“I suggest you leave now” I heard my mother say from my left.
“Oh I take that his is the mother then” she address Michael who nods his head in confirmation. “Talk about lowering your standards”
Michael just stood there and that’s what did it for me with out thinking I went for Eve, no one was watching me as their attention was all on my brother and mother. I lunged but Eve was quicker and sent a bolt of pure energy at me that went straight through my stomach the pain was unimaginable, but I managed not to pass out.
As I hit the floor the whole clearing exploded. Mom and Luc went straight for Eve who fended them off quickly and she ordered her new allies and Michael to attack the rest of us and promptly vanished leaving Michael to the dirty work. Fighting broke out all around me, vampires against witches, and werewolves against mages. This had not happened for century’s my heart bleed for what was coming. I saw Michael sneak behind Luc unawares; I managed to drag myself to a sitting position one hand holding my heavily bleeding stomach and directed the last bit of my magic knocking Luc out of the way. Michael caught my eye and he knew I had saved Luc. He head straight for me rage in his eyes. I knew I was dead before he even got to me.
“You have always caused me nothing but trouble. Always there in the background” he told me “I was warned about you and Luc and ignored it went against god and begged for you to be allowed to live for your mothers sake. I should have listened” he lifted his arm and his sword was drawn with heavens fire running down its blade.
“Time to correct my mistake” he thrust his sword and I closed my eyes to welcome my death. After a few seconds I open my eyes to see my mothers back with my father’s sword sticking out her back, my father had tears streaming down his face.
“Why?” he asked his voice wavering.
“Their my children and I would die for either one of them” she tells him “you deserve to go to hell for what you have done” blood bubbled from her lips to drip down her chin but she remained upright. Michael had let go of his sword and watched my mother sway on her feet. The whole battle had come to a stand still around us as they watched us.
She moved her hand to her lips covering her fingers in her own blood, she then reached out to Michael who didn’t move away and took his hand in her blood stained one.
“my blood is now on your hands and so will many more be, leave now so I may die in peace” she pulls the sword out and drops like stone to the floor, Luc is by our side now and is crying so hard I am surprised he can see anything. He goes to mother first who must have died as she hit the floor as he quickly moves over to me to look at my wounds. I look behind him and see Michael leave along with all our attackers. Leaving many injured behind of their people and ours behind. He looked broken but I didn’t care he had left my brother alone as I was not long behind my mother in embarrassing death. I swear I’m going to haunt his ass.
“How is she?” I hear Sebastian ask as he too drops down to his knees beside me. They looked over at one another and their silence spoke volumes telling me what I already knew, I was dying. There is enough demon in me to be killed by an angel’s blade and it had touched me for a moment as it had gone through my mothers back and sliced my arm.
“I know I’m dying” I announce as I close my eyes in an attempt to control the pain that was shooting through my body.
“No Lily” my brother denies my words.
“do not lie to me” I softly say to him holding his eyes to mine “ come closer I have something to tell you” I raise my right hand and wrap it round his neck pulling his ear down to my mouth to make sure he could hear me.
“You must not give up” I tell him “find Jonah, I know you don’t trust him but he is not like Eve”
He shakes his head in refusal.
“You must if you wish to survive this” I increase the pressure on his neck to get my point across.
“I don’t want to survive this alone” he cries in to my neck.
“Then I have died for nothing” I counter. “I love you, mom loved you. Fight for us then come join us” with that my last breath escaped between my lips and my hand dropped from around his neck, darkness overtook me and I was no more.


Well I thought I was no more; I looked down at me and noted that I was unmarked and dressed in that bloody night shirt again. I looked around me and I was at the clearing but alone and it looking as peaceful as it did last time it had in my dreams.
“I cannot leave you for a minute can I” I say as I heard a voice behind me I turn around quickly to see Jonah and a blonde woman behind me. Uncaring of who she was I flew into his arms and kissed him deeply. He arms wrap around me and he holds me close, but only briefly before he pulls back ending our kiss.
“Who’s this I ask?” asking Jonah as I look towards the new comer.
“This is Mercy, my sister as you would understand it” he tells me. I step back out of reach and away from this Mercy, distrust painted across my face easy for her to see.
“I am not here to cause you harm, I am hear to met the women who has our eldest brother tied up in knots” she tells me holding her hands up in surrender.
I looked at this tall, blonde haired, athletic women bringing the word Amazon to mind to perfectly describe her. She looked relaxed and was trying to be open and friendly.
“Where am I?” I ask “I thought I was dead” I added concentrating back on Jonah.
“You are more or less” he replies to me as I mouth “oh” at him in understanding, I’m dead, great I thought.
“Well why am I here?”
“I told you once before I don’t want to see you hurt, and the fact that Luc, your brother prayed to me, I heard and I answered” he told me closing the distance between us and holding me close. I held him returning his embrace a few moments before I reluctantly let go and retreated back this time.
“Can you save me then?” I ask them as Mercy comes to stand next to Jonah.
“We are in time but only just” she answers me “but it will hurt and cause you a great deal of pain” she tells me.
“That fine lets go” I readily agree.
“Not so fast” Jonah held his hand up telling me to slow down.
“Jonah can not do this alone, that is why he asked me to come. Returning ones soul back into their body it not easily done especially when rightfully you should be dead.” she tells me holding my gaze to imprint the seriousness of what they were going to do.
“On returning we will still have to heal your body” Jonah adds drawing me back to him.
“And?” I prompt.
