Seconds later shohei was inside a living room puking mostly stomach acid on the floor.

"Hey, you okay?" Urd said to him as he picked himself up off the floor.

"Yeah, I think." he said wearily. "I'll go get something to clean this up."

"No, don't bother, I will." Urd said as she headed for the door.

"Oh, Urd are you back already?" a voice said from the hall.

"Uh, yeah. About that Belldandy..." Urd said nervously. Shohei watched as a blond woman rounded the corner to enter the room.

"We, uh, have a guest. He he." Urd said. Belldandy, simply smiled and welcomed him, then left the two alone.

"I don't really want to impose on you guys." Shohei said once they were alone.

"Oh, non sense besides, where else do you have to go? Just go take a bath and figure it out tomorrow." Urd said, after giving him directions to the bathroom.

Shohei did as instructed, and half an hour later was soaking in a tub full of hot water. Despite the warmth, he felt a chill run down his spine. He was alone now, truly all alone. Even living alone, he had known he could always go back home. But now he couldn't. What would he do tomorrow? If his father had gotten him evicted and even locked up his stuff, its was safe to say he would be blacklisted. He would be lucky to get any kind of job that paid.

"Hey, Shohei? I'm getting you clothes." came the all to close voice of Urd.

"Um, okay!" he said nervously.

"You sure you don't want some help in there?" she asked innocently.

"Nope, I'm just fine! Thank you." he said too loudly.

"Okay." she said and he could have sworn he heard her smirk.

Urd left the bathroom with Shohei's wet clothes in a basket and headed down the hall to the find a spot to hang them. They had no dryer, so they would not dry until tomorrow. She knocked lightly on Belldandy and Keiichi's room.

"One moment," she heard Belldandy call out. There was some shuffling then she appeared.

"Yes Urd?" she said, her cheeks flushed.

"I uh, kinda need to borrow some of your husband's clothes." she said, feeling unusually embarrassed.

"No problem," She said as she shut the door. There was more shuffling, a few bumps, then she returned with some shorts and a t shirt. "Will this work?" she asked.

"Yeah," Urd said as she turned to leave.

"Do you want to talk about anything?" Belldandy asked her, putting her hand on her sisters shoulder.

"Not really. Its just been a long day for me. First I get fired, then some boy I met along time ago suddenly turned into a man and I find out he just wasted a wish from the goddess help line on a conversation with me. And to make it worse, he threw away his family for this. I just-" she sagged against the wall and rubbed her head.

"Well, it has been along day," she agreed, "just get some sleep and think about it tomorrow. Every thing seems better in the sunlight." she said with a warm smile.

"Yeah, I guess your right." Urd said, then continued, "I'm just not sure how I feel about him, and all this. I mean, who wastes a wish like that just to talk to some one?"

"You keep saying it was a waste. But to him, it was the only thing that really mattered."

"I just feel guilty, some how. It would have been better if he made a wish like Keiichi's did. That I could handle. I just don't know-" she said as she softly banged her head against the wall.

"Just follow your heart. You would not be this upset if he meant nothing to you."

"I better get these clothes to him." Urd said suddenly as she left.

an hour later Shohei found him self wearing dry clothes and sleeping on a spare futon in the living room. He listened to the sounds of the old house, the weird ticking and groaning of the structure. It was like the house it self was a living thing. Kyoko was right. He didn't know what would happen tomorrow, he might never see Urd again for all he knew. But it was better this way. There would be no regrets. What ever happened, he would try his best.

Morning came as Shohei was woken up by the sunlight streaming in from the window. Sitting up and trying to shake off the nightmare he put away the futon and headed down the hall towards the smell of food wafting though the house.

"Good morning!" Belldandy said to him as she stirred something on the stove.

"Oh, hello." He said, unsure of were he stood in all this. As if sensing his discomfort, she turned to him and smiled as she spoke.

