Different Yet The Same

Chapter Twenty-Two

-Spark-

I pull her close on the rain splattered pavement and whisper those three fatal words "I love you." She laughs innocently and I spin her around once more. As she turns to me, stars dancing in her eyes, the moonlight reflects off her ivory skin.

She sighs and admits, "I love you too." I had never been so happy in my entire life. Happy to just be there, to hold her close, keep her safe, to treasure her...my Angela.

•••

Our lips are mere inches apart. Our eyes locked and our hearts beating as one. As I move to kiss her, my breath catches, I inhale her scent, savouring the very essence of her.

It wasn't so much that I wanted to kiss her...I needed to kiss her. Love isn't something you understand it's what you feel, and the moment I drew her close to me, my senses were lost in her touch and scent and the image of her encompassed me completely.....

Our lips touched, gently at first, followed by a passion that consumed me. After what seemed like hours, she pulled away, and looking deep into my eyes she whispered "I knew you would kiss like that."

•••

I'd waited for this moment when our souls are bound forever, our bodies entwine and our lives become one. This is it...this is the moment. I can feel her response to my every touch, her willingness to please, to be, to love...I gently caress her delicate shoulder with my lips and slide my hands slowly down the curves of her body. This is it. This is the moment. The magical moment we have both being waiting for....but then...

For all the tenderness I feel in my heart and the pure love I have for my Angela, I cannot control myself. My mind screams for me to stop but my actions defy me... I find myself consumed by a ferociousness that scares me. It was as if a raging fire was burning within me with a ravaging intensity I could not control. It's like I have been possessed; taken over ... but how? By whom?

•••

The day had arrived to quickly, it was like everything had sped by in a blur. I sat in the waiting room at the local hospital. Anxious and terrified. "Excuse me Sir." A nurse said. "Would you like to come meet your children?" I slowly got up and started to follow her down a length of hallways...then I thought to myself...wait, children?

We finally stopped at a door labeled 266, and the nurse ushered me inside. Then there, lying on the bed was Angela and two little babies. She looked up at me a smile on her face, and handed me my children...twins.

They looked exactly the same, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart, except one had tears in her eyes and travelling down her cheeks, and the other was silent, observant. "What shall we name them?" Angela asked.

A male nurse had entered the room, his jet black hair a contrast to the white walls around us. If I'd known who he was I would of killed him right then and there.

"How about Ember?" He suggested, his words fierce.

"I think that's a lovely idea." Angela says, taking the silent child from my arms.

"What about this little one?" The nurse asked. Feeling enraged that the nurse picked the name for my child, I took it upon myself to name the other.

"Spark." I said simply gazing into her beautiful eyes.

"Spark and Ember it is." The nurse said slyly. Exiting the room to fill out paper work.

I should have killed him, but I didn't, and that is a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

•••

After the birth, I had done some research. What I found out terrified me. The only explanation to my absurd emotions that night, was...I had been possessed, by the one and only man no one would think possible.

•••

It broke my heart that after 6 years of watching them grow up I'd have to leave. I'd seen them transform, from just little babies, to girls with spirit, and fire.

I had noticed that Spark was a more gentle person, more loving and caring. Whereas Ember was fiercer, her temper short, her fighting skills true.

The one thing that they had in common was that they would die for their sister and that trait was the most important to me.

Angela and I had agreed that I couldn't stay around any longer. It was for the best. People were getting suspicious and Angela wanted the girls to live normal lives, not knowing truly who they are. Angela couldn't bear to believe that one was an angel and the other something else entirely.

It pained me to leave them, the three most important people in my life, but I vowed that I would always watch over them for as long as I shall live.

Upon the day of my departure, Spark was in tears and clinging to my sides sobbing and begging me not to go. Ember, stood away from me, anger and betrayal showing in her eyes that pierced me like daggers. "Listen girls, I may not be here with you in person, but I will always be with you in spirit." With that I hugged Spark goodbye and looked at Ember.

"Goodbye Michael." She spat and walked to Spark holding her close. Then I reluctantly flew off into the sky, leaving my two daughters and one true love to fend for themselves.

I never should have left.

•••

Ember isn't an angel...she's a demon.

We're not even full sisters. This sudden information numbs me, dulls my senses, shuts my brain down.

I see Caleb run into the room, staring at me in confusion. Then I start dropping to the floor, down, down, down...

With a devastating crack I'm plunged into a painful darkness.