The Eyes Of Death

Chapter 29: Father

"I am your father."

Shocked. Startled. Stunned. Any kinds of reaction of being surprised, I felt it.

I faked a laughter. "You must be joking, right? I had a father and a good one. He was actually a detective just like my mom. How could you say you are my father?", I asked him.

I don't want to accept the truth. I only have one father in this world and that is the one who raised me. It is not this man who I only saw and met this day but is now claiming that he is my father. How does that even make sense?

He walked closer to me but I just took a feet back. He sighed and was taken aback.

"I know. I know this is hard to accept but that is the truth. Ainsley, why do you think you are the only one in your family who have a seeker ability? Unlike your parents who both have time and telekinesis?", he asked me. I shook my head at him. I don't want to hear any lies from him.

"I don't know. I am guessing it was because of Sibylla? She is my grandmother", I answered.

Gushion shook his head. So is Azrael.

"It was impossible for a gifted ability to be genetic. Supernatural abilities like telekinesis and telepathy are natural but not the ones who is so extreme as having the eyes of death, being the seer of both past and future events", Azrael answered me.

I shook my head before I grabbed my sling bag.

"This is so much to take in. Just leave me alone for a while", I asked them before I run out of the station.

Having another family in your life doesn't makes it better. For me, it actually just made it worse.

My father raised me since I was born. But where is that fallen angel when I was sick or get bullied by my classmates? He wasn't even there. He wasn't there for me.

He have no rights to tell me I am his daughter because I am no daughter to him. For 23 years, he knew I was his but he still didn't even gave me a glance or just approached me as a stranger I met on the street.

"Ainsley."

I heard the familiar voice again.

"Azrael, I told you I want to be alone", I told him.

He walked next to me. I know he is looking at me like I need some therapy for a broken heart but no, I don't.

"No, I don't think like that", he defended himself after reading my mind.

I walk as fast as I can but he still manages to catch up on me.

"Ainsley! Just hear me out if you don't want to talk to your dad", Azrael recommended.

"He wasn't my Dad", I answered.

"Oh right", he said and acts like he zipped his mouth.

I stopped walking and stared at him. "You planned this, right?", I asked him but he just acted like he doesn't know what I am talking about.

"What do you mean? I didn't plan anything", he defended himself again.

I shook my head. I know I can't read your mind but I know who you are. You are very clever but I am more clever than you. I just don't think that Gushion might say anything like that.

He hissed at me. "I don't know what are you saying."

"You planned anything from our tasks and me being with you alone to make me talk to Gushion and make him confess that he was my real dad", I explained. "Yes, I don't have any evidences but I know my gut feeling too well. You know I am right."

Azrael's face suddenly changed. "Okay, I do did almost all of it. But I can promise I didn't harmed any people."

Azrael and I sat on the nearby bench. I placed the book Gushion gave me and put it in my right.

"As you know, I owe him something. It was like a type of dept that no one could ever pay rather than yourself. I did that because of love but what I don't know is how does he have that power. He was actually same as you."

I looked at Azrael confused. "How could he be exactly like me?"

"He is also a seer. A very powerful one."

I raised my eyebrows at him. "A fallen angel being a seer?"

Azrael get the book beside me. "It is possible especially if the angel was one of the originals, just like the other archangels, Purah and me."

He flipped the pages like he was looking for something before he gave me the book.

"This are the lists of the seer he have met and made. Seers are actually born on different generation and you are the only seer in this generation", he explained to me.

I read the book he gave me. It was actually names of people he had turned into seers. "Does this mean Sibylla and I isn't the only ones who have the eyes of death?", I asked him.

Azrael shook his head at me. "No. It is true that you and Sibylla is the only one who have the eyes of death. Gushion gave you all the ability of being a seer but your genetics or souls enhanced it."

"And you enhanced it by means of giving me the ability to see the dead", I cut him off.

He just chuckled at me. "Hmmm, maybe?"

I stood up and called a taxi. He then grabbed me onto him.

"Where are you going?", he asked.

"I am going to find answers from one of these persons", I answered.

Azrael look at me like I was a dumb person. "Well, you really are. Didn't I told you that being a seer was made from different generations? You probably won't see one because they are now dead or whatever."

"Then I'll look into his or her relatives", I answered. I was about to enter the taxi that was arrived when he pulled me into him.

"They also didn't know. Ainsley, are you running away from the truth?", he seriously asked me then he payed for the taxi driver to drove away.

I look at him irritatedly. "What if I really was running? It's just that I don't accept him as my Dad. I already have one. For all those years I was alone, being an orphan after both of my parents' death, where is he?"

Azrael sighed and was about to give me some hug for comfort when I just pushed him.

"You also know about him but you even didn't tried to tell me. What is it that you really want? You already hide too many things from me and now I am re-figuring it out if I can really trust you."

Azrael tried to defend himself. "You can trust me."

I shook my head. "I think I don't", I said before walking away from him.

I know this time, he won't follow me. He knew he did something wrong and maybe he was guilty about it but he also knew this was a lot to process for me.

The fact that my father isn't really my father still stuck in my head.

I decided to go straight to my own house. I grabbed a taxi again and entered it.

I was aback when I saw a ghost inside but it disappeared instantly when he saw me. Did I just scared a ghost?

Minutes later, I finally arrived home.

I tried to think of something to do but my attention was diverted when I stared at the book.

This book was like a written report of truths. It was like a book that could answer all of my questions and doubts but the thing is should I read it even if it came from the man who doesn't even care about me?

I was hesitant at first but then I immediately grabbed the book and started to read it from the first page up to last.

It was stated that the eyes of death ability was given and enhanced. Sibylla and I shared the same genetics and wait, w-was an angel before the reincarnation?

I flipped the pages more and it tells the story of me being an angel and was killed at the first battle of heavens and earth which me and Sibylla's angel counterpart resided to those who wanted to stop the war.

I never have any memories of these things but as I read through them, I felt like I was on the scene.

"So now that you know the truth, do you want to be part of us?"

I heard a man suddenly speak in my behind. I look at him and was surprised when I saw an archangel.

"M-Michael?"