++++++ Short but sweet-like all things in life.

A special good luck to a friend who has a job interview today.

Fingers are crossed! Chickens have been sacrificed. Good luck!

I hope you enjoy.

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Six

"It's alive!" Talia screeched when I sat upright in bed gasping for air.

I shot Talia my best bitch glare and threw my legs over the side of the bed. Looking around I realised that I wasn't in my apartment anymore but in a poorly decorated bedroom with some of my stuff dumped in the corner. I rubbed my head, feeling a huge lump in the back whilst cursing John Constantine for hitting me on the back of the head. "Fuck off, Talia."

"What a way to treat your sister," she huffed.

"Well you tried to have me killed," I reminded her.

There was a soft knock on my door and a woman came in holding a tray of food. "You're awake," she smiled. "Hi-I'm Zed, Zed Martin."

"Try again sunshine," I told her. "Not many people have the ability to successfully lie to me and I don't think you're one of them." I struggled to my feet, all my limbs were stiff and sore, like I'd just gotten over a bad dose of the flu or I'd run a marathon unprepared.

She paused. "Mary Martin. My name is Mary Martin."

"And you go by Zed?" I asked her, shaking my head. "Well-I'm Tessa. Tessa Morgan." I held my hand out for her and she shook it. The moment we touched, she went sort of rigid and yanked her hand away. "You're clairvoyant," I observed. "I've seen a few clairvoyant's in my life time. They didn't really like me that much to be honest."

She shook her head. "No-it's not that-I've never been kicked out before. It's like you kicked me in the head. My brain hurts. Anyway-I made something for you to eat. When you come out just follow the string okay. Don't wander off. You could get lost."

She left me alone to sort myself out. Once I was done, I ignored the food, not feeling particularly hungry in the slightest. I came out of the room to see a bit of red string tied to the door handle, with a shrug, I untied it and bunched it up as I followed it along. Eventually I found myself in what reminded me of Robert's secret room. There we did all kinds of things like magic and research. I guessed this was kind of the same thing. There were three figures sitting at one of the tables in the room where my dagger was sitting on the table surrounded by books. "Hey!" I shouted. "That's mine!"

John looked up at me and laughed. "I hate to break it to you love but this isn't yours. Where did you get this?"

I shrugged. "It was on my doorstep the night I first met you guys. There was a letter from a guy claiming to be my father."

"It's covered in some pretty damn powerful protection spells," Chas spoke. "Just like you were. Now you're not. The trip back here was dangerous."

"Whatever you are, the demons now seem to want a piece," John told me. "Surprised you even lived this long to be honest."

"He's got a point," Talia agreed. She hovered beside me with a grin on her ghostly face.

"Your ghost is annoying," John growled.

I raised an eyebrow. "Try living with that." I grabbed my dagger off the table. "So you said this isn't mine-what exactly is it?"

John pushed a book over to me. "The description is pretty vague but after spending four days trying to translate the Enochian on the blade we found it. That's the Michael Sword."

I snorted. "It is not. It's a knife."

"The inscription is accurate," Chas assured me. "We guess that maybe it could turn into a sword."

"Yeah and I can turn into a rat," I deadpanned. "You guys are insane. Can you hear what you're saying?" Waiting for an answer, I realised that Chas and Zed weren't moving. "Oh son of a bitch."

John looked around. The two of us spotted Manny standing by a table holding a golden mask. "You know one of these days you could just call before you drop by," he suggested.

"Rumours and whispers are humanity's business," Manny replied, "but in the last few days, Heaven has been abashed with whispers and rumours of this girl's existence."

I raised an eyebrow. "What do you know about me that I don't?" I snapped. "Because everyone seems to know something that I don't." I slumped down on a couch beside Talia who stuck her tongue out at the angel.

"Don't make me banish you, ghost," the angel warned her.

"Hey! If anyone's gonna threaten my sister it will be me," I warned him. I stood up and held my ground in front of my sister. "Back the fuck off, fly boy."

"As much as you don't wish to admit it, killing you would be rather easy," Manny informed me. "Human's have such fragile bodies to house something as important as a soul." He wrapped his hand around my neck, "all I need do is snap it lie a twig."

"Manny, remove your hand immediately." The voice spoke before the speaker appeared. From behind the frozen Zed and Chase appeared a man simply wearing jeans, boots and a black shirt underneath a plaid shirt. You wouldn't give him a second thought if you saw him on the street.

The angel paused and stepped back. "Forgive me, sir."

"You ever come near Tessa and Talia Morgan again and I will remove your wings and cast you down to the earth you love so much," he warned dangerously. The angel vanished and he turned to look at me. "Tessa, Tessa, Tessa. We give you every device available to heaven and earth to protect yourself and still you manage to get into trouble."

"Who are you?" I asked.

"Tessa!" Talia hissed. "This is Michael."

I frowned and looked down at the picture of an angel with a sword. "You don't look like Cate Blanchett."

"Tessa!" Talia gasped.

The angel, Michael, laughed. His laugh was a booming kind of sound that in any other environment would be infectious. "Tessa, you are so much like your mother it's frightening."

"You knew my mother?" I asked him. "Are you one of her many, many boyfriends who took off after finding out she had kids?"

The ghost groaned. "Tessa how dumb are you? This is our father!"

I gave him the once over and sighed. "Well here I thought you'd be bigger."

Talia threw her hands up in the air and disappeared completely.

"You and I need to talk," he spoke.

++++++ On a slight side note, I have decided to pair Tessa with someone from Arrow/my Arrow FanFic. Points if you can guess who it is. And it is not a man. ++++++