Running was my only option, I knew where I was going to go, it was against what Michael told me, but I didn't have a choice now. I ran until I got to the balcony when I suddenly stopped, this was the entrance from heaven and earth, all I had to do was jump. "Cayta!"
I whipped around to look at him so strong, so proud, and so very stupid. "You choose to be a traitor?"
"I will not kill an innocent child Gabriel! I will not follow what you have created, my job may be over the death and lives of people but I will not kill them!"
"I ask you not to do this Cayta!" Gabriel seemed to plead with me for once, but I refused.
"You give me no choice! You made the decision to kill the one hope for humanity, you made me choose Gabriel."
"You choose to fight against me, Cayta?" His wings folded over his back.
I held my arms out to the sides. "Goodbye Gabriel."
I pushed myself off of the edge and didn't let my wings take over; I looked at Gabriel's face reaching for me as I fell to the earth, the heavens would not be a part of me anymore. The air pushed against my hair and my face as I fell like everything was getting heavier against me pushing me down to the earth I was going to leave everything behind me, my life in heaven and my bind with the angels to go and help the one man that was right.
I hit the earth at a fast rate, my body hit the ground hard. I only sat there for a moment to get my breath back. "God Michael I am so sorry."
I looked at the tattoo that was on my left wrist. I took out a knife from behind my robe, I spread my wings high and took a breath, and finally in one last swipe I cut my wings off, the bones split on my back and the nerves were split sending pain down my back, I was in uncontrollable pain, I screamed as the blood spilled, and my wings faded away. Around my neck came a blue light that took my halo and shattered it breaking my ties with heaven. When I was able to stop screaming in pain, I walked down the streets, the town was deserted.
I broke into a clothing store and stole some clothes.
I picked up a black backpack and walked out of the store going right across the street to the gun shop, I grabbed a colt .45, a rifle, and more bullets than I could imagine. I would usually use my weapon made in heaven but that will have to wait.
When I thought I had everything I needed I stole my last thing, a silver mustang. "The ten commandments say 'Thou shall not steel', they didn't say anything about when Armageddon came."
I touched the ignition making it start with whatever gift I had left and took off down the road. I just hope that my bind to Michael didn't leave me."
Meanwhile...
Michael felt a sudden pain in his chest where the tattoo was, Cayta's name was written over his heart in the Angel language, he grabbed his chest to touch it. "What the hell?"
He pulled the car over and looked at his chest where it began to glow, the name outlining then turned dull again, he feared that Gabriel had killed her for her trechery against him, but in the back of his mind he argued "He loved her just as much as I, he wouldn't kill her."
When the pain stopped he got back on the road and took off faster than before, he only hoped that nothing had happened to her, but he needed to worry about the child now.
Cayta
Now I guess this is where I go back to where I sat at the Diner "Paradise Falls". I still snort at the name and I watch the peopleas they sit, I pulled in only an hour ago, Charlie sets a glass of water in front of me and asks if she could get me anything else.
"No thank you, I am just thirsty. I'm not used to the desert."
"Nobody really is, what brings you out here?"
"I'm meeting someone."
"All the way out here?"
"Yeah, can you believe it, meeting someone all the way out here?"
She smiles. "Well I hope that person can find it."
"I'm sure, he is very intelligent."
My skin began to crawl, something was coming, and I wasn't going to like it. "Get ready." Something said.
"Excuse me Charlie? Where is your bathroom?"
"Right through those doors."
I picked up my backpack and walked into the bathroom. I flipped my backpack up onto the sink and grabbed the rifle, I heard the door in the front open. "Hello."
It was the sound of an old woman. I still shuttered that 'old woman' was about to start hell. "What can I get for you?"
"A steak, Rare and water, no ice."
"Okay. I will get that right for you."
The 'old woman' said that her name was Gladys Foster. "Bullshit." I whispered to myself putting the bullets in the rifle, I wrapped the colt's holster around my leg and put my knife in the side pocket of the cargo pants I wore. "Excuse me Sandra, I was wondering if you have seen my granddaughter?"
"What does she look like?"
'SHIT!' I thought. "Good one".
"A brunette with beautiful hazel eyes, curved and skinny but very attractive."
"I think that is the girl that walked into the bathroom a moment ago."
'Dammit!' I thought again.
I heard a knocking at the door. "Just a minute." I said.
"Your grandmother is here."
"Yeah I heard I will be out in a sec."
I looked at the mirror.
Just then I heard the old woman say "Your baby is gonna burn."
'So it begins.'
Then I heard screaming "YOUR ALL GONNA FUCKING DIE!"
That was my cue. "Jeep shoot her!"
I bolted out of the bathroom and made myself known that I had a rifle, the woman was climbing on the walls, she was possessed now, and I knew that, the plan that Gabriel made was falling into place for now. The old woman looked at me. "Cayta...I have been looking all over for you honey."
"I'm sure you have."
She jumped down from the ceiling, her eyes were dark and her teeth were sharp. "Hey Gladys!"
I cocked the gun right as she looked at me. "GO TO HELL!"
I shot the gun and hit her in the neck, she fell on the ground and quit moving. Sandra and Audrey were loading Howard into the back of a car and they took off before I could stop them. "That isn't going to do any good, there is no way that they are going to get through the cloud of nats."
Charlie looked at me. "How do you know what is going on?"
"It is really hard to explain Charlie."
I walked back into the restaurant. "We have to get this old woman out of here before she starts to stink." I wrinkled my nose.
"She is burning up, she has been dead for an hour." Bob said.
"I don't give a shit she just climbed on the fucking wall!" Percy said.
Bob, Jeep and Percy moved her, I followed behind with a gun just to make sure that she didn't come back to life. When I was left with the woman I bent down. "You send a message to Gabriel for me...he won't get the child while I'm here."
I aimed the colt and shot her in the head.
"She said that you were her granddaughter."
"That wasn't true, she wanted to see if I was there to kill me first."
The car that Sandra, Audrey, Howard and Kyle were in came back. "There was bugs all over the road, we couldn't see." Sandra said. "My husband was bitten what am I going to do."
"Well the old woman is dead, I don't know what to do about your husband. But I do suggest that we get these windows boarded up. It is going to be a long storm."
They looked at me as if I was nuts. I just ignored them and walked back inside, at this moment I needed Michael. "God what if I can't do this myself."
I felt a shudder run down my spine again and I walked to the door and looked up the road. "LAPD?" I stepped outside but stayed near the window to the back. Everyone was outside when the car pulled up, it looked a little banged up but that was nothing to when the car opened up. I looked at him and a glimmer of hope sparked, he dressed differently, in a grey coat, leather vest, grey t-shirt and pants. His blue eyes were dim but still shined, his hair was still cut close but he had no halo, or his wings, his tattoos showed on his neck, his face was looking rugged but he was still the same man that I knew. Bob looked at him. "Come a long way from LA didn't you." He held a gun in his hand. Michael didn't say anything, he just went to the trunk to grab two bundles. I knew what they were. Michael was going to try and get passed Bob but Bob was not going to let that happen. "I just saw something strange today, I just want to see your teeth. This woman had sharp teeth and climbed a wall..."
Michael didn't say anything. "We don't have much time..."
"Show me your teeth."
Still nothing then Bob lost his shit. "Show me your fucking teeth."
Michael flashed his teeth to show they were perfectly fine, I couldn't help but smile. Michael put the bag down and unpacked it, guns, frkm every make and model, he held it out to everyone, even Charlie. "Don't be a hero." He said to her, at the end of the group he looked at me and froze. In that moment my heart dropped, I knew how angry he was but I still managed to stammer out two words. "Hello Michael."