Science&Faith
"You won't find faith or hope down a telescope
You won't find heart and soul in the stars
you can break everything down to chemicals
But you can't explain a love like ours"
-Science and Faith- The Script.
20 Years ago...
Little eight year old Olivia Mayfield smiled up at her father as he set her on his lap so she could stare through the telescope.
"And which is that Livi?"
"Draco?"
"Very good sweetie. Now, what's that above it?"
"Hercules!"
"Correct!"
The little girls father chuckled now, ruffling her hair. Then he sighed and set her down, getting up and looking up at the night sky, which was littered with stars- a perfect clear night for stargazing.
He sighed now, then said to his daughter. "I gotta grab the lense cap, stay here ok?" he smiled and just said. "See if you can find Cygnus."
Olivia giggled now, then looked back into the lense, trying to find the swan shaped constellation.
Suddenly, a bright light caught her eye, and she turned the telescope and gasped- it was a shooting star, travelling across the sky, growing ever brighter all the time. Olivia froze now, then backed away from the telescope, not needing it, her sky blue eyes widening in fear.
"Daddy!"
She ran down the hill now, and just as she ran into him, there was an earth shattering bang and a flash of pure white light. The girls father held her tightly as the tremor stopped, then they saw the glare start to fade away.
"Livi stop!"
Olivia didn't listen to her father as she ran towards the impact site, curious as to what a fallen star looked like. But what she faced, was the last thing both of them expected. Her eyes widened as she stared at the light, the angel. It looked near enough unconcious.
She wondered if it had fallen from Heaven.
It was beautiful. What with its lacework wings splayed out on the ground, its face serene.
She ran back to her father and dragged him back to the angel, going excitedly. "It's an angel! A real angel!"
The girls father rolled her eyes, but still let his daughter lead him to the site, where he caught sight of the angel... then screamed in agony, grabbing his head.
Olivia watched with wide eyes as he fell to the ground, hands still clamped on his head, but he just lay there, sobbing. She backed away with wide eyes when she saw that her fathers kind dark green eyes were gone, then the light flared up behind her.
She turned around and found herself facing the angel, which had gotten unsteadily to its feet, and was staring at the human girl with curious golden eyes. "You can see me?" it asked in a ringing voice, and Olivia stared, wide eyed at it. Then nodded.
"Are you an angel?" she asked now, eyes growing ever wider. It nodded, then looked at the girls father and sighed, going over to him, making Olivia feel a tad scared as it bent down and touched him- Olivia saw his eyes return, but he was knocked out.
The angel stared at the girl now, then asked. "What's your name?"
She was feeling scared now, and just said, barely more than a whisper. "Olivia." the angel smiled a little now, then bent down to her height and said softly. "Are you afraid?"
Olivia nodded, tears in her eyes. The angel sighed and just said quietly. "My name's Gabriel-" but then there was yells and shouts from the other stargazers that had obviously heard the screams, and the angel stood up, eyes fixed on the approaching humans. He looked down at Olivia now, then told her. "Goodbye Olivia." then was gone in a flash.
Olivia just stood there as the others arrived, fussing over her.
Another stargazer, Yasmin, wondered aloud.
"I wonder what that light was-?"
-Present Day-
I hummed a little now as I looked through the telescope, staring up at the constellation of Draco, the dragon, taking notes of its co-ordinates.
Now I sat back with a sigh and ran a hand through my blonde brown hair, thinking. It had been twenty years now since that... event. I'd seen an angel, I had been so sure of it. My father had become obsessed with finding this angel, always on the hill, his telescope primed in case another light came by... but it never did.
He never gave up though. His eyes had been burnt out by the sight of the creature he had seen, then it had healed him, leaving swiftly after.
Maybe it had been an angel, maybe it hadn't. I had only been eight at the time, stood there facing this beautiful creature that should have sent me insane, but I remembered every feature of it. Every single golden fleck in its eyes, every single color that had been reflecting through its magnificent lacework wings, as if it had been made by the wind.
Features way too beautiful to put down on paper.
There were footsteps behind me now, then my father, Erics voice. "You can see Cygnus very clearly tonight. And Lyra is right above it."
I nodded in agreement taking a sip from my flask, then looked at my watch and swore- I was almost late for my shift at the cafe.
Dad chuckled as I grabbed my coat and ran down the hill in about ten seconds flat.
-S&F-
It was a slow night at the cafe, which made me wonder why I even bothered rushing here. Oh well, couldn't get much worse could it-?
"Livi, the guy over there knocked his hot chocolate over. Be a babe and clear it up?"
I nodded at my supervisor, Hector, then went over, grabbing a cloth and setting it to the brown liquid.
"So sorry, I'm never usually this clumsy. Must be old age getting to me (!)"
I chuckled now and looked up at the guy, then frowned a little. He felt... familiar. But I knew I'd never seen him before. Kinda wavy brown with a hint of blonde hair and strange eyes that I couldn't decide what color they were. More of a dark caramel it seemed.
He was grinning now, then asked. "You wouldn't know about something that happened here about twenty years ago would you?"
I stopped cleaning now, then frowned. "Like what exactly." the guy chuckled, then said. "That story of an angel crashing into the hills?" I chuckled now, then said. "Well... I was there. Eight years old."
His eyes widened now. "Ah. Olivia right?"
"You read my name in the papers?"
"Nah, you're wearing a name tag."
I looked down now and felt incredibly foolish. I grimaced and said. "Yep."
The man chuckled now, then sat back and said. "I bet it was an angel you met." then his grin widened.
"And maybe he's still looking out for you"
A/N: Well, due to Like Father, Like Son, being nearly complete, and deleting about 5 of my crappy stories I got the Gabe fever, and viola! A Gabe/OC:D there's not enough of them out there:( anyway, let's see how many people are interested before another chapter(: so reviews and feedback myc loved! x
