Season 1 Episode 7

Midnight- When the thunder roars

They say the rainbow comes after the storm, but sometimes it happens before. It was a couple days after everything had happened with Connor, Joe was on edge and Emilio said Joe was scared that someone was coming for him, but he wouldn't say who it was. This morning me and Emilio decided to go have breakfast at the restaurant. Me all I wanted was coffee maybe spiked with some rum, but Emilio wanted me to eat, it was hard to explain why that was hard. I looked at the door when I felt the emotions from one person the strongest. I saw Creek talking with Madonna, I'm surprised Manfred let her out of the house, well not like he would be able to stop her, she's stubborn. Fiji sat at the table wrapping sage and Emilio stood next to where I was sitting I looked to Madonna as she came into the Midnighter's room.

"Back so soon?" Emilio questioned the worry in the room starting to hurt.

"She asked to come in" Madonna said putting on her apron. "But I agree with you it doesn't feel right"

"Sometimes its good to get out of the house, being in the world is a good distraction" Fiji said.

"This isn't out in the world this is inventory" Madonna said looking at us. I put my head on the table with my hands behind my head trying to stop the jackhammer in my head. I felt Madonna leave and someone touched my back.

"Addy what's wrong" Fiji asked.

"The amount of worry towards the from the two of you is like a jackhammer in my head."

"Oh sorry" Fiji apologized I lifted my head to look at her

"Its not your fault everything is just amplified to levels it hurts, its not like people can just turn off their emotions. I know being at your place isn't too peachy right now either Fiji, some of you have it worse than me, I just get the luck of feeling it all." I said looking at Fiji knowing how much the demon was bothering her at home.

"sometimes it calls my name, other times it just laughs and the rest of the time I'm just waiting." She said.

"I understand Fiji" I nodded, and she looked between me and Emilio.

"So how long have you two been sneaking around." I laughed and looked at Emilio sitting behind me.

"Only about a week at this point, he's the only person I have met to where I actually can feel my own emotions and the world kind of dulls down a bit, something everyone else takes for granted." She smiled,

"At least there is a ray of sunshine in every storm."

"I'm going to head over to the church" Emilio said leaning down to kiss my head, I nodded

"Ill be over in a bit" he said farewell to Fiji and as he left I saw Manfred come in. he stopped and talked with creek before coming into the backroom holding his laptop.

"Hey sis, surprised to see you here, you like to avoid people lately."

I laughed "Yeah I do but Emilio made me come out for coffee this morning he just left, I'm heading out now too" I said as I finished my coffee. I got up and gave Manny a side hug, "Call me if you need anything, I know its been hard lately" I walked across the street to the church and I saw someone enter, someone I didn't recognize and who Emotions were strange, a mixture of revenge, anger, pity and sadness. I went into the church careful not to make a sound and saw her walk down the aisle towards Emilio.

"Can I help you?" he asked I stayed hidden by the front door.

"Oh, om counting on it padre" she said feeling of disgust wafted from her as well. I had a bad feeling about this. "I'm looking for a man, I think he's hiding here in midnight, Joseph, Blonde" she waved her fingers around her head.

"If I did know him, he would be in persha and I couldn't disclose any information." Emilio said I peeked out from my hiding spot and I saw his eyes flicker over to me before focusing back on her.

"You know once a man of the cloth realized who I am, the cooperate without much fuss" she said feeling aggravated. Emilio took the stand he was leaning on and smacked this woman with it but it splintered around her and had no effect on her. I took out my phone and texted Manfred and Joe that someone strong was here looking for Joe, before staying low. "But there is always an exception" she said as the dust settled. She attacked Emilio pressing him against the wall putting her hand to his head and it glowed white.

"Where Is he!" she growled she pushed Emilio away and he fell to the ground, it took everything in my power not to rush to help him, I knew me staying where I was, was safer for him.

"I was wrong about you" she said getting closer to him on the ground and picking him back up "You're not a man of the cloth, not human, not animal, your nothing" and she tossed him at the window, breaking the glass and I saw him slump to the ground motionless. I jumped back out of sight as she turned around and walked swiftly out of the church. I rushed down the isle to where Emilio was on the ground, I felt for his pulse glad it was strong, but he wouldn't wake up.

