Black Wings

Chapter 3: No safe zone

I swept my brain for any excuse I could give her. I needed an excuse, I couldn't back out of this, that's for sure. I obviously couldn't tell her but at the same time, the last thing I wanted to do was lie to this beautiful young-

"Piper? Hello Piper you there?" I was shaken out of my thoughts by Louise's soft voice. Realizing that I was still holding her hand, I quickly pulled it away.

"Oh, um, yeah, I'm here. Sorry, I was just thinking the same you know? Of how I got so lucky. I just think that after I pushed you off of your bike, we landed directly in the brush on the side of the road. We missed the pavement and all and I think that's also why you're ok. No broken bones or anything right? Just startled?" Ok, I'm nervous, I'm starting to ramble. Rambling was always a bad thing for me cause the truth somehow always comes out.

"Yeah, that seems like that happened, but you know what's weird, is that, the last thing I saw before I blacked out was black."

"Well isn't that what a lot of people see before they black out? Black?"

"No no no, not that kind of black, like, a feathery black, like wings." A cold sweat began to form on my forehead.

"Oh, I-I see now, like angel wings. You're saying you saw angel wings?"

"That's right, but aren't angel wings supposed to be white?" Trying not to get enraged, I answered her question truthfully.

"Well you see, not all angels are pure."

"Pure? What do you mean they're not all pure? Are some evil?"

"No, I mean that they have done something wrong. No angel is evil, that's what the devil is for. Angels with black wings have done something against the fates, something to upset them. These angels are still good, its just that they aren't pure anymore."

"Oh I see now. How do you know all of this stuff?

"I, um, I studied them for a year by myself." Ok now that was a lie, but I mean it wasn't a bad one, right?

"Oh that's cool. Sounds like an interesting thing to study."

"Yeah it most certainly was." I bobbed my head slightly.

"Well, it was very nice to meet you."

"It was nice to meet you too. Maybe we'll see each other in the near future?"

"Yeah, I'm sure we will. Hey, why don't I give you my number?" Perfect, that's just what I needed. My mission was going well.

"Oh, yeah of course, that would be great." I smiled and gave her my phone so she could put her number in.

"And... done. Here you go." She said handing back my phone.

"Thanks," I smiled and put my phone back in my pocket, "I'll be in touch."

"Ok, good bye Piper." She said smiling at me.

"Good bye Louise." I said smiling back as I left.

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Ok, to be honest, I didn't leave the hospital. I asked her doctor when she would be released and it just so happened that she would be released in a couple of hours, that is, if all of her tests were cleared. Of course I wanted to stay and follow her when she was released, but her only mode of transportation was trashed and her family relatives were no where close to near by, meaning she would have to take the bus. How was I supposed to follow her when she was on a bus? I couldn't really fly over the bus in clear day light, and I didn't really feel like riding the bus. She could easily catch me if I rode the bus. My excuses would have to be endless with this one. All of my other assignments were easy, I guess the fates wanted to give me a hassle with this one.

I looked at the clock on the wall and calculated the time in my head. It was noon and a couple hours would lead to about four o'clock-

"Oh, um, Piper," My head whipped over to the doctor. I had forgotten that he was still talking to me all this time while I was thinking of other things, "it seems to me that she has no other relatives near by and that, well, since you're the only one that came to her today, that you two are friends, am I right?"

"Correct?"

"And well, you were the one that also pushed Miss Louise off of her bike, am I wrong?"

"No sir."

"And it appears to everyone that you are not wounded nor have anything wrong with your brain, right?"

"Yes?" I responded unsure of where this conversation was going. Chills went down my spine as he began to laugh quietly.

"Oh my gosh it really is you isn't it?" I had never seen this guy in my entire life and he says that he knows me? I took a step back from him and got into an unnoticeable defensive stance.

"Who are you?" I said quietly so no one but him could hear.

"Oh I would love to see those pretty black wings of yours Piper, but I am afraid that I cannot see them here." Hissing under my breath, my wings twitched on my back as I took another step back. If this was the guy that tried to kill Louise, I'm sure that wasn't his original plan.

"How do you know about me?" He looked so calm as he smiled and shook his head. Surely he knew the damage I could do to him, yet he was so calm. I looked him up and down to see if he had any weapons secured on him. No titanium, no wing cuffs, no gun, no nothing. This guy was surely testing his luck.

Getting ready to pounce on him, I said, "I asked you once, don't make me repeat myself." By now I'm sure that we had drawn attention to our selves. Maybe this is what he wanted, to threaten me. I'm sure if this was a threat that he would get me back later, meaning that I would have to take him down now-

"I know about you cause I am one of you. You don't remember your own Uncle Drew?" My what? My Uncle Drew-

"Uncle Drew!" I screamed out and tackled him in a hug, "god don't scare me like that! I thought you were a hunter! How come I didn't recognize you?"

"When the fates sent you down, they wiped your memory clean of all the people you know."

"Well all the people except for Alice."

"Right right, they kept Alice in your memory for motivation, you know that right? That means that they want you back, back at the throne."

"My god, they want me back? I thought I was going to be down here forever! So when I go back I can be reunited with Alice right?" My uncle shook his head and looked down. I felt something heavy pound at my heart.

"I am afraid not my dear. They have her all set up to marry Leo in a month or two." My heart sunk and I looked down at the ground. I didn't know how to feel about this. Was I enraged? Was I sad? Should I just  give up and stay here on earth, not finish my mission and not go home? Was I hurt? Should I feel remorse? Or should I stand up and fight for what is truly mine? For the woman who swore to love no other person but me. For my one and only love.

My heart had finally made up its mind: it wanted revenge, it wanted what is mine.

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~Piper