The Baby Dilemma Chapter 8
Torian grinned as he smelled Seth's cooking wafting out from the kitchen. He was glad he kept a well-stocked fridge if the smell was anything to go by.
"So you never did tell me how I can still be here when the past was changed," Abel hugged Torian against his side on the couch.
"Um, that's sort of why I had no problem babysitting Devi. He's the most powerful creature I've ever met, and not in a brute strength sort of way, but in a more versatile way. He can alter time and space, he can even alter the time and space in a person's head. Revert a grown man back into an infant in his mind alone. Well he sort of did that for us. He locked us in time, so that we could still exist. Unfortunately he didn't do that before you lost your big weapon, but at least he did it before you smartened up about loving me," Torian smirked.
"So we both owe him a great deal. And if you don't mind my asking, how did you become friends with your food?" Abel asked, kissing the top of his head. He felt Torian heave a great sigh.
"I was friends with an Angel Hunter named Silver. She's a real hard ass and she's saved my hide before. I hang around her all the time because her sense of duty and fury are inspiring. Then one day Devi walked in. We all wanted to kill him at first. The angels on our team weren't thrilled to have a demon join us,"
"But they didn't mind an angel hunter?" Abel asked, confused.
"She only hunts crazy angels that go around ripping humans apart, so they're okay with that because they do it themselves. Anyway, he needed our help and we needed his. It all ended up botched and we had to kill him to save the world. But then Silver was suddenly pregnant with an immaculate conception named Devi. It's all sort of screwed up. But we've been like family except when he was a child he kept trying to hide under my robes and I nearly ate him like five times before I took off for a while. You think he's bad now, you should've seen him as a child."
Torian clasped Abel's hand in his own, feeling the warmth there.
"While we're asking questions, how the hell is an idiot like Cain your brother? One apple fell a hell of a ways from the tree?" Torian kissed the hand that he held, trying to take away the harshness of what he had just said.
"It was different when we were kids. I was the one who hated humanity and he didn't seem to mind it at all. But it was fear that made me hate them. Fear does things to people. It completely warped my feelings about humans. I didn't see them as fragile creatures, I saw them as the monsters that wanted us dead. Then I saw firsthand what humans really were and I understood their fear was not all that much unlike my own. Maybe I felt that by protecting them I was protecting who I once was. Then Cain showed his true colors. He never loved humanity. He just pretended he did to make me look like a monster," Abel shook his head.
"Its okay, he's gone," Torian hugged him.
"Supper's ready!" Seth cried from the kitchen.