Chapter 41

Jace:

As I drive back toward home, my heart aches and I feel so empty as if my heart was left behind in Scarlet's room with her. Once again, I am pulled back to when Cam and I became best friends.

Cam and I have been friends for as long as I can remember. For whatever reason my mind takes me back to a particularly painful memory.

"Dude where have you been? I was worried about you. Are you ok? You have been MIA for over a week now." Cam looks at me with a deep fatherly look of concern. Damn I am really glad that he is my closest friend, I know that I can trust him with literally everything.

"Hey man I'm sorry I worried you so much, I have had probably the most horrible week of my life. My parents were struck by lightning while we were all hiking...the worst thing for me is that they didn't make it." I swallow hard against the huge lump forming in my throat, now I know exactly how hurt Cam and Scar are and the amount of pain losing your parents can do to a person.

"Oh man Jace, I am so fucking sorry I would never wish this kind of pain and bitter cold loneliness on anyone, not even my worst enemy." At this point Cam hugs me which was greatly comforting. With his caring nature and his complete understanding, I know that I am safe, and I know that I can share with him the other part of my story. I just don't know how to explain to him what has happened. I guess I am just going to have to tell him that it wasn't just my parents who died.

"Cam...there is something else that happened this weekend. Can you keep a secret? And please please try to keep an open mind, I feel crazy even thinking about telling you..." Cam looks at me with a confused and concerned face.

"Of course, man you can trust me fully and completely. I am not here to judge you no matter what you tell me. So, what's up man?" Cam gives me his full attention and I can sense that he surely is a safe person.

"So, it wasn't just my parents who died this week...I was with my parents, and I was also struck by lightning. Honestly, I don't fully understand what happened...it all felt like I fell asleep and dreamed that I met an Angel named Castiel. He told me that it is not my time to go unfortunately there is a price I must pay for being put back in my body and basically brought back to life. I was brought back in the ambulance. I don't remember falling asleep again but once again there was Castiel waiting for me. He told me that I have a very important job. In exchange for keeping me alive I would now be an Angel and my job is to protect anyone who need protecting, he explained to me I will have powers ranging from being capable of healing others flying and the ability to project my thoughts into others minds...in a sense basically mind control I guess I will be able to control their thoughts as well as what they see and such including I can influence their memories to alter them in my favor." He looks at me as though I am speaking a whole new language, but I don't see an ounce of judgment from him.

"He explained that no one can see my wings unless I choose to allow them to see them however there was a warning. Anyone who sees my wings will instantly die at the site of them, with their eyes completely burned away and missing. I have no idea what all of this means or how to do this job." He looks at me again with a polite look on his face as he considers my full confession.

"Wow man it sounds like you've been through the ringer this week. As for your job and how to do it, I have no idea how to help you through all of this, but I am here for you no matter what you need. I love you man as far as I am concerned you are family." It is at this moment that I feel less alone, and I feel so thankful to have someone in my life who is so accepting and supportive.

"Dude you are the best. No matter what you are going through you are always open, understanding, and supportive." I go in to shake his hand and he surprises me by pulling me in for a hug. There is nothing that anyone could have done in this moment to gain so much respect from me.

I arrive at my house snapping back to reality. Even now in this moment years after that moment in time where I went from having a best friend to having a family, I still have the biggest amount of respect for Cam he is the type of man that I hope that I can one day become for Scarlet. Cam and Scarlet are really one in a million and I got so lucky to have them with me and supporting me. I park my truck and sit there for a minute slightly confused as to how the hell I made it home. 'How the hell did I drive over 2 hours and not even realize where I am and how I got here?'

I look around and once again I feel as though my heart is so far away, physically I am here but emotionally I am still with my sweet fragile love. I can't wait for the day that I get to take her home and for everything to be ok again. I swear she will never leave my site again. I begin to ponder what changed, the doctors had told me the night I left that it was not looking very good in the sense of her waking from the coma, they told me that she may never wake up. 'The longer someone is in a coma the less chance they have in coming back, not saying that it won't happen or hasn't happened, I'm simply saying that it is less likely of happening.'

Those words have haunted me for the longest time, I wonder what the price is to pay for this miracle, nothing in this life is free, hell even being able to continue living my life as I should have in the very beginning cost me a price of becoming an Angel. What will it cost me or her at this point to be able to come back and be with us, will is cost any one of us something or will it be something that eventually will turn into a not so good thing? I don't want to believe that anything negative could ever come from her being alive and healing.