“No getting anything passed this one is there” mercy says to Jonah before she speaks to me. “My powers will be running through you as Jonah’s did before, you called it you grace when in fact it was Jonahs powers joining with your own. It will happen again once your healed, prompting further changes to your powers and possibly to your appearance also”
“As long as I don’t turn ginger or grow a second head” I think for a moment “or a tail then I don’t care” I tell them.
“This is not a joke” Mercy scolds me.
“I know that but I do what I must to survive and get through it” all playfulness having left my voice.
“Very well prepare yourself” with Mercy’s last words I exploded in pain.


My whole body felt on fire and as I tried to move, I felt hands hold me down in place, even that sent pain through me. I screamed in agony over and over till my voice cracked and I still screamed in pain silently. I begged and pleaded for the pain to go but it continued. I could hear voices around me some soft and soothing, I even heard voices that seamed like they were arguing but I could focus on them when I did another wave of pain flashed through me making me loose concentration, the pain increased and then I started begging all over again.
I didn’t think I could stand another moment when I heard a voice tell me to sleep. I didn’t need telling twice, the darkness consumed me and I knew no more.


I awoke to expect pain but surprisingly I didn’t I felt fine. I listened around me frightened about what I might see if I looked. I could hear people moving around below me on a lower floor, and soft breathing to my right. I turn my head wondering who the hell was in bed with me; I slowly open my left eye to see the most beautiful green eyes looking back at me.
“Jonah” I breathed huskily and moved to him wrapping my arms tight around bringing his lips down to mine. I feel his arms wrap around me and pull me tight against him. He deepens the kiss and I’m happy to go along with the flow. He turns us so that I’m now on my back with his body nicely placed above mine. His lips leave mine and trail kisses down my neck to my collar bone and back up. My hands roamed over his back to his firm buttocks. He felt strong, he felt right and again he felt like he was mine.
His hands had also been busy and were busy exploring my breasts, I arched into his hand. I could feel stirrings in my core that only he could ignite to life. Too soon he pulls away but doesn’t remove his weight off me.
“As much as I would like to continue with this, we have people downstairs waiting for you, and I don’t want an audience when I finally take you” he tells me.
I kiss him and relax back on the bed, I look round “I’m home” I push him off me in frustration as I sat up. I feel a breeze across my skin and look down to see that I was in that silk night gown again except it was a deep blue colour. “I hate this thing” I said in his direction as I pull hatefully at its hem. I look over at him to see a huge grin on his smug face.
“I like it” he answers me and waved his hand in my general direction I shudder and look quickly down at myself dressed in my usual leather clothing all weapons present, correct and accounted for.
“I did wonder how you did it with out waking me up” I said while looking back at him.
“Now you know” he hopped off the bed and headed towards the door and opened it holding his hand out for me to take it, which I did. Together we headed back to life.
We entered the kitchen Jonah slightly ahead of me, Mercy was busy cooking what I think should have been pancakes I smiled at the sight of a elder god tossing pancakes. Hearing my laugh Mercy looks up giving me smile as if she heard exactly what I had said.
“I did” she answers my thoughts but before I could comment Jonah had propelled me out into the garden. I looked out and it was bright and sunny, too bright for me to be honest. I lifted my hand to shade my eyes and looked around wondering why Jonah had bought me outside. That’s when I saw him, Luc was up sat the farthest right hand side of the garden sitting on a tree stump looking at our secret hideaway from when we were children. He was hunched over his wings limp dragging on the floor behind him, he looked so lost. I turn my head to look at Jonah who was retreating back into the house.
I stretch my whole body including my wings I glance at them and noticed more red now was visible, not again I think and quickly dismiss the thought as I could see and feel the pain radiating from my brother, his face now buried in his hands.
I silently approach him and come to face him, I kneel down in front of him raising my wings to keep my balance and place my hands on his and give them a small pull.
“Leave me alone” he said his whole body radiating grief and pain, I pull again and still he wont remove his hands.
“Hey demon” I say softly. His whole body tenses and stills.
“Lucas” I say this time and pull his hands away which he allows.
I see how tired he is, the grief for me and mom etched in every line of his face, tears spill down my cheeks my heart breaks for him.
“I thought you were dead” he reaches up and wipes a tear from my face.
“I’m not so easy to kill” I reply “but it was close.”
“I didn’t think they could do it and then hearing you scream” he whispers uncertainty clear in his words. “Am I dreaming?” he asks.
“I’m sure if you’re dreaming you would think of something better to dream of” I tell him.
“Lily” he says and stands pulling me into his arms. “Hey angel” he whisper in my ear.
“Hey demon” I reply.
We sink to the floor and sat with our arms around one another and our heads touching just like we had when we were kids and we had been punished. Neither of us saying anything both of us glad just to be together. The sun had begun to set. I wrapped my wings round us both as I didn’t feel like going back inside just yet.
“Your wings have changed again” Luc informs me while running a finger down my feathers. He smiled a little “at least I didn’t get shocked when I touched them this time” he tells me.
“Really” I said wondering what the hell was happening “I know it must be the result of getting me back here” I tell him “I’ve been graced by two elder gods now”
“How did this happen?” he asked.
I briefly tell about meeting Mercy and who she was and what they had to do to me, I didn’t tell him about exactly how painful the pain was because it would have caused more hurt to him, and he had enough already.
“What happened with mom?” I ask him holding in my tears.
