Reapers and Angels

by Margie Eileen Jones

  Calis was panting, moaning, and chanting Sebastian’s name. His eyes were closed and his mouth was slightly open as he concentrated on this feeling of oneness. Sebastian used one hand to keep Calis’s rhythm steady while using the other to stroke his lover to their completion together. Sebastian was so close and he wanted Calis to cum with him.

  Sebastian whispered how beautiful Calis was to him and how much he loved him. He licked his lips at the sight of his beloved who was perfect beyond words. As the two of them came fireworks lit their eyes and Calis cried Sebastian’s name at the top of his lungs. Sebastian never heard such beautiful music before and found himself in love all over again.

  After they both came, Calis sat on Sebastian until that hard cock became soft and eventually slid out. Sebastian pulled Calis down kissing him again and again thanking him for giving him such pleasure.

  Sebastian sat up holding Calis in his arms as Calis wrapped his little body around him. He then carried the boy to the bathroom where he gently set Calis down and started them a nice hot bath. Adding a little bath salt to the water and some rose oil Sebastian lifted Calis into the tub first getting the boy comfortable before climbing in behind him.

  Calis lay against his beloved butler and husband relaxed feeling like for once things might go right for them. He was so glad that Anne married Christian, but he still worried that Sebastian may not find the satisfaction he did with a pure Angel in their love life. He had hoped Anne would at least help with that much. However, Sebastian assured him that he was fine and not to worry about such nonsense.

  Sebastian was happy and he loved Calis. He really did not need anyone else in his life and fact was with this war going on he could use the excess energy he stored up for those moments of intense lust to use such lust for battle. It was possible for Angels to redirect their lust to more violent activities and the hall of weapons was a perfect outlet for some of his frustrations. Now that he had the portal spell he could focus on building up his strength and learning other ways to control his emotions. Sebastian just wondered when he was going to be called again. This unending quiet unsettled him a bit.

  After the water became cold, Sebastian unplugged the tub letting the water drain out as he dried both himself and Calis off. The two went straight to bed cuddling into one another until both fell into a deep slumber.

  Chapter 14

  (The beauty of Anne Cross)

  A few more months had passed and Anne was big pregnant with Christian sitting at her side with his hand on her abdomen feeling his child growing within her. Every once in a while, he would feel a little kick or movement from the baby Angel. Everyone in the house got to feel the baby, but Christian spent the most time touching his beloved’s belly feeling the miracle that was his child.

  Kingsly insisted on delivering the baby although not one of the reapers had done it before. In fact, no one had delivered a baby Angel in their lives. Kingsly studied books and went into delivery rooms to watch babies being born. It was not hard to conceal himself in the rooms of the hospital as he watched the miracle of childbirth including how to do a C section, what to do if the baby was breech and other complications. Of course, no one thought Kingsly was capable of doing the job of being a midwife to Anne, but no one else had volunteered for the job.

  Anne couldn’t have an ultrasound done or go to a human doctor so no one knew if the baby was a girl or boy. Anne said most Angels were born dual gendered. An Angel eventually chose what gender they preferred, but they all had the capability to change their sex if they so choose to do so.

  Calis had a nursery created in one of the rooms close to everyone and had baby monitors installed. He was serious about this child having everything it needed including mobiles, baby clothing, diapers, wipes, and crib with the softest blankets all in green. Calis felt green was a good neutral color although Kingsly was upset since he wanted to put red in the nursery. Calis also had bought onesies for the baby although Sebastian was making most of the baby’s clothing. Christian knit little hats, booties, and crocheted a nice soft afghan for the baby.

  Kingsly was constantly over at the house checking on Anne as if the baby was going to be born that day along with Ripley who bought the infant toys and kept bringing Anne gifts from his work from the corpses that he felt did not need their jewelry and things after he buried them. Ripley never told the families how he would strip the corpses of their things at the gravesite after the family left and before the burial party arrived. Ripley figured it was a waste to destroy such nice things by burring the dead with them.

  Anne appreciated the gifts from Ripley who would sit with her and talk for hours. Anne had a few funny rather crude jokes for him and Ripley would leave laughing never imagining a fine lady could have such a wonderful sense of humor.

  The day did finally come when Anne felt the contractions hit. Anne felt such pain it was unreal. Sebastian immediately called Kingsly who was there in a flash with several reapers with him. Ronald, Ripley, William, the Grim Reaper himself, Liam, and William’s protégé Michael were all there. Everyone was in the birthing room which pretty much was just a guest bedroom while Kingsly went immediately into action.

  Kingsly was worried since there was a lot of blood coming from Anne’s vagina and it was pooling everywhere. This was not normal for any pregnancy she had seen. As the head of the baby was seen Kingsly grasped Anne’s hand and had her feel that thick head of black hair on the baby’s head to know that this was going to be over soon.

  “My baby is it ok?”

  Anne asked weakly.

  “Well it isn’t out yet dear. You are going to have to bear down and push.”

