Hello, everyone!
First of all, I really need to thank you all for all your kind replies! They are a lot, WOW!
Deyse, Cubbie Angel, April, Kim, Sierra, Lily, Amy, July, Brittany, Lady-Jolly, Sam, Hillary, Sunshine 231, Sassystar678, Catherine G, Lia… If I forget someone, please forgive me… I'm so, so thankful with your encouragement and your kind words!
I really hope you have had a nice time reading this story. LOL, I know you have gotten mad at me and you have been stressed, and I still may make you get a little more mad and sad with this chapter. Please, you tell me at the end if I still need to write an epilogue or not…
I will be starting another story soon, but it will be a little different as I will start what Miss Wings has called a "tenth season" story, that is, a story where Monica will be already a supervisor. It won't come in chapters but in episodes (a different assignment in each one), and if you are wondering… No, Gloria won't be Monica's charge, and yes, it will be a shipper… but Monica and Andrew won't be in love… already!
Now, about the story… I took the title from Toni Braxton's song, Un-break my heart. Its lyrics gave me the idea to write it. Some time later, April and Lily told me about Il Divo's version to this song in Spanish, which is absolutely great.
Every chapter's title doesn't come from the song, but from different songs, and now I'll give you the complete list. I highly recommend all of them, hehehe!
Prologue – You're my world, by Cilla Black
Chapter 1 – God only knows, by Beach Boys
Chapter 2 –
Part one - Don't let this feeling end, from Looking though the eyes of love by Melissa Manchester
Part two – Bring back my smile, from Un-break my heart, by Toni Braxton
Chapter 3 – If I should stay… but I'll go…, from I will always love you, by Whitney Houston
Chapter 4 – Can't live (if living is without you), by Air Supply
Chapter 5 – Let's just kiss and say good bye, by The Manhattans
Chapter 6 – Al límite de la desolación (in Spanish originally), from Lo dejaría todo, by Chayanne.
Chapter 7 – All I have been living for is gone, from How am I supposed to live without you, by Michel Bolton
Chapter 8 – Si tú no estás aquí (in Spanish originally), by Rossana
Chapter 9 – Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark, from Total eclipse of the heart byt Bonnie Tyler
Chapter 10 – Everything I do, I do it for you, by Brian AdamsNow, I stop my chatting, and let you read. God bless you always… and please tell me if I need to write an epilogue for the story!
Chapter 10Everything I do, I do it for you…
Monica's eyes met his the very second the blond angel appeared. And their mutual love flooded to each other's heart immediately, making the separation now more painful than ever.
"You!" Kathleen hissed when she saw Andrew. "You were supposed to be in hell now! Deborah, that good for nothing!"
Andrew's breath caught in his throat at the mention of what his blond "friend" really was, and turned to face Monica, sensing she knew much more that he did, but the little angel lowered her head to avoid his gaze.
"I took Sheila Home," Adam interrupted Andrew's silent dilemma. "And she was a remarkable woman…"
"Remarkable?" Jamal questioned the angel. "How could she be if she left me for somebody else? Someone with more money because I was a poor nobody! That's why I made the promise with the Devil! To get the money I needed so she would think of me as more than a poor guy!" the man explained.
"Do you remember where you come from, Jamal Burgham?" Tess asked in her bossy tone.
"I know you too…" Jamal said looking at the angel. "You were that woman of the choir at the church…"
"Yes, I was. And it's good you remember that church. The old church, dark and poor as the neighborhood you and Sheila lived in. Not always have you lived in a fancy house with a driver and a maid, Jamal. But you've tried to ignore that because that was a part of a past you wanted to forget… even if your mother was also forgotten in the process…"
"Sheila wanted a different life too!" the man tried to defend himself. "She told me she wanted money and a man who could give her all I couldn't! If you are judging me, you should've also judge her!"
"I'm not judging you! That's all up to God!" the dark skinned angel said. "All I want is you to listen to what Adam has to say. It's a story that may be useful… not only for you" she looked at Andrew briefly before she circled Monica's waist.
"Sheila told you all that story about the money to protect you, Jamal," the angel of death said. "Have you forgotten she was with someone else before you two fell in love?"
"That Markus… the Big Markus, we used to call him…" Jamal remembered.
"The chief of the local gang. A drug dealer. A pimp. Sheila, as most of the girls in the neighborhood, had been forced to have intimacy with him or their families would face the consequences. Not only they had been with Markus, but also with the men he ordered them to be with. But Sheila was special; he liked her above the others. When you came in her world and she fell in love with you, she decided she would be only with you. She tried to leave Markus…"
"But she did!" Jamal argued. "She only was with me!"
"… until Markus menaced her with hurting you. She had no family left after her brother was 'killed' in that car accident and her sister 'committed' suicide. Markus threatened her with killing you… if she didn't go back to him."
Monica's sharp intake didn't go unnoticed by Andrew, Sam and Tess. Sheila's story was so close to her own experience the last days…
"I-I never knew…" Jamal stuttered. "I really thought her brother had died in an accident…"
"When she couldn't find a way to protect you, Sheila accepted to go back with Markus and leave you, so the gang would never hurt you. She couldn't find another way to break with you but to make you hate her, so you would never try to look for her again…"
"She lied…" Jamal pointed.
Adam nodded. "And that was bad. But she did it because she loved you so much…" the angel looked at Andrew and then at Monica, "…that she was willing to give her own life to spare yours."
