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Warning:This fan fiction is rated (M) AKA Lemon. This story is ABSOULTLY NOT suitable for children or teens below the age of 16 [So if you're under the age limit turn back now, come back when you old enough to read this. I'd rather not get flamed nor sued by parents whom are just looking for trouble in places their underage children should not be looking nor reading for that matter.

This story contains strong explicit adult themes and sexual ones such slight foreplay - as in hand sex, one-sided love, Attempted Rape, Explicit Sex or anything else mild to hard core kinky for that matter!, references to violence, and strong coarse language. If this disturbs you, do not read any further.

Notice: Trinity Blood War Continuum takes place one month after the events from the anime's finale episode 24 along with some elements, characters and things that will be used and taken from both manga's Rage against the Moons (RAM), Reborn on the Mars (ROM). In addition to some spoilers from stories untold notes left by Yoshida Sunao which he intended to finish off the manga series supposedly. Basically 50/50 will be used on both the anime and manga to those whom are more familiar with manga then others will see this implants as the story develops. Trinity Blood is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the Roman Catholic Church/the Vatican is portrayed as a military and spiritual power. The series also strongly implies major and controversial changes in the Church of present reality, such as women being bishops, cardinals as well as romantic relationships and marriages between members of the clergy. If this disturbs you of form or shape of or on imagination then do not read this story.

Trinity Blood: War Continuum - Chapter Thirty-Three: Part four – Children of the Past

Cain was there when they arrived. He smiled at their entrance. "I spoke to the commander, and to the scientist. Abel's going to be in holding for a few days, and he's going to get a lecture, but I did convince them not to send him away or anything."

"That's good." Esther's smile was a great deal more heartfelt.

At the sound of her voice, Seth's door cracked open, and then the girl flung herself out of her room and buried her face in Lilith's skirts. She hugged the woman tightly, then looked up at Esther. Her eyes were bright with hurt accusation. "You said you would come back and talk to me!"

"I know. I'm really very sorry. But I got lost on my way down to the holding area, and I couldn't find my way back. I'm very sorry I made you worry. And I didn't get much information on Abel for you. Next time, I'll be sure to ask for directions."

Seth looked up at Lilith, and she nodded. The confirmation made the child relax. "Okay."

Lilith smiled. "On that note, we should probably get some dinner." Esther was aware then of her stomach growling, and the four of them headed to the dining hall.

Phillip announced at dinner that night that Abel was being confined for two weeks. The rest of them nodded, and went back to their rooms, but Esther slept restlessly that night, and knew Lilith did as well. They were both thinking about Abel, and the future.

The next few days that passed were strange. It felt wrong, being without Abel. Despite his avoidance of her, she at least knew he'd been there. His absence was felt, mostly by Seth. She missed her older brother terribly, and spent long hours curled up with Esther or Lilith, her eyes dark and unhappy.

Esther woke early on the morning of the two weeks were up. She wanted to see Abel again, to ask if he was all right. Even if he brushed her off or ignored her, she wanted to speak to him. To her disappointment, Abel wasn't at breakfast with the others. She waited in the room for a few hours, hoping he would come by, then reluctantly left to stretch her legs.

Her feet and her troubled thoughts led her to one of the observation decks. It was one of the one's facing Earth, and she'd discovered it her first week. The view was comforting, soothing. It helped, to be able to look down and see the place that was her home, even if it looked slightly different from what she remembered. She wasn't really paying attention, until the door opened. Then she stopped, her heart suddenly pounding.

Abel was standing by the window. His hands were in his pockets, his back to her. His posture seemed relatively relaxed, but she couldn't be sure. At the sound of the door, he turned, blue eyes regarding her with the familiar look of wary anger and frustration, but also a slight air of puzzlement.

A million things went through her mind, that she could say. But some of them she knew she shouldn't say, and some of them felt, just wrong somehow. She finally decided to try to be neutral, and let him steer the conversation. She moved to the window. Abel turned to go, and she spoke quickly, hoping to stay him. "Please, you don't have to leave. I was just coming to admire the view. It's all right if you stay."

He didn't answer, but he didn't leave either. They stood in silence for a few moments, until she found something else relatively neutral. "Seth has missed you. I know she's been very worried about you."

"I know." Abel's voice was as neutral as her own.

She waited a moment, but he didn't seem inclined to speak any further. She tried something else. "Are you all right? I thought you might not come to much harm, but the way Phillip talked..."

"I'm fine. And you shouldn't bother worrying about it." A tinge of bitterness touched his voice. "You said you aren't a scientist, so my health isn't any of your concern."

"That isn't true." She spoke softly. "I said it before: I want to be your friend. I know you may not believe me, but it is true. I just want to help you."

