To Assassinate an Angel

Chapter Fourteen - Recovering the troops

The Royal Hotel

Room 501

3 PM

"Uh...I thought Pierre's aura was golden..."

Pierre glanced at Gabriel. "I'm gathering when I get pissed off it changes colour..."

The archangel nodded and looked at Annalise who had made the first observation. It's red and gold...but darkness will overcome it sometimes...

Annalise swallowed hard, nodding. The three of them had arranged to meet before joining the rest of the group in the hotel foyer. Pierre had spent the last half an hour in his room, with Pat, just resting and coming to terms with what had just happened. He was a little surprised that he wasn't actually frustrated about losing the agent, as if he realised that he would get another chance.

He raked tense fingers through his hair. "So, how are we going to do this?"

Gabriel splayed out his hands in front of him. It's your call, Pierre.

Pierre groaned. "Fuck, I don't know." He pinched the bridge of his nose. "I'm curious..."

Yeah?

He glanced at Annalise who was staring back at him a quizzical expression in her purple eyes.

"You said Annalise is Raphael's female incarnation...but how does that work?"

Gabriel smirked. Raphael is the most powerful of the Fallen Ones...after Lucifer. His soul split into two after Eve ate of the Apple.

Annalise laughed suddenly. "Are you saying if she hadn't eaten of the fruit I would never have existed?"

Pierre raised his eyebrows. "That wasn't the point though, right? Eve had to eat the fruit, right?"

The Archangel nodded slowly. Right. Anyway, that caused the split in the Eve's soul...and you...Pierre...you followed the male line...and the female line ended with Annalise...

The woman swallowed. "What happens in the end?"

Gabriel looked at her gently. You and Pierre will merge as one once more...just as Jon and Angela did...when Raziel returned to the Heavens.

Pierre shivered. "My brother..." He squeezed his eyes shut for a second, trembling slightly. An image of his eldest brother imprinted on the insides of his eyelids. He swallowed back a lump that had begun to form in his throat; he still couldn't bring himself to think or talk about what had happened to Jonathan. Opening his eyes he looked at Gabriel who nodded slowly at him.

Oui...

"Um...well then how come they were husband and wife...and Anna and I aren't y'know?"

Gabriel snorted. Because of Samiel.

Pierre frowned. "That doesn't really explain anything."

"He's your twin soul, Pierre." Annalise smiled; she could explain the twin soul principle because it was something she had studied whilst at the LAD. "Angel souls are an enigma. You can't explain it."

Pierre shook his head hard. "Well, if he's my twin soul...how come his soul wasn't strong enough to split?"

"It was."

Gabriel nodded in agreement. It was, Pierre. It just didn't go the same path yours did. Samiel split his soul...and sent half of it into the earthly realms...he became Adam...and is now Pat...