"Emilio please wake up" I said shaking him, it was the hardest choice I every had to make, to leave him there, but I had to warn the others. "I will be back Emilio," I felt a tear on my cheek, but I got up and went outside to warn the others, we had a problem, someone wanted Joe dead. I walked out the side of the church and saw her at the front I saw Manfred outside the restaurant and I knew he was looking at her and then I locked eyes with him. I pointed to her and then to Joe's shop and did the motion for someone getting their head cut off and he nodded he took out his phone and ducked behind a pole of the restaurant. She walked into the tattoo shop and I booked it, I ran back to the house where I saw Manfred go after getting off the phone. He opened the door for me as I ran closing it behind me.

"Nice running" he said.

"Did you get ahold of Joe?" I asked now worried.

"Yeah their safe" he looked out the window and I looked out from behind him.

"She's going down by the gas and go" he said over the phone, after a pause he continued "And what if I don't, eternal damnation, well in that case ill try to avoid her, should we tell Creek? Madonna? What about super naturals? I'll be there when I can Addy is with me" I looked to my brother when he hung up the phone.

"That lady is fucking scary Manny what are we doing?" I said

"We need to get to Olivia's that is where they are, but we need to avoid Bowie" he said.

"Her name is Bowie?!" I questioned "Manny you didn't see what I did, she can read minds! And she has like super strength"

"Yeah Joe said that on the phone, come on" he pulled my out the door with him. we walked out the front door and around the corner trying to act natural, but my emotions were on high. I couldn't sense her, that was not normal for me.

"So.." I started to say but then we saw her round the corner, Manfred grabbed me and we turned around back to the RV we both got in the RV and Manfred called out to grandma.

"What" she said appearing in front of us.

"Grandma I need your help and I truly hate that I'm about to ask you to do this." I laughed quietly as grandma turned to smoke and entered my brother he put on a pair of sunglasses as she banged on the door. I sat down on the couch and put a pair of sunglasses on and started rocking back and forth muttering to myself. Manfred and grandma answered the door.

"Why did you guys hide" she asked

"we didn't we were gonna go for a walk and decided against it" they said.

"Joseph Strong you know him?" she asked.

"Not well, he seems nice, but we just moved here"

"Do you mind if I ask you some questions" she said barging right onto the RV, I felt slight panic from Manfred, but I kept up the chanting.

"Sure, come on in" Manfred said closing the door.

"What are you a fortune teller"

"I prefer medium" he said, "Psychic even the great Bernardo, and you?"

"Are looking for Joseph Strong and I'm getting impatient." She turned quickly putting her hand on his forehead and her hand glowed white trying to read Manfred's mind.

"Ugh what wrong with you?" she asked pulling away from my brother almost disgusted.

"I don't know what you mean" he questioned.

"Your head?"

"I take pills" he said "Sometime, well a lot of time I hear voices see things some of which turns out aren't really there I can't always tell what real and what not" he rambled, "now is one of those times" she grabbed him by the neck and smacked his head on the roof of the RV

"Its real" she looked over to me chanting on the couch.

"and her?"

"She's worse than me she talks back to the voices, that's what she's doing now, she probably doesn't even know I'm here" she looked back to Manfred and went over to the door,

"Ugh I hate this town" and she walked out of the RV. As soon as she left grandma expelled herself from Manfred and I stopped chanting. He took of the glasses and I stood up.

"Well good job grandma, at least it worked." I said

"That it did" she said.

"We are going to go" Manfred stated "And I'm going to forget that ever happened" we left the RV and quickly made it over to Olivia's.

"Sorry we are late" I said as Olivia opened the door. "She came into the RV"

"She didn't get in your head" Joe asked.

"Yeah she got in Manny's, but Grandma was already in there, to crowed and confusing, I acted like I was insane she didn't bother me"

"The Rev still isn't picking up" Lem said and I didn't say that it was because he was knocked out, and I knew asap I would go check on him. That is when Joe started to speak up, he walked over to Chuy across the room.

"Chuy and I need your help" he said "There is an angel named Bowie in midnight and she's hunting me"

"An angel we are scared of an angel" Olivia said

"You didn't see what she did" I said, I got weird looks from the group, "Don't ask"

"Angels not only protect humans they kill demons, Bowie only liked the killing part of the job."

