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Gabriel stared out at the house before him. It was utterly average, just a family home that looked nearly exactly the same as the houses surrounding it. It wasn’t special.
At least it didn’t look special, but Gabriel wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t. The Millers were a family of three: husband, wife and son. Everyone thought it was so sweet of them to take in a foster kid, especially an older kid. The kid’s mother had died in a fire and his dad was in prison. Key word being was. Gabriel figured out pretty quickly the guy was a hunter and his friends had stepped up to get him out. Didn’t mean that he automatically got his kids back. The younger was with a family friend, Gabriel hoped that this trick would pull enough attention to get the elder back to his family. Just because he had family issues didn’t mean that he couldn’t understand missing them. Especially given why he was here.
Gabriel glared at the car that pulled up to the little house. He may be a trickster, but he was still an angel and he hated people like that man. He went out of his way to take care of filth like that whenever he got wind of them. Gabriel had the perfect trick for them.
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Gabriel knew the kid was in the house, but he wasn’t sure where. He figured he needed to find the ten year-old before he headed out, hopefully he hadn’t accidently traumatized him. He did go a little overboard this time, the neighbors would’ve had the cops banging down the doors by now if he hadn’t intervened.
“Kid?” Gabriel called out, not particularly wanting to use his angelic powers to find him.
He’d warped them enough for his trickster gig, so best not to act out of character.
It turns out he didn’t need to as moments later he nearly tripped over the kid. He was laying at the bottom of the stairs, barely breathing.
“Damn it!” Gabriel hissed as he knelt down in the slowly growing puddle of red around the child. “Damn it!”
He really didn’t want to draw attention to himself by doing something so blatantly angelic as healing something so massive, but he couldn’t let a kid die in front of him. Gabriel called on his pure grace for the first time in centuries and reached out to heal the child. He expected one touch to the forehead and all would be good, but the kid managed to surprise him. His soul reached out and latched onto Gabriel’s grace, refusing to let go. Before Gabriel could react it was too late, part of his grace had bonded with the soul. Gabriel jerked backwards, eyes wide.
“You sure know how to overcomplicate things kid.” Gabriel groaned as he sat back.
Well, there went all of his plans of helping the kid back to his family. It wasn’t like he could drop him in a hunter’s hands with what he’d just accidently did.
Gabriel stared down at the new fledgling as the boy stirred. Gabriel smiled awkwardly down at the boy as he blinked up at Gabriel innocently.
“Are you an angel?” The boy whispered.
“Yes and no?” Gabriel said uncertainly.
“You saved me.” The boy stated.
“Yeah.” Gabriel smiled softly at him. “Let’s get going now, okay?”
They had to leave before Michael put two and two together. Gabriel did not want to see his big brother again right now.
The kid nodded and took Gabriel’s outstretched hand with a small smile.
Gabriel whisked them away, far away to somewhere he could protect his fledgling.
Nothing would ever happen to this kid now.