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h3 id="work" class="landmark heading" style="border-width: 0px 0px 0.25em; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-weight: 500; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; height: 0px; clear: both; color: transparent; border-color: initial initial #333333 initial; border-style: initial initial double initial;"Chapter Text/h3
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Gabriel lowered his head to rest on top of Anathemas, his wings closing tighter around them. "You're alright." The relief in Gabriel's voice was palpable, it was genuine, there was a love in his tone, in the worry of it all. Anathema looked up at him, a smile on her face, her eyes danced over Gabriel's face taking him in, remembering him. It was Crowley's turn to break up the little gathering happening. "I hate to break up, whatever, all this is, but can you please fill me in, and I will fill you in on what's going on?" Gabriel looked at Crowley, his eyes glanced at Aziraphale, who was still keeping the Archangel within his reach. Gabriel nodded, releasing Anathema from his wings but not letting go of her hand, they sat together./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Aziraphale sat with Crowley across from them, both keeping it civil, neither wanted to see what Aziraphale or Anathema would currently do, or what they were capable of. Gabriel started, "Thank you. I don't know how or why, but you got her out of there." Crowley all but fell through the floor at hearing the words ~Thank you~ coming out of Gabriel's mouth, but something was way off. "Gabriel, how long do you think you have been down here?" Gabriel looked between them, Anathema had nuzzled up under his chin, Gabriel's arms wrapping around her, he looked calm, content with her there, it was odd. "A few months, I am due to go back soon." Crowley sat back, "Gabriel, you've been gone for two years. Heaven is looking for you, that's why I am here."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Gabriel pulled Anathema closer to him, he looked between Aziraphale and Crowley. "Two years? That can't be, I was here, I did what I was supposed too, but how?" Crowley shrugged, not to be irritating but to give himself a moment to figure out how they would have held Gabriel, and how Anathema fit into all of this. Crowley could see Gabriel's wheels turning in his brain, saw the flicker of hatred then glance down at Anathema. Pulling her onto his lap, his hand dropped to her stomach and looked at Crowley, "This can't be, two years?" Crowley watched with concern, he nodded at the strange placement of it all. "Gabriel, I don't mean to pry, but in this particular case, I sure as fuck am going to ask, but what are you seriously leaving out?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Gabriel kept his hand there, Anathema looked down as her hand topped Gabriels and she rested her head for only a moment when suddenly a wave of anger ripped out of her. The pulse of hatred bowled them all over, wings translucently iridescent unfurled from her back, as her eyes flared green orbs of fire. Gabriel grabbed her arms, holding her, his wings wrapping around her tightly, holding her to him. Crowley had wrapped himself around Aziraphale, he peeked through his own wings, he could hear Gabriel talking, lowly, calmly, lovingly, they all heard when Anathema sobbed. Letting his wings unwrap from Aziraphale, he looked over at Gabriel, who had his wings wrapped around Anathema and himself. "There is a lot to explain and even more that I don't know, Crowley." Hearing Gabriel refer to him by his name without malice, huh, guess there is a first time for everything./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley sat down, Aziraphale next to him, his head resting on Crowley's shoulder, somehow this seemed reasonable, it was okay even with the odd pair across from them. Gabriel looked down at Anathema, kissing her forehead as she fell into a slumber, brought on by the Archangel. "Okay, I was sent down here because of this place here, EDEN, they were doing experiments on anything that they deemed celestial, he nodded over towards Aziraphale. They have had him for years." Crowley looked at his angel, then back to Gabriel, "So you were trying to save him then?" Gabriel shook his head, "No, they wouldn't let me, he is dangerous, the two of you together is worse, and could not happen again, the two of you are not supposed to ever happen, you are in as much danger as I am now."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley growled slightly, "What do you mean, together, again?" Gabriel looked worried, "Before I tell you, promise me something, you will not hurt anathema or myself; we are in as much danger as you now, and I was only doing my job." Crowley narrowed his eyes at Gabriel, finally deciding that information was more valuable than taking out past indiscretions against himself or Aziraphale. Carefully and possessively, he pulled Aziraphale onto his lap, his wings bent slightly around them. "Okay, I will start with the beginning, I know you don't remember, I was the one that took that from you. It was my job, not something I wanted to do. Do you remember who your parents are? Who his parents are, do you remember anything about the two of you?