Hi guys!

So, here's the next one. I know most of you are dying for them to realise they are soulfinders but hang on in there ok?

This one was going to be a filler but it turned out quite cute towards the end.

I need to know what you think of the characters so i can change them if necessary.

Hope you like this one.

Uriel

I held the door open as Sarah grabbed her fraying coat and smiled as she walked past me towards the gate. I closed it quietly behind me, trying not to wake her monster of a sister and went to meet her.

"Let's go?" I asked.

She nodded and jerked her head in the direction of the all night café. As we walked she laughed to herself. "God, Tori would kill me if she knew I was out with you."

I glanced down at her and frowned, knowing where this one was going. "Out with me or out in general?"

She shrugged. "Both I guess. She doesn't want me out without permission for obvious reasons and the thought I'd be out with you," She feigned a shocked gasp. "Outrageous."

I laughed and she grinned up at me. "So, fill me in here. Why does the Savant Net want Jacob's money?"

I sighed deeply and wondered where to begin. "Well, Jacob's agreeing to fund this massive project within the Savant Net that would benefit so many people. It's called the Savant Matching Program, SMP."

"What happens with it?" She asked and we stepped closer together to avoid a speeding car.

"All the savants of one age meet at a certain place on a certain day to meet each other. Hopefully they can find their soulfinder. Then, if they don't they can come back the next year and try again or they could decide they didn't want to. That way, savants with living soulfinders will meet their partner and savants without can get closure if they can."

Sarah indicated the all-night café and I held open the glass door for her.

"That's a really good idea, who thought it up?" She said as she took her coat off and hung it on the back of a plastic chair in the corner.

I sat down opposite and avoided her gaze. "I did."

She stared at me. "Really?!"

I smiled self-consciously and nodded. "Yeah, that's the whole reason I'm out here. I wanted to meet the people who could turn this idea into reality."

Sarah shook her head in amazement. "That's brilliant. It could help so many people."

I nodded, looking her straight in her deep brown eyes. They looked sad, but slightly better than they had done earlier, she looked excited for me. It made a nice change from talking about this idea with my brothers. Sure, they had the grace and kindness to look interested. And they did want to help anyone they could find their soulfinders, but this project wouldn't affect them as they'd already found their partners. The SMP meant everything to me because it was a way to find the girl I was meant to be with.

Sarah smiled sadly. "I'm guessing there is a slightly selfish reason as well as wanting to help others."

Shrugging, I rubbed my forehead. "I'd be lying if I said I didn't really want to find my soulfinder through this. The SMP could help me and I really want it to work."

A bored looking waitress came over, cutting us off and asked for our orders.

"Sarah, what would you like?" I asked but caught her looking into her scuffed purse. She pulled out a 10 cent coin and sighed.

"Tap water please." She said, avoiding my eyes. I felt sorry for her but guessed she probably didn't want pity.

"I'm paying for this Sarah. What would you like?" I said, gently but firmly, like when my dad wanted to take Mum out for dinner and she was worried about us.

Sarah glanced up gratefully. "I could kill for a hot chocolate."

I laughed and ordered a coffee for myself as well as that. The waitress didn't even bother writing it down; she just turned on her heel and stalked off.

"So," Sarah tucked her coin back into her pockets and started fiddling with a hairband on her wrist. "That's the real reason you're here. Do you do this type of thing for the Savant Net a lot?"

I laughed and shook my head. "No, never. I'm actually a forensic scientist so I'm used to working in out of the way places with no one paying attention except my close knit team. It's weird having all the attention and pressure on me suddenly."

She leant forward, looking interested and I tried not to look at how her hair fell neatly into a curtain by her face. "You're a forensic scientist? Like all those detective films with the 'whodunit's and the murders. Does that have anything to do with your power?"

I nodded. "A bit. My power is I can see the past of a person when I touch them. It's really helpful when I have to see what killed someone. I can just touch them and say what happened."

