Heaven, Hell, and Earth

Chapter 7

When word reached Solomon of the recent events that occurred, he rushed back to the bureau as fast as possible. Alastor and Charlie were both in the clinic being looked over by the bureau's best medical profession, Solomon was with them the whole time while Angel and Vaggie waited anxiously with Blitzo. After several hours of waiting, they were all relieved to learn that because of Alastor's demon half, he was not seriously hurt and would only require a few days rest. He wouldn't even need stitches. But as for Charlie, the doctor couldn't find anything wrong with her.

"Does she have a fever?" Solomon asked the doctor.

"No and I've taken her temperature three times. She's not dehydrated or malnourished. Did she eat anything unusual today?"

"Nothing she hasn't ingested plenty times before."

"Any known allergies?"

"No."

"Pre-menstrual perhaps?"

"She's only ten years old."

"There are girls who start sooner than others."

"No. Not with Charlie. She's half angel and they're age process, on earth that is, is like dog years in reverse. Same with demons. All four the children age physically at a much slower rate. Angel and Vaggie are chronologically sixteen but they're physically still children."

"Fascinating." The doctor said. "However sir, the other two are half human so it is possible that they age quicker."

"They age quicker than Vaggie and Angel but slower than the likes of you and me. They're chronologically ten but in case you haven't noticed they don't look like they've passed age five or six."

"Well in that case I'm not sure what my diagnosis is. Did anyone witness her fainting spell?"

At once Solomon called Blitzo into the room to relay what happened before Charlie blacked out.

"I don't know what caused it." He said. "One minute she was talking to me and then she zoned out."

"Zoned out how?" Solomon asked.

"I can't explain it. She just...She was staring at me but it looked like she was seeing something else. She started shaking, sweating, thought she was having a panic attack or something. Next thing I know she's on the floor, I hear screaming upstairs, and the other one is on the ground."

"Hold on a second. Are you saying that Charlie fainted at the exact moment Alastor was knocked out?"

"I don't know. I didn't see when he went into the dark."

"But if you had to estimate, they lost consciousness around the same time?"

"I guess."

Solomon suddenly became very quiet as a thought began to form in his mind. A thought that might have held the answer to the predicament they were in.

"Excuse me."

 He left the clinic and went into the library. He moved very quickly and ran right past Husk who had returned from spying. He noticed the frantic look on Solomon's face and suspected trouble, so he followed him. Solomon had gone into the library and began to pull various books from the shelf until he stopped to grab one that was titled;

Angels and Demons, Different but not completely.

He opened up the book and scanned the index until he found a particular content then turned to the page number representing it. He read the page for five minutes before huffing out,

"No. No! No this shouldn't be possible!"

"What? What shouldn't be possible?" Husk asked.

Solomon just now noticed that he was followed.