Nearly every human had a Guardian Angel, one that would watch over their human and keep them safe. Though not all Angels were assigned a human to watch over, and not all humans were assigned an Angel. Ruby was one of those angels. It wasn't that he was a bad angel, he just had no interest in being a Guardian Angel. Many of the novice angels always mused about being Guardian Angels, but Ruby didn't. He really had no interest in the job. 'What's so great about being a Guardian Angel?' he often thought, 'They just follow a human around. All humans are the same.' more often than he'd like, he'd catch many of the novice angels watching humans from the cloud mirrors. He would yell at them to get back to their training. Ruby had done the same when he was a novice angel, but he realized early on that humans were all the same. They did the same things all the time and were always fighting and killing one another. 'How utterly pathetic.' One day, God called upon Ruby.

"I am giving you the task of guarding a human."

"Why?"

"Because I know that you dislike humans. Tell me, child, why do you dislike the creations I have made?"

"Because they're pathetic. Always doing something idiotic."

"Would you call them ignorant?"

"Yes."

"Would you say that all humans are the same?"

"Well yes."

"Wouldn't you yourself be ignorant of thinking so?" Ruby was silent. "You don't need to answer that now. I want you to go and work as a Guardian Angel. And, when your thinking and answer for both change, come see me."

So that's why Ruby was on Earth instead of in heaven. He was a Guardian Angel, something many other angels envied him for. They, who had worked so hard and dreamed of being a Guardian Angel. Ruby, who hadn't wanted to be one, is. Even for angels life was unfair. Ruby would gladly have handed over his job to someone else, but if he did, he'd be in serious trouble. He looked at the folder he held. He opened it, and on the first page, was a picture of a girl paper-clipped to a bunch of papers. The girl was around two years old, and she had brown hair and blue eyes. Her name was Sapphire Birch.

Days passed with Ruby watching the little girl from afar. He didn't want to be near the human, but his job was to guard her, so that required being near her. He hated his job. He had preferred running errands for the higher angels and delivering messages, but here he was. The human hardly did anything either. Just waddled around, making a mess of things, occasionally eating things she shouldn't and bawling her eyes out. Ruby on several accounts had to stop her from chewing books and eating bottle caps. That was his first interaction with the girl. It had now been a year, and he was still bored from his job, wanting to go back to heaven already. Messenger Angels came and went, giving him messages from other angels and God, who still would not allow Ruby to go back to heaven. He had been sitting on the window ledge of the girl's bedroom, watching her play with lego blocks, the big kind. Her mother had left her to go answer a phone call. Probably not the best idea since she was only two. His mind had started to wander off, and he didn't notice the human staring at him. Ruby noticed when the sound of lego being banged against another lego had stopped.

"What are you looking at?" Ruby asked, glaring at the human. He knew he wouldn't get an answer. She couldn't see him. At least, that's what he thought. He turned away from the human. He thought his mind was playing tricks on him, but out of the corner of his eyes, he saw the human walk towards him. The window was taller than the human (obviously), but he was not going to take any chances. Ruby quickly backed away from her, falling out the window in the process. He quickly recovered and looked at the girl from the window, who was staring at him. It wasn't that he was scared of humans, he just didn't want one to go near him... Okay, maybe he was slightly scared. After seeing what they did to someone who was thought of as being a witch, he didn't want to interact with humans, much less guard them. He shuddered at the thought of what they would do if they discovered angels existed.

"Birdie."

"I'm not a bird-" he was cut off when the girl grabbed the end of his left wing, yanking on it. Naturally, it hurt, a lot. He was also pulled into the room, nearly hitting the girl in the face with his feet. He instead hit her in the face with his wings. The girl let go of his wing and fell onto her back, staying still. Ruby panicked, thinking he had killed the human, but realized she wasn't actually dead. She was just laying there. The little girl started laughing and started to roll around on the floor. The door opened and Ruby turned to see the little girl's mother.

"Sapphire!" the older human went over to her child, "I leave you for a few minutes and this happens." she picked her up. "Come now sweetie. It's time for lunch." Ruby watched as they left the room. As she was carried away, Sapphire kept her eyes on Ruby before giving him a smile, which Ruby might have returned. Maybe being a Guardian Angel wasn't going to be so bad.