Angel Wing Chapter Three

[butterflyslinky]

Title: Angel Wing

Pairing(s): Linkara/Spoony

Rating: PG-13

Word Count: 10,414

Warning(s): Violence, strong language, overt Christian themes and theology

Summary: When an angel loses his wing and falls to Earth, he learns more than he ever expected and finds more than he ever dreamed of.

Spoony woke the next morning to sunlight streaming through the window and someone knocking on the door. He froze, wondering if he should get up and answer it, or wake Linkara to deal with it. After a moment, he decided on the second course of action, since having the door answered by a one-winged angel would probably scare the crap out of whoever was on the other side and end badly for everyone involved. He rose quickly, kicking off the blankets and relaxing his wing before padding softly down the hallway and knocking on the door Linkara had told him was his room. “Linkara?” he called softly.

The door opened a moment later to reveal Linkara, bleary-eyed and tousle-haired. Spoony flinched. He had forgotten that being up so late the night before would make the human tired this morning.

“Wassamatter?” Linkara muttered.

“Someone at the door. Wasn’t sure if…”

“Oh, crap,” Linkara muttered, grabbing his glasses. “I’ll deal with it. You stay in here… we probably shouldn’t let anyone know you exist.”

Spoony nodded and slipped into the bedroom as Linkara went out to see who was disturbing him this early in the morning—though as Spoony glanced at Linkara’s clock and at the sunlight outside, he realized that it wasn’t early at all, but was almost noon. His host must have been more tired than Spoony had realized.

He sat down on the bed and waited for a signal that he could reappear, closing his eyes and hoping that Linkara wasn’t too annoyed that he had been woken.

Linkara returned a few minutes later. “It’s okay,” he said. “Just a neighbor dropping off some mislabeled mail. You can come out now.”

“I’m sorry I woke you,” Spoony said.

Linkara waved his hand dismissively. “It’s okay, I needed to get up anyway. I have work to get done today.”

“All right,” Spoony said. “I’ll just go somewhere else… you can dress…”

Linkara nodded and Spoony left the room.

*

A few minutes later, Linkara joined Spoony in the living room, sitting down at the desks with the computer screens. Spoony watched with great interest as Linkara started working on something that involved brightly colored pictures being moved around the screen. “I review comic books,” Linkara explained. “On the Internet.”

Spoony nodded. He knew enough about the mortal world to understand that sentence. “You like doing that?” he asked.

“Yeah,” Linkara said. “If I didn’t, I wouldn’t do it.”

“That’s good,” Spoony said. He wasn’t quite sure what to say.

Linkara glanced at him. “I…I’m sorry…I don’t know what to give you… there are comic books on the shelf if you want to read them.”

“Thanks,” Spoony said. He got off the futon and went to the shelf, looking over the titles. They all looked fairly interesting. “I…I won’t impose on you too long…”

“Where else are you going to go?” Linkara asked, not even looking up from his work.

“I don’t know,” Spoony admitted. “The Lord will provide, I guess.”

“He provided you with me,” Linkara said. “You can stay as long as you need to. I wouldn’t mind the company.”

“So you usually live alone?”

“Mostly. I had a girlfriend a few years ago, but she’s gone. There are some people who drop by occasionally, but they never stay long. You should be okay here.”

“If one of these people does drop by…”

“I’ll think of something.” Linkara turned and looked Spoony directly in the eyes. “I promise that as long as you’re here, no harm will come to you.”

“You can’t make promises like that.”

“Okay, I promise that I will protect you to the best of my abilities.”

“Better.”

Linkara smiled slightly and went back to work. Spoony watched him for a moment before turning back to the shelf and picking up a random book. It didn’t matter if it was good or bad, just something to do. He sat down on the futon and began to read, studying the pictures carefully. He didn’t quite understand what was going on, or why anyone would dress up as a bat to fight crime, but the story was entertaining and it kept him occupied.

After several minutes of quiet, Linkara suddenly broke the silence. “How are you going to get back?” he asked before he could stop himself.

Spoony stopped reading and looked straight ahead. “I don’t know,” he admitted. “I guess I’ll just have to pray for the Lord to repair my wing.”

Linkara nodded. “That makes sense, I guess,” he said. “But don’t you earn your wings by doing good deeds or something?”

“Yes,” Spoony answered. As long as he was going to stay with this human, he might as well answer questions. “I earned my wings… what year is it now?”

“2014,” Linkara answered.

“Already? How time flies in eternity. I earned my wings three hundred years ago when I guided a priest who lost his faith… it almost destroyed his entire village. But I don’t think that will work this time around.”

“Why not? There are thousands, if not millions of people who could use a little guidance these days.”

“And what do you think the modern world would do to a guy who showed up half-naked with one wing on his back, preaching the Word of the Lord?”

Linkara was quiet for a moment. “Good point,” he muttered. “I…I guess prayer is the only option, then.”

“Hopefully it can be fixed,” Spoony said. “Since it was cut off by a demon’s sword.”

“But…it’s God, right? He can do anything, can’t He?”

“Yes, but miracles aren’t instantaneous, especially when you live forever. I could be here for a very long time before He gets around to me.”

“Well, yeah. That’s part of faith, too, isn’t it? Believing that things will get better eventually, even if you have to wait?”

“Exactly. And wings are built on faith.”

Linkara nodded as if he understood. “Well, I can add my prayers to yours. Maybe they’ll reach Him faster that way.”

“Maybe,” Spoony said with a smile. “Thank you, Linkara.”

“So if you earned your wings three hundred years ago,” Linkara said. “Why aren’t you flipping out over all the changes in the world since then?”

“We do watch the Earth,” Spoony said with a laugh. “I’ve seen the world change. I’ve seen the new inventions and the progress… it’s exhilarating to watch. And there are new souls coming into Heaven who tell us about it. I know what to expect when I get down here.”

“So you’ve been back down?”

“Yeah. Normally just fly around a bit, smile at a few babies, make some nice breezes for people outside… as long as we don’t touch the ground, we can’t be seen. But when I fell…”

“I see.”

“Just remember that. There’s usually an angel around. You just have to believe in them.”

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