Touched by an Angel

[Mathas]

My life...no..my existance...can be a lonely one at times. I watch people go about there daily lives, helping them if they are lost or confused..giving comfort when they are in pain and have no one else to go to. I have even met them on there dying day, and only then do they truly see me.

But I suppose I could reveal myself to hem if I so wished...but if I did..would they understand? Would they understand one who stood before him, with a body of pure perfection..Gossamar Wings, peircing Blue eyes and a head of raven black hair dressed in a simple robe the color of a white cloud and on the right hand side of that robe, suspended by a cord of gold, a long sword, the blade of which if I took it out of its protective sheeth would be wreathed in flames?

The answer to that would be...probably not...not with todays society. Today if someone saw me they would probably fall to there knees thinking the rapture is upon them..when it is not, that or think they were going mad..or even dying.

Ahhh...how I miss the old days..when we could actualy speak to them...could actualy reveal ourselves to them without fear of them thinking they were mad.

But no..with todays society...alll we can really do now is observe and intervene when all other hope seems lost...how I wish that werent so....

My name is Feloris..and this is my current existance....

(whoever wants to jump in feel free)

 

[BlueEyedLady]

Janice Collins

OOC: Sounds interesting. Hope this is what you are looking for.

IC: Janice sighed and stood up, a hand on her back, stretching the overworked muscles there. With another sigh, she picked up the bucket of soapy water and the brush she had used to scrub the bathroom and emptied it. At last it was done. Wiping the sweat from her brow, she gathered her things and left the house, locking it behind her, and went out to her small car.

Looking back at the large, luxurious place, she had to force herself not to wonder how wonderful it would be to live in such a place. A palace to her way of thinking. At least compared to her small apartment.

Divorced from an abusive husband she had married at too young of an age to escape an abusive father, she found she had not skills to speak of to gain her employment. In fact, she had dropped out of school shortly after her marriage to Kyle and, only now, were the consequences making themselves known.

Now, instead of living in the house of her dreams, she cleaned them for other people. It was drudgery, plain and simple. But it let her eat and have a place to live. More than many others had. She was grateful for that, at least.

Getting into her car, she started it and it spluttered to life. She wondered how much more use she could squeeze out of the old heap before it totally quit on her and she was forced to use some of her meager savings to buy a new one. Chugging down the drive, she headed out into traffic and home. And a lonely meal for one with a little television and then bed only to wake to do it all over again.

With another sigh, she coaxed the car into traffic on the highway and steered toward her lonely existance.

 

[Mathas]

Feloris

Feloris stood on a sidewalk. the myriad mix of people walkng around him, and through him. Every now and then he would listen in on there "thoughts". Most of them were silently grumling about this and that..there jobs, relationships, money..he sighed...

There were worse things to worry about and complain about...as the traffic light overhead turned red he glanced over at a small blue car as it pulled to a stop. Inside sat a young woman..he didn' know why..but for some reason...she intrigued him.

All it would take for him was to..yes that was it..Stepping over to the car, he slid in through the door. He didn't open it..didn't need to..he just phased right in to her passenger seat.

He knew she couldn't see him...but some of the humans had an uncanny ability to sense the pressence of n Angel...he wondered if she was one of them. But he could already sense something fom her..a feeling of depression.

With a warm smile he looked over at her and placed hshand just above her shoulder, then slowly lowered it until it "touched", as he began to send a feeling of peace into her, only she would have to accept it...

 

[BlueEyedLady]

Janice

At the light, Janice sat back and waited. She wasn't like those around her who grumbled and gripped because of a small delay such as this. She really had nowhere to go and no one to go home to so stopping at a light was not a big deal.

Suddenly she sat bolt upright and looked around. Seeing nothing, she relaxed once more but she could have sworn she had felt...something or someone....in the car with her.

With a small laugh, she shook her head. She was just tired, that was all. She just needed a good night's sleep.

But then she felt something else. A warmth that seemed to radiated from her right shoulder through her body. With a sigh, her shoulders slumped and she felt the fatigue and and weariness as well as the cares drop from her shoulders.

