Angels

Chapter 3

„What are you doing in a place like this?" she asked me curiously.

"I am always here. I-" I hesitated. "I live here."

She laughed at me but collected herself immediately. "Yes of course, you live in a library." she gibed.

"I read the book you are holding already." My eyes had fallen upon a book called. "Velvet Desire."

"Oh really? Is it good?"

"Yes it is. I like the way he describes tastes, scents, feelings." I explained to her. Feeling piercing eyes in my neck I realized that all my fellows were surrouding me, looking at me from everywhere.

"Might you want to go somewhere else? A library isn't the best place to talk, is it?" I suggested, hoping she would agree. I didn't want them to look at me like this, as though I was prey, or doing something forbidden. Just like a wolf looking at his prey.

(Cloud POV End)

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(Tifa POV)

His innocent appearance made me giggle. He was behaving as though he was still a boy. Unfamiliar with the big world out there.

"Let's go into the laboratory. I want to show you something." Feeling he might find it interesting we headed for the big glass door.

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After a few minute walk we arrived there. I locked the laboratory open and waited for him to walk inside.

"A lot of glass here." he said, eyeing various pieces closely.

"Yes, that's what you need in a laboratory. Come here, I want to show you something."

I dripped a bit of my blood under the miscroscope and looked through. "That's me, Cells. Look."

Gently I pushed him closer to the microscope. He looked through. "It's bright." he hesitated.

"So this is you? Cells?"

"Yes, I am a bunch of Cells and other stuff." I smiled at him. How come you didn't know, Cloud?

My pager beeped. "Sorry, I need to hurry to a patient, I'll be back in a second."

Rushing out of the laboratory I stopped for a second. "Don't go away, yes?"

I ran down the corridor as fast as possible. Around the corner and into the room I was ordered to. "What's the matter?"

"It's too late." a nurse approached me, putting away a pair of blood-drenched bandages.

So I lost another patient. Damnit, this week is just horrible. I felt my heart sank again, but this time it wasn't as bad, I had grown stronger.

I turned around on my heels to rush back to the laboratory, just to find it empty. He was gone. "Cloud!"

(Tifa POV End)

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(Cloud POV)

Slowly I strode down the streets. What would it be like, to fall, to become human?

I turned around the corner. I felt like paying a visit to the people in the little corner shop again.

Just as I turned around I saw her again. Dr. Lockheart. In the arms of a brunette and tall man.

I was invisible so I could approach them. I stood right behind the couple, his arm was wrapped around her waist. What would it be like to feel my arm there?

They were looking at rings and watches. She was laughing and beaming – she seemed happy. I closed my eyes listening to her thoughts. Though, considering I feel a certain something drawing me to her everytime, I wanted to know what she was thinking right now. Did she love this guy?

'This watch is way too expensive. Where might Cloud have gone to?'

Thinking about me? I decided to leave them alone. I would visit her later on again.

(Cloud POV End)

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"Jack, are you leaving already?" Tifa asked, as her partner put on his jacket.

"Yes sorry, business is calling."

He pressed a quick kiss onto her lips and left.

Cloud stood behind her for a while, hovering his hand over hers. He would go round the corner and come back in his visible form. He didn't want her to be alone.

"Dr. Lockheart." he exclaimed and waved. "Still out this late?"

"Y-Yes?" she stammered.

"Bad weather might come, you'd better head home." he said looking at the sky that indeed implied bad weather.

"You are right." she frowned. "Hey, care keeping me company? I could make us some tea."

Cloud nodded approvingly. "I would like to."

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Her little appartement hadn't changed at all. Still as messy as ever.

"I will make some tea immediately. Mind if I chop some vegetables for dinner next to it? You could have dinner with me today since I am alone." she suggested with a smile on her face. Cloud couldn't say no. "I would love to."

Tifa handed him the carrots and asked him to chop them into little pieces while she would prepare the rest. Glancing at him from the corner of her eyes to catch a glimpse on his work to see wheter he chopped them in the right size, she saw how he cut himself. Frozen from shock she dropped her knife. He didn't bleed. It went through his flesh like nothing. Her eyes widened as she fetched her knife and cut right through his hand. She felt it slice, she heard the nasty noise of a knife cutting through flesh, but he didn't bleed. Nothing.

"What- what's that?"

Quickly he wrapped a cloth around his hand pretending that it bled. "That hurt."

"No it didn't!" she exclaimed. "I cut you, damnit I cut you! I felt how the blade went through your flesh but you aren't bleeding!" she stammered. Tearing the cloth away she seized his hand. "Unharmed." she whispered.

"Who the hell are you!" she yelled at him and slapped him with the cloth. Cloud still holding the knife in shock put it away.

"I-" he hesitated. "I am an Angel."

"Yes of course and I am the Queen." she gibed. "Quit messing with me!"

"How else would you explain yourself then that I am unharmed, even though you cut me?" he asked softly, hoping she would understand.

"I don't believe in Angels." she hissed and turned around.

"Then you'd better start. Your patient, the one that died. He was destined to die, there was nothing you could have done. I came to get him. That's my job. Leading the living to the dead when their time has come. I believe that doctors are the only ones to trick fate."

"Are you on some kind of drugs?" she yelled again, piercing him with her eyes.

"I am not. For me being unable to feel, to taste." he hesitated. "to be human."

"You say, if I gave you something to drink or to eat, you wouldn't taste it?" she stammered again, wiping a few hairstrands out of her face.

"No I wouldn't." he retorted placidly. His hand reached for hers and held it as they stood in the kitchen. He was calm and collected, while she was upset.

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Quiet short I know, but I was busy lately and somewhat forgot to update and I finished what I had already started, Though all my ideas are somewhat sucked away. I can't quiet seem to write the chapters this smoothly anymore. But I'll try to keep updating. ;)

I hope anyways, that you liked this chapter, regardingless of it's length and all. Please review.