"You know her?" Bobo asked.

"She was a mentor and a friend" he shrugged "I walked away from that life without a word and I'm sure she is still angry and hurt and wants me dead."

"So she's mad because you left?" I questioned, and I felt how scared he was and I knew there was more. But I think I felt more nerves coming from Chuy than Joe and I think I knew what he was going to say.

"Leaving the fold, being fallen, she might have forgiven that, but its who I fell in love with she can't forgive."

"What? a man?" Fiji questioned. And then it clicked I felt it from Chuy the pull from the veil the battle within himself.

"No, a Demon" I said before Joe could.

"How did you?" Chuy asked.

"I feel you fighting, the good overpowering the bad." I felt tension in the room.

"The first time I saw him was at the marketplace, haggling some pretty sketchy guys," Joe started

"Silk road traders" Chuy said "I wanted his porcelain and he asked for more than I had so I left."

"And I followed seeing the traders beating the crap out of him" he paused "So I showed a little wing and scared them off, I went to help Chuy up and saw he was covered in black blood"

"Demon Blood" Lem interjected

"They not only beat him they also stole his sandals and I asked him why you didn't just tear them apart. And he said maybe they need the sandals more than he did and that changed my entire life, Bowie always told me we were superior, that demons were evil and Angels killing demons was doing the world a service, Chuy disproved all of it."

"I still can't get over this, you're a demon?" Bobo said

"Half Demon, my mother was human"

"Parents were another forbidden love" Fiji asked.

"That wasn't love" Chuy said with a shake of his head. "me and my mother were close, she taught me how to control my demon half, how to suppress it, she said that our connection would keep me strong now I have this connection to keep me strong" he said pulling Joe closer.

"You should have told us" Fiji said.

"They are telling us now" I said in their defense.

"Now there is an Angry angel in Midnight" Lem said "Your immortal, Fiji is right this shouldn't be the first time we are hearing about this."

"Look Joe saved me, and Creek I think we all can agree we owe them" I said. After a pause I heard Manfred talk.

"So, Angels how do we deal with them?" he asked

"Its tough angels can read your mind use your secrets against you."

"Great and immortal" Manny said

"No almost immortal, Humans can't kill an angel, and I'm not tough enough to take on Bowie" Joe said.

"But Demons can?" Fiji said.

"That isn't an option" Joe said. "Last time he changed it took 3 years to get him back, if Chuy turns we are all in danger."

"I can't I'm sorry" I felt the remorse coming from Chuy as he spoke.

"If we can't kill her maybe we can send her somewhere else." I said looking to Manfred hoping he was going to come up with something.

"Where there are demons who can take care of her." He said. "The exorcism at our house the mirror acted as a portal to the other side, what if we created a portal and trapped her on the other side"

"Are you suggesting we send an angel to hell?" Bobo said

"Will that work?" Bobo asked.

"It just might" Joe said. As everyone started getting things together I pulled Manfred aside.

"I need to go check on Emilio I left him at the church injured." He sighed.

"I know I can't stop you but please be careful I don't want her to hurt you." I nodded and slipped out of Olivia's and made my way through the shadows back to the church to make sure Emilio was ok. I entered through the side door that I had left from earlier and saw that Emilio hadn't moved from the spot I left him in. I heard him groan and I was relieved he was waking up.

"Emilio its ok I'm here" I said, and he opened his eyes, he had a gash on his head above his right eyebrow I helped him up off the ground.

"Addy, I saw you in the church when she was here." He said as I got him to a standing position.

"She didn't find me I stayed hidden, I'm sorry I had to leave you I had to warn the others." I said and I helped him out of the church intending on bringing him over to the restaurant to have Madonna look at his head. He was leaning on me quiet a bit and I think he might have had a broken rib from the limp he had.

"Its ok Addy is Joe safe?" I nodded

"For now" I added. We got to the door of the restaurant and I opened it walking through

"Madonna can you…" I stopped as I saw her reading Madonna's mind. Emilio pushed me away from him.

"Run don't let her touch you" he said. I turned not wanting to leave him but as quick as I made a move towards the door she was in front of me.