"Shohei, please feel welcome here. You are a friend of Urd's so please feel at home." she said, her smile warm and affectionate. His reply was cut off as Keiichi walked in and sat down at the table, followed closely by Urd.

"He, wasn't there a third one here?" Shohei asked.

"There was, but Skuld got called back to heaven for a promotion." Urd said as she slid into a chair. "Well don't just stand there, sit down and eat." she said patting the chair next to her. As the rest sat down and the food was served the conversation turned to the days events.

"Well, I have to be off, Hasegawa has been begging me for some help in the club, and since I figured it was my day off anyways, I thought it wold be fun." Keiichi said between bites of food. "She was really come into her own, you should see her, she sounds like a real club leader now."

"Well that is a surprise She was always so quite," Urd noted.

"Well, after some house cleaning I'm off to the market for dinner and to run some errands. What about you, Urd?" Belldandy asked as she turned to her sister.

"Well, I thought I would see whats left of my room, some of that stuff goes bad with age." she replied without ever really looking up.

"And what about you, Shohei?" Belldandy asked him, fixing him with a kind but all too penetrating look.

"Well, I am going to see what I can do for work. Pretty sure my father had me fired."

Keiichi was about to ask something, but a hand on his shoulder from Belldandy shifted his focus back to his food.

"Well, thanks for breakfast, Belldandy." Urd said as she suddenly got up and left leaving most of her food.

"Wonder what that was all about?" Keiichi asked with worry on his face.

Shohei had finished his, so he picked up his and Urd's plates and dropped them in the sink before excusing himself. He had to find a job after all.

Urd, eldest of the three Norms sat in her chemist lab toying with a half empty bottle, not really doing anything but waiting for Shohei to leave. She glanced up at the clock, he should be gone by now.

And why does it bother you so to see him? Asked an all to familiar voice.

"Stay out of this Elegance." She said to her angel who since they had be reunited had developed a bad habit of poking her head into Urd's issue.

Well I am the reflection of your soul, what did you expect? My wings are half black too, you know.

"Well that doesn't mean I have to like it!" she yelled out loud.

But the question is, do you like him?

"Him who." she muttered.

Sho-

"You don't have to say his name!" she yelled at her angel.

Why does he bother you so much? World of Elegance asked.

"I don't have to answer that. No go away." She said, irritation and anger in her voice.

Your right, I don't have to ask. She said in a sad tone.

"I'm sure Belldandy doesn't have this problem." she muttered and went back to the wall of bottles to find something to keep her self busy trying not to think if her stubborn angel.

The setting sun was picture perfect, dipping low over the horizon, the warm glowing orange orb settling happily into the sea. But as Shohei stood there overlooking the bay, his feelings were anything but. After spending the entire day looking for a job only to be told rudely 'go away' by anyone even remotely in his field he was left irritated as just how bad his day had been. Not even MgRonalds would hire him.

So here he stood there looking at a perfect sunset and wondering if he would be able to find any employment. Sighing, he shook his head to clear the unhappy thoughts and started walking back to the shrine were he was currently staying.

He wondered how Urd's day went. She seem upset this morning and he hoped she could sort it out. What did he really know about her? She was a goddess, but what did a goddess really do? And what about her black and white angel? Were they still together?

Too many questions, not enough answers. But what ever her problem was, he wanted to help. Problem was, he wasn't sure what he could do. He was after all just a mortal. He had almost reached the shrine when he again stopped to look over the bay, the stars glistening and over the water competing with the lights of the city. It really was a wonder sight. Its was funny how he never stopped to notice these simple pretty things until he had lost everything. Well, if he had lost everything it was a fair trade for him. Urd was back in his life again. Against all the odds, even the heaven them self's had decided that his feelings were worthy to be granted. That thought made him feel a little better, enough to go back to the shrine and face the rest of them. Keiichi had some kind of job working with motorcycles and Belldandy seem to fill in as the happy housewife. Wait, was she a house wife? Did mortals and goddesses do that kind of thing?

