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“I understand, believe me” he sighed “she’s convinced herself that she’s okay, she’s so close to exploding Matt, what we just saw is the tip of the iceberg” he gave him a reassuring look “she won’t remember the argument, just passing out from stress. what she will feel, however, is the catharsis of getting her emotions out. it’s what I can do for her for now, hopefully this will make things easier for her to.... start considering dealing with”
Julien couldn’t help but smile “you two get along so well… I hope all three of us can eventually get along like that, it’d be nice” he beamed up at the taller man “but at least she looks happy, that’s important. but, while we’re here” he gestured around “is there anything you’d like to do or try? I know a wonderful food wagon that comes to this festival every year if you’re hungry”
“Well, we’re twins. It would suck if we didn’t get along.” He smiled down at Julien “I hope so too. You’re both equally important too me.” At the mention of food, his stomach growled “food would be good. Very good.” Hes a hungry boy. “You’ll need to pat though, I just gave all my money to Maria.”
Julien purred even louder when Matt said that “thank you, that means everything to me, really” he nuzzled up against him, laughing when his stomach rumbled “alright, let’s go, and of course I’ll cover it, don’t worry about it” he happily took him to a wagon where the smell of the sea met spice “here it is~ their seafood is amazing and their spices are used for flavour as well as heat, they’re my favourite part of any festival~” Julien grinned as his tail wagged “pick whatever you want, it’s all delicious~”
Matt instinctively held Julien closer when he nuzzled into him, unaware of the soft smile on his face. “Sounds good to me.” Matt looked over the menu, it was mostly foreign to him, but it all smelled so delicious he was overwhelmed by choices.
“You pick something.” He began braiding a section of his hair, focusing on the even three parts “I don’t mind what. Just something. Too many options…”
Julien nodded and went up to order, getting a spicy stew in a bread bowl, while Matt got a fried fish taco “here you are~ I’m sure you’ll love it” and he really hopes he likes spice
Found
Julien is so, unbelievably thrilled “it worked! I almost can’t believe it!” he’s over the moon
Tobias smiled “they are, now let’s try expanding them, Julien. just focus yours and imagine it to be the size and shape you want it to be”
nodding Julien focused and raised his hand, creating a dome shield that covered all three of them “this is amazing...”
“no, you just chickened out when you saw he wasn’t alone. you’ve put in work, Maria, good work, but don’t fool yourself” his gaze remains the same, completely unfazed by her temper tantrum “in fact, you’ve already committed the sin of murder. how often have you pictured standing over his crumpled body, hands bloody as your heel crushes the last bit of life from his body? how many nights have you fantasized about crushing your bosses or the shareholders like insects because of some slight against you or others? how quickly would they die by your hands if you were given the choice?”
his eyes narrowed and his voice grew in authority. though his voice did not raise it grew louder in her mind, bringing up sin upon sin that, by her own standards, she should be condemned for “you have already condemned them in your heart, Maria! do not take me as a fool! you have appointed yourself as judge, jury, and executioner within your own mind”
suddenly he appeared in front of her, though to Matt it appeared he hadn’t moved at all, wings spread and a fraction of his angelic glory shown to her. his eyes weren’t cold but held a tinge of warmth to them, of hope for her “as for what you did, Maria, there is nothing you could possibly ever do to deserve a second chance, or a third chance, or a hundredth chance, they are freely given to you, and God will continue to give them to you until the day you die, and he’d do it even if you had killed him all those years ago. who are you, mortal, to deny anyone God’s mercy”
Both anger and despair danced in her eyes as Ilan brought the images into her mind. She wasn’t kidding when she said there was no judgment he could call upon her she hasn’t already felt. And, feeling trapped as she did, she lashed out, as always. “What part of my judgment sentence did you miss?!” She hissed back, anger flaring “what part wasn’t enough for you to get, because I thought I made it pretty fucking obvious you birdbrain!”
Her hands clenched into fists, the knuckles on her hand going white “I’ve never claimed to be without sin, and if violent fantasies is what it takes to keep myself from it, especially if the opportunity arose I think that’s a hell of a lot better than I was, don’t you?”
