Ramshackle's Angel

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From the market place inside the scrap house, Lorelai felt the presence of someone. But it was too weak to tell. Suddenly, she felt very nauseous. Her face grew pale as she held her stomach.

"Lorelai?" Beatrice, who was helping her fix one of the stands, asked.

"Excuse me" was all Lorelai said before she ran out the door.

Once outside, she threw up. Noisily. Beatrice was right behind her and quickly held back her hair. She had no idea what caused this but she had a feeling that this wasn't going to be the end of it. Once she was finished, she groaned and wiped her mouth.

"Lore? Are you okay?" Her friend asked, now very concerned for her cambion alley.

"I'll be fine."

She immediately fixed her appearance before she went back inside. Beatrice stayed behind, watching her with confusion and worry.

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Inside Xander s room, Lilith looked at the different books he had.

"It's incredible, you have knowledge on so much" she commented, holding a book in each hand.

"Well, when you're literally cursed by knowledge, it becomes your thing" he replied as he felt the dark presence of someone. But he couldn't tell who. But whoever it was, was close and surely up to no good.

"So...about the demon that Violet brought to the meeting...do you know how it was killed?" He asked.

She quickly went to the railing and looked down at him.

"How do you know about that?!" She asked, panicking.

"If you haven't noticed, Ditch has a big mouth and my sister hates keeping things from people" he told her before he looked at his spellbook.

Lilith sighed as she slid down the railing and landed gracefully on the floor. She watched his run his fingers across the leather cover and across the apple symbol.

"Why do you want to know?" She asked, her voice soft but stern.

"Because it means that we have a fighting chance to stop Roo. And... to possibly have a normal life" he admitted.

"Normal? You gotta be kidding."

"I'm not. It's all me and Lorenzo ever wanted. To be normal. To lead normal lives. To forget the pain that haunts us daily" he explained before he turned his back to her as tears ran down his face.

"That's the thing about us demons. People always assume that we chose to be the way we are....but we don't. We didn't get that choice. But you do. And that's all we want" he concluded before placing his spellbook down.

Touched by his sincere testament, Lilith closed her eyes.

"Lizzy" was all she said.

"What?" He asked, looking back at her.

"That's all that I'm going to say" she told him.

Xander nodded and smiled a little. Lilith smiled too before she decided to change the subject.

"So, are you in a relationship with anyone? Like Lorelai is with Stone?"

Xander immediately turned red as his pointed ears perked up.

"Well- I- uh..." was all he could get out.

She laughed at his reaction.

"Come on, you can tell me" she encouraged.

He rubbed the back of his neck as he took a deep breath.

"Well...there's this incredible angel named Sera..."