Luc explained to me that when they thought I had died. Elizabeth and Sebastian along with their people, also Gabriel and surprising to me Uriel all vowed to aide us. Everyone else scattered.
“Oh then granddaddy turned up” he adds.
“Oh my god, what did he do?” I ask in wonder.
Luc told me that he raged, set fire to the trees surrounding the clearing, threatened murder chaos, you know the usual for him. Once he had vented his rage he came over to us, to a dead daughter, and a near death granddaughter and a grief ridden grandson. He claimed me as family and you also if you survived. He has taken moms body with him down to his home.
“He says he wants to get to know us and will visit soon, then disappeared” he finished telling me.
“Who’s inside?” I ask nodding towards the house changing the topic of conversation before I let the tears fall and grief overwhelm me.
“Jonah and Mercy” he says “Gabriel and Uriel are there too”
“Anyone else?” I ask as he has that look on his face that all brothers have when they don’t want to tell you something.
“Sebastian here as well” he finally tells me.
“Why is that a problem” I ask with a frown.
“The thing is when we thought you were dead, he was upset, to upset for just a friend if you know what I mean” he says with a sigh.
“We are just friends” I tell him “there has never been anything between us” I explain.
“I know but I sort of get the feeling that maybe he was hoping there could be, and it’s been a little tense around here while you‘ve been healing”
“And?” as I felt there was more this.
“Seb and Jonah have been eyeing one another up the last five days and its getting on my nerves” he tells me.
“I’ve been out for five days” I say in wonder.
“Focus lily”
“I’ve loved him forever but he never showed any interest and now there’s Jonah. If he had done something before I had meet Jonah, then maybe but even then Jonah draws me to him, I feel like his mine.” I tell him.
“And that’s the problem Sebastian knows this and is as jealous as hell, and also believes that Jonah would have stolen you from him”
“That’s just stupid we aren’t together so it’s irrelevant” I pouted “and how has Jonah been with this?”
“For the most part ignored it, and has mainly been with you and keeping a vigil at your bedside” he explains.
Fed up talking about it I open my wings and allow the evening air to cool our bodies and I shiver at the drop in temperature. I get to my feet and stand up pulling Luc to his feet along side with me.
I don’t really want to go inside and was content to stay and just be with my brother, but there was an elder god in there waiting for me.
He walked toward the door Luc’s arm draped across my shoulder. We enter the kitchen to be greeted by Sebastian who pulls me to him and hugs me. I feel Jonah anger at Sebastian behaviour and move quickly away.
“Hi Seb” I say as Jonah came to me and kissed me on the check before standing directly behind me. Luc has gone through to the front room to leave us to it.
“How are you Lily?” he asks genuine concern etched on his face.
“Fine, fine you know fine” I say awkwardly.
“I’m glad” he tells me as he reaches down to my and takes my hand in his. I feel Jonah tense behind me and I pull my hand away.
“I’m heading up to bed I’m drained” I say to them both and turn and leave them there heading for my room. I threw myself on my bed fully clothed; I had already hidden my wings so I did for a second contemplate sleeping in my clothes. I heard my door open I lifted my head to see Jonah looking down at me.
“You haven’t killed him then” I ask him.
He smiles at me before answering and sitting on the edge of my bed. “no, I think you would be upset with me” he replies and runs his hand down my hair to cup my cheek, I lean into him briefly before I close my eyes and relax back on the bed.
“Please leave Sebastian alone” I ask of Jonah.
“Why? What is this mage to you” annoyance laced his voice.
I sigh and sat up to face him, I lean forward and press my lips to his briefly before I answered. “I have known him and loved him most my life, and I’ve wanted him for a very long time but nothing ever did happen between us.”
“I am unsure what this is that’s happening between us, or if we will become enemies eventually, but I have never wanted him as much as I want you. I am willing to take the chance of you breaking my heart, and I’m doing it all for you” I pressed my lips to his and kiss him with passion. I crawl over him to straddle his lap. I feel his hands on my thighs pulling me closer, I lean into him pushing him down on the bed so I was leaning over him, I pull at his shirt pulling it over his head and throwing it on to the floor to reveal a muscular chest and a wash bored set of abs. I run my hand slowly over his body enjoying the feel of his skin under my hands, I also felt him shudder under my touch.
He allowed me to appreciate him a few more moments before taking my hands in his and holding them still against his chest.
“Thank you for your trust” he tells me as he sits up putting our bodies in direct contact. I extract my hand and place them around his neck. I just want to get close to him and move to kiss him but he holds me in place.
“Lily, as much as I want to experience this with you, I am not able to now, I have come to tell you I need to leave for a while” he say.
I feel my disappointment strongly in my chest but say nothing; I mean what I could say to that.
“A lot has happened while you have been recovering and I no longer can stay with you, but I didn’t want to leave until you were awake”
I drop my hands and remove myself from his lap and turn to give him my back. “Ok what’s happened?” I ask.
“Luc will explain” he says “Mercy is staying a little while longer before joining me”
“Can’t she go instead” slipped out my mouth.
“No” he said bluntly, I felt his hands on my arms and him turn me around to face him. “I wish I could but you have asked me to save this world, and I’m still undecided. I must see and speak with my brothers, Eve is a threat to you and is refusing to even consider an alternative even if there is one.”
“I understand, and exactly how many of there are you?” noticing he was dressed again. I look up at him “what has Mercy decided?” I ask.
“Five in total. Mercy is struggling, but is willing to support my choice, be thankful she likes you nearly as much as I do, I think you are the winning factor for both of us” he steps away “I must go” he says.