Big tears crossed Monica's cheeks at what she heard. Sheila had done the same than her to save the life of the man she so loved. That's why she had been sent to help Jamal, because she would do the same for Andrew with no argument.
"How did she die?" Jamal asked in a low voice, all he was hearing seemed too much to be taken all at once.
"Barely a couple of months after you left the neighborhood with your mother," Adam continued. "She argued with Markus for she swore she would never stop loving you. He got mad, he hit her and then shot her."
To Jamal that piece of news was as if he had gotten the shot himself. His legs grew weak and he fell to his knees again, crying. "No! Oh, God, no!"
"Hehehe… the good Markus…" Kathleen's voice was heard then. "He did a good job in condemning himself! He loved her, you know? But he never repented, not even in jail. Instead he signed for his place in hell when he killed two more men and then committed suicide still enjoying what he had done!"
"Sheila!" Jamal sobbed. "I never knew…"
"She truly loved you, Jamal," Monica murmured kneeling at the side of her assignment. What the angel said next were the words that came directly form her heart. "For when you really love someone, you are always willing to give up your own life if that means the one you love the most will be safe."
Andrew could sense there was a meaning hidden in Monica's words and his eyes shouted his need for an explanation. Adam read that as what he then said only served to confirm Andrew's feelings. "Monica is right, Jamal. Sheila loved you and she still does. Her sacrifice shows that… as I only know one other person who did the same…" Adam met Monica's eyes, "… to spare Andrew's life from the menace of the demons…"
"AND WE ARE NOT GIVING UP SO EASILY!" Kathleen surprised all the angels that were still in shock to hear about Monica's secret sacrifice. From behind Kathleen, dozens of dark figures appeared and surrounded the angels, holding them so the wouldn't move. Kathleen then walked to Andrew and took his chin violently. "I said I wanted you and I'll have you!"
"NO!" Monica's desperate shout made her turn. The angel had taken by surprise the demon that was holding her and she had freed herself to jump towards her ex friend and push her away of Andrew. "Leave him alone!"
The dark figure that was holding Andrew moved then to grab the Irish angel, freeing the blond one. As if in a cue, all the angels tried to get rid of their captors. Amidst the confusion, Andrew lost Monica, who had been taken by the demon. "MONICA!" he shouted when he saw her being taken to the dark road.
"ANDREW!" she shouted back.
"This is all my fault!" Jamal exclaimed.
"Yes, it is, my friend!" Gregory informed him. "Now, you come!"
"God, please forgive me!" Jamal shouted when the demon tried to pull him. "God, please help us!"
At the mere mention of His name, a bright light surrounded them all and for a second there was nothing but silence, and then the yelling of the dark figures that ran towards the darkness where they had come from.
"COME BACK!" Kathleen and Gregory's voices were ordering, but it was too late as their partners were now gone, Monica included. When light seemed to subside a little, the angels could easily recognize six tall figures with bright swords in their hands: the archangels.
"Special help," Andrew murmured and Sam nodded.
"Get out of here in the name of God!" the archangel Uriel said pointing his sword to Kathleen and Gregory. "Go back to where you belong now that His name has been evoked!" The demons seemed to vanish in the thin air not before Kathleen smiled devilish and murmured a "We've got something we wanted…"
The archangel Micah was helping Jamal to stand up and he told him gently, "You've been forgiven, Jamal Burgham. God is waiting for you." He then helped the man's soul to arrive where Sam, Adam and Andrew were waiting for him. "Go now."
Adam placed a hand on Jamal's shoulder and Sam waited for Andrew to do the same, but the blond angel didn't move. He was still looking towards thee darkness, in shock, unable to move. He was thinking about what Adam had said about Sheila, about how she had sacrifice her own life for Jamal's and now Monica had done the same. The demons had taken her and he didn't know what to do. That was something he couldn't allow to happen…
"Son?" Sam asked trying to take him out of his thoughts.
"Monica…" Andrew murmured in a low voice.
Only then the rest of the angels noted that in the confusion she had disappeared. "They took her!" Rafael voiced what no one else wanted to say.
Tess met Andrew's eyes, knowing the same terror was written in her face, but she just shook her head before Micah talked again, "Andrew, go now. Take him Home now."
"Micah!" he pleaded.
"There she is!" Rafael and Emma said at the same time. They all turned to see the seventh and missing archangel, Gabriel, who was carrying Monica on his arms, emerging from the darkness with his bright sword on the waist.
Tess practically ran to her angelgirl. Gabriel made her seat on the ground and soon all the angels were surrounding her. How Andrew wanted to run and take her in his arms and never let her go! A little bit after, she lifted her face to look at Jamal, Sam, Andrew and Adam, who were about to leave. "Sheila loves you, Jamal," she said in the weakest voice, crying softly. "When you love someone, you do whatever it takes to keep him safe… even if that means to give up your own life and hurt him so badly… in the name of love." At her last words, she met Andrew's eyes and saw the tears shinning there. It was a physical pain now to hold him, to feel his arms around her soothing her aching heart and erasing the memories of the darkness she had seen so recently. Yet, knowing he had a job to do, she lowered her face to break his gaze.
His heart broke in a thousand of pieces, a battle between sadness and regret in his mind. Andrew saw Monica avoiding his gaze and knew that he had lost her. Immediately, he felt how great was what he had lost with her.
He lowered his head too, placed a hand on Jamal's shoulder and walked him with Adam and Sam to the meeting of His Lord, His savior and the only one that could mend the broken heart of two angels that had shared the purest love for what now looked like a very short time…
The end
