An Angelic Downfall

"And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep..."

"Do you always climb trees just to read?"
His voice was trying to sound amused but anybody could sense the panic.
I gasped and swerved sideways to get a good look at the face to that heavenly voice.

"Y..Yes, I do," was the only reply I could come up with. I mean, how could I be capable of any other thought when he, in all his perfectness was a breath away? Trying to gain back some of my dignity, "It's really high up here. Are you sure you won't fall?"

And then on that slim branch, he crawled towards me like a panther and I think I stopped breathing altogether, I shifted back a millimeter and that did it. The branch cracked, the book slipped from my hand, I closed my eyes but instead of the sound of cracking bones all I heard was,
"I'm sure I won't," his lips were at my ear, his arms around my waist, me perched with him on an adjacent branch, " but I'll always catch you if you do"
***

She was the one he had been waiting for.. His salvation and his Downfall. Her presence brings trouble to his pack like a raging storm- not the 'oh-I-like-her-will-she-like-me-back' kind of trouble; but the 'is-she-my-saviour-or-my-murderer' type.

When the monsters creep from the shadows and the lies come out, will fate still hold?