Chapter 2: A Blooming Bud
Abel stomped past the guards even thought they were yelling at him. They were to frighted at his glare to do anything about him. The If you get in my way I'll kill you look he always gave Cain. Thought see as how this hole thing was Cain's fault, he had all right to look like that. His bother was the reason for everything bad that happened to him. 'WHAT WAS HE THINKING! LETING THEM GO ALONE! SOME POPE!' thought Abel slamming the door to his office open and marching in. The pope looked up from the papers he was reading to see a scowling Abel. He gulped.
"Father Nightroad...wh-what are you doing hear?",he asked nervelessly. Abel slammed the note on his desk.
"YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE KIDS!",he yelled. Thought he didn't know it his fangs were protruding past his lips, and also was cutting them. The pope, with a trembling hand, picked up the note and read it.
"MARY TOLD ME THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE THERE!",he yelled standing up.
"IT SEEMS YOU DAURGHTER LIED TO YOU BECAUSE I HAD A MISSION! I WAN'T EVEN IN ROME AT THE TIME THIS HAPPEN!", yelled Abel.
"GOD SO HELP ME THAT I DON'T HAVE YOU THOWN IN JAIL KNOW!",yelled they pope shacking his fist at the Crusnik.
--------------At Abel and Esther's house------------
Esther had come home to an empty house, or that's what she thought. She walked into Samuel room to lay his hat on the bed. It had flown off when he ran into the house. That's when she saw him curled up in a little ball on the floor. Esther walked over to him, and moved some of his hair from his teary face."What's wrong?",she asked bluntly as anyone could ever ask, "Come on tell mommy."
Samuel looked up to her and hugged her, "Mary...Mary was...",was all he could get out.
"Come on it will be alright. You can tell me.",,she said rocking him back and forth gently. She knew this always seemed to calm him, but this time it wasn't working.
"Mary was taken be Cain!",he yelled still sobbing, "I couldn't do anything to save her! It's all my fault. I'm not good at anything."
Esther hugged him tighter after hearing Chan's name. The sweet motherly embrace. "Not it's not your fault. Your only a child, and there's not way you could have taken him head on. It's not your fault.", she said picking him up and cradling him in her arms. He clung to her tears streaming down his face.
What am I going to do?",he asked clenching his fist, "He's probably gonna kill her. Why is he so evil?"
Esther sighed and held him closer, she didn't know what to do. If Abel were hear he's know what to do, but he wasn't. "If you were your father. You would have stormed out of that door. And summed your wings. Flown after him, and try and kill the man the stole your love.", she said rubbing the back of his head, "I know your now your father, but that is what he would have done. Only because he has."
"I...I wish I was like dad! Then i wouldn't be such a useless wimp!",he said.
"Your not a wimp...your a strong young man.",she said wishing Abel was there to help comfort Samuel.
"Yes I am! I couldn't protect Mary!",he Yelled bitting his lower lip till it bleed. Abel had just enter the house when he heard that. He of course had gotten thrown out of the Vatican until he could control his anger. Running to his sons room and seeing Esther made him think of how he should have stayed to comfort him instead of run off like he always did.
"Samuel...", he said softly as he hugged him and Esther, "You are as strong, and as sweet as any boy I've ever met. Never forget that. Thought right now you need to cry. Your still a flower in bloom. Tears are just a way to grow. Let them fall, and when your ready...we'll go after him."
Samuel nodded as tears fell to the floor, and on his clothes. He couldn't help but feel like small right now. Like a insect , nothing more nothing less. Cling and cry. Abel took him from Esther when he had cried himself to sleep, and placed him on the bed. He removed his glasses, and untied the bow in his hair. He gave him a kiss on the forehead, and let him sleep.