Walking up to the shrine, he knocked politely

"Hello?" Urd said as she opened the door to see who it was. Looking at him, she spoke again. "You liver here, you don't have to knock, ya know." she said stepping aside.

"How was your day, Urd?" he asked as he walk inside pausing to take off his shoes.

"Isn't that my line?" she said with a wiry smile.

"Urd, is that Shohei? Dinner is almost ready." came the voice of Belldandy from down the hall.

"Well, what are you waiting for, lets go eat," Urd said with a bit on annoyance and abruptly turned and walking away from him. Yep, she still seems upset. With him maybe? Not wanting to think about it too much, he followed her at a bit of a distance to the kitchen were a full meal greeted them. As they sat down and he listened to the talk of their day and felt a pang in his heart. His family had never did this, any meals were spent in silence or him being lectured by his father. This felt like a family, a real family and not just the domestic business matter his father had sired to keep his financial business going.

Urd sat down and picked at her food. Goddess did not need to eat, but Belldandy seem to enjoy this kind of thing, and her food was second to none. She just didn't seem to have an appetite, even for Belldandy's legendary cooking.

You should eat before they worry about you.

Shut up, you not my mother. Urd said mentally to her angel.

I'm worried about you. You have never been like this, talk to me.

I don't need to talk to you.

Then maybe talk to Shohei? Elegance asked hopefully.

"JUST SHUT THE HELL UP, DAMN YOU!" Urd yelled out loud as she slammed her fist on the table, cracking it.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to rattle on, Urd." Keiichi said, looking half between worry and scared.

"Please excuse me." Urd said as she got up and left to her room shutting the door and placing a seal on it even Belldandy would have trouble opening. She paced back and forth as she waited for the rage to subside. Elegance was right, this was unlike her. Maybe it was just the stress. Getting a new position at the goddess help line, her asshole of a boss, the stress that had piled up until it blew up, the fact that she left her boss in a pretty large crater, her getting fired. Damn it, she was dealing with a lot. And then he had to show up out of nowhere. And then to top it all off, the Almighty him self had contacted her, giving her instruction to be at a park and meet some one. Right after she had been fired and banished to the earth.

But the worst part of it was...was... She wasn't really sure what the worst part was. Shohei had been some one special to her, he had taught her she still had that innocent part in her soul, somewhere. Seeing World of Elegance for the first time had been a shock she never really recovered from. Those black wings, and burning eyes made it all to real to her that she was not a goddess, not really. She was half, and the other half was what scared her. Her fear of her self, the letdown knowing she would never be pure like her sister, so instead she had taken that fear out on her angel, the one person who was closest to her. then the guilt of all those years. And now she had done it again.

"Hey, Elegance, are you there?" nothing.

"Please come out and talk to me, I'm sorry." she said waiting. "Listen, I'm sorry, I just lost my temper okay? I really miss you, I don't want to lose you again." she said as a tear rolled down her cheek. "Please." she whispered.

Well, I guess if you put it that way...

"Hey listen, I'm sorry."

You should be. She said her tone condescending.

"Don't get all high and mighty on me!"

I thought you said you were sorry.

"I am!" she yelled.

Just admit it, you like Shohei. You think what he did was sweet. She said in that irritating all knowing tone she knew she had picked up from Urd.

"I don't like him! I just feel sorry for him, that's all!" she yelled again.

But what if I like him?

"You, like him? What the hell for? He worthless, no job, threw away his future for some stupid dream he had as a kid. What kind of idiot does that? He is a nobody. Well if you want him, you welcome to him." She said still angry. But World of elegance seem to be quiet down after that.

Shohei had been walking back to his room when he over heard Urd yelling at her self, almost having a conversion with her self. Goddess don't go crazy, do they? He paused just a minute too long before his sense of right and wrong kicked in and he started to leave, but not before he hears her yell.