She stared at me really intently and I felt slightly under pressure of the attention. I wasn't used to it. My brothers normally were more in the limelight than me. Vick, the cool FBI agent, Xav, the healer, Yves, the genius, Zed, the seventh child. I had less of a part to play and I liked that. Though it did lead to sometimes being ignored or forgotten.

"It sounds like you love it. It must be nice to be useful. I don't think I'm that dedicated to anything as much as you are, except maybe drawing."

I raised my eyebrows. "You draw?"

She nodded as the waitress came over with our drinks. Sarah's eyes widened adorably at the swirl of cream and chocolate flakes on the top. "Wow."

I laughed. "You looked like you needed it."

She looked like a child finally allowed into the candy store and she took a big sip of the hot chocolate.

"Good?" I asked.

She nodded and grinned, licking cream off her lip. "Amazing."

I chuckled as she nibbled a flake. "As we were saying, yes, I do draw. Nothing major yet because I don't have the time, but little sketches mainly. I used to dream of being an artist."

"Why used to dream?" I asked and sipped my coffee.

She shrugged. "I can't see me leaving Tori and she'd never let me do anything for myself."

"You should still go for it, it's an amazing dream to have and one day you'll get away."

She smiled. "Thanks for saying that."

I frowned. "I'm sorry you're with her."

She shrugged. "Nothing you can do about it. And even if you could, I've got the baby to think about."

I nodded and sighed at my helplessness. I really want to do something about it. I know I didn't really know her but I felt protective already. My brothers would have teased me about it and that's exactly the reason I haven't mentioned any of my previous love life with them.

"Ok, so, if you were God, what would you do with the world?" Sarah asked.

I stared at her. "What?" I laughed.

She shrugged and looked sheepish. "Hey, you can learn a lot about a person from this question."

I laughed again and sat back in my chair, strangely at ease with this girl I now felt I'd known for years. "Ok, if I was God. What would I do?"

…..

Later that evening I walked Sarah back to the house chatting about anything and everything. She loved music but couldn't play an instrument to save her life. She was a dancer but had had to stop lessons when her parents died. She was really good at Tap, Modern and Ballet. She used to have two cats but really wanted a dog. The coolest thing she'd ever done was swim with dolphins on a family holiday. She'd never been out of Africa, just travelled around it. She'd always wanted to take a road trip around America and Europe.

I found myself enjoying myself with her. For the past two years I'd been slipping even more. The nightmares had been getting worse, barely giving me enough sleep to function and I was tense trying to make this project work. But when I was talking with Sarah I managed to forget all of that. The night mares and stress and fear of not living up to expectations seemed far off.

We stopped by the back door and she turned to face me, scrutinising me.

"Thanks for tonight." She said. "I really enjoyed it."

I smiled down at her. "I did too; maybe we can do it again sometime?"

She nodded and unlocked the door. "Yeah, I'd really like that."

I grinned and turned to go.

"Uriel?"

I turned back and saw Sarah looking a bit nervous.

"What?" I asked, worried that something had happened.

She sighed and smiled up at me. "Well, thank you for being nice to me. I haven't had that in a while."

I grinned, resisting the urge to cheer. "That's ok, what are friends for?"

She stared at me like she was trying to figure something out. "I guess we are friends. That's weird, I've never really had any since I went to live with Tori."

I shrugged and picked up an orange flower from where it was lying on the waist high wall next to the door. I handed it to her and looked her in the eye. "Well, you have three now. Rio, Jessie and me. And you can count on me to help if you need anything."

She looked up at me and I saw her eyes were sparkling with tears. She went up on her toes and flung her arms around me. I wrapped mine around her waist and hugged her tightly. She was so small compared to me and felt so fragile in my arms. I wanted to keep her safe from harm and whisk her away to a better home but she was a stubborn one too. No way was she leaving before this baby was born and I was no one to be persuading her otherwise.

She let go and grinned. "See you soon."

I smiled back and nodded, before turning and walking to my car, grinning like an idiot.

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