Sacrifice

James stayed still, hearing Jane breathing with her head in his shoulder made him shudder in an unknown feeling.

She fell asleep not up to twenty minutes after she placed her head on his shoulder. The bunny ears band on her ears is now below her jaw, and it's not like she turned to the left or right or anything.

She just remained in that position and slowly, the bunny ears band started falling until it hung beneath her jaw.

James carefully and gently takes it off her and released the air he's been holding while trying to remove the bunny ears band from her jaw.

Kancial stares at Raven like he's watching one of the best Steve Harvey's Show. His mind isn't set in place and his eyes can't help but scan Raven as she is snoring silently and sound asleep.

Kancial closes his eyes, taking a deep breath.

"Okay, Father. I need to see you now"

...

All the Angels on each side of the white carpet that has a golden frame kneel before Kancial as he walks Majestically and with authority on the carpet as he walks down up to the Heavenly Heavenlies to speak to the Creator.

All the Angels are very happy to see him. But he looks like he isn't happy to see them.

"Let the Creator know I'm here," he says, walking to the gates of the Heavenly Heavenlies with his cape flowing with the wind of the speed he's using to walk.

He looks good and very handsome now that he's a human.

"Your Majesty, Prince Kancial is here to see you"

"Let him in" The reply came without hesitation.

The gates split in half and Kancial walks in with a very hard and dainty expression.

"What's with all the not early sayings? If I am not to do anything with her then why she? Why is she, my bride?"

Kancial head is bowed because he still remembers Heaven's Rule.

No seeing of the Creator's face.

After hearing no reply coming from the Creator, he spoke up.

"I don't like the way we are idle in that house and-"

"Idle? It's just a day, Kancial. Don't be such an immature civilian. Raven has the mind to make love to you but you don't. All you know is human pleasure and the reproduction of children. Do you think that making love to each other in my understanding is making babies?!" The Creator thunders.

As he spoke like that, physical lightening stroke on Earth. On all four walls of Earth.

Kancial is shocked to the depths of his heart.

So... They can do that? What is the lovemaking that the Creator is talking about then?

"Make Love to each other means sacrificing everything, for each other. I don't care about whatever you want to do with her because it won't work! Making babies, won't work! Because you are to make Angels, not babies!"

It's all making sense now. But...

"Then... Why did you-"

"Why I said it was too early earlier was because you had the intention of having human pleasures together with her, but she had no intention of that but wanted to sacrifice herself to make you happy. She wanted to sacrifice herself Kancial, and I said it wasn't the time yet. And it still isn't the time yet!"

Kancial looks perplexed now.

So she wanted to give... Sacrifice her body to him for pleasures? Something she didn't want to do?

"Now she wants to satisfy her need and that can happen because she wants to do it. It is no more a sacrificial thing"

Kancial furrows his eyebrows in confusion. How head bowed and he hopes the Creator sees his confusion but does not yell at him as an explanation.

"Listen Kancial. When a sacrifice is being made, no one wants to do it. It's out of force and because you want a result from it fast. The reason why I said it was too early was that she didn't want to do it, she found it as a force. But she wanted the result of your happiness fast, that's why she wanted to give herself to you. But when someone wants to do things with all might and power left, it is no more a sacrifice. It is called dedication. There's a huge difference between these two-"

"So why didn't you tell me all these before sending me to Earth?"

"Because I thought you knew better" the Creator replies in a scolding tone.

Kancial is shocked. Any word beyond shocked is a good word to use.

"We all counted on you to understand this before making me send you down to Earth, but it seems like I made a mistake to place you as the husband of Raven. I have seen the future and what it foretells is mistakes. Minor things that might make your life miserable, Kancial"

Hot tears flow down the face of Kancial in sorrow, pain, and some kind of regret that he has not experienced yet.

"Kancial... I am disappointed in you"

The eyes James opens wide as sits upright, panting. The sudden movement of his body makes Jane wake up also suddenly!

"James, what's wrong?" she asks with a very concerned voice.

Kancial can't hold his tears. All this time he has been making a mistake to think human pleasure is sacrifice?

And she didn't even want to do it then, but now she does?

"Nothing, I-I think I had a bad dream"

Jane gasps silently and then takes his hand in hers, forcing him to look up at her.

"Did anything touch you?"

James searches relentlessly for any sign of pretense in the eyes of Jane, but he can't find any. There's nothing like hatred or lust or sin that can be found in her eyes.

Why did he mistake her for possessing all these things? It's not fair, even when he thinks about it as a mistake, or just as an act.

"I'm sorry" he whispers and Jane's eyebrows knits the more

"Sorry? For what?"

Before James answers her questions she looks at him with a pout.

"Is it for waking me up? Don't be silly, James. You had your dream life at stake. I wouldn't like it if you suffer in your dream just because I was sleeping on you"

James says nothing in reply. What is she talking about?

"In fact, I'll stop sleeping on you so that-"

"That's not what I mean, Wife"

Jane stops talking and looks at him worriedly.

"What do you mean?"

"Nevermind"

A smile curves upon his lips as he smiles at Jane.

"We're both awake. That's the best thing to say right now"