Sometimes the angels guard us and sometimes we guard the angels

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'Thoughts' "Direct Speech" Flashback

Chapter 2- Adriels's Explanations


"You're my what?"

Tony asked, not even remotely believing what she had just said.

"I'm your guardian angel, Tony. Everyone has one, but we're not allowed to intervene that often, but because of certain...circumstances" she said happily, but with a tinge of hurt and anger when she got to circumstances, "I can now interact with you directly, help you in life, stand up for you and most important of all protect you. Basically all your standard guardian angel stuff. I'm also relatively young by angel standards, only a thousand or so, I don't know the exact year of my creation but I know the day, it was February 6th, that's the angel equivalent to a teenager, although make no mistakes, I am a warrior, a fighter, a soldier. Not some silly little cupid playing the harp but I am a violin master." The now named Adriel spoke.

There was a moment where the two just stared at each other until Tony said, "Look that's all well and good and I want to believe you, but I'm going to need some proof from you if you want me to even begin to take all of this seriously." Adriel gasped, "Of course, I mean I don't have my violin with me right now, but if you could find me one I could totally prove it." Tony stared at her for a second before laughing, "Well even if you are crazy at least you're funny, but I meant proof that you know, angels are real and that you're one of them." Realisation spread across Adriel features, "Oh, Ok yeah that makes more sense, sure, of course!"

"Now you can see that all of my injuries, I got them during the fall, a-" Tony's raised hands signalled for her to stop, "The fall?" he questioned, "Yes, my fall from heaven, it's literal and it hurts." Tony felt immense compassion for the girl, even if he didn't fully believe her he could still sympathise with the pain she must be in. "To continue, they are all healed now, see?" Adriel held up her shirt a little, showing him that the long gash he had seen on it was no longer there, "I can heal you too, I know you still have a scarred lung from back when you had the plague and that you can still feel a dull pain in it which you've been told will never go away...I can make it go away." Adriel slowly approached Tony and pressed two fingers to his forehead and a blinding white light filled the apartment before slowly fading away. "How does it feel?" The young angel asked, her head cocked to the side.

Tony took a deep breath, waiting for the pain to come, but it never did. "It doesn't hurt at all, the pain is just...gone." He stared at her again, a small tendril of belief beginning to form in him. Adriel smiled at him again, then pulled a dagger out of seemingly nowhere, causing Tony to jump back, "Woah, Woah, Woah, why do you have a dagger?!" He asked, but Adriel just grinned at him replying, "Remember Tony, I'm a warrior, warriors have weapons. Now moving on, when wounded by a mortal weapon I bleed like humans do, but if cut with a weapon forged in either heaven or hell, I will bleed grace. For example..." She slowly dragged the blade across her palm and Tony watched closely as what looked like silver liquid pooled in her hand.

She walked over to his cabinet and brought out the first aid kit again, bandaging her hand. At his inquisitive look, she explained, "Divine injuries can't be instantly healed, it'll be fine in a few hours." Tony wanted to point out that if she couldn't instantly heal it, she shouldn't have done it, but let it go when she started to talk again.

"Now for the final piece of proof, I'm going to show you by wings."

Tony couldn't take his eyes off the sight in front of him. Any doubts he had about Adriel being a real angel who as instantly dismissed when he saw her wings. They were massive and a light gold colour, seemingly shimmering in the light, the feathers looked soft, but also sharp and strong. "Well," Tony said after what felt like forever "I guess you're a real angel..." Adriel smiled, "Yeah, a real homeless angel" she muttered. "Wait, what?" Tony asked. "Isn't your home in heaven?" Adriel rolled her eyes to herself, "Yeah it would be but I was kicked out, remember the fall?" "You were kicked out of heaven, doesn't that mean you committed some great crime, wasn't the last angel kicked out the devil? You know, King of all evil, Ruler of hell, the most evil thing to ever exist?" Tony questioned, worried that she might be in trouble.

"Okay. Number 1, my brother is not evil. Number 2, I, like Lucifer, was kicked out for questioning fathers plan..." "Your father...God...forced you to leave the only home you've ever known because you questioned him?" Tony couldn't believe it. "Yes, I wanted to know if Lucifer could ever come home or at least if I could visit him in hell. I miss him, he's my favourite brother. We would go flying for hours and play hide and seek and he would tell me stories. My other brothers and sisters never had time for me, but he always did. Anyway, my questions caused outrage so I was cast out." The young angel explained, looks of sadness, anger and betrayal marring her features.

"So you have nowhere to go at all. No one you can stay with or go to?" Adriel just shook her head, looking down, then Tony jumped up. "Well come on then Addie, you're staying here with me, we can go and get the guest room set up, that'll be your room from now on!" Adriel's head shot up, "You really mean it, I can stay?! And what's with calling me, Addie?" She asked, excited and hopeful.

"Yes you can really stay, we can just tell people you're my relative of some sort who I now have to look after and Addie is now your nickname. I can change the records on the computers at work so it'll be like you've always existed, despite what people think, Tim, I'm actually pretty great at computers." Adriel was grinning, happier than ever before as she bounced after Tony like an excited puppy, her face only darkening when he mentioned McGee, "I know all about your so-called friends and when I meet them tomorrow, cause I'm obviously coming with you, if they start anything I'll help you!" She declared, causing Tony to smile.

His life was looking up.


A/N- I know I haven't updated in ages but from now on my updates will be more regular. Oh, and sorry about the weird chapter thing, I posted a chapter from another story I'm writing, "What matters now is the future", here instead of on it. Oh well, it's sorted now. Thanks for reading and please review! :)

-MercuryStars