She sighed and then jumped as the car behind her blasted it's horn. Looking up she saw that the light was green, probably had been for some time judging from the driver's reaction. Jerked from her sudden good feelings, Janice pressed on the gas and moved the car forward just as the light turned a quick yellow and then red again.

She was almost out of the intersection when it decided to finally give it's final cough and die. Turning the key, she tried to coax it to life once more with no success.

She didn't even see the car that had pulled out the moment the light turned red without checking to see if she had made it through the intersection. She didn't see it until it was almost ontop of her, that is. And by then there was nothing she could do but brace for the impact.-

 

[Mathas]

Feloris

Feloris sat there, also waiting. He knew he should do something..but he was waiting..waiting for a sign...one saying that yes..it was her time..or no it was not...He could see the look of fear that crossed her face breifly, he had seen it many times on others before.

And then it came to him, just a second before the car hit. Looking over at Janice he smiled, and then moved so that his body melded with hers. To her it would feel like a calming..ad then the car hit.

The enitre back end and most of the left hand side of her car, all the way up to the driver side door was smashed in, glass shattered, the frame buckled...but somehow she remained...unharmed. The car that hit her had spun in such a way it was like a stick twirling in the air, hitting her car multiple times until it too finally came to a stop, only the driver of that car had been saved by both a seat belt and the air bag.

As Feloris stayed melded with her he could feel her emotions, could sense her desires and her thoughts, both past and present...but soon after he was sure she would be alright, he moved back to the passenger seat.

A police car on the other side of the street was already moving over, the lights flashing, giving a blast on the siren to clear traffic for it. Yes the car had been more or less totalled but that was a material thing..she could eventualy get another one. And once again, Feloris looked over at her with those peircing blue eyes and smiled.

 

[BlueEyedLady]

Janice

It all happened so fast and, yet, it was like everything moved in slow motion. She could see the car coming, could feel the fear building, could almost hear the scream that caught in her throat which was constricted with the fear she felt.

And then two things seemed to happen at once. The car hit and, instead of death or agony, she felt, instead, a calmness that she had never felt before. It was as if a light had entered her and radiated throughout her, displacing all fear from her.

She could feel the car move from the impact, could hear the screeching of metal on metal, could feel the difference of her own car as it was reshaped by the impact, but it was as if she was hearing this from a distance, as an observer, not as a participant.

And then there was silence and no motion at all and the feeling of warmth and lightness left her and she looked around in a daze, almost unsure of where she was.

Then the calm broke with the wail of a siren...no sirens and she was surrounded by people asking if she was okay, looking at the mangled mass of metal that used to be her car and she began to shake in reaction to what might have happened.

A policeman's face appeared, pushing away the sea of humanity that surrounded her and asking questions that she couldn't find the answers to.

She was alright, she was sure of that. But that was all she could tell him or anyone else in the hours that followed with the emergency crew prying her out of the car, the paramedics examining her and taking her to the hospital, the nurses and doctors reexamining her and making sure nothing was broken and everyone telling her how lucky she was. As if she didn't know.

Janice had refused to be admitted. She didn't have health insurance and she couldn't afford the stay. Besides, she insisted, she was perfectly fine and didn't need observing.

It was only when she was back at her apartment, having taken a cab that she couldn't really afford, and she had called all of those whose houses she was scheduled to clean for the next two days to reschedule, that she was able to think back on what had happened.

Sitting at the table, drinking a cup of tea, she let her mind wander back to that instant when the cars had collided and reexamined the odd feeling that had come over her.

It had been a warmth and calm, to be sure, but it was more. It was as if there had been someone in the car with her, wrapping her in protection, holding her close.

It was a feeling she had never experienced before and she couldn't get it out of her memory. Just remembering it brought back the glow of it and heated her skin.

With a shake of her head, she spoke out loud. "What was it?" She mused to herself,"Or who? Am I going crazy? Or is there something more?"