The Darker side (7/7)
Peter walks up to his home, he is frustrated. They haven´t found any clue to where Neal could possibly be. He opens the door and freezes, something is wrong. He is not alone in the house. He carefully walks in, heightening his power.
A silhouette stands in the living room.
Neal!
Peter flips on the lights. Peter knew it was Neal the minute he didn´t see or feel any soul from the silhouette.
“Peter.” Neal greets in a clipped tone of voice.
Neal steps back when Peter approaches him.
“I´m glad you came back.” Peter says honestly.
“I can´t stay, I am sorry, I know you think you can change me, but you can´t.”
“Then why did you come back?”
“To say goodbye. You were the only one that treated me like an equal. You treated me right. I needed you to know how I felt. I couldn´t just disappear. ”
Peter lets his head hang. Without the collar, there is nothing Peter can do to prevent Neal from leaving.
“We can work together.” Peter tries.
“You saw what your fellow angels did to me. Angels are vicious creatures, capable of great violence.” Neal says in a surprisingly soft voice.
“Don´t wipe yourself out.” Peter answers defensively even though he knows Neal is right. But he can´t shake the image of Neal killing Fowler with a single kiss.
“I have always been honest about what I am, all demons are.”
Neal studies Peter.
Peter remains silent, what is there to say? Neal is right in the fact that he has never pretended to be something that he is not.
“Before you go, I want to know one thing.”
Neal nods, he knew this question was coming.
“You told me what your power was, but it has to be something else. I need to know. What is your real power?”
Neal gives a small smile. He knew Peter would be dying to know. When Neal doesn´t answers right away, Peter hesitates.
“You don´t need to tell me if you don´t want to.” Peter needs to break this awkward silence.
Neal studies him and sort of deflates. “OK, you always treated me fair, earned to know. I feed on the soul of angels. I take their powers. That is my power.”
Peter is shocked.
Only a fallen angel can feed on the souls of angels. The prophecies were right. Neal is the one, the one the elders talked about. All angels are taught by the elders on the prophecies, Neal must know this too, he used to be an angel, he must have been taught or maybe he wasn´t raised by angels?
There are so many prophecies, but there is only one that tells about the end of the great war between Angels and Demons. It was foretold that a fallen angel will be the one to stop the war. As a child, Peter was always fascinated about this story, he always tried to imagine what a fallen angel would look like. Now he knows and he is more freighting beautiful than he could ever have imagined.
Peter just stares at Neal.
“Now you know why I can´t stay.” Neal whispers sadly.
Before Peter can say or do anything, Neal is gone. Peter stares at the spot Neal was standing in just a second ago. He quickly recovers from his shock.
There is only one thing to do and that is to find Neal. Again.
The end?