"You're the psycho that was with the fortune teller!" she said and pressed her hand to my head trying to read it, all I attempted to think about was her own emotions

"You're just a crazy as the rest." she said and grabbed my hair pulling me over to where she had Creek sitting on the chair. She pushed me down on the chair next to her and I looked to Creek as Bowie took my cell and called someone. Probably Manfred.

"Addy are you ok?" I heard him ask over the phone. "Is Creek with you."

"Oh the psycho she's just a tad crazy and Creek is only a tad depressed." Bowie said over the phone. "Where's Joseph" she growled.

"I don't know" I heard him say.

"You have 30 minutes to find him before I start killing people"

"I thought angels didn't hurt humans."

"Well ill start with the non-human psycho then I'll go to them, we normally don't but today also had been a very frustrating day!" she moved the phone over to the middle of me and Creek, "Tell him you love him"

"I love you Manfred" Creek said, and she looked to me waiting for me to speak but Manny knew I was more stubborn than that, even in this situation and I heard him over the phone "Creek your gonna be alright"

"Its gonna be a toss up between her and your crazy sister I kill first, probably the crazy she is getting annoying, don't want her to start chanting again, BRING JOESPH!" she yelled and threw my phone on the ground. She got up and grabbed my shirt bringing me over to the window with her. "Lets see how long this takes, I knew I should have killed you earlier when I saw you in that fortune tellers trailer, should have figured out he was lying" she said. She kept a death grip on my wrist almost to the point of breaking it but not quite.

"Creek get me a drink, Whiskey" she yelled, and I heard shuffling

"Ill get it" it was Madonna, she turned keeping her grip on me

"Sit down I know where you got the money for this place now sit down and Creek can get my drink" she said.

"Leave them alone, you got me you don't need all of them" I said.

"Shut up Psycho you aren't your brother you can't go around saving everyone, you cant even do yourself right. You kill everyone you try to save. Your own brother doesn't even want to deal with you anymore, he replaced you with his girlfriend, you never even see him anymore. The hybrid over there doesn't even want you who would want someone who cant even control her own emotions. All you are is an alcoholic, you think it's better than those pills when in reality you are just like the average alcoholic always finding excuses to pick up a drink. Your worthless to everyone around you." She kept her voice low so only I heard what she said, Creek came over giving her a glass and she turned on her.

"At least you mind is off of it right, with your dad and evil kid brother, I know what you think that you let it happen, that you had blinders on, but the truth is you did" she smiled.

"Stop it!" Emilio yelled "She's been through enough!"

"Oh you think she has had enough" she said letting me go and walked over to Emilio sitting on the chair I felt the panic and fear rise in the room "because I think she can take a little but more" she took her hands on either side of Emilio's head "Do you want to know what it sounded like when your brothers neck snapped?"

"No!" I yelled before I could stop myself.

She laughed "Sorry just have some fun"

"Your fallen to" I said and Emilio looked to me to stop but I couldn't I wanted to keep them safe.

"Well yeah I had some anger issue" she said coming closer to my face.

"You want me here I am!" I heard Joe yell, No! "And there's why" she finished looking around me seeing Joe in the street. She grabbed me on my arms and tossed me across the room and I crashed into the wall behind everyone and fell to the floor. I heard gasps and when I looked up I saw her and Creek gone.

"Addy?!" I heard Emilio and Madonna, I groaned and rolled over and got myself to a sitting position, Emilio was sitting in the chair trying to get up and Madonna ran over to me.

"I'm ok" I grimaced getting slowly off the floor with Madonna's help, I looked to Emilio, "She went out with Creek huh?" he nodded. I walked over to the door slowly as I saw the mirror shatter and her stand back on her feet. "Oh no" I ignored the pain in my body and walked outside and stood on the stairs looking at my brother. I started focusing my energy into protection for my brother and for Joe waiting to use it when I needed to.

"What's your problem?" she yelled slapping something out of Manfred hand and pressing her hand to his head. She laughed when she pulled away "You really think you and your psycho sister are going to stop hell from swallowing this town whole" she grabbed Manfred by the neck and dragged him with her

"Leave him Alone!" I yelled making her look at me.