“When are you coming back” I ask but could see the answer in his eyes. He begins to speak but I hold my hand up to stop him “I’ll miss you” I say. He smiles and fades from sight to leave me alone.
I go to my ensuit to wash my face and change for bed, when I hear my door open again. Towel drying my face I walk back into my room to find Sebastian in the door way.
“I felt him leave” he said before I could even get a word out. I didn’t speak and threw my towel in the washing basket and began to turn down my bed.
“His not right for you” he says stopping me dead.
I was angry because Jonah had left me and didn’t know when he could come back, I was angry at Sebastian for leaving me wanting him all these years and now he wants me when its to late. My mother is dead, my fathers betrayed me, my brother is in as much pain as I am and there is nothing I can do about it. I proceeded to shout this as load as I could at him until I had worn myself out, feeling completely spent I sat down on the edge of my bed.
Sebastian had not said a word and had let me vent my anger; he came and sat beside me our shoulders touching. He went to put his arms around me and I whisper “don’t” and he drops his arm back down to his side.
“Why now?” I ask him knowing full well what he knew what I was talking about.
“I have loved you for a long time, but you have been avoiding me” he answers me. “And seeing you with him, I didn’t like it”
“I’ve avoided you because for such a long time I felt the same but you always treated me like a sister or best friend” I tell him. “I couldn’t keep seeing you the way I felt and putting myself through the pain of not having my feelings returned”
“Those feeling don’t just disappear and I do return those feelings” he tells me.
“No they don’t I will always have a special place for you” I tell him finally looking at him. “But what I feel for him eclipses everything that I feel for you” I could see the hurt written all over his face.
He stood and paced the room in front of me; I noticed movement by the door and saw Mercy hidden in the shadows watching, I offered her a small smile before turning back to Sebastian.
“He could kill us all him and his elder gods” he rages. “How can you trust that” he demanded.
“I am trusting him to do the right thing, if he doesn’t it will break me” I answer softly as he crouches down in front of me.
“I am surprised with my feeling for him as he and everyone else is, but it is the way that it is and I have chosen my path” I continue “but if comes down to a fight regardless of my feelings for him. I will always choose the races survival first. I can promise you that”
“I could be so much better for you and I am not giving up!” he says softly.
“I believe you” I agree “but you’re not him.”
He rises to his feet “hope you can keep that promise Lil” with that walks out.
“You can come out now” I say to the air, to see Mercy walk through the doorway that Sebastian had just exited through.
“You heard?” I ask.
“Yes” she replied. “And I can see why my brother is so taken with you” she tells me.
I smile sadly at her and close my eyes as my head begins to pound with the start of a huge headache. She comes to me and places her hand briefly on my head just as Jonah had done and immediately my headache vanishes “thanks” I mumble.
“Was it great?” she asks and I look in confusion “the pain on returning to this life” she says as she gestures around me.
I think for a moment before answering, deciding whether to be completely honest, I look at her to see the honest curiosity, and decide on complete honesty.
“Yes, I wanted to die again” I tell her.
“Why did you endure this pain to come back?” she asks “I don’t understand it” she confesses.
I pull her down to her surprise to sit beside me on my bed. “Because I love my brother, my mother and even that traitorous shit I call father” I began “if I didn’t come back what would be my mother death be for or mine for that matter.” she frowns at my words.
“I do it because I love my brother, he is strong but it would have changed him for the worst if I would have died too, at least we are together to grieve. I do it because I think I may love your brother. I do it because I think your wrong and it’s the right thing to do” I tell her.
“I think I understand some of what you say. You have given me much to think on” and she vanishes in much the same way as Jonah had.
I hop into bed and pray that there are no more visitors. I settle down and quickly sleep over takes me.


I must have had a nightmare as I woke up drenched of sweat and a scream escaping my lips, I sat there panting to see my brother and Sebastian come rushing in to my bedroom weapons drawn. I brush my hair back off my face with a shaky hand.
“Nightmare” I tell them. Sebastian retreats leaving me and Luc alone.
“You okay?” he asks.
“I will be” I reply.
Mercy comes strolling in looking bright and bubbly as the first time I had met her and I was a little jealous because I must have looked a total mess.
“What did you dream about” she asks.
“Don’t remember” I reply not wanting to talk about it. “why don’t you two get lost, let me dress and I’ll meet you down stairs and you two can tell me what’s been going on” I said as I waved them out the room firmly shutting the door behind them.

Half hour later we were all sat round the kitchen table except Sebastian who was behind me leaning up against the kitchen cabinet. Between the three of them they basically told me that Eve and the some of the angels, vampires and shifters have been attacking the mortals and the other races who haven’t sided with Eve plans. Gabriel, along with the mages and Witches have all been out protecting the mortals and fending off the attacks. Luc and Sebastian wouldn’t leave me and were just waiting for me to heal before we go and join the war. Gabriel and Uriel have both been coming in as much as they can and keeping the others up to date. Mercy as I guessed is neutral just like Jonah and will not help either side.
“Where the most trouble spot” I ask them.
“Am you sure about this Sebastian” started to say before I cut him off.
“Shut up Seb” I say before I carry on shutting down his protests before he spoke
“Heard anything from Lucifer?” I ask Luc.
“Nothing as yet”
They tell me that the angels were concentrating on the main cities first, by flushing everyone out of hiding and then attacking.
