Even Angels Fall | ONC 2022

Isiel is a Guardian Angel on her seventh assignment. She knows the rules, she knows the stakes. She knows what it is to succeed and what it is to fail. What she doesn't know is how she is going to survive a year on Earth after everything that happened last time. With Him.

Nereus of Elgor is a Soul Demon on his eleventh assignment. He doesn't care about the rules, his angelic counterpart, or anything but claiming the soul under his charge. Except when he does. And that makes it very inconvenient. Especially after everything that happened last time. With Her.

Neither could believe they would break the most unshakable rule of all. After all, who'd ever heard of an Angel and a Demon falling in love? An unspeakable romance, something neither side could ever condone. Something neither Isiel or Nereus could ever embrace.

And then there's the little matter of Cadreal, Garrison Commander of Thursday, who is everything Nereus is not... Except forbidden.

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The war between the Angels and the Demons has been going on since the day Lucifer fell from Heaven. Full-scale battles for the souls of humanity evolved to single angels and demons battling for the sake of a single soul. They all know the routine: one year on Earth to save or condemn a soul.

The Guardian Angels and Soul Demons have only one rule: Never come in contact with the Potential.

... Of course, there is that other rule. The unspoken one. something so unspeakable, so unthinkable, it never needed saying. Never, ever fall in love.

Inspired by ONC Prompt 79 with hints of 44.