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley shook his head no, Gabriel sighed, "This wasn't just my doing then, I only made you forget him when he disappeared, and when what the two of you did in heaven, I made you forget that." Crowley's eyes widened, "So I was made to forget more than once then? I knew something had happened, but I always felt like I kept forgetting more and more things." Gabriel nodded his head, turning, "There is something not right here, is there anywhere else we can go? I do mean anywhere, Just not here and definitely not upstairs." Crowley nodded, "You aren't going to like it." Gabriel looked at Anathema their hands still laced on her stomach." from what I am seeing Crowley, downstairs is better right now." Crowley stood, holding Aziraphale too him, "My house then, don't worry, they'll know you are there, but they won't dare come to my house." Gabriels chuckled, "Of course they won't, you control them." Crowley looked at him with questioning, he held out his hand to the Archangel, who held onto Anathema, "This way is better than falling." With a nod, Gabriel was ready, "I think falling would be better right about now."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley's wings snapped out, Gabriel followed suit, Aziraphale wrapped his wings around Anathema and himself as the two, flew up and then dropped. Crowley opened his wings, pushing once as hard as he could, his wings swallowing up the group as they fell, then a sudden stop. Looking down was the mark that he and Aziraphale had on them; he looked at Gabriel. "That's where Aziraphale hit when he fell." Crowley looked at him, "We can't fall, though." Gabriel shook his head, "Oh, he can, and he did for you. He's a child of Raphael and Beelzebub. One had fallen the other hadn't, so when he was born into Heaven, he was more angelic than demonic, so Aziraphale lived there, but he saved you and fell for it. Let's just say, for now, a Nephalam falling from Heaven is worse than any angel I ever saw fall. That mark is where he landed, there was no stop, there was no placing he just fell, and his stop was the floor. You both are the only ones with those marks. I can explain more inside, I am getting odd feelings around us."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley opened the door, ushering them all in, with a growl at his door, things in the shadows backed off; he put wards on the door and his house keeping them safe. "Come on in, nothing can get to us here, and, well, this must be a lot for you as well, but do you want a drink?" Gabriel nodded, "Yes, please, you are taking his birth parents rather well." Crowley laughed, "Oh, no I really am not, I am more worried about him right now, he hasn't said a word since you started talking, I think I may have to put him to bed for a while." Crowley poured drinks, handed one to Gabriel, and took Aziraphale by the hand, leading him to the only bedroom in the house. Crowley opened the door and stopped dead. Looking in on a room he swore to never use until he found his mate, he looked at Aziraphale who was looking at him as though his life depended on it. With a shake of his head, he walked him in and pointed at the bed, "You, there, sleep." Crowley watched as Aziraphale not only crawled onto the bed but up to him, kissing him unexpectedly breathless, then turned and curled up on the bed, his wings unfurled and vulnerable to him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley barely made it back out of the room. Gabriel had put Anathema on the couch in the living room. Gabriel had gone to sit in the kitchen, a bottle of alcohol, sitting there his head on the counter. "Okay, so before you go into anything else about him and me, you wanna enlighten my forgetful ass on what the hell she is." Crowley pointed to Anathema, whose wings resembled the leaves on a tree, large, beautiful, transparently iridescent, and glowing as though covered in dewdrops from the morning. Gabriel looked over at her, the tilting of his head screamed of so much love, Crowley almost felt something. "Okay stop staring talk to me, we all seem to be in a lot of trouble here, and I need to know why." Gabriel nodded, "Alright, let me just take a quick drink. ...okay, she is something you don't see much anymore, she is an Earth Angel. They don't reside up in Heaven till they are done here, they were called witches after Agnes and her prophecies scared the humans, she is one of her descendants and a powerful holder of her bloodline. Anathema is a living and breathing angel of the Earth."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley sat on the stool across from Gabriel, looking slightly stunned. "Alright, so the witch, not a witch but an angel of Earth, okay, I get that, but how. I mean you and her, how did that come about and Ummm, not to be overly prying but, why the everliving fuck were the two of you touching her stomach like you were expecting?" Gabriel looked down. a blush was that a fucking blush crossed the bridge of his nose. "I don't know I met her here, I was checking on Aziraphale, too make sure he didn't remember, found he had been trapped by EDEN for years upon years. I met her, and we just, she was everything, everyone else wasn't, I guess it is the best way to put it." Gabriel took another drink looking over at the couch, "Crowley, Heaven isn't just looking for me; if they get me, and her, we're done, they are looking for our baby."