  Kingsly said since although Anne was fully dilated it seemed the baby’s head was only partially out. Kingsly worked with Anne to finally get the head out, but now the body was stuck. It seemed the little Angel opened its wings inside Anne and Kingsly had to reach in to pull them flat as she eased the shoulders out and more blood pooled out.

  Ripley was getting worried. Anne had lost a lot of blood and even for an Angel this was not good. The Grim Reaper looked quite upset. He knew that this would be the final moments for this young Angel. He could feel her life force leaving her.

  Anne screamed out in agony as she pushed again and the baby Angel finally came free. Kingsly immediately took the infant and cleaned it off washing all the blood away then wrapped it in a soft blanket. There was no afterbirth like in a human’s pregnancy, there was just more and more blood coming from Anne.

  “It’s a boy and he is beautiful.”

  Kingsly said since there was no sign of a vagina on the child. Just a tiny penis and the baby fussed a bit since it was a bit chilly in the room. The infant looked like both Christian and Anne. He had Christian’s thick black hair and Anne’s bright blue eyes. He was so tiny and fragile that Kingsly hoped he didn’t wrap the blanket too tightly around the tiny boy.

  Handing the tiny infant to Anne who was shaking she looked into the face of her son. He was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.

  “Oh, Christian he is so beautiful.”

  Anne said and Christian kissed Anne looking at his little family with his precious son being held by his dying wife. Christian knew with the amount of blood Anne lost there was not much time left for her.

  “He is beautiful just like you my darling.”

  Christian said as tears poured down his face. There wasn’t a dry eye in the room. Everyone knew Anne was going to die and it seemed so wrong. It was supposed to be a day to celebrate and it had turned into a tragedy.

  Anne felt herself weaken and asked Christian to take their son since she did not want to drop him. She called Ripley over who came to her side holding her hand. He brushed aside the hair that was plastered against Anne’s beautiful face and kissed her gently on the cheek. Anne whispered something into Ripley’s ear and he nodded.

  “Thank you all so much for letting me be a part of this family. I love you all. Take care of Sean for me, he will need all of you n
ow.”

  Anne said as she finally closed her eyes unable to handle the pain any longer as she slowly was fading away. Everyone said their goodbyes to the beautiful woman and then Ripley took his scythe to finish Anne’s life. She had asked the Undertaker she had loved to be the one to take her soul. However, every reaper had their scythes out and as the life records flowed every reaper’s scythe took a portion of Anne’s soul as the records seemed automatically drawn to the scythes.

  Ripley sobbed as he took the majority of Anne’s life into his scythe until Anne’s soul was finally released. As a reaper to him death was always something that was natural, normal, and he did not get attached. However, with Anne it was different, Ripley truly loved this woman.

  When it was done, the infant had an orb of some kind in its little hands it was cooing at. It was Anne’s spirit and the spirit sunk into the infant causing the little one to glow. It seemed Anne’s spirit found its place.

  No one knew what they were going to do now since now they had an infant and a body of an Angel to deal with. The Grim Reaper though had an idea of what to do with Anne’s body. He told Christian to dress her in her wedding gown in her finest things with the jewelry Ripley gave her. The Grim Reaper asked if Ripley still had his glass coffin.

  “I have the coffin my Lord, but it needs to be cleaned and polished.”

  Ripley said as he tried to wipe away his tears.

  “Ripley prepare the body cleaning her and we shall do a spell to keep the body from decaying.”

  The Grim Reaper said as Kingsly helped clean up the room with Sebastian while Christian held his beloved wife in his arms after wrapping her body in a sheet. Ripley took Anne from Christian to his place of work and did his job although he sobbed the whole time while doing so. He used his tools to remove all the fluids from Anne’s body keeping the blood in a beautiful glass jar and kept some of her long beautiful hair as he combed it in another vial. On the jar, he wrote beloved and on the vial, he wrote his precious one.

  Kingsly came to help the Undertaker with making up the body and curled all of Anne’s long hair making her look like a princess. Then Christian arrived with the gown, jewels, tiara, and veil along with a pair of beautiful white high heeled shoes with rhinestones on the toes. There were rings on every one of Anne’s fingers and when she was finished she looked to Kingsly like Sleeping Beauty from the fairy tale waiting for her handsome Prince to wake her from her slumber.

  Anne’s wings were also cleaned with Ripley keeping some of the feathers in a safe secret place for him alone. Ripley cleaned the glass coffin removing all the dust and polishing it to perfection. It had gold trim and although he was given a large sum of money for the coffin and his services he simply put the money away for a headstone that he would have made for himself with the name of his dearest love.

  The Grim Reaper had a monument created in the center of the hall of records where the glass casket would be placed and permanently mounted with the words ‘Here lies the Angel Anne Cross, Guardian of Children and loving wife of Christian Cross. Mother of Ashton Cross and Sean Cross.’ With the date of death listed on the monument. The reapers creating the monument only took a week to do so. It was a beautiful monument with the only thing missing was the glass casket with the beautiful Angel in it.

