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Talen seemed to lose all his anger and rage when Mei touched the top of his head. His face smoothed out and he turned his eyes onto her. He furrowed his brows and shook his head. He seemed more sorry than she did. He put his hands to his throat and slumped in a slightly defeated way.

He then looked back up to Abel, a strangely hurt expression on his face. It only left him when Mei touched a hand to his wound. He flinched away, and grasped her other hand tightly in both of his, eyes confused.

"What..." He started, and then jerked his eyes at Abel. He clutched Mei's hand more tightly, but quickly had to let her go as Gabriel came closer. He could only watch as the pair of angels argued, only then, Mei wasn't exactly what she appeared to be after all.

"Guys..." Talen said faintly. He sounded tired and half hearted in his attempts to quell their argument.

When Abel stirred Talen was quite quickly on his feet. Saul, however, was there at his side first. Talen knelt on his other sider, Saul watching him with a carefully concealed expression.

Talen nodded at his friend and then looked down to Abel. "Hey." He said softly, sounding winded. His smile was crooked. He seemed unsure if he should touch him, and he didn't.

((PHEW. Alright. Let's try this again. Haha, I've been working on homework like crazy... but I got a bit of a lull in stuff at the moment. SO HERE IT IS.))

Saul and Talen weren't quite sure what they should tell Abel. They both knew the truth wasn't it, not now. They couldn't possibly tell him what had happened so quickly. Abel was always so sensitive, and imparting what he'd done, though it hadn't been him had it? To tell him what terrible being he'd become... well, Talen wasn't sure what that would do to Abel. Saul seemed quite positive, and by the way he merely shook his head at Talen, that it would undo the angel completely.

And if anyone would know better about such things, Saul would know.

However, after is question again of where Lilith was once again Saul stood and had to move away. He was running his hands through his hair, back to everyone.

Talen looked after his friend and then looked back at Abel. That was his mistake. Catching his friend's eyes. Even after Abel had to drop his gaze Talen was still gazing steadily at his friend. He couldn't possibly tell him any lies. He had a rigt to know.

"Lilith's gone."

"Cain is dead." Saul said. His back was still turned.

Talen looked up and looked on with disbelief, a touch of panic in his eyes. "How could you-"

"Dead." Saul repeated. "There's no way..." He turned back to Abel, and there was no way he couldn't see the accusing look in his eyes. "Maybe you shouldn't be here."

((Ouch.))

((What? What is this? A POST? Let's. Do it. I can't promise you any consistency with my posts this summer, but WE ARE GOING TO FINISH THIS RP. THAT IS FOR SURE.

PS: I seriously need a scanner. Fo' real.))

Talen wanted very much to go with Mei and Abel. He was full of questions now, and wanted to be with the angel to give him what comfort he could, but something kept him with Saul. He caught his friend's gaze only once and just briefly, but it was enough to convince him to stay. Saul had that old look of self destruction in his eyes, the same look Talen used to see reflected in the mirror when he had been young.

Talen nodded once at Gabriel and moved beside Saul who though he seemed to move away, took some form of comfort in his presence. Saul's cool eyes were hard and steady on Gabriel's face.

"He's gone now. Go ahead. Say what you want." His voice was dry and toneless, but deeply hurt. "I stand by what I said. I don't think he should be here. He left for a reason... he should have stayed away for that reason. You saw him." He waved an arm for emphasis. "You SAW what he did as well as ANY of us."

Talen stayed silent. He didn't dare utter a word.

"What. The. Hell. Is he? No more secrets. We have a right to know what we are dealing with. I'm tired of this s**t. What is he?"

((hahaha, Saul being all demanding and s**t. WOO.))

((Uhhhh...I'm gonna edit this. ;p ))

When Abel and Mei had disappeared, Gabriel looked over to Saul. He understood the man's frustration and anger. He rubbed the back of his smooth head and tried to think of a simple way to explain everything. It was proving harder than he thought it should have been.

"We all kind of had big plans for Abel. Before he was born, a lot of us decided that it would be good to have someone, born human, to become a powerful asset after death. It sounds really selfish when I say it, but that's how it was. We figured if we had someone like that it'd be easier to sway the demons away from people, making our jobs easier, to guide them down the right path.

"So we gave that power to Abel. As a human he had what you'd call psychic gifts, foresight, sixth sense, all that stuff. What we weren't planning on was for his life to be so...messed up. His family wasn't keen on his abilities and they also weren't keen on having a male heir who was so susceptible to illnesses and not to mention the fact he was weak willed. There were a lot of aspects that caused Abel to become broken. He didn't have love or many friends. An outcast of sorts, despite his family background."

Gabriel paused and looked away, frowning. "I am not the one to be giving away his life story, that's for him to decide what to tell people. But we'll just say he was torn. His heart was weak, both physically and spiritually. He wanted everyone to feel loved and wanted to help everyone, but he was too open to them. He allowed people to walk over him and use him.

"I was the one assigned to him, to make sure everything went okay. But I think you, Talen, understand this more than anyone, Abel's stubborn. I did my best to nudge him the right way and guide him but he refused my help. He didn't care about himself. He was worthless, according to him. I won't go into details...so let's just say at the end of his short life he was pretty much miserable."

