Guardian

Chapter Nine

I watched as Feather sat with her family at the dinner table. She was quiet this evening, after leaving the precinct yesterday she seemed to be stuck in thought about something. It had almost been twenty four hours since then and she silence was eerie to me. See, Feather -when she is alone- tends to speak to herself about whatever is going through her head. It was cute, especially when she's trying to figure things out, it's interesting to watch her train of thought. She would laugh at herself, smile, plan things. Most of the time, she degraded herself. 
But today there was none of that, she was silent when she was alone, almost like she was aware that she wasn't alone. 

It sounded creepy to say that she was never alone. I was with her as much as I possibly could be, always making sure that she was okay. 
Maybe the whole situation with Malcolm is making her uncomfortable, more so than before. He'd made several inappropriate comments yesterday during their break in the precinct cafeteria, after which winking at her after every comment. She'd left early with a deputy who'd offered to drive her home -a female deputy luckily- when they'd returned to where her mother and step-father were. 

When dinner was finished, Feather walked up to her room silently, the only sound being her footsteps, one faulting and she almost fell over before I caught her. She gasped a little bit and held her side. For a moment I was worried she'd hurt herself, I reached, trying to see if she was alright, but she began walking again before I could. I furrowed my eyebrows, frowning but I followed her anyway. I watched her closely as she stepped into her room and quickly closed the door before I could get in. 
I stood nose to the door, standing shocked for some reason. She'd never moved that fast without tripping and falling before -hence the reason she never moved too quickly-.

I sighed and leaned my head on the door. I breathed slowly, feeling my muscles tense up for some reason. All I wanted to do was hug her, cuddle her, have her know that I was here. To stop hiding and tell her who I really am. 

Maybe there was more to the reason I was assigned to Feather, more reason that I stayed and tried to hardest to protect her. I'd spent the last sixteen years protecting her with my life, giving her all the love that I could and I missed the moments we used to have, sitting in the playhouse that used to be in her backyard, spending all of our time play games together, having tea parties and sometimes, when the sun set early enough, looking up at the stars at night time. The times where she would sit in my lap, with her little arms around my chest as we did whatever we were doing. When she was scared at night she'd call out for me -well, she'd call Wings because Tiberius was too hard for her- and I would be there. She would climb into my lap and tell me about the nightmares she'd had and ask me to tell them to go away, to make sure that they knew she was protected. She said I scared them away, that I was scary in general, but I didn't scare her. 
I stayed with her, giving her as many chances as I could, because someone -whoever ruled in the skies and made fate- decided that we should be soulmates. 

Soulmates, were not unheard of in the Angel world. In fact they were relatively common. You'd be surprised at how many of us have soulmates. And not all of them are humans. 
What, did you think that the Earth is solely inhabited by humans?  The Earth is home to werewolves, vampires, fairies, mermaids, ghosts, you name it, they're here somewhere. But they're not these big scary things that you see in the movies. They live peacefully with the humans. Only the world governments knew about the other species. The general public was kept in the dark about it until they absolutely needed to know, it cases like werewolves and vampires having human mates, fairies taking in human companions. Mermaids generally weren't seen by humans, living deep in the oceans and seas. Ghosts were a very common occurrence, but people brushed off ghosts in the first place. 

When I discovered that Feather was my soulmate, I knew then that I would stay with her. I fell in love with her so instantly that it surprised me. When she was a baby, she would cry at night. Her parents would leave her alone, saying that she needed to learn to fall asleep on her own. He would be there in the night, he would hold her, cuddle her until she fell back to sleep. She was and still is his favorite person.