"Creek come meet your superhero" she pushed Manfred on the ground and he got back on his feet. "She knows the truth about you, and her," she glared at me and looked back to Creek "You're a scam artist, dragging you sister around for good looks I mean yeah you both see ghosts, how are you helpful? You're not neither of you are, I mean what's the point of feelings anyway" she turned towards me "You got one sibling drinking all the time thinking she's not an alcoholic and the other a drug addict popping pills every 30 minutes cause the spirits are too much," she looked back at Manfred "I mean your girlfriend is pissed too, I mean what's the point of screwing the town psychic if he's not even gonna give you a heads up that your living with a serial killer, you failed.." and before she finished that sentence she was thrown down the street by Joe. They fought in the air before crashing down on the roof of the church. I then saw Joe being thrown out of the church door and I focused everything I had to protect him it was almost a glow that was barely visible around him but my hands were glowing white, I stood in the middle of the street while everyone ran over to the grounds in front of the church.

"Ever see and angel die?" she asked and I poured everything I had to save Joe, she wouldn't be able to kill him while I was there,

"What is all over you?" she asked and i closed my eyes feeling everyone turn and then behind me I heard a growl and I turned seeing Chuy, I only knew it was him by feeling him, it didn't look like him.

"Chuy NO!" Joe yelled

"You left me for that?" she asked in disbelief I let go of my protection on Joe and fell to the ground feeling all my energy leave me. I saw a flash of bright light encase us and I saw Manfred running, he ducked behind Joe's truck and I saw him look to me and I nodded feeling and reaching for peace. I reached past all the fear everyone was feeling and reached out to Emilio and felt the peace and calm that I felt with him and pulled it into me. I never even saw Joe talking with Chuy, how he chased my brother and how Joe had him pinned down almost ready to kill him but as Joe was talking him down I gave him all the peace I had. I felt the whole town relax and I opened my eyes seeing Joe holding Chuy in his arm and Chuy crying. I felt the pain from what had happed and the sorrow from Chuy. I collapsed back on the ground feeling everything I had gone, the pain in my body coming back at extreme levels. I looked up and saw Manfred coming over to me, he as covered in dirt and there was a small cut on his head.

"You ok Addy," I nodded as he helped me up and I tried to hide my pain, but he read me better than that.

"Did it help" I asked as we walked slowly towards the restaurant.

"I think what you did and Joe talking to him brought him back, how bad is it?" he asked.

"She threw me against a wall, but I don't think I broke anything, but I hit my head where Connor had hit me and I am now just drained, I tried to protect Joe from her as well as send peace to Chuy to I'm completely tapped out." I said leaning a lot on him as we entered the restaurant. When we got in I saw Emilio sitting over on one of the couches and I looked to Manfred, "Can you?" he nodded and set me down next to him.

"Addy are you ok" I nodded

"Are you, I saw what she did to you." I asked, and Fiji came over to us holding an ice pack and she placed it on his ribs.

"You really should go to the ER I think you might have broken ribs Emilio" She said I looked at him feel his pain now mixing with mine.

"Oh no I feel those, they are broken" I said cringing from his pain and mine, as I gained some energy back I felt everyone pain in the room, physical and emotional.

"They will reset next full moon, the transformation fixes things." I saw Joe and Chuy get up and go to leave and Joe looked to me and Manfred.

"You two should stop by the studio later so we can talk" I looked to Manfred confused and I looked back to Joe "Thank you Addy for your help I saw the glow." He said and Chuy looked to everyone.

"I am so sorry" she he turned to leave with Joe, as they left I looked down

"You shouldn't be, you are one of us no matter what" I whispered.

"What did you do out there Addy?" Emilio asked when they left.

"I protected Joe from her and when he was trying to get Chuy back I reached out to you to send peace to Chuy to help him fight back to come back to us. I knew how hard it was going to be with the veil, so I gave him a nudge." He smiled,

"When did I get so lucky to find you?" he asked he kissed my gently and I felt my energy filling up a bit and when he pulled back I whispered,

"You didn't you could do better, you settled for me cause I'm damaged."

He put his hand under my chin and made me look at him, "Don't ever say that again, you are no more damaged than the rest of us, I am not settled you know how I feel about you, you have become my world as I am yours, you are the best, most understanding, pure person I have ever met" he ended his statement with his lips on mine again kissing me harder than before I felt the room electrify. We pulled away breathless and I put my head down trying to breathe.

