Know Me By Name

KAYLEE'S POV 1864

"James, where did you find him?" I held my baby close to my chest. He hand't been with me for decades.

The warlock looked at me, blue eyes blazing for a moment. It was always so weird the way the warlocks eyes lit up. "In the woods, just outside the Rose boundary. Is he really yours, Kaylee?"

"Why wouldn't he be?"

"Because it's hard to picture angels or fallen angels having children," Zachary said, "And yet, you have one. How?"

I sighed. The Roses didn't know my fully story. They didn't even know how or why I fell. The Roses had just taken me in after my Fall and accepted me as their own. For decades, I kept all that I was secret. Though I trusted the Roses, if they knew the full extent of who I had been, they would try to use it. The angels had regarded me as a simple guardian; Satan had seen me as an unimportant guide. The Roses would know why I was important, and I feared they would try to exploit that.

"Is there something you are keeping from us?" Jonathan tilted his head. "Angels so rarely reproduce."

"Angels never reproduce, vampire," Brian said with a sneer. "Clearly, since God only started with seven, He just makes more."

I watched the supernatural argue semantics for a bit as I tried to figure out what to say. A piece of me truly felt that if I told them the truth, they would turn on me. Why had I kept it hidden for so long?

Four pairs of eyes turned to meet mine when they realized I had not yet spoken. I just held my child to me, content with my place in the world. It felt so right. It felt right for the first time since I had lost him.

"There is a lot I have to say," I said, looking down at my son. "My greatest fear is that when you learn the truth, you will feel betrayed. I never wanted to keep my life as an angel a secret, but I have no desire to be used by any forces on Earth, in Heaven, or in Hell. Please, allow me to get through it, and I will then take on your questions and undoubtedly your hate."

They all nodded, and I placed Aleksander down. This was going to be a very long tale, and I could tell he was tired. Who knew how long he had been falling?

"My parents were Katherine and Uriel, an Archangel. From birth, I was set on a path destined for supposed greatness. God believes all angels have a great purpose ahead of them. Mine was greater than most.

"Uriel is an Archangel, so as his child, I was given a task worthy of another Archangel. This was in a time right before Lucifer's Fall and just after Man's creation. God made me a guardian. Well, the guardian at the time.

"The job was to protect angels' and Man's souls. There weren't too many humans yet, and angels weren't Falling or dying yet, so my job was easy." I smiled, remembering the early days.

"Eventually my job would change, and God would grant me more angels to watch over Man. My job would then become about dealing with the difficult souls, typically demons and the Fallen.

"But God had also set my life on a different path. Eons before we were ever created or born, He paired us with another angel. On my way to meet my picked angel, something strange happened. To make a long story short, I became one half of Original Love.

"To make an even longer story short, I was pregnant with my son when I fell. And the reason I fell was because of this." Pushing up my sleeve, I revealed Lucifer's mark. After all these years, it was still there.

The Roses all stared at me in silence. Jonathan was staring at my hands, a distant look in hie eyes. Zachary just stared past me, his eyes twitching. Brian and James continued to look at my son. I could understand; he was beautiful.

"So is he Fallen too?" Zachary's eyes finally stopped twitching.

I nodded. "He is. Aleksander's wings will never come, not unless God Himself grants them."

"Can you?" James asked, his voice soft.

Sighing, I stroked my son's face. "I honestly do not know, James. What I do know is that my Guardian powers still work... at least, I think they do."

"And what powers would those be?" Brian asked, his eyes never leaving Aleksander's face.

"You will learn when the time is right." I picked up my son and headed upstairs. "The Archangel who made me and my child Fall must pay."

Notes

Second part fucking finally!!