Gabriel stood there a watched his sleeping mate. It had took him thousands of years to find her again. He slid on the bed quietly next to her wrapping his arms around her and kissed her neck. "Gabriel?" she said turning over.

"Yes, my love." he responded kissing her softly on the lips. Her emerald eyes meeting his amber ones. He ran a hand through her auburn hair. A smile crossed his lips and he just looked at her wanting to memorize her. He came so close to not having her.

He had semi-stocked her around the University of Springfield campus in between doling out punishment to those who deserved it, an adulterous professor among them. He disguised as a janitor. She was a graduate student studying History. He remembered it all so perfectly.

A blue Volkswagen Beetle convertible pulls up and a young women with hair the color of black cherries steps out. Gabriel thinks she must be around twenty-five years of age, she's about the same height as him or an inch or two shorter. Her emerald green eyes shine in the sunlight. He suddenly realizes why she has captured his complete attention. His Grace knew her soul, Aderyn.

A few days latter when she was juggling books and papers and and some slipped free from her grasp and the wind took them away. He helped her fetch them. Their hands touched and her emerald eyes briefly met his amber ones.

"My name is Gabriel" there was no point in lying to her, if he wanted her back he would have to be truthful.

"Thank you for your help, Gabriel" she replied smiling back at him "I'm Danielle"

It took him months to convince her he wasn't just a creepy janitor. To actually let him take her out and have an actual conversation.

They went to one of those places that serves a bit of everything. She had a chicken cesar salad and a Coca-Cola. He had a chocolate malt. She teased him for not eating. The people around them were probably wondering why the odd looking guy always got the pretty girl.

"This may sound crazy" he whispered across the table "but we're destined to be together" she just stares at him. "In your past life you were Welsh...your name was Aderyn" he pauses "we were lovers...more than lovers"

"Once we were mates...we had a son" she could see the panic on her face "I've been searching for you for thousands of years"

"Thousands of years?" she asked not trying to sound or look unnerved.

"I'm an Angel" he responded "I couldn't take my brothers arguing anymore...that and much more...so I decided to live on Earth" she knew of only one angel named Gabriel, the Archangel, The Messenger.

"I think we should go" she stated getting up from the table. He agreed putting cash down for the check and the tip.

"Keep the change" he told the waitress. Danielle was walking extremely fast he had to jog after her - ignoring all the looks.

"What's wrong?" he whispered holding her against the car she was looking at the ground "Talk to me, please!"

"Gabriel, this is all too much" she responded looking him in the eyes and gesturing with her hands in a wide motion.

"I'm sorry." he whispered leaning in to kiss her on the nose. She turns her head.

"I need some time" she told him. That's what he did - he gave her time and space.

"I love you" he said opening the car door for her. He stood there and watched as she drove away. He did love her - more than most could ever understand.

They hadn't spoken in weeks. He had seen her around the campus. He was beginning to think he would never get her back.

So one day he went over to her apartment when he knew she would be home.