“Right London it is then” I decide and stand making my way out the door followed closely by Luc, Mercy and Sebastian bringing up the rear. I decide to fly there as I don’t want to pop up in the middle of an attack and get myself hurt by being careless. Luc agrees with me and we uncover our wing and flare them out in preparation.
I look over to Luc and see that his wings remain pure white and quickly glance at mine, to see the blackness with many more red flecks through them.
“There lovely” I heard Mercy say.
“The red is your’s and Jonah’s your contribution” I tell her and she smiles in response but remains silent. “Are you coming” I ask her.
“Yes” she replies “but just as an observer” she clarifies.
“Fine, Seb?” I ask.
“No I need to go to my people now” he tells me.
I look over and see his longing for me and I turn away from it with a little regret.
“Lets go” I say and we take to the air.
I love flying but never get to do it much; being part demon teleporting is much quicker and easier to be honest. I have though always enjoyed the wind passing along my body, the sound of the beat of my wings. The freedom I feel in the air.
We flew for about hour, and to my surprise I hadn’t tired at all during the flight as I normally did, it must be a benefit of Jonah and Mercy touch. Luc also looked relaxed and hesitantly smiled at me when he noticed I was sneaking looks at him. Gabriel and Uriel had joined us and were flying along side us. I looked like the odd one out amongst all the white feathered wings; I looked dark, deadly and had the start of a rainbow in my feathers.
Movement to my left had caught my attention; it was Luc signalling that we were almost there. Night had begun to be drawn in as the sun had nearly disappeared below the horizon. We drew our wing near to our body to lower our altitude so we could see what was going on. To my surprise it was quiet, to quiet I thought. I noticed a park that offered at least a little cover, and signalled to the others to land. I mean who wouldn’t be scared to see four heavily armed angel lands by their house, and the fewer mortals see the less of a clean up its going to be later on.
“It very quiet” I say to the other as we land, I send my senses out and could feel nothing out of the usual around us.
“It’s as if the night is waiting for something to happen” Luc adds.
“The night is always waiting for something to happen” I answer.
“True” I heard Mercy say as she joined us.
Gabriel and Uriel decide to go left and told Luc and I to go right. I agreed but had a running monolog of exactly how much of a cheeky bastard I thought they were in my head. Making Mercy laugh as my thoughts became more inventive. We had almost reached the edge of the park when Luc heard a noise to the left, and signalled us to the ground, I obeyed but mercy stood there until I pulled her down besides me. I hid my wings as did Luc as they tend to be a dead give away to our location the shear size of them makes us easy targets.
I see a shape running with all its might about 100 yards away but its was running with the speed of a supernatural. I looked to where it had come from to see what it was running from when I saw a pack of six; no seven huge dogs come thundering passed in pursuit.
“Werewolves” Luc whispers. I look to Mercy who begrudgingly agrees.
“Dam, it’s a bit excessive don’t you think” I whisper back.
“Ready” was Luc’s reply.
I nodded my head and set off after them. I went by foot and Luc took to the air, Mercy kept pace beside me. I trailed behind them not wanting to catch up to them yet, I wanted to see who they were after and why. We had exited the park now and were travelling down streets, between building, weaving through until he hit a building site and a large one by the look of it.
I could see the pack and their prey, and that they had nearly caught it. I looked up at Luc who was now ahead of the pack. The prey had back its self up to a fence with no escape route; it frantically searched but was too late as they circled them.
The largest wolf that had a thick grey pelt that was clearly their alpha tensed ready to make the kill, Luc being Luc dropped from the air and placed himself between the pack and their prey. The wolf hesitated for a moment but went for Luc’s neck anyway. Luc easily knocked him away causing the wolf to crash to the ground with a yelp.
The others fur on their back raised in aggression, and I knew they was going to attack, I threw my self between them and attacked using fire magic to scatter them making them easier pickings. To be honest it wasn’t much of a fight and once the alpha was injured they weren’t really into the fight, and quickly retreated. We didn’t pursue we had other matters to deal with like there prey who was huddled against the fence.
Luc walked over to it and pulled it up and swung it round to face us. To my complete horror I saw a dirty, exhausted teenage girl who feeling her aura was a witch. We stood there in complete shock, why would a pack of werewolves chase down a witch that hadn’t even come into her powers yet.
Luc had let go of the girl as if she was on fire due to the surprise, and she had began to sob uncontrollably whilst sat on the floor, she had drawn her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. I slowly approached and knelt down to her. I placed my hand on her head and sent the little healing magic I knew through to her, it must have worked as her tears dried up and I felt her relax immediately. She raised her head and looked up into my face and a look of pure wonder filled her face.
“What?” I said as I backed off seeing that look on her tear streaked face. The girl looked at Luc and her eyes if possible grew bigger. Luc and I shared a look to say what’s going on.
“We will take you back to your coven” Luc told her reaching down to help her get to her feet.
“What’s your name child?” I ask.
“Lucy” she answers.
I held my arm out for her to lead the way, and to my surprise we weren’t far from them. She led us to the edge of the building site to a finished house on the site. Before we reached it I could feel the wards that the witches had placed around there dwelling, and to be honest they weren’t that strong I could have easily moved passed them but waited for our host to invite us.
“Go fetch your leader” Luc said to the girl who ran in to obey him. Mercy had remained beside me but straggly quiet. I look over to Luc who shrugs his shoulders at me saying his as confused as me.
