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Setting: Coldwater, Maine-end of Silence.
Jev's POV:
I wake up shaking, my hands clenched tightly while Lilly's name passes my lips in a choked voice. Sitting up, while my body continues to tremble over the memory, I bury my face in the palms of my hands.
"Patch?" I look up, slowly, seeing Nora watching me with a hesitant and concerned expression on her lovely face. For a moment, in the darkness with shadows cast across her pale face and turning her to shadow, I see flashes of Lilly. Then Nora walks closer to me and the light shines on her reddish hair and grey eyes, the vision replaced by the girl I love today.
I hold out my arms to embrace Nora and she hurries over but not before a slight pause, trying to gouge the expression on my face. Holding her close, I tighten my arms around her to make sure she is really here and not just a dream-not a memory like Lilly.
"Patch. What is it? Is something wrong? I heard you scream and I come out to find you shaking, uncontrollably. Did you have a nightmare?" Nora places a hand to my cheek, which I nuzzle into, and searches my eyes with worry rising up in her grey eyes.
"Something like that," I whisper to the air around me before gazing again into Nora's eyes. She furrows her brow in response, confused by my words and reaction. I grab her hands and hold them to my lips, trying to think of a way to explain everything to her but only coming up with one possible solution that would allow her to full understand. For Nora to see it herself, experience the pain of my life that caused me to fall from the glory of Heaven.
With that in mind I place Nora's hands into her lap and strip off my shirt, revealing my long jagged scars from having my wings ripped out. Nora remains slightly confused but has seemed to gain some understanding of my intentions.
"I don't want there to be anymore secrets between us, and this is a big part of my life it is why I...became who I am today. And I want you to see it because you're the most important thing in my life, forever and always." Nora peers at me, those grey eyes clouding with emotion. "Are you sure?" she whispers, softly.
"Yes," I reply and feel her fingertips begin to hover over the scars of my back. "Wait," I say and feel her pause, looking into my eyes with concern. I turn around and lace Nora's hands through mine, capturing her full attention. "I just want you to remember that I love you now, just like I always will. And Lilly...she was just a special part of my life during that time, I loved her but...not the same way I love you. I love you, Angel."
Nora smiles and presses her lips to mine in a long, sweet kiss before resting her forehead against mine. "And I love you, Patch. It's okay, you have a past and I understand that. I love you, for all time." I kiss her sweet lips once more before turning around for her to touch my scars, and to fully understand the person I once was.
Nora's POV:
My fingers glide over Patch's hot skin, over his chiseled back muscles and to his jagged scars that run in an upside-down V down his back.
One touch and my body pulls into Patch's memories, the sensation tingles through my body and I look around to see the cloudy sky covered around trees of darkness. My mind keeps circling back to one name-Lilly. Who was she? I feel the jealousy spark inside me at the thought of some girl and Patch together, and it is like the situation with Marcie all over again.
From a close distance I hear the bang of a gun and jump as it startles a flock of birds nearby, I turn toward the sound and see a familiar dark form in front of a rundown house.
"Patch," I whisper softly, squinting at the his figure running towards the door of the building. In moments, I am next to Jev, and he is creaking open the door with a pained expression appearing on his face the second he looked into the room. I step in behind him and the scene before me almost causes me to crumble with shame and guilt.
"Lilly!" Patch's eyes widen at the sight of a woman on the old floorboards with dust covering the surface like a light snow, My hand goes to my mouth to silence my shock as my eyes widen, my throat clogs with emotion, and I look at the woman completely for the first time.
Lilly is beautiful, as lovely as the blossoming flower of her name, with chestnut locks spilling down her back that contrasts her pale complexion and eyes that shine dark with pain and mystery. However that beauty is tainted by the sea of red pooling around her, staining her gorgeous ivory and silver colored lace dress that looked similar to a wedding gown. One pale hand is covering her abdomen, as if to protect it, while her gaze floats to Patch with a hazy expression.
Lilly opens her mouth to speak but coughs up blood instead of words and clenches at her belly tightly, pressing her eyes shut and attempting to sit up. Patch drops to his knee and cradles her body, painting his skin and clothes crimson as he takes her in his arms while tears run down his face.