"-worthless, no job, threw away his future for some stupid dream he had as a kid. What kind of idiot does that? He is a nobody." she yelled in an angry voice that caused chills to run down his spine and filled him with fear only a goddess could do. He bolted for the room Belldandy had set up for him and grabbed some covers and hid under them, desperately wanting sleep to take him away from all this as he felt hot, bitter tears run down his face. How could he have been so stupid? So blind? He was holding on to a fairy tale, had thrown away his life for a childish dream. She was a goddess, who was he to even hope to be with her?

Bitter thoughts and tears filled his world until at long last sleep filled his world.

Sleep was a funny thing for a Goddess, and even more strange for a Angel. As Urd slept, Elegance peeked in on her dream. An Angle's life was spent by long periods of boredom. Most of the time it was a shared boredom, her boredom being felt by Urd, and Urd's life being felt by Elegance. All in all, it really was not what mortals would call boredom. But with Urd sleep by choice, a deep dreamless sleep, Elegance decided to make her move. It wasn't like she could really go against what Urd wanted in her heart. She might say something, but it was her heart that elegance was tied to. Urd was so stubborn at times, and Elegance right along with her. Most of the time the two were in sync, much like twins, but even more so.

But not this time. Elegance knew Urd had feelings for Shohei, confused, conflicting feelings. As did Elegance. But for her, she wanted to find out where they led, unlike Urd who was uncharacteristically hesitant in matters of her personal love life. But Elegance had decide, and technically she did have her permission.

Gathering her physical form, she stood next to where Urd was sleeping, kissing her gently on the forehead before moving through walls and hallways to the room Shohei was sleeping in. she felt her self blush as the shared memories from Urd as she looked at his face, so calm and peaceful. Gathering her courage, she knelt down next to him, and touching his forehead with her fingers, she entering his dream.

Suddenly she was transported to a large house and a dinner table. The room was overly large, and the table fit the room, but not the family. Elegance saw a six year old Shohei, with his father and mother both eating in silence. She could feel the apprehension in Shohei as she took another bit of food. She stayed in the shadows of his mind, unwilling to interact in his dream, mostly out of fear. He was in love with Urd, not her. To him, she he saw her as separate and didn't feel the same way about her as he did Urd, he could not fully understand the bond between angel and goddess.

Suddenly his father started talking. She could not make out the words, only the feelings coming from him. So vivid, so powerful and so negative were the words his father made him feel. Outrage at being called a failure when he knew he was anything but. Shame, at the fact that he could not please his father. Desperation as he waited for his mother to say something. Anything to help him.

And it didn't stop there. The scene shifted again, this time as an thirteen year old shohei was berated by his father for turning down a confession from a girl. A girl from a very powerful family. Again, shame as he wondered if he should have accepted her for his family sake. Pain, as his father told him again and again how much he had done for him, his pounding of shame into him for not thinking of the family. Pain as the words brought him to the verge of tears as he realized he had been selfish. Elegance watched from the shadows as they both struggled to not cry at the dinner table. Unable to sit by anymore, dream or not, she walked out of the shadows and into the light.

"Shohei, lets go some were else, okay?" she said, her black and white wings fully visible as he turned to her.

"But me dad will get mad at me if I leave." he said worriedly.

"Don't worry, its just a dream." she said as she leaned over and reached out for his hands.

"But..." he said as he trailed off, glancing back at his father in fear.

"It will be okay, I will keep you safe. Will you trust me?" she asked, kneeling down, her face right next to his.

"I...okay." he said before turning to his father. "Father, I am not feeling well, may I go to my room?" he asked formally.

"What ever. Run away and play games like you always do." his father said with a dismissing gesture.

Elegance followed Shohei as he led her down halls and stairs up to his room. It was a large room, filled with the latest of gaming systems. Not just that, but puzzle and books lined the walls, with a neat desk in one corner and a single stuffed bear that Shohei ran over and hugged, burying his face into it.