Minutes later Lucy returns and asks us to enter which is unusual to be allowed into a witches dwelling. I entered to see thread bare rugs in a size and colours scattered around the floor. Candles were lit and placed around the rooms giving off circles of light. The house was warm but I saw no evidence of how it was being heated so it must have been magically warmed.
As we walked through I saw children who are toddlers to pre teens.
“Where’s the adult?” I whisper to Luc and Mercy.
“Dead” I heard a voice in front of me answer my question.
I looked towards the voice that had spoken, to look on a girl barely out of her teenage years.
“The werewolves have killed them all” she adds answering what would have been my next question.
“Why?” Luc asks.
“Because you god dam angels have given them free rein” she tells us.
“Wait a minute, I am not a god dam angel as you elegantly put it” I said strongly making my point clear.
“Really” she sneers.
“Really” I reply and let my demonic powers surround me as she would be able to feel my true nature.
“I didn’t think you was real” she says “even when Lucy said she had seen you”
“What are you talking about” I ask now really confused. “Our coven special gift was visions, our parents” she said with a small hitch to her voice. “they saw your coming”
“Who is in charge here?” I ask deliberately changing the subject.
“I am the girl” answers.
“Tell me what happened” I demand.
She told us that about four days ago their homes had been attacked by a mixture of werewolves and vampires. I figured that would be the second day of my healing. She told me that a few of the adults had gotten them out of there and placed them here promising to get them once it was safe. That was four days ago, and they was running out of food which explained why Lucy had been outside when the pack had found her.
The room had gone silent and I was furious, I paced round the room stealing looks at Lucy and Francis who was in turn looking at me with a mixture of fear and wonder, which wasn’t helping my temper.
“What about these visions?” Luc asks as I gave him the look to shut up but as usual and just like me he ignored my warning.
“There was you” she said as she pointed at me “and you” pointing at Luc “and that you are going to be in a many battles, and that you had the power to save us” she adds.
I couldn’t help it and burst out laughing but got it under control as I saw the hurt look on their faces. “We haven’t got the power to save ourselves” I tell them. With that I turn on my heels and storm through the house until I’m out on the front. Luc and Mercy had followed closely on my heels along with half the children from inside.
“Do you see” I yell swinging around to face Mercy. “This is what your cleansing is doing, what your sister is doing”
I pace and move around in agitation as my temper took over “they are children, innocent they have never done anything to warrant what has happened to them” I rage. “They are being punished for what, being born into the wrong family, being witches and member of a lower race” I demand.
“how are they responsible, for turning this world into something you and your family don’t like when they haven’t even been it for five minutes” I get right into her face “tell me that” I whisper moving quickly away before I did something I wouldn’t be able to take back.
To give Mercy credit she didn’t react to me just stood there and took it. I look back to the house to see frightened faces and all my anger is directed back at me for scaring them even more that what they already was.
“Luc” I call him to me “can we get word to Elizabeth about this so she can send someone down here to look after these kids” I ask.
To my surprise Mercy comes over to me “I can do that” she says “it’s not actually helping just passing on information” she adds.
“Thank you” I answer “and sorry for losing my temper” I add.
“Understandable” she says and was gone.
“Luc do you want to do a food run” I tell him and I’ll call Gabriel and Uriel to come here and guard the kids” I tell him as I send out a mental call to the two angels. I get a reply and a promise that they are on their way.
“And what are you going to do?” he enquires.
“I’m going to see if I can get a fix on that werewolf pack” I tell him as he gives me that you’re being stupid look he reserves especially for me.
“Catch me up as soon as you can” I tell him and I walk away not looking back knowing he would stop with the kids until Gabriel and Uriel get there.
I make my way back to the place where we scared off the werewolf pack and looked around me. As expected there were no signs of them, that didn’t mean though I couldn’t track them. I close my eyes and send out my sense feeling the energy around me, now normally I would have to concentrate hard but know it just came with in seconds probably another effect of being graced by gods. I head in the direction I felt them retreat in and make my way back into the park. My temper over the children was still there causing me to be reckless and what I was doing was very risky but I just couldn’t help myself. I look around me and again feel for them turning to my right I turn and start walking that way. A howl pierces the night and I speed up.
I inch my way into the area of the park dense with trees and suddenly I hear them all around me. I am so stupid I think to myself it a bloody trap. Not only that they had lured and trapped me where my wings would be no use,
“hi there” a tall muscular man approached me, a face full of dark whiskers making up a trampish look he came right up to me pulled his hand back and slapped me hard across my check. As his hand connected I felt pain burst across my face and blood fill my mouth from where my lip split open. My head is thrown back by the force of the blow but at least I remained standing.
He moves back as I lift my head and spit the blood from my mouth down at his feet.
“You cost me a nice peace of a witches ass tonight you fucking freak” he grunts.
“So what you into children now?” I ask with great difficulty through a broken and swollen lip.
“I do what I bloody want” he answers me. “Eve says we are to hunt the traitorous witches down and kill them all, so while we are at it we may as well as some fun” he says whilst laughing.
“You are just so stupid all of you are morons” I tell him and a look of anger washes over him “do you believe your race will get through this with no losses?” I ask him. “And that you will sit at the right hand of the new god, I don’t think so you idiot” I say with sarcasm dripping off each word. “You will be nothing more than a pet” and I laugh at his outraged look.
