Oh and killjoy,I do intend to bring K/T in to the picture soon.Everyone else,thanks so much for reading
Part XI-
“Maria’s on to us.” Isabel explained as she sat down on the bed next to Alex “Kyle apparently heard me calling out to you last night and went straight to Michael and Maria with that information. Sometimes I wish we all didn’t live so close to each other. Max and Liz made the right choice by staying out of Roswell, at least for the time being. I mean don’t get me wrong, I love Maria…she’s like the sister I never had but…” she trailed off not wanting to sound mean and ungrateful, that too in front of her angelic boyfriend
But she needn’t have worried because Alex knew exactly how she was feeling and he got up on his knees and made his way behind her and started massaging her shoulders, “It’s okay Iz…you don’t have to explain. Angels get on each other’s nerves as well from time to time, believe it or not. You don’t have to behave all saintly around me, that’s not why I fell in love with you. If I wanted a saint I could have fallen for one of the angels.”
He chuckled at his own joke and Isabel smiled, feeling some of her tension drain away.
“May be we should tell them.” she suggested tentatively “About how special you are.”
Alex shook his head, meaning to say ‘no’ but Isabel carried on regardless “Alex, they’d be honoured to know your secret and they will soon know why I am so madly in love with you. They’ll accept you for who you are and get to know how wonderful you are. I mean this is one family who can keep any amount of weird secrets. Just think about it. I just know Maria is going to be banging on my door one of these days, demanding an explanation. I just want us to be free of all this secrecy, free to be ourselves.”
She got up on her knees and turned around to face him cupping his face tenderly, “My mother told me that when I met my soul mate I would know instantly because I would get an electric shock when I touched him. Of course I laughed at her when she said that but when I met you, the first time that you held my hands at my dining table everything she had said suddenly became reality. I have no clue what I did to deserve an angel as my soul mate but that’s what you are to me Alex…and I just want us to be happy and free from all this secrecy.”
Alex gathered her in his arms and kissed her forehead and spoke softly, “I know.We’ll tell them in time.”
Few Days Later~
“I told you she would try and make him see things her way.” Lucius bellowed angrily at Gabriel “This is not going to work. No matter what Alexander says, this can never work. He’d be divided in his loyalties.”
“Lucius calm down…she isn’t trying to manipulate him. She wants what every human wants…to love and be loved in return and not to have that love threatened in any way.” Gabriel was trying his hardest to reason with his superior but Lucius was getting desperate. He saw one of his favourite angels slipping away and it worried him, more than he liked to admit.
“I think I should have a talk with her?” he said pacing the cloud-covered floor
“What? No Lucius, don’t do that. What’re you going to say to her? ‘Stay away from Alex because he is my favourite and you are ruining his chances at rising even higher in the hierarchy of the Angels’. Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?”
“Well she needs to know what life will be like being married to an angel.”
“Married!” Gabriel repeated incredulously “Aren’t you getting a little a head of yourself? Alex hasn’t asked her to marry him yet.”
“I know that but ‘YET’ is the operative work here. He will eventually ask her and at that time she needs to know that it will not be a bed of roses being married to a higher being.”
Gabriel sighed in frustration, “Remind me to ask you sometime when it was that you acquired a flair for the dramatic.”
“Oh you can make fun of me all you want but in the end you will thank me.”
With that he was gone, leaving Gabriel alone in the Great White Hall.
Isabel was almost done with her Christmas shopping, all she had to do was pick out one last gift and that was for Alex but she had no clue what to give him.
What does one give an angel?
Clothes are not an option since all he ever seems to wear is his angel outfit consisting of black pants, dazzling white shirt, black coat, black shoes and socks.
Black!
You’d think guardian angels would wear brighter, more cheerful colours but no, instead they all dress like the angels of death.
When we get married I am going to put some colour in to his wardrobe.
Woah!!! Hold up right there missy…what am I saying???
He hasn’t asked me to marry him. He might never ask me to marry him. Where did that thought come from?
Oh who am I kidding…it’s been at the back of my mind ever since I realized I was in love with him.
With these thoughts she walked home, enjoying the winter evening. Only a few people were about, most not brave enough to face the cold wind. There were some shoppers still about, like her, doing some last minute shopping.
As she turned to head for the street that led to her apartment complex she got the distinct impression that she was being watched yet she remained calm knowing full well that if push came to shove she could very well defend herself.
Lucius followed Isabel at a distance not wanting to alarm her. All he intended to do for the time being was watch her and see why Alex had fallen in love with her. He saw her beauty and knew that was one reason but he knew Alex wasn’t shallow, and that there would be more to her that had drawn his angel away from the brotherhood.
However he wasn’t prepared for her to stop suddenly and turn around, and as though she could see him, she looked directly at him.
For a moment he thought he had made himself visible to her but he quickly realized that her heightened senses had probably given him away. She was probably picking up on his vibes/energy, although, that was something quite difficult to master.
‘Alex might have been teaching her how to pick up on our unique energy.’ he thought to himself
Isabel was getting annoyed and the street being void of any pedestrians didn’t make her mood any better. She was sure that someone was watching her and sure that that someone wasn’t Alex. It crossed her mind to call out and challenge whomever it was to show himself or herself but she didn’t want any passerby to think she was insane.
Walking quickly she reached her building and used her powers to open the main door not bothering if anyone saw her. Entering her own apartment she dropped her bags and sat down on the couch, closing her eyes to rest for a moment. Alex had told her not to wait up for him that night, he had to attend to a few of his other charges.
She was about to head for her bedroom when she saw him on her living room balcony through the gauzy curtain. Approaching the door she opened it, not in the least bit afraid, “Lucius…I suppose. I was wondering when you would show up?”
He smiled at her, “You suppose right Isabel. Can we talk?”
“Certainely.” she answered confidently and ushered him in to the living room “Please sit down but if you’re here to tell me that I shouldn’t love Alex or that our love cannot be then I have nothing to say to you.”
Her head tilted to one side defiantly and Lucius could not help but admire her determination.
It occurred to Isabel that Lucius had conveniently shown up on a night when Alex wasn’t with her and she knew that he had probably orchestrated extra duties for Alex to keep him out of the way.
Sitting down, he motioned for her to follow suit before he spoke.
“I am not here to ask you to stop loving Alex. I just want to talk to you.”
He paused before continuing, “You do know by now I suppose that no angel has ever actually been with a woman so I will skip all that mumbo jumbo.”
“Have you taken in to consideration that Alex is immortal?”
and sorry for the short chapters.Flashback in italics.Oh and I was too impatient to get this beta-ed so there are possibly grammatical errors.