Tears of anger and distress began pooling in her eyes as he revealed himself and she pointed to the door. “Leave. Now. Before I say anything else I know I’m going to regret.”
“Ria-” Matt began, concern written all over him as he recognized the downward spiral she was already flying down.
“GET OUT!” She screamed at him, trying to physically push him out the door “LEAVE ME ALONE!” she didn’t seem aware of the hot tears running down her face “GO AWAY!”
Ilan sighed and lightly touched the side of Maria’s head, catching her as her passed out form slumped. he carefully carried her to the sofa and laid her down “grab a blanket will you Matt?”
Julien couldn’t help but smile “you two get along so well… I hope all three of us can eventually get along like that, it’d be nice” he beamed up at the taller man “but at least she looks happy, that’s important. but, while we’re here” he gestured around “is there anything you’d like to do or try? I know a wonderful food wagon that comes to this festival every year if you’re hungry”
“Well, we’re twins. It would suck if we didn’t get along.” He smiled down at Julien “I hope so too. You’re both equally important too me.” At the mention of food, his stomach growled “food would be good. Very good.” Hes a hungry boy. “You’ll need to pat though, I just gave all my money to Maria.”
Julien purred even louder when Matt said that “thank you, that means everything to me, really” he nuzzled up against him, laughing when his stomach rumbled “alright, let’s go, and of course I’ll cover it, don’t worry about it” he happily took him to a wagon where the smell of the sea met spice “here it is~ their seafood is amazing and their spices are used for flavour as well as heat, they’re my favourite part of any festival~” Julien grinned as his tail wagged “pick whatever you want, it’s all delicious~”
You smell too enticing for me too pass you by I'm afraid. (I know we have 2 already but I couldn't pass this by)
“I beg your pardon?” he was getting a really bad feeling about this woman, why did the crazies have to come out as soon as he locked up for the night?
“definitely, I can’t wait~” he grinned “I’ll do my best, she seems like such a sweet girl, I hope she’ll be alright after everything... it seems like she’s doing better so there’s that at least, I’ll be happy to help her
Found
“you can touch it” Tobias chuckled “it won’t harm, just protect. its strength is only dependent on how much faith you have in its ability to hold” summoning his own shield Tobias motioned to Maria “give it your best shot, let’s show Julien what faith is capable of, shall we?”
“If you weren’t a literal angel I’d say thats a line straight out of a cult” she replied dryly, picking up a big tree branch from the side of the road and throwing it as hard as she could at Tobais’s shield. She didn’t want to punch it and break her hand.
Tobias smirked “if I wasn’t a literal angel you’d be right” the tree branch harmlessly bounced off of the shield and landed a few feet away “go on, try something else, I won’t let it break your bones”
“OK… You better not.” Using her full strength, Maria punched the shield as hard as she could, her arm even glowing slightly as it always did when using full strength. She was very glad that it didn’t break her bones, even if the force of the impact did jar her significantly. And make her fall over and land on her butt.
Tobias grinned at the stunned Julien “and that, is what the shield of faith can do. why don’t you try it on Julien’s Maria? I’m sure you’ll get the same result but it’ll be good for him”
“no, you just chickened out when you saw he wasn’t alone. you’ve put in work, Maria, good work, but don’t fool yourself” his gaze remains the same, completely unfazed by her temper tantrum “in fact, you’ve already committed the sin of murder. how often have you pictured standing over his crumpled body, hands bloody as your heel crushes the last bit of life from his body? how many nights have you fantasized about crushing your bosses or the shareholders like insects because of some slight against you or others? how quickly would they die by your hands if you were given the choice?”
his eyes narrowed and his voice grew in authority. though his voice did not raise it grew louder in her mind, bringing up sin upon sin that, by her own standards, she should be condemned for “you have already condemned them in your heart, Maria! do not take me as a fool! you have appointed yourself as judge, jury, and executioner within your own mind”
suddenly he appeared in front of her, though to Matt it appeared he hadn’t moved at all, wings spread and a fraction of his angelic glory shown to her. his eyes weren’t cold but held a tinge of warmth to them, of hope for her “as for what you did, Maria, there is nothing you could possibly ever do to deserve a second chance, or a third chance, or a hundredth chance, they are freely given to you, and God will continue to give them to you until the day you die, and he’d do it even if you had killed him all those years ago. who are you, mortal, to deny anyone God’s mercy”
Found
“you can touch it” Tobias chuckled “it won’t harm, just protect. its strength is only dependent on how much faith you have in its ability to hold” summoning his own shield Tobias motioned to Maria “give it your best shot, let’s show Julien what faith is capable of, shall we?”