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley got up, walked into another room with his drink, guzzled it, then came back, refilled his cup sat back down and looked at Gabriel, "I am going to remain calm. You are telling me, you and Archangel and an Earth Angel made, the old fashion way, the human way, made a baby?" Gabriel nodded, "That about sums that up, the problem is, I don't remember them being born, and neither does she. That's her anger, I can only guess that because I can't remember, EDEN took our baby." Crowley downed another glass, refilling it, "Question, what would that make your child? It wouldn't be one of us, and it wouldn't be a Nephilim either, or would it? I mean, she is kind of human, right?" Gabriel shook his head, "No, they'd be an angel of both Heaven and of Earth, I don't know if there is a name for that, they'd be the first and EDEN has them." Crowley looked at him with a deep sigh, "So we need to find them then, there is no way we can leave them in humans hands, let alone these assholes." Gabriel nodded, Crowley could see, was that tears, what the fuck is happening. "I'll help you yes, I don't want to see what they'll do with that either, the last question for the moment, I reserve the right to question you again about this, but what will heaven do, if they find this out and or find the baby?" Gabriel looked down, "Anathema and I will be put to death, there will be no falling for us, and Heaven doesn't rule Earth Angels, so death, the baby will be destroyed, an angel made not of gods will, or outside her plans is an abomination and powerful." Crowley grimaced at the bluntness of the answer he received but better facts than not. "So like the rest of the Nephalem then," With a nod was all Crowley needed for an answer./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Gabriel finished his drink and poured himself another, "I am sure you have more questions, Crowley." Stunned silence for a moment, "Oh, I didn't know you'd really answer what I need to know." Gabriel tilted his head, "Do you think I wanted to always be the asshole of Heaven? I had to it was my job, that's all gone now. I have her though and a child that's out there, I need your help, and Aziraphale, so ask, or I can simply tell you a story which do you want?" Crowley sat back, "Tell me what I need to know, you took away who I am, who and what Aziraphale is too me, tell me what you can, what you took from me. We can figure out the rest together, deal?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley held up his hand for a moment, snapping his fingers a door appeared on the other side of the living room. "Go put your mate to bed, she deserves better than the couch, you deserve someplace safe, you're welcome here." Crowley pointed at the door, Gabriel stood looking from the entrance to Crowley and hugged him. "Thank you, I'll tell you everything I can, and maybe you can let me talk with someone about moving here." Crowley tipped his glass towards him in agreement, "We'll see, pretty sure they wouldn't have a problem with an Archangel, his mated Earth Angel, and their child moving in, it'll seem like a win." Gabriel smiled, walking over to his mate, he picked her up, placing a kiss on her forehead. Keeping her slumbering until they had a plan, Earth's wrath was as mighty as divinity but less elegant; it was brutal, calculated, and all-encompassing; Gabriel didn't want to have to try and save anyone from that just yet./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley saw Gabriel go into the room, closing the door, smiling he took a moment to go check on what apparently was a Nephalam, and his mate. They were already mated, Aziraphale fell, gave up Heaven, literally fell to the floor of Hell, hit so hard he left his mark, for him. Opening the door, Crowley looked in on divine beauty, the most beautiful wings Crowley had ever seen. The kindest of angels, of course, Aziraphale was, Aziraphale was a child of Raphael and Beelzebub, how that worked Crowley didn't even care, it just was, and he was his. Crowley touched the mark on his chest, seeing Aziraphale tremble, feeling it again, Aziraphale gripped the back of his neck. It almost seemed pained touch, slowly he walked to the bed and sat, gently touching the back of Aziraphale neck, he heard him whimper. The mark hadn't bothered them before, but here it seemed too, Gabriel had started to mention the mark, and they were the only ones to have it. Crowley needed to know what it was./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Gabriel lowered his head to rest on top of Anathemas, his wings closing tighter around them. "You're alright." The relief in Gabriel's voice was palpable, it was genuine, there was a love in his tone, in the worry of it all. Anathema looked up at him, a smile on her face, her eyes danced over Gabriel's face taking him in, remembering him. It was Crowley's turn to break up the little gathering happening. "I hate to break up, whatever, all this is, but can you please fill me in, and I will fill you in on what's going on?" Gabriel looked at Crowley, his eyes glanced at Aziraphale, who was still keeping the Archangel within his reach. Gabriel nodded, releasing Anathema from his wings but not letting go of her hand, they sat together./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Aziraphale sat with Crowley across from them, both keeping it civil, neither wanted to see what Aziraphale or Anathema would currently do, or what they were capable of. Gabriel started, "Thank you. I don't know how or why, but you got her out of there." Crowley all but fell through the floor at hearing the words ~Thank you~ coming out of Gabriel's mouth, but something was way off. "Gabriel, how long do you think you have been down here?" Gabriel looked between them, Anathema had nuzzled up under his chin, Gabriel's arms wrapping around her, he looked calm, content with her there, it was odd. "A few months, I am due to go back soon." Crowley sat back, "Gabriel, you've been gone for two years. Heaven is looking for you, that's why I am here."