"Why?" The word was laced with surprise, and suspicion, but it was at least a beginning.

She thought of several things she could say, but chose the closest version of the truth. "Because, I know what it's like to feel alone, and angry at the world."

"Save it. You have no idea what my life is like." The sharpness, stung, but not enough to deter her, now that he was speaking to her.

"That's true. But that doesn't mean I don't know what loneliness is like, or anger. I also know, that when I was at my worst, a very kind man spoke those words to me. He told me that he was on my side, and that he would be my friend." She smiled, just a little. "I didn't really believe him either, not at first, but...I was very glad later, that he said those things to me. They really helped me out, a very great deal." She paused, then spoke softer. "I really am sorry, that I got you into trouble that day."

"It doesn't matter. They hate me anyway." Abel's voice was laced with bitterness, but slightly softer. After a moment, he spoke again. "You didn't get me in that much trouble. They didn't report it, after you defended me."

"I'm glad. But still, I'll be more careful next time."

Abel didn't say anything else, and neither did she. After a few minutes, he turned and left the room. Esther remained with her thoughts, wondering if the brief meeting would help things between her and Abel.

That night, Abel actually waited at the door for her to pass him on the way to dinner. He didn't say anything, but the gesture of courtesy was more than he'd made since her arrival, over two months prior.

The next few days fell back into a familiar routine, but Abel kept showing her signs of...well, she wasn't sure she could call it thawing, but he was no longer sharp. His eyes, when he spoke to her, were still guarded, but no longer snapping with ire. He was more quiet, in general, than he had been, but he no longer slammed his way to his room the minute he arrived in general sleeping quarters.

His demeanor with Cain was also different. More than once, he seemed about ready to lash out, then checked himself. Even more frequently, there was a strange sort of tension and confusion between them. She caught Abel studying his twin every now and then, with confusion and a sort of wary, fragile hope in his eyes.

She knew why. She remembered what he'd told them, that night he'd revealed his past, and the scars lacing his soul. She knew what had passed between him and Cain, what the gold-haired boy had offered him that day. She could see in his eyes that he didn't quite trust it, and she wanted desperately to tell him it was all right. But she held her peace.

Three weeks after Abel's return to the group, she was summoned to the Science department. She arrived to find the head of the particle physics team assigned to her project looking very excited. He smiled as she arrived. "Esther."

"Yes. You said you had news?" She swallowed. She wanted to go home, more than anything, but the thought of leaving behind the fragile relationships she had so recently built made her heart ache.

"We do. We've isolated a containment barrier that should support the radiation energy we require. It's a combination of carbon and glass, in a special mix, and overlapped with a protective electro-magnetic field. It should contain the emissions for maximum efficiency. We've run through computer simulations, and through a few small scale live tests, and it appears to be viable. The emission won't be nearly as strong as the one that sent you here, but we aren't sure if that much power is necessary. And we've already made records to have this station, or an emergency satellite, here, since it's purely a quantum temporal transfer. However, we also recommend that you wear an emergency suit, when you go, in case of a miscalculation. We'll fit you with one of the long term ones, with at least a week's supply of air and pressure. Should be more than enough time for you to be heard and found."

Esther nodded. She didn't dare say what she was thinking. That in the proper time, the station wouldn't exist, and there would be no one who could find and save her. She knew she had to trust her luck, and have a little faith. "Thank you. When will...?" She stopped, hesitating over the words.

"About two weeks. The shuttle with the parts will arrive in five days or so, and after that, we'll set up and calibrate for you." The scientist smiled. "Have to say, it's been an interesting project. I wasn't sure we could actually make it, with all the work on the Mars Project. But I'll say in advance, I hope you get home all right, Miss."

"Thank you." Esther shook his hand, then walked back out the door, her head spinning. Her mind felt dazed. She'd been living on the station only a few months, but it was long enough for her to feel at home. Long enough for her to have made friends. And long enough for her to have become resigned to the thought that she might not get home for years. She'd actually begun considering putting in her application to be part of the colony, and telling Lilith what to look for once they reached Mars. It was difficult, keeping her secret, and would have been harder still, through all those years, but she could have done it. Only now, she was going home. It excited her, and saddened her, especially the knowledge that she had only just begun breaking the ice with Abel, and she had to leave him.

She was so lost in her thoughts; she didn't hear the door to the GeM quarters hiss open as she neared it, nor the footsteps out. She didn't notice anything until she slammed into a warm, firm body. There was an instant of off balance confusion, stumbling, and a young male voice crying out, then something struck her shoulder, snagged in her pendant, and she jerked away, and both of them crashed to the ground.

The fall wasn't hard, but it startled and winded her. She lay still a moment, catching her breath, then sat up.

