Tears of an Angel (Hadrian)

[Celeste]

It was the day after the event in her room. Deep blue and black bruises on her arms showed how badly he had hurt her and how easily. Right now a long sleeve shirt covered them and so no one would be able to see. Since that day she was worried. Would she have to pick between her brother and the love of her life. But Angra had hurt her and now she didn't know what to do.

Celeste walked down the hall slowly her skirt flaring slightly with every step the black pleats shaking gently. But Celeste's blue eyes didn't show the happy pleasant innocent girl she used to be instead there was inner turmoil. She was going to the other of her kind. Hoping to talk to him so that they could resolve this issue before it happened again.

She reached Hadrian's dorm and reached up knocking on the door. She was trying not to cry and above all else she couldn't let him see the bruises on her arms that looked a bit too much like hand prints. She was just cold.. yeah cold. She knocked on his door three times and waited her head cast down and her white hair hiding it anyway as she waited nervously.

[Hadrian]

Hadrian had been brooding as of late. The situation with Celeste was becoming increasingly complex and dangerous. She was almost constantly in the hands of that Angra. Hadrian shivered with disgust as he thought about those hands, his hands, moving over her fair and unblemished skin. He had hurt her, he was supposed to protect her, Hadrian had tried to punish him. However the human was craftier than he thought and used Celeste against him. If only he could make Celeste see what kind of person Angra truly was.

As he was meditating on these things before he even heard the three soft knocks on his door he knew she was hear. He sensed turmoil rolling off of her in waves and he hurriedly moved to the door, opening it for her and ushering her inside without a word.

"Celeste what do you need?" he asked sitting her down in a chair, obviously concerned about whatever her predicament was. He took a seat across from her and watched her carefully, "Why..why do you have a long sleeve shirt on, it's not cold out at all.." Hadrian asked he had the sneaking suspicion that Angra had hurt her but he would keep those opinions to himself for now. It would be better for her to say it and for her to reveal what she felt he needed to know.

[Celeste]

The door opened and she looked up. Hadrian and she were connected on a truly deep level and she knew he could sense the things running through her mind. He pulled her gently into his room and sat her down in a chair. She began to fiddle with her fingers twisting and playing with them nervously as he began to speak.

She nearly winced but caught herself when he mentioned that she was wearing a long sleeve shirt on such a warm day. She tried to put a smile on as she looked up into his red gaze. His white hair and scarred body were the same as they always were and she smiled softly.

"I think I'm coming down with something Hadrian. I feel cold even though it's warm." she told him lying through her teeth.

She looked up into his eyes and her own blue ones teared up a bit. She began wringing her hands even more.

"I came because.. of Angra. I.. umm.. well.. he told me what happened and .. I .. I need you to come to a truce or something because.. I can't have you fighting all the time.. it isn't fair to me.. I can't pick one." she said softly as the first tears fell down her face.

[Hadrian]

Hadrian's hands clenched into tight fists as she talked. That boy Angra...he was forcing her to choose between them. Hadrian growled viciously as he saw the tears start to well up in her crystalline blue eyes. Angra did not deserve Celeste if he was going to hurt her like this. If Hadrian had his way the rat would have never hurt her in the first place because she would have never met him.

"How can you force me to compromise with that scum," he said angrily, "Look what he's done to you, if he loved you he wouldn't force you to choose between him and I!" Hadrian said his voice rising in anger as he grabbed for her arm to try and make her understand. However he pulled harder than he thought ripping the sleeve off and then his eyes grew wide as he noticed the bruises.

He stumbled backward, knocking over his chair as his whole body quaked with rage, "That son of a bitch..." he whispered, his voice dripping with mirth and rage. Tears were actually welling in his eyes, "How...how could he do that to you," Hadrian asked, his eyes narrowing in fury as his hands turned white from how hard he was clenching his fists, "I'll kill him...I'll rip his body to pieces and spread them to the four winds....he'll never hurt you again Celeste I swear. I failed you once but I will never fail you again, Angra will pay for this," he swore solemnly as he summoned his Scythe of the Nephilim.

[Celeste]

Her eyes grew wide when he began to speak and finally the tears did spill over down her pale cheeks. Crying softly as he reached for her. She hadn't thought he would do that and her shirt ripped when she tried to pull away. She gasped and tried to hide her arm but he had seen it.

She stood up quickly ashamed as she still tried to hide the bruises and cried harder. She let him finish his rant and she looked up at him with that look that could calm him down that begged him to calm down for her. Summoning the scythe she winced as she ran over to him and threw herself into his arms.

"Please Hadrian.. just kill me.. if you kill him.. I'll only die anyway." she whispered. She cried in his arms wettening his shirt through as her tears fell like crystalline rain.