"Flower," he whispers, painfully. He shakes Lilly's form softly as her eyes begin to drift back into unconsciousness, the lack of blood taking its toll on her slight frame. "Lilly, no, stay with me. I promised to protect you, I am here, and I am going to save you. Just hold on. Please! Lilly, I just got you back. You cannot leave me. I love you." His pleas bring tears to my eyes because I can see the helplessness of the situation, Lilly is dying and he can do nothing to stop her heart from ceasing to beat.
"Jev," Lilly whispers in an effort as blood trickles from the corner of her mouth and spilling down her chin, Jev caresses her face and smears blood on her cheek. In response, Lilly raises a weak hand to Patch's face as tears roll down her cheeks.
"I love you, and I always will. You will find someone, someone better than I... and they will love you back just as fully and passionately because... you are a gift. A gift from heaven. Thank you for allowing me to... experience this, this love, this life-this freedom." She turns away from Patch, coughing, and blood spills onto the floor like water. "I love you, Jev. And thank you," Lilly says, softly.
Then, suddenly, Lilly's body quakes and she is coughing uncontrollably as the floor turns red with her blood. Then it is over, Lilly's body goes limp, and her hand falls to the floor-a painting of pure white against vivid red.
"No. No! Lilly," Patch tries to rouse the life back into Lilly but her body remains still, the life of her run dry. After a few moments he realizes there is no hope, that Lilly's chest is no longer rising and falling in an efforting manner, and lets out the cry of a wounded and angry animal. Pounding his fists into the floor-boards, coated in Lilly's blood, I witness the wood splintering under his strength.
I hear footsteps behind me as I watch this horrible scene, and turn to find a man holding a gun in his hands. "Patch!" I scream and shield Patch's body with my own, trying to protect him. However, I see the man drop the gun to the floor with a loud clatter as Jev rises from his place on the floor, and there is anger and hate depicted in his black eyes.
"You! You did this? Jasper," Patch grabs the man by the shirts and shoves him roughly against the stone wall, spitting out the man's name in disgust. "She posed no threat to the Archangel's, she was a human for godsake, you killed an innocent person!"
"Jev," the man-Jasper-chokes out as Patch closes his hand around his throat, blocking his oxygen supply while glaring at him through cold, empty black eyes. After a few minutes of struggling Patch releases his hold and Jasper falls to the floor, coughing and gasping for air.
"Jev," Jasper begins, rubbing his throat and regaining his breathe. "I had to kill her, God foresaw it-"
"Bull-shit!" Patch punches the wall close to Japsers face and hole appears in the already ruined wall. "The only thing Lilly was guilty of was loving me back. If it was not for me putting her at risk she would still be breathing, so don't you dare blame her for your own foolish actions. You think God wanted this? You bastard, if that is the case, I want no part of it. You played God here tonight, Jasper. And although you have a lot of power, Jasper, you are not God."
"What are you going to do Jev, kill me? Dabria's vision has already been avoided, it was either the girl or me that had to die. Dabria saw it and so did the girl, she drew it on the floor in the dust herself-a prophet with my life on her hands." I look between Patch and Jasper, with a tense silence falling over the room, and wait for Patch's control to snap.
"Lilly," Patch whispers without breaking eye contact with Jasper. In reaction, Jasper frowns. "I beg your pardon?"
"Her name," Patch says, walking closer to Jasper while clenching his fists. "It is not 'girl'. She is not some common thing you can just throw aside, her name is Lilly, and you murdered her."
"Jev...be reasonable, it is over. It had to be done, it was not murder, it was more of a sacrifice. Your Lilly's death is for the good of mankind." That was it, the final straw, I see the look in Patch's eyes and know Jasper has pushed him over the edge with rage.
"The good of mankind. I tell you what will be good for the good of mankind, you dying. And I will gladly take up the task of doing so," Patch shoves Jasper against the wall again but this time Jasper is prepared. The two angels fall to the floor with dust rising up around them, clawing at each other in a fit of rage and dominance.
However, then, Patch has Jasper on his stomach and is slamming his face into the wood below them. Patch tears the shirt off Jasper's back and I hold my hand to my mouth to keep from screaming, but the sound escapes in a high-pitched wail as I watch Jev tear the wings out of Jasper's back with a sickening crunch.
I cannot take seeing anymore of this horror, I feel my body becoming weak, and I shut my eyes and cover my ears-trying to will myself back to reality. The memory blurs around me and I feel Patch gather me in his arms as my body trembles in shock, horror, and sadness.
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