Saving Grace

"I called her my saving grace," the man mumbled nostalgically glaring at his whiskey glass with the look of a man who'd lost someone dear to him.

"And you," I adjusted my tie; “you met her around what time."

"you wouldn't believe me if I told you but I met her right before I was suppose to die," he laughed and took a sip of the whiskey," you wouldn't believe me if I told you anymore, nobody does, but I'm an old man now so I don't care much for what people have to say to me anymore."

"We've heard some pretty heavy things," Michael motioned to the both of us," if there is anyone that would believe you it would be us."

He laughed again almost in a way that said that he didn't believe himself, "I was in a car accident a long ways back and as I lay dying in the ICU a girl appeared above me.  Cute little thing, I thought that's she was a nurse or at least that I was dreaming or something, but I wasn't.  I was well aware that

I was disoriented everyone else's voice, touch seemed so foggy and far away but her touch.  Her touch seemed to work its way through the fog, and her voice just reached me but it wasn't like I could hear her, it was more like I could hear her in my head."

He stopped all of a sudden.

"There is no reason for us not to believe your story," I comforted, "we-the two of us have been through a lot of stuff.  You have no reason to lie to us so we have no reason not to believe you."

"You don't believe that I'm some crazy old man that is just trying to get on the news," he looked at us.

"We called you sir," Michael assured him with a definitive look.  I looked at my partner proudly he was always good at assuring people that they in fact were not crazy.

He nodded and continued, “I still remember exactly what she said 'I'm going to save your life,' she said in a smug way, 'I have to and I want to. You were made for a bigger purpose and can't die at least you shouldn't in my book.' I thought that she was crazy, but she touched my forehead and I was better.  The pain was gone and I went right back to breathing. 'You remind me of this man I knew in Heaven' she had said 'take good care of yourself and don't make me have to come back and pull you out f the fire.' and then she was gone.  I thought that it was just a dream, but the doctors told me that I had completely healed just like an angel had touched me.”

“Do you remember anything else?” I asked sucked into the story.

“No,” he looked down and sighed tossing back the last of his drink, “her eyes, they flashed blue when she touched me.”

“Like her whole eye turned blue?” Michael squinted at the man.  I gave him a pointed look.

“Yes,” the old man just sighed, “see told you that you’d think I was crazy.”

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“Way to make him feel bad,” I rolled my eyes as we hoped into the JetSet.  The old man had looked like he wanted to check himself into the mental hospital.

“Oh come on,” Mike rolled his eyes, “blue eyes, he said it flashed blue eyes.  I’ve seen black, red, hell there has even been yellow, but blue no way.”

“So you’re saying you don’t believe him,” I took off my jacket and tossed it in the back seat,” why would he lie to us.”

“No one said that he was lying, maybe he thought he saw blue but he really just saw black.”

“There is no way that he could mistake that,” I pulled out my phone, “I’m calling Connor.”

“That guy,” Mike tried to give me an annoyed look but his bad driving forced him to glare at the road.

“He’s helped us out in the past.”

“Can’t trust a guy you can’t identify.”

“He likes his privacy so what.”

“So, he can’t be trusted.  When you call him you tell him that we’d like to have a heart to heart, finally get to see this guys face.”

“You know he won’t agree to that.”

“He better agree if anything is going to keep happening.”

As soon as he said that the phone rang.

“Connor.”

“Answer it.”

I put the phone on speaker, “hey Connor I was just about to call you.”

“I know,” he said which was his usual answer to anything said by us, “what did the old man say.”

I looked over at Mike and he nodded, “he said that he saw her eyes flash blue and she healed him with her touch.”

“Blue eyes huh,” it sounded like Connor was thinking or searching for something. It’s hard to tell because we don’t know him really well.  Actually we don’t know him at all.  We’d talked to him about two months after our other partner had turned into a vampire.  A pay phone that I had been standing next to rang and Mike couldn’t help but pick it up out of curiosity.

“Okay, this may be too much for you to handle over the phone so I’m going to meet you two in Windsor, that’s in Canada-“

“We’re not stupid, but we are in Texas.”

“So it’ll take you a while, just hurry up and get here okay,” he hung up.

“Thanks for calling,” Mike said sarcastically.

“So what do we do?” I put my phone in my pocket.

“I guess we head to Windsor, see the SOB in person.”

“Let’s go to Windsor.”