CHAPTER TWO – kindness
Ella had locked herself in her room after her confrontation with Frau.
She couldn't believe that she had actually hit him.
Closing her eyes she threw her back against her door and closed her eyes letting out a strangled sigh. Slowly her body slid down as she took her true form wrapping her wings around her as her arms draped loosely over her knees, hugging them into her chest.
"What are you?"... "Ella is that even your real name?" she sneered as his voice reeled through her mind.
'His going to find out, damn it he even managed to find a feather of mine. And all I could do was let my emotions flicker across my features and he just had to notice, I just basically gave him more reason to be suspicious of me.'
Her mind was running wild as she kept her eyes shut closed tightly. That was when footsteps snapped her out of her brooding. Her head snapped up as she quickly took her human form and checked for any feathers which could lead to the further demise of her cover. She was well aware that the sun had started rising and the sister's would be coming to fetch her yet she wasn't in the mood to be around anyone. Her simple exchange with Frau, though tense as always left her mood soured to no end.
Scrambling to her feet she rushed to her bathroom and showered ignoring the knocking on her door before she slipped into a simple pair of black shorts and a light blue vest before she threw herself down on her bed pulling her white blanket right over her head willing herself into a deep slumber.
She woke up to her door been half broken down as she glanced out her window only to see she had ended up sleeping most of her morning away. It was when her door was flung open and Castor and Frau entered that she scrambled up, glaring defensively at the two men and seemingly completely forgetting her state of undress, not that she could be bother much about it. She wouldn't be the troubled little lamb she had been classified as if she did actually care. She smirked when she noticed Castor avert his gaze awkwardly only for it to turn into a cold glare when her eyes landed on Frau who clearly seemed to be enjoying his view.
"I must apologize for our entrance Ella, but the sisters seemed rather distressed when you failed to answer them earlier and when you didn't show up at breakfast or lunch they ended up very worried about your well being."
"Right." She muttered somewhat sarcastically. 'God damn it these people are going to kill me with their kindness.' She thought to herself as she cleared her throat gaining both men's attention. "Do you mind? I just want to be left alone and I especially don't want to be in his presence." She grumbled turning her back to them.
"You are not alone Ella, if you feel the need to talk we are always around to assist you."Castor smiled before turning and dragging Frau out with him closing her room door.
He turned to the tall blond bishop pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "There is something strange about that young woman, what have you done to her?" he gave the bishop in question a stern look.
Frau raised his brow. "What the hell why is it whenever someone has a problem with me it's immediately assumed that I did something wrong?" he grumbled, only to be swatted against the back of his head. "Ouch what the hell was that for!" he snapped looking over at Castor.
"Since she arrived at the church she seemed to resent you for something. I want to know what it is." Castor pushed at his glasses again before looking over at Frau.
"I picked up on it too, she knows me to well. But when I tried to confront her things just went south. I have my suspicions though as to what she actually is. She is no mere human. The last night I was walking around doing my rounds and I noticed she was in the garden, when I looked again she was gone and all that I found on the ground was this." He pulled out the perfect, glossy black feather and handed it to Castor who eyed it carefully.
"Did you ask her about this?" he looked from the feather to Frau who nodded in response.
"Her eyes widened slightly at the sight of it and then she just got defensive and out of nowhere punched me in my gut before she ran away and from there on I assume she locked herself in her room." He growled.
Castor looked at the feather carefully before giving it back to Frau. "It is no ordinary birds feather that." He spoke in a low voice as they continued walking along the vast corridors. "Try and find out as much as you can about her and we will also all do our best." Castor fixed his glasses before walking out into the courtyard and greeting the sisters so he could tell them that Ella was alright.
Frau looked up at the sky with a questioning look on his face when he spotted Ella watching him from the long passage with an unreadable expression on her face. He narrowed his eyes as he started walking to find her. He was adamant to find out what she was. Something kept nagging at him that she wasn't and he was rarely ever wrong.
Ella grumbled as she stomped along the corridors in her unique uniform she had made. Passing through the students she grumbled as they watched her some even trying to introduce themselves, only to be ignored by her. She turned around and noticed Frau following her. Letting out an irritated sigh she started running up stairs until she found herself on the roof. Turning around to look behind her she sighed when she noticed she had lost the bishop. But upon turning straight into his chest she let out a low guttural noise which sounded almost like a cat that had been cornered.