  The Grim Reaper did the spell on Anne to insure her body would remain the same as it was now with everything in final preparations for the funeral. The funeral was to be held at the chapel in the reaper city.

  Christian did not quite get over Anne’s death and was still in mourning. He wore black all over the house and spent a lot of his time in the bedroom trying not to break down again. Everyone else was trying to figure out how to care for a baby Angel with Calis being the only one who seemed to have any idea of how to deal with the infant.

  Little Sean Cross loved Calis and would talk to him in baby speak while being held by the little cherub. Sean also loved his Father who only held Sean on occasion since he was still grieving. Holding his son only reminded Christian of losing his dearest love.

  Sebastian always had Sean go to sleep in his arms. He tried to talk to the infant in the Angel language, but Calis said he was probably boring Sean to death which was why the infant fell asleep in his arms all the time. Ashton had Sean laughing in his arms although Ashton was a bit resentful towards Sean since he had loved Anne and part of Ashton blamed Sean for her death.

  Kingsly bought several baby magazines and studied up on infants forcing William and everyone to do the same. Problem was Sean did not eat and would not for at least two years. He merely slept and allowed his powers to grow.

  As soon as the funeral date came, everyone was dressed in their best black suits. Christian had a dozen roses to leave on the monument and planned to leave a rose a day on her casket. Calis held Sean who now was sleeping. Christian carried the baby bag although there was really no point to it since the baby did not make messes nor drank from bottles although they had them. The only thing that they really did need was Sean’s binky since the baby did suck on that when he got fussy.

  When they got through the portal, they met up with Kingsly, William, Ripley, and the Grim Reaper. There were also thousands of reapers watching as a group of them carried the casket with the beautiful Angel inside as she was taken to the chapel. The reaper pall bearers placed the casket in the middle of the room while a tall reaper did the ceremony. There were hundreds of flowers with Ashton insisting on bluebells as the main flower for his beloved Anne.

  Christian set the bag down and sat with Sebastian holding his hand this time. Sebastian knew how hard it was for Christian since he had lost many friends in the past that were Angels that had been dear to him. They both knew Anne was back in heaven, but she would never return to the earth. She was now needed there and her purpose here had been fulfilled.

  Each of the family took their turn to tell a bit about Anne and their experience with her, but when Christian got up to speak everyone waited wondering what he would say. He knew Anne the longest as he stood tears poured down his face.

  “I don’t know if I can do justice for this beautiful woman I loved. To an Angel you find only one other who is your other half, the other half of your heart.’

  “When I was a demon, Anne was my companion. She was more than a carrier for my demonic sword Leviathan; she was my lover, my best friend, my companion, and my partner in life. She was as a wife to me before I married her. I loved her like I loved no other.’

  “Our love was passionate and burned hotter than the fires of hell itself. Anne Cross was a beautiful kind-hearted woman. Even as a demon her only dream was to have children and be a Mother. I used to condemn her for this, but now I regret that with every fiber of my being.’

  “My biggest sorrow at this time is she will not be with us to raise our child together. She was a Mother figure to Liam Mackay and Ashton Underwood Cross so I guess she fulfilled her purpose as a Mother to them. Anne was loved and she loved like no woman I have ever known. I am grateful she was in my life and I will love her eternally.’

  “Someday I hope to see her again, but until that point I will do my upmost to live a life she would be proud of. Although part of my heart dies this day, I will try my best to show this world love like Anne would by caring for my child Sean and my dearest love Ashton. I also hope someday to earn the love of Liam since Anne would have wanted us to be a family together.’

  “I am so very grateful to my dear family Sebastian Black and Calis Midnight who have taken an old demon giving me a home even when I did not deserve it. They also took in Anne caring for her and making her a part of their lives.’

  “Anne, you will be missed my love. I will miss you very much and I hope you are happy in heaven. It is where you always have belonged my darling.”

  Christian said as he opened the casket and kissed his dearest love saying his final goodbye as tears poured down his face. His love would never die for Anne and he hoped she knew that. Holding her hand, he finally let go closi
ng the casket and going back to sit down as Sebastian pulled Christian into his arms letting Christian sob into him.

  Ashton was sobbing and Calis had his arm around the boy while holding the infant with his other arm. It was a very hard day for everyone. The Grim Reaper came up and said a few words before everyone left the church except for the little family as Sebastian continued to hold Christian’s hand as they eventually got up to leave the church. All the flowers would be going to their home except two arrangements for William, Kingsly, and Ripley.

  Christian had beautiful red roses in his hand and noted at the bottom of the monument was a type of vase for flowers. He placed the roses in it as the casket was fitted into the monument where everyone could see the beautiful Angel in her eternal slumber.

  Other reapers including Ripley came up with flowers to leave in the vase as well as around the beautiful monument. Kingsly left a beautiful photograph of Anne in a nice frame by the monument as he too cried saying goodbye to a dear friend and family member. William who did not normally cry had a few tears down his cheeks as he had his hand around Kingsly’s waist. He knew how horrible it would feel to lose Kingsly and this just reminded him that even immortal lives could be cut short.