"Well I didn't see that coming" Olivia said and I chuckled, as she went to leave with Lem.

"Well I think everyone knows now" I said to Emilio

"Good" I looked up and saw him smile,

"Ill be over later I need to talk to Manfred." I said, and I got up ignoring the pain and walked over to my brother.

"What is Joe talking about?" I asked referring to why we need to talk to him.

Manfred filled me in on what Joe thought about us stopping the rise of hell.

"Do you think it's true?" I asked feeling his doubt.

"I don't know" he answered as we walked over to Joe's a few hours later. We walked upstairs and looked at a painting joe had out. Joe left the room and we just looked at this painting of demons coming out of the earth, with people being eaten and thrown everywhere and joe came back a few minutes later holding two cups of coffee.

"If Chuy is only half demon what happens when the veil opens?" Manfred asked he raised his eyebrow and pointed to the picture.

"That"

"That is scary how can me and Manfred stop that?!" I said looking more closely at the painting in front of me.

"You really think me, and Addy can stop that?" Manny asked looking from me to Joe.

"Yes, I think you two are going to lead an army and seal the veil forever."

"I don't think so," Manfred said, "I don't lead things I see dead solders after its to late, she feels them as they die and after they are gone." He took a deep breath. "I couldn't stop Bowie, Addy couldn't stop her" I sighed knowing that part was true.

"I couldn't even save the people in the café" I said with remorse. "But I will do what I can to save this town, it is my home now." I looked to Manny knowing how he was feeling about this.

"You both arrived in midnight exactly when we needed you, Addy you protected me when she tried to kill me, you helped save Chuy when you saw he was fighting."

"You were here the last time the veil opened, so you need to believe that we are the ones to save it this time, because if not and it happens again midnight is screwed."

"But yet you are still here the man that was after you two is no longer a threat."

"You know why I'm staying, its because of her" Manfred said, and I wanted to slap him. he left the room and I looked to Joe.

"I will talk to him, but I promise I am here to fight, I don't know how much I can help, projecting feeling and seeing dead people doesn't really help in a fight against the dead.

"You need to stop being so hard on yourself, you have to feel the pain of a whole town all the time, that isn't easy and you do something that no one else can do, you are the most caring person I know, even when you down on the ground on your last breath you give it to someone else." He came forward and hugged me. "you helped Chuy even when you couldn't get up from the ground, you gave him everything you had to help him come back to us, thank you" we pulled away and I looked at him.

"Your welcome but even if that is true, its still not always the best help." I said I and walked out of his house. I walked down the road seeing the sun set but something felt wrong, something felt like it was missing. I walked past the house when I saw it, the RV was gone. I saw a box on the ground where the RV was parked with a note attached to it.

Dear Adelynn

I'm sorry I can't tear you away from the only person that makes you happy but I can't stay here. I need to leave I hope your not to mad at me, I love you sis I'm sorry

Manfred.

I stood out where the RV was normally parked, and I didn't even notice when it began to pour on me, or when the lightning struck, I stormed into the house leaving the door wide open.

"What did you do to him!" I yelled, knowing she had to be here. I heard her walking and she came out of his room.

"What, I don't know what you mean" she said.

"What did you do!" I yelled throwing the note on the floor "You made him leave without me, my own brother left me!" I felt a pair of arms wrap around me and I finally broke and I heard Emilio.

"Addy what's wrong why is it raining?"

"He left me, he left me behind for the first time in my life my brother left me behind." I cried clinging onto Emilio for he was the only thing I had left, Manny took everything I had, my stuff, my home and my family.

Manfred POV

I just got in the Rv and started driving.

"Manny what are you doing" it was grandma who appeared in the passenger seat as I drove out of midnight.

"I'm doing what I do best, I'm bailing." I said looking back out to the road.

"Without your sister! You have never left her anywhere, you have roots in midnight and so did she" she yelled.

"That's why I left her there I wasn't going to tear her away from the only happiness she had left, I won't take her from Emilio" I saw her shake her head and I looked in the mirror seeing the dark clouds form.

"You didn't think that losing her only family was going to be easy," I heard the thunder roar "You took what she had and ran."

"She will be fine in time, she is better off without me, they all are." I said and continued driving, I hope this is the right decision.