Abel was sitting in the doorway, shaking his head. Esther swallowed. "I'm sorry. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going."

"It's fine." There was only a touch of sharpness in Abel's voice. He moved his hand, and Esther saw the chain snagged in his fingers. Her hand went to her throat, but the pendant chain wasn't there. She swallowed hard, her mind going blank as she realized that the locket had sprung open, revealing the pictures inside. She could only think that she was lucky, that she'd taken the ring off and kept it in a pocket for safe keeping, knowing how suspicious it would be to have a ring of Martian stone on her.

Abel blinked. "This is yours?" He started to hand it back, but the blue eyes fell on the open locket. His eyes widened. "This..."

"A friend of mine gave it to me, about a year ago." She swallowed hard.

"This man..." Abel's eyes were wide.

"He's a very close friend. The one who spoke those words to me, that I told you of." She hoped he wouldn't guess the man's identity.

She should have known better. After all, he'd known his sister after nine hundred years of absence, without ever seeing her face.

Abel looked up at her, eyes wild. "Why do you have something like this? How...how did you get this?"

"I told you, a very dear friend of mine gave it to me."

He moved forward then, his hand catching hers. "You know...you know..." He couldn't complete the question, but she knew what he wanted to ask anyway.

There was no help for it. She took her hand in his, covering the locket chain. "I do. I'm sorry, but I can't tell you. If I do, things might be changed for worse." It was the hardest thing she had ever said. "I'm sorry. But I can't tell you what will happen."

He gazed into her eyes, his own filled with surprise, and hurt. Then he let her go, and turned away, that shocked pain still in his gaze.

She couldn't let him leave like that. She reached out to touch his shoulder. "I will tell you one thing, though." He turned to her, and she reached out, to brush the silver hair, as she had brushed it from his face as an adult, when he was in pain. "It will all work out, I promise you. The world is full of people who will care for you. Please, don't forget that."

He stared at her, then sighed. "You sound like Lilith." He shook his head, then turned away and disappeared up the hall, leaving her unable to tell if he'd complimented her or not.

She told the others of her impending departure that night, after dinner. Cain, as expected, expressed gentle regrets. Seth, she held in her arms for well over an hour, hugging the child, and promising not to forget her, and that she would, eventually, see her again, though it would be a long time. Abel didn't say anything to her, but she saw a sort of confused anger in his eyes.

Lilith remained quiet until they retired to their quarters. "So they found a way to return you to your time."

Esther nodded. "At least, they think they have."

Lilith smiled, a touch of sadness in her expression. "I see. Well, I suppose it's for the best. But...I'm glad you came. You gave Abel a little faith in humanity, I think. And you've been wonderful with Seth." She met Esther's eyes, her own serene. "I hope we don't change your future too much, by having you here."

Esther nodded, unable to say anything. She was reminded, once again, that the girl in front of her would die. She didn't it to happen, and yet, for her future to exist, for the man she knew as Abel Nightroad to exist, it had to be. She swallowed hard. "I'm sorry, but I'm rather tired this evening."

"Not surprising, you've had an exciting day." Lilith nodded, and the two of them retired.

The next two weeks were bittersweet for Esther. She spent a lot of time with the scientists and the outfitters, being fitted for her suit. She spent the rest of the time, as much as she could, with the four GeM children. To her surprise, she found she was going to miss all of them. Even Cain. They'd never really had more than a politely friendly relationship, but he was a kind, generous youth, reminding her of the times when he was relaxed, when she saw the humanity in his face. Of their first meeting, when he'd been acting like a scatterbrained idiot, exasperating yet helpful and oddly amusing. He was more serious now, but the charming, easy manners were still there. She found herself wishing she could preserve them.

She spent long hours with Seth, determinedly playing and enjoying her company. The youngster was sad about her impending departure, and determined to get as much time as possible with her. Esther understood, and was more than willing to go along with the child's request. Her heart ached, knowing she would miss the youngster's bright cheerful innocence.

She and Lilith spent a few hours talking, but they were both adults. The farewell for them was easier in a way. She could see the melancholy in Lilith's eyes, and felt it in her own heart, but it they'd both been expecting it, and understood the necessity.

Abel didn't speak to her. He watched her, with dark eyes, but he didn't speak. She wondered if he was angry with her, for leaving. Or if he was relieved that she would stop intruding into his life. Or if, having found out about her relationship with his future, he was angry at her for not telling him, if he felt betrayed by her silence. She wasn't sure, and wasn't alone with him long enough to ask.

