In Your Eyes I get a Glimpse of Heaven

Chapter 12: Following Orders or Her Heart

Gabrielle silently unlocked the door to her house and took a few hesitant steps inside.

"GABRIELLE MICHELLE!"

Gabi winced, "Nice to see you too Mom."

"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"

She looked upwards, "What? You couldn't tell her?"

"Gabrielle! Answer me."

"Didn't Uncle Bob and Uncle Jay tell you I was helping out a few friends?" she asked trying to fake innocnece.

"They told me some crack and bull story you were going to London to help Loki and Bartleby."

She pushed the door the rest of the way open to reveal Bartleby and Loki standing beside her, Azreal was dedicated to staying back at the stairs.

"Now do you believe them?"

"How... I... What?"

"Form sentences Mom, I know you can do it. You've done it before!"

She glared at her and Gabi immediately backed up, "Mom, They told me to go do it, I expected them to have told you!"

"Who?"

"Metatron, or Serindipty or Rufus, Or any of them." She glanced at Loki, "Or you."

He glared at her for a moment before he looked at Bethany, "She's telling the truth, I really thought they would have told you."

"We had a reason for withholding that information."

Gabi just looked at him, but Bethany jumped. "Why don't you make any noise?"

He ignored the last comment, "We needed her to do this on her own, If we had told you, you would have rushed after her. We couldn't let that happen."

"Why not?"

"We needed to see how she would react in specific situations and if she would follow orders..." he said looking stern, "Or her heart."

"That was a test?! You were testing me? I could have been killed!" She said, her hands now out of her pockets and forming fist with trouble, "They could have been killed!"

"What happened to your hands?"

She immediately shoved her hands back in her pockets, "Nothing."

"Let me see them then."

She sighed and held out her hands, they had been pourly bandaged.

Bethany walked over to her and pulled her hand towards her, unwrapping the bandages despite Gabi's protests.

"Gabrielle..." Bethany said a hand covering her mouth, "How did this happen?"

"Ask him." She said glaring at Metatron, "Tell her, tell her all about the mission you sent me on. Tell her about all the trouble I went to to HELP and all you told me was to DAMN someone I cared about! Someone who has been there for me when EVERYONE else wasn't!" she yelled, "HE DOESN'T DESERVE TO GO BACK THERE AFTER WHAT HE DID FOR ME!" she screamed, pulled away from her mother and walking towards Metatron.

"Gabrielle..."

"NO! Don't Gabrielle ME!" she screamed, her face flushed with anger, "YOU ORDERED ME TO SEND HIM BACK! HOW COULD YOU ORDER ME TO DO THAT? Send someone there! Someone who cared about me, someone who showed me kindness, someone who saved my life, someone who could comfort me and listened to me when I talked... How could someone who did so much for a girl like me deserve to be sent there?"

"He doesn't."

"What?" 3 different voices said.

"As I said, we were testing your ability to do what you think is right. We can't call all the shots all the time, we have to know that you can do what is right when we're not there. No matter what you have been told before."

She looked confused, "You... You wanted me to save him?"

"Yes."

"...Oh." She shook her head still not getting it but giving up the fight.

"Bartleby, Loki. Welcome back." He said crossing his arms sternly, "You know what you have to do, listen to her, protect her. No matter what, she is more important."

"What about Azreal?"

"We have no control what will happen, he's still damned, but if he changes his ways he may be freed from hell and reincarnated into a human. But he has to stay alive and on earth long enough for that to happen."

She nodded and he was gone.

She sighed, "This is gonna be a long lifetime."