"So, any better?" she asked as she sat down next to him. All he could do in nod as he held the bear tight to fight tears. Elegance wrapped her hands and wings around him, sheltering him from the evils of his mind in a cocoon of divine feathers. No, that wasn't right, the evils of his memories not dreams. After a while she felt is fear subside and felt something else take its place.

"Um, can you let me go now?" he asked, blushing.

"Why, don't you like my hug?" she asked, just a bit of teasing in her voice.

"Yes, I mean no," he said blushing even more.

"Oh your just so cute!" she said as she deliberately pulled him tight to her in a hug that left his head between her breast.

"Um, could you please let me go?" he asked, as blood trickled from his nose. She did as he asked and he all but ran to the other side of the bed and sat there figiting with his hands.

"You know," she said after a few minutes, "this is only a dream."

"What?" he said, looking into her eyes for the first time. "A dream? How do I know? How can you prove it to me?" he asked, suddenly serious beyond his dream state years.

"Easy, just wake up and I will be there. Just don't freak out, okay?"

"Okay?" he said.

"Ready? Three, two, one..."

Shohei work up in the middle of the night, unsure of what woke him. He remember a dream about an angel to was talking to him on his bed in his old house. She had...did something. That house usual meant nightmares, but this time he didn't feel the usually panic when he awoke. Some thing she said he remembered, she told him to wake up. Sitting upright and fully opening his eyes for the first time he saw real as ever, the angel sitting at his feet.

"Holy shit!" he yelled and scrambled back into the corner, her slightly glowing eyes and black and white wings far more imposing and frightening that in his dream.

"Your real?" he managed to croak out as his senses returned.

Yes. She said in his mind without moving her lip.

"Are you, part of Urd?" he asked, his mind racing.

Yes. I am an angel, and she is my goddess. You might say I AM her.

"What?" he asked puzzled.

When a goddess reaches a certain age, she is given a angel egg. The angel inside grows with her goddess, their souls become one and the same. I am the reflection of her soul, her very essence. Her feelings are my feelings, Shohei.

"But Urd seems mad at me. Does that mean you mad it me too?" he asked, his head still fuzzy from sleep.

Urd is not mad at you, she is just confused. Conflicted.

"Then why are you here and not her?"

Lets just say I have the same feelings as her, but I did what she usually might have done.

"So you two don't always agree?"

Do you always agree with yourself? Don't you often feel conflicted and confused?

"Yeah, I guess I kinda get it. Then can you tell me what is bothering her so much about me?"

Well, that's not really for me to say. She said looking away.

"This feels like cheating on her, somehow."

Why? She is part of me, and I am part of her. Two half's of a whole.

"I still don't feel right about it..." he trailed off.

Then ask her tomorrow. Please? She asked with a pitiful expression that made him want to not disappoint her. Her wings drooping dramatically didn't much help his resolve either.

"okay." he said.

Can I visit you in your dreams again Shohei? She asked with a mischievous smile that he had seen in Urd far too many times.

"Um, sure." he said as he made his way slowly to his futon. "Say," he said, pausing before pulling the cover over him, "Do all angels wear as little as you do?"

Why, do you not like it? She asked with a shy smile and covered herself with her wings.

"Um, no, not exactly." he stammered.

Would you like it if I wore even less? She asked her wing covering her up to her mouth.

"No! I mean, well, I'm a guy so yes, but, no, no!" he stammered as his cheeks flushed red.

You don't sound sure of you self, Shohei. Well, maybe next time. She said with a smile and wink and she walked through the wall. Pausing on the other side of the wall, she sagged against it and sank to the floor, her hand on her chest. Shohei made her heart beat faster, made her want to do things with him... he was just so adorable. And sweet.

She hurried back to Urd before she woke up and shared their bodies once more.

"What did you do, legance?" Urd asked half asleep.

Nothing you wouldn't have done.

"That makes me worry for some reason." Urd mumbled in her sleep. Inside of Urd, World of elegance just smiled.