It hurt, when you fell from heaven. It hurt more than anything had ever hurt you in your life. A respectable, calm station under an Archangel had meant a life of comfort and stability. You’d barely so much as scraped your knee in the few thousand years you’d served under Her. Most of the time you sat at a desk and reviewed case files for humans, judging the weight of their souls against the pure stainless weights of Heaven, whether or not they would be allowed entry. Whenever you weren’t with Her.
And one day, you messed up.
A misfile, a soul slipped through that shouldn’t have. It was a mess, other human souls were tainted by corroboration, and it was a quarantine that cost Heaven dozens of lives, shipping them off to purgatory or hell or wherever the tainted souls went. You were not so lucky.
She was furious with you, and angels were a dime a dozen. The way She looked at you when she passed, the way She spoke to you as you worked, you never thought you were expendable until the day She grabbed your halo and snapped it.
Your feet lost purchase on Heaven’s holy clouds with your halo in a shattered ring around your head and She released you into the void, plummeting to Earth. You screamed for hours as you fell through realm after realm, down through Heaven and all of its many facets, until your voice felt ragged, and any more screams would be torn from your bloody lips. Thankfully, it wasn’t long after that that you hit the ground.
Your mangled body ended up in an alley somewhere, you weren’t sure where. You didn’t know the specifics of human cities, not really. You’d read about them but it was always so distant, so removed. Who could keep track of which cities were still around, Babel or New York or Çatalhöyük? It was certainly one of them.
You were battered and damaged, your wings snapped at odd angles, limbs broken and bones exposed. But an angel can’t die. That’s part of the punishment – if you could die, you’d just return to Heaven. You were damaged goods, now. You were Earthbound, like Lucifer of old.
You couldn’t even rise to your feet or lift your head, but at some point, probably hours spent crumpled into a heap in the grimy, rainy, stinking alley, you felt the world pitch around you. Fingers prodded your wounds, you felt the cracked bones being moved around in their sockets, and eventually the pain was so much that you simply blacked out.
You woke… in a tub, you think. It was stained with your blood, golds splashed against the porcelain, and you were still in so much pain you couldn’t think. Your body wouldn’t respond to anything but a twitch of a finger, a hoarse, rasped whine. You could see and hear, though. You heard a voice, muffled through a wall, sounding almost like Her. You wished it was Her so bad, come to take you home, clean you up, and set you back to duty.
Instead it was a woman in a heavy coat, disheveled and unshaved, scratching at her mullet. She spoke in a tongue unfamiliar to you, likely one of the many scattered human languages. It was directed at you, surely, but you couldn’t catch anything but a single word. “Angel”. It was a holy word, and translated to you immediately, and you whined, twitching in response. Yes, you thought, I am an angel. I am an angel. Please, help me.
The woman… laughed. Shook her head. And left.
You were in and out of consciousness for a long time, days, possibly. Months, more likely. Occasionally, the woman had someone else come in as well, a woman in a white coat who tutted over you, prodding and yanking at your wounds, occasionally wrapping them and moving them to correct positions and binding them there. She was… healing you, you think. There were also many needles, drawing your golden, glowing blood in such enormous quantities that you couldn’t help but pass out.
One day, you could move. The pain was still substantial, but you were capable of sitting up. The world spun, your head pounded, and your arms nearly gave out in the strange rigid bindings she’d put them in, but you were sitting upright. You were healing. You were on a road to recovery.
The woman was overjoyed to see you could move again. She came in more often now, showing you things on her strange, glowing square and speaking words. Her language, you think. There were some similarities with the holy tongue, likely related to a root word from when they gave humanity the gift of speech. You’re picking up on some things. Food. Water. Love. Hate. Angel. God. Woman.
One day she removes you from the tub. You stand on shaky, damaged feet, and it hurts to move around, but you are moving again. You’re relearning to be mobile, and she’s careful with you. You see the home for the first time, though that’s putting it lightly. An apartment, not very large, a few rooms and a living space. You were being kept in the bathroom off the living room, it seems. She guides you to a couch, letting you sleep there, instead.
You start to converse more, now that you’re out in the open. You do your best with broken “English” to understand who she is and where you are. Her name is “Saber”. She lives alone. She does work from home, which is why she’s there so often. She smokes from a small, strange mechanical device, puffing out sweet smelling smoke, and often walks around in tight clothing that show off her stomach and bulge. She seems… fine. You’re eager to leave her care, though.
She asks you about your halo. It’s hard to speak about it. You talk a bit about Her, and about how you messed up and She snapped it. Saber laughs, and it makes you sick. She asks if it will heal. You answer honestly that it won’t. You are stuck to walk the Earth forever. She goes quiet after that.
She helps with your physical rehabilitation, slowly moving your arms and legs again. Eventually you don’t even need the “casts” to get around. She gives you a cane, which helps, even if it hurts your pride. It feels good to have mobility again.
Every day, she asks you out of ten, how bad the pain is. Most days it’s a 7 or an 8, but it slowly dwindles. One day, gratefully, you realize it’s only about a 3. Your body feels alright again. You’re almost on the mend. You smile and thank her, and say that you’re excited to leave and see what good you can do on Earth, and if it will make Her take you back.
That’s when she hits you for the first time. Hard. You go down, crying out, and she punches you again in the jaw. It hurts more than falling from Heaven – you trusted her. The betrayal stings. She wraps cool steel around your neck, locking it into place. She jokes that it’s like your new halo. She uses it to drag you to her bedroom.
You’ve poked in to see it once or twice, but now she throws you down to the bed, pulling out a knife and tearing off what little robes you were clad in. She paws at your naked, damaged form like a base animal, squeezing your breasts and grabbing your thighs roughly. You cry out and thrash, the pain slowly returning as you’re being pressed down, pulled, grabbed. Eventually she pulls her own pants down.
One hand grabs the collar at your neck, using it to pin you to the bed, the other parts your thighs and forces her enormous cock into you. You feel the connection to your halo waver and shudder. Human lust, one of the most primal and evil of sins. You try to kick her off, but she keeps forcing herself deeper, using a word you hadn’t heard before, whispering about “angel cunt”. She pushes in all the way before pounding you hard as you scream and cry and sob. Your holy status is being ripped away from you with each deep thrust, and as much as you hate it, your heavenly body is responding.
You’re an angel. You are far above humans, you are a creature of the divine, an arm of God, a tool of the Heavens, and this human is using you as… a sex toy. Something is breaking in you, shattering in your chest, and your little golden heart is fluttering away as that innocence is torn from you. The naivety of thinking humans could ever be anything but monsters.
She grabs your hips fully, pulling you up to meet her, and your whimpering sobs have turned to cries of something else. Not quite pleasure, but not pain anymore, either. You go limp in her grip, allowing her to masturbate with your pussy, using you like a toy as she yanks you onto and off of her, snarling like an animal as she buries herself inside, virile cock pumping you full of seed. This is how new humans are made, you realize. It will do nothing to you, your angelic womb is incompatible, as much as a human’s is with a dog.
She pulls out and you’re grateful that she’s finally finished, but she pushes you over on your stomach, pushing in again. And again. And again.
It’s hours before she finally stops, and when she does, she leaves the room for only a moment before getting a heavy chain, clipping your collar to her bedpost. She collapses from exhaustion, snoring loudly, and giving you a sliver of bed to call your own and fall asleep on.
You curl up in a ball and sob, your wings curling over your face as you whisper prayers to Heaven, to your Archangel, to God – anyone. Anyone at all.
You don’t get a response.