At that he shifted his form and attacked, I throw him off me to have another wolf latch onto my leg which I immediately kick off me with my other foot. I Hear growls and yaps all around me, another leaps at me sinking his teeth into my arm. I let out a cry more to do with shock than pain, I use my magic and send it flying away from me. The other were circling me, there must have at least be fourteen pack members around me. These where more weary and was looking for an opening. I look around me and threw out a call to Luc whilst keeping an eye on my companions.
The next moment the group attack me as one, going for my throat and my legs. I knock a huge brown wolf off as I felt pain rip into my leg and a warm liquid trail down it. I fell down on to my hands and knees which was the worst thing that I could have done. I felt fur brush passed over my arms and across my back but they weren’t attacking they were holding me still. When I looked up there leader was stood over me laughing.
“You mongrel” he sneered. “At least I have a place here you don’t belong anywhere, even that angel daddy of yours abandoned you” he said laughing.
I stiffened at his words, my power exploded in me and I felt in every part of me, I also felt a small connection to Jonah and Mercy as if they were sort of a back ground noise hovering just out of sight. I thrust my hand at the ground and just as I had in the clearing forced my power down into the ground but with intent this time. The ground around me surged and shuck around me. I could still feel bodies against me holding me but their attention was drawn to what was happening around me. I flung power outwards now sending the wolves flying in every direction away from me. I heard bone crack and break as some of them landed, with howls of pain. I stood on my feet all pain forgotten and focused on their leader.
As I took a step towards him he matched me step for step in retreating from me, a brave wolf went for me and I caught it one handed and jerked my hand, snapping its neck, not even looking I dropped it to the ground and continued to follow their leader. At that point he turned his back to me and ran I smiled and gave chase.
I saw him brake out of the trees to open stretch of ground and smiled, I willed my wings back into being and took to the sky while running, and with in a few beats of my wings I was above him. I pulled my wings tight into my body and dived into his back sending him down to the earth with me sat on his back.
I leaned forward to speak into his ear “got you” I whisper.
“Please, please I beg you” he said as he cried out in pain as I pulled his arm tight in place behind his back.
“Did the witches you slaughter beg for mercy” I say “did you give them any?” I demanded of him.
I stand quickly and flip him over so that I could see his face, once over I quickly sit back down on him pinning him to the ground again. I could feel some of the other wolves coming to watch but they seamed reluctant to come any closer and stayed away.
“Well?” I ask. He wisely didn’t answer and just looked up at me in fear. I understood it though because all through this I realised there was something not right with me but I pushed the thought away not wanting to stop what I had started. I used magic to hold him to the ground. I sat up and held my hand out willing a flame into my hand. Hi eyes opened in fear as he watched my display.
“You don’t even know who or what you are messing with do you pup” I tell him “if this Eve is so good where is she to save, you from what did you call me. Mongrel” I ask him.
I look into the fire in my hand watching it pulse and twirl in my hand, I feel the werewolf's struggle underneath me as he must have realised my intention was that I was going to finish him off, that thought stopped me in my tracks.
What was I doing, I am not against killing and have done so on many occasions but it’s always been quick and clean. I have never taken pleasure in it and that was exactly what I was doing now. I jump off him and move away turning my back to him. I still have him held down magically and didn’t fear an attack or escape as I had my moral crisis.
All the aches of my body from the bites I received from the wolves and my use of magic hits me all at once and I felt drained. I dropped to my knees on the floor, and look over to my captive who had a gleam in his eye, and was looking over my shoulder. I sigh knowing that someone I didn’t want to see was stood over my shoulder. I hang my head down for a moment, and get shakily to my feet to meet who ever it was that had come up on me unawares.
What I didn’t expect to see was an average looking man, average height, average looks. He looked like a banker to be honest and I just stood there looking at him in confusion.
“Who the hell am you” I ask eventually, my tiredness slipping into my voice.
“His gonna kick your ass” my trapped werewolf shouted in glee from behind me.
“Would you shut up?” I yell at him but remained looking up at this stranger.
He looks round me to my captive on the floor and smiles. “Nice friend you have there” he says bringing his attention back to me.
“He seams to think that you’re his friend rather than me” I tell him.
“So it would seam” he agrees. He look past me and clicks his fingers, I hear a scream from my prisoner and turn to see him consumed with flames and then disappears leaving behind ash in the vague shape of a body behind where he had been.
“What the hell” I mutter and turn back to the stranger. “Who the hell are you?” I ask again my whole body tenses ready for a possible fight. He sees my reaction and raises his eyebrows in silent question to me, but I remain quiet waiting him out.
Seeing that I was not going to back down he takes a step towards me, I raised my hand up “stop” I tell him. Which he did to my astonishment.
“Who are you?” I demand this time.
At that Luc came walking to me from my left “calm down Lily” he says reaching me and places his hand on my shoulder.
I shrug him off “what do you mean calm down did you just see what he just did?” I ask him.
“Yes I did” he answers me.
“What happened to you?” he asked looking me over at the blood that had been steadily dripping down my arms and legs from my bites, also at how unsteady I was on my legs.
“Forget that” I snapped “who the fuck is that” I said pointing angrily at the figure of my irritation.
“That’s Lucifer” he announces after a moments hesitation.
“Oh” was my response. I couldn’t stand any longer and I dropped to my knees.
“You ok Lily” my brother asks.
“I will be” I tell him and look up at our grandfather.
“Hello granddaddy” I say to him expecting a harsh word or beat down instead I get a smile that lit up his face making him look anything other than average.
“You have no sense of safety do you” he states as a fact rather than a question. “Hello Lily I’m glad that I have finally gotten to meet you I would have preferred a more casual meeting rather than this” he said indicating the surrounding.
