Life's Gifts
-Chapter 8-
After explaining what happened to the half breed named Daniel, Midnight just look's at Rowan with a shocked expression. He looks down at the vodka bottle pouring himself another drink in a shot glass, offering John or Angela some. Angela smiles shaking her head no as John does the same except without a smile, Rowan getting tired of standing up sits down in a chair across the small table from Midnight. He looks up at Rowan examining her for the first time taking in her appearance of a normal looking teenager, but also getting a strange aura from her, a powerful one. After taking a swig from the shot glass he looks at John,
"indeed she is just like you and very powerful maybe even a power equal to Angel's or Demon's combined."
Rowan's eyes go wide with shock,
"you mean I'm as powerful as any other Angel or Demon…?"
Midnight smirks nodding and Rowan smiles wide looking at her parents,
"does that mean I can fight those people with the weird faces now?
Midnight raises a eyebrow to John, John giving Rowan a serious expression.
"When I teach you all that I've been wanting to teach you then you can, your Mother has to help too."
"Ah c'mon! she'll just say not to!"
Angela rolls her eyes as Rowan whines,
"keep whining young lady and you wont get to kill anything period."
Rowan smiles,
"so you'll let me?"
Angela smiles nodding Midnight watching them he smacks the table with his hand to get Rowan's attention back,
"listen here young Constantine. There are thing's out there that would love to hurt you but you can't let them, be strong through this Rowan Constantine."
She nods comprehending Midnight's words as she gets up walking out with her parents as Midnight finishes his glass of vodka. As Rowan runs to the SUV Angela owns Angela and John take their time getting to the car,
"John what do you think of all this?"
"I don't know yet…I'll have to call in a favor and see if theirs any prophecies that can help us figure out even why Rowan's this powerful. "
"Call in a favor to who?"
Angela looks at him suspiciously as he grins wolfishly,
"just a very old friend."
They reach the car and all get in Rowan still having a happy grin on her face, as they get back to the bowling alley John stay's downstairs near the pay phone's, giving Angela the apartment keys to get in. As Rowan and Angela get upstairs John picks up the phone of one of the pay phones slipping a quarter in, and dialing the number to a woman who was his friend since pre-school. He sighs waiting hearing the phone ring on her side but no one pick up yet, suddenly a teenaged girl's voice comes on the line.
"Hello?"
"Yes can I speak to Stella please?"
"Um yeah hold on. Can I ask who's calling?"
"Yeah, John Constantine."
"John Constantine!"
"Yeah…Is there a problem?"
"No! No problem hold on a sec."
He suddenly hears the girl yelling for Stella and a smooth feminine voice comes on the line,
"hello this is Stella Frost….Hello John."
"Stella…Who was the girl I was just talking to a minute ago? She sounded surprised to hear my name."
"That was my Daughter Rayne. I've told her of the many adventures of you like bed time stories when she was little, I guess she never of thought that you were real."
John smirks rolling his eyes but then gets serious,
"Stella…I need you to do something for me. You owe me a favor."
She sighs,
"John you know I've given all of that up."
"I know but I do know that you have scroll upon scroll of prophecies and teaching's, hell even some from the Egyptian city of Alexandria, come on Stell you owe me this."
She smirks hearing her old nickname,
"fine what do you need me to look for?"
"my Daughter Rowan…She's like me only more powerful and I need to know why she's even like this. Thanks Stella."
"I'll do my best John but you know I might not find anything."
"That's alright just try to find something."
"How do I contact you, John?"
"You won't."
The line goes dead as John hangs up on Stella and she sighs putting the receiver back, Rayne looking at her Mother curiously as Stella gets up from the living room cough walking towards the basement door of their home. She opens the door walking down the wooden steps into the basement, all kinds of scroll's in bookcases lining the wall's down there, Rayne not far behind.
"Mom…You never said Mr. Constantine was real."
"I know and I wanted to keep it that way to protect you but your old enough now to understand."
Stella takes down one of the scroll's sitting down in a chair at a table turning on the desk lamp, all of this still in her basement. She slowly opens the scroll so not to damage anything,
"Rayne go get me a magnifying glass."
Rayne does as she's told and comes back with the glass giving it to Stella, Stella beginning to read. Rayne giving up on all of this walks back upstairs to the living room, Stella still reading on.
"Come on there has to be something here."
After hours of looking through hundreds of scroll's Stella comes upon one that is of the 16th century written in Latin by a man who was psychic, and of protestant religion. Stella beginning to read,
"there shall be one with equal powers of Heaven to protect the realm of the living from the forces of Hell when Lucifer will come to claim it?"
She raises a eyebrow at that wondering if this so-called psychic was even telling the truth about this, then continues on.
"The chosen shall lead Heaven through great battle on All Hallows Eve."
Stella's eyes widen.
John walks in the door smelling something good walking into the kitchen seeing Angela fixing something for dinner, he smiles.
"Where's that Daughter of ours?"
"In her room I expect…Reading as usual."
John smiles nodding his head as a thanks as he walks to Rowan's room walking inside finding her laying down on her bed reading,
"Rowan…I need to speak to you."
She lifts her eyes off of the page closing the book and setting it on her nightstand she looks at John,
"yeah?"
He sits down on the edge of the bed never taking his eyes off of Rowan,
"those people with the strange faces…The one that you killed their called half breeds. Some are nice and some are not nice, and when they do something bad they go back to Hell. When they do something bad it's called violating the balance, understand?"
She nods with a serious expression on her face as John keeps talking about Angels, Demons, Half breeds, Heaven, and Hell. Her eyes widen in shock,
"you've actually seen Heaven!"
John smirks from her expression nodding,
"sure did I just hope one day you'll see it too."
"I hope so too…I mean I've already seen Hell."
John nods sighing,
"well get some sleep you'll need it for tomorrow."
As John gets up Rowan just looks at him oddly,
"need sleep for what Dad?"
"I'm taking you with me tomorrow out in the city and hopefully they'll be a exorcism to perform…You'll help me."
A/n- Sorry it's taken me so long to update, alota stuff going on at school. So that's chapter 8 hope you like and I appreciate the comment's and reviews. Looks like John's gotta friend helping him out in the prophecy department, and he's taking Rowan to help him perform a exorcism if a possessed girl shows up! Guess she'll follow in John's footsteps sooner then she thought. R&R for more chapters, reviews always appreciated.