“If you weren’t a literal angel I’d say thats a line straight out of a cult” she replied dryly, picking up a big tree branch from the side of the road and throwing it as hard as she could at Tobais’s shield. She didn’t want to punch it and break her hand.
Tobias smirked “if I wasn’t a literal angel you’d be right” the tree branch harmlessly bounced off of the shield and landed a few feet away “go on, try something else, I won’t let it break your bones”
Julien couldn’t help but smile “you two get along so well... I hope all three of us can eventually get along like that, it’d be nice” he beamed up at the taller man “but at least she looks happy, that’s important. but, while we’re here” he gestured around “is there anything you’d like to do or try? I know a wonderful food wagon that comes to this festival every year if you’re hungry”
You smell too enticing for me too pass you by I'm afraid. (I know we have 2 already but I couldn't pass this by)
“I beg your pardon?” he was getting a really bad feeling about this woman, why did the crazies have to come out as soon as he locked up for the night?
he likes to be clean though, he likes things to look nice and be all proper. if you’re going for the vampire look at least go with the ritzy one that’s well dressed with a fancy house. besides, no one wants a thrall to sneeze on them, no one.
“so am I, hopefully they’ll continue to get better and I won’t relapse, I’d like to keep those privileges you keep talking about”
Points taken. She’ll see what she can get the cleaning thralls to do. “If you relapse it’s nothing to be ashamed of and we’ll all help you.” She smirked slightly “yes I’m sure you will, especially once you know what they actually are.”
he greatly appreciates it “oh?” he perked up, now very interested “and what might they be?~”
“Oh, nothing much. Just more responsibility, more value on your opinion, higher ranking in the coven, more say in your hobbies and ventures, all that jazz. Just small things~” yes she’s playfully teasing you Julien let her be.
look at how excited he’s getting though, he wants to be useful so bad it hurts “that’ll be good, I can do more then” he’s thrilled even with her being obviously teasing and giving the vaguest of vague information
“is it worth trying on you?” his gaze hasn’t moved “if I recall, you plotted and nearly carried out a murder yourself. do you deserve to have a second chance? do you want to be the one who decides who lives and who dies? who grinds the ax and sets the block?” there is no malice in his voice, only cold truth and a challenge, one that brings up every time she made a bad judgment call
“he has not escaped Hell yet, Maria, and he may not, but shouldn’t it be up to him to decide? or should I pronounce judgment upon you?”
Found
“you can touch it” Tobias chuckled “it won’t harm, just protect. its strength is only dependent on how much faith you have in its ability to hold” summoning his own shield Tobias motioned to Maria “give it your best shot, let’s show Julien what faith is capable of, shall we?”
the kids were thrilled and thanked her, as did their parents, some of which even gave her small tokens of their appreciation in the form of food or trinkets. it was a wonderful start to the festivities
Julien laughed “it does, doesn’t it? just let me know if it gets too much and I can take us somewhere quiet” he hummed softly “I’m not sure… but it seems to have come from the games area, we could take a look if you’d like”
Maria tried to gently and kindly refuse at first; “I appreciate your sentiment, I do, but it doesn’t feel right taking these from you-” but eventually she was persuaded to take them and she did, smiling gratefully the whole time and thanking them. This was so wonderful.
“Lets go see, I want to see where its come from and what or who started it.” Matt felt slightly out of place being unable to purr, but there were enough vendors and others who weren’t purring that he felt better.
it’s okay Matt, they feel out of place everywhere else, you’re fine. nodding Julien lead him towards where the games were, keeping an eye on him to make sure he was still doing alright. he asked around and it soon became obvious who had started it “well, looks like Maria’s gotten rather popular~”
Matt chuckled a little and smiled “yeah, I see she has. She loves being the center of attention like this, she’ll be thrilled. … I can’t really remember the last time I saw her this happy… Its been so long. She’ll be really happy right now.”