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Gabriel pulled Anathema closer to him, he looked between Aziraphale and Crowley. "Two years? That can't be, I was here, I did what I was supposed too, but how?" Crowley shrugged, not to be irritating but to give himself a moment to figure out how they would have held Gabriel, and how Anathema fit into all of this. Crowley could see Gabriel's wheels turning in his brain, saw the flicker of hatred then glance down at Anathema. Pulling her onto his lap, his hand dropped to her stomach and looked at Crowley, "This can't be, two years?" Crowley watched with concern, he nodded at the strange placement of it all. "Gabriel, I don't mean to pry, but in this particular case, I sure as fuck am going to ask, but what are you seriously leaving out?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley sat down, Aziraphale next to him, his head resting on Crowley's shoulder, somehow this seemed reasonable, it was okay even with the odd pair across from them. Gabriel looked down at Anathema, kissing her forehead as she fell into a slumber, brought on by the Archangel. "Okay, I was sent down here because of this place here, EDEN, they were doing experiments on anything that they deemed celestial, he nodded over towards Aziraphale. They have had him for years." Crowley looked at his angel, then back to Gabriel, "So you were trying to save him then?" Gabriel shook his head, "No, they wouldn't let me, he is dangerous, the two of you together is worse, and could not happen again, the two of you are not supposed to ever happen, you are in as much danger as I am now."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley growled slightly, "What do you mean, together, again?" Gabriel looked worried, "Before I tell you, promise me something, you will not hurt anathema or myself; we are in as much danger as you now, and I was only doing my job." Crowley narrowed his eyes at Gabriel, finally deciding that information was more valuable than taking out past indiscretions against himself or Aziraphale. Carefully and possessively, he pulled Aziraphale onto his lap, his wings bent slightly around them. "Okay, I will start with the beginning, I know you don't remember, I was the one that took that from you. It was my job, not something I wanted to do. Do you remember who your parents are? Who his parents are, do you remember anything about the two of you?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley shook his head no, Gabriel sighed, "This wasn't just my doing then, I only made you forget him when he disappeared, and when what the two of you did in heaven, I made you forget that." Crowley's eyes widened, "So I was made to forget more than once then? I knew something had happened, but I always felt like I kept forgetting more and more things." Gabriel nodded his head, turning, "There is something not right here, is there anywhere else we can go? I do mean anywhere, Just not here and definitely not upstairs." Crowley nodded, "You aren't going to like it." Gabriel looked at Anathema their hands still laced on her stomach." from what I am seeing Crowley, downstairs is better right now." Crowley stood, holding Aziraphale too him, "My house then, don't worry, they'll know you are there, but they won't dare come to my house." Gabriels chuckled, "Of course they won't, you control them." Crowley looked at him with questioning, he held out his hand to the Archangel, who held onto Anathema, "This way is better than falling." With a nod, Gabriel was ready, "I think falling would be better right about now."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley's wings snapped out, Gabriel followed suit, Aziraphale wrapped his wings around Anathema and himself as the two, flew up and then dropped. Crowley opened his wings, pushing once as hard as he could, his wings swallowing up the group as they fell, then a sudden stop. Looking down was the mark that he and Aziraphale had on them; he looked at Gabriel. "That's where Aziraphale hit when he fell." Crowley looked at him, "We can't fall, though." Gabriel shook his head, "Oh, he can, and he did for you. He's a child of Raphael and Beelzebub. One had fallen the other hadn't, so when he was born into Heaven, he was more angelic than demonic, so Aziraphale lived there, but he saved you and fell for it. Let's just say, for now, a Nephalam falling from Heaven is worse than any angel I ever saw fall. That mark is where he landed, there was no stop, there was no placing he just fell, and his stop was the floor. You both are the only ones with those marks. I can explain more inside, I am getting odd feelings around us."