“Where’s moms body” I blurt out and hear Luc groan at my side.
All sense of pleasantry disappeared from his face but to my surprise he answered me “at my home, awaiting her renewal ceremony” he says.
This was where the body was cremated and the family perform a ritual so that the demon in question can move on to their next life.
“When” I ask.
“In two days” he replies.
I feel something on the edge of my senses and concentrate on it for a moment until a recognised it, I feel the energy of it and realise that it Mercy searching for us “You have to leave now” I tell him.
“Why?” he asks confused at my sudden change in mood.
“One of the elder gods are coming, the friendlier one but still I don’t want you anywhere near them until I can make my mind up on what team you are playing for and how much your going to hurt us” I tell him.
“Fine” he says flatly.
“We will call you as soon as we are able” Luc adds and with that Lucifer disappears leaving us to await our visitors.
Just as Lucifer disappears Mercy appears. I’m still on my knees and my body is now protesting as I begin to shake with pain and because of the magical drain on my body.
“Lily, Lucas what has happened here?” she asked as she began looking around. Luc shrugged and helped me back to my feet. Seeing I was injured she came over with the intension of healing me.
“Please don’t” I said quietly.
“Why not? You are in pain I can heal this” she says clearly vexed with me.
“Sometimes we need to feel the pain, it keeps us humble, Luc could heel most of this” I tell her “but he doesn’t and he understands why”
I turn to Luc “let’s go back to the kids” I say as he rolls his eyes. What I didn’t want to tell her was how close I had come to losing control and that the guilt was stopping me from letting them heal me.
“Sure” he says and teleports us there due to the fact I was in to much pain to fly and to exhaust to take myself there.
We appeared outside the front of the house and the wards flared to life at our presences. Gabriel and Uriel where inside I could feel them, along with seventeen children, Mercy appears along side us a look of total uncertainty across her beautiful voice.
She looks over to me I know to yet again offer to heal me but she cuts me off before I could decline “let me just take away the blood and dirt, and let me give you a little energy, if you go in there looking like that you’re going to scare them more than you already have.”
“She’s right Lily” Luc agrees “and you know it”
“Fine” I begrudgingly except as she placed her hands on me briefly.
I immediately feel better and take my weight off Luc to completely support my own weight. I look down at myself and noticed that my clothes where clean and dirt free. I twist my leg and felt the skin pull where I had been bitten. The bites and scratches to the rest of my body were sore and painful but at least Mercy had done exactly what I agreed to instead of just taking over and doing what she had wanted to do.
I mutter my thanks and under my own steam head into the house.
“Did you get to Elizabeth?” I asked Mercy as we entered.
“Yes, she and a Brandon accompanied me back” she replied.
“You brought them back” I asked in shock knowing she wasn’t allowed to help or interfere.
“No, they where able to follow me, my powers produce a lot of energy and they were able to harness it to get here” she replied an innocent look on her face “nothing to do with me” she adds.
I burst out laughing, I laugh so hard that I bring tears to my eyes, and draw everyone’s attention to us “you’re sounding just like us” I managed to say through the laughing.
She gave a small smile but didn’t comment further. I knew then she had travelled a fine line to help, hope grew in my heart.
“Where have you been, and why am you all beat up again” I hear Gabriel announce to the whole room. He walked in and looked me over “do you want me to heal you” he asked.
I nearly said yes and remember my words earlier to Mercy and my guilt still sat heavily with me “no I’m fine” I tell him.
He gave me a whatever look and I’m sure I heard him mutter something about stubborn and ungrateful kids before he moved on. I watched him for a moment and could feel him strengthening the wards around the house.
I see a chair in the corner of the room unoccupied and move to sit down on it. “Are they staying here?” I ask Luc who had moved with me but I was answered by Elizabeth who had entered closely followed by Brandon.
“No we should be all clear soon” she answers. “We are fostering them all but it will take a little more time.”
“Ok, is there anything else we can do to help” I ask as I straighten, wincing in pain.
“No Lily, we can manage it from here” she tells me and wonders off giving orders.
Mercy had wandered off asking questions and talking to the children; I had no idea about what but I left her to it. That left me and Luc on our own. I shuffled over on the chair to make room for him, seeing it he sat and wrapped his arm round my shoulder causing me to wince. He apologised and removed his arm.
“I’m going to heal myself” I tell Luc “I don’t want you to help me just be ready to catch me if I pass out.”
“I don’t know why you won’t let me help you” he protests.
“I lost control Luc, I have never done that and I would have killed him without hesitation. I always think before I act, I'm turning it you for god sake!” I tell him
“He would have had to die by our hand anyway,” he says with an annoyance ignoring the rest of my rant.
“I know that but it wasn’t me out there Luc, and it frightened me”
“I know what your saying Lil but he would have had to die for his crimes” he replied. I choose not to answer and turned away and prepare to heal myself.
I gathered my power and directed it inwards, sending it through my whole body. It made my whole body heat up as if touched by electricity, my body relaxes and my tense muscles relax as the pain drains away. All that’s left to do is heal the skin where I had been bitten but I felt myself sway in the chair, I thought it best to leave it for now so I cut off my power and opened my eyes. I placed my head on Luc shoulders closing my eyes.
“Tired?” I was asked by the person who I thought was my brother and leaning against. I opened my eyes and turned my head to see Jonah had taken his place.
“Very” I sigh. “Where’s Lucas?”

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