And he was right. Maria was indeed happy, even as she frowned and informed the children nearby that she was running out of money and might not be able to win all of them a toy, a thought that clearly pained her.
“I hope so... she needs to be happy, I can’t imagine the level of stress she’s under constantly, and that she puts herself under...”
she does have two people who are quite loaded milling about, perhaps she could ask them for more money
You smell too enticing for me too pass you by I'm afraid. (I know we have 2 already but I couldn't pass this by)
“I beg your pardon?” he was getting a really bad feeling about this woman, why did the crazies have to come out as soon as he locked up for the night?
he likes to be clean though, he likes things to look nice and be all proper. if you’re going for the vampire look at least go with the ritzy one that’s well dressed with a fancy house. besides, no one wants a thrall to sneeze on them, no one.
“so am I, hopefully they’ll continue to get better and I won’t relapse, I’d like to keep those privileges you keep talking about”
Points taken. She’ll see what she can get the cleaning thralls to do. “If you relapse it’s nothing to be ashamed of and we’ll all help you.” She smirked slightly “yes I’m sure you will, especially once you know what they actually are.”
he greatly appreciates it “oh?” he perked up, now very interested “and what might they be?~”
“I promise” Ilan smiled “he’ll be just fine and a lot happier than he was” he sighed “that’s the thing with demons, really, they think they’re so free and happy but they’ve just shackled themselves to desires and motives that end up destroying them and they just end up never happy and never truly satisfied” he shook his head “you need to take care of yourself of course, but we all know what happens when someone only looks out for number one. he’ll be far happier once he starts coming back to the light”
“That makes sense” she mused, sighing a little. “I guess he’ll then join you on what will happen to that asshole…”
“The one you sent to the mental hospital?” Matt asked as delicately as he could.
’“Yes. Him.” She sighed “I don’t like him. Not one bit.”
“it’s not like I’m against punishment, Maria” Ilan sighed and leaned back into the couch “and believe me, if he doesn’t repent he’ll get exactly what he deserves, but if he turns over a new leaf and works to undo what he did” the angel shrugged “everyone deserves the chance for redemption, Maria, even attempted murderers” is that a pointed and knowing look directly into her eyes, yes, yes it is
Found
“I know….” he sighed and grabbed whatever hand wasn’t covered in blood and kissed it “I just… I wish it didn’t have to come to this… that was the only good thing about my voice, I could have stopped this”
“but you chose better, Julien, and I’ll teach you how to use the powers you don’t even realize you have” he smiled at Maria “call who you need to, the three of us need to talk anyway, and we might as well start on some of your training, Julien”
“Alright…” so long as it won’t mess up what happened, I’m sure the police wouldn’t appreciate that”
“it won’t, I promise. we’ll be working on shields and how to form them and use them for different purposes”
“I’ll call Matt first. I want some help when he angry police inevitably get here. And to get out of these clothes-” she’s really starting to feel how gross this really is and she doesn’t like it one bit. Pulling up his number, she wandered away a bit so she wouldn’t disturb Julien and Tobias, kicking at any bits nearby as she walked. She’s still mad at them.
Once that was done she called the police to let them know what was gong on, and to ask for a tow truck because the car was wrecked and she’s not staying here for the next however long while the blood dries. No way. And despite the poor operators protests, she hung up on them so she could watch her boy and see how he’s doing.
while she was doing that, Julien was working on his shields like Tobias wanted. at first, it was just a small thing, a quick prayer for protection to get Julien used to and tapped into the heavenly power he now had. it was an incredibly strange feeling as Julien felt a power outside his own course through his veins, like a flip had been switched and a dull connection had been turned on. with Tobias’ help he felt it collect in his hands and, with some focus, he summoned a golden glowing disk of energy that was big enough for two people to stand behind.
his eyes widened with wonder and excitedly looked over at Maria excitedly
