Then he looked up at Mimi. His sister, his partner, his better half, his best friend and worst enemy.It was she who had been with him since the beginning. It was her hand he now reached for in the darkness. She was strong, she was a survivor. It was from her that he drew his strength. She had always been there for him. Aggripina to his Valerius. Elisabeth de Lorraine-Lillebone when he was Louis d' Orleans. Susannah Fuller to his William White.
-Blue Bloods
It had always been that way. It had always been the two of them.
Azrael and Abbadon. Death and Destruction. Always hand in hand throughout the centuries. And it was supposed to be that way forever, for all eternity.
But, there is always that fatal flaw isn't there? He had always chased, hungered, for the light, for the lightbringer. And that too had always been such. Just as sure as he walked the centuries with Azrael by his side he had also chased after the light that Gabrielle had brought. He also knew though that it had just been that, a chase, a game he had played throughout the centuries. Throughout all the cycles, all the lifetimes, it had never come to fruit nor was it meant to.
From one lifetime to the next she had always been waiting for him. She had always been his strength. In this cycle, like in the past, it was supposed to be no different.
Until she came.
His second chance at the light. But, still so much more. She was more than the heavenly redemption that he sought out she was a second chance at this life and the next. More than an unattainable dream she was actually a reality.
She wasn't even supposed to exist really, an anomaly. A product of Caerimonia Osculor , the illicit union between Vampire and Familiar.
Truly, it would take only that to break the blood bond between him and his twin. Something that was not supposed to exist in their world or in any of their lifetimes.
I give myself to you.
He need only to say them back to her. Just as he had in every century, in every lifetime before.
But not now, not today.
Maybe, this lifetime, and those after it, would be different.