"Hadrian.. please. I was trying to defend you and he .. got mad." she whispered as she went and nuzzled into his neck. Her brother. Though he was technically younger she thought of him as older. "He didn't mean you. You know I bruise easily."

She pulled back just enough to look into his eyes. She kissed his cheek gently before she looked back up again.

"If you love me. Don't hurt him." she begged.

[Hadrian]

The physical evidence of Hadrian's rage ceased almost instantly as she gave him that look. Hadrian would do anything for her, especially kill because he enjoyed killing. It made him restless when she would not allow him to kill. Her problems would go away much more quickly if she just let him kill Angra. Her life was fine until Angra came and then she started changing, now he was hurting her.

When she told him he should kill her instead he pushed her back with a look of horror, "Those words are never to cross your lips again Celeste..." he said softly, "I will never allow some human to hurt you so badly that you wnat to kill yourself," he said shaking his head, "You are more deserving of life than any human...."

Then he wrapped his arms around her comfortingly as she explained that he was angered by her defending him. It was not Angra that was the source of this hurt...it was Hadrians fault. He was the root cause of this pain and that fact made him wince as if he had been stabbed through the heart.

"I see...it is my fault you were hurt," he said taking a step back from her, his eyes downcast, "I am sorry I have disrupted your life, this Angra obviously makes you angry," he said, a tear sliding down his cheek, "I will leave you to your happines, I will not be the cause of your harm any longer..." he said softly, almost a whisper as he stared at he floor.

[Celeste]

"NO!! DAMNIT!!" she screamed as he stepped away from her.

She pushed him down on the bed gently and straddled him in his lap. She wiped away the tear from his face as she looked into his eyes and ran her hand through his hair softly. He didn't understand at all did he? Really just how deeply she needed him on a daily basis. Just knowing he was here.

"You don't understand. You're all I have in this entire world. If Angra left me tomorrow I could live because of you. You're my only family and the only one that understands what is going on with me. You understand me. Dont' you understand that to lose you would be to lose everything?" she asked softly

"You underestimate you importance to me you silly angel." she whispered softly as she hugged him tightly nuzzling into his neck. She would never leave and never abandon him. He was someone she never thought she would find in her life but she had. She had found him or rather he had found her but they were together now and she didn't want it any other way.

[Hadrian]

Hadrian looked up at her a little stunned. She had certainly never been this direct before. He shook his head a little, he had been overdramatic. Hadrian just was not entirely sure if he could compromise with Angra. Angra was so twisted and foul and well....human. Hadrian sat up with a faint grin palyingo n his lips.

"I'm sorry...I'm not sure what came over me," he said, shaking his head a little bit, "I will not leave you I just do not want to be the cause of your unhappiness," he said reacing up to cup her cheek gently, "I do not trust Angra...you may love him, but I do not trust him," he said making his feelings about Angra truly known for the first time, "I cannot think he cares about you that much if he is willing to stoop so low as to use you as blackmail," he said with a hint of disgust in his voice.

"I only wish you would let me at least teach him a lesson," Hadrian said, a sadistic smirk starting to form on his face, "I promise I would not kill him, just make it known that it would not be in his best interest to harm you further," he suggested knowing full well she would not allow it but he felt compelled to ask anyway, "I will tell you that if this happens again I will not be as hesitant to harm him as I was this time..." he said, his voice soft but dangerously resolute.

[Celeste]

She smiled softly at him when he reached up and cupped her cheek. She wasn't used to him with these gentle touches he had been showing her lately. She had never known that he could show such touches and care for her but it had all really started that night when she was hurt. He had kissed her forehead and though she was unconscious it registered and she had not expected it.

Now here he was cupping her face and telling her that he wouldn't fight Angra just now. She smiled softly and cupped his cheek back.

"You know.. we should spend more time together. After all.. we are all each other has." she whispered softly.

She hugged him tightly. She couldn't believe that she had a brother. One of her own kind. She let go and sat back again and smiled softly.

"Please don't hurt him. Let me try to work things out first. That's all I ask. Then if it doesn't work I promise to come back to you." she whispered softly.

[Hadrian]

Hadrian sighed a little disappointedly. He was sure that Angra would work whatever charm he'd used to work his way into her heart to convince her that things would be different. Hadrian did not want Angra to hurt Celeste anymore. He was serious when he said he would not hold back if he hurt her again. No manner of bribing or threats would be able to stop him a second time around.

"I would like to spend more time with you Celeste," he said with a nod, "I feel we've grown apart since we first met," he said with a shadow of a smile. He returned her hug gently, "Do not worry Celeste I will restrain myself for now, for you only of course," he said, "If you would not hold me back I would have punished him by now.."