The night before her journey, she couldn't sleep. Fear for the unknown tumbled together with fear of what she did know. Her heart ached, knowing what she was leaving these four individuals to face. The temptation to go to the command, tell them she'd decided not to return, was strong. So was the temptation to tell them everything she knew about the future, to tell them to abort the project, or at least remove the Gene Children from it. To spare them. She clenched her hand around her locket firmly, reminding herself of the price that would be paid. Finally, she rose from her bed and headed into the main area, for a drink.

Abel was there, silver hair glittering in the faint light, getting water from the tap, and snacking on a roll he'd evidently brought from dinner earlier. Esther smiled, remembering the many times she'd caught the adult Abel wandering around after hours. And the peanut butter sandwiches she'd made him, the first night they'd worked together.

Abel turned and spotted her, freezing where he stood. For a long moment, they stared at each other through the darkness of the room, and then he spoke. "What do you want?"

"Nothing." She shook her head, moving forward. "I just came to get some water. And I was thinking, how normal it looks to see you like this."

Abel turned away, though she couldn't be sure if it was anger or embarrassment. "I get hungry at night. It's not something to be concerned about."

Esther smiled. "I know."

"How?" He faced her, his own gaze challenging.

There wasn't much about the future that could be changed by telling him that. "You do it all the time. I've seen you. I even made sandwiches for you, and tea."

He turned away again. "You're leaving tomorrow. For wherever...whenever, you came from."

"I am." She nodded.

His shoulders were tense. "I thought...I thought you wanted to be my friend, to help me."

Sorrow hit her. She swallowed. "I do. I do very much. But...I need to return. If I stay here, something might go terribly wrong. But...I will tell you this. You'll see me again, and I promise, I will always be your friend. No matter what happens."

Their gazes locked, for a long minute or so. Then Abel turned away, and disappeared back into his room. Esther stood for a long moment, swallowing back tears, then returned to her own room.

The next morning, Esther spent in preparation, getting the suit fixed, the final adjustments, and last minute instructions on use, and what to do in an emergency. To her surprise, both Lilith and Seth came to help her with that. Lilith made the final alterations, settling the air and power packs a little more securely. Seth delivered an endless barrage of questions, quizzing her on what to do if she thought she might fall into atmosphere, if there was a leak, if she hit something, or got hit by it. Esther answered every question, trying to keep a smile from her face at the child's serious demeanor.

Finally, it was time. The two girls escorted her down the hallway to one of the experimental labs, where the apparatus had been set up. To her surprise, Cain met her at the doorway, a gentle smile on his face. He was leaning against the wall, but he straightened as she approached. "So then, you're really leaving?"

"Yes." Esther swallowed hard, feeling a lump in her throat.

"Well, I hope you have a safe and pleasant trip." Cain's smile widened. "I wish I could tell you Abel will be here, but I think he's off sulking again. But, you know, you really have been good for him."

"Well, I think you may have helped as well." Esther smiled back. She took a deep breath, trying to ignore the pounding of her heart and the painful lump in her throat. She met Cain's gaze, and without conscious thought, found herself reaching out to the young man. "I'm sure you'll do very well, and take good care of him. But please, just remember...be careful, all right?"

Cain nodded. "Of course."

She turned to Lilith. "Please, tell Abel I said goodbye, and I pray for his health, and his happiness." She looked into the golden eyes. "And please know, I pray for your health and happiness as well. All of you."

"Of course." Lilith smiled, and held out a hand, brushing Esther's glove. "Have a safe journey, Esther. It was quite nice meeting you."

"You as well." Esther nodded, then turned away and strode into the experiment chamber. The scientists were standing by the panels, awaiting her. The center of the room was dominated by a huge clear cylinder, just like the one she'd come from, only slightly larger. She was just moving to step inside when a scuffle sounded in the corridor.

She turned. Abel was standing in the doorway, his silver hair disordered, his eyes dark with roiling emotions. He didn't say anything, but the fact that he was there to see her go lifted her heart and broke it at the same time. She smiled sadly at him, and whispered, "Good bye." Then she stepped into the containment chamber, and the door closed behind her.

A familiar hum began to build slowly around her. Esther clenched her hands, her heart pounding as the sound built, and small flashes of light began to flicker through the space. She looked up, and met a pair of winter-blue eyes, watching her. Abel. She held his gaze, trying without words to convey her care and love for him, her hope for his future, even if it changed hers.

The hum built, and radiance began to blot out everything. Esther closed her eyes, feeling a familiar sensation of vertigo. She swallowed hard, praying silently for God to protect her on the journey. Her last sight, as the light flared and she fell into it, was the glimpse of winter-blue eyes, watching her.

Author'sNote: But Esther's not out of the clear yet, think she'll return to the present time her timeline or what?

Until the next time everyone we promise to be back on regular track and schedule with the next update.