With a heavy sigh he looked down. He seemed ashamed and guilty. "He didn't like himself, or care about his life. He committed suicide. We all know, or have heard, of the consequence of taking your life. It's simple, you're going to hell. Well I felt like a failure, and everyone else knew we had just given the demons a strong weapon. If they were able to turn him from his goodness, we'd be in big trouble. So I convinced everyone to pull him back up.

"It hadn't been done before, only half way done. Mei was the only one to be taken back. But she isn't one of us, she's still...one of them, just on our side. It's hard to explain. But with Abel, we made him one of us, when we did that, he's still...stained. Hell does things to you that not even I can say I understand. And it was worse because Abel is so...soft.

"I did what I thought I had to do, coach him, teach him. But he's still broken, still stubborn, and still Abel. And now he's starting to lose it. There's been a lot of stuff thrown on him, especially when Hans fell and started to work for the demons. Hans was one of Abel's best friends. I think that was the straw on the camel's back. He's starting to let everything overwhelm him. Because of that he doesn't have as much control over himself."

Gabriel looked up at Talen and Saul with a frown. "So to answer, simply, what Abel IS...he's an angel, with powers given to him by both sides. He's also Abel. We can't judge what he will do. I thought by being here he'd start to understand how much people worry about him, but he's too stubborn and closed up now. I'm just trying to keep some sort of hope he'll eventually open up a little and let people fix him. He needs fixing, no matter how much he refuses."

Then he was silent. He closed his eyes and stayed that way for a few minutes until he studied Talen. "I want you to know. If Abel loses it completely, the only thing left for us to do is to...kill him." He said the last part with a considerable amount of heaviness and pain. "It's a different thing to be killed after you're already dead. You're just...gone."

((OKAY. That was long and a lot of talking! xD Hahaha. Yup! ))

((Look! A fast post! ;D Hahaha...and I just woke up...;o ))

Gabriel remained still, even as Talen shouted at him. Everything he said to him was true, there was no point in arguing back. It was only when Saul spoke that Gabriel moved slightly. His darkened blue eyes watched Saul leave, knowing full well what he was doing was probably the best thing for him, to get away from it all.

When he was gone, Gabriel focused on Talen, not saying anything for a moment. "You're right." He finally spoke, his voice sounded extremely tired. "But we aren't all seeing. Only one is perfect, and we are merely trying to do what we can to protect His children. We can't comprehend what He has planned, but I have faith that He does everything for a reason." After a deep breath he shook his head. "I admit, I made a mistake. I shouldn't have gone through with it. But we weren't expecting things to turn out like they did. It's no excuse for our actions, this I understand, but our hopes were too high that it clouded our judgment."

"I take full blame for Abel's situation and I take full blame for the rest of you being messed into this. I let Abel come here too soon. I'm too attached to him. He's like a son to me, and as a father I've failed in guiding him properly. I've let myself become too human, when I wasn't meant to be." His brows furrowed and he rubbed the back of his neck. "I won't give up on Abel so soon. I don't want to lose him..." He grew quiet and checked his watch again.

"If you wish to follow in Saul's footsteps, don't feel obligated to stay with us. As for your sister..." He paused as if taking a minute to think of what he was to say. Suddenly he took a step back and his watch began beeping. "I have to go get Abel's birthday gift."

((That was actually harder to write than the previous one...cause Gabriel is such a p***k and won't show many emotions...))

((Ahahaha. I am the epitome of lazy...and it makes me kind of sick. xD I really need to stop.))

Gabriel shook his head and breathed out. "Yeah...it seems whenever we actually attempt to do something for him either he runs off for the day, or things happen to put everyone in a mood." He said and pulled out the keys to his car. "I can give you a ride to wherever you're going." He started to walk towards the street where his car apparently had been park the whole time, yet just now noticeable. It beeped once as the locks slid open and Gabriel pulled the door to the driver's side.

"By the way." The tall black man suddenly said, turning towards Talen. "Abel's gotten really attached to you. He wouldn't let anyone hurt you, even himself." He finally slid into the car.

"So. You want a ride or not?"

((Awwww...I missed my chance. Haha. Oh well! And it's fine! I understand my sweet! Stuff like that always comes first...life comes first. xD))

Gabriel gave Talen a smile as the young man complimented his taste. "Yes. If you can have what you want, then why not get it?" He said in response and shut the door. Putting on his sunglasses, he turned on the car.

"Your place it is then." He said calmly and revved the engine as if to show off to Talen some more. He then put the car into drive and took off.

"Here we are." He said after they had gotten to the house. "Don't worry your sister with any unnecessary talk about what just happened. If the time comes that she must know...that is fine. But hopefully that time won't come. She's burdened...don't make anything any worse." He warned Talen with the air of a father speaking to his son. "Call Mei when she and Abel are wanted over. She'll be staying with Abel for a while now. Her jobs have been pushed aside to someone else. As for me...I may or may not come. We'll see if it is wanted."

He unlocked the doors and looked away from Talen. "Abel's a sucker for anything heart felt." He added as an afterthought.

((Ahahaha. Gabe...you so stylish.))