The Angel's Demonic Guardian

You Demon

This chapter's a little shorter, but it's more dramatic than the previous ones. Hope you all like it! :D

---

“Gabriel!” Lilith squealed, akin to the way she did just moments before. She ran towards the doorway, grabbing the unsuspecting demon that was about to leave. She greeted him the same way she did Aiden and hugged him.

“Wait.” Aeron interrupted, looking very much confused. “Gabriel, you know these people?”

Before Gabriel could even open his mouth, Lilith spoke up. “What are you talking about, silly.” She giggled, as if Aeron made a joke. “Gabriel’s our son.”

Outside, a cricket chirped.

The silence that followed the woman’s statement was heavy. Gabriel shifted in his mother’s hold, unsure of what to say.

“Christian,” Aeron said, between clenched teeth, a polite smile on her face. The dark waves surrounding her were starting to scare Gabriel.

“My,” Lilith shivered, “it’s getting quite cold in here.”

Aeron ignored the comment the space around her getting darker every second. “May I please excuse myself? I’m feeling rather sick.”

Aeron didn’t wait for a reply, opening the window of Christian and Aiden’s apartment on the twelfth floor and jumping out.

Gabriel wriggled out of his mother’s grasp walking slowly towards the window just in time to see a dove flying off. Flapping its wings in an angrily, the dove looked at Gabriel ­– glared was more like it– before flying off.

Gabriel sighed in irritation. “This is your entire fault, mother. Now I’ll have to explain.”

Lilith waved a dismissive hand. “You’ll live. Besides, it’s your fault for not telling the girl about your mother. Again. Seriously? I thought you'd learn your lesson this time around.”

Asmodeus licked his lips, turning towards the distracted Christian. He wrapped his arms around the teen’s waist and whispered in his ear. “Want to have some fun?”

“Dad,” Aiden said exasperatedly, prying Christian away from his father again, “I thought you and mom were monogamous now.”

Asmodeus shrugged casually, looking much more immature than his own sons. “I was going to share, so it doesn’t count.”

Gabriel, meanwhile, stared out the window, a pained expression on his face.

---

“Aeron­­–”

“No.”

“I said–“

“No.”

“But–“

“No.”

Aeron drank her glass of milk calmly as Gabriel tried again and again to apologize.

She washed the glass silently, setting it to dry before turning towards her Guardian. “Now, if you’d excuse me.”

Before the girl could walk out of the kitchen, Gabriel had grabbed her arm pulling her around and pinning her to the fridge. Aeron pushed on her Guardian’s chest, trying to get away.

“Let me go.” She ordered, an angry red tinting her cheeks.

“No.” Gabriel replied. “Not until you listen to me.”

Aeron huffed crossing her arms over her chest. “Fine.”

“Look,” Gabriel started, “I have never lied to you about my family, it just never came up.”

Aeron rolled her eyes. “Right and you just decided never to let me know about them.”

“You never asked.”

Aeron glared at him. “Then I’m sorry for believing that I could trust my Guardian to tell me things.”

“Two years ago you constantly told me that I wasn’t your Guardian.” Gabriel shot back.

The hurt look that crosses Aeron’s face shocks Gabriel, but before he can process that, he is pushed away.

“So you decided to keep a whole other life of yours a secret?” She asked, tears pricking her eyes.

“Aeron, I –“

“Is it that you didn’t want me to know? Or that you didn’t want them to know?” Despite her best efforts not to cry, a stray tear fell down Aeron’s cheek. Gabriel reached forward, trying to comfort the girl but she slapped his hand away. “Don’t touch me!”

“Is that it?” She spat out, eyesight getting blurry. “You were embarrassed to have me as your Angel?”

“Aeron, it’s–that’s not it.” Gabriel tried again, tentatively trying to get closer to the cowering girl who resembled a frightened animal. “There never seemed a good time to tell you.”

“No!” The girl shouted. “That’s not an excuse!”

“If they never came here to visit,” she hissed, “I still wouldn’t know who your family was.”

Aeron felt her knees go weak but she forced them to hold. “So, I was just going to stay your little secret, wasn’t I?”

Gabriel took another step closer. “It’s not like that–“

“Then what is it Gabriel?” Aeron asked, voice cracking towards the end. “What other explanation is there?”

With two more tears streaming down her face and a burst of emotion, Aeron kicked her Guardian in the leg as hard as she could. “You demon!”

Gabriel fell to the floor, clutching his leg while watching his Angel run away into her room, slamming the door. The exhausted and wounded expression on his face was no longer concealed as he wallowed in his own self-pity.

---

“She just now noticed that he was a demon?” Carter exclaimed after watching the scene on the screen in front of him.

Nathan whistled. “That was dramatic.”

The two were suddenly startled by a hand slamming the laptop close.

Christian looked at the two with a stern expression, an equally miffed looking Aiden behind him. “What are you two doing?”

Nathan gulped. “SpongeBob Squarepants?”