Chapter fifteen

 Chapter 15

"Alex! Happy birthday!" Alex gasped and grabbed her knife from under her pillow, and sliced at whatever her attacker was. Being half asleep, she had no idea what was going on. "Ow! Again?!" Gabriel jumped back and held his cheek.

"Gabriel?!" Alex sat up somewhat and looked at the angel, waking up more.

"Obviously! What the hell?" Gabriel pouted.

"Oh get over it and heal yourself," Alex grumbled, putting the knife on the nightstand and pulling the blankets over her head.

"Mean!" Gabriel exclaimed, but did heal himself. "Hey wait, get up!"

"Ugh, why?" Alex groaned from under the covers.

"It's your birthday!" Gabriel nudged Alex, who continued groaning in protest.

"I don't wanna," Alex knew she was acting like a five year old, but she didn't care.

"Come on, get up," Gabriel laughed.

"What time is it?"

"Midnight...." Gabriel was still smiling.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Alex lifted her head and glared at the cheeky archangel.

"Nope! Are you going to get up?"

"Hell no," Alex flopped down on the pillow again.

"You can't stay in bed forever," Gabriel reminded.

"Watch me," Alex couldn't help but smile a little.

"Alex!" Gabriel whined, drawing out her name.

"Gabriel," Alex mocked his tone.

"Get up."

"Make me."

"Fine." Gabriel easily moved the blankets off of Alex and grabbed her, picking up the rather small girl and throwing her over his shoulder.

"Hey! Wait, no!" Alex tried to wiggle her way out of his arms.

"You asked for it," Gabriel chuckled.

"Douche bag..." Alex muttered and accepted her fate.

Gabriel laughed again and put her down, "Well, what do you want to do for your birthday?"

"Actually sleep for once," Alex muttered.

"No, seriously."

"I don't know...?" Alex shrugged. "I haven't celebrated it in like...eleven years or something..."

"Really...?" Gabriel asked, then realized she hadn't since her mother died.

"Yeah. My dad's not that into holidays." Alex chuckled lightly.

"Well...If you could do anything at all, what would it be?"

"Uh..." Alex thought for a while. "Well, we can't do much at twelve in the morning."

"True..." Gabriel frowned.

"Does that mean I can go back to sleep?" Alex hoped to get more than three hours of sleep this time.

"Yeah, fine..." Gabriel pouted again.

Alex chuckled a bit, "You're such a kid." Then she got a random idea, "Wanna join?"

"So you're the cuddly type, huh?" Gabriel smirked.

Alex blushed and looked away, "Shut up."

~

Alex woke up to find her head on someone's chest. She lifted her head slightly to find Gabriel looking at her. "Oh, angels don't sleep huh?"

"Nope, but it's fine," Gabriel shrugged a little.

"What time is it?" Alex moved away from the angel and grabbed her cellphone off the nightstand. "Did I sleep for twelve hours?"

"Yeah, you were pretty tired huh?" Gabriel smiled.

"I don't think I've ever slept that long in my entire life..." Alex sat up and crossed her legs, Gabriel sitting up too.

"Did you think of anything you wanna do for your birthday?"

"Uhm. Well, I don't want you to do something too big. It's not that big of a deal," Alex continued thinking.

"Ok. We could just go out to dinner somewhere if you want?" Gabriel suggested.

"Yeah that works," Alex agreed. "What do you wanna do in the mean time?"

"Whatever you want."

Alex frowned, "I don't know what I want though."

"Is there a place you've wanted to see?" Gabriel asked.

"No, not really..." Alex admitted.

"Seriously?"

"Yeah..." Alex trailed off.

"Hmm..." Gabriel thought for a while.

They were interrupted by Alex's phone ringing. Alex grabbed her phone and sighed at the number on the screen. "Hey dad," Alex answered the '666' number.

"Mr.Crowley has requested you come see him." A demon said on the other line.

"What for?" Alex didn't feel like seeing her father.

"He did not say, I'm sorry miss," The demon apologized.

"Whatever. Where am I supposed to meet him?" Alex listened to the demon, writing down the address on her hand. "Ok. I'll be there soon." She hung up and looked over at Gabriel.

"So, what does father dearest want now?" He asked.

"Don't know. He wants me to go see him though." Alex got off the bed and headed to the bathroom to change. "I'm going to go alone though, you two don't seem to get along very well."

Alex teleported herself to the address she got and was surprised to see where her father was staying. The abandoned house was falling apart, and looked horrible. She walked up to the door and opened it, only seeing a few demons inside. "Hey...where's my dad?"

"Hello, darling." Crowley came in from the other room.

"Hi... Nice place you have here." Alex gestured to the room around them.

Crowley frowned, "It's temporary." Alex could tell he was stressed.

"So why'd you want to see me?"

"I wanted to wish you happy birthday."

"Seriously? Why now? You haven't done that since mom died," Alex raised an eyebrow. Then Alex knew, "Don't tell me this is 'cause it's the end of the world... That's just lame."

Crowley stayed silent for a while, "I got you a present..."

Alex was extremely surprised, "Really...?"

Crowley pulled a necklace out of his pocket and held it by the chain, letting the charm dangle in the air. It had a white gold chain and a white gold band that attached a light blue, square shaped, gem to the chain. Alex walked over to Crowley and looked at the gem. "Wait...this is mom's!" Alex held the gem in her hands and Crowley let go of the chain. "You still had it?" Alex remembered seeing her mother wear it all the time, no matter what she was doing.