by Tamsin Baker
“Your wounds healed well,” I told her. “It was more the poison they’d fed into you via a drip.”
Kadie gasped and turned back to the women.
“You’re both Witches?” She asked.
“Yes,” Margaret said. “Simone is a new, untrained Witch like you. Yet, she has great power and a true innate ability for potions. She brewed the remedy that you can smell, and probably still taste.”
Kadie chuckled. “I thought there was something strange going on with my stomach, but as I am intensely grateful to be alive, I wasn’t going to ask about the flavour in my mouth.”
Tabitha handed her a cup of tea. “This will be really sweet, but your body needs the sugar. Drink up.”
“Thank you, Tabitha,” Kadie said, taking the mug and lifting the baby gently away from the heat of the water.
“Can I take him?” Tabitha asked, then proceeded to pick up the sleeping baby and rock him.
“So, what have I missed?” Kadie asked, hugging the blankets to herself and gripping the sugarey tea like she needed it for an anchor.
I stepped up and explained what had happened at the castle that night, and everything since. Including the premonition from Jasmine.
“So, our son is two days old and people are already seeing visions of him saving the world?” She shook her head and laughed. “I know some parents have unrealistic expectations, but that’s a bit much.”
Tabitha brought our son closer again and spoke to Kadie softly.
“Your son’s conception and birth is a true miracle, Kadie. One that we have foretold for centuries. He will be immortal, like his father, like me. I am also a Fallen Angel, Witch conception. But I was not the saviour they had all predicted.”
Tabitha swallowed hard and for the first time I sensed the pain inside of her. The disappointment at being born the wrong sex. At the wrong time.
I reached out for Tabitha and lay a hand on her shoulder.
“You have been my saviour for five centuries Tabitha. You are perfect, just as you are.”
My Angel Agent. One of the smartest and kindest women I have ever known.
“Thank you, Gabriel, but we are going to lose this war if we aren’t careful.”
“What war?” Simone asked.
I sighed. This was not a discussion for humans.
“There has always been a war between good and evil,” Tabitha said, giving them a modified truth. “The Demons fight on the side of evil, and with their growth of power, comes a blow to our side. We can’t let them win the war, because we have no idea what they’ll do if they succeed in overcoming us all.”
Kadie pulled herself to sit up.
“Not to be selfish, in any way. But, what about me? With the whole immortality thing? Am I to die like a normal human?”
Kadie looked to me and I looked to Tabitha for the answer.
Tabitha pulled herself up straighter and I knew the answer wouldn’t be good. “My mother died at a normal age for a human of her era.”
“Which was when exactly?” I asked.
“1310,” Tabitha replied, a slight twitch at her shoulder belying the pain she’d gone through in seeing her mother die so soon.
Kadie slumped in her chair, pain rippling over her face. “And your father?” She asked.
Tabitha’s gaze darted away. “Died. At the hands of a Demon. Very soon after my mother died.”
A shiver coursed up my spine at the images those words invoked in me.
We rarely lost a Fallen Angel to a Demon. Unless there was a group attack, or the Angel was compromised in some way. Heart-sick perhaps?
“Tabitha?” I managed to say, though the question I wanted to know couldn’t be said.
She stared straight at me for long moments. “You know that Angels love with all their hearts Gabriel.”
Tears threatened my eyes as I looked away.
I did know that, and I’d once thought my love for Teramea would be my undoing. But as I looked at my son in Tabitha’s arms and Kadie resting, alive and smiling, I now knew what true love was.
Kadie caught my eye and she pulled herself up. “I need a shower and some food, and we need a plan. Because I don’t know about you, but I’m not really interested in sending my new born son off to war without me.”
Fire burned in my gut as my blood began to pump around my body with renewed heat.
The fight was on, and together we would stand.
THE END of part 2.
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