Aidan Ch4

P.O.V. Sparks


So getting everyone over into the other world had really proved a lot easier than I’d thought.  Aidan had absolutely no problem getting me up first and dumping me onto the roof of some big ass abandoned building.  I’m pretty sure it’s abandoned anyways, I can’t hear anyone but according to the myths vampire’s can hear thoughts as well.  Since I can block out my thoughts, I have a feeling they can as well.  

Well Mel came second.  This is all according to this plan we came up with.  See, I’m sitting there listening to Aidan’s thoughts about his Jess.  Yes, I heard them.  I’m just not sure what to do about that yet and I figured it would be easier to just let Aidan try to work it out himself for the time being.  

Anyways, I’m dropping in on Aidan’s thoughts as the four of us stare up at this huge ass portal in the sky, which really wasn’t all that noticeable until Tiny pointed it out.  It was basically this place in the sky that looked as if it had been cut out.  You could hardly tell cus the weather in the other world was basically the same as it was back home, which was dark with clouds that looked about to burst with rain.  The only difference was that if you looked really closely you could see that in a certain circle the clouds didn’t line up just right.  

So there the four of us were, standing staring up at the sky and Mel says something real bitchy, I forget what, and Aidan’s thoughts cut through into my head.  He’s thinking ‘hope the fucking portal closes up just before I go back to get her,’ and I think…’oh no’, cus what if that really did happen.  We really do need everyone in this group; our powers are all pretty useful.  Even Aidan admits that.

So we came up with a plan.  I’m going over first because I can hear thoughts, even through the portals, so if it closes and I’m stuck here there’s at least hope of me finding them after they get in through a different portal.  Now Mel is coming second because if Tiny came in her and Aidan would be shit outta luck.  Tiny has to go last because if this portal closes, he’s needed to sense another one.  So that was our plan, and its good we came up with it before we left cus what do you know?  As soon as Aidan drops Mel into the floor, the portal starts closing up, and fast.

“Aidan, get back over to the other fucking side NOW!” I yell, nearly shoving him off the roof in my attempt to get him to move his skinny little ass.

“What the fuck, why?” he yells, batting his huge wings to catch his balance.  I just point and he goes, ‘shit’ and shoots into the air.  God that little fucker can fly, well he’s not that little.  About five foot ten, but he’s so lean that I have to call him that.  Not that he doesn’t have muscle…he’d kill me if I told you that.  No he’s strong, but he sure as hell isn’t buff.  He’s defined.  Skinny and cut, it’s hot.  You don’t have to be straight to see that.

Anyways, Aidan shoots off, and of course he makes it over to the other side.  It’s Aidan for God’s sakes.  He wouldn’t let himself not make it.   So that just leaves me and Mel.  We’re stuck here, on this rooftop in another world, staring up at this spot in the sky that just sealed up, and I’m thinking…shit, cus I was really hoping that we wouldn’t get split up.  But what can you do right?  Aidan’ll pull through, I know that much, so I’m just worried about me and Mel.  I have a feeling that whoever I heard knows we’re here.  Why else would that portal seal off just then?

So we’re stuck here, with nothing to do but wait til I catch a thought from Aidan or Tiny.  Not to mention the fact that there’s vampires, werewolves, and demons about, and I’m thinking…where’s our angel?

That boy better hurry his skinny little ass up.

~

P.O.V. Aidan


Brilliant.  Just bloody fucking superb.  Here I am, stuck in the opposite world from the one I’m supposed to be in with a homophobic great white shark of a guy named Tiny.  Can my luck get any better?  And of course, as if on cue, the sky above me gives a great rumble and dumps out its contents all over my godforsaken head.

Tiny gives a little snort as I land and crosses his arm in front of his chest.  Guess he’s about as happy with this situation as I am.  

“Do you by any chance know of any other portals around here?” I ask him after a cold silence.  That silence didn’t even have the decency to be awkward, it was just annoyed.

“Yes,” he says shortly, and I’m thinking: Wow Tiny, that’s an amazing grasp of vocabulary you’ve got there.  At least I know where he got his name, or maybe it was from something else, something a little lower.  

Somehow I get the idea that he wouldn’t appreciate me trying to find that out, so I keep my hands to myself.  Not that I’d want to put my hands anywhere near there.  Oh God gross, he’s a brute.  Let me make something clear: I’m a top.  Well, there has been a few exceptions to that…wow that was a good night.  Sorry, back to the topic.

“Care to elaborate?” I ask him, seriously considering tagging a ‘sweetie’ at the end just to grate on his nerves.

“It’ll take about an hour,” he says.  Bravo, I’m stunned.  An entire sentence!

“Common,” he huffs, turning and walking away without bothering to see if I was following.  I roll my eyes and walk to the end of the roof.  There’s no way I’m going to follow this guy down the stairs like some little bitch.  I jump let myself drop almost the entire fifteen or so flights to the ground, catching my fall with a swoop of my wings only when I’m a few feet from the pavement.  

A woman’s scream makes me realize that she’s seen me fall and, because her human eyes were blind to my wings, saw me somehow float in midair ten feet of the ground and survive what should have been a deadly fall.  I look into her eyes from across the street, oh, have I told you that I have extremely acute eyesight and hearing?  Anyways, I look into her eyes and will that from her memory.  Her eyes go unfocused and a little smile plays at her lips just before she walks away, swinging her purse lazily.  Just in case you were wondering, I can only do that little bit of magic, along with some other things, if it is in a humans best interest.  My powers are extremely limited to that.  I’m an angel remember?  We were created to watch over humans, not to hurt them.  

This incident brings me to another thing that amazes me about Sparks, well and Mel and Tiny I guess, but with them I just find it annoying.  Anyways, they can see my wings.  I wonder how the three humans came to be.  It’s peculiar really, they’ve got such strong powers but none of them would do any good without the other there to aid them in circumstances like, let’s say, a war between the two worlds.  You see what I mean?  It’s rather eerie how well the three fit into this little schism, isn’t it?

Just then Tiny walks out and grunts at me.  I wonder if he ever even noticed that I wasn’t following him.  He grunts again, beckoning for me to follow him to a nearby SUV.  Of course he’d have a hummer.  I roll my eyes as the car beeps, signaling that it’s been unlocked.  How unmanly of it.

I’m more than slightly pissed that we are taking a car.  Putting in my wings isn’t exactly a painless experience, but somehow I think it best that I don’t mention flying to Tiny.  He’d probably go into cardiac arrest at the idea of me, a flaming queer, holding him close to my body as we flew across the city.  That and I’d rather stay out of the rain.  Let me remind you that I’m from Hell; this weather isn’t exactly what I’m accustomed to.  

I break into a grin as Tiny starts the car and metal blasts through the speakers.  Finally, something Tiny and I can relate too…Well that and his driving.  He’s already made about five drivers break into a rather generous stream of profanities as he cut them off, going nearly twice the designated speed limit.  I might start to like Tiny yet.