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley opened the door, ushering them all in, with a growl at his door, things in the shadows backed off; he put wards on the door and his house keeping them safe. "Come on in, nothing can get to us here, and, well, this must be a lot for you as well, but do you want a drink?" Gabriel nodded, "Yes, please, you are taking his birth parents rather well." Crowley laughed, "Oh, no I really am not, I am more worried about him right now, he hasn't said a word since you started talking, I think I may have to put him to bed for a while." Crowley poured drinks, handed one to Gabriel, and took Aziraphale by the hand, leading him to the only bedroom in the house. Crowley opened the door and stopped dead. Looking in on a room he swore to never use until he found his mate, he looked at Aziraphale who was looking at him as though his life depended on it. With a shake of his head, he walked him in and pointed at the bed, "You, there, sleep." Crowley watched as Aziraphale not only crawled onto the bed but up to him, kissing him unexpectedly breathless, then turned and curled up on the bed, his wings unfurled and vulnerable to him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley barely made it back out of the room. Gabriel had put Anathema on the couch in the living room. Gabriel had gone to sit in the kitchen, a bottle of alcohol, sitting there his head on the counter. "Okay, so before you go into anything else about him and me, you wanna enlighten my forgetful ass on what the hell she is." Crowley pointed to Anathema, whose wings resembled the leaves on a tree, large, beautiful, transparently iridescent, and glowing as though covered in dewdrops from the morning. Gabriel looked over at her, the tilting of his head screamed of so much love, Crowley almost felt something. "Okay stop staring talk to me, we all seem to be in a lot of trouble here, and I need to know why." Gabriel nodded, "Alright, let me just take a quick drink. ...okay, she is something you don't see much anymore, she is an Earth Angel. They don't reside up in Heaven till they are done here, they were called witches after Agnes and her prophecies scared the humans, she is one of her descendants and a powerful holder of her bloodline. Anathema is a living and breathing angel of the Earth."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley sat on the stool across from Gabriel, looking slightly stunned. "Alright, so the witch, not a witch but an angel of Earth, okay, I get that, but how. I mean you and her, how did that come about and Ummm, not to be overly prying but, why the everliving fuck were the two of you touching her stomach like you were expecting?" Gabriel looked down. a blush was that a fucking blush crossed the bridge of his nose. "I don't know I met her here, I was checking on Aziraphale, too make sure he didn't remember, found he had been trapped by EDEN for years upon years. I met her, and we just, she was everything, everyone else wasn't, I guess it is the best way to put it." Gabriel took another drink looking over at the couch, "Crowley, Heaven isn't just looking for me; if they get me, and her, we're done, they are looking for our baby."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley got up, walked into another room with his drink, guzzled it, then came back, refilled his cup sat back down and looked at Gabriel, "I am going to remain calm. You are telling me, you and Archangel and an Earth Angel made, the old fashion way, the human way, made a baby?" Gabriel nodded, "That about sums that up, the problem is, I don't remember them being born, and neither does she. That's her anger, I can only guess that because I can't remember, EDEN took our baby." Crowley downed another glass, refilling it, "Question, what would that make your child? It wouldn't be one of us, and it wouldn't be a Nephilim either, or would it? I mean, she is kind of human, right?" Gabriel shook his head, "No, they'd be an angel of both Heaven and of Earth, I don't know if there is a name for that, they'd be the first and EDEN has them." Crowley looked at him with a deep sigh, "So we need to find them then, there is no way we can leave them in humans hands, let alone these assholes." Gabriel nodded, Crowley could see, was that tears, what the fuck is happening. "I'll help you yes, I don't want to see what they'll do with that either, the last question for the moment, I reserve the right to question you again about this, but what will heaven do, if they find this out and or find the baby?" Gabriel looked down, "Anathema and I will be put to death, there will be no falling for us, and Heaven doesn't rule Earth Angels, so death, the baby will be destroyed, an angel made not of gods will, or outside her plans is an abomination and powerful." Crowley grimaced at the bluntness of the answer he received but better facts than not. "So like the rest of the Nephalem then," With a nod was all Crowley needed for an answer./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Crowley held up his hand for a moment, snapping his fingers a door appeared on the other side of the living room. "Go put your mate to bed, she deserves better than the couch, you deserve someplace safe, you're welcome here." Crowley pointed at the door, Gabriel stood looking from the entrance to Crowley and hugged him. "Thank you, I'll tell you everything I can, and maybe you can let me talk with someone about moving here." Crowley tipped his glass towards him in agreement, "We'll see, pretty sure they wouldn't have a problem with an Archangel, his mated Earth Angel, and their child moving in, it'll seem like a win." Gabriel smiled, walking over to his mate, he picked her up, placing a kiss on her forehead. Keeping her slumbering until they had a plan, Earth's wrath was as mighty as divinity but less elegant; it was brutal, calculated, and all-encompassing; Gabriel didn't want to have to try and save anyone from that just yet./p
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