Eden's First Daughter

Chapter Eighty-Two

 "It was deep, but... I think it's gone," Isis sighed as her energy relaxed and faded back, and Samael glanced at his side, the damage seeming as though it never happened.

"Thank you," he sighed as clutched the back of the couch, and Ada helped him sit up.

"Don't mention it," Isis nodded as she stood up, making her way to the kitchen and washing the blood off her hands in the sink.

"How are you doing, Sam?" Coventina asked as she came over, passing him a cup of tea.

"I... I don't know," he shook his head disappointedly as he took the cup "I've been worried that he was going to slip into old habits lately based on how he's just been talking, but I thought that he would at least respect Lilith's wishes considering her new stature. But this a new low..." he trailed off in thought, and suddenly, the door to the office opened and Adam came out with an exhausted look on his face as he gently closed the door behind him.

"How is she?" Dimitri asked worriedly as everyone turned their attention to him.

"She's... devastated. And the girls didn't take the news well, either." Adam answered solemnly as he made his way to the couch, sitting beside Samael as he glanced at his side "Are you okay?"

"Physically, yes," Samael grunted.

"Right," Adam sighed as he pulled something out of his pocket, passing it to Samael, and his eyes grew wide as he stared at the small glass bottle with a cross etched into it "Lilith asked me to give this to you. She wanted to be alone for a little while, but she doesn't want you to worry about her doing something stupid," he explained, and Samael looked at it in shock.

"... thank you," Samael muttered as he slid it into his pocket.

"What..." Coventina said worriedly as she looked between the two of them "Was that what I think it was?

"Wait, what's going on?" Isis asked as she dried off her hands, and Dimitri looked at her and shook his head.

"It's a personal matter of hers, what matters most is that she recognizes that she knows she could fall down a dark path right now and wants to prevent herself from doing something regrettable." Dimitri stated in admiration, glancing at the closed door, then at the two worried angels on the couch "But, I'm glad to see that my statement still rings true; if anyone here truly has the drive to live and change this world, it's your wife, Samael," he explained confidently.

"Even if it means chaining up the man she loves back in the council room and leaving him there like that?" Isis asked worriedly as she looked around at everyone "Can I ask you all something?"

"What's wrong?" Ada asked worriedly from the couch.

"Samael, you might be the only one who can truthfully answer this but... would he have killed you during that fight if he had the chance?" Isis asked worriedly, and Samael looked down in defeat.

"I can't say for sure, but... Michael telling him not to do it wouldn't have made a difference whatsoever and even Michael knows that." Samael sighed "When his darker side takes over and his mind is overrun with whatever motive he has, nothing will stand in his way... even the people he cares about." he explained solemnly.

"He determined to intervene with what's going on in the world, and we don't want him to," Ayin explained solemnly "You were quite literally the one standing in the way at that moment, so that means Lilith was right... he would have killed you if she hadn't stepped in."

"But the fact that she had to be the one to do it..." Isis said sadly "She had him hanging onto every word completely convinced she was going to let him go through with it, and then... he looked so betrayed,"