Sacrifice, The Ultimate Test of Love

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I lay on the ground, the moss and emerald grass feeling like harsh blades against my skin. Everything felt wrong without you. 2

I dropped my hand so that it rested on the earth, feeling God's heartbeat from deep within the deep, dark dirt. It sounded out of rythym, stuttering and skipping beats. Everything felt wrong without you.3

The heavens opened and the angel's cried, their tears cold and freezing on my too pale skin. Everything felt wrong without you.4

Everything was wrong without you. 5

I scratched my face, trying to scratch an itch that was never really there in the first place. I pulled at my hair and tore at my clothes.6

I begged to the empty air for someone to please save me. Please. 7

What had I done?8

I had only wanted to be with you, forever. Why would we ever be apart? I couldn't comprehend this insanity. Perhaps I was the one who was insane. Maybe this wasn't really happening. Maybe I could just go home and be content in the nothingness.9

No.10

I would rather suffer eternally just to know that you were real, that everything I believed was reality. That our love existed. 11

But now it truly is impossible. I am dark and you are the lightest of the light. I am tainted by evil and you are blessed with good. 12

I scream and I hear laughter, mocking me. I scream more, in hopes to drown it out but it is to no avail. 13

Please help me. Please.14

And then the beating of wings is heard throughout the seemingly blank, dark air. 15

It's you. 16

Pearly tears run down my cheeks as I see my salvation stream through the black rain and clouds.17

You're beautiful as ever, with your russet hair and shockingly green eyes. You are more beautiful than I could bear. I can't even look at you, most humans would go blind from your beauty. 18

Your face is stone. You are unhappy.19

You fly down to me and I reach out for you, but you stay your distance. This is all too much for me. If you rejected me, that would be more suffering than anything could hope to place upon me. 20

"Violet," your musical voice speaks. 21

"I-I am so sorry, I-"22

"Silence," you command. Your face is full of fury. This is your dark side. I have never seen it before, though I knew it existed. 23

"You have betrayed me, and your own eternal soul."24

"No, I just wanted to be with you, forever," I whisper. 25

"Violet! That cannot happen," your voice becomes softer, and so does your beautiful face. I feel my heart rise, no matter what you are saying.26

"Please help me," I croak out, and then my body contorts and I scream. I covulse on the hard ground while you watch with a heartbroken face. 27

"What you have done cannot be erased, Violet," you said, while I continued to writhe on the ground. "But I promised to guard you, Violet, to be your guardian angel, even if my main working was death, and therefore "before I go - and shall not return - to the land of darkness and death"( Job 10:21) , before I fully relinquish myself to the dark, and therefore set you free, my dearest Violet, I must tell you this: I love you."28

I stopped writhing on the ground and panted heavily. I felt an invisible dark weight lifted from me, and I truly felt the light of heaven shine upon me, as if He was smiling at me. 29

But I could not revel in this glory, for my love, you were screaming in agony. 30

The darkness and crimson was encircling you, tearing and clawing at you, a whirlpool of evil, dragging you down into the dark earth.31

"No! I take it back! I take it back!" I shrieked, crawling to where you now were writhing in pain, your wings shriveling, your gorgeous wings. 32

I suddenly knew that this had been the plan all along. I had been bait. Who would want a stupid mortal girl when they could ensnare the Angel of Death? 33

I screamed all the curses at them that I could think of, but their laughing only increased. 34

Then you were still. 35

"No," I whispered. I ran a hand over your beautiful skin, skin that used to glow. Now it was sallow. 36

They had taken you.37

But suddenly, the glow that had been there returned, tenfold. You were radiant, your eyes closed as you lay on the ground. The rain and the clouds disappeared, the darkness vanished. 38

You opened your eyes. I gasped, feeling tears on my cheeks once more. First, you looked confused, but then realization dawned upon your face.39

"Violet?" you asked. I nodded and then you smiled, a real smile. I had never seen you give one before. My heart leapt up into my throat and stayed there. 40

"Wh-what happened?" I questioned him, while you sat up. Your wings were strong again and they enclosed around both of us.41

"I made the ultimate sacrifice," you said, grinning. Goodness, you were stunning. 42

"The what?" I asked, confused.43

"Evil doesn't understand selflessness, they just know that I would give my soul to save you," you reached out to stroke my dark hair. 44

"And?"45

"And so they don't comprehend that He appreciates selflessness and sacrifice. He saved us, He has allowed us to love each other," you rested your forehead against mine. I sighed out of relief. 46

"I love you," I whispered.47

"And I, you. Now spend eternity in paradise with me," you said quietly.48

"I guess I could," I said. You chuckled and I wrapped my arms around you.49

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"I do not believe in Christianity because I can see it. I believe in Christianity because I see everything else by it." - C.S. Lewis51