"What do you want?" She growled, enunciating each word carefully.
"Tell me what you really are Ella. I know that you are not a mere human." He stated his tone and expression serious as he watched her.
"Then what happens after Frau? You lock me away in a basement to rot for an eternity? Kick me out of the church? I literally have nowhere to go and it is all your fault!" she half yelled at him as she shook with rage.
She watched as the bishop looked at her as if she had lost her mind, raising his brow and cocking his head to the side. "What did I do to you? I only met you over a month ago when you first arrived here, before that I never even knew who you were." He answered her watching as she simply grew angrier.
"Humans confuse me, you practically smother me to death with your kindness and then you try and interrogate me. How sick are you!" she ground out before letting out a deep breath. Her eyes narrowed in a hawk like fashion as they didn't dare leave the bishops frame.
"So then my assumptions about you would be correct?" Frau stated bluntly watching as she irked at his words.
"Think what you want to." She growled out. She wasn't aware of how he had inched closer to her and when she looked again he wasn't even an arms distance away from her on the roof, his deep sapphire eyes watching her calculatingly as she frowned up at him in distaste.
"Then I will assume that you are not a human." He stated bluntly. "We know that feather I found wasn't from a bird." He watched her face which remained devoid of any emotion as she tried to glare a hole right through him.
But Ella found herself distracted as the late afternoon sun cast its golden glow over the two of them. For the first time she had managed to get a good look at Frau. From the way his blond hair shone like gold and fell perfectly spiked, to his deep sapphire eyes, his perfect nose and angular, defined jaw. He was handsome. But she scolded herself mentally as she averted her glare to the side. She didn't want him to have any chance to notice her inner turmoil as she stood there in front of him.
When she looked up again his smirk was back spread across his face in that infuriating manner he had. Rolling her eyes she grumbled a few curses under her breath. She was hating herself the more she stared at him. "Fine." She groaned almost painfully.
Frau watched as she took a step back and closed her eyes. Her long black hair lengthened that it hung down just above her ankles her pale blue eyes seemed to glow as she opened them to watch his reaction. His eyes widened as he watched two majestic wings unfold from her back with the same silky black feathers. She looked at him with an unreadable expression on her face.
"You're an angel." Frau stated as he looked her over.
She glared at him resisting the urge to face palm. "Well I'd believe that's rather obvious."
"Why exactly are your wings black?" he questioned.
She looked up at him and frowned at his lack of knowledge. "I am a fallen one."
"What did you do?" Frau was curious about her.
"I broke some rules… those rules that forbid certain things." She looked down at her feet in agitation.
"What is your real name?" Frau asked as he walked closer to her.
She looked up at him and sighed in a frustrated manner. "The Archangel Serenity but I just prefer Serenity when like this and I'd like to keep my real name unknown to everyone." She mumbled as she cast her gaze down at her bare feet.
"Oh but you know Castor most likely already knows about what you are." He smirked as he watched her glare at him again.
"That damn bishop and his stupid dolls." She growled out before taking her usual human form and crossing her arms under her chest.
"What exactly brings you here to this church?" Frau half demanded.
"What the hell is that meant to mean?" she snapped back at him.
"Well you could have gone to any church actually. You did mention you had been looking for this one but never produced a really sufficient answer." He retorted.
She raised a thin brow at him in disbelief. "Do I really need a reason to be here? I don't think so." She stated in a matter of factly voice.
"Tell me." The bishop simply grunted.
"No, why don't you go to that library and start reading proper books and not your perverted "novels". She snorted in distaste before turning away from him.
Frau stared at her, his face dropping. "Wait how the hell do you know about those?" he barked.
"Remember, because of you I had to dust all those books off. Well I found yours and I put them all outside Castors room door." She stated flatly.
"You did WHAT!?" She turned with a smug look and faced Frau.
"You should know I don't repeat myself." She hissed as she sauntered past him.
"Wait woman I wasn't done asking you questions." he half yelled out at her.
"Well I'm done answering you